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Post by As You Built The Moon on Oct 1, 2010 22:39:37 GMT -5
I'm taking a beginning drawing class and last night the teacher just told us to draw whatever was in the room. I have this picture on my keychain so that's what I went with: This was my first try at drawing a person. The left eye got out a little further than I wanted and I thought it looked like Liam's, lol. Sure everyone's seen the photo itself but here it is:
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Post by spaneli on Oct 1, 2010 23:14:12 GMT -5
Need a bit of work, I'm sorry to say. The mouth doesnt look to good either.
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Post by deasy on Oct 2, 2010 6:32:02 GMT -5
Why does Noel have a tambourine?
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Post by thedon on Oct 2, 2010 9:15:25 GMT -5
Absolutely terrible, how old are you though?
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Post by paranoidandroid on Oct 2, 2010 9:52:17 GMT -5
better than i could do lol
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Post by Rolo on Oct 2, 2010 18:31:58 GMT -5
Noels piled on the pounds.
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Post by yeayeayeah on Oct 2, 2010 18:54:12 GMT -5
Its copied off an Andy Warhol photo
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Post by bluemagpie on Oct 2, 2010 19:26:55 GMT -5
People aren't easy, keep practicing and you'll get improve quickly.
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Post by Beady’s Here Now on Oct 2, 2010 19:55:23 GMT -5
With a little bit of work, you could turn that into Liam - it has the hair circa 2000.....Regardless, as Paranoid said, much better than I could do!
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Post by beadyeyeunofficial on Oct 3, 2010 9:47:48 GMT -5
Quite good. The mouth is a bit iffy, but, on the whole, it shows a lot of potential.
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Post by Frodis on Oct 3, 2010 21:59:39 GMT -5
Need a bit of work, I'm sorry to say. The mouth doesnt look to good either. This. Plus, i dunno if its the angle you took the picture at or what, but think about the actual distance between your nose/mouth/chin. There's not that much distance between Noel's mouth/bottom lip and his chin ;D Cos it looks huuuuge here. The shading at the top of his head needs a lot of work as well. But you're off to a good start.
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Post by morning_rain on Oct 4, 2010 14:35:53 GMT -5
When drawing a portrait of somebody it's important to check the distance between facial features. Your drawing wouldn't be THAT bad if you had drawed the mouth a bit lower, because if you look the original photo the lower lip is in (almost) equal distance from the nose than the eyes from the nose.
I don't know if I have explained myself properly. English is not my languaje.
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Post by Frodis on Oct 4, 2010 20:52:38 GMT -5
When drawing a portrait of somebody it's important to check the distance between facial features. Your drawing wouldn't be THAT bad if you had drawed the mouth a bit lower, because if you look the original photo the lower lip is in (almost) equal distance from the nose than the eyes from the nose. I don't know if I have explained myself properly. English is not my languaje. it sounds great. you basically said what i just said but better!
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Post by morning_rain on Oct 5, 2010 2:43:03 GMT -5
haha I'm sorry, I didn't read your message!
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Post by Frodis on Oct 5, 2010 11:06:41 GMT -5
haha I'm sorry, I didn't read your message! hehe. its no problem. But A+ job at being more eloquent than I! ;D
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Post by As You Built The Moon on Oct 5, 2010 20:41:53 GMT -5
Need a bit of work, I'm sorry to say. The mouth doesnt look to good either. This. Plus, i dunno if its the angle you took the picture at or what, but think about the actual distance between your nose/mouth/chin. There's not that much distance between Noel's mouth/bottom lip and his chin ;D Cos it looks huuuuge here. The shading at the top of his head needs a lot of work as well. But you're off to a good start. Yeah, I see what you're getting at. The face looks upturned/fat because spacing is way off. What happened with the chin was I wanted to do the whole thing without an eraser and kept trying to keep the chin at the same level as his index finger. Not the best priority in retrospect, lol. I wanted to map out the outline better, but like I said, I was drawing it off a keychain.
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Post by As You Built The Moon on Oct 5, 2010 20:46:44 GMT -5
2nd try: (scanner is a little narrow so I had to do two sides and merge them) I just wish Liam's iris had been about a quarter smaller. New to eyes of course, so I practiced some first:
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Post by gdforever on Oct 5, 2010 21:52:56 GMT -5
I think Noels face it a bit disproportionate. But Liam looks pretty good there tough
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Post by Frodis on Oct 6, 2010 1:00:13 GMT -5
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Post by morning_rain on Oct 6, 2010 15:03:13 GMT -5
Liam's eyes look a bit "manga". And as someone pointed out Noel's face is a bit disproportionate. You should work on volume and add more contrast to your shading. But it's a lot better than your first effort, though
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Post by As You Built The Moon on Oct 6, 2010 18:20:39 GMT -5
The scan is what messes up the contrast; the actual drawing looks way better in that regard. I guess I'll have to learn some basic Photoshop or some other software to darken these.
Noel's mouth should've been a little higher. I made that magna connection about the eye too. I wanted to bring down the eyebrow just a bit more to hide it, but was afraid Liam was looking like a primate before I finished it, so I tried to keep it more soulful-looking.
ty for the links, Frodis. I'll definitely check those out.
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Post by mkoasis on Oct 20, 2010 22:38:03 GMT -5
I think you're pretty good, I mean consdiering you're an amateur or beginner. Better than what most can do and like others have said, portraits are hard to do.
That 2nd one shows a lot of improvement.I think Liam looks amazing!! Noel's getting there...looks a little like Joey Shithead from DOA, if anyone knows that band, but keep at it mate. You've got talent.
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