Portraiture

[arnold foss]

Been working through the tips and tricks offered by all here with respect to drawing and shading faces. Please have a look and offer up any comments or crits for improvements. Eyes and teeth are not completed.

Thanks

Arnold

[Crow Haven]

do you place colored backgrounds behind the image to see how the facial coloring works? I very rarely just use white---especially when there are distinct shadows involved as these will have some colors added to them from the background/cast onto to them. It helps to keep all the tones balanced with each other. It looks like there are strong shadows on the face, so I wonder about the lighting and other colors which would be related to that/background shading. I'd soften the highlight right end more as it sort of comes to a point on the cheek giving a cone-like shape effect. Use of more colors in the skin---this avoids a flat colored effect if you want. Since you're still working on the eyes and teeth I'll stop there. It's coming along really well! [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img]

http://talkgraphics.infopop.net/1/Op...&ul=8541949815

[gwpriester]

Try to avoid either. Use a very pale color instead of white and a very deep color instead of black. It will make your colors richer.

Good start.

Gary

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[Soquili]

Hi Arnold,

It looking good so far. The only thing I can add to what Maya and Gary have already stated; is to add something to indicate the transition from the cheek to the upper lip. The attachment will show you what I'm trying to convey in words.

Soquili

[Gaussian]

Nice to watch these face studies. I didn't have enough time to try it out myself, but I'm pretty sure that that will change any time soon, although I don't know if I'm going to do it in Xara or a paint program.
But these threads are very interesting all together.