Supergirl - vectorized for your pleasure

mr0range

Here's a piece I've been thinking to have for people at the free comic book day event I'm attending.

It's for fun, but comments are welcome. I'm getting it printed today (Friday) so any fixes may or may not make it to the final if they come up.

PLZ B GENTLE K THX BAI!

Tini

Nice ass. hah.

The only thing that bugs me is the lavender color of her shirt. Just think it may be more pleasing as more of a blue, but hey, thats just my opinion. Overall though it looks good.

Ehmavisca

Nice! I like panties.

MuttonChops

Nice vector work. Done in Illustrator?
My only beef is that the outlines are a little weak. It's like that you've used a darker shade of the fill for the stroke, but I am not a fan of the thin default stroke. They are uniform width throughout. I prefer outlines that taper through thick and thin. Have you tried applying artistic brushes to the strokes?

mr0range

Nice, okay, I was sure her shirt was blue. I went with the color picker in photoshop and sure enough it was purple. This I can fix, thanks.

The line thing is a tough issue to tackle. My process is Freehand>Flash>Illustrator (final minor tweaks in Photoshop if warranted). The brushstrokes don't go over well in that process. Maybe it's time to look at a new process and to the original artwork in Illustrator to get the brushstrokes and go from there. Next project I'll try that.

MuttonChops

I was trained in Illustrator when 10 was new. It had a couple of decent calligraphic pen artistic brushes in the default brush set. Since starting my job I have used CS and CS2, and will acquire CS3 next week, but the type of graphic design I do doesn't call for much Illustration. I deal mostly with Photoshop and photomanipulation. A good buddy of mine from college got a job with a firm where he does a lot of illustration. He complains that the artistic brushes have continuously gone downhill since 10. He has to go through the trouble of creating his own brushstrokes to get the desired effect. I don't know what version you are using or if you have even used artistc brushes before, but in most cases you'll have to decrease the point size to the minumum (0.25) for them to look any good. 1 point comes out really thick.

The best way, and the most time consuming, to get the desired outline effect is to not use a stroke at all but to draw them in as paths, on top of the color layers, with the bezier pen tool. That way you can make them thick or thin as you desire. Artistic brushes are more random and take a lot of practice to master.

mr0range

Yeah, I've used them, just my "artistic process" didn't allow room for their use. I'm sure I'll give it more of a definite go at it soon. I always tend to stick with what I know because I know I can get the job done, but eventually I have to branch out more and more.

MuttonChops

mr0range wrote: »

Yeah, I've used them, just my "artistic process" didn't allow room for their use. I'm sure I'll give it more of a definite go at it soon. I always tend to stick with what I know because I know I can get the job done, but eventually I have to branch out more and more.

I hear ya. My Illustrator skills have not progressed over the years. If anything they're quite rusty do to lack of use. I also established a process that became routine because, as you said, it got the job done. Habits are hard to break.

My comments are just a matter of my personal taste, and the outlines are a pretty nitpicky detail at best. I'd say go ahead and print it because you could be forever doing revisions based on critique. It's a strong piece.

Kewop Decam

I'm not gay, but something about her skirt being blown up by wind seems like a bad artistic choice. I think because maybe her stance isn't sex enough or her facial expression... I dunno.

MuttonChops

Kewop Decam wrote: »

I'm not gay, but something about her skirt being blown up by wind seems like a bad artistic choice. I think because maybe her stance isn't sex enough or her facial expression... I dunno.

Look at her stance this way: replace the background with a brick wall. Her stance implies she's leaning against something, about to be frisked. The coy expression on her face couldn't be more sex. between that, the stance, and the panties, the whole thing is very suggestive and smacks of sex.

Horus

I think because he wants to do a wind is lifting her dress but I see it as some invisible hand is lifting up and shes turning around right before she does the "WTF" type of pose. The blue background are those feathers?

Also good job though props for design. I need to improve my illustrator skill. I never got taugh how to do such similar thing. Anyway got good sites to learn or books. Thanks

mr0range

Horus wrote: »

The blue background are those feathers?

Yeah, I was going for a kind of "modern day angel of the city" type thing in the background. That's why the wings are placed roughly where wings would be in accociation with her body.

I know my drawing isn't overtly sexy, I just wanted a kind of subtle sexiness. Trust me, if I were going for Adam Hughes sexiness, I would have went for it.

and sorry, I have no real sites or books to recommend. But I did recently pick up a copy of Juxtapoz magazine, that has some neat inspiration in it ... but nothing helpful in terms of really learning anything.

Kewop Decam

MuttonChops wrote: »

Kewop Decam wrote: »

I'm not gay, but something about her skirt being blown up by wind seems like a bad artistic choice. I think because maybe her stance isn't sex enough or her facial expression... I dunno.

Look at her stance this way: replace the background with a brick wall. Her stance implies she's leaning against something, about to be frisked. The coy expression on her face couldn't be more sex. between that, the stance, and the panties, the whole thing is very suggestive and smacks of sex.

pose still isn't working for me. I think her back is too straight to be considered "sexy". Her pose over all is boring to me

Target Practice

Er... I don't have anything to say about the art itself, but isn't this kind of... inappropriate for the setting?

I mean, isn't part of the idea behind Free Comic Book Day to generate interest from kids who would otherwise just play their vidja games and such?

Mind you, I realize a ten-year-old boy is probably going to find Supergirl's panties quite interesting indeed, but the parents taking him there might not be so amused.

Just a thought. I guess it also depends on the nature of the event you're going to.

mr0range

I've never catered well to kids. And what's weird, I have two (4 and 13).

But I have been thinking about this and will probably create a kids line of my comic creations (in the future). Something I can have at my table where kids can browse without having their parents yank them away from my table. Something that I can share with my 4 year old, something my 13 year old can read.

There will be 7 creators at the event I will be going to. I'm sure we'll have all bases covered, plus the comic store itself.

Thanks for your comments.

JCM

Maybe its me, but the line from her belt (on the left) and the ass curve seen to be a bit apart. Please note that this is my 5th beer.

Sweet art mate.

mr0range

Yeah, the belt is cinching in her waist a bit, the skirt is covering the part where it comes back out from the belt.

Death of Rats

Something about her shoulders are really bugging me. I'm not trained enough to know what though.