Sexy Pirate Witch [WIP] inking done

Tam

OK, so I've decided to stop just dicking around for a bit and commit myself to making a good finished piece. What better subject than a sexy woman deft of both blade and wand?

Stage one: sorta refined sketch. I have no idea at this point what I'm going to do for a background.

ViolenceMan

The first thing that jumped out at me was that her stance was slanted alittle to much. Even if you wanted her to be leaning to the left alittle, this still gives the hint that she about to fall over.

As for the background, how about a spooky pirate ship, like the Flying Dutchman from PotC.

Tam

ViolenceMan wrote:

The first thing that jumped out at me was that her stance was slanted alittle to much. Even if you wanted her to be leaning to the left alittle, this still gives the hint that she about to fall over.

As for the background, how about a spooky pirate ship, like the Flying Dutchman from PotC.

Well, I've got her on a weird above-ish perspective. I'll try and put in plane lines. Slant noted though. I will try and fix it in the morning when I can yet again trust my eyes.

I think I might put her on a flying ship. I'm not painting that whole damn thing too, so maybe I'll put another flying ship in the distance to give that idea.

EDIT: Damn. I'm not getting it. Could you do a quick drawover?

The One Dark Knight

Fairly good, except the hair seems a little sketchy right now. Can't wait to see the original

MaximasXXZ

I don't really have much to say about the figure cause it's pretty awesome; but you probably should've thought about the background before creating an image. Otherwise it doesn't really need a background. Building an image around one figure is like building a house around one toilet, it's just better to plan these things out ahead of time.

Tam

MaximasXXZ wrote:

I don't really have much to say about the figure cause it's pretty awesome; but you probably should've thought about the background before creating an image. Otherwise it doesn't really need a background. Building an image around one figure is like building a house around one toilet, it's just better to plan these things out ahead of time.

That's what I get for not doing complete work consistently. Damn.

Scosglen

Aside from the aforementioned slant (rotate it a few degrees in PS and it looks much better), the only thing that pops out is the perspective on the waistline. As the eye moves up the figure the perspective should become less extreme the closer we get to eye level. The shoulders are nearly parallel, while the feet are diagonally aligned. The waistline on the pants and the bottom of the vest should be halfway in between, but at the moment are closer to the same perspective as the feet. I also might twist one of her feet outward a bit to give her a slightly wider stance and some stability.

Tam

Damn, I still don't see the slant. Could you tell me which way to rotate, left or right (our left or right)?

Scosglen

Mirror the image on the horizontal axis in photoshop and the slant should slap you in the face.

It seems to look better when she's more upright.

Tam

Is this better?

EDIT: Oh. Scos already did it for me. Nevermind. Thanks, Scos. I'm working on the waist perspective and refining the inks now.

Chop Logic

Why are your pictures always on orange backrounds?

Tam

Chop Logic wrote:

Why are your pictures always on orange backrounds?

God, I hate LCD's. The BG's look more brown than orange to me. The reason is because I don't like the glare of white BG's so I tone it down with this color.

Ugh, this is taking so long, I keep messing up on her face.

Tam

I printed, traced, scanned, and retraced in PS.



EDIT: Oh, and I changed some stuff too.

Believe

Do you plan on painting in a lot details while keeping the lineart simple? That's a pretty cool effect for those who know how to do it.

Tam

Believe wrote:

Do you plan on painting in a lot details while keeping the lineart simple? That's a pretty cool effect for those who know how to do it.

Duder, I wish I could do that. I barely know anything about coloring.

eliseu gouveia

This is a really cool pic, can´t wait to see it colored.

I can see what people mean with the slant issue, it´s a problem I have been battling all my life as well.

Do you have one eye weaker than the other or, due to your posture while drawing do you hunch over your drawing, meaning that you don´t get a 90 degres angle, perfectly perpendicular view of your canvas?

Because it is very possible your drawing turnes a bit askewed due to this.

The best way to fix it, as suggested, is with post work; flip it horizontally and the problem will jump at you (in my case, it usually punches me in the jaw ).

Spilltoy

Something about the nose bugs me, but I like this lineart alot.

JoeMushashi

to me it seems like the far shoulder might be jutting out a bit to far/oddly

but, in general, s'good

MaximasXXZ

I think the "Pencils" look a lot better. The ink job is kinda meh, there's no line variation and the image looks much more flat than it did.

If I were you, I'd just paint with the pencils instead of the inks. (If you're going to paint it)

Tam

MaximasXXZ wrote:

I think the "Pencils" look a lot better. The ink job is kinda meh, there's no line variation and the image looks much more flat than it did.

If I were you, I'd just paint with the pencils instead of the inks. (If you're going to paint it)

I'm having the same qualms. On one hand, I need to work on cleaning up my lines. On the other hand, I like painting scratchy things. I think I'll do both.

Tam

I'm getting progressively worse at rendering.

Scosglen

It might not fit very well for your inked, neat style, but personally I prefer to render things "alla prima" where I work on one layer and go over the whole thing at once than piss around with seperating my piece into a million sections. It might be easier to set up compelling contrast with your lighting if you work on it more uniformly than one bit at a time.