I know that there are more threads like this where other people have started and then stopped....well i am at that point with this pic...i think mostly it just the hands that are stumping me but i know that i am not seeing something else...it just feels wrong so if you could give your opinions/ observations...i don't think my feeling could get hurt cause i already know its not turning out thanks for your honesty & help the one on the right is the pic i am going from
i honestly really like it.. her face looks a little smooshed, like she's pulling it forward, which makes it a bit surreal.. she's looks ghost-like, or alien-ish the fingers are really thin, and a little out of proportion, but i think it goes with the whole thing.. black eyes, smooshed face... hehe that's what i saw at first look. and if you meant for it to be very realistic just don't tell anybody hopefully somebody else has some ideas too.. i doubt that helped much
one of my teachers told me that if you can't see whats wrong with it by looking at normally, try looking at it in the mirror. Hold it up in front of you in a mirror with the original beside it. Used to help me out. It also sometimes helped me to turn the drawing upside down, and draw it that way... it quickly stops being "hands" and becomes "shapes"... which makes it easy to draw what you see, instead of what you mind tells you see. Good luck! Keep us posted?
are you serious thats funny cause thats how i painted most of it...upside down i think it'll be ok i just need to step away for a bit ...i get stressed out doing hands feet i luv but hands freak me out... thanks you two
lol.. thats funny! Thought I was the only "upsidedowner" here! I like doing feet too.. I used to have this idea that you could tell what was in a persons mind, heart and soul by reeeealllly looking at their feet. Take some time though... don't push yourself. When things are pushed artistically, they never seem to ring true... or at least, that was always the case with me!
yes ... pushing = bad painting fast = good well for me anyway in my experience...with most of my paintings i get them done relatively quickly... and the ones i take more then a few hours on always cause a struggle... oh well learning process
i'd say your hands bending in the wrong direction! it curves in slightly rather than out .. think about the bone structure of the hand have a look at yourelf making the same pose in the mirror.. and you'll see what i mean! other than that i think it looks just great!
the face looks really good, but i think maybe the hadns are a bit out of propotion to the face, sometihng which i suck at!LOL proportiona are not my strong point!
yea lol i am stuck right there at her pretty lil hands... grrrrr.... oh well it will come to me thanks guys ~
i agree with what was already said the hands and nose are a little too smooshed in.. pull them out a bit, and the trick of putting them upside down on top of each other is always the best way to check things out.
if youre doing it in a proprtianol style then her right cheek is too long / the hands are too small [theres nothing wrong with the hands..they are just too small] the triangle under the right cheek should be bigger
Hands give me all sorts of trouble as well...it looks to me like you should maybe try making her fingers a little thicker... Another trick is to try to not think of them as hands as at all...just look at the lines, shapes, and shadows. Good luck, youre off to a great start.
yea im not looking at it right now but the face looked a bit off and the fingers on the right side deffinatley looked flat out of preportion or something
keramptha ~ thank you i think thats what is eating me everybody else thank you also for being so straight forward i am going to give it a few more days then jump back in it... ((hugs all))
I assume you are trying to make a %100 re-creation of the photo. The left hand index finger (of Bjork) is curved the wrong way. Forhead is too square and narrow. Nostrils are too far to Bjorks right Right cheekbone is too low and too square. Right eyebrow is too long. There is a small "white" in right eye in photo not present in painting. Left cheekbone is oversized and overshaded. I'm not saying it's a bad picture by any means, but if you wnat it to be more realistic the above are what I'd suggest.
Thank you very much...those are all wonderful you are right...i saw quite abit more when i put them side by side on the puter like that...but thank you very much for your suggestions...they are right on...
