Thread:Hiddenfolk/@comment-28881305-20160919195452/@comment-26890640-20160919224229

No problem! I'd be glad to help!

First of all I like his expression! The shape of his eyes and the slump in his neck and shoulders lends a lot of character to the guy.

One thing you might want to pay attention to is the position of the facial features relative to his head. What I mean by that is that there's a bit too much empty space between his eyes/nose/mouth and his chin and jaw line. If you drew it a bit tighter to his facial features or lowered his nose and mouth a bit, that could be a bit more successful. As a general rule, the eyes are positioned halfway down the head, something that you did pretty well. Also the right (our right) side of his jaw might be a bit too flat and close to the face. You could probably make the cheek and jaw a bit rounder for this. Also this is just a nitpick, but the ear is a bit small. If you wanted, you could draw them a little bigger! This doesn't detract from the image though.

Secondly the hair and clothes. I like the overall shape of his hair, it's working pretty well. One way you could improve it is to add a hair parting. You've almost done it at the left side of his head, but if you draw more strands radiating from that one point on his head, it gives the hair a more natural feeling. I also feel like overall you could add more detail to it. Adding shading to give the impression of more strands of hair would work. As for his clothes, they overall give a good impression but are slightly shapeless. Shirt collars tend to sit much closer to the neck, and it might look a bit cleaner if both sides sat at similar positions and angles. The tie works, though you could draw in some clothing folds. The bit under the tied part tends to pinch together a bit. I recommend reference pictures for this type of thing!

Finally I'd like to bring up the shading. Generally when it comes to shading digitally, there's two types- cell shading and soft shading. Cell shading is where solid blocks of colour are used. It tends to give a bolder look and stronger areas of shade. Soft shading is where the shading is blended into the base colours. It gives a softer look but less defined shadows. Many people blend both to have areas of soft and bold shade. To shade, you're using a softer brush in a cell shading fashion. It's... not my favourite look. I think the picture could work better with regular cell shading because this would add more depth. In your other pictures, the colours and lines seem a bit blurry. Do you use the blur tool? I'd advise against overusing it as you lose definition and blending with it. Manually blending with a soft brush can work a bit better. Also you might want to experiment with line thickness, and make them a bit smoother.

(Ill add more brb)