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Title: maryann's picture
Artist: sohi_moon
Description: it was my first attempt at drawing at this level and it took me about 6 hours to draw. i had never done this much shading on any one thing before. please leave some constructive critisism for me because i taught myself how to draw so im clueless. made entirely with pencil and lots of erasering. tips acknowledged and highly appreciated!!!also the oprange dot is a marker accidentally falling on the page. :D
Date: 11/23/2009
Tags: maryanns picture
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sohi_moon - 11/08/2010
its so funny to look at my work from a year ago and see how much ive improved, i was so proud of this picture when i made it. now i can see everything thats wrong with it, but its still one of my favorites!
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Tavis Harts - 02/07/2010
http://www.foundation3d.com/uploads/instruction/2008/10/17-10-622653.jpg now we are going to go based on the ears. The ears are a bit past the midway point of the head, infact their starting point should be the midway point. So you can use that to see how much left you will need for your head. :3

I hope that helps. Sorry that I took up so many comment boxes.
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Tavis Harts - 02/07/2010
As for the CC. As stated you did omit a lof of the head. To place the ears measure from the figures eyes to their chin, then measure from the start of their eye back. Believe it or not thats a universal proportion for placing the ears in a profile. ~.^ So using the same measurment you used to place the ear you should use to find out how much higher the head should go.
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Tavis Harts - 02/07/2010
Not bad. Overall I like the theme and the shading. You do have a few common proportional errors. RIght now you are drawing more what you think you see than what you really see. I say this because a lot of artists will start out by omitting a good portion of the back of the head. I suggest getting a book called "drawing with the right side of the brain." It's actually very helpful, especially if you want to do portrait work.
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Adrian Sage - 01/30/2010
This is really beautifull and one of the best works in your gallery.
It's really a pitty you did this on lined paper. It would be much better if it wasn't lined... ^^ and much easier to colour in. ^^
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