Kiki K.
added comment inDrawing ‘Morgan’
2yr
Hey everyone! My own attempt!
I worked on my own reference pic. I tried to apply all that I learned in this wonderful course. I have had a hard time finding reference pics so in my search for a pic with shadows, I thought that a pic from the silent movies would do well. I was really happy with this pic because the model is beautiful and inspiring; but, now I feel that 1) she had more than one source of light; and 2) the black and white made it hard to discern the objects in the shadow.
I am happy with the drawing. But, I am disappointed that I was not able to capture her properly. In the pic, she is a young, fabulous movie star; but, in my drawing, she is an older, austere woman. I think maybe it is her mouth and chin; I think I drew the mouth too low and the chin too small. The softness of her features is just not there.
Btw, I did keep the highlight in her shadow part of the hair. I know that they should had no highlights, but I wanted to practice the hair so I gave myself artistic license to do so; otherwise, it would be just a black blob. Lol
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
@Jesper Axelsson
Carlos Figueiredo
2yr
It's a very nice idea to use old PB movies as reference.
The highlights and shadows are there, that you wanted to practice are there.
Something you could improve is use intermediate values to softener the transition between the highlight and shadows.
Because of the sudden transitions, the shadows ended of working as hard edges, and made what would be a young lady to look older with more protuberant face bones.
I trust you can still fix this drawing pretty easily, you can just smudge a bit the hard edges with a paper towel, and it would add middle values that will bring back the soft aspect of a young face
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