(Attempt of) depicting Agnes

[DennisKainz]

http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/1553/dkagnes.png
That was the best I could do.
I hope my painting didn't turn out to be too bad.

[Dermo]

looks like an older person =/ or on drugs...

[Hare]

Looks pretty good. You can smooth out the sketchiness by using pencils with softer leads, and smearing with a napkin as a blending tool. Erasers work very well for creating highlights when doing this (For something that erases without smudging a lot, I really like pen style erasers like this (http://www.amazon.com/Clic-EraserTM-Black-Barrel-Erasers/dp/B000FD5X90) for my sketch work though for blending work, I find kneadable (http://www.amazon.com/Prang-Professional-Kneadable-Rubber-Eraser/dp/B000JTLN1M) erasers really work well -and they are fun to squish- though the best tool is what works best for you). That'd make for a smoother looking skin texture, though I like how you did the highlights on the hair and the facial structure is good.

The texture on the lips turned out great, without too sharp a contrast at the edges. Also, I think you did pretty well with contrast in general. Contrast is a hard beast to tame. Without enough, everything kind of blends into eachother and it gets hard to distinguish. It can be a struggle to get to know the ins and outs.

You know, I found that darks and lights in a picture are relative. A darker dark will make a light color appear even lighter. Its pretty amazing. Oh, and the scanning process may have eaten away some of the quality. I used to have trouble scanning pencil work all the time until a friend showed me about levels.

You can get a better scan by adjusting the levels. there's a decent tutorial on it here (http://y-hosting.net/fixart/photoshop.html). My friend suggested not to use the scanner software to do this part, but just scan it raw without any touch up, then do any touch up work in a digital photo editing app like Photoshop or GIMP. This works pretty well.

All in all though, good pic.

[Puffie40]

so, errrr, who's Agnes? :p

*Art mode on*
Hmmm, not bad. I like the facial expression.

The chin looks about right, eyes look okay. However ,the forehead looks a little too big, and the neck looks like its scrawny and tilted backwards.

I think if you moved the right line of her neck a bit past the centerline of her chin and made it a little more vertical, that should correct the problem with her neck.

[DennisKainz]

so, errrr, who's Agnes? :p

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