Some portrait drawings

[botho81]

Here are my last two drawings i did with a B mechanical pencil.
Let me know what you think about it !!
More drawings and concepts can be seen on my homepage

http://pc23.gd.fh-mannheim.de/~botho/s52.jpg

http://pc23.gd.fh-mannheim.de/~botho/s53.jpg

[armando]

Sorry man, but exotic beauty looks like E.T. The Extraterestrial. Her eyes are too far apart and her neck's too skinny, she's got no sternomastoid muscle. On the second one the hair looks really good the way it falls on to her shoulder, it's more interesting than her face. Also it's hard to tell if the hair is going in front of her eye or if one side of her face was drawn too small.

[armando]

I feel like I was too harsh on my last post, "Daydream" is actually pretty good.

[Marie]

nice drawings

On the exotic beauty one, her neck does indeed feel too skinny, I believe that there are a couple things that might help it out.

1. There is a really sharp line dividing her face and neck, perhaps soften that up a little nearer the back of her head as it heads to where her ear is hidden.

2. I can see the background where I think there should be hair, just behind her neck. I'm sure its possible, but with the way her neck seems so skinny and I don't see extra hair elsewhere to make up for it... she seems bald in the back just a tad.

just a little crit for now, these are beautiful, I'd love to see that first one worked on a little, its really a pretty picture.

Did you use a reference for these?

.. took another look at it and realized that what appears to be a hole through the exotic beauty, could be a big shell earring! is it? If it is, hmm... could maybe define it a bit more, as it is it looks a it ambiguous as to what it actually is.

again, nice job :) keep them coming.

[mnz]

http://pc23.gd.fh-mannheim.de/~botho/s53.jpg


1. i like the 2nd one.
2. she is so SIMILAR to doughter of great vito don corleone in 3rd part of Godfather :D

[botho81]

thanx, i really appreciate those critiques.
it helps to see things in a different way and with a little distance.
not so much in love with your own pieces :[
here's the reference of the first piece. it is indeed a shell earring !
but i really recognize some weird things with the eyes.

http://pc23.gd.fh-mannheim.de/~botho/images/reference01.jpg

[sve]

Well they are right. Hair in your second drawing stole the show. They have their own personality. You are good in catching texture.
Sveta