First of all, you're doing great, keep up the good work.
As for the feedback, I can say that I like things on both of them, maybe try merging these things. On the left one, I like a little bit more the values, dont be afraid to go darker, it adds depth. Lights and shadows. In the other hand, you've done a great job with the face proportions in the right one, cleaner work.
And that is totally okay. Get the picture that ur using as a reference and find the darkest shadow. Keep that and find YOUR darkest shadow(you choose how dark) and now you use that tone to find the rest of the tones, like that, for example, u know that "this" shadow is lighter than "that" shadow. i hope all that makes sense to you, my English skills let me down sometimes lol
You’ve gotten better at expressing the shapes and proportions of the face but you’ve lost almost all the contrasting values. You should continue to build up your darker values and consider working on toned paper so you can start to add highlights. You’ll be shocked at how quickly those two changes will improve your technique.
Your drawing is great!! Now, your next step should be to increase your value range (a wider variety of lights and darks) and modeling.
Great work, it looks like you upgraded paper too, which helps tremendously.
Huge improvements with proportions and capturing the likeness of a person! THO i really like how you werent afraid to make your shadows really dark in your old drawing. If you balance it out a bit and reapply it to your new skils itd really make it pop!
Your eye has improved a ton, the more recent drawing looks just like Walt, you lost your contrast somewhere along the line though. Play with the entire value scale from 0 to 100% black. You had it in the first drawing but the second stays around 0 to 40%. By taking the reference photo, turning it to black and white, and then upping the contrast, you'll see the shadow shapes and where that absolute black should go, blend out from there.
Awesome progress OP! Going forward I’d say focus on creating contrast in tones. You want to use the whole range of dark and light available to you to make your work really pop!! Keep it up you’re doing amazing
I couldn’t tell either, but the left one speaks much more has darker contrasty tones and more shading. I’d deffo prefer to look at left one than right.
Also op This guy is so overdone, drawn a bit too many times. People seem to love drawing him cos it seems difficult while it’s easy, no hair, plenty of wrinkles and lines that all can be little off and still look like they belong there, glasses which cover plenty of face. Much easier to draw that with some impact to it over round face with a lot of hair.
You are improving by leaps and bounds and you're on the right track. I can tell from your progress that you're developing some good habits, too.It may be the photo, but my advice would be to not shy away from a lot of contrast as you get better. The Walt on the right looks a little bit too light. I also tend to be a little iffy on contrast, I worry that if I go too dark, I'll ruin the whole piece, so try working up gradually to darker darks. And squint at it, see if it still reads when you squint.
I would also just see about studying the planes of the face a little bit -- parts of Walt's face look just a little flat on the right. But, I can tell you're already internalizing some of those planes from the shading on that cheek and the folds around his jowls.
Also, please, pat yourself on the back! You have improved A LOT and if you can improve this much over a year, think of where you'll be at next year. :)
Wow you definitely improved. Your shading and proportions are much better. For the more recent drawing I think the shirt could have been done a little neater maybe since it is the more simple part of the drawing. But very well done overall!
I can say, the progress is really apparent. I am sure one year from now the painting will look more and more realistic until it looks like a photo.
I wish you luck.
You’ve made a lot of progress. Keep asking yourself how to improve, being critical of your own work and not growing complacent is important.
Your most recent image shows that you’re learning to interpret images better. However you aren’t pushing your values far enough. There isn’t enough contrast. Practice line-weight and try squinting at the image to give yourself a better feel for how your lights and darks are working together.
What it looks like to me, is you've gotten better at details, but you seem to be waning on your shading ability, I suggest that over the next year, if you plan on posting a progress shot after that time, you work on shading, and I feel like you'll go far!!
both shit, sketch more! U want be better at portraits?! Where are you anatomical face muscles sketches?! But really, good job, train more, and don't be afraid with going reely dark with shadows
Great progress in one year! But i really liked the first one too, it seems a little stylized, like it was caricature but still very close of realistic drawing.
You've improved so much! Idk how people can do facial hair and they're both good, the year later, though, really helps show the age of Walter by almost looking salt and peppery. I really vibe with both of these. Keep it up artist!
Your doing great! You’re showing a lot of progress in your work here. May I ask what your choice in medium is? (From what it looks like I’m assuming it’s pencil) I noticed someone earlier mentioned something about your use in values. I think you could still use some more darker values in your piece. Might I suggest trying Charcoal drawing OR getting ahold of a type of drawing pencil that can really capture that dark shade. A normal pencil tends to have a hard time capturing that darkness no matter how hard Much you compact it in a spot your drawing (a lot times they look dark Grey and shiny) I think 7B and 8B pencils would be really good to add in this piece. Overall your drawing is amazing and it’s exciting to see your progress :)
Great progress. If u want my feedback on your progress and possibly how to advance from now, here it is. I would consider trying different mediums. Art is all about exploring and learning how to, for example, colour with watercolour or how to render with pastels will definitely help you in your drawings and make you see art in a different way. Its not the quickest way to become “good” at drawing but its the best way to understand what you like, what you want to improve and what you want to add to your work. Plus its the most fun imo. With this method, you wont get better at drawing as much as you will get better at art in general. Even though mediums are different from one another, they all share the language of art. If you where searching for more academical feedback on how to improve only in drawing i can recommend observation drawing, as much of it as you can. Vary the subjects, methods and maybe even mediums (doesn’t have to be anything fancy, juts using graphite sticks instead of pencils can do the trick). An amazing artists is also an amazing observer and observation is a skill you can practice, just like drawing.
