guthmund

First of all, I am really, really reticent to post anything of mine. I'm a painfully shy fellow when it comes to certain things and my artwork, what little there is, happens to fall in that verboten category.

I'm not a serious artist, which to me means I don't 'do' art for money. I've always been a closet doodler who uses his 'talent' mostly for violating copyright by reproducing the works of the Pokemon and Disney universes for nieces, nephews and assorted cousins.

A couple of years ago, I started studying form and light quasi-seriously, but was easily irritated at my lack of progress and....well, other things came up. I've decided to give serious drawing another try and I'd like the TFP's help.

Still with me?

I ran across a thread here started by KellyC where art was posted and criticism was wanted. I thought this was a wonderful idea and certainly a relatively easy way to tap into the TFP collective and maybe glean some 'learnin' off all the fantastic artists that breeze through here everyday.

I'd like you tell me what I did wrong with this one. I drew this at work the other day when a snotty girl studying caught my attention. I 'borrowed' her face. The hair I kind of made up on the fly, so, if it looks a bit off that's why. The shading on the face isn't great and bear in mind there's a bit of water damage to the bottom left hand corner (A careless co-worker set her water cup on it when she came in).

I'm most pleased with her left eye. That's right, just the 'left' eye. The right is out of whack a bit and seems to be looking at something else. Eyes are always a big problem for me, but her left eye...well, like I said, I'm most pleased.

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