Quick Sharpie sketch of another scene from Shadow in the Cloud. I have to turn in early, so this was quick as can be, but I put special focus on trying to get the proportions right and paying attention, if not to the angle of the sketchpad per se, the distances between pieces. Let’s see how I did:
As usual, I missed a couple of degrees of tilt, but I really only had to scale this, not squash it. The mouth was too narrow, the nose too low, and the hair too narrow, but otherwise, not too off the mark. I tried squashing it to make sure, but no, this is about as good as it gets. Construction lines I think would really help with the nose and mouth, as it’s hard to get the proportions right on the first try; the width of the hair and the scarf would have been salvageable if I’d kept up the feature size comparison I’d done on the cheek (roughly, her head height is about five foreheads, and facial features are three forehead heights wide; but the hair extends far more than I measured, as does the scarf).
Drawing every day.
-the Centaur
