Stylizing Real People?

[CytricAcid]

HI ALL

Have you ever had to draw a real person in your comic? how do you deal with it? do you struggle with likeness, or do you just wing it and try? What about faceclaims? Do you struggle with it? How do you adapt?

This poor boy, Pantucci, he's basically Brian Eno with hair. Hardest thing i've ever had to draw. trying to balance likeness with a cartoony style is torture. alas, I tried... Though I suppose he shouldn't have to look just like his faceclaim.

[mickpaulusma]

I think you nailed it. I am struggling with this a bit too.

[Puck]

Here is a good trick to train that.
Draw all people you know, facebook friends or whatever, draw one portrait each day and do that for
150 days. Use minimal lines. You can also trace over their pictures, that doesn´t matter much for
the excercise. You will learn that you can portrait some guys with just using one line as their
mouth, for some guys you have to draw their lips so you can recognise them.
There are some people you can portrait by drawing black dots as their eyes and for some
faces you need to draw the detailed eyes. It´s really different depending on the faces and
there is not just one formula which works for all. You will realise that when you do this exercise.
I did this in 2015 with my facebook friends, I drew them in black & white with minimal lines
and then uploaded them to my timeline and let people guess who that is.
It was fun and at some point people were also paying me for doing their portraits
which was a cool side effect. I´m now faster in recognising the important parts of
different face types

[Puck]

Your drawing is good but I would make his chin harder, thinner and longer. let the cheekbones pop out. visible eyelashes and shadow under the lower lip and
the upper lip just the v in the middle

[magnavarra]

I draw myself)) no complains to that lol