Portrait study

#1

Hi all,

im working on portrait of Winona Rider. To be honest this is one of my first sculpts of female face and i would like to make her perfect. please let me know what you think and how could i make it better?



#2

I’m assuming the stylisation is intentional? I have to say I wouldn’t recognise this as her; what are your references?

#3

Hi,

No, she meant to be realistic, at-list i want to get her there when i’m done. below is the reference im using. What make her stylized, except hair?

#4

Hi Andrej

At the moment, absolutely everything! :slight_smile:

All of the proportions you currently have are exaggerated and as Leigh points out, it looks more like you’re attempting a cartoon/stylised version rather than a realistic head. There’s very little grounding between your model and the structures of the face at the moment.

I’ve made a very quick/crude adjusted version in Photoshop to try and adjust the proportions to those of a human head.

It’s not necessarily the proportions of Winona Ryder, but hopefully you can see the difference.

Don’t worry though, even incredibly skilled character artists can struggle with a likenesses and there are a lot of fundamentals you have to learn before you can even get a vaguely realistic portrait. Don’t forget to keep checking your reference and if you don’t know what you’re looking at, take a step back and do some research.