I know it was just a short experiment, but try not to forget what you want the viewer to focus on in your picture. There is a lot more sharpness in his hair than his face, so that's what our eye is drawn to first and it's hard to look away from there. Maybe experiment with tightening up your focal point a little more compared to other areas.
What even is a circle??? But sitting down and forcing myself to do some fundamentals today is already helping a lot, I think. My New Year's Resolution is to not be so lazy about actually studying the technical side of drawing, whereas up until now my philosophy has basically been 'WING IT!!'
Thanks Iruka! I definitely plan on continuing with this kind of work even though I tend to find it deadly boring; still, it's good to challenge myself.
20 minutes futzing with colors I don't usually touch.
and 40 minutes doing nothing of value? I don't know there are things I like about this, but the perspective is terrible. If I decide to work through it, I'll probably scrap this and sit down and actually bother sketching it properly before I get impatient to paint.
you do some awesome awesome things with color that I am so envious of, it's sick
re: fighting-everything guy, he looks like he has a bit of gumby-arm going on in the forearms that I think is throwing off the composition a bit, which looks like it's mostly linked to the shading around the arms going in sort of a weird curve. I think that's the only thing going on with it, I actually would love to see what happens with it, if anything, because that palette is awesomsesauce.
I haven't been drawing much lately because I'm a terrible person, but.
some figures, about five minutes each:
and the cover to a comic anthology my roommate and I are putting together:
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Damn, I hadn't seen (or didn't remember) this thread before, and reading it from the beginning I was all "get the fuck out!" by page 3 or 4. Great progress, and lots of really good work.
On that anthology cover, it feels like that vertical line behind the bullet is getting lost in the swirl also being red. As I am typing this (literally!) I am realizing it is teeth and a tongue, haha. I can't unsee it now, but before I realized what it was I was going to suggest switching colors so that the line and swirl (tongue) weren't the same.
Now that I see they are teeth, it is strange that they are see through (bullet and tongue lines visible behind) but the tongue isn't (it hides the bullet line). I like the tongue hiding the bullet line. Did you make the two Ms different to emphasize the difference between the two words' meanings? The "onsters" is capitalized, but it doesn't come across immediately because their scale relative to the first letter of the word has about the same ratio as the M and obsters. The font difference might be more clear if you push the "onsters" a little more.
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Just a quick scribble from yesterday. I've been having an off week, but whatever. About an hour of work:
What even is a circle??? But sitting down and forcing myself to do some fundamentals today is already helping a lot, I think. My New Year's Resolution is to not be so lazy about actually studying the technical side of drawing, whereas up until now my philosophy has basically been 'WING IT!!'
Holy cow I love this!
....I say as I draw my 346346346th floating head:
(Will I ever stop drawing Uncharted fanart? A: not likely.)
20 minutes futzing with colors I don't usually touch.
and 40 minutes doing nothing of value? I don't know there are things I like about this, but the perspective is terrible. If I decide to work through it, I'll probably scrap this and sit down and actually bother sketching it properly before I get impatient to paint.
WIP. Fighting everything about this:
re: fighting-everything guy, he looks like he has a bit of gumby-arm going on in the forearms that I think is throwing off the composition a bit, which looks like it's mostly linked to the shading around the arms going in sort of a weird curve. I think that's the only thing going on with it, I actually would love to see what happens with it, if anything, because that palette is awesomsesauce.
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some figures, about five minutes each:
and the cover to a comic anthology my roommate and I are putting together:
On that anthology cover, it feels like that vertical line behind the bullet is getting lost in the swirl also being red. As I am typing this (literally!) I am realizing it is teeth and a tongue, haha. I can't unsee it now, but before I realized what it was I was going to suggest switching colors so that the line and swirl (tongue) weren't the same.
Now that I see they are teeth, it is strange that they are see through (bullet and tongue lines visible behind) but the tongue isn't (it hides the bullet line). I like the tongue hiding the bullet line. Did you make the two Ms different to emphasize the difference between the two words' meanings? The "onsters" is capitalized, but it doesn't come across immediately because their scale relative to the first letter of the word has about the same ratio as the M and obsters. The font difference might be more clear if you push the "onsters" a little more.