Magnus Marshall
England, UK
Character design/concept art
Magnus Marshall
added comment inCritique asked for values lines and shapes
11mo
You definitely have nice looking lines and dynamic shapes, here's some things that might help.
You've spotted the issue with the jaw's proportions, I would add that it could be longer and rounder too. It might help you to imagine the overall mass in a box; your's is quite square whereas the reference is taller and more rectangular.
You're not far off but the hair/forehead could take up more room vertically too. The halfway point between the top of her head and bottom of her chin is roughly at her eyebrow or the top of her nose.
Finally, the value groups in your drawing could be improved. You've made a good start with the groups to the left and right of the face in the hair. Try blurring your eyes/squinting at he reference and you'll notice only a small part of her face is in light. The rest is in shadow including her neck. I've drawn on a couple of examples of how you can group values into shapes in the future.
I hope this helps and please ask if anything needs explaining better.
Well done, keep drawing!
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11mo
There's no reaction video this time?
By the way, the skull models should actually go to the worst participants - to practise. The best ones can already draw it well :-D
Magnus Marshall
11mo
haha yess, we all want one of those elusive Proko skulls...
11mo
So happy to have gotten an honourable mention and totally agree with the choice of winner. Well done everyone!
"You shall pass"
My entry for the challenge, I have attached some close-ups too.
It was so fun to paint so many skulls!
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Hey guys,
Here's my take on this month's challenge. Maybe not very halloweeny, I wanted to celebrate life over death :)
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'Preserving Life' Diptych
Oil on aluminium
Painted from life
I wanted to read the line between portrait & still life by using a skull and facial cast as my subject matter 😊 really enjoyed the play of light on both when using a Grisaille approach. Also in Halloween when surrounded by skeletons its easy to forget each one represents a person, a life and death 💀
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Hey y'all,
This is a linocut reliefprint. (Basically means that I carved a big ol' stamp and squashed some paper into it) When I was a kid, I always used to dress up as a samurai for Halloween, so I thought it would be cool to do a skull with a kabuto helmet. Good luck everyone!
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11mo
My submission for the Skull Challenge. You could say I had to juggle some things to get it done.
This is the color version of my submission! It's my image for the Card with no name, or the 13th tarot card
Ok the people have voted so this one will be my Final!
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Skelly’s Birds
Cramped schedule, but I managed to finish this one :)
Happy Halloween and lots of firecrackers 🧨
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im not sure if the deadlines over allready. Tried to make this last submission but had so much work i really couldnt work on it.
Just some skull studies for me this time 🙌🏼
Just too good to be true...
11mo
I love how it looks like an ad for an insane magical item you could just buy in the store
Baby Skelly circa 1986, disguised as a regular human, going trick-or-treating with his friends. Each household gets the fright of a lifetime when Skelly lifts his person mask, revealing a truly cute skeletal face!
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11mo
The King of Halloween, including his loyal subjects.
11mo
It's been awhile since I've been able to join one of these challenges! When I saw the promt this idea was the first that came to mind. I'm open to titles though, any ideas?
"The Death of Venus" Digital Painting.
Based on Botticelli's "The Birth of Venus"
Get the fuel pump
Can you gimme a hand, kin?
We're about to light bonfires and pumpkins.
Skelly-o'-lanterns we'll call them.
This is a collection of my work process from conception to final rendering.
11mo
I think the un-shaded version scanned in and coloured digitally would look awesome. Always love a pen drawing too though.
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