Sketchbook drawings

[crak_the_sky]

Under normal circumstances I'll cut away for my sketches/drawings, but not this time because I spent 20+ hours on this one and I'm damn proud of the result (except for a few parts). 3H and B on heavyweight paper. Don't have the actual source photo, but it was from an Aussie shampoo magazine ad [EDIT: found the photo; it's on the front page of www.

Comments

[castortroysd]

I'd hit it. :o

[crak_the_sky]

*high five*

[tsunami_jones]

The hair really stood out to me on this. It really shows the work that you put into it, resulting in the hair really popping out. Very nice, man!

[crak_the_sky]

Thank you very much :)

[flint_the_dwarf]

Pretty fantastic work, man. The hair looks really nice. I haven't drawn anything serious in years, but hair was always tough for me too.

[crak_the_sky]

It's all in the eraser. If you have an eraser with really thin, sharp edges, doing hair (at least straight hair like this) isn't actually difficult, just time-consuming.

[godix]

Nicely done, although the lack of shading seems rather flat. But that might be just be a shitty scanner rather than the drawing.

[crak_the_sky]

Yeah, the actual picture does look better. Although, you're right; I tend to be afraid to go too dark with my shadows, and this drawing was no exception. A higher contrast definitely woulda helped.