the most recent page from my sketchbook.
It started off as a exercise in faces (drawing faces from the local newspaper) but grew into a bit of a character study. I'm a little undecided as to if it is finished or not. Might be lacking in details just a little on the clothing and accessories...but I think I will call it finished anyway :)
[img]http://www.sumea.com.au/forum/attached/johnn/2004103162142_character_gi…]
yeah thats the definite stand out. It looks like a charictature by a political cartoonist or something. Making sure to get the face an acurate portrayal of the person and then giving them some sort of costume (eg there was one the other day in the age of john howard in a doctors coat and so on).
it does look very good though and the shading in particular is great
Yeah, now that i come back to the image the head is too big- an efffect of drawing with my sketchbook at a fair angle away from me maybe! Nothing that i can fix in photoshop :P
Haz: It's sort of an extention of my 'normal' hatching. I don't think I have posted anything with this exact technique before and rarely refine my pencil sketches this much cause most are destine for the pen+marker or scan and colour treatment.
Nice clean, sketchy technique :) My only crit is that the head seems slightly large for the body which gives it a slight cartoony feel. Anyway, cool pic keep posting!