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>> No.4218543 [View]
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If you are a BEG or even starting INT and you don't like smashing your head against a wall with frustration, stop doing shaded portraits or photos.

Achieving likeness in any object is hard, but with faces it stands out even more because people can tell way more easily when a face is wrong. You can fucking make a couple lines crooked in drawing of a plant for example and no one will notice probably. But put Will Smith's eye four millimeters left and you'll make a monster. Faces are totally punishing when it comes to observation. Something that as a beg you probably highly lack.

Also it's very easy to symbol draw in a face because the volumes are very subtle and it depends on you really having a mastery of light-dark tones and awareness of slight volumes to look half-way decent.

So do what the masters did and fricking draw some bottles or some simpler objects like cookware or shoes at the start.

Do them right, light them right with values while observing them from life and THEN jump on to faces.

I'd rather see in the BEG thread a cup of tea done right than another icarus reaching at the sun with a portrait.

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It's actually really easy. Lineweight has TWO components to it. First one is LINEVALUE (I.E. how dark the line is) Second is THICCNES.

Basically the darkest and thicker a line the closer it appears.

Why does it matter... well, if you use colour or shadow or light value, it really doesn't.

But if you are doing a figure, it's important NOT to contourn all around it in a line with the same darkness and thickness because it will confuse the eye and it won't be able to interpret depth.

Look what I made in five minutes. Which one of the following pops forward more. Nevertheless the key here is subtelty.

Other thing to notice. If you are doing a light value drawing, what matters is not the strenght of the line but how much LIGHT the object is recieving. And colour adds another dimension. The most important thing for most is to realize where the volume is the most forward and the most backward. If you can see volumes well, you can linevalue, and Lightvalue well.

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