Med's Shed

In this thread I'll (hopefully) be charting my progress as I teach myself digital art; in the meantime, here are some pencil & charcoal pics I've been doing to get back into the swing of things - the first few are copies from ads and film screenshots, as time goes on I'll be adding my own works.

And now for some of the guys that inspired me to get drawing:

Thanks for the comments; on the positive side, you recognised Arnie - that's an improvement since this time last year even getting a likeness was beyond me

As you've noticed, proportions are something I'm still finding tricky at the moment - I'm tending to focus on one area of a drawing at a time and not see it as a whole, so that's something I'll need to be working on

Charlotte is right, you're values and shading are great but you're jumping too quickly into details and not considering the proportions when you start. This shows not only in your faces but in other aspects f the drawing as well, they come off as skewed.

Since you seem to like to draw portraits so much you should definitely consider looking through and copying down everything in this book:

www.amazon.com/Drawing-Head-Hands-Andrew...id=1404696999&sr=1-1

That book goes over the proportions of the head in a very clear way that no other book (from what I know of) does. It will go over how to construct the head and how to keep the proportions in line. Just make sure to copy everything you see in the book and for every page you copy on do your own heads from imagination to get the hang of the process. With enough practice you won't need to start with the construction lines and you'll just be able to naturally think of them before starting but it takes a lot of practice first.

Good luck

Thanks - I'll have to check that out

Nice work here, your values and shading is very strong... keep it going!

Some nice stuff here. I really quite like the hulk image.

Have you done any of your own stuff? These seem to be mostly drawings of photos or cover art. I would like to see some of your original stuff.

Keep sharing!

Cool work.