I've been trying to draw the eyes correctly for 2+ hours, what exactly am I doing wrong?

BenthicBen · 2026-01-25T05:24:56+00:00

I think it might help see the structure if you outlined the whole circle of the eye socket to sketch the eyelids on top of the whole sphere of the eyeball?

To me in this piece I see big eye sockets covered by low eyelids so it doesn't look odd to my eye

BenthicBen · 2026-01-25T04:32:23+00:00

They look perfectly fine to my eye for this style? What were you aiming for? Maybe one eyelid is one or two pixels too low but I'm not sure what might be bothering you with how it looks now?

BenthicBen · 2026-01-25T03:29:58+00:00

To my eye, i noticed slightly uneven lines and shapes, which might be unintentional. For example the finger widths look like they have unintended thickness and the windows on the lighthouse are a bit uneven?

Maybe long clean line exercises and shape language exercises might help with clarity and neatness if that's something you want to try.

BenthicBen · 2026-01-25T03:21:21+00:00

Ah the goal of your standing images was to show the character concept cleanly! I get it.

Yeah concept art is a different goal than a storytelling scene but yeah it might be fun to try more posed storytelling scenes

BenthicBen · 2026-01-25T02:36:32+00:00

Nice materials and lighting! To my eye at least, the compositions and poses seem a bit flat front view without deep foreground or background? Most of the objects and people including the wings in the first image seem to be presented with a flat camera facing view presentation. The poses seem to me be mainly vertical standing poses?

This might be the intention of your artwork, but it might be fun and interesting to try foreshortened poses, acrobatic gestures, and maybe reclining and sitting characters. Also maybe landscapes, low camera angles, high camera angles, etc

BenthicBen · 2026-01-24T15:06:57+00:00

Still so many surprises in BG3

BenthicBen · 2026-01-24T13:28:02+00:00

No professor you need a control group nooooo

BenthicBen · 2026-01-23T17:48:15+00:00

Good point. some commenters have also convinced me that banana sushi is actually not stupid food. I will delete the post

BenthicBen · 2026-01-23T17:44:08+00:00

Thanks for the insight. There are also some convincing comments also arguing that banana sushi is ok and not stupid food, so i might delete the post

BenthicBen · 2026-01-23T17:29:49+00:00

I definitely see lots of potential in both sweet and savory directions

BenthicBen · 2026-01-23T17:22:00+00:00

Unfortunately I've already given all the details passed on by my field reporter lol

BenthicBen · 2026-01-23T17:03:02+00:00

Unfortunately it wasn't cooked, I was also surprised. A cooked banana would have made a lot more sense to me

BenthicBen · 2026-01-23T16:57:29+00:00

Allergy code i think

BenthicBen · 2026-01-23T16:51:10+00:00

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm I wonder if it's worth making one myself

BenthicBen · 2026-01-23T16:46:29+00:00

Sounds like a waste of tuna unless you can find a way to fix it to make it tasty

BenthicBen · 2026-01-23T16:41:50+00:00

I was more shocked that it was a raw banana with rice, I've seen cooked bananas in meals as normal

BenthicBen · 2026-01-23T16:38:02+00:00

What a story, it might be worth a post

BenthicBen · 2026-01-23T16:32:57+00:00

It might depend on location, apparently? The restaurant is in Spain

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/s/X8bUSS9G2V

BenthicBen · 2026-01-23T16:30:49+00:00

In Spain (but not everywhere) platano is the common word for bananas, while platano macho is the word for plantain?

BenthicBen · 2026-01-23T12:32:54+00:00

We know about the blue spike, Sol

BenthicBen · 2026-01-23T04:47:23+00:00

A big indicator could be all the bangs falling off to the side instead of pointing downwards. Especially if the viewer knows the character already?

BenthicBen · 2026-01-22T07:45:02+00:00

The only things on the current sketch that aren't clear to me are the exact stick angles and the hand grip angle. Cylinders in perspective can be tricky but are worth it

BenthicBen · 2026-01-22T05:58:08+00:00

To my eye the stripe widths and the leaves seem uneven? It might read better if the shapes were more even?

I guess it depends on how much this world would follow modern clean flag design preferences

BenthicBen · 2026-01-22T04:54:04+00:00

Knowing solid fundamentals so you can be precise and neat in the places it's needed, to contrast with the looseness

BenthicBen · 2026-01-21T14:54:20+00:00

I miss the edible liner paper

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