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Description
Final greyscale version. I'll be working on a color version as well.
Digital painting. Photoshop CS5 on the Wacom Intuos and Cintiq tablets.

Referenced from this stock pack
[link]
from the incomparable mizzd-stock.

Way too much info:
I felt I desperately needed to work on my people/portrait skills as the eyes are always giving me some trouble. The problems I've been having getting decent likenesses and with having my from-imagination pieces having the eyes "gone all wonkified somehow" led to me using the Grid Technique on this. I haven't used the grid technique since...my age was in the single digits...ugh, and not much back then. Never was a fan. I can't deny that it really helps with getting a likeness down from a photo, but it isn't directly helpful in getting the hang of doing things by eye. What I think IS helpful is in seeing how things are going wrong by eye and working with this method to see where I'd been going wrong.

My first try with the grid was horrible. Dull, lifeless, "traced" looking lines that didn't flow and still didn't look right. Then I started using the grid to place the main points of the major forms, then "drawing normally" to connect those points, not being a slave to the grid, but using it to nudge me back where I was going off. I think a little practice with this will help me see my measurements better. This is one of my "cheat to learn" experiments. Very interesting and I think I did learn quite a lot. (a lot of that being that I really needed to get back to my basics and get those sharper than they've been)

I've learned on this that I'm not taking the curves and foreshortening of the face planes into as much account as I should with the eyes and probably the mouth as well.

I can't being to describe what this one taught me about the brushes and painting in CS5.

Also paid close attention to sharply defined edges, blurred edges, lost edges and rendering of form and volume, also painterly look in digital, while still being smoothly blended.

Description
Final greyscale version. I'll be working on a color version as well.
Digital painting. Photoshop CS5 on the Wacom Intuos and Cintiq tablets.

Referenced from this stock pack
[link]
from the incomparable mizzd-stock.

Way too much info:
I felt I desperately needed to work on my people/portrait skills as the eyes are always giving me some trouble. The problems I've been having getting decent likenesses and with having my from-imagination pieces having the eyes "gone all wonkified somehow" led to me using the Grid Technique on this. I haven't used the grid technique since...my age was in the single digits...ugh, and not much back then. Never was a fan. I can't deny that it really helps with getting a likeness down from a photo, but it isn't directly helpful in getting the hang of doing things by eye. What I think IS helpful is in seeing how things are going wrong by eye and working with this method to see where I'd been going wrong.

My first try with the grid was horrible. Dull, lifeless, "traced" looking lines that didn't flow and still didn't look right. Then I started using the grid to place the main points of the major forms, then "drawing normally" to connect those points, not being a slave to the grid, but using it to nudge me back where I was going off. I think a little practice with this will help me see my measurements better. This is one of my "cheat to learn" experiments. Very interesting and I think I did learn quite a lot. (a lot of that being that I really needed to get back to my basics and get those sharper than they've been)

I've learned on this that I'm not taking the curves and foreshortening of the face planes into as much account as I should with the eyes and probably the mouth as well.

I can't being to describe what this one taught me about the brushes and painting in CS5.

Also paid close attention to sharply defined edges, blurred edges, lost edges and rendering of form and volume, also painterly look in digital, while still being smoothly blended.