/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3116542

I know you're trying to draw smut but a lot of people were complaining about your faces and weren't really telling you why the faces looked unappealing to them. At the same time I'm not a master of drawing faces either but I want to try to help.

I'm going to assume you were aiming for the ideal beauty standard faces.

First of all, neither of them have foreheads. The angle you drew the pupils and the amount of depth the eyes go into the head make them look really flat. The mouths also cut way into the cheek way too deep and it makes them look more awkward than "sexy" (imo) The hair

You can help yourself by studying / practicing drawing proportions of the head until it's second nature and you don't need to measure them out. I'd pick up Michael Hampton's pdf in the artbook thread if you can. Even if you're going to be drawing anime for the rest of your life, at least flip through and copy / eyeball draw some of the pages on faces, their proportions and etc. You don't have to "master it." Just try for an hour or two (more if you have the patience). It will help you figure out how to add depth/variation to your stylized drawings much quicker than anything \ic\ will ever tell you.

Also because you're drawing yaoi, in general, it's a good idea to have at least tried to study realistic anatomy at least a little bit. Most of the more super star successful popular yaoi artists draw in that realistic rendered style (Jo-Chen/GuiltPleasure, Sakimichan, PenguinFrontier, Dopey) There are some that draw more anime styled gay porn (Lvlv, Mentaiko, ghostgreen, mazjojo, raspbeary, and etc) but all of them have studied realistic anatomy at least a little bit.

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