Confessions of a researchaholic

Accidental cartoon effects; drawing from a photo in the San Francisco magazine.

Sculptures are static, often already abstracted or stylized to facilitate drawing, and non-human subjects allow more deviations in proportions.

Human subjects, in contrast, are dynamic, complex, and require precise proportions for recognition.

I refined the eyes, hair, and neck regions of a portrait sketched by my father of my grandfather, making him look slightly younger as I remembered him during my childhood.

I used the lower layers for blocking and layout, higher layers for details, and different layers for different objects (Gollum, human, pillow). Later, I can reuse some of the layers for different compositions.

I drew from two photos, replacing the kid on the left, who was grimacing anyway, with Gollum, per request by the guy on the right.

Somehow I made the mistake of setting a low image resolution at the beginning, but fortunately that does not seem to reduce the image quality too much.

https://www.behance.net/gallery/72467801/gollum

Sighting a photo displayed on a Kindle Fire, I experimented this drawing via Sketchbook on an iPad Pro with Apple pencil.
Digital painting provides more flexibility in physics and interaction (e.g. undo, zoom-in) but lacks the tactile feedback of canvas papers.

Erasing fine details on the current drawing can be difficult. A potential enhancement is to consider workflows for smart eraser.

We started at around 1:10 pm and finished at 1:25 pm to accommodate our meeting schedules.

Self-reminder: start with coarse shapes and volumes before fine contours and shading.

It is deceptively challenging to depict portrait intricacies with coarse shading. I captured the eyes after a while, but not yet the mouth.
After seeing the original photo instead of the low res black-white one I drew as the source, I realized that the head tilt is off, contributing to the weird mouth composition.