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Arden Canelo
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Oh, god I've lurked these boards for so long. Years. I have admired several of you from afar, quietly in the shadows of the internet. Since this is my first topic I'll post something and not just talk. I know how good you guys are and fully expect the best kinds of criticism. Insecurities away!
7 color illustration "Not just your tongue".
I'll post more as it comes and may make this a dump thread. I just wanted help on this first. Thank you.
7 color illustration "Not just your tongue".
I'll post more as it comes and may make this a dump thread. I just wanted help on this first. Thank you.
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Also you could've done the highlights with dots instead of lines, which would mimic the tongue's tastebuds and probably look more accurate too.
Welcome to the surface!
This is done per your suggestion NightDragon: (great idea btw)
I realized that I was only using 5 colors so I gave him somewhat of a light source too.
EDIT: put in your suggestion too Mustang, thanks.
That is the very reason I should have not deleted the photobucket file.
You guys are like a a basket full of good ideas. Filled with little light bulbs or something. Anyway crawdaddio, I'm not counting the background color for now. I added another color for depth for the tongue and did your suggestion of adding tinier dots. You were right about the nose, it makes 8 now.
Updated:
Try to add fewer dots, and be aware that the farther back on the tongue, the larger the buds are. At the very tip of a tongue they're very very tiny.
[NOTE TO ALL: Never look up "tongue" or "dog tongue" on GIS.
I'm intrigued by the strangeness of the piece, but there seem to be a few elements holding it back.
You've got the tongue colored so that it has the appropriate texture, yet the fur is a habberdash of scribbles and random black lines. Line variation is really key and if you removed the color, you'd be left with a flat drawing with no variation. I don't know what methods you are using to create it, but you may want to try inking traditionally so that you can apply some different thicknesses to the lines.
Also, you may want to add a body even if it just runs off the page so that it doesn't just float there.
Keep up the good work.
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Well its not really supposed to be real in terms of reality. If it was real the tongue would be really tiny like a cat's tongue.
Fix'd above.
Also, what else should I post? (Dumb question) Like figure drawing stuff?
I really like the design, though. I'd make the orange space between [the black "curvy triangles" 3/4 down] and [the blue shape] a bit bigger I'd match it with the width you have between the black and blue shape directly above it, actually.
Tip on creating unity in a piece: use the same widths/distances/thicknesses/lengths/etc throughout. That one area sticks out because it's got two shapes closer together than anywhere else.
Anyway, Arden, I'm going to put it out there first, and say that from what I'm seeing here, posemaniacs isn't the right tool to start learning anatomy. I mean, it seems useful enough, and the musculature can come in handy for some, but at this point, it's only going to distract from the form, and that's what you need to start learning first. Break down the body into different forms, like cylinders or boxes, or wedges. Take a look at the Loomis books Wasser posted in that Web Comic thread (that way someone gets some use out of it); looking at it, it's got some good stuff in it. If you're new to the principles it's got, you can start simpler--get simple-shaped objects from around your house: a cup (cylinder), for instance, or a book (box), or such. Try drawing people around you, or yourself (I always advocate that, because you can sit still for as long as you want, and as often). Post everything you've got here (a page at a time, to keep the bandwidth demons away), ask specific questions. And so forth.
I should be drawing faster, shouldn't I? The dragon is a sculpture I have.
all in all, pretty cute, but the mantis arms and the stick figure arms'n legs kinda put me off.
@ winter combat knight - I looked at some more grub pictures and figured out they needed to be segmented (of course)
@ The Glad Hatter - I included a mantis picture for reference, but I'm not quite sure what you mean by stick figure arms. I tried to fix that by adding and subtracting some from the figures.