Jon Snow Study

kertesz

Hi,

I'm currently working on a Jon Snow likeness study.   Below is my current progress, critiques welcome. 

Brian "Panda" Choi

Do you have a reference sheet you're using?

kertesz

I have a couple reference images saved to a Pinterest page and I'm pulling up google images for specific angles as needed.  Here is my board:
http://pin.it/IMKo3ld

kertesz

Starting to block in some facial hair.  

dGreenberg

Hey @kertesz! It looks like you're off to a good start, but I would strongly recommend getting those initial face proportions as close as possible before you worry about any polypaint or hair / facial hair. That being said, I'm really looking forward to seeing how this shapes up. Keep working at it, man! 

theStoff

A good start but I feel things overall feel a bit inflated. 

kertesz

Thanks for the feedback @dGreenberg and @theStoff, I really appreciate it.  I did a bit more refining today on my lunch break and plan on going deeper on it tonight. 

kertesz

More refinement and pushing and pulling shapes.  Likenesses are hard.

Jakub

Likeness is like another level of knowledge and skill in terms of sculpting faces. You are not really capable of doing likeness if you don't know the underlying structure of the face(muscle, fat, skull). 

I'd suggest sculpting a skull and muscles of the face, keep your mesh pretty low poly to the point of getting the base shape correct. 

You're doing  well, but study, study, study!