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littledeadybear [2019-03-03 21:41:49 +0000 UTC]

Hello! Found your art through ProjectComment .

It feels like this was drawn from a photograph reference because aspects of the shading seem to be trying to capture photo type shadowing. If you include a link to the uploaded reference with your art description, it can help people give critiques that are helpful, since it might help someone better identify what is going on. Without seeing the reference, the anatomy and proportions feel right. There is a a sense of depth and that these people have weight to them.  The man's nose and the girl's shirt stitching and bead decor are my favorite rendered areas. His nose is so well defined and formed, and her clothing has the right type of texture difference. The girl's hair is quite lovely, I can tell you spent a considerable amount of time trying to get her hair close to value as possible. The man's hair is rendered even better. Where your pencil work became rather jagged and too much like outlines on parts of the girl's ponytail, those issues are not present in the man's hair, and it is both realistic without the feeling of being overworked. 

If you are trying to figure out where you can improve, value studies would be a--forgive the pun--valuable course for you. It feels almost as though you were scared to shade the girl's face because perhaps she is pale; but values have more to do with how the light forms around a structure rather than skin tone. Compare how well sketched the man's nose is, and in comparison, the shadowing of her nostrils is nearly the same shade as the under curve of her cheek. Keep in mind the values in relation to how other contours are shaded on the face (where are the darkest points of the face? How dark are they in comparison to the shadows of the face? etc).

Last suggestion is to watch how much you rely on an outline to define form. Outlines are a shorthand way of conveying where the forms wrap and are wonderful for sketches, but need to be selective in the final rendering.  On plush surfaces like the lips, or complicated areas such as eyelash line, it can create an undesired effect of making what they outline appear stiff and lifeless. Further value study and becoming comfortable / loose in the way you render and define a face is the only remedy at this point for you.

I hope you've shown whoever these two people are your sketch of them. I bet they would absolutely love it, and feel flattered over how much attention you've taken to bringing them to life.

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NewHorizontStudio [2019-03-03 16:38:07 +0000 UTC]

goood job i love it

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psto1464 [2019-03-03 15:32:12 +0000 UTC]

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