Human Face Sketch Project

My art has never been something that has been particularly realistic. I love elongated bodies with macabra and inhuman features. My art has always been something created in my head and me then trying to express it in whichever format I have decided I wish to portray it. However, more recently, I have decided that the best way to perfect what I do is to be able to create realism when necessary. Thus, I bought a sketch pad to fill with human faces.

Pink Pig's Off White A5 Sketch Pad, Two rubbers, HB, 2H & 2B pencils & Sharpener.

I intend to draw the full human body eventually and other things. But my primary focus right now is faces. So here are a few that I have done. (The first two are before I got the sketch pad...). So enjoy!

This is the first detailed, realistic drawing I have done in a long time. Pretty much the first time I have picked up a pencil in getting close to three years. Well of course I have done the odd sketch but nothing too major! Right now I am pretty impressed with her, Her face is a bit iffy at points but I approve of her overall facial shape. I found this photo on a list of great black and white photography.  click for the photograph

This drawing was weird. It started off looking a lot more like who it was supposed to be when I had only drawn the eye on the right hand side (faced us, so her left). Then I must have messed it up somewhere. Boo! Can you guess who it is?

This is unrealistic. I believe the proportions look a little alien. I accidently messed up as I expected the paper to be bigger (it has been awhile!). But I kinda liked the outline so filled it in trying to keep as much realism as possible. This was inspired by a photo found here, though I cannot find out if this is the original source or not here.

So this is Blind Mag, a character from Repo: The Genetic Opera, which you should all watch! I copied this from someone's cosplay, so not the original.  The eyes are a wee bit off. Here is the Cosplay

I thought there was a particularly big jump from the previous one to this one. The shading and proportions seem a lot more real. Found on Google Images. If you know the original source, please tell me!

I love the eyes on this one. I did a quick outline sketch, which didn't really stay in place the more I drew. I pretty much completely reshaped it as I went alone. I stared at the high hand side, at the eye and worked my way down. and then back up the left hand side. The did the hair. Hair is still something I am working on. And I intent to do just a hair piece soon to work on that. here

So these are six drawings I have done over the last month or so. I intend to keep improving and hopefully will be able to pull in what I learn from this into other elements of my work. I hope that the copying will get more accurate, because right now it seems clear that these are definitely based on real people even if they do not always look like those people.... Moreover, once my student loan goes in I plan to get some artist colouring pencils so I can begin to add some colour sometimes, though I know that will bring its own challenges too!