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Juggertha — Femal Face Study
Published: 2010-07-25 01:59:50 +0000 UTC; Views: 8280; Favourites: 74; Downloads: 507
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I've always been weak when it comes to faces... and girls in particular.Good to practice. These were all from reference, but you can see the proportion and scale lines left below.
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I don't think she was, originally - which one are ya thinking?
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Bottom, second from the left.
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Damn! I was sooo sure of it! Guess you made the lips too small then...
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Yeah... I can tell that many of these are different people, but many of them still have the same idealized features...
Don't be afraid to make a girl look "ugly" or even worse, "average". The problem artists face (no pun intended) when doing this sort of thing is well documented... you can't make every girl look like the same idealized paragon of beauty... but at the same time, once you break from that mold, making someone look average or just having a different sense of beauty will make them look almost "wrong".
It's like with hands... there's many ways to render them "ideally" that aren't anatomically correct... and at the same time, drawing an anatomically correct hand in a weird pose will look really awkward, even though it IS correct (assuming no drawing errors were made). Faces have that same stigma. Many people have eyes that are "too small" or "too far apart" or "too close" compared to what we TAUGHT are anatomically correct proportions... some people have a longer bridge of a nose, or a wider bridge, or the nose itself bigger or longer than average. Even the slope of a forehead, which doesn't transfer well from 3d to 2d lineart, affects how beautiful or not we find someone.
Hell, In Scott McClouds "Making Comics", he tries to illustrate this concept of breaking away from one's idea of beauty to make fully unique individuals, except in his examples, i find like 4 out of 6 of them to be... well.. let's just say i wouldn't want to draw them like that over and over. It must take a lot of willpower to go "okay, not everyone looks like that totally hot girl i saw in that magazine/movie/once dated/had a crush on, time to do something else!" so i respect anyone who can do so, because i sure haven't had a whole lot of success doing so!
This is something I've been going thought to lately, in case you can't tell
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I agree with the first poster about varying the features. Though you worked from reference, most of these faces could be from the same person. You've worked more on the placement of generic features in perspective than really exploring the faces themselves.
It might be more helpful to find references of females with very distinct features. Try to capture what it is about a couple of those features that identifies them as an individual.
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Thanks, I tried to play around a bit with them.
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First and foremost, experiment as much as you can with different face shapes. All of the women you've done studies of so far have a very similar shape. It might be the one you find most pleasing (either to the eye or just to draw) but there's a lot more looks out there!
Secondly, try and reign in those inverted v '^ ^' eyebrows. They're very harsh in some cases, and quite alien.
The other suggestion I'd make at this point is try drawing smaller lips, or more variation in the size and thickness between upper and lower lips. It's actually kind of rare to see someone with similar size in both. Lots of studies of mouths in varying degrees of openness can be really instructive - I almost always end up doing characters with shut mouths as sometimes the logistics of rendering an open mouth defeat me!
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great advice.. and yeah, this is generally the type of face I 'like'.
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