Drawing of a photo

[Rincewind]

Hm, yes, I'm in one of those periods again, when the creaitivity starts to flow, and I pick up the ol' pen and paper to draw something. And this time i even deciced that I'd try and learn something, so I used a technique I've kind of resisted before... Using a photo-reference... Ahem... Heh... So I chose a picture and tried to make it as close as possible to the original without copying it straight off.



Original picture:
http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/sannagräs.jpg

I'm kinda happy with it so far, but any suggestion, comment, whatnot is of course welcome!
In other words: Hit me with c&c, damnit... I might wanna show it to the model sometime...Ã,  (a girl I'm seeing at the moment... )

Cheers!

[Mozesh]

Looking pretty good there mate
But the link of the photo appears not to be working my guess its the ä in the file name. (Ive tried to copy the whole link but then it would also give an error)

[Ishmael]

Looks quite good

And copypasteing the link works for me just fine.

[Ubel]

Wow, looks good. I myself am not very good at drawing from photo. Only critics is that her eye looks a little in different direction in the drawing than in the photo, but that's not really important anyway.

[Stefano]

It's really good!
Hint: try not to draw hair as actual "lines". Seek distinguished hair chunks and work on these.
Example (I don't have a tablet!  )

[Rincewind]

Ah, thanks for the positive comments, y'all!

Stefano:
Mm, myes, you might be right - I'll try and redo the hair a little...


My main concern right now though, is the grasstraws in her mouth - They look kinda akward, and I don't really know how to get them to look more natural... Hm...Ã, 

[Al_Ninio]

'Tis a fine picture.
As for the grass, look at the original picture.
There are 3 tones: highlight, midtone, and shadow.
In your picture, you just drew them as black lines...
Try to match these tones (or is it values? I always get confused with this) and you'll do just fine.

[stuh505]

in short, I echo the response of al_ninio and stefano

basically, you need to forget that you know what this picture represents

a camera does not know which pixels represrent hair, grass, face...all it knows is the lights and darks that it sees

you see grass or hair, and you impose artificial assumptions that it should be a certain color or shade...

when you are able to look at this with a more pure frame of mind, you will see the shades and hues for nothing more than what they are, and you will be able to draw the hair, the shirt, the grass, using the shades and textures that you actually see, without letting your abstract notions of hair and grass affect your drawing

this is what you need to do to copy photographs well

drawing from the mind uses completely different skills but you need to master drawing from the photograph first