Female face front, rookie exercise

[redfrog]

I'd maybe make the lips a little fuller and maybe add a bit of gloss or shine to them. Addind some more refined detail on the hair, eyebrows, and lashes will help as well as some more prominent shadows to help define areas like the tip of the nose etc.
Hope this helps.
Its a good starting point.
Best of luck! :)

[Danzarin]

Thanks redfrog, I really apreciet you comments.

Im going to keep working on nose and mouth detail and shading, but since now the face has some kind of character I thought to post it for aesthetic criticism.





http://img250.imageshack.us/img250/4324/face02pj3.jpg

[Soki]

Also, if I may add my feedback -- great beginning, but no woman's face, or man's face for that matter, is completely symmetrical. Right now, the eyebrows, eyes and nose feel a little too symmetrical, almost like they are mirror images. Also, need more highlights like redfrog mentionned, a dot on the nose, defining the bridge of the nose, etc.

But it's great!

[Danzarin]

Thanks Soki. Good points. Im afraid some things will look symmetrical again. What im doing is working on both sides, then I make a symmetrical copy of each side and choose wich one looks better.. : )

To show what I mean on the right side of the image there are 4 lips. The top one is the one I had from drawing, the second and third is a symmetrical copy of each side and the fourth is a streched version wich I tried to use.

Soki, I promise that in the final version I will take care of that. Thanks for it.

This is a litle update.
It is looking great to me, in the sense that I have never done anything this far. Im not sure where to go next... the skin shading is looking ok, but somehow flat. isnt it?
Two versions of the mouth.. I like the bigger but maybe the smaller gives more character.




http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/438/face03dg4.jpg

http://img127.imageshack.us/img127/7481/face03bpe0.jpg

[Ces]

Thanks Soki. Good points. Im afraid some things will look symmetrical again. What im doing is working on both sides, then I make a symmetrical copy of each side and choose wich one looks better.. : )


So you are painting one side and mirroring it over? two reasons not to do that.
1) Lighting.
2) "Artists errors" carry over to human inperfections, i.e a common thing is that eyes aren't exactly leveled, so even when carefully placing an eye you're bound to have a minor imperfection, if you get what i mean?

Just seems like more work in general, but that's just my biased opinion.


This is a litle update.
It is looking great to me, in the sense that I have never done anything this far. Im not sure where to go next... the skin shading is looking ok, but somehow flat. isnt it?
Two versions of the mouth.. I like the bigger but maybe the smaller gives more character.

Smaller one looks like zoolander, i'd go for the relaxed state.
And about the shading, it's looking good, just keep pushing and pulling.

[Danzarin]

Last update before I go to bed :p
Some work on the eyes and a litle test of hair style



http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/3535/face04qf0.jpg

[Danzarin]

http://img250.imageshack.us/img250/6743/face05xe4.jpg

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