Re:Kai pencil sketch

[img]http://www.thefrey.com/images/StrudelKai.jpg[/img]

When I have a problem, I start playing around with it in my art program. I use Micrographx WindowsDraw4 mostly…. not as powerful as Photoshop, but quicker for down and dirty stuff.

I took the pic, pasted two copies and then cropped only the ear out of one. I then used a twin tool to make the hair cover the ear (which was too too hight I think) on the original and then erased the cheek area from the cropped ear and started to play around with it. I ended up moving it down, in and rotating it by 4 degrees.
Were I the artist, I would save this to a png or jpg and then use the paint program to blend the edges once I was happy with it. Can the ear go down a smige more? Perhaps rotate another degree or two? Possibly, but that is up to the artist. You can also use this kind of cut and past cropping to decide if eyes are where you want them, nose is place right…. ect…

What do you think?

P.s. I forgot to fix this before I uploaded it. Cover one side of the drawing and then the other. See. The left eye is looking to the right, while the right eye is looking directly at the viewer. Easy fix. Add a bit more dark to the left side of the left pupil until both eyes are looking at the viewer.