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jaggedice200 — Attempt1
Published: 2003-07-26 23:24:39 +0000 UTC; Views: 61; Favourites: 0; Downloads: 6
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Well I said I was going to post something of me drawing and here it is. It still needs work but I though I put my progress on here, just to get some words about it.I can't believe I messed up the eye, i will fix that.
I can't seem to copy the lips of the person I was drawing, I dunno why. But I might just replace it with something else
I cheated on the head hahah, I used a protractor for it, I can not draw a close enough circle but this is still something to work off, I will do it with out those tools to aid me. I'm bout to try out the hair
(one of the things thats been holding me back)
I put this one without the hair because there is no undo button when sketching and the lines that I erase become viewable over time.
So am I going in the right direction or not?
I will post more sometime soon
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Good for a first try
You need to position the lower part of the face so that it's more connected to the circle (say, to the left and up a little).
The nose looks a little weird, but the eyes are actually pretty good in my opinion (seeing as I tend to draw them long, narrow, and with small pupils). Don't worry about the lips so much. You're talking to someone who has to stare at them for a full fifteen minutes before she can even start to get them right. I prefer to just draw a line for the mouth with a shorter line under it for the bottom lip. If it's too hard for you, just do that
This is a good first attempt. Don't sweat it, it took me forever to get to how I am now (and I must mention that I was nowhere near as good as you are now when I was first starting out). Keep it up!
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Hey, very good! You have potential, no doubt about it.
Here's some constructive critism:
1) when you first start drawing anything, and I mean anything, use only the lightest of pencil strokes. This does a couple of things for you: It gets you a basic shape that you can add to or erase completely, which is always a good thing, and more importantly, it teaches you muscular control. By forcing yourself to draw as lightly as is possible, your control over your pencil strokes can do nothing but improve.
2. Draw heads from the front first. Seriously, a 3/4 view is the hardest to draw: one eye is going to be different than the other, the lips aren't going to be symmetrical, the list goes on and on. Learn the hills and the valleys of the face
Every artist in the business builds things from these basic shapes: Cone, Cube, Sphere. Every piece of art is just those basic shapes intersected and unioned in varying ways. Every artist ever has 'built up' his artwork from very light strokes to give himself guidlines and added detail later.
For a great example of what and artist goes through to make amazing pictures visit [link] and look at his 'tutorials'. The pictures that he makes take lots of fine pencil control, something neither you nor I quite have yet, don't worry about it, you'll keep getting better and better.
If you really want to get better fast, check out Fun w/ a Pencil by Andrew Loomis at [link] . Yes what he shows you how to do is cartoony, but that's ok because it will give you much needed experience w/ building up.
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Mmm, not bad, I'd have to agree. You're going in the right direction, it just needs more detail. Hair is so hard to mess up--if you put lots of scratchy lines it'll still look like hair. 
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A good try, the set up of the anime eyes is good, the nose and mouth however are another style, you need to simplfy them even more.
Plus you don't need a really circle for the head, it can be more of an oval.
So try drawing an egg and put those things on again.
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