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Published: 2012-05-25 00:04:08 +0000 UTC; Views: 79; Favourites: 0; Downloads: 0
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Snow, sketched from Ian Somerhalder photo reference...I really have no idea how to draw stubble...Related content
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Homer Simpson-ish shading on the lower half of the face is one option I use when it wouldn't be feasible to draw individual hairs. (I kinda like the individual hairs version, though.) For some reason, the color blue/turquoise on faces of male Caucasians is a sure sign he hasn't shaved today; even though it's realistic I hate the blue/turquoise method because my characters look like they're diseased zombie corpses instead of looking like Don Johnson.
I've also noticed that when I draw less detail on the lips, it helps change the character from female to male in the eyes of the audience. Wait. That sounded creepier than I was intending. i.e. Try temporarily erasing the bow-curved upper and lower lines of Snow's lips.
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I'll probably be better off if I start cutting details after I can include them correctly rather than before. (:
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I know the feeling; to this day I tend to avoid drawing anyone from the waist up (medium shot) because I think people will accuse me of cheating by not drawing legs. So, I tend to draw full-figure characters in order to get in more practice and show everything openly. i.e. My characters' hands and feet are never hidden off-camera.
Likewise for hands and fingers. I'm loathe to leave hands and fingers out of a picture because I read long ago in some drawing book (at like, age 13) that the true sign of a bad artist is hiding the hands out of the viewer's view. Since I didn't want to be called a bad artist, I got into the habit of making sure the hands and fingers were in view. LOL I guess I'm saying that I get why you want to leave the lips in, but leaving out the top and bottom lip lines are a pretty effective way to convey the male gender IMO. Lips are kinda like eyelashes: men have eyelashes, but we don't have them in art unless it's a photorealistic extreme close-up.
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Yah, like I drew his ear knowing I would erase it. "Draw through," as they say, I guess...
Hands are very expressive and revealing, I think -- they show emotion, thought, attention, action, intent. Therefore, hiding them can serve a powerful communicative purpose regarding all those things and isn't always a "sign of bad art." Probably only when someone knows what they're saying and how they're saying it, though...dunno.
I do remember reading Burne Hogarth (who is a legend to me) say that not drawing the non-face parts of the skull large enough was a sure sign of amateurish work. Of course, I am amateur, lol.
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"Draw through." Hmmm. I like it.
BTW, want to make a bet that within the next 5 pictures I draw, I'll end up drawing characters with really big ears?
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Ears are a symbolic feature...in the context of his writing, I'm sure he meant rather that the negative space of the cranium is often underestimated in one's early work... Don't let the "rules" get to you, man.
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Wait. Did you just say I had too much negative space in my cranium? Oh! I see; you meant how like in drawing skulls, unskilled artists draw skulls looking more like Australopithecus afarensis than like Homo sapiens!
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