Carving Small Faces?

[chriscraft]

Most of this riders face is covered by gear so it's not a good face practice piece. It's also small at about 3/4 inch tall. You can see my outlines and shading beginning to take form.

[WyomingSlick]

I agree that some time studying Al Stohlman's books would be beneficial towards improving your faces, but the fact is that you are already doing better than most. One thing to really consider is to modify some modeling tools to fit the smaller detail work you are doing. Since the better tools are made of stainless, this is easy to do with some fine jewelers files, crocus cloth, etc.

On another note, while you are studying Al's books, spends some time on what he has to say and show on matting. Where the arm on your lady is in front of her leg could be improved using the matting technique to provide a smoother, more natural look.

[dentat2]

heres a couple tattoo'd faces that ive done. the biggest difference ive found is that with tooling its really hard to get a long gradient while shading. it goes from light to really dark, really fast.

ive done alot of airbrushing also, its one of my favorite things to do, but being in the st. louis area theres not alot of business for an airbrush artist. so ill stick with tattooing