Portrait practise

These are done from photoreference... first two pages are somethin like a diary, white space is filled now with text...


I'd love to improve this style but have no sense for it... help?!

and this one without reference very quick <5min


Comments and critics again very welcome

nice! i like the mover thing, but like afew of the faces seem off balance but your better than me!
goodjob!

In doing faces, the most important aspects can turn out to be symmetry and proportion. The shape of the triangle formed between the eyes and the tip of the nose, for instance, will have a lot to do with what a person looks like. Pay close attention to proportion in the face when doing studies.

A fabulous place to start is the skull; memorize it well through many drawings, for an understanding of this will greatly improve your faces. Study how the flesh lies on the face and which muscles affect facial expressions and voluminous qualities.

Looking at your ink/marker face, it's a good idea to work in absolute black and white. This forces you to percieve lighting more simply. Communicating more information about the face with less marks on the paper is also a good exercise. I'd recommend doing away with hatching for now, and focusing on large, black shapes. Choose subjects with classical lighting; this allows for lighting which usually best defines an object using the full range of values.

Good luck.

ogre_crossing, werewulf: thx for kind words...

a new drawing... so the colored, no great thing...


and here once again just bw and pencil...
light source is faked, because it was a photo the original was just from the front which seemed boring to me...



and i tried to draw enviornment with PS, i gave up very soon... anyways...

ah..nice..neck seems abit weird though..like seems to be really..like bird..like.