This is what I think of when I look at the first drawing.sicariiJanuary 6 2009, 02:30:54 UTC
She's just gotten out of the shower. Her hair is wrapped up in a towel, but few pieces have come loose from the makeshift towel turban. Although, she's fresh from the shower, she has the remnants of last night's eyeliner rimming her eyes. She leans on the kitchen bar watching me make breakfast intently. I wouldn't dare keep her from her coffee.
amidala there DOES have some aspects of likeness -- where you're missing, I think, is overall proportion. I feel you could probably squash and stretch this drawing in photoshop and hit the target likeness fairly quickly.
My suggestion (I'm full of 'em) is do some side of the pencil drawing first -- this blob is an eyesocket, that one's where a nose goes, this mushy oval is the outline of the head. Then tweak and move that stuff around till you're like "hey, that's what Natalie Portman would look like if were a bit drunk and I squinted my eyes really tight!" THEN go ahead and actually draw stuff. I imagine you've done some underdrawing, but really work it -- don't move onto the next stage until the current one has a likeness.
P.S. this is some advice I often have trouble taking myself. I'll know it's not right yet, but charge ahead hoping it will magically fix itself. Which it does, sometimes, but honestly, we're talking 10% of the time at best.
That proportion you're talking about... I noticed it, too. In fact, this morning when I scanned in the watercolored version of this piece, I noticed that the metal coil on the pad was lifting part of the paper off the glass. It was making the scan stretch a bit. I corrected it in Photoshop a bit, but I still missed the mark on the likeness.
Also, I agree that I need to do more roughing in for placement and perspective before I go as tight as I did. Bad Frank, BAD!
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My suggestion (I'm full of 'em) is do some side of the pencil drawing first -- this blob is an eyesocket, that one's where a nose goes, this mushy oval is the outline of the head. Then tweak and move that stuff around till you're like "hey, that's what Natalie Portman would look like if were a bit drunk and I squinted my eyes really tight!" THEN go ahead and actually draw stuff. I imagine you've done some underdrawing, but really work it -- don't move onto the next stage until the current one has a likeness.
P.S. this is some advice I often have trouble taking myself. I'll know it's not right yet, but charge ahead hoping it will magically fix itself. Which it does, sometimes, but honestly, we're talking 10% of the time at best.
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Also, I agree that I need to do more roughing in for placement and perspective before I go as tight as I did. Bad Frank, BAD!
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