In-class Portrait

[cait]

Hi, this is my first post here. I'm taking a heads&hands class this semester and this is one of the in-class drawings I did~ I wasn't able to finish however.

I'd love to hear what you think.

http://www.sora-ent.com/jeffers/Cat/effin_shit.jpg

[Avetice]

Hey this looks good. Everything seems to be working well except at the forhead. It looks a little flat there...... thats just my observation of it :D
Thats really the only thing I see a little off.
Besides that tiny little thing it looks really good.

[I.was.ink]

The forehead is fine imo. I love this. Sometimes people's foreheads are flat.

I've also taken figure and head drawing classes and boy are they hard. Especially the head drawing classes. THis is beautiful.

Btw, are you going to an art school of any kind?

[cait]

Avetice - Thank you for bringing the forehead to my attention~ I tested a few things out and rounded the forehead into space a bit more (which improved the piece quite a bit :) ).

I.was.ink - hehe, it's true... the model did have flat-looking forehead. but after testing it out a bit to Avetice's suggestion, I used artistic license and decided to leave it rounded a bit more. It just gave the piece the little pang it needed. :)

And, yes, I am in an art school :D! I currently attend the Academy of Art College in San Francisco as a 3D Animation major.

Thank you both for your kind words!

[StephenC]

ah cait from opti-res, so you've found your way here.

for some reason i keep thinking the features are slightly big but then I look again and think they're not but then I look again and think yes they are...maybe she just looked that way ..its hard to tell without seeing the model..but if they are big its not by much..just slight millimeters...but again i keep looking and its hard to tell..

[Tedsuo]

I smell Academy! :D


Glad to see other 3d majors doing life drawing, and not sucking at it.

[mR.anGel]

great feel of reflective light...i wouldve put some on the neck though...
one thing that REALLY bothers me is the big black line on her back! and the fat oulines in the eye. treat the eye like the nose and u gotta winner! keep it up!

[cait]

Thanks for the comments everyone~! Much appreciated.

haha, Tedsuo, you got me. I'm an Academy student. :D

[MindCandyMan]

cait this is fantastic...this is extremely difficult...I haven't succeeded yet at doing something like this...only failed up to this point. Very inspiring...great work I would love to see more.

[tinyhands]

This is a really decent drawing, I think theres just a lot of little things that could make it a better drawing. I think you might be getting a little too carried away with the half-tones in here face. Usually on females half-tones tend to hurt the drawing if there not handled really delicately. I think on your drawing the half-tones are a little dark, and they not really specific in shape. They need to be used according to the planes of the head and not just with randomness. As always as you get better, problems get smaller and smaller, but I think its the small things that make or break all work. I fine effort though.

[Samael]

There's hope for 3D Animation yet.

*wink*