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This is beautifully drawn. The Tonal Quality is excellent. Your detail work is really well done, especially in the her blouse. I love your use of subtle shading changes to give depth and form. Artists new to drawing tend to over-shade and stoke in a hashing manner, but here the shading is spot on, not overworked, and your lines are clean. Excellent work.
For me, it is more important to capture personality, emotion, attitude, spirit, and story of the character's face, than it is to render it with high technical skill. Here you managed to do both, capture the story of the face and to do it very skillfully. There are 412 human emotions and only 20 facial muscles to express them.
If you would like to challenge yourself, it would be great to see you translate 3 dimensional reality to pencil and paper, drawing from statues or live models. It is a very different thing compared to drawing from a two-dimensions media (copy from photos). The next step after that is to incorporate light sources.
I was born with a brain disorder, separate from my Autism, that does no allow me to see detail in my mind. I can study the face of my partner, close my eyes, and he is gone, even after 20 years with him. I see general shapes and forms. This makes drawing for a live model, still life, and copying, extremely difficult. While you look at your photo or live model, then look down to your pad and draw, I must look and draw at the same time.
In college I walked away from drawing in frustration and focused on metal art, with some work in stone, glass, ceramics, and mosaic tiles. But I did come back to it just to prove to myself I could do it. I posted this piece Portrait of a Young Man, despite it being a mess and riddled with problems, because for me it was like a triumph. I very much admire excellent drawing from still and live models, especially since I cannot do it myself. Thankfully I have other artistic talents and skill. I wonder how many artists truly appreciate their artistic gifts, or just take them for granted.
For me, Imagination and Creativity take precedent over everything else in the world of art.
___________________________
I noticed that your work is not properly copyright protected and worry it might get stolen. So I thought I should point it out just in case you were not aware of it. Currently, DA has put "©2010 ~ninjaraid" under your drawing. The first problem is that this copyrights your drawing too late and it is very important to establish your rights from the point your art was drawn and signed by you. The second problem is that "©2009 ~ninjaraid" must be put on the posted image itself, which makes the copyright portable and a crime for anyone to erase it. Using your real name is more permanent since it protects the image after you leave DA or change accounts, avoiding the inconvenience of updating your files with a new copyright signature. But if privacy is an issue, your DA account name works just fine.
To copyright or not copyright is a personal choice. If you want to do it, it is very easy to do. Simply add your copyright signature to the image file being posted. Some artists will digitally write it along the cheek line or somewhere inside the drawing where it cannot be easily cropped out.
COPYRIGHT SIGNATURE
Under International Copyright Convention, your Copyright Signature MUST be placed ON the copy of the image being posted to the internet (not the original). Your Copyright Signature must contain 3 elements, which can be in any order (spaces and punctuation do not matter), can be drawn, printed, or stylized, and you can use fancy script fonts, handwriting fonts, and graphics. It can be in any size, located anywhere on the image, and it can be partially transparent, as long as it is visible.
The three required elements are:
1. Your legal name, or your Tradename (DA Name)1.
2. The © symbol exactly as shown, either drawn or typed (MAC: option and g keys pressed at the same time : Opt+g)(PC: Hold down Ctrl and Alt at the same time and press c : Ctrl+Alt+c).
3. The year the image was created, followed by each year it was changed.
1 Ideally, Trademarks should be Registered. Your Real Name is otherwise your best option. Your DeviantArt account name is OK to use, but if you close or change your DA account in the future, it complicates things, and if there is a theft and it goes to civil or criminal trial against the thief, you will have the additional step of proving that the DA Account belongs to you.
EXAMPLES
©Joe Blow 2008, 2009
© Joe Blow 2008
Joe Blow 2008©
Joe Blow© 2008
Joe Blow © 2008
© 2008 Joe Blow
2008 © Joe Blow
ETC.
I recently sent this copyright info to
who came up with a new and creative copyright signature/watermark seen here Rainbow Warrior, Story Time, and a different version here Going Down all showing how he incorporated the Copyright symbol as an underlying graphic.
The CROP TOOL is the biggest threat to your Copyright Signature, so placing your Copyright Signature along the edge of your work is not a good idea. Some artists incorporate their signature into their artwork. See how this artist ran her signature along the shirt/neck line Jensen Ackles - Dream Brother (note: the © is missing) and an apple a day (note: the © and year is missing).
