Portrait practice

Spoiler:

I think there's something wrong with the lighting on the lower region of the nose ...
oh well.

Here's a semi-realistic portrait I've whipped out from the iPad to PC . No reference used , because I can't find any men this pretty

Using pure black as shadows seem to work well with realism.

Also I've been doing too much heads , I can't draw bodies worth shit .
:p

I'm feeling this, man. Damn.
Time and time again, you keep revealing more that you're capable of.

Very good understanding of color saturation and reflected light. It looks beautiful for what it is. I'm also impressed that you know faces this well. I thought you only knew anime.

Noticed a little green on his hair; you made a really nice variety of colors to subtly interact with one another. I'm not sure I'd say there's anything wrong with the head, besides that now one would just refine the textures of it all, and the eye on the left (his right eye) hasn't quite been brushed up as much as the other one. I think if you just put a really gentle highlight, the eye would have form. But right now it looks sort of flat, compared to everything else.

I don't know if it's because you just stopped at that point, or if you're afraid of ears, but I can't tell what you know about them cause you didn't try to detail it! However, while you still need to show what you know about ears, it's not really an issue for this individual painting. Illustrators generally focus detail on the things they want you to focus on; it's like a way of blurring out other things. Tasteful distribution of high detail and low detail.

I'll tell you what you also really wanna work on, and that's the clothes. The collar there is not behaving like most fabric should. At the spot where the shoulders and neck meet, it should have some prominent folds and wrinkles.

So, that's my two cents. I absolutely love your ability with color. Look thick. Solid. Tight.
Gosh, looking at this painting gave me a run for my money in critiquing it. I had to think hard to notice things you can improve, haha.

Edyrem wrote:

I'm feeling this, man. Damn.
Time and time again, you keep revealing more that you're capable of.

Very good understanding of color saturation and reflected light. It looks beautiful for what it is. I'm also impressed that you know faces this well. I thought you only knew anime.

Noticed a little green on his hair; you made a really nice variety of colors to subtly interact with one another. I'm not sure I'd say there's anything wrong with the head, besides that now one would just refine the textures of it all, and the eye on the left (his right eye) hasn't quite been brushed up as much as the other one. I think if you just put a really gentle highlight, the eye would have form. But right now it looks sort of flat, compared to everything else.

I don't know if it's because you just stopped at that point, or if you're afraid of ears, but I can't tell what you know about them cause you didn't try to detail it! However, while you still need to show what you know about ears, it's not really an issue for this individual painting. Illustrators generally focus detail on the things they want you to focus on; it's like a way of blurring out other things. Tasteful distribution of high detail and low detail.

I'll tell you what you also really wanna work on, and that's the clothes. The collar there is not behaving like most fabric should. At the spot where the shoulders and neck meet, it should have some prominent folds and wrinkles.

So, that's my two cents. I absolutely love your ability with color. Look thick. Solid. Tight.
Gosh, looking at this painting gave me a run for my money in critiquing it. I had to think hard to notice things you can improve, haha.

Yes a few portraits practice does help with faces , but I stall have anime in my veins.
And yes I'm afraid of ears , I can't see them without a mirror/camera. But I'll try to work on those.

As for the clothes .... well yeah , you're right. I kinda do suck at them XD
I'll try to fix it as soon as I get me commission done

Edy, you need to understanding anatomy and faces properly to be good at drawing anime. So knowing one, you should know the other.

I do agree though, about the clothes.
You should continue doing these portraits! start some new ones and try taking edy's advice on board before coming back to this one maybe, that why you should have a better understanding of what he was saying and what this picture needs.

I can't give it much critique, this is better then anything i could do. On the computer at least. (I am a traditional painter.)

And also, the colours are freaking awesome XD.
I do have a bit of an issue with the back ground though. Not really liking the aura arround him, but that's just my opinion, so you can ignore it if you want.

mmmm :]

Tasty ~

...as the others have stated, the taste of this painting was pretty good. Now how about the aftertaste? This is when I ask you of your mentality during the creation of this pic, what caused you to want to paint it, how you felt afterward, etc. Gimmeh some behind the scenes so that we can enrich this dining experience.

Lelouch wrote:

Edy, you need to understanding anatomy and faces properly to be good at drawing anime. So knowing one, you should know the other.

Yeah, no. You get anatomy training with anime faces like you get bodybuilding training with running.

What I'm saying is. You should be looking at real human anatomy while studying anime.
I'm NOT saying that you learn human anatomy through anime.

I feel that most great anime/manga artist would know the human anatomy very well.

Oh; that I definitely agree with. Many aspiring cartoonists think they don't need to learn the fundamentals of drawing, when in reality they very much do.

I wouldn't know about the last statement. All I know out of a cartoonist's knowledge of anatomy is that they know it enough to draw it well in a cartoon. But their knowledge becomes more apparent if they have consistent forms at different angles.

Hitorio wrote:

...as the others have stated, the taste of this painting was pretty good. Now how about the aftertaste? This is when I ask you of your mentality during the creation of this pic, what caused you to want to paint it, how you felt afterward, etc. Gimmeh some behind the scenes so that we can enrich this dining experience.

What wanted me to paint it ?
To practice and try to develop a style much like Sakimichan . Google that name up and be blown away by awesome shit on deviantart.
Well I started off during a boring event on a family day activity thing , so I picked up my ipad , started sketching in the main ideas.

I then proceeded to head to conceptart.org's irc to ask for opinions . Well hell did they point out everything.
So I did , the 1st final product had much smaller narrower eyes , which I changed soon after , fixing the nose as well. And this turned out :9

Edyrem wrote:

Oh; that I definitely agree with. Many aspiring cartoonists think they don't need to learn the fundamentals of drawing, when in reality they very much do.

I wouldn't know about the last statement. All I know out of a cartoonist's knowledge of anatomy is that they know it enough to draw it well in a cartoon. But their knowledge becomes more apparent if they have consistent forms at different angles.

Intentional double post . Yeah ! Anime and all sort of other cartoons are just stylizations and communicate through use of symbols .
By understanding how the style is derived from the actual form , we can go back and forth , as well as have more variety in said style (different traits etc etc)