Making Realistic Faces
3yr
@vakarmalik
Hello Everyone.
So recently I was working on this Naruto Drawing. And the Idea was to make as realistic of a face as I possibly could from imagination. But after working for an hour, I guess I reached the limit of my skill and don't know how to make it more Realistic.
So in your Opinion, what would you personally do to further this painting? Considering it is a work in progress.
Hello :), I quickly read what my colleagues said and as I haven't seen Color Temperature. To achieve some more "life like" paintings you'll have to introduce subtle variations in tones and colors. If you want to be even more realistic you'll have to be accurate, meaning that parts of the body will be warmer/colder than others, because of blood supply or whatever reason. All objects will have some color variations.
To help you could maybe imagine in what type of environment this character is, what is the type of light, is there colored stuffs that reflects light around,... ?
Getting realistic is adding accurate informations, even if they are simplified.
Hope this helps.
Oh my god. I did all of that but now that you are mentioning it. It DOES NOT look like I did it properly. It looks like the skin is made up of plastic. I suppose I got so caught up in the details that I did not notice it. I imagined this character to be standing outdoors being hit by sunlight and having the ambient sky reflecting on his left side. And even the blue color is not properly visible o his left side.
Thanks a Bunch for pointing this out to me. I will be careful in the future.
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3yr
Can you draw a realistic face based on a photo? If you can post a work product of that, it'd be helpful. If you haven't, I'd do that first!
If you are asking that I can draw perfectly from a reference image or not. Then I would say no. As I never really attempt to make hyper realistic things.
As for my other art. You can check that on my Insta @artistvakar (this is not a self promo, just a good way of showing you all of my best and worst art in one place for a better Critique)
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Besides the black outlines and that the more reslistic drawing you want to have the more you need to show gradually changing in value instead of black lines. i see a few things in the structure of the face:
1: Nose. The nose you drawn is very straight with the same thickness down and up. A reailistic nose is much thinner between the eyes. Generally a bit thinner than the distance beetween a persons eyebrows.
2: Eyebrows. Besides outline and the lack of texture it looks like they floating in front of the eyes. Depending in what expression you want him to show you either need to make the eyes show it too or move the eyebrows up a bit.
3: Ears . The head and face overall shows that naruto holds the head straight watching forward. But the ears is a bit high up as if he lean the head forward watching down. So what you should do here is also depending what you want him to show.
4: cheekbones. In manga the cheekbones always is very soft and the chin a bit pointy. For more realistic look you can make the cheekbones more distinguished. More like the left side than the right.
I Hope this helps 👍🏼
Thanks Josefin, It is very Helpful! Especially the nose bit. I never noticed it for years until you mentioned it. It all becomes so clear after you point it out. The eyebrows bit as well. Thanks so much.
I think that its definitely on the right track! A few thinks of note that might help;
Texture: You've started to show texture in the hair and headband but you could continue this into the shirt. Look at reference of these materials and try to figure out how they work in space, then imagine how they would fit in your drawing.
Form: You are getting some nice shadows in the face but try pushing those same shadows in the hair. Look at reference of a young mans face and look at all the different planes there are, i'd say you are hitting the basic ones and it could be pushed further.
Edges: If you are trying to go for realism, relook at how sharp your edges/outlines are. Push the painting away from lines, especially in the lightest parts. You can try using color and shadows to help with this. If you want to use lines in your drawing, try using different thickness to draw interest into your piece, thicker toward your darks, thinner toward your lights.
Hope these tips help! You really aren't that far off.
Thanks so much, Eric.
I never noticed that I was not following the proper lights in the hairs as I did in the face. I guess I got Caught up in the Details. As for textures, I never noticed that I added them in the hairs? or the headband. But the shirt does look a little plain. But I suppose you are onto something I can`t understand. Can you tell me how to learn such textures? Any practice? Do I make the texture from my brushstrokes or use a textured brush?
