Oh, that is awesome! You're right, her eyes are perfect. And I love the shading on her hair, because you really get the shape of it. Wow. I'm loving all your sketches :)
Someday, I will sketch you (this is partially because the hair will be easier), but I'm going to insist on doing it in person. (I'm a slow drawer. Can you sit still for ten hours straight? Now we know why Angelus preferred to work with the unconscious.)
Oh wow, I have a difficult enough time having photos taken of me. I'd be too self-conscious... though if you put me in front of a TV with DVDs I haven't seen yet, I could probably sit still for 10 hours! (That, or you could bop me over the head. *g*)
You know, I was thinking about how you needed to push your dark areas. But I never mentioned it because criticism is a hard thing. Plus add the internet and it could all go wrong. Mostly I with held because I see these for the exercises they are. My mind can't but help leap forward to other things you could be doing. Like line weight but like I said, that's jumping ahead. Just curious, what's the highest number B pencil you have? From what I've seen so far, my guess would be 2, maybe 4B.
I appreciate the criticism (this time)! My class was sort of a kick into the shallow end, without a lot of technical instruction, and when I see that there seem to be different ways to, for example, hold a pencil, I have no idea when one grip would be more suitable than another. I'm still blending with my finger; I haven't even opened the conte crayons we were told to buy; throughout the class I even avoided the kneaded eraser
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Blending with your finger is not a crime. I do it all the time. It's cheaper than using stomps or q-tips. Kneaded erasers are your friends! The lift out they achieve is amazing! Plus, I think I used mine as stress balls only instead of squeezing, I constantly pulled it apart. Were you supposed to learn chiaroscuro with the conte crayons? That's where you'll learn about line weight. How things closest to you will have thicker lines, further away, thinner. Like the rim of a cup, the edge closest to you is slightly thicker, heavier. The rim farthest away is much thinner, it's like a focus thing
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I think I meant that if I were more confident in my technique, I'd be able to draw more quickly (also, if I stopped treating everything like it had to end up as a masterpiece), and thus explore more advanced techniques.
Thank you for the critique, and for the advice. I'll get to the drapery assignment soon!
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Are you coming to Washington next year?
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Thank you for the critique, and for the advice. I'll get to the drapery assignment soon!
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