Austin's Sketchbook

[Meeces]

Portrait Lab Project
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Thank you for taking the time to check out my work.

This is a project I'll be doing till October 7th for my drawing class in school (Guildhall at SMU). I’m working on my first major ‘practice’ piece in digital painting using Photoshop. The basic rule of the assignment is to paint the picture to a photo real state only using the eye dropper tool to get color picks.

Feel free to leave comments and critiques.
Please speak your mind.
Be brutal, please

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Project Outline:

1. Find a Subject (Photo) of a person with a high level of detail in it

2. Pencils – Define the details, features and proportions of the subject

3. Values – Work up a black/white version of the subject

4. Colors – Work up colors and skin details to high level of realism

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[Meeces]

This is my first real attempt at actually copying something as closely as possible from real life. My thought process was to get the shape of the head right, and then from there fill out the facial features.

Again please be brutally honest.





Here is my gray scale portrait. Obviously I'm not done, but I want to get feedback to correct what I've already missed. Also if anyone has any good tips on capturing hair accurately I'd love to hear it.