Some Signatures actually look good with the art, like this one
It's a new day, although it is missing the year.
Matthew
For me, it is more important to capture personality, emotion, attitude, spirit, and story of the character's face, than it is to render it with high technical skill. Here you managed to do both, capture the story of the face and to do it very skillfully. There are 412 human emotions and only 20 facial muscles to express them.
If you would like to challenge yourself, it would be great to see you translate 3 dimensional reality to pencil and paper, drawing from statues or live models. It is a very different thing compared to drawing from a two-dimensions media (copy from photos). The next step after that is to incorporate light sources.
I was born with a brain disorder, separate from my Autism, that does no allow me to see detail in my mind. I can study the face of my partner, close my eyes, and he is gone, even after 20 years with him. I see general shapes and forms. This makes drawing for a live model, still life, and copying, extremely difficult. While you look at your photo or live model, then look down to your pad and draw, I must look and draw at the same time.
In college I walked away from drawing in frustration and focused on metal art, with some work in stone, glass, ceramics, and mosaic tiles. But I did come back to it just to prove to myself I could do it. I posted this piece Portrait of a Young Man, despite it being a mess and riddled with problems, because for me it was like a triumph. I very much admire excellent drawing from still and live models, especially since I cannot do it myself. Thankfully I have other artistic talents and skill. I wonder how many artists truly appreciate their artistic gifts, or just take them for granted.
For me, Imagination and Creativity take precedent over everything else in the world of art.
___________________________
I noticed that your work is not properly copyright protected and worry it might get stolen. So I thought I should point it out just in case you were not aware of it. Currently, DA has put "©2010 ~ninjaraid" under your drawing. The first problem is that this copyrights your drawing too late and it is very important to establish your rights from the point your art was drawn and signed by you. The second problem is that "©2009 ~ninjaraid" must be put on the posted image itself, which makes the copyright portable and a crime for anyone to erase it. Using your real name is more permanent since it protects the image after you leave DA or change accounts, avoiding the inconvenience of updating your files with a new copyright signature. But if privacy is an issue, your DA account name works just fine.
To copyright or not copyright is a personal choice. If you want to do it, it is very easy to do. Simply add your copyright signature to the image file being posted. Some artists will digitally write it along the cheek line or somewhere inside the drawing where it cannot be easily cropped out.
COPYRIGHT SIGNATURE
Under International Copyright Convention, your Copyright Signature MUST be placed ON the copy of the image being posted to the internet (not the original). Your Copyright Signature must contain 3 elements, which can be in any order (spaces and punctuation do not matter), can be drawn, printed, or stylized, and you can use fancy script fonts, handwriting fonts, and graphics. It can be in any size, located anywhere on the image, and it can be partially transparent, as long as it is visible.
The three required elements are:
1. Your legal name, or your Tradename (DA Name)1.
2. The © symbol exactly as shown, either drawn or typed (MAC: option and g keys pressed at the same time : Opt+g)(PC: Hold down Ctrl and Alt at the same time and press c : Ctrl+Alt+c).
3. The year the image was created, followed by each year it was changed.
1 Ideally, Trademarks should be Registered. Your Real Name is otherwise your best option. Your DeviantArt account name is OK to use, but if you close or change your DA account in the future, it complicates things, and if there is a theft and it goes to civil or criminal trial against the thief, you will have the additional step of proving that the DA Account belongs to you.
EXAMPLES
©Joe Blow 2008, 2009
© Joe Blow 2008
Joe Blow 2008©
Joe Blow© 2008
Joe Blow © 2008
© 2008 Joe Blow
2008 © Joe Blow
ETC.
I recently sent this copyright info to
who came up with a new and creative copyright signature/watermark seen here Rainbow Warrior, Story Time, and a different version here Going Down all showing how he incorporated the Copyright symbol as an underlying graphic. The CROP TOOL is the biggest threat to your Copyright Signature, so placing your Copyright Signature along the edge of your work is not a good idea. Some artists incorporate their signature into their artwork. See how this artist ran her signature along the shirt/neck line Jensen Ackles - Dream Brother (note: the © is missing) and an apple a day (note: the © and year is missing).
Some Signatures actually look good with the art, like this one
It's a new day, although it is missing the year.
Matthew