xysdf, I think slum's right, our styles do have a lot in common... try drawing those faces from different angles, and start playing with hair styles. Also found that a good way to explore your style is to try and go "too far" with your marks... get a feel for how you normally would draw something, and deliberately make the lines and shapes more exaggerated or distorted than you feel comfortable with. Or something. Those things have worked well for me... hopefully they do for you too
ferg: thx for the tips!(they hitting exactly the things I currently struggle with) I can even see it in expressions of my sketchbook faces. They sometimes look like asking "Is it really necessary that I need that needle through the nose? Why do I not get more than 2 hairs? Is there really the need that I eat that? Why do I not look like Brad Pitt? Why must I look that stupid? Why cant I have a athlethic face, should I really be that fat?...tears... What will others say about us?!" They ask for some more pencil training on my side & they think then they will no more get the needle/... stuff and look like Brad Pitt ... we will see, I will train
ferg, you helped alot! I love now the quality of taking the marks to a "go too far level", its now just watching one happy-accident after the other & (best thing) they are so many times quicker.
I also tryed your tip to rotate some of my caracters where I saw a lot of things that would not work out well(from the orginal), definately a important tip.
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here's a goofy sketch i did and then fixed up and colored in photoshop
nice work Sectaurs
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hey he kinda looks like a white version of 2Pac
Sketchtrade-> what a simple genius idea I have never thought about untill the last posts...
I continued at my head experiments in my sketchbook, trying to find my style
shape: do it do it!
eh, kind of a sketch.
xysdf, I think slum's right, our styles do have a lot in common... try drawing those faces from different angles, and start playing with hair styles. Also found that a good way to explore your style is to try and go "too far" with your marks... get a feel for how you normally would draw something, and deliberately make the lines and shapes more exaggerated or distorted than you feel comfortable with. Or something. Those things have worked well for me... hopefully they do for you too
here's some poopinyourmouth
Cheers!
Slum i want to see that as a model
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haha, by all means, take a shot at it
I also tryed your tip to rotate some of my caracters where I saw a lot of things that would not work out well(from the orginal), definately a important tip.
So, and here are my newest heads
I couldn't get his head right though.
I really need to get back into straight pencil/paper.. these just don't seem fitting for this thread.. :-\
quick holiday greeting... 10mins or so
Wicked stuff everyone
Way to improve on your last painting.
Very cool painting ironbearxl, I suggest maybe pushing the floor highlight a little more orange maybe, and reflecting that on the pants?