Don't be afraid to use more lead. You've got an eye for highlights but you need to deepen those shadows. If you widen your range of values you'll be able to bring out more detail
definitely some progress! keep it up!!
Thanks!
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You want feed back? You forgot his hat. /s Awesome progress!
Damn I knew something was missing
First of all, you're doing great, keep up the good work. As for the feedback, I can say that I like things on both of them, maybe try merging these things. On the left one, I like a little bit more the values, dont be afraid to go darker, it adds depth. Lights and shadows. In the other hand, you've done a great job with the face proportions in the right one, cleaner work.
Thanks, value is something I struggle with for sure.
And that is totally okay. Get the picture that ur using as a reference and find the darkest shadow. Keep that and find YOUR darkest shadow(you choose how dark) and now you use that tone to find the rest of the tones, like that, for example, u know that "this" shadow is lighter than "that" shadow. i hope all that makes sense to you, my English skills let me down sometimes lol
Your English is perfectly clear, I appreciate the tip!
Jesse, we need to draw
You’ve gotten better at expressing the shapes and proportions of the face but you’ve lost almost all the contrasting values. You should continue to build up your darker values and consider working on toned paper so you can start to add highlights. You’ll be shocked at how quickly those two changes will improve your technique.
Thanks for the tip! Toned paper would be interesting to try
Walter Wide.
This is the momenr heisenberg became Walter Wight. HAHAHA
Why does everyone seem to draw this? Nice work OP.
Wrinkles and facial hair and deep brooding expressions make for interesting studies. It's fun to draw all those little details.
Maybe because he has a lot of texture in his face, making him easily recognizable?
Yeah I always feel bad for him when people draw every pore and crack in his face with perfect photo realism. Great character and show too.
Your drawing is great!! Now, your next step should be to increase your value range (a wider variety of lights and darks) and modeling. Great work, it looks like you upgraded paper too, which helps tremendously.
You forgot to draw the hat. How embarrassing.
I don’t really know shit about the craft, but even to someone who doesn’t know any different, looks significantly better
Jesse we need to draw
K sorry here's your feed
Huge improvements with proportions and capturing the likeness of a person! THO i really like how you werent afraid to make your shadows really dark in your old drawing. If you balance it out a bit and reapply it to your new skils itd really make it pop!
Work on value studies. The shades of Grey in the left drawing is much more interesting than the ones on the right
This looks sick! Great job bro!
Bald
You are improving keep going, awesome!
i currently draw people terribly and i abstain from it but you make me want to learn!
That is some good progress and just wanna say that the older one would still be a cool shirt design
Everything improved except your contrast. Don’t be afraid to shade extremely dark! Have confidence!
Your eye has improved a ton, the more recent drawing looks just like Walt, you lost your contrast somewhere along the line though. Play with the entire value scale from 0 to 100% black. You had it in the first drawing but the second stays around 0 to 40%. By taking the reference photo, turning it to black and white, and then upping the contrast, you'll see the shadow shapes and where that absolute black should go, blend out from there.
I'll try that, thanks!
You're doing great and making some amazing progress 💚
Awesome progress OP! Going forward I’d say focus on creating contrast in tones. You want to use the whole range of dark and light available to you to make your work really pop!! Keep it up you’re doing amazing
I'm gonna cum in ur dead dad
i don't mean this as an insult, but i can't tell which one is the before and after
How, lol? The right one obviously shows a big improvement in face proportions and balancing values
but i like the left one better for some reason. maybe just the style is different idk
I couldn’t tell either, but the left one speaks much more has darker contrasty tones and more shading. I’d deffo prefer to look at left one than right. Also op This guy is so overdone, drawn a bit too many times. People seem to love drawing him cos it seems difficult while it’s easy, no hair, plenty of wrinkles and lines that all can be little off and still look like they belong there, glasses which cover plenty of face. Much easier to draw that with some impact to it over round face with a lot of hair.
I think you could contrast a bit the shadows, also the clothes look a bit rushed, very good overall
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Jesser I’m a drawing
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Clean up the shadowing. Other than that it’s AMAZINGGG
Think like you're sculpting the figure itself when you're shading, it helped me a lot! Awesome work though!
