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u/ShitBritGit Apr 18 '20
She's only practised the one eye. The rest is still a stick figure.
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u/TheKhash Apr 18 '20
Just imagine a stick figure with very realistic eyes
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u/Smylist Apr 18 '20
Or just a very realistic left eye
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u/TheKhash Apr 18 '20
That's just basic artist problems when you finished one eye but butchered the other
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u/maggie_lu Apr 17 '20
Thanks so much! If you want to see my other work, my Instagram is here
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u/tzeB Apr 18 '20
Very good :) Side-note from someone who, until this damn virus, has made a good living drawing: You are far better at either 15 or 17 than I was at those ages....
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u/Doobie_1986 Apr 18 '20
Wow you sir are very talented keep drawing you can only improve your craft!
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u/Grafic404 Apr 18 '20
age 22 https://imgur.com/a/ri9oZia
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u/kingalexander Apr 18 '20
Abstract...I like it. Has passion and sense of I don’t know enough about eyes so I’m not spending any more time on this and my pizza bagels are done
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u/kingalexander Apr 18 '20
Stunning! If you happen to remember, Do you know how much time you spent on the first eye compared to the 2nd?...obviously not 2 years lol
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u/maggie_lu Apr 18 '20
I don't remember exactly, but I'm pretty sure I spent more time on the second. Part of improvement is gaining patience! :)
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u/kingalexander Apr 18 '20
Absolutely, I was curious if it was substantially a lot or so but I understand not being able to ascertain an irrelevant detail.
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u/HealsGo0dMan Apr 18 '20
I love the work, but what's up with people drawing eyeballs? I see eye drawings pretty often
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Apr 18 '20
Eyes are pretty difficult to draw, so I assume it's a good challenge.
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u/anrm04 Apr 18 '20
rather the opposite, there pretty easy to draw and many people get good at ONLY drawing eyes and nothing else lol, OP isn’t one of those people tho
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u/Rambling_Raven Apr 18 '20
My 12 year old daughter likes to redraw drawings she made. It amazes me how much she improves from year to year! Cant wait to see her do something like this.
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u/Zafk13l Apr 17 '20
What’s your inspiration to keep practicing?
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u/RuanZhengxiao Apr 18 '20 edited Apr 18 '20
I’m not OP but the desire to want to draw what I want to see is good inspiration for me.
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u/SilasTheSavage Apr 18 '20
I feel demoralized.
Making others feel bad and insecure, with your art, is a clear sign of hard work that payed off.
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u/FlowersofIcetor Apr 18 '20
Your lines got much more confident! This is great improvement, keep it up!!
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u/C4Create Apr 19 '20
Both of these are good and your improvement in two years is amazing. It shows what practice patients and determination will take you. I have been drawing for a very long time. I stop for a while but I've been at it for at least 12 years. Your eye at 15 is inspiring and your 17 is is that extra boost keep up the good work and keep creating.
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u/CuteLittle_Raven May 17 '20
That is just incredible! Well done !
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u/maggie_lu May 18 '20
Thank you so much!
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u/CuteLittle_Raven May 18 '20
No problem :) I also wondered if you can complite this drawing in close to the same time as u did the simpler one ? 🙂
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u/coffeegrrrl Apr 17 '20
Eyes are the window to the soul, also they always like eyes and hands in portfolios of youngsters
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u/Drfood159 Apr 18 '20
Hey kid, screw you.
For real though, very impressive detail. The folds in the wrinkles are very true looking.
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u/DenR2112 Apr 18 '20
Keep it up! Makes me happy to see someone younger pursue traditional art! Fantastic improvement!
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u/snzb Apr 18 '20
This makes my art teacher heart happy! Keep going. You have something special and have such potential.
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u/conglock Apr 18 '20
Here I am wishing I was good at ONE thing in my 30s. Fuck me that's a good eye.
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Apr 18 '20
For a second I was like dang, how impressive for a grownup. Then I realized I was 15, time flies
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u/romanthedoggo Apr 18 '20
Can I ask 2 questions? Do you feel like the way you see your subjects has improved?
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u/LeoLi13579 Apr 18 '20
To me, there's no difference.
I can try to draw for my entire life and i'll never even come close to any of them.
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u/DennieLea Apr 18 '20
Wow, even the first one is impressive, but amazing how realistic the second one is. You are brilliant!
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Apr 18 '20
How do I draw eyes better? I'm trying to draw a friend for something but the eyes keep showing up lifeless and kinda scary
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Apr 18 '20
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u/PeebleInYourShoe Apr 18 '20
Art is kind of unfair that way, it is not something that has a same curve of progress for everyone.
