Kyle Petchock

Capturing Likenesses

<p>Thanks for sharing Chuck!  Right off the bat there are several key areas that can be tweaked, which are the overall shape of the head, the eyes, and hair.  For the head shape, observe the reference and notice how the angle of the left side (her right to be exact) of her face is more of a 90 degree angle, and on that same side her lower cheek below the nose angles down below the mouth more.  In your sketch these are both a bit warped so fixing those angles should make a big difference.  With the eyes and eyebrows, it's mostly adjusting the positioning and shape of them. Make sure both eyes are the same size as her left eye looks a bit larger than the right one.  Add the pupils too as well as thickening her upper eyelashes a bit more. Also raise her eyebrows up a bit - notice there's a bit more space between her upper eye lids and the eyebrows.  I would even shift her left eye towards the left slightly towards the nose.  Adjust the hair shape as well, and with that, try to observe the hair in the photo with straight angled lines to simplify the entire form, then once you've got that down you can begin to round off the lines and add details.  Instead of just filling in the entire shape with sketch lines, add some inner details by sketching some curved lines which extend from that central point above her left eye. That way it has some dimension and doesn't appear so flat-looking.  The nose looks pretty good, but just erase that slight shading on the tip of it, and tilt the mouth counter-clockwise a bit.  I think the ear can have more of those inner details too, and under her chin, thicken her neck more by angling that line to the left side of the sketch.  Finally, with the line art, practice getting more comfortable and confident with your lines so that can eventually look more smooth and less jagged-looking, and see if you can vary your line weight more with variations of thick to thin.  The outermost contour lines should be thicker than the inner detail lines, and the lines will be most thick on areas least exposed to light (for example, her jawline below the mouth and the lower part of the nose.  But that all comes with practice and patience like anything with drawing.  Great work man and keep it up! :D</p>

<p>Still new to digital art. Please let me know what I can do to make this better. Thanks Kyle.&nbsp;</p>


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