Sketches and Portraiture, critique?

Samyaza

These are new, as am I. Please say something, I crave attention.

NakedElf

I like the ones with the blocky shading. The sketchy ones look, well, fairly accurate, but they look like pretty standard life-drawing class fare. The blocky ones have more style to them, more individuality.

Kobei

Better than anything I could do in the ways of real life.

I prefer anime styles.

Brolo

Try not to 'pet' your strokes so much. What you want to be doing is visualizing where a stroke will be beforehand, and then drawing a single confident line where you need it. By making tiny little scratches back and forth as you draw you'll find your pictures will lose a lot of their impact, since the edges tend to fuzz and get messy.

Same thing goes for shading - you're working with your pictures totally from contours, so your shading is off because you haven't developed the structure of what's underneath - if you focus more on drawing in tones and masses instead of just focusing on line, you'll add a lot of bulk and weight to your sketches, which will help them feel more real.

The second picture from the top with the old man squinting is a good start on that, see if you can take it further into some of your larger portraits.

Samyaza

Thanks for the responses: I'll have more art up as I, well, as I draw it. Rolo: I'm iffy on the meaning of "masses", could you clarify? I understand that much of what I've shown is contour/line based, and tones relate to shades, but I don't know about mass.

And a quick landscape.

Rohan

Kobei wrote: »

I prefer anime styles.

You and 99% of the 'net.

Edit - Not that I'm criticising you or anime, but God, it's wearying to see so much of it.