hewwo!! you capture people so well in your art! would you be willing to do a tutorial on capturing people's characteristics ?? like the frank/Billy fanart?? I cant seem to capture likeliness well
thank you so much! sorry about the late reply, i was wondering how i should reply to this (plus i was on vacation lol)
the thing is, the reason why i’m “good” at capturing bernthal or barnes as their respective characters is bc i stared at references. a LOT!! i have a huge folder of their faces at diff. angles (please… dont @ me… im an artist its habit) and while it’s considerably faster now, my process used to be 80% staring and 20% actual drawing because i wanted to get it Right™.
when i first started out:
therefore, my FIRST TIP IS: don’t be afraid of references!!! i know it can be kinda scary and a lot of artists think “i’m not a real artist for using references” but references are awesome and if you use them to learn, you can then create stuff without relying too heavily on them in the future!
SECOND TIP: pay attention to proportions. facial proportions are, imo, what’s most important when creating a likeness – the size of the eyes in relation to their nose, the space between their eyebrows, distance from the end of their chin to their lips, etc. … this is also something you get from studying references.
once you get the proportions down, you can then simplify / use your own style to draw them! (theusbdsuad it probably doesn’t help that my style has been… SEVERELY impacted by doing bernthal studies)
THIRD TIP: as you continue drawing the person, you’ll begin to notice certain aspects that make them Them. the following is a loosely annotated version of some recent sketches of things i ALWAYS make sure to include if i’m drawing frank:
by including these things, he looks like him to me (IN MY OPINION), and so by drawing these things again and again and again, WHILE comparing them to ref pics to make sure they look right, i get used to them and BAM. likeness!
tl;dr it really boils down to practice! stare at references! practice!!! it deadass took me about like a couple of weeks of nothing but drawing The Bernthal to be able to draw him in a comfortable style, and even today i still have a bunch of pics open while drawing him!
good luck out there, and i hope this helped!!! let me know if you have other questions!!
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