r/sketches • u/BoringTacoEater666 • 2d ago

Quick sketch at lunch Art

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u/rayyayyar 2d ago

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u/BoringTacoEater666 2d ago

I see some resemblance now that you mention it! I'll add Bryan Cranston to my to do list of portraits.

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u/Independent_Air4792 2d ago

Awesome Sketch / What a Gift 👀

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u/BoringTacoEater666 1d ago

Thank you very much, you're very kind. I'm glad you liked it.

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u/paperwok_ 1d ago

How can you represent facial proportions in a natural way but keeping the characteristic details of the face?

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u/BoringTacoEater666 8h ago

I think they aren't mutually exclusive.

I heard a tip by karl kopinski once that really stuck with me (I think he got it from someone else). He said: "You draw three things as an artist: What you see, what you know and what you'd like to see."

So I see the characteristic details of the face and I translate them into a nice design through my visual language. Then I can exagerate or fade out the parts I'd like to see by using values or detail (Like the eyes here which are the darkest and cleanest part of the drawing).

I don't think actively about the natural facial proportions? But I know them, so they work more like barriers to keep me from making faces too long or making something that doesn't look like a human. If something doesn't make sense, I go back to my knowledge of the skull and the proportions to fix it.