Top one added 9/6/09
Well it's almost 4am. And I figured I post another excerpt from my sketchbook since I posted the first one on 8/19. I think I'm getting my mojo back. The rag on this recycled paper is really bad. The soft lead just gets soooo messy after a point. Usually put in about 4 to 6 hours a night to early morning. Think I've seen every Fresh Prince of BelAir early morning rerun so far while I work on getting rid of the rust in my pencil.
I see a LOT of improvement. Your feature mapping is getting much more assured. You'll be a kick ass caricaturist in another few weeks if you keep it up.
ReplyDeleteDraw your asaro head a few times. I know it sounds dry and pointless. It can also be frustrating. But it is the best thing to get those feature rhythms completely nailed to the door.
And another thing
ReplyDeleteAnd another thing. Take that largest one in the bottom left and nudge it around it liquify mode in photoshop. Also flip it on the horizontal and see if anything about it upsets your eye.
ReplyDeleteThese are extra fun things to do with a sketch you've already produced.
Quit running a mental scorecard on your reaction comments. You're up to four already. Yeesh
ReplyDeleteJim, they DO show a lot of improvement, and they are looking good. II think the big Tuesday Weld looking girl in the middle came out best, and she's the one with the most difficult angle/head tilt to deal with. Shows when you've got something a little more abstract, you are a little more attentive to the placement of things.
ReplyDeleteI second Ellis on his suggestions re:playing in PhoSho.
Watch just dropping features into the dead-center of the "quadrants" of the face--it looks like this is happening with the smaller heads, esp. when seen head-on or so. Your eye wants to "equalize" proportions, and you have to fight this tendency. Fer instance, most people when drawing a head (or sculpting esp.'ly) will drop the mouth in the exact middle of the space between the chin and the base of the nose--this is wrong. The mouth is always a little closer to the nose.
It's al about structure at this point. Check out the John K. "Stuff" blog for great structure instruction. And check out Ellis's blog for mad skillz...and madness.
Thanks Marty, (and Ellis too.) Yeah, I tend to get sloppy at around 3am. My eyes start going but my hand wont let the pencil go. I'll check out the links and take note. Yeah that one head on the bottom left didn't turn out as well. I knew it had problems but I just move on to another and get it worked out. The little heads are just filler for the most part, just little exercises then I move to a new sheet of paper.
ReplyDeleteI wasn't making any big deal about the bottom left being most flawed or anything. I just picked it as a fun one to manipulate.. Push it around, flip it, liquify it. Think about it.
ReplyDeleteNext sketches you do. I know these are resulting from Actresses in books. Crack that Silver open and just copy some of what you see there. Let the cartoonist be your guide to better life sketches.
ReplyDeleteWas that really TUesday Weld? I really like that one...and the short-haired girl to her upper left.
ReplyDeleteKeep goin', Jimmy!
you have a good eye Marty. I have a few pics of her in my ref files
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