Please comment and criticise

Although I'm having a sort out of everything, there will still be things that aren't/won't be in this/the following posts

Post 1: Portraits
Post 5: Life drawings (all are A1 sized in real life)
Post 7: General Sketches, Hands
Post 9: Photoshop/Miscellaneous



Recently added:
Seether photos, 10-10-06 GO HERE NOW!!!


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Portraits
Amy Lee I
Amy Lee II
Amy Lee III
John LeCompt
Will Boyd
Amy Lee IV


I know that one isn't a portrait, but it's groovy.

Photoshop



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Post 5: Life drawings (all are A1 sized in real life)
Post 7: General Sketches, Hands
Post 9: Miscellaneous

Please criticise and comment - I'd love to know how I can improve.



~Lizzie

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You do a wonderful job of making Amy look SO BLOODY CUTE! ^^;; You're a really great artist. Wish I could draw like that.

WOW!
Your stuff is amazing! It's good on itself, but for someone so young, it makes it ever greater! You have an inate sense of proportion I think all you need to work is on the shadding: make it smoother and don't be afraid to risk!

My fav is your second of Amy. WOW!

I know what you said about John feeling complete: it does! But don't be afraid to risk more and apply darker shadding!

Keep it up!

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Life Drawings There are a few throughout the thread that have been taken down by Photobucket, when I come across them I will replace them with the new links for the mad people that look through everything


Post 1: Portraits
Post 7: General Sketches, Hands
Post 9: Photoshop/Miscellaneous

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Thank you guys!
Ashy [holly] - that just made me laugh - thanks! Have fun in Myrtle Beach?!
Fragile - thanks again! I still think it's bad though! I can find something wrong with everything.
Narya - That's the one problem I have with shading - taking the risk and making it darker. I feel really uncomfortable doing thing when I'm not sure if they'll work or not! I think it's getting better though.
I love your stuff too - I said in your thread that you must have so much patience, but it got eaten.

They're a lot paler on the laptop, but you have to have it bright because your eyes ache after a while...

Yesterday I drew my hand that I was drawing with - it was really cool - the only annoying bit was when I came to draw the pencil - it kept moving.
I'll post it soon - I'm banned from the laptop, so I'm not used to using it [the new one] and the internet isn't working on the normal PC

omG these are fantastic! no way are you fourteen!!!
i am VERY impressed, beautiful work, hun!

General Sketches
These aren't really in any particular order, the first few are mostly alphabetical because of uploading problems.


^ Edit 1 *^ Colour
^ Edit 2

Hands

I thought I was more obsessed than that, obviously not!

Post 1: Portraits
Post 5: Life drawings (all are A1 sized in real life)
Post 9: Photoshop/Miscellaneous

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Thanks Lyradi!
Yeah - 16 next year! Woo!

Internet has been uninstalled(!) on PC, so I can't post the hand yet. I haven't been able to do anything recently - I have about four different projects for school and numerous bits of homework - most for Wednesday. I have band tomorrow which takes up a good 4 hours, but I might have to miss it to sort out my friend whose been away in Finland - we're doing a presentation on South Africa with two other people, but we don't know each other that well, she's been away, so it's been really hard.
I'm all South Africa-d out!
I ramble too much.

I could post the pictures of the maps we drew and the flag...
Jk.

When we get the internet fixed - Mum's trying to get a splitter for Dad's broadband line - I'll post this wierd thing that I did. It's really random, but cool.

Don't be afraid to risk!
What you can do in case of too much fear though, is to make a copy of the "finished" drawing. Simply trace some features or the entire sketch onto another sheet and use it for practising the shadding. I think it will eliminate your fear of "ruining" what you have accomplished so far because you already have one finished result that you're happy with.

Then, when the two are done: lighter and "copy"darker, you can compare which one you like best and then maybe you'll realize it's not so bad to risk a little more

It also helps to do shadding exercises on spheres and cubes, light objects from different angles, just so you get a better notion of what becomes dark when the light comes from one side or the other.

In terms of visualizing the final results, you can also use photoshop. Basic line is, maybe if you see the "darker" effect you'll grow fonder of it and start aiming to get there.

I became bolder with each drawing because I realized that if I did not, the drawings would look 2dimentional instead of 3D, and that can only be accomplished thru shadding.

Post more soon!

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Miscellaneous
Into the What?
Amy/Field
Bag made in textiles, Year 9
Cushion made in textiles, Year 8
Mother's Love
Last Goodbye
Felt Box, inside
Felt box, outside
Random sketch
'Nuther random sketch
Leaf made in textiles, Year 10 (this year)
Another page in textiles book, Year 10
Seether thing
My form's noticeboard (which won!)
Tori Amos sketch (done in Italian)

Post 1: Portraits
Post 5: Life drawings (all are A1 sized in real life)
Post 7: General Sketches, Hands

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That's quite funny actually - the weekend before last we had a lot of family friends around and one of them is a architect [he designed that sail hotel in Dubai]. I was saying to him that I had problems with the shading and he said to try and shade spheres and cubes.
I will definitely try it, and do what you said about making copies.
I have been looking at objects recently and thinking, "Oooh, it's very dark under there ".
Thanks!

(The Internet's still not fixed...)

Really?! LOL! Ooh how, whadayaknow, I actually got it right.

Spheres are especially good, methinks, cause the shapes of a person's face are composed of round/er lines. And I think the exercise is just meant for you to understand that if a sphere is to look like a sphere, you really do have to shade a lot, otherwise, it will look like a circle. It will also help you understand that many times, when you are shadding, the direction of the lines in your shadding with makes all the difference: if you make them rounder, it will look round; if you make it straight, the surface will look plane, etc.

That will be something you'll notice when shadding spheres vs cubes: the lines tend to be paralel to the shape and that makes a big difference.

C-ya!

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