Gargoyle

[qzole]

Hi all!
This is my first post on this forum.
I like everything i read here, and finally I come up to sending an image.
Anyway I'm 16.
This is a gargolye head, from side view, well I shouldn't send a finished pic as a first one, but anyway here it is:
http://cryzis.vmg.sulinet.hu/~kuruczz/gargolye.jpg
Comments and critiques are very welcome!

[shortmikeshort]

Not bad. You try to ground a fantasy creature in some anatomical reality. It's a good start, but it could be taken even further. Some basic problems include the oddly concave forhead and the eyeball that's way too close the front of the face. Unless he's a cyclops. Although I think his eyeball is about to fall out of its socket.

Now, I want you to notice that he's a fairly neutral grey all around. You need to be more sensitive to natural shading. Look at some objects in extreme light to get some really contrasting shadows: you will get a better sense of the minute details that exist that you can use to make your drawings even more real.

As always, study anatomy. Even fantasy creatures that don't have human features need basic anatomy.

Notice that his horn/knot casts a shadow in direct conflict with the shadows that fall across his face. Most of the light seems to be coming from the top left, but for the horn it's directly above.

Keep it up though. Welcome aboard.

[qzole]

Thanx for the comments/critiques.

About the forehead, I couldn't found out anything interesting, so I made this odd shape.

The eye is really really badin it's front place, I don't know how didn't I noticed that, and the eyeball is really falling out, I tihnk it was becouse I wanted that to be real round, and made it a little too round.

Well, with shading I always have a problem, all my pictures looks real flat, I will need much practice in that area, and I don't know how to use the wider darker and thinner lighter lines (any tips how to practice, or should I just try, try, try...).

About the horn you meant the dropshadow or the selfshadow, couse I only noticed now that it doesn't has enough shadow on it, but I think the drop shadow is in the correct place.
But another problem I haven't corrected (and shouldn't tell it's a problem) Is that he has only 1 horn, althought I wanted 2. :realmad:


I think I'll make another version to correct the major mistakes, but I think I'll leave him, and make it from start, just for practice (and I don't want to remake half of his head in the end it would only look crapy :p ).

And thanx again!


EDIT: and one more thing i will change is his ear!