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Jeckal has Loomis? Is that some kind of disease?
JeckalHyde
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Hey guys, I was wondering what you thought of this, now that ive worked on it a bit more.
I was going to also enquire about how do you guys usually approach hair?
I was going to also enquire about how do you guys usually approach hair?
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I'm not really sure if your goal is a straight caricature, but I wouldn't have really guessed Bellamy if you had shown it to me without the name.
I'm also not really experienced with caricatures, so I'm sorry that I can't be of more help.
stepped that up a bit more for effect to break away from drawing it realistically which my first attempt started off
being.
Thanks Fug for your input.
I think this piece ended up being a piece to see if could kinda push the caricature boundaries.
And this was pretty much a test of my digital drawing skills as I have not done anything
at to this level of detail.
Do you think maybe doing the other band members could also help?
I mean its all practice and I can revise or start a new bellamy if all goes well.
So heres my reworking of Jared Leto its still a WIP, but yeah this is why
i was asking about how to approach skin colour etc.
Also I have drawn and inked a few type, some from reference.
But taken these and started applying vector decoration and such.
Also the ambigrams again.
edit: that said, the skin tones you have there are starting to look pretty good. In my experience, most of working with colour is trial and error, and not being afraid to branch out into something unlikely every now and then. The advantage of digital is that you can mess around a lot, so I would just say experiment until you find something you're happy with.
And considering these arent that old, I thought I would post them here.
Anyway they are all WIP, and I need your special critiquing powers to combine to create Captian Planet?
This was a rough paint over. (NSFW or maybe it is on beckham in briefs)
I knew the painting was bad, but when i scanned in the resource and zoomed in.
Iwas mortified at hpw badly I was off.
I was looking at help thread and all that and i realised I havent painted on this for a while, so i digitally painted over it
and plan to paint once[ i hear somethings.
Is this your first time making them? They're looking awesome
Of what you posted, I like your second "Jeckal" the best - it's got a unified style and is very easy to read. Excellent job!
With your "Jarrod" ambigrams, I think they're a touch hard to read because they're all the same height (or close to). Of those I think the first is the best because, again, it has a unified style, and I like how you're utilizing the top of the J to make an underline for the rest of the word. My only quibble is the capital D at the end, but that's because I'm a stickler for not mixing case
If I were to redo it I'd probably have the second r overlapping with the o, to make the a easier to read.
I had a hurdle with drawing nice circles and then not perceiving them 3d.
Drew on an old orange with vivid and that cured that.
So heres what I did today, looks like a bunch of olives on cocktail picks, or is that just me.
The big head/ big jaw kinda reminds me of me, without the big jaw.
Its _super super super_ important to have correct proportions in your artwork. This can be done with sighting. Im not saying my corrections are perfect (they're not), but they should help you out.
The problems I saw and corrected were
1) distance from right eye to the ear was far too wide resulting in a huge skull that didnt match the model
2) the eye was too big ---- too open at the right corner and showing too much of the cornea
3) the nose is drawn like it slopes downward instead of going up - nostril is too small
4) the chin/jaw is too small/high up. I forgot to correct the one on the left for size or the tie
5) the suit is too small for the head
I also only really saw highlight/and midtone....it was hard to distinguish any shadow. Especially around the right eye area I only saw midtone.
A good trick is to squint, just to blur your vision, and then look at the pictures. Try to notice what stands out as light and dark. You can see that while in your picture only small areas stand out as dark, in the reference much of his face is dark.
Keep at it!
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Yeah thanks lyrium, If i need to squint to blur, I might just take off my glasses lol.
And i think that the scan knocked out a little bit of the pop that i drew, as i think it looks much better in reallife than on screen.
And will do so till ive copyed a bit more then, you will see some ref copies of ears, eyes, etc