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Avantar
Member since Aug-29-02
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Dec-12-02, 02:06 AM ()

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"WIP-Clint (Updated need help)"

Here is an updated WIP of my Clint Eastwood portrait Im working on. Im about 8 hours into the drawing. Usually I work on it an hour each day. Comments and critiques are welcome. The drawing is a bit bigger than my scanner so some will be cut off.

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pencilartist

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Dec-12-02, 07:10 PM ()

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1. "RE: WIP-Clint Eastwood"

Very good!!!!

Toby

Avantar
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Dec-12-02, 07:53 PM ()

2. "RE: WIP-Clint Eastwood"

I think I may have a problem with the texture of his shirt. Does anyone got any tips I could use to get his shirt texture right?

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scorpwolf777
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Dec-12-02, 08:33 PM ()

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3. "RE: WIP-Clint Eastwood"

this looks really nice so far..i like it
i would make the eyebrows little thicker and bring it little closer to the eyes..might change the expression
but i know it's still a wip,so i'm looking forward to it..

Marc Forest

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Dec-12-02, 09:49 PM ()

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4. "RE: WIP-Clint Eastwood"

Very nice start to a tough project. You have some real nice stuff happening here. the one thing I see is that it lacks depth, I know that it's a wip so I'm not sure how far you've gone. more graphite in the shadow side would help.

The lips need to look more weathered.

The shirt is a tough draw, charcoal, blending with felt might be a nice start but to get all the detail, drawing with a tortillion will be needed.

Props to you, this is a tough one!!

Marc Forest.
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Melissa_M

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Dec-13-02, 06:08 PM ()

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5. "RE: WIP-Clint Eastwood"

I agree, this is a tough one, and it looks very good so far. The eyes seem to be slightly too far apart in your drawing and maybe slightly differently shaped. His eyebrow and beard look thicker in the photo, and the right side (to us) of his face seems to be going in farther. It looks a lot like him, though. Keep up the good work!

- Melissa (aka: Honey Bee)

Avantar
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Dec-13-02, 08:08 PM ()

6. "RE: WIP-Clint Eastwood"

The eyes do seem further apart in my drawing but I used the grid method so they should be right. Maybe its just the shading I need between the eyes to make them look closer together. Last nite I spent 3 hours working on it and made the eyebrows wider and just about finsihed the hair and beard. I had to get up and step back from the picture a few times to make sure I got most of it right.

This is my first attempt at using the gridding method for drawing. Most of all my ealier drawings when I was younger I just measured with a paper the proportions and put dots for refrence points to go by. Dots are faster but gridding seems more accurate.

I was gonna use charcoal on the picture but Im not as good with charcoal as I am with graphite. There is some charcoal though in the nostrils and in the eyes to get them blacker. The portrait so far was just done with 2b lead in a mechanical pencil.

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Jay
Member since Dec-14-02
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Dec-15-02, 01:07 AM ()

7. "RE: WIP-Clint Eastwood"

Good stuff so far. Love the subject .."Two Mules For Sister Sara" I believe. I agree with that the eyes seem a little bit further apart. I took a quick measurement of his right eye (on the left as your looking at the pic), and in the photo it looks like this eye is about the same size as the distance between the eyes. When I tried the same measurement with your drawing it does look like you've got a bit more space. Hard to say how critical it will be to your finished drawing. It definitely looks like Clint. I had the same problem using the grid method. I usually don't do it, but I tried it once. My picture looked off. I double checked a measurement, and my jaw was wider than the picture. I have no idea how I did it, because the photo was in a sleave and couldn't have slid around. Keep us posted. I've gotta see the finished product. I've got a Clint one myself I'll have to post sometime!

Avantar
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Dec-15-02, 02:09 AM ()

8. "RE: WIP-Clint Eastwood"

I just measured the eyes to they are half an eye width apart.. ARGHHHHH..... Well there is no turning back now since I already put most of the detail in the eye area. I have no idea how I missed that when I graphed it out. I should have wondered that becuase when I was doing the wrinkles between the eyes I was like this seems to far apart

. Oh well I guess I should just continue on and finish it. Chalk it up as an experience

. Im to much of perfectionist and throw away drawings I mess up the proportions with.

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Avantar
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Dec-15-02, 04:16 AM ()

9. "RE: WIP-Clint Eastwood"

Here is some further progress. Its taking longer than I expected. Im trying to get good enough to do portrait commissions and make some cash

. I think that since I messed up the eye width a bit his face seems a bit heavier.

Hard thing about posting pics is it always looks better in person than it does scanned. I upped the brightness and contrast a bit on the scan to make it look decent to post.

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Avantar
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Dec-15-02, 04:21 AM ()

10. "RE: WIP-Clint Eastwood"

Whats the best way to not smudge over your picture while doing areas. I tend to jump from one area to another when I get bored. I had laid a piece of paper under my hand on the pic but my shading movements moved the paper and smeared it some not much but noticeble to me. Would taping the paper over the section im notworking help much at all?

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