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Published: 2006-01-24 01:21:40 +0000 UTC; Views: 255; Favourites: 1; Downloads: 19
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I can admit the truth that I am an ammature portrait artist. I spent most of my years drawing manga/anime so the transition between "real life" and "anime" is great. I'm still workin on it ^^v This is one of my oldest realistic drawing done about.. erm.. well, i know it was in 2005 or 2004 of a pic i found on the net. Gave this pic to a friend for his b'day tho
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I like this drawing too! I think you can master the transition between manga and real-life, but you'll need practise.
To add to what I said about the previous picture:
In this drawing you've chosen to work with multiple values( many values of light and shadow and halftone). It is possible to create volume only with shadow and light contrast, but you'll have to find the exact shape of the shadow and that can be tricky.
Drawing with more values can be tricky too because you need to answer the question how dark/light is this area in comparisson with another area and since you have many values to think about, that is rather hard to get.
I'm trying to say that in this picture you can add more of the abovementioned values. For example, the jacket has a certain value of "gray" that is different from the others. But it is not uniformly gray.Since the shoulder lies underneath that jacket, it makes it turn away from the viewer and thus it becomes another, darker value of the same gary. You have to keep in mind that this value is lighter, than, lets say the lighter part of the eyes and so on. Keep thinking that what is farther away from you gets more blurry and in the same time loses intesity-black gets more grayish and white loses whiteness.
I guess you know that, because I see you doing it in some parts of the darwing, but the viewer needs to see more of it.
Look at your drawing carefully, squint a little if you have to and answer this question-which are the darkest parts in it? Is it the eyes or the dark parts of the hair or the hat or the bag? To me they seem of rather equall value. Even if there are sveral darkest parts, they are seldom equally dark in relation with each other. It's like increasing the contrast of a drawing in photoshop-in the end you get only several black spots that remain. It's what you have to do.
Again, this comment got too long, but I'm really just trying to help because I think you can achieve more. And constructive criticism can help, right? 
PS Like i said, try to draw from nature, rather than photos and pictures-these things are easier to perceive that way.
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looks excellent for an "anime" artist transitioning to a "real life" artist, keep it up!
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thanks alot ^^ I appreciate your comment ^O^
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