I found a beautiful drawing on Artstation by a great artist called Gabriel Soares, featuring the Joker. I am trying to convert it to a 3D model, but I cannot capture the feeling of sadness as he does. What am I doing wrong?
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The mouth is okay, and the eyes need the most work.
The angularity of the eyelids (esp. the flatness of the bottom lid) in the concept art seem to give a harshness/sadness to the face, so I would try to emulate that more… those of your model are a little too rounded.
The concept has highlights over the upper-right of the iris (on the cornea, actually), while yours has it on the lower-left. This is really just a shading issue, but besides that highlight there are others that suggest tears forming, or ‘watery eyes’. Incorporating that effect could help.
More importantly, I think, are the eyebrows. Just angling (bending or ‘bowing’) them up a bit more where they meet in the middle of the brow should add a bit of angst to the expression.
The tip of the nose could be moved up a bit, and offset to the right (along with the center-point of the mouth) to get that impression of sniveling, again, suggesting sadness rather than something like subtle anger or simple disinterest.
Hope that helps, and good work so far!
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I would do something like this before starting to sculpt it is very fast takes around 5 minutes just separate major shapes play with them and have fun
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Thank you for your advise. I have improved it a lot. Here is the final results
https://www.instagram.com/p/BwAIGmzACzV/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
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Also after adding textures
https://www.instagram.com/p/BwLAr6ahkRa/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=zzw4mdd68h3o
I have developed a modifier setup, that can help in creating a more painterly look, if that’s what you’Re going for. Also I think going experimental with Eevees new ShaderToRGB-Node and some Color Ramps to create less realistic highlights and shadows might help in recreating a more painterly style.
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