First ReelSkinz Practice

Hi, I'm hoping to get some feedback on what I could do better on practice skins.

Background: I've practiced on crappy Amazon fake skins for a couple months, then realized everything said here is true about how bad they are (I'm not usually that slow of a learner). So I ordered some ReelSkinz and tried outlining last night.

I used a Bishop Knockoff 4.5 stroke direct drive pen, a CNC Q6, and a Dragonhawk Slip Drive at 4mm stroke. I used Emalla and Rhein 1214RL and 1209RL for the outlines. I was trying for Traditional, but guess I didn't achieve that.

I recognize that I need more consistent handspeed and depth, but would welcome other advice / critiques (you won't hurt my feelings). Thanks!

Guess I need to be premium to put pic in

Looks good bro, obviously once your shade and pack colour in it will look a lot better.
Reelskin is good hey

Thanks, I appreciate it. I figured out one of my problems (in addition to my learning curve)... I was using cheap cartridges also (Poseidon and some other cheap Amazon brand) because I didn't want to use expensive Kwadron or Good Guys cartridges for practice. I did end up redoing line work with a CNC 1209RL cartridge and Big Wasp 1214RL and the saturation was night and day - I even ran some new lines to see if it was just blending with the first lines I put in to make it look darker, but even those lines were saturated. (I'll post picture later).

cmjlakcb said:

Hi, I'm hoping to get some feedback on what I could do better on practice skins.

Background: I've practiced on crappy Amazon fake skins for a couple months, then realized everything said here is true about how bad they are (I'm not usually that slow of a learner). So I ordered some ReelSkinz and tried outlining last night.

I used a Bishop Knockoff 4.5 stroke direct drive pen, a CNC Q6, and a Dragonhawk Slip Drive at 4mm stroke. I used Emalla and Rhein 1214RL and 1209RL for the outlines. I was trying for Traditional, but guess I didn't achieve that.

I recognize that I need more consistent handspeed and depth, but would welcome other advice / critiques (you won't hurt my feelings). Thanks!

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Hi,
Good start and i think you pointed out many of the things you have to get better: depht control and/or handspeed.
Also you may be careful with the end of your lines where you've gone too far/long in her hair.
To get that right i would advise to do first the lines where other lines will end.
For example in your design, you should first do the central line of hair, going from her eyes to her neck. It will be a good way to end up your line where needed.
Cause if you were to do all intersecting hair, this central line would have to zigzag to ending of all those lines.
Hope this is clear, if not i'll do a drawing.

Nice start, keep on!

Peace,

DKJ

Looking good, as another alternative, you can always have a run at some pig skin (sold to make Pork scratching from butchers) its a nice and realistic work material for getting used to packing etc. (and much cheaper than fakes) then use the fakes for the lining and detailing practice.
Your lining seems nice and steady.
I would say I agree with DKJ on the point of lining precision, For hair I tend to work from a central point also, and the ends are often whipped out to prevent the 'too long' or 'joining' in hair lines from being obvious. But its all time relative practice that you will naturally learn and adapt your own methods.
Im no expert though, just like you im learning (still )
Hope my next visit will be seeing your progress with colour and shades. Keep it up mate.