Sebastian - Art Journey

[mau.wamp]

Thats really solid work, Sebastian! Good job!
Really looking forward to the final result

[Da_Bingus]

Hello guys! I finished this guy!

I think for the next one I will try to not overlap wish me luck

I think I will do 2 more portraits with out overlaping and then I will move onto portraits looking straight and then up or down

[Da_Bingus]

Hello guys!
I was supposed to do some portraits without overlapping but my friend came over and wanted to see how I do things so I showed him how I draw portraits but i still tried to use as little overlapping as possible

But tomorrow I will try to go with out overlapping this time for real

[Da_Bingus]

Hello! I did some hard brush shading let me know how I did!
tomorrow I will finish this dude and after tomorrow I will try to do the same thing but in a day

[Da_Bingus]

Hello! I finshed this dude It's a bit rough since I didn't had that much time to draw today but this will have to do next one will be better (maybe)

Also I have a question regarding portrait studies.
Do you think its gonna be better to just focus only on the line art for now to learn the structure of the face or is the thing that I'm doing right now good?

Ps: now that i look at it I can see some value mistakes so I will fix them later

[yaigrie]

For learning the structure of the head shading helps a lot, because it makes the result more 3D and shows if your underlying lineart structure was good enough to shade it right

That said I think you're like me and use the reference to build up the shading instead of your lineart.
I guessed that because of the cheekbone line in your latest drawing. In your lineart it's very close to the eye (I think the endpoint of that quarter circle is too high maybe?), but in the shaded version the shadow beneath the cheekbone is placed at the right spot again

Maybe it could be a good practice to use the reference for the lineart and construction and to detect the direction of the light source, but do the shading yourself? And then check back with the reference.

I don't do that myself yet, but I think I should try that as well

[Lukiesartventure]

This is looking good! Just be careful with the chin in your shaded version. It seems to be tilting to the left. You could exaggerate the tilt towards the right so that the perspective would be closer

[Da_Bingus]

Hello! I did some small fixes to my most recent drawing

Later I will do line art for the next portrait!

[Da_Bingus]

Maybe it could be a good practice to use the reference for the lineart and construction and to detect the direction of the light source, but do the shading yourself? And then check back with the reference.

Yo that's a very good idea thanks! I will try it out

[Da_Bingus]

Hello guys!
Today I did a sketch of this portrait and tomorrow I will do the line art and some shading with hard brush!

PS: On the bottom, you can see an example on how I measured the proportions.

[Da_Bingus]

Hello!
Today I fixed the line art and later or tomorrow I will shade it with hardbrush

[LesleyCarol]

I like the way you handled the facial features (ie. the chin shape, cheeks etc). In the future try to avoid adding the highlight in the eye. If you feel like it's necessary, don't make it too noticeable or bright. In the reference it's hard to see, so I would use a grey that's a little lighter than the shade for the eye.
Good to see you doing portraits on your own!

[Da_Bingus]

Hi lesley long time no see I home u re doing good
I will post some shading later on

[Da_Bingus]

Hello, I did some shading but i didn't finish it, I didn't had time today to finish it so that sucks I'm just letting you know that I did work on the shading today

Maybe tomorrow or after tomorrow I will start to learn how to draw the hair
if you have any tips on that I would appreciate it

Also about the shading it's too hard for me to understand the light and how it works so I will not shade on my own I will just stick with copying the ref.

[Da_Bingus]

Hello guys! I didnt post recently because i had to study for test but I'm back now!
This is unfinished shading

[Da_Bingus]

Hello guys!
I finally finished the hard brush shading on this dude!

Tomorrow I will try to shade it with soft brush and then do some hair studies !

[Da_Bingus]

Hello!
Today I finally finished this dude

Tomorrow I will start to learn how to draw the hair so I'm kinda hyped!!

Also, I have a question regarding portraits:
When should I move onto anatomy 2 class?
I feel like I can draw the portraits with measurements but I struggle with drawing them without measuring because some facial features are a bit off.

[Kosmonaut]

I'd say you could move on to anatomy 2 now if you wanted. there isn't a definite time frame its more or so if you feel comfortable with portraits enough to start learning other things about anatomy. You can always practice portraits alongside other things, but measuring with drawing portraits is normal imo you can improve observation over time to get better at it the more you do it.

[Da_Bingus]

Hello guys!
Like I said yesterday I did some hair studies!
Let me know if it actually looks like hair

[Kosmonaut]

I would say that for the most part, they look like hair except for the one in the middle