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Tastick

PostPosted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 10:37 am


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I am primarily a singer/actor, but I do a lot of doodles of womens' heads in notebooks and such. I want to expand my horizons a bit, but first want to know what you lot think I can do to improve the heads themselves (based on this example) before we move into the much more painful world of bodies.

Eventually I want to be able to draw guys as well...but yeah, one thing at a time.

Also, I've asked my choir director for some concert recordings I've had solos in...so you may all get to hear me sing before too long. Woopdeedoo!
PostPosted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 12:56 pm


Check out this site: http://portrait-artist.org/

At the bottom-area of the site there are links to the various tutorials on the site. You could start off with this one and this one.

It looks like you don't know the proper proportions of the face, so that's something you should definitely practice.

This might help too: http://www.worsleyschool.net/socialarts/body/proportions.html

Tawney


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PostPosted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 8:46 am


That is really interesting; your eyes and noses and mouths have decent form to them and even a bit of character, and on the other hand a lot of this image is way off. The overall shape of her head and jaw need work, as well as the placement of the neck.

Seems to me that you have a grasp on some things that most beginning artists take a while at, but are missing some basic foundation.
PostPosted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 6:14 am


It's not bad as a little cartoon doodle, but I fear the underlying skills to take it further aren't there. You should scan some more for us to see mrgreen

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Tastick

PostPosted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 6:46 pm


Thanks, guys! I will take a look at tutorials and get some more stuff up as soon as I have a good chunk of time to really devote to art. I'm about to enter tech week for a show I'm in...so life's kinda hectic as of right now.
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