Old Man

[BomberMan]

I got myself a great book on painting and this is one of the exercises there, and its about 40% complete, just wanted to post my progress.

http://www.geocities.com/Stanley550/old4.txt

[Fozzybar]

I know it's hell of work...but if you put a more hairlike structure in his beard it would push the quality of the whole pic a lot.

The face's detail level is much higher than the one of the beard...

His face looks very good! But tell me, what is a good looking old man without a good looking beard?

[Jabo]

I have to agree with fozzybar, pic 2 looks better to me than #3, I hope #3 isn't the final result, more contrast. Also, the beard looks way too waterproof, there should be some kind of structure...

[BomberMan]

thanks for replies guys

the beard is not complete, so yeah i will be adding a lot more texture to it...
the face... i overworked with smudging... too many rounded areas, as well as too many strong highlights... i'm trying to figure out how to fix this as i type this reply...

P.S. Sorry if u couldnt see the pic...i ran out of bandwidth on netfirms.

[MolvaDo]

try not to make the face so smooth jitter the strokes a bit and add more wrinkles this old dude looks like he has use a skin moisturizer on his face his whole life. try to imulate the face of the actor that played Gandolf the Grey in LOTR. that is a wrinkly dude

[Xysryc]

Look, it's Plato! :D

Perhaps you want to make the eyes a bit more shiney. There is a good tutorial on drawing eyes somewhere on SIJUN.