/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3222796
I can count the portraits I've attempted on one hand and have made few completed works in general. While I can copy to a degree I'll be the first to admit I don't have a very strong command of the medium itself. I did not make conscious decisions with the contours such as line weight apart from their placement-otherwise I definitely would have went back and tamed those thick lines that I'd laid down for the ears, for example.

>It looks traced to me.

Nah, I was aware of some of the flaws of the piece outside of considerations of "line weight" and the like before uploading it. Note how I have the collar emerging from behind his neck instead of his jaw, how the overall shape of his head is slightly off (too narrow) and his lips are smaller giving him a more mature appearance more like an effeminate man than a child; also how the collar has been lazily corrected leaving an angular curve that doesn't exist on the reference. Part of the image was basically "symbol drawn" (like the eyebrows and eye) because the reference image is a washed out, low-resolution thing and I don't have the knowledge of anatomy or media to reproduce it quickly.

>your sketch shows just what I've pointed out this whole time: You have adopted the style and choices of someone else.

I don't draw like this 99% of the time unless I'm doing anatomy studies. I deferred to fine-art style imagined plumb lines while in the process way more than any Loomis abstraction, the "hatching" was literally just laying out planes instead of dappling 100 short hairs on a shaved head, much like a cartoonist will only draw a handful of bricks on a house.

Nonetheless you asked to see a drawing and you got it. I don't need to be the best artist to have an opinion about the inscrutable monkey art you see in museums propped up by white collar criminals and government largesse any more than I'd need to be a five star chef to decide whether I like chicken nuggets from McDonald's or not. Same with you.

>>3221607
>his eyes appear to be facing straight ahead in spite of a suggested downward tilt of the head created by the placement of the ear and its relation to the nose.
That can be due to shyness / being attentive or told off / listening what he is told.

The ears may lack shading, but his ears are jutting (pointig outwards) as they are. I will need to go back and see the original screenshot.

>giving him the appearance of his eyes looking in two different directions.
I would say they are shifted. They do point in the same direction, but his left eye is a tard bit tilted altogether and I'm not happy with his lower right eyelid.

>>3221630
>Also I apologize for saying it's "bad". Critique shouldn't be done with the intent to disparage the artist
Good for you to realize that.

Screenshot: Not the exact moment, that scene is long.

>>3221658
>How many more threads will anon take over with one drawing?
cry me a river

>confuse Loomis the teacher of the human figure for Loomis the "Schiele fingers" learning crutch
I never said that Loomis teaches to draw tumblr Schiele fingers, you absolute shitforbrains. Show me where I said this has anything to do with Loomis. I stated that the Schiele fingers are a chliché, found in a lot of mediocre, tutorial-addicted hobby illustrators.