[Rinaldo]

Welcome tyron

If you drew her doing nothing then I tend to think that's the best way to leave her
If you have an idea of a scene, sketch it out first small and make everything "fit". Trying to make a drawing do something it wasn't designed to do just takes too much time and effort IMHO. Spend that time making a new drawing that embelishes on the old one. The more drawings you do the better you'll get, so it's not like it's going to hurt. Of course if you look at a sketch and it just makes you think of some cool thing then go for it. but don't strain yourself if nothing comes to mind.

A few pointers on the head that I think would improve it:

eye is too big. also I think the wrong shape, more of a triangle, show the eyelids to make it seem less tacked on.
put the forehead back more, exagerate the dip where the nose ends between the eyes.
make the space between the upperlip and nose smaller. the nose line might look better if you made the actuial nostral seperate from the profile line. make the nose profle join up with the upper lip and then make the nostral a seperate object.
make upper lip smaller than lower. break the law line at a bout the mid point of the neck so it doesn't come asross so strong. I would ditch the high cheek bone line. I don't really know how tyou would suggest that with a line. defintly brak it if you have to leave it in there, "a broken line is a line less powerful" this will make it stand out less. Eyebrow would not look like that. you are viewing it from the side not the front.

have a look at these links:
if they work they will help a lot

Cubes and head drawing
http://www.sijun.com/dhabih/ubb/Forum2/HTML/002577.html
http://www.sijun.com/dhabih/ubb/Forum2/HTML/002368.html
http://www.sijun.com/dhabih/ubb/Forum2/HTML/002578.html

General drawing

hands http://www.sijun.com/dhabih/ubb/Forum2/HTML/003122.html

eyes http://www.sijun.com/dhabih/ubb/Forum2/HTML/003157.html



Heres an elf out of my sketch book. it might give you a few ideas.


I would recomend Betty Edward's "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" and A good anatomy book (as I always say I have found Jack Ham's "Drawing the Head and Figure helpfull")

Hope this helps

L8r

[This message has been edited by Rinaldo (edited September 07, 2000).]

[tyron]

Greetings...
Well, i'm quite an inexperienced artist but i'm working on it.
This is a sketch of mine which might look like a quick sketch but it's not, i don't draw very fast..
Well, i've got two questions about it.
First, i have no idea what she should be doing (i know, should've thought about that in the first time but i like the face and i want to finish it).
Second, is it good? =) All kind of critisism is appreciated.


My homepage can be found at www.thyroon.com

edit: fixed the imagelink....

[This message has been edited by tyron (edited September 07, 2000).]

[Nex]

Hi tyron, welcome to the forum!

Looks quite ok for a beginning.

The eyes look quite good (a bit too big however), the nose's form is a bit curvy.. it could have a bit more mass maybe..

You could work a bit more on the lips and the chin.

You could search for a thread called "pain along with fred" or "head drawing tutorial" for some help on drawing heads.

there is also a tutorial on lips and eyes by fred flick stone here on the forum.. somewhere in the mists of old posts.. just use "search".

I did not critique the body because it seems like you spent most of the time to get the face right, so I would rather comment on that.

Good luck with that picture

Cya

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