Recently I've been doodling a lot in my sketchbook, doing a lot of pencil sketches, which aren't usually my thing, but are so much fun. I've been posting my day-to-day results over at http://ultimatehurl.tumblr.com, and even though I've nowhere near the skill of Glider I thought I'd challenge myself for a TL blogpost, to draw White-Ra.

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This was based on a picture I took of White-Ra for TL during Dreamhack, and was a big challenge. I was also thinking, I usually paint, either digitally or with acrylics, would TL prefer streaming painting or Youtube videos after? Will be making the sort of things I've blogged previously

iamperfection

United States9635 Posts

April 13 2012 16:17 GMT

I know hes smiling but for some reason im getting sad from this pic. I think its the shadows on the left side and the eyes.

KalWarkov

Germany4126 Posts

April 13 2012 16:23 GMT

you have talent, but youre not glider^^

try to make it "cleaner", maybe by using finer lines or using a rubber to smudge the lines. Also, the eyebrowns could be darker. That would be my guess, not like im an artist or something :D
like this, he looks a bit like he just got rescued from a burning car and lost his wife or something :/

Denzil

United Kingdom4193 Posts

April 13 2012 16:26 GMT

ask glider for some advice ^^

3FFA

United States3931 Posts

April 13 2012 16:42 GMT

lol yeah what they said. However, I like the look for him. Makes me think if I was him "am I really that old?!? O.O".

On April 14 2012 01:17 iamperfection wrote:
I know hes smiling but for some reason im getting sad from this pic. I think its the shadows on the left side and the eyes.

White-Ra's left, the artist's left, or your left?

MasterOfPuppets

Romania6942 Posts

April 13 2012 16:57 GMT

White-Ra looks like he has a tumor (not a creep one hue hue hue) on his right jaw. I suggest making a much straighter line from the ear to his chin.

Other than that good job, better than what I can draw for sure XD.

brachester

Australia1786 Posts

April 13 2012 17:14 GMT

need some work with the eyes ratio dude

Utinni

Canada1196 Posts

April 13 2012 17:20 GMT

Nice, sketch dude, Just gotta work on a few things ppl have been mentioning above and it'll look fantastic

SiguR

Canada2039 Posts

April 13 2012 17:30 GMT

I'm the furthest thing from an expert, but for someone who doesn't do them often, I think this looks great!

Brosy

United States254 Posts

April 13 2012 18:18 GMT

#10

Looks good for a sketch! I'd suggest fading the shaded pencil lines with a finger to give it a more natural shadow. But since its just a sketch you don't really need to.

Xiron

Germany1233 Posts

April 13 2012 18:27 GMT

#11

'Not bad' - Barack Obama

btw DAT smirky smile.

iamperfection

United States9635 Posts

April 13 2012 21:32 GMT

#12

On April 14 2012 01:42 3FFA wrote:
lol yeah what they said. However, I like the look for him. Makes me think if I was him "am I really that old?!? O.O".

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White-Ra's left, the artist's left, or your left?

My left

3FFA

United States3931 Posts

April 13 2012 22:44 GMT

#13

On April 14 2012 06:32 iamperfection wrote:

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My left

Ok, are you looking at it upside down or sideways?

fire_brand

Canada1123 Posts

April 13 2012 22:52 GMT

#14

A good try my friend, but it needs work. You've got the start of a good drawing, just work it. You have establish your darks and lights. Right now there's not any real distinction between your lights and your middle tones. Either hit the darks way harder or incorporate some white pastel in for those highlights and leave the paper to act as your mid tone. As you've seen in Gliders pictures, he reworks his pieces to get that next level of finish and detail on his work.

Good stuff, you're going in the right direction.

UltimateHurl

Ireland591 Posts

April 13 2012 23:59 GMT

#15

On April 14 2012 07:52 fire_brand wrote:
A good try my friend, but it needs work. You've got the start of a good drawing, just work it. You have establish your darks and lights. Right now there's not any real distinction between your lights and your middle tones. Either hit the darks way harder or incorporate some white pastel in for those highlights and leave the paper to act as your mid tone. As you've seen in Gliders pictures, he reworks his pieces to get that next level of finish and detail on his work.

Good stuff, you're going in the right direction.

I think this is common with a lot of my stuff, I'm self-taught so I rarely work to the level of pros, definitely working on this. I think it's the reason iamperfection sees a problem on his left-side, I wasn't clear enough with the shading on that jaw. Only have a HB pencil, thinking of investing in some charcoal to be able to smudge and that, has been a lot of fun to experiment! Thanks for the advice guys!

Bayyne

United States1967 Posts

April 14 2012 00:30 GMT

#16

I actually feel like some of the "imperfections" make this portrait very intriguing, almost Van Gogh style. I like it. Some color to this portrait would also be interesting as well.

Good job nonetheless!

3FFA

United States3931 Posts

April 14 2012 02:38 GMT

#17

On April 14 2012 08:59 UltimateHurl wrote:

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I think this is common with a lot of my stuff, I'm self-taught so I rarely work to the level of pros, definitely working on this. I think it's the reason iamperfection sees a problem on his left-side, I wasn't clear enough with the shading on that jaw. Only have a HB pencil, thinking of investing in some charcoal to be able to smudge and that, has been a lot of fun to experiment! Thanks for the advice guys!

I'm still confused... which left

edit: I feel the same as the poster above me.

GreatFall

United States1061 Posts

April 14 2012 04:36 GMT

#18

I like it a lot! You can see that he's deep in tought. A very striking drawing indeed.

ironchef

Canada1350 Posts

April 14 2012 07:59 GMT

#19

Not bad.Pretty solid all around.

Becareful of the tendency to subconsciously straighten things out when you draw. Feels like certain parts are tilting one way (ear-to-ear, jaw, neck tilt) while the center features are being forced to align(looking head on). I have problems with this too esp with people whose features angle up and down, its easy to confuse the angles. Also the way the chin goes into the jaw on his right ( the dark side) seems like its missing some volume or something.

UltimateHurl

Ireland591 Posts

April 14 2012 13:44 GMT

#20

Bayyne, 3FFA I'm playing around with more impressionistic style too, just don't like it when it happens by mistake

3FFA I'm talking about the shaded side, which has problems because the shading was awkward due to a rim-light sort of lighting condition that I didn't render too well

Thanks GreatFall

ironchef yeah White-Ra was tilting his head, which introduced a few challenges I found really interesting to try and tackle

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