Man those drawings are really good. But it really is a shame your colorwork cant hold up to this. You should really work on this and you will do some really great stuff! Promised!
You really have the best start for colors possible, some good drawingsskills. You seem to get your values quite right in your drawings and that is most important! Colors are just decoration! But you need to get a transfer from drawing to painting without losing it. Everything surely has to work in values in order to work…
@DarkStar: Thank you. @acapulco: Haha sure. I'll add a thumbnail or photo next time. :) Thanks. @BradMyers82: You're too kind! Thanks. ... I just thought I'd post the final drawing.
This 15 minute warm-up sketching is all I could muster before dropping tired. Attempt at switching back to charcoal. I was actually drawing with a highlighter before this, maybe I'll post that tomorrow haha.
I pushed myself not to get distracted by the millions of individual shades of value on this models face and body. I tried drawing as fast as I could in order not to get caught-up in all the detail. This is the result of that.
I like the way you draw faces. the mix of realism and comic looks neat. You can slide between both directions. The huge eyes works great. Something to crit about is that most of the faces you draw have non-existent nose bridge. I know this style is used everywhere in comics and almost every manga artist simplify that way…
A return to figure drawing. Attempt at the filtering out of non-critical details. <img src="http://www.polycount.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=4251&stc=1&d=1333929838" /> ... yeah I definately did not do that right.
That does look really fine! Could you always post your reference to your drawing so one can measure how far you bring your own style into them? Would be interesting for me.
@SimonT, @Slum, @eY3lEs5, @wi_2, @Ferg: Thank you all for the great supportive and kind words!! Ive been neglecting charcoal for a while. Thought it was time to do a bit of practicing. Oh and I cant draw ears
Today's update.... This drawing was just a quick(ish) value study with the prismacolor col-erase! There is so much more potential in wax pencil crayons than there is in standard graphite (in my opinion). I don't think I can go back!