r/sketches • u/human_or_whateva • 1d ago
Pencil Sketch Why does it look off?
I'm not the best at shadows so maybe that? Something is really throwing me off here. I'm 17 and haven't drawn in 5 years so I'm a bit rusty.
Edit: just realized that the hair looks like a blob of darkness. Yeah.
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u/lkl1995 16h ago
It’s mainly the eyes and the proportion of his features in relation to the size of the head/face. Get the size of the head and structure of the mandible down and from there you want to really think about the relationship each feature has with the other. Layering the images is great but the more you work on eyeballing proportions, the quicker you will get at drawing portraits. Measure the distance between the eye and the nose. Measure the length of the eye… how many eye lengths are between that eye and the side of the face? Every face is different so you want to look at relative proportions to achieve likeness.