wonderful!

love the expression zep :)

ehe :D <3

I hope you don't mind me suggesting something, but consider not using very soft brushes until later. Soft gradations are very attractive, but the fact that your pictures lack any hard edges make me feel like they're destroying the clarity of your vision. Your pictures come out as a digital blur to me, but it looks like there is something nice behind the blur if only we could see it with clarity. There is a striking composition in this picture, but it's weakened by the fact that the foreground is drawn in a way that's almost equally obscure as the background. The only thing that makes the foreground stand out somewhat is the contrast between the hair and the skin.

He's my homie :D Fer Real son'

I agree that this is not intermediate quality....
however...i do see some potential. I have seen work of a spanish artist that reminds me of this. There is some innocence with it, which works with the subject matter. i do thing if you want to distort, you need to know how things should be drawn in order to distort well. There are certian things that must still refer to actual anatomy, even when distorting.
I think you can consider adding stark, solid bright & flat colors in some places which could work agains the soft feel of the painting.
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Eeeew!

Another one of the funniest pictures I've seen.

Oh yeah, go Maiko!
Now that's TRUE stealth.

Go Mai! :D

e-gad genderless

please don't tell me this is the rather tall fellow from big fish....

nice use of lascaux as always.

you know my brother?

This is really, really funny.

There's weight to this, in that I mean it's very 3 dimensional. Truly one of your best Donna.

thank you!! I am having such a wonderful time drawing lately..I feel like I've evolved if even just a little bit..it feels good!

Well Miss D, with this new style you MUST try a ship in space, would just like to see it. Make all those people with space freighters jealous.

Very powerful picture! It this really strong magnetic effect like it's pulling my head towards the lips: nooooo. The shadow undernath the lower lip really makes it pop out. It's scary, but in a very good way.

this is too cool! now she needs some OPI Pompeii Purple polish for her nails and she'll be ready to go!

thanks :)

i love the softness

it's unique in a beautiful way ^_^!

thanks guys...
your right davinci....it is kinda odd....but my intent was not for it to be odd :S But my work always come out that way because it has mistakes in...mistakes i struggle to get rid of

I love star wars. This is precious!

I think she looks as though she is contemplating an important decision... and it probably bodes ill for someone.

i'm happy.

oh and..the end of the animation is pretty sick looking. :)

Hmm, if you're going for tougher, I think first thing you might wanna do is, get rid of some of the 'aged' definition in his face. You'd especially wanna lighten up on the wrinkling below and around the eyes, and the lines going all the way around the mouth (mostly that bit under the mouth). Another tip to making a 'tough' looking character would be to go for a more square-er face, especially in the jaws (widen them and making the angles of the jaw, sharper).
Hopefully this will help some :-/...

Thanks Gigandas - this is just a construction schematic, so the contour lines are there not to add character but just for me to establish a feel for the topology. By tougher I just mean not necessarily comedic or prone to caricature, as Don Knotts certainly is (not necessarily a tough character, but just some head with a very prominent skull which doesn't have any really exaggerated features). I'm hoping to find some way to establish the base for a skull-head from which I can get some sense of how to draw heads at different angles, but a Don Knotts head is kind of an odd one to start out with. I'd appreciate any help along the way with respect to anatomical correctness and perspective (digital alterations appreciated). The faster I can construct them without significant errors, the better.

I agree with Gig about tough guys often having a squareness of the face, that kind of hulking-brute look. But I think that wrinkles and such don't detract from a person looking tough; done a certain way, wrinkles and other imperfections can make a guy look wizened and tough. Clint Eastwood has had wrinkles for quite some time but with that squint of his he still looks tough as nails.

I'm really impressed by your dedication, comd. If you don't end up improving by leaps and bounds (good as you are already) I think it'd be some sort of cosmic crime. I can't really give you any advice on anatomy or such, but you might try asking Cloxboy about that - he draws tons of faces at all sorts of angles without references. IIRC, he did tons of anatomy drawings back in the day, so he might be able to guide you along the path to anatomical enlightenment. ;)