No Surrender Skectches. ||UPDATED!| 11 March

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Hello everyone.

About me
I'm 16 and I've been drawing seriously now since 2007. I'm working hard to improve, and spend anywhere upto 4 hours a day practicing art. I don't believe in talent, just hard work. razz
I do regular art classes in painting landscapes every week, however I find it hard to get people to help me drawing people. razz
Any critiques would be greatly loved, and just so you know - I like them rough. ; )

Weaknesses
There are some things that I'm expecially bad at, help in these areas would be appreciated
Mood/Tone
Expressions
Dynamic/Exciting poses
Architecture, internal and external
Mechanical designs
Weapons

15 December

Here I was really concerntrating on skin colouring above all, trying to make it contrast enough and not be too unsaturated. Any help would be glorious. : )
[Christmas Pin Up
Thanks for your time : D  

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27 December 2009

Quick sketch of a girls face. 2 hours max? Yea. |||FIXED|||
Original
[Experimenting with Copics, (not very good)]
[Again Copics. LuL]  

[Nonobotica]

Not bad at all, nice job on the nose and some of the shading. I think the whites of her eyes are too, blank, they kind of rip holes in her face, try not to use blank, almost white is good, id say the same for the background too.

Shes very pouty, no?  

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Ah thanks!
I see what you mean. Eyes are a major pitfall of mine.
Yes she is very pouty. LOL. Is that a bad thing? xD  

[Nonobotica]

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Ah thanks!
I see what you mean. Eyes are a major pitfall of mine.
Yes she is very pouty. LOL. Is that a bad thing? xD

People and their eyes, dawmn.
Its only a bad thing if you didnt want her to look that pouty! ;D  

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Yea. LOL.
I got my brother to model for this pictures eyes. xD
He didn't know it was going to turn into a girl.

Pouty was what I was going for ;P  

[Nonobotica]

Heheh. Id say try again! Im guessing you used photoshop or something on this. Try again, but this time colour the background so it isnt pure white. The colour of background can help set the skin tone as well. Or take this image and look at it with a coloured BG.  

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I'm doing another picture at the moment, taking into account what you said! : )
Also, I edited my first picture. I picked a complementary colour because I had no idea what to pick. D:  

[Folken_Schezar]

just to quickly say its a very nice pic

though there is one kinda big perspective error. you spaced the eyes as if she is looking right at us. you were on the right track with making the eye further away from us narrower then the eye closest to us. when you don't space the eyes properly it creates this kind of flat faced look where you don't get the plane change from the front of the face to the side of the head

otherwise i really like it.
if anything was unclear or you have any questions let me know  

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Oh god. I see what you mean. D:
XD It looks so silly.
I think I've been doing this with many of my artworks, because I can never get the eyes to look right, unless they are square on. D:
Thanks a bunch for pointing it out! (I think I did it in the new picture I'm posting too. D: )

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UPDATED
28 December 09
[Original]

I was doing a picture of my avitar, planning to soft shade the whole thing, but then I was inspired by the rough kind of otherworldly feel of the unfinished hand. I didn't want to spoil it, so I just left it like that. razz
I made the eyes a darker colour, and used a grey colour on the background as Nonobotica suggested.
I do notice that her neck is very small. D:
Anything else anyone can help with?  

[ASHLEYASDFGH]

The only thing I can say might need a little work, in ALL of your pictures you've posted, is that maybe you should bump up the contrast a little. 3nodding
In some spots, like in the most recent one you've posted, in the eye region, the contrast is nice and strong. But then in others, such as the lips, sides of the face, where the neck and chin meet, in the hair, it just kind of fades away. Contrast almost always makes a picture more dynamic, and helps it to pop more. And, especially if you're not going to have any lineart, it is VERY essential in keep the picture from looking like its all a solid color shadow sort of thing. 3nodding

 

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Yea. Contrast is a constant problem of mine.
I've been trying to improve it for aggess. They used to be even more flat. D:
I'll work on that though, thanks!  

[ASHLEYASDFGH]

I've marked some spots that you can try and work on, to help with finding spots to add/subtract contrast. 3nodding
(I know the contrast on my cylinder stinks... its more the direction of the strokes. xP )

http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z60/MutationComplication/colorcontrast.png

 

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Holy cow!
Thankyou sooo much! : D That was soo helpful omg. :'D
That was awesome! I've fixed it up now, so hopefully it's better. D: Still learning LOL.
I've now edited the picture a bit so it's much better now, however I'm still having trouble with the nose region, I couldn't find any references that worked.
- added more contrast
- completely redrew the mouth with reference
Fixed version

The original is still in the previous post, but I made it a link now so it won't page stretch. :>  

[ASHLEYASDFGH]

MARVELOUS~ ! see how contrast can help make things POP? :'D
thats an amazing improvment!

For the nose, I think you just need to get rid of that tiny shadow underneath it, and turn it into more of a thin line of a shadow, and bring it out a bit more, and round it off at the corner where it meets the under-eye shadow.

If you dont get what I'm saying (I've never been good with words gonk ) I'll draw you a visual in the morning. 3nodding