/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>8344131
I'm the anon who originally asked if you took crits, and what >>8346039 wrote was pretty much exactly what I wanted to say! The pictures seemed a little incomplete (for me, I felt like the 2nd pic was less complete), like you laid down the flats but didn't tighten up by adding details. Like the other anon wrote, going back and rendering more details will make your pictures look more polished! And when I say details, I don't mean draw every individual strand of hair, but rather, give more depth to your picture by adding shadow/highlights.

Pic is a quick example I did to demonstrate how just adding shadows makes your piece look more and more polished. Far left is the sketch, middle is taking that sketch and adding shadows, and right is adding even more depth by adding mid-level shadows. I doubt there's anyone that would look at these 3 images and think that the left picture looks more complete than the right.

As far as noses go, there's unfortunately no easy way to do it aside from just practicing a lot. Try drawing from references you find online, try drawing your nose in teh mirror, try drawing other people's noses, try all sorts of angles. Have fun with it - try drawing super long noses, really crooked ones, button-noses, etc. I hope this helps!