Random sketches from the last month

[Merry Smindmas]

Been practising faces specifically and as my subjects I used various rock/metal artists. I'm actually quite damn pleased with how these have been turning out, but unfortunately they look a bit worse due to my shoddy camera.



Four pennies to anyone who can identify any of these people. I've noticed my main issue seems to be with eyes (especially on the middle top one for instance) but yeah, I'm getting there.

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Other than some placement problems of the face with a few of them (such as the second one's eye on his right) it's really snazzy.



The sixth guy is from your sig or something?

[Matsrik]

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Inkdrinker?

[Merry Smindmas]

Yeah, the sixth is good old Andrew W.K.

He gets wet, allegedly.

[Mirai Zikasu]

The fourth one is Scott Ian, and the second one is Marco Hietala. I think the third one might be Tuomas Holopainen, but I'm not totally sure. The straight eyebrows, eye shapes, contour of the hair, and general facial expression seem to resemble his, but the nose shape and beard look different.

Otherwise, from my perspective, with the exception of "Marco," who I would suggest opening up his right eye a bit and therefore raising his brow to about the same area as his left, the pictures look decent to me. My suggestion would be not to focus so much on eyes, but on noses. I've personally found noses to be both one of the hardest facial features to draw as well as one of the most noticeable in terms of awkwardness. For example, portraits three and six have somewhat wonky nostrils, with portrait three's being too narrow with the center area of the nose descending too low on his face and Andrew W.K.'s looking far out of shape. In addition, portrait five suffers from too little definition of his nose, making as if he just has a misshapen, slightly-elevated surface in the middle of his face with two holes where nostrils should be.

[Merry Smindmas]

Wow, you know you're completely right about the nose stuff. Thanks for that Mirai. Although the thing with the Andrew W.K. nose is it's meant to be scrunched up, which I didn't do a great job in showing hence it's weird shape;
myfilestash.com/userfiles/atarisfan1222/Andrew%20WK.bmp

And you got Scott Ian and Marco Hietala right. And yeah, Marco's face has issues the way I've drawn him, mainly in the eyes like you pointed out. That's something I noticed right after drawing the thing but didn't feel the need to fix.The third one isn't Tuomas - he's too broody looking to be Tuomas for one ;D It's Jon Schaffer of Iced Earth - a man who according to Torture, my obsession with will make me gay

[Mr. T]

Actually, Andrew might be a good contender for your ass right now.

[Artemus]

dethklok dethklok

[Merry Smindmas]

You know I was actually going to get around to drawing the dethklok guys but I got lazy