Portrait work

[Memorial-Strife]

I think you should add darker shadows, to better define the form.
And even her forehead, the right side is bigger than the left one.
Keep it up!

[exStatic1]

Hey Tayscrenn, I noticed a couple anatomy issues with the girls face, I drew up a little proportions box window thing to help out a bit, it looks like the perspective is off quite a bit in the one I painted over, but you get the idea... generally when you draw faces, you want to match up the pupils with the corners of the mouth, and the eyes are in the middle of the face, virtically that is, they should be about an eye length appart and another half eye, or eye length from the eyes to the sides of the face. From the eyes to the bottom of the chin, cut that area in half and that's the bottom of the nose, and once again from the bottom of the nose to the bottom of the chin, and that's the mouth. (usually when I draw a face, I bring the lips a little higher than that, maybe 2/3 from the bottom of the chin, 1/3 from the bottom of the nose should be good.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v55/Nsane87/face.jpg

Keep working on it.

[SocialSystem]

Hey Tayscrenn, I noticed a couple anatomy issues with the girls face, I drew up a little proportions box window thing to help out a bit, it looks like the perspective is off quite a bit in the one I painted over, but you get the idea... generally when you draw faces, you want to match up the pupils with the corners of the mouth, and the eyes are in the middle of the face, virtically that is, they should be about an eye length appart and another half eye, or eye length from the eyes to the sides of the face. From the eyes to the bottom of the chin, cut that area in half and that's the bottom of the nose, and once again from the bottom of the nose to the bottom of the chin, and that's the mouth. (usually when I draw a face, I bring the lips a little higher than that, maybe 2/3 from the bottom of the chin, 1/3 from the bottom of the nose should be good.



Just to follow up on this with what I've personally learned over the years.. the head is generally horizontallly about five eye lengths long, and i was taught that straight on theres about an eye length on each side of the eyes rather than half an eye like exStatic implied. Though in the end I suppose this is more dependent on the person you're drawing than the rules.

The nose is one and a half eye lengths long, and the lips are 2/3 up from the chin, rather than 1/2.

Also her ear is too far up. The top should be even with the eyes and I believe the bottom is usually even with the bottom of the nose?

I would also bring the hair line up.. a lot.. the eyes are in the center of the skull, as you can see in exstatic's 'paintover', and though it may seem strange the hair line doesn't usually go that far beneath the skull from the perspective you're drawing her at.
As far as her skull goes, it seems a little distorted. I would make it a little rounder.

Overall I love the idea and the painting job is looking awesome so far, I love the colors you're using and her eyes are beautiful.

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