Yep, still more attempts...

Yep, I'm still with this one, and I think I'm still not getting it totally right...

Also here is my attempt at doing a half-decent expression of my own, based on what I've learned...though maybe I haven't totally learnt the construction yet...

Gone fishin'

I copied those from the comic books. The first one came out pretty good I think, the other two...maybe I should concentrate in simpler expressions.

George and the bug

I'm concentrating on this one cause I really want to nail it, it's such a cool expression. I can easily see now that the eyes are not quite right, he should be looking more down, to the bug. Why do I see that now and not when I drawing it? Note to John K. if he's looking : the construction is (or was) there at some point. I just traced it down several times in my light-table, so some drawings show the construction more than others, but I'm always tracing down another drawing that has more construction.

Well, I got the nose and the mouth quite good this time. I should know at this point that I don't have to make the hair too tall, but it's difficult to keep it small. His right eye should be smaller (there is a thing called perspective!). I swear to God that the size of the eyes seems more compensated when you look at the real drawing in the paper, for some reason. Maybe cause I made the whole drawing pretty big. Actually the eyes are probably better in the one at the top of this entry. I'm still doing the cranium too short. Heh, each time I make a tiny improvement I find my previous efforts weird. Now I find the one in my previous post kinda odd (especially after making the flip canvas horizontal thing), but at the moment I thought it was pretty accurate.

The magic trick

I have one of those tables with a lamp inside, but I wasn't using it with the other sketches cause I was copying directly from my computer and I don't have that table in the same room. This time I printed John's drawings and I went to my other room to draw them. After drawing them I turned the paper and I looked at it from the other side and BLAM! a lot of the mistakes became apparent to me. So I copied those again in the other side of the paper, using the construction of the first drawings that I saw through the paper. Now I apply Flip Canvas Horizontal in Photoshop and compare...
Ok, they are still not quite perfect, but at least I think they look pretty decent on themselves...Mainly I shouldn't have changed the neck of the second one and the mouth is still a bit too big, but the rest of the drawing I think I got it quite better when I turned the paper.The first one is more exaggerated in general.

Specific expressions

John posted some specific expressions. What do you know? It seems I'm a bit better with those. That or I actually learnt something from the previous ones. The one in the middle is pretty flawed though. I still find the chin pretty tricky, I try to keep it short, but I always end making it wider once I start placing the mouth. But when the drawing is finished the mouth is sometimes bigger in my drawing and the chin is almost always too big. All the drawings have pencil lines that indicate a placement of the chin that would have probably been more adequate, however while making the drawing I felt the chin was too close to the mouth compared to the original and that's why I made it bigger. That's cause I normally place the mouth below where it really should be or I make it bigger than I should.

Also I took a taste of Jimmy, copying one expression from the comic books. I have not compared it yet, but , as I suspected, I think I'm better with Jimmy. I'll continue with George now, though.

Let's see another try

Cleaned up (though a little fast-inked) version: Comparative:

It seems that each time I fix something I get something else wrong that I got right at first...

More comparative

Again I made the cheek too long and the cranium too short...wow, this is hard...but I guess I'm getting a little closer...