The eyes are small and the nose is long. Even for a long nose I would say that nose is out of the normal range of human possibility. Also I feel like the tilt of the cranium, or back of the skull is different than the tilt of the face.
That last one has some great stuff in it KDW. Is it conte? The head/neck area feels a little wonky.. mostly from a connected standpoint.. just doesn't feel quite right. The foreshortening with the arm on the stand doesn't feel quite right either.. feels like it should be knocked back and recede a little more.. The hatching in the torso/lower torso is my favorite part of the drawing. I like how you described the anatomy in there. The leg thats bent feels a little long from the insertion point of the illiac crest/femur to knee however.. if you were to imagine that leg flexed straight out, in comparison to the leg that is straight.. it'd be a little longer than it.. feet are a little small too.. Overall though I like how you developed the forms with hatching and directional stroke. To that end, the drawing has some really successful areas.
MustangArbiter of Unpopular OpinionsRegistered Userregular
edited August 2009
Hmm, I think the front plane of the head is too narrow. I get the guy had a long narrow head, but it seems like it's been pushed too far. The top one is ace Ken, I can definately see progress from the first lot of head studies you posted, the values are really solid.
MustangArbiter of Unpopular OpinionsRegistered Userregular
edited August 2009
Pretty fucking good ken, I honestly can't fault the body, it's spectacular.......in a totally hetero way....and maybe a little gay...but not too much. The eyes and nose leave a little to be desired though but I gets the feeling they were'nt your top priority.
I do have the patience for longer stuff when I get to use a combo of charcoal and pencil because it becomes a painting. But Im still working on building up with just a pencil.
Looking nice KDW.. Some proportion things though.. first thing that jumps out is the length of the arm.. the forearm is a bit long.. he looks like a tall, sorta lanky type, but even then it feels long in this case.. elbow to wrist. Features on the head are a little misaligned, it feels mostly like the nose. Neck feels a little thing, but I think that my also feel that way because of the way his head is twisted.. but overall size of the head, in relationship with the body, it feels on the small side. All that said, I like how you flushed out the anatomy. Its probably the strongest aspect of the drawing. Great job on that knee too, thats always a weird angle to portray when its bent like that.
Seems like you have captured the pose pretty well though that is difficult to say without seeing it. But dammit Ken you need to concentrate more when putting faces on these drawings. It feels really unsatisfying right now because its a lovely looking drawing except this head on there that just isn't really working. Also the legs are getting pretty long.
I understand they're sketchy pages, but your lines seem a little haphazard, and not very confident. The forms don't seem to be very closely paid attention to, and seem slightly lumpy (Loomer's atrophied forearm, for one). Also, on the washes, when you're making short small strokes over and over again along the form, it seems pretty obvious and visible. It think it could look a little better if you tried to make the strokes there less obvious, and the value-blot there more cohesive. Spots like the camel's underside, the man-in-profile's shirt, and Loomer's shirt all
seem to show that .
It's a nice technique, though, and I think these could be really nice if they were slightly more refined.
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And the face seems a little slanted to the left (our right) but otherwise it looks good. How big is it?
edit: the drawing I mean, how big is the drawing?
Makes me wish I had the patience to get my rendering skills up to this level... Keep it up sir.
Looks awsome but, is the manstache intentional?
Also everything in brown penciling has been turning out golden.
Also your still life is some pretty kicking work. I'm loving the color bouncing.
Seems like you have captured the pose pretty well though that is difficult to say without seeing it. But dammit Ken you need to concentrate more when putting faces on these drawings. It feels really unsatisfying right now because its a lovely looking drawing except this head on there that just isn't really working. Also the legs are getting pretty long.
loomdun
seem to show that .
It's a nice technique, though, and I think these could be really nice if they were slightly more refined.