furry artist in need of help drawing humans
Depends if they have rational opinions 🧐
Honestly not much of it makes sense. Try studying human faces before doing it from imagination.
I think you should focus a bit more on anatomy and proportions. Furthermore, you should probably try to draw the whole head, otherwise it‘s hard to judge if it‘s a real person. Also I think that shape studies would help you develop a bitter understanding on how things like eyes and noses actually look like. Keep up the great work :)
the distance between the eyebrows and the top of the head isn't enough, try using the top line for the eyebrows instead of the top of the eyes. the face feels too long so try moving the nose lower and the mouth higher. this should help it feel more proportional. i hope this is helpful to you!
Adding on to this, remember, in 3/4 perspective the distance between the eye (that's facing us) and the temple/ear gets larger and that's because we see more of the side of the face
You've said it so clearly without changing their artstyle, you're very good at giving advice
Off topic, but what's the 'intermediate' tag on your username?
It's his self-chosen flair of his skill level. I hate to be rude but I don't think he's at intermediate yet :(
He he i figured as much :) No, i was more interested in hearing the reasoning behind it. I've seen people use the provided tags (beginner, intermediate and master) and I never dared use one myself, because again, what reasoning would you apply? :s
Understandable; I teach art to high schoolers and I've been drawing for 15+ years. Still wouldn't put myself at master lol
Cool, I think that's a very healthy way to relate to a craft :) Who was it that said: if you have to call yourself a leader, you aren't one.
I think; if you have to call yourself a master... ;)
I would not trust him
id recommend studying anatomy if you’re not on that already!
I think studying form is also important.
yep, 100%
bro, finish the drawing, wtf
Too early to say
I'd say to study something like Loomis method to better learn the proportions of a human face.
honestly, no 😔 keep going, as others said draw from reference and study anatomy
Is this Riley side eying her friends from inside out 2?
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Look, I'm sorry I'm being harsh here, I know it's not nice to hear, but with so little, I don't even know what to recommend.
If you drew 25 faces, there would be clarity on where you're going wrong. Or if you drew one face with more than 28 lines total, where you went further than the skeleton of a sketch, maybe I could help. But this gives me nothing to work with. Hence, nothing.
You need to keep going. Keep drawing. If you give up after 28 lines, you'll never get anywhere. Because, even if you manage to perfect those 28 first lines, you'll not know where to go from there and your level in all that comes after will be abysmal, compared to those first few lines, which will be very disheartening.
So, choose a subject and draw a whole thing. It doesn't have to be perfect. We were all bad, when we started. Hell, I have days where all I draw is utter trash. It's more important to try, than to be good right away. But if you don't try at all, don't even erase your guidelines (that have the same colour of the drawing, so we don't even know where the guidelines end and the drawing starts), how would we know where your problems lie aside of lacking confidence.
Go on Pinterest or YouTube, find a tutorial for drawing faces and keep drawing full faces, with hair and a neck and shoulders and erased guidelines. Do drawabox lessons ( https://drawabox.com/lesson/0 ) on the side to get more confident with your linework and learn some fundamentals, like perspective.
Do that for three weeks, come back with your best work and there will be a dozen people, who will give you an actually interesting perspective on how to get better. But this... This isn't it. I know you can do better.
I'll be the wild card and agree with you. Not enough from op here to properly assist their drawing journey. They are at the beginning stage so the advice rn is very generic.
im just trying to learn
Sorry the other user was so mean about it. I know you’re trying to learn! Just, for future reference, you might need to invest a bit more time than a 5 minute doodle in order to learn 😅. We can’t really help you much with such a crudely unfinished drawing! Keep going, mess up so you can have a clear goal on what to fix and work on!
Ignore them, they're not giving constructive feedback, rather they're just being rude af
And kudos to you for willing to share your progress and seek pointers for how to improve, so keep on keeping on :)
As for improvement, I agree with others here that studying facial proportions is the best way forward
Dude, calm down.
you are being rude indeed.
Truly hard to guess at their typical state of mind and ability to think in a reasonable manner, but I assume you meant “does this drawing depict a person reasonably well”? That, unfortunately, is a totally subjective question, open to any number of responses based on any number of factors, including, but not limited to; the drawing ability of the person answering, the style of drawing you are attempting, whether or not you mean anatomically correct, etc… Would a reasonable person look at this and be able to tell you what it depicts? Of course, but so could a stick figure, so I doubt that’s what you are truly asking. I’m also guessing your style of choice when it comes to drawing is anime/cartoon/manga style stuff, and if that’s what you’re going for, you have a fine start to a drawing of a person. Just keep practicing and picking up tips as you go from more experienced artists. In the unlikely case that you’re attempting a realistic, anatomically accurate drawing of a person, then that’s a different story, I’m sorry to say. It’s neither realistic nor anatomically correct in a realism sense, but again, something tells me that’s not the case here. Long answer short; Yes. It is a reasonably well done, clearly identifiable drawing of a person.
They seem shady as fuck.
Follow some human head drawing tutorials, and use references. If you like anime, Vroid models will help for references! You can customize the 3d models a lot to change the shape of the body, eyes, face, and even give them elf ears, animal ears, and tails! It's free on Steam :) it's far better than using random 3d models for references, and there's even poses and animations, and I think you can pause mid animation! So after you get more confident in drawing stiff poses trying to learn the shapes, you can get more complex with it :)
If you want to draw realism or other styles, there's a lot of tutorials, but my knowledge ends with anime.
Well so this is tricky I do this but it’s actually 1/2 and quarter profile combined . I draw full profile and then add the likes of 1/4 and of profile looking down to make it look like they are facing forward and away with their head up as part of profile drawing you do the silhouette of the neck To shoulders etc as part of the face shape. Then you define the neck and build the hips and chest then you do must form shade which is defining and giving geometric form to the lines in the face by darkening them until they make the face shape and you don’t see the lines the key to this is to darken where you want to define the shadows so it brings light into the drawing and the cast shadow is built on the commencing lines and the structural Lines are darkened and built if with shadow you need to vary your line thickness to thinness as well as using different shades of h hard which is light lines and b soft which is dark lines .your missing this step
This is really good he’s just missing a step
What’s mkt being mentioned is how ti choose the. Correct profiles and combine them with the use of form shading
So the thing with proportion is composition it’s mkt drawn big enough to be in the center of the page. What’s needed to draw the 3/4 profile head shape then combine the likes of half and quarter profiler then define the lines by shading lights and dark using the shadow to bring light and and luminacy to the let of the face that’s looking out to define the structural shapes then darken the outside lines that are hidden behind these shapes creating a carat shadow not only will it make anatomically correct but it will draw the eye to the right place the face should be divided in half on the vertical then in half on the horizontal .this keeps the face Proportionate as well as gives the look of skeleton and musculature . What’s most important about this is the direction of rhe lines themselves so you can create distance . Vertical lines draw the eye into the drawing making it look close up and and more spacious . Horizontal lines draw the eye out of the drawing and make things look farther away . Lateral lines make things look still while diagonal lines make things look like they are flowing and moving . There’s about 100 of these types of lines that do different things in different places nothing is wrong with rush drawing and I don’t see the reason for hate they just forgot a detailed step that very few know of or how to do .
Good job
No, it's a sketch of a head.
I wouldn't know without meeting them
magic
i hate the right guy
all humans can have cat shaped faces if you want them to. look at most anime. those side profiles are kitty cats. meow.
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