Iron man! Iron man! Does whatever an...you know what, it doesn't work.

[small_hen]

Art time! I promised Iron Man art, so damn it, I'm gonna deliver. Nothing slashy this time, just a practice sketch and a more detailed pencil drawing that took way longer than it should have.



First, my practice sketch (click to enlarge):


And a more realistic drawing (same):


Is it weird that I like the first drawing more? It's a kinda graceful little sketch. The second drawing, while more detailed, pretty much emphasizes everything I suck at when it comes to art. The background sucks, the line of sight is off, the character's position is awkward. It's an image cobbled together from several pictures, and it looks like it.

Still, it also looks like Robert Downey Jr, so not all bad.

Oh, and both of these were hand drawn in pencil, with a little charchol thrown in to darken areas of the second. Photoshop was used for resizing, brief clean up, and to compensate for my horrible scanner.

Comments

[skyblue-reverie.livejournal.com]

Aww, hon, amazing. I've seen the "live" version of the first one and you know how much I love it (and its ONE nipple 'cause we're just tasteful like that :p). I totally adore the second one! It may not be perfect (though I think you're being too hard on yourself) but you did a fantastic job with the face, the hair, and the hand, and I *know* those are really hard things to draw. Oh, and the neck. The neck is hotness. That RDJ is one sexy beast. Really, really wonderful work, m'dear!

OH! Oh, and OMG your ICON! Did you make it? I must gank it immediately! *drools on icon*

♥

[thelonegunwoman.livejournal.com]

Cool! Those are a million times better than I could ever do. You should make icons outta 'em.

[rivers-bend.livejournal.com]

Yay, Iron Man! Great work, honey. I'm impressed.

*hugs*

[sky-star.livejournal.com]

Hey!

You really shouldn't knock the second drawing. :3 The background may be a little lacking, but the rest of it looks in place. :3 All the shortcomings you list, in fact become the art's strength as it now has a stylised look.
Even the lack of background is nothing since you've included sufficient attention to detail in the foreground. If you'd gone ahead and finished the back off, it would have detracted from the foreground elements.

Very nice work, keep on at it! :D

~Yel.

[virusq.livejournal.com]

Nah, it's not weird to like the first one more. I mean, the second one is AMAZING, but I think I like the simplicity of the first one better. :D

Any way you slice it, we need more. :X

[invisiblecake.livejournal.com]

I suck at drawing people from pictures or anything, so I think these are amazing. I also love the first one. They are both really great.

[ria-oaks.livejournal.com]

Ooh, very nice! I like both of them a lot - you've really captured his likeness.

[gottalovev.livejournal.com]

that's very very good! I like both, actually :) you need to make many more!

[fantasy-bubbles.livejournal.com]

Beautiful drawings!
I love them!
*claps*

[alouette-sparra.livejournal.com]

Came here from the Iron Man movie comm. I have to say, I like them both. The first one is nice because it catches the motion more, although I think the perspective is slightly off. However, both are good likenesses.

As far as the second one, again, good likeness. There's no mistaking who it is. If I could offer some advice, the head is slightly too short. Not enough that it's immediately noticeable, especially if you've spent a lot of time working on it, but it will make things seem off. The rest of the head and face is fine, otherwise. Also, as far as the arm, you probably would want the part of his arm and shoulder going into the background to be somewhat darker than the rest of him. Probably wasn't that way in the reference, but in a black and white drawing it does wonders for increasing depth.

Finally, with so detailed a foreground, a darker background would be better. In fact, most of my art profs have said that you want to put a mid-tone to dark background around a subject because, again, lighter tones stand out more. That, and a grey to dark grey background, with some fuzzy details, would lend more to the composition as opposed to a stark white background.

All in all, though, you have excellent skill and shouldn't worry so much about the finer details. In fact, it took rereading your post to realise that you put numerous images to-gether to make this one. Keep up the good work. :3

This insanely long comment was brought to you by eight years of art classes. Feel free to take all advice with a grain of salt, however.

[ninin253.livejournal.com]

AWWW!! GORGEOUS DRAWING!! =)
You are very talented