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Deformed (May 11, 2006)
My first real attempt at realism.. It's supposed to be Bruce Dickinson in a leather jacket.. I still have a long way to go, but I think i'm doing ok. Any tips would be greatly appreciated.
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Deformed (May 11, 2006)
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Deformed (May 11, 2006)
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Maaan! This is soooo frustrating......I must finish it.....
Deformed (May 11, 2006)
drawn in 24 min
Damn......I suck....
Artiste (May 15, 2006)
This is a pretty good start. It is good that you are working from dark to light.

The one major tip that I can give you is that you should paint much larger. It's extremely difficult to create realism on such a small scale. The head should be taking up most, if not all of the canvas size. Working with tiny little brush strokes makes it much too hard to see. Look at some of the good realism paintings on this website. You will see that the subject matter is very simple, and the artists makes full use of the canvas size.
Deformed (May 16, 2006)
Thanks alot, Artiste... I plan to make a bigger one more close up now.....
TaCO (edited May 19, 2006)
Looks good

Try breaking the picture down to it's basic shapes,
And then draw it with shapes until you think everthing is in the right place.
Now you can start addind detail and value.

1. Block it in
2. work the whole pic at once, don't work on one area more than the rest.
3. detail should be put after blocking in and base values are complete.

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