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Here's one on the left of an elvish lady that I sketched about 6 months ago while waiting for my daughter's car to get serviced at a dealership.
It always bugged me when I flipped through my sketchbook that the proportions were so off, so the other day I finally attacked it with an eraser. After numerous attempts to fix it, I was defeated. Graphite was everywhere!
This morning I went after it again with an ink-pen and finally got something I could live with, and then photographed it and made some more digital adjustments. Symmetry, feature placement, size, alignment --- so important on a face! The drawing the nose by itself can feel like climbing Rushmore. I read somewhere that every drawing goes through a P.O.S. stage, and you just learn to push through it.
When I was all done, I had totally humanized the elf! Making things "look right" to my eye also meant removing the exotic. Ironic.
Just thought I'd share this little piece of my learning process.
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(The hair is still a hot mess...but whatcha gonna do?)
Edited by Steven Queen on 27 September 2022 at 3:26pm
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