Shotgun, I'm having real trouble understanding what you're really getting at because I can't understand your standards for what is "good". You use an Andrew Jones quote because he (apparently) has an understanding/mastery of the things you are talking about. I took a look at his site and I can see a bunch of issues with…
I have a lot to learn. So I'd better go do that. Edit: Just had a talk with a good friend who also posts here. I feel 10 times better now, and understand all these posts a lot better. I guess I have something to aim for before I'm done with school August 2006. Thanks a ton again people for beeing an unending source of…
Looking pretty nice Jelmer. Some stuff that sticks out to me as being a bit off: eyeshape: generally the eye is at its tallest vertically further in toward the nose, whereas yours is at its tallest vertically toward the outer eye corners, almost making the eyeshape the wrong way around. It's subtle stuff were talking about…
[ QUOTE ] some long post by Jelmer [/ QUOTE ] I don't think you got what shotgun was telling you, and I think it wasn't really harsh or offensive at all He probably ment 'copying' more in a technical sense (not as in lazy crap artist ): If you copy a technical device without understanding it, you probably end up with a…
the final result looks great, it really does look like a male model, and have many male "ingredients" which show your appreciation for subtle detail the thing is, it's not really a human model, its a fake representation. i think your approach was too pretencious in your attempt to put in all the (muscle) detail without…