Charcoal study

**Galione** · March 28th, 2007, 08:32 PM

what ya guys think?

**Galione** · March 29th, 2007, 05:28 PM

all those views and not even a *it looks shitty* comment?

**drd** · March 29th, 2007, 07:47 PM

Well, it's a bit boring, and, it's very blurry, probably why most people just passed over it. I was about to as well.

**emily g** · March 29th, 2007, 08:36 PM

Yeah, it's a little hard to crit because it's a little hard to see.
Where are you at in Utah?

**cocaine** · March 29th, 2007, 08:47 PM

i think the light under the left eye and the brow needs to be a shade or two darker, theres too much contrast on the left side of the face

**Galione** · March 29th, 2007, 08:53 PM

yeah I am in utah, thanks for the tip cocaine I see what you mean I will go in and reshade those parts down about 15 % or so until it looks natural

sorry about the low quality I have a shitty camera 3.2 MPX I think and my scanner is way to small for this drawing

**drd** · March 29th, 2007, 09:33 PM

Yeah, I have that problem as well. (Scanner is too small for most things)

**Galione** · March 29th, 2007, 11:04 PM

yeah I use 18x24 bristol paper for charcoal drawing, I hate doing charcoal on anything smaller than that

**emily g** · March 29th, 2007, 11:30 PM

Hey, well I'm from Utah (Provo area) and some others on the boards are too, so just wondering what part you were from.

**Galione** · March 29th, 2007, 11:48 PM

Riverton *right near the point of the mountain*

**Galione** · March 30th, 2007, 06:56 PM

pls try to look past the fact that the photo is shitty quality ;.;

**AndreasM** · March 30th, 2007, 07:59 PM

it would help us alot if you took a picture of both the cast and the drawing, from the point where you are standing when you observe the thing. If I could crit anything...It looks to me as if the drawing is at several different stages all over the place. If you took the time and made sure that ALL the proportions were correct before you added light, shadows, modelling etc, you would come off ten times stronger. Actually, try to start over and do, to the best of your abilities, and accurate two tone block-in. It's going to be though and tedious, but you'll benefit more from 'building a solid foundation, rather than adding new paint to a falling building', so to speak. Hope i'm making any sense...