[Sculpt] Head with emotion (at least i tried)

Migano

I was not happy at all with my last sculpt and figured it was because of the lack of emotion in the face. So i tried this. Its supposed to be a woman enjoying the rain

But i still have the feeling that there is something wrong with the face, it does not look "alive" to me. Does anyone know what i did wrong?




Here are more angles and different focal lengthes here: http://imgur.com/U8w7a2Z,onRtSfB,otihZrh,Tp5n0Dh,gEMER16,6f9g1xO,6c3hsmM,wCIaSiD#6

Migano

I am sorry for the shameless self bump, but i really can not figure out why (especially the 3. image) does look so "unnatural"? What proportions in the face am i getting wrong?

SuperFranky

Admittedly, I don't have any experience with female faces. But that profile doesn't seem very convincing to me. Lips strike me as too flat. To be entirely sure, triple check your proportions.

Not feeling the neck either. Too flat?
Something weird going on with the cheeks, I think, too.

Expression in itself looks convincing enough, imho.

PerH

Hi! I think you captured an emotion/expression pretty well!

sinse she is tilting her head up her chin should be longer and stretched out, like this

also her eyebrows look kinda like they are braided :P

Brian "Panda" Choi

Crook her head to the side. The symmetry looks uninteresting fro emotional purposes.

DireWolf

The head being perfectly straight with no tilt and with perfect symmetry immediately threw me off when I saw her.

Migano

Thank you all alot for your help! I guess i have looked at it to long to not see what you saw I really appreciate your hints!
@SuperFranky: I totally agree with the neck and cheeks. How did i not see that is totally straight?^^
@PerH

nickcomeau

Great start. I definitely agree with the symmetry comments. Also, it feels like the jaw may be a bit long. If you look at the reference that PerH

Migano

@nick thanks I take a look at the jaw.

Here is my progress, overhauling the neck definitly did make this a lot better. I also fiddled around with the volume of the cheeks and edited the upper lips.
I'd like to tilt the head to the right, but sadly my software does not allow me to do this at this stage What do you think? (it is rendered with AO this time)

Brian "Panda" Choi

Software? What are you using?

Migano

Cinema 4d ... or i just dont know how

TomGT

Just thought this artist's speed sculpt is relevant to what you're doing. Hopefully the process on the video can help. The sculpt is more stylized though.

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLZOSorvE2w[/ame]

Migano

@TomGT thanks, funny how it this is exactly what i wanted to achieve I already took that into account, but there is not much progress to show at the moment, as i am only playing around with simple textures and lightning.

SuperFranky

I can recommend reading The Artist's Complete Guide to Facial Expression, it's a great book on how emotions work.

slosh

This is decent but I think your lips could use work. Find reference on how the actual muscles form the lips and apply that to your sculpt.

Migano

Thank you for all your tipps, i will have a lot of reading to do i switched to Mudbox (free student license, yey) and continued a bit... i am still learning, but happy with how it turned out. I also made a little high key shot to hide all my errors :-D



Here are some detail shots for the interested ones: http://imgur.com/LMsp7G5,ru0watT,0ZqQ9Cn,jRDXhFb,fqfDLRT,5NJnKWb#0