I'm doing a portrait of Jack White due for Illustration Class at 1 PM tomorrow (today)

Topcatyo · December 09, 2009, 02:38:50 AM

This is too important for the Arts Lounge. Can mods please move this after 1 PM EST of Wednesday?

Anyways, for Illustration 101 I need to do a portrait of Jack White, and I have drawn him but I know there are things wrong with it and I have no idea what to do to fix it. This would aid me both in my grade and in future works of portraiture, so please, tell me what to fix.

Here is the portrait (I'm eventually going to put a Peppermint design behind him):

Here are my source images (to get his look and shit like that):

Here is a picture of Jack White looking really funny that I will use as my avatar at some point when I tire of this Stormtrooper-Lincoln one (that may be a while, but I still call dibs).

Here is a picture of Jack White looking like the lead singer/guitarist from Wolfmother with his afro shaved combined with the bassist/keyboardist from Wolfmother looking like he normally does.

Topcatyo · December 09, 2009, 02:39:04 AM

Fuck it's late.

Kaijuclock · December 09, 2009, 02:57:34 AM

NO I CALL DIBS TOPCATYO, THAT WILL BE MY AVATAR, YOU WILL SEE!

But in all seriousness i like it, it has a delightful cartoon quality that i so enjoy!

Topcatyo · December 09, 2009, 03:06:07 AM

I'm glad you like it, Gir

Is there anything I can do to make it look more like Jack White? I'm thinking I need to thin the face up a bit more.

Kaijuclock · December 09, 2009, 03:08:17 AM

Alright well i have to point out how sunken in his eyes appear, always slightly bagged, is there anyway you can add depth to his eyes? Also maybe a tiny bit of chin hair.

Topcatyo · December 09, 2009, 03:39:15 AM

Adding the sunken eyes is hard to do with only black, the bags under his eyes in my portrait are my attempt at doing the sunken eyes. I'll try and find a way to pull it off.

As for the chin hair, we're to make the portrait recognizable to the other students and Jack White only had facial hair on the cover of Get Behind Me Satan, all the others he was clean shaven, and people probably only recognize Jack White from those pictures.

Thor · December 09, 2009, 03:43:26 AM

His lips sort of jut out like his chin does in most of the pictures but you don't appear to have done anything to capture that. Also you totally need to give him bags under his eyes or something to represent that dark shit under his eyes

AnkhClock · December 09, 2009, 03:45:04 AM

His mouth seems a bit too wide.

Topcatyo · December 09, 2009, 03:55:11 AM

Here's him with his head thinned a tad, his lips less wide (good eye, Ankh), and a more successful attempt at bags under his eyes. With his lips thinned, perhaps it now appears that the lips jut out more?

Did I perhaps thin his lips too much?

AnkhClock · December 09, 2009, 03:59:11 AM

Looks pretty good to me, maybe you might want to lower his eyebrows a bit.

Topcatyo · December 09, 2009, 04:07:32 AM

Eyebrows have been a pretty big problem for me. Jack White's eyebrows are really low, but when I lower them he kind of has a mean look when, for this particular portrait I'm putting together, I want him to have a slightly surprised looking expression.

However, I've lowered his eyebrows a tad as you have suggested while making some adjustments that, hopefully, keep the sorta surprised look about him.

Topcatyo · December 09, 2009, 04:12:38 AM

Oh, by the way, here is the latest version. Just the eyebrows are lowered in this one.

On another note, I think I've been up too long. For some reason I'm suddenly stricken with fear even though I'm not really scared of anything in particular nor am I actually paranoid about anything. For some reason I just feel kinda terrified right now.

Topcatyo · December 09, 2009, 05:30:41 AM

Terror is over and now I've figured out what to do for Bill Murray day. Also, I still need to finish Jack White.

Is it already 5:30 AM? Wowers.

SpongeClock SquarePants · December 09, 2009, 06:20:37 AM

that guy is one ugly soab

Topcatyo · December 09, 2009, 06:49:17 AM

Quote from: Golden Clock;1702759You need to make his eyes look less wide open, and give them a darkened appearance around them

I'll upload an image as soon as I can get one uploaded with this shitty campus internet that doesn't let me upload things.

Quote from: SCSP;1702760that guy is one ugly soab

There's uglier.

Mashed Potato Johnson · December 09, 2009, 07:03:08 AM

looks like some generic guy with scruffy hair

nothing like Jack White

Mashed Potato Johnson · December 09, 2009, 07:04:50 AM

Quote from: Golden Clock;1702759You need to make his eyes look less wide open, and give them a darkened appearance around them

DWARFINATORclock · December 09, 2009, 07:21:30 AM

change the nose

Lump Clock · December 09, 2009, 09:20:50 AM

I think his face needs to be a tad longer.

Topcatyo · December 09, 2009, 11:31:41 AM

Quote from: GogÃ¢s;1702767looks like some generic guy with scruffy hair

nothing like Jack White

I'm new to this whole portraiture thing, that's why I'm asking for your help.
This is some great advice, though, I appreciate you giving me some tips to rectify this whole not-looking-like-Jack-White situation. Very constructive criticism. Good work. You've been a good help.

If I seem a bit angry today, I'm sorry, I didn't sleep.

Quote from: The Apocalypse;1702771change the nose

How should I change it?

Quote from: Cancer;1702781I think his face needs to be a tad longer.

Done.

Here's the latest version with larger dark areas under eyes, eyes less wide open, and face a tad longer.

News:

I'm doing a portrait of Jack White due for Illustration Class at 1 PM tomorrow (today)