Like Sian said, these both look great, but I particularly like the angry one. Reminds me of the scene where she's protecting the kids from the Herder . . . either or she is about to kick Matthew for being a jerk. :nods:
Hurrah, for your tablet, Sian, and I'd hardly consider it failing. You have abetter understanding of hair than I do, that's for sure.
I think you can probably still get ringlets without having to draw each individual one. It's just a matter of simplifying the shape down, though I guess anything with with lines is basically that so . . . yes, redunadnt info, Shonk, moving one.
Personally, I draw curly hair by combing an overall shape and a line shape.
Wavy hair, like you have portrayed, Min, will basically just be S shaped lines in an overall kind rectangular/square shape since wavy hair doesn't tend to change too much in volume as it falls.
Curlier/wilder hair is again just s shapes (though probably a bit sharper and tighter) in a more triangular overall shape as the curls get tangled up and push the hair out as it descends. To add a wilder look/more volume, just start overlapping your S's.
Super tightly curled hair/afro is the easiest cause it's basically just a wiggly line in the shape of circle or well . . . any shape you want it to be really.
Then finally for more ringletish/tighter curled hair you can kinda cheat by using a continuos 3 shape for your lines in a more overall circular/sqaure shape as the ringlets pull the hair up and make it appear shorter.
The eyes. They are expressing a sort of seriousness but they are uneven. But it was a start and I was ok enough with it as a first attempt that I moved on. So I tried taking that picture and drawing front-facing version. Ungh.
She looks like a different person, who's positively BORED, and the eyes are mismatched again. I thought I was drawing a similar shape to the side-ish on one but it just didn't give the same slight-annoyance effect as the other. I wish you could see from this picture just how many times I rubbed out the eyes and tried them again.
I got so frustrated with drawing eyes that I started sketching them on their own to figure out where I was going wrong. Paul said I should try drawing them larger then when I got better at it, downscale.
I just can't do symmetrical eyes! I think I'm moving the pencil in exactly the same movement from one side to the other but it just fails epically and ends up mismatched to the point of distraction.
So there's my question. How do you draw symmetrical eyes? I can't figure it out. I'm to the point where I might as well draw half a face, put it into photoshop, copy it and mirror it. Which will only work for faces that are perfectly face-on to the screen. Blarghargh.
