Not Another Interactive Story

[I Lick Vaginas]

Question: Why is all visual art pretty much confined to the thread for work not worth starting a thread about?

Anyway long time no see. As opposed to the weeaboo tidings of yore, I've been drawing predominately realistic stuff as of late:

SUPER ATTRACTIVE ME
http://fc07.deviantart.com/fs46/f/2009/190/a/2/jesu_by_jusskah.jpg

+
Frankie (http://fc05.deviantart.com/fs23/f/2009/248/4/5/frankie_by_jusskah.png)
motherfucking berries (http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs28/f/2009/248/2/c/motherfucking_berries_by_jusskah.jpg)
girl (http://fc06.deviantart.com/fs47/f/2009/248/a/c/sketch_book_girl_by_jusskah.png)

+other random stuff at http://jusskah.deviantart.com/

One problem I've been having lately is, that while I can replicate a likeness to a certain extent, I can't get it accurate enough. Like, I would draw a portrait of a friend, but if someone isn't familiar with the photo I've referenced they wouldn't recognise them.

For example
http://fc07.deviantart.com/fs46/f/2009/248/9/3/ad_girl_by_jusskah.jpg
I don't have the original image here, but essentially, she looks a lot younger than here. Another image which I've yet to upload is of a five year sort of bust (hah!) but it looks like a twenty year old. I always seem to age whomever I'm drawing.

help please :(

[bobbinter]

i like your drawings

[bobbinter]

who gives a shit if they age?

[Arielcz]

This happens to me too. What I do is generally try to avoid having too many lines or too much detail around the mouth and the outside of the eyes. Those wrinkles you get when you smile can make a 10 year-old look 50 on paper. If those lines are characteristic of the person you are trying to draw and you must include them, do it with a really light pencil.

[I Lick Vaginas]

But yeah, that's the problem. I want to include all those details. Really light lines is a step though, at the moment I only use the one HB pencil or whatever's on hand to draw these.

And, uh, I give a shit that they age

[azunder]

You've just got to be really accurate with the curve of your lines. If your out by a couple of millimetres or if the shape doesn't match up you'll lose that familiarity. Generally the eyes are the most fundamental part of recognition but you've also got to make sure the curve of the jaw is right and that the individual features measure up to each other and aren't lopsided.

Drawing from a photograph tends to be harder because your drawing from a secondary source, so if your work doesn't match up to the photograph it just looks awkward. It's hard to say why but when you drawing someone in person, it's a lot easier to get a likeness to the subject and produce a convincing portrait, probably because your working with a living person and not a 2-d image.

[SD4L]

Stop making these, They are awful.