Faces!

Ok, so if you've followed this blog at all you've probably noticed I have a lot of difficulty getting people's faces right. Man, faces are hard! Human beings are so good at analysing other human being's faces that if you get things even slightly wrong, it's immediately noticable. One of my biggest bugbears is when a line comes out unintentionally thick and you can't seem to take it down without just creating a big mess. I hate that. Especially when you're using pens. One of the reasons I don't often use them.

However, I'm a firm believer that if you want to do something and you've identified a weakness that might get in the way of you doing said thing, then you have to dive in and just do it and try to remedy that weakness. So I drew some faces in pen! Actually pretty fun. I also cheated by doing 2-3 takes in pens of varying darkness. For reference I used a great book my flatmate gave me for my birthday earlier in the month which just has hundreds and hundreds of pictures of different people in different positions making different expressions. Very handy.

So yeah, I rather like these ones. Does remind me though, I should be doing tons more of these!

Also, apologies for the zombie guy and the pencil one (which reminds me of the bartender from Privateer... I'm such a geek...)

Tombow brush pens on really good thick sketchbook paper.