I think you need to start paying more attention to the negative space of things. Just looking at the positive will only limit you to any other decent realism artist. The point of looking back and forth between positive and negative space is that what you may see in one shape may counteract what's really happening in the other and once you can find what's happening in both, you will get a much more accurate shape.
gig is right, even if you arent creating an exact copy of your subject, looking at both positive and negative space and comparing them to other parts of the picture (ie your starting point) will help when replicating likenesses. even if the reproduction has lots of style and paintyness, like yours.
Im always looking at different parts of the face and comparing to see if something is in the right spot relative to another part. But I cant figure out whats wrong with this one. The eyes dont really look like his.
his right eyebrow is too high. that eye in general looks a tad too small. there ya go. that was actually the first thing i noticed when i compared it to the ref earlier but thought it was the face shape that was throwing it all off.
:0 cute. His eyebrow looks like it needs to be tilted down ward a bit, and his earlobe is too bigg, it goes up in a sharp slant in the photograph, and under the eye there's too much cheek showingg, the right eye looks like it needs to slant a bit more tooo. maybe shape his forhead a bit more?
it does look better <3 and I wanna see this done sooooon <3333 *kissy face*
More stuff to look into:
Bring in 'his' left eye, cause his eyes are currently too far apart (which also means it calls for you to shift 'his' whole left end of the face over to adjust to the shifting of the eye...assuming you fix this). 'His' left eyebrow needs to be lightened up both a tad bit on the front end and back end (look at the ref and I think you'll see what I mean).'His' right eyebrow is too thick, so subtract some off the top. Take a look at the negative space on 'his' right side of the forehead going into the sleeve. You'll see that the shape isn't right (I think what you have there is hair , but it doesn't go in quite that far). Also look at the sleeve that goes below 'his' right eye. Again, look at the negative space surrounding the eyebrow, the shadows on the nose and the sleeve. I'd point that out more directly, but it's kind of hard to explain, so the best advice there is to pay more attention to the negative space. Anyway, hope some of this stuff helps for further editting...
i really like your comments Gig, i mean i don't have a clue what negative and positive space are but you've made me look it up :) such a perfectionist.
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it does look better <3 and I wanna see this done sooooon <3333 *kissy face*
Bring in 'his' left eye, cause his eyes are currently too far apart (which also means it calls for you to shift 'his' whole left end of the face over to adjust to the shifting of the eye...assuming you fix this). 'His' left eyebrow needs to be lightened up both a tad bit on the front end and back end (look at the ref and I think you'll see what I mean).'His' right eyebrow is too thick, so subtract some off the top. Take a look at the negative space on 'his' right side of the forehead going into the sleeve. You'll see that the shape isn't right (I think what you have there is hair , but it doesn't go in quite that far). Also look at the sleeve that goes below 'his' right eye. Again, look at the negative space surrounding the eyebrow, the shadows on the nose and the sleeve. I'd point that out more directly, but it's kind of hard to explain, so the best advice there is to pay more attention to the negative space. Anyway, hope some of this stuff helps for further editting...