Hugh Jackman bust WIP
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Hey everyone. Thought I'd post some work I've been doing and say hi to the forums 
. Been working on this for a day now and I thought I'd share. Comments and critiques are welcome of course.
. Been working on this for a day now and I thought I'd share. Comments and critiques are welcome of course.
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I think you should step down some subdivisions and get the basic form right.
His forehead looks really weird right now( not veritcal enough, to far forward).
Also, you should get more reference
Keep going!
IMO, this might be some stuff you might want to fix. I dont know to much about the structure of a human face, but this is some stuff I thougt was off.
And I toned down the sub-d levels to boot.
Have you tried overlapping the source image to the images of your model so you can see what major differences there are?
Updated. C&Cs welcome.
About the legs: I'll confess I used reference of a short stocky bodybuilder, so thus why he seems a little...off. Still working on the texture for the body. I'm thinking of just finishing and posing him pretty soon. Hair will be up soon!
You are making some great strides in this thread, which i love to see. It's refreshing to see someone taking critiques well, and acting upon them. You are doing great. However, you need to slow down a bit. You shouldn't be texturing yet. I think you need to nail the likeness in the sculpt first, which you don't have yet.
Things jumping out at me: the brow comes out a lot on the outer sides of the eyes, which you can see in the 3/4 view.
Also, the nose blends into the forehead too much [look at the profile versus the reference profile at the top of the page] he has more of a dent there.
The nose for me right now seems to be one of the bigger problems, the underside should be tilting slightly up, where you have it coming sharply down.
The eyes still need to be scaled down.
Lastly, the cheekbone needs to sit up higher near the eyes, and the line coming down should be almost touching the mouth as you can see in the paintover Joshflighter did. The mouth you have is also a tad to wide, I think.
You are making good progress. Please don't give up and move on to texturing without making it be as good as you can make it, as I see a lot of people do. Push yourself, and make that face F-ing perfect.
I hope all this helps, and keep up the good work. GO GO GO!
Again, thank you everyone for the input.
i think you are working with too planar reference so you end up with a result that has some of his facial features right in the front or left view but for some reason do not look like him
try to look for these kind of pictures were he doesn't have a beard
they give you the most information
http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/blog/Hugh_Jackman.jpg
His eyes are placed too much into the skull.Push them forward a little bit.
Get some 3/4 shots as Ravenslayer suggested and check the placement of the eyes, the chin and the form of the nose.
Next the eyes, the lower eye lid curves more and is a bit fuller towards the outsides of the eyes. You also need to add in an upper eye lid which seems completly absent in your current progress which should help define a more angular shape to his eyes.
His expression currently doesn't match. His eye brows are arched, brow furrowed, and his nostrils are starting to flare, but his eyes aren't squinting enough. Eyes are one of the most important things that connect you to a character too, it's important that they convey the overall feelings of the character.
You overall head shape, jawline, cheeks, mouth etc. look pretty good, I'd mainly focus on getting the nose/eyes/brow right. I might pull the chin a bit forward too in the profile picture.
You're close, just need to refine the shapes a bit more. Main thing that stood out to me though is the upper eye lid and the tip of the nose is a bit more angular than what you've got. Here is some more reference that shows what I'm talking about.
Also don't get caught in the trap of simply lining things up traced to a ref; at the end of the day you are still going to have to SEE the reference and then SEE your work and compare their respective volumes with your own eyes. People and the volumes and shapes of their faces are so pliable that it's going to take you, the artist, and your work to get the likeness; lining it up and adjusting it against a dozen disparate or distorted references won't get you there.
I haven't modeled in a while but the analogous situation with painting is that once I stopped tracing my references or other such easy cheats, my likenesses got a thousand times better.
How is that now?