According to my own word, this is a sketch. There’s something missing when I draw from memory, I know for me it’s never clear when I try to remember stuff. Anyway I think my lighting improved quite a lot now even without ref, but the color still suck lol.
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There must be a clearer way to determine the position of core shadow, I just don’t know it yet. What I think that is currently serve as logical solution is to simply draw similar face in similar lighting condition. That means, for Lucy here, I need to find east asian female faces with this kind of lighting scheme. BUt that just means I am at the mercy of experience and the existence of such reference images. There must be mid point in this… I just couldn’t figure it out
I tried to fix those eyes around 6 times already, if I went back and forth like that it means I don’t understand some key points why it gave warning to my eyes.
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I think the biggest difference of people who have experience and the ones who doesn’t is the ones with enough exp are somewhat already know what their drawing gonna end up look like. If they can already see the end result, then the difficulty will fall back into ‘reading’ again, but instead of reading what they see it’s more like reciting what they have ‘read’.
I only got this much 6 hours in. If I were to draw from a picture of someone cosplaying Lucy, I am confident I can finish it in less than 2 hours. All this just takes me back to the conclusion that I lack practice.
Or maybe I practice wrong