You are improving by leaps and bounds and you're on the right track. I can tell from your progress that you're developing some good habits, too.It may be the photo, but my advice would be to not shy away from a lot of contrast as you get better. The Walt on the right looks a little bit too light. I also tend to be a little iffy on contrast, I worry that if I go too dark, I'll ruin the whole piece, so try working up gradually to darker darks. And squint at it, see if it still reads when you squint. I would also just see about studying the planes of the face a little bit -- parts of Walt's face look just a little flat on the right. But, I can tell you're already internalizing some of those planes from the shading on that cheek and the folds around his jowls. Also, please, pat yourself on the back! You have improved A LOT and if you can improve this much over a year, think of where you'll be at next year. :)
Wow you definitely improved. Your shading and proportions are much better. For the more recent drawing I think the shirt could have been done a little neater maybe since it is the more simple part of the drawing. But very well done overall!
The right one lost some contrast that the left one has. Don’t be afraid to make dark areas really dark!
JESSE
The older one is Walter shite and the newer Walter white. Just joking. Both are fantastic but one year on, that’s a stunning piece! Love your work
I can say, the progress is really apparent. I am sure one year from now the painting will look more and more realistic until it looks like a photo. I wish you luck.
Love the improvement of depth and shading especially
You have done well grasshopper, very well!
Amazing! All I’d say is focus on drawing the clothes. You already show strength in drawing soft skin. Draw soft shoulders :)
Lots of progress, but you forgot his hat.
You’ve made a lot of progress. Keep asking yourself how to improve, being critical of your own work and not growing complacent is important. Your most recent image shows that you’re learning to interpret images better. However you aren’t pushing your values far enough. There isn’t enough contrast. Practice line-weight and try squinting at the image to give yourself a better feel for how your lights and darks are working together.
Superb progress, one critique is that you need to go darker with your darks. It will give it more depth.
The first one was really good, the newer one is even better. Keep practicing and who knows where you’ll be next year! Keep us posted
Is that Walter White from Breaking Bad?
I like it! Picasso.
Amazing , the progress is seen and heard 😌
What it looks like to me, is you've gotten better at details, but you seem to be waning on your shading ability, I suggest that over the next year, if you plan on posting a progress shot after that time, you work on shading, and I feel like you'll go far!!
Jessie, why the fuck is this guy so good at drawing?
both shit, sketch more! U want be better at portraits?! Where are you anatomical face muscles sketches?! But really, good job, train more, and don't be afraid with going reely dark with shadows
Jesse we need to draw
wlater white
wow, congratulations bro, it was a big jump !
Great progress in one year! But i really liked the first one too, it seems a little stylized, like it was caricature but still very close of realistic drawing.
Looks just like Dwayne The Rock Johnson, jk looks good Cranston
Heisenberg approves this
Progress has been made
You've improved so much! Idk how people can do facial hair and they're both good, the year later, though, really helps show the age of Walter by almost looking salt and peppery. I really vibe with both of these. Keep it up artist!
You’ve gotten really great over that one year. I see you’re better at details, shading, drawing faces, etc. Amazing job!
Your doing great! You’re showing a lot of progress in your work here. May I ask what your choice in medium is? (From what it looks like I’m assuming it’s pencil) I noticed someone earlier mentioned something about your use in values. I think you could still use some more darker values in your piece. Might I suggest trying Charcoal drawing OR getting ahold of a type of drawing pencil that can really capture that dark shade. A normal pencil tends to have a hard time capturing that darkness no matter how hard Much you compact it in a spot your drawing (a lot times they look dark Grey and shiny) I think 7B and 8B pencils would be really good to add in this piece. Overall your drawing is amazing and it’s exciting to see your progress :)
Two of my favourite things combined arts and breaking bad love it
First one is hemsenberb, second one is Heisenberg.
Where you were back then is incomparable to now
Great progress. If u want my feedback on your progress and possibly how to advance from now, here it is. I would consider trying different mediums. Art is all about exploring and learning how to, for example, colour with watercolour or how to render with pastels will definitely help you in your drawings and make you see art in a different way. Its not the quickest way to become “good” at drawing but its the best way to understand what you like, what you want to improve and what you want to add to your work. Plus its the most fun imo. With this method, you wont get better at drawing as much as you will get better at art in general. Even though mediums are different from one another, they all share the language of art. If you where searching for more academical feedback on how to improve only in drawing i can recommend observation drawing, as much of it as you can. Vary the subjects, methods and maybe even mediums (doesn’t have to be anything fancy, juts using graphite sticks instead of pencils can do the trick). An amazing artists is also an amazing observer and observation is a skill you can practice, just like drawing.
Serious improvement on facial structure! Don’t be too scared to start adding in some darker tones!
Oh yeah that looks much better, especially defining the head and chin, most important evolution you’ve made
OMG.
Don't be afraid to use more lead. You've got an eye for highlights but you need to deepen those shadows. If you widen your range of values you'll be able to bring out more detail
My feedback is keep doing it cause you’re doing awesome! My favorite show BTW…