Second Batch of Sam & Dean Drawings

[kinkthatwinked]

Dear milly_gal, dizzojay, and jj1564, your packages are now in the mail. It should take about two weeks to arrive. I'm sorry I sent them off so late, but hey, free presents are good any time of year!

I posted a few of the Sam & Dean drawings from my old art assignment in my last post, and now I offer the second batch for my f-list's perusal.

Comments

[pigshitpoet]

i like how you are willing to try different media..

just a quick study, here's a trick for everything. light and shadow. light mostly comes from above, at least that is what we are used to. shadow is often on the bottom under the eyebrows, top eye lid where lashes are (not the bottom eyelid), under the nose, top lip, under the chin, etc. then there is the right and left light, which side of the face is lit? knowing that helps to simplify what you are looking at. the shadows are all individual shapes of their own. not what the left brain expects, but what the right brain actually perceives. every shadow is unique. when i doubt squint, it minimizes overwhelming detail and simplifies the shadows in to general shapes. you've created fair likenesses, and it's easy to tell that you are drawing the same person over again. keep on sketching!

; )

[kinkthatwinked]

That is good advice. I tried to shade the drawings according to how the guys were lit in each screencap, but looking back, I can see details I missed that would have made the light source more obvious.

Thanks for saying you can tell it's the same guys drawn repeatedly. It was important to me that the viewer be able to tell this was a study of these two men, just as it was important that SPN fans be able to recognize the Winchester brothers.

[dizzojay]

Aw, thank you so much for my giftie. I can't wait to see what it is, so exciting!!!

These are another batch of great pictures, again, so many different styles. You've gone from being really delicate in the pencil sketch of Sam almost in profile to the really strong bold lines of bruised Sam in black marker and pensive shadowy Sam in charcoal.

The colours in the felt-tip Dean are really fun too.

It's hard to pick a favourite, but if I had to, I think it would be no. 20, the surprised looking Dean. Is that charcoal, or heavy black pencil?
xx

[kinkthatwinked]

Several people in my art class complimented the "pensive shadowy Sam in charcoal," too. Because I tend to prefer my clean and neat drawings, like the delicate pencil sketch you also mentioned, I thought the charcoal Sam was one of my roughest pieces. They said it was also one of the most expressive of the 50, that the line work and shading conveyed Sam's mood as much as the look on his face. Looking back, I can see what they meant.

That last one of Dean was a class favorite, too, and it was indeed charcoal. But to this day, I can't recall what the hell Dean was looking at that put that look on his face! :)

[milly_gal]

there's no need to be sorry, that means I get an extended birthday and Christmas :DDD ♥ Thank you so much honey :) *hugs*
I just love your work. It's fun and interesting and really cool how you work in different mediums because I am a dyed in the wool pencil girl ;) usually anyways :)

[kinkthatwinked]

I usually stick with pencils and markers myself, but doing that 50 times would have become unbearable really fast. I had to keep my mind fresh for the next drawing somehow, so I went with, "What medium and style will I use this time?"

[milly_gal]

I love that you did that though, because you'd have ended up bored, this way you enjoyed the whole experience :)