Comments: 31
junuzovic [2011-08-19 13:33:44 +0000 UTC]
just a bit more hair on the top is needed, tho great job done.
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mojab [2010-07-13 12:35:06 +0000 UTC]
wooOW
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BenFreaky In reply to mojab [2010-07-13 13:00:06 +0000 UTC]
thanks : )
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mojab In reply to BenFreaky [2010-07-13 13:19:51 +0000 UTC]
Welcome
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BenFreaky In reply to alienatedallie [2010-04-10 08:11:34 +0000 UTC]
Ah yeah! That´s so annoying...
What kind of scanner do you have?
Thanks for the compliment :].
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talentwithin [2010-02-17 22:24:00 +0000 UTC]
great work love this piece !
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bambootiger [2010-02-08 01:29:56 +0000 UTC]
You are coming along pretty well. A camera or a scanner generally work very poorly on a graphite work. They are programmed to average out the exposure and so they underexpose a white surface and make it look gray and muddy. It helps a lot if even when you are working with pencil if you reserve some areas for black. In fact some artists use charcoal or ink or other dry black media with pencil. As far as graphite is concerned the best darks, I think, is made with Ebony pencils. It helps a lot if you have a program to digitally edit your pencil drawing to be able to increase the contrast and alter the brightness of you picture or scan so that it looks more like the original. One free program is "Ifranview":
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What I suggest to you is that when you take a picture of your work you need to take quite a few and bracket the exposures.
You have a pretty face here but there are a few things that will improve it. If you go to my home page you will see that in my gallery I have two proportion studies of faces there you can look at. From the chin to the hairline the face is about 9/10 of the head length, with another 1/10 of hair above that. So from the hairline to the top of the hair is about 2/10 of the total. On a well proportioned face the distance from the chin to the nose, the nose to the eyebrows, and from the eyebrows to the hairline are about the same.
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bambootiger In reply to BenFreaky [2010-02-10 19:01:50 +0000 UTC]
You are correct, proportions do vary. That's why I use the phrase "well proportioned". I assume you want to draw a pretty face, and to do that it is best to study pretty faces with their features and proportions. I have seen prints for sale where the image is done in beautiful color that must have been done with an airbrush, but the proportions were off and it was ruined, at least for me personally. Proportions are the skeleton of drawing or painting a human, an animal, a building, or a tree. If the proportions are wrong then everything done after that will not make it look right.
The main problem in the drawing you did is that you did not allow enough room for the top of the skull. I will add this, though. I get about 700 or so deviations in my inbox every week, and I delete most of them be fore even looking through them. So you did better than a lot of people in catching my eye in the first place. Then of the ones I look at I don't comment on most. I do like faces.
If you visit my home page there is a link in my journal right now to a free drawing program that is easy to use.
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BenFreaky In reply to bambootiger [2010-02-14 09:39:13 +0000 UTC]
Ah okay, I can understand what you mean.
I´ll try to focus more on the proportions.
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mywonderland92 [2010-02-07 20:11:44 +0000 UTC]
very nice sketch! i really love your style
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BenFreaky In reply to mywonderland92 [2010-02-08 11:10:36 +0000 UTC]
Thank you so much.
Really appreciate your comment.
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Ancient-one [2010-02-02 20:13:39 +0000 UTC]
An sich gefällt mir das Portrait sehr gut, bis auf ein paar Dinge:
Zuerst einmal stören mich die Augen, vorallem die kleinen (aber sehr auffälligen) Striche an den äußeren Winkeln der Augen. Ich weiss nicht ob das Wimpern sein sollen, wenn ja sind sie jedenfalls deplatziert.
Insgesamt finde ich ihren Ausdruck etwas seltsam, was vielleicht auch daran liegt dass zwischen Augen und Brauen kaum Schattierung ist. Zudem ist unklar, aus welcher Richtung das Licht überhaupt kommt, Frontales Licht wirkt jedenfalls immer sehr hart und flach, es hat keine Tiefe - so wirkt das Bild langweilig. Aber ich gehe mal davon aus, dass du mit Schattierung noch nicht allzu vertraut bin also kann man da mal drüber wegsehen.
Die Haare find ich sehr gut, wobei sie sehr weich wirken - kommt natürlich auf die Person an die du darstellen willst aber du solltest zwischendurch ein paar kräftigere und dunklere Linien einzeichnen, das bringt mehr Dynamik und Tiefe (nur Mut zum starken Strich! ).
Ich hoffe das hilft dir weiter. Wie gesagt, das Bild ist gut, aber du wolltest ja auch Kritik.
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