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Imitation of foriegn art styles has been a tradition throughout all of art history, ain't nothin' wrong with it.
Mary Cassatt was an American, but there was nothing with her being influenced by Japanese prints.
Its the same god damned thing just rephrased EVERY SINGLE time you post.
Shit.
Anime is way too overused and generally it is very bad. Some people are able to make it their own style, or like todk said, "take elements from it that you like" but most people, like Zel try to copy it, making it completely noncreative and rather shitty.
I'm sure the first person to draw in the anime style was a true pioneer and a great guy, but...i kinda hate him.
I think a really good thing for anyone who wants to draw anime is to first study disney character designs and try to replicate THEM first. If you can't draw a perfect mickey mouse with 40 lines, how can you hope to capture all of the intricacies of the modern anime characters? It's like weight training - you don't set the peg to 400 lbs and say "Oh I'll get up there eventually if I keep plugging away at it." You need a foundation first.
As a general comment, there's an excellent chance that if you're American and you're attempting to draw Anime style, it will look bad. There are good american anime artists, but they are the EXCEPTION, not the norm. Most art colleges will ignore anime drawings in your portfolio. It's simply not a high form of art. Not because it's any less fun to watch, but because it doesn't require near the amount of skill that you need to survive in the art world.
Also: Frostzuna -
I feel like for how well the face was drawn, you ought to have put a little more time into the neck musculature
At your insistance, I will do exactly what you just said down the the letter, since that is exactly what I have always done.
Your artwork is fine when you break outside the anime norm, but it's just annoying to have to read the same god-damn thing again and again and again.
P.S. Yep, head is too big, and the arms are totally wonkey, make the forearms longer and more uniform to eachother. The one on the left is mucho grande de the one on the right, but I didn't have to tell you that.
Always draw the head first then work down the body, make sure the whole figure is 7-8 heads tall and make the arms reach about mid thigh. Look up some stuff on proportion and anatomy.
How bout them internets, eh?
ZEL, stop putting yourself down. You're not a bad artist, it's just that your comics aren't really as good as your illustrations. So take what you're good at and embrace it!
BIG BOSS!
i'm watching you
Never forget. Never forget.
Frostozuna: What Toji said was right about smoothing out your lines, so don't disregard the advice. But I personally like that more rough look, especially for MGS artwork.
It's possible some dinosaurs had feathers or were entirely feathered even. There's very little difference between feathers and scales.
You sick freak.
The shoulder/delt confuses me on the right one. If you put your hand over his head, his deltoid looks like his pec and his shoulder muscle looks distinctly humanoid.
Their shoulders can accomidate a wide range of motion, like humans, only they can also roll forwards at a more severe angle comfortably to be used for running. Their chest muscles are also accomidated for this. That said, I believe I botched the shoulder a bit anyway, it could be better.
But they are partially anthro. They're along the same vein as http://www.mutedvision.net/art/dervdragonsword.jpg only a different race I suppose. Not quite though, they'd have larger more raptor-ish claws...
waddaya think?
Stuff for a story about dragonslayers:
Giant robot stuff:
Dragon with bad limbs:
Random stuff plus an environment from my dream and a guy or whatever:
This is the first doodle I've posted here in over a year.
I almost went to UCSC, but I went to Santa Clara University instead >_>
what I meant was, YU GI OH is probably one of the worst anime in existance. I didn't mean that "anybody who is not Japanese cannot draw anime well". I'm just saying that the American cartoon industry tends to fail at creating anything up to the standard that is typically seen in Japanese anime.
I actually wasn't talking about you at all. Yeah, I don't think you're particularly good. Yes, I think Lexxy is amazing. But that wasn't what I was referring to in my comment. Are we done, here?
Also, I'm still getting used to the pressure-sensitivity feature, so I guess tweaking with those settings would help with the 'see-through' lineart?
Brodie Faggs- that is a bitchin abstraction of the ole wonderous webhead.
You could work at it either zoomed out or zoomed in, just with a bigger brush. The larger canvas simply gives you more options.
Brush settings will change the line quality, but the standard brush should work just fine for sketching.
Well, I like it.
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