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Liser Studios · Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2002 5:52 pm

hey,
this is my first time doing a self portrait from a mirror. It's harder than drawing self portraits from photos!

bigger shot http://home.domaindlx.com/liserstudios/selfportrait_medium.jpg

details: http://home.domaindlx.com/liserstudios/selfportrait_detail.jpg http://home.domaindlx.com/liserstudios/selfportrait_detail2.jpg

[ April 09, 2002: Message edited by: Liser Studios ]

Liser Studios · Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2002 10:03 am

it sucks that bad? this is almost to the bottom with 0 replies.
maybe i should just give up.
i posted this on another message board and the only reponse i had was "that's you? my condolences."

horstenpeter · Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2002 10:21 am

I think it looks very well. The face part at least. I wonder why you textured the flat areas of the shirt and not the folds ? That looks strange, like veins in a way.

But keep going, looks better than my attempts at self portraits...

gArGOyLe^ · Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2002 10:54 am

sorry I didnt reply sooner Liser S.. first time I saw this...

Looks great.. I really like the way you did ur hair...

The folds really do look like veins for some reason.. and for some reason it kiiiinda looks like the left side of the face is shaded too dark.

People probably did not reply because they are more into digital art? Happens to me a sometimes.. really bad for self esteem.. but its probably over looked because this is the first time I saw this posted.

el scoono · member Member # Joined: 17 Jan 2002 Posts: 155

i think it's a nice drawing, the anatomy of the face looks very good. i'm agreement with the others about the folds on the shirt, they do look a little too well defined and vein-like. also, i don't know if you needed to go into so much detail on the shirt. i think it takes away from all the nice pencil work on your face. sometimes leaving part of a drawing loose and sketchy works well.

anyway, nice job. don't get discouraged.

[ April 10, 2002: Message edited by: el scoono ]

Zorglub · Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2002 5:59 pm

It seems like the right shoulder is smaller than the left one (does not extend as far.) Otherwise, very cool. Oh yeah and the folds thing.

Radiater · Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2002 8:09 pm

Hey Bud!

Don't sweat it. Keep at it. You've got alot of good stuff going in this one.

Petra Pan · Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2002 11:05 pm

Keep it up.

Liser Studios · Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2002 6:10 pm

horstenpeter> yeah, maybe that's why they look weird. I really need to study folds... I'm gonna read "Dynamic Folds and Drapery" by burne hogarth all day tomorrow. then i'll draw some stuff. then i'm gonna do it again.
in a few weeks, i'll retry this portrait shtuff out, see how it goes... or maybe just a still life. whichever

gargoyle> hey, it's fine.

thanks for the compliments
thanks for the C&C too... maybe the face looks too dark cuz i didn't make other parts, such as the shirt, have as deep of darks? hmmm, that's probably it. I used a 6b on the side of the face, and i don't think i did above a 2b on the shirt.
i shall fix that next time around too

Petra> thanks

el scoono> thanks for the crits

and i as actually thinkin the same thing, leave the shirt sketchy... to late for that though, eh. :-\

Zorglub> Yeah, I'm surprised more people haven't noticed! I think your eye gets so distracted by those stupid folds that you don't even notice the size difference between shoulders. Make one huge mistake to cover up all the other mistakes, right? lol j/k

radiater> hey, thanks duuude!