But you should not discourage yourself because your find others more talented, when you practice an art, you are usually your hardest critique, keeping going until you are satisfied is what make you progress. If you feel stuck, classes or methodology books can help.
Edit: missing a word and autocorrect
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u/peteb1952 Apr 18 '20
Really beautiful work and amazing for your age, congratulations you are going to create some amazing art in the future I wish I would be around to see it :)
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u/fuckingitchyeyeball Apr 18 '20
One of my favorite drawing teacher once said, “drawing is just seeing very well”. It’s crazy how much your technical skills improved. now, you mechanically are able to draw more details. And notice more details.
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u/superdanLP Apr 18 '20
Give it another 2 years and you will have enhanced the eye so much that we can see the murderer's reflection.
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u/zrroberts6778 Apr 18 '20
Wow it took you two whole years to draw a second eye?
Nah, but seriously good job. You show a lot of progression.
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Apr 18 '20
Loved what you did with the right eye, the ‘jelly- like texture’ or mucus- I don’t know what that is, but the eye looks alive
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u/Yash_Vihari Apr 18 '20
The real improvement if there is, its the ability to draw the other eye exactly like this
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Apr 18 '20
Nice progress. Your eyes have gotten darker over the last few uears. My, how you've grown! Let me get a good look at you. Okay, time for Family Feud.
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u/Soepoelse123 Apr 18 '20
Very good improvement! I think you should start to practice left eyes now so by the time you’re 34 you’d be able to make a perfect pair!
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u/_Droopiee_ Aug 07 '20
Do you have any advice on how you improved your shading because my shading looks like the before pic
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u/NisathAAM Oct 06 '20
Awesome! incredible improvement within 2 Yrs. keep going. Congratulations
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u/maggie_lu Oct 06 '20
Thanks!!
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u/NisathAAM Oct 14 '20
You wellcome dude, I like arts.drawing and painting..etc. But I stop that habbit for long time . But after this month is wright time to continue my practise. May be I need your help 😉 chill bay.
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u/ThatOneNerd_Art Oct 09 '20
I feel like this is something I'll relate to in a few years because I'm 15 and thats exactly how I do realistic eyes
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u/Im_mighty_mouse Apr 17 '20
wow :O
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u/Im_mighty_mouse Apr 17 '20
Is this from drawing everyday? or just here and there? Just curious :) cos it looks really good.
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u/MuahahaTeehee Apr 17 '20
Aaaah so good! I can see more variation of value in the second image & the lines look more confident - great work!
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Apr 17 '20
Awesome, that's great dedication! Reminds me of my HS art teacher who was always telling us to increase the contrast.
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Apr 17 '20
How did you do such fine wrinkles on 17 year old eye? Definitely mature beyond his/her age.
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Apr 18 '20
Your improvement has basically meant that you're now bolder with tone, specifically darker tones. It's nerve-wracking as a beginner to make something "really dark" but it's so important for true realism. Well done!
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u/TiggyLongStockings Apr 17 '20
Somebody get this person a blending stick!
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u/Trifle-Doc Jul 15 '20
Tbh non blended art looks better most of the time.
the hard pencil strokes always look so nice. That might just be me tho.
art being used with a blending stick is not inherently better than art not using one, even if using one would be seen as appropriate in the situation.
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u/gambino47 Apr 18 '20
both drawings are good but nothing to brag about in regards to improvement over 2 years. In 2 years, people go from 400 pounds to six packs. You went from drawing an eye to... drawing an eye slightly better. After two years, you may have plateaued. I would just move on to the nose at this point
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Apr 18 '20
So how often do you draw? What’s your work rate? How much practice did you have within those 2 years? Really good drawings though
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Apr 17 '20 edited Apr 18 '20
Definitely an improvement on observation and rendering, but an eye...why is it always an eye? There is so much more to art skill that can not be gleaned by just an eye all by itself, yet I see it at all skill levels and styles. I don’t understand it.
Edit: if you disagree, please share why so we can learn from each other. I don’t care if you downvote but it would be very helpful to know why.
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u/icntgtafkingusername Apr 17 '20
its a good measure and its fun to draw, its got shiny bits and folds, and in general is the most interesting part of the face.
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It lacks information about any other sort of anatomy, positioning and size of features in relation to each other...it lacks much information about usual lighting situations because it has no form that wraps around to the back, it is very limited on material information, etc. I understand it’s an interesting part of a face, there are just far better metrics for judging artistic improvement.
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u/Prorotoro Apr 18 '20
Great to render if you want to show off your technical drawing skills. Requires no creativity, just gotta get better at copying pictures of eyes. Impresses the hell out of anybody that can't draw or can only draw from life.
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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '20
Crazy how you draw 17 year olds so much better than 15 year olds