Arfenhouse's Sketchdump

Arfenhouse

Here are a few things I did over the last couple of days that I didn't want to be lost in the doodle thread (McGibs has monopolized that thing with his genius!).









Any and all critiques are welcome, I know how these forums are.

desperaterobots

I like the salmon coloured piece. Very graphic.

The rest of stuff is almost too doodley to crit, but they suffer from ill-defined light sources, big soft brushes and a lack of clear edges. The anatomy looks okay, in it's own, cartoony way.

Arfenhouse

Any advice on how to clear up the brush problem?

desperaterobots

Use brushes with tighter edges, or smaller brushes, or lots of different brushes as you work up your piece. Or erase into large blocks of colour to get finer edges. The fingers on your semi-falling-down black and white smudge-man shouldn't be as thick as that, for instance.

But I figure you would have fixed that up yourself if you'd worked on the pieces longer; like I said, it's a bit difficult to criticise properly when they're so early on. How long did these take you?

falconire

Dude, the screaming guy is awesome. Total props here.

falconire

I like the one before the screamer too. It's got a nice style to it.

TehChowd

Love the arm things and laser eyes in drawing two.

Arfenhouse

Thanks for the kind words, but seriously any little thing wrong with it, point it out. Can only make me better

@desperate, these took about an 1 hour and a half each, except for the graphic one, that took about 20 minutes. And most of the time on the 1:30 pieces was spent redoing the colors because I wasn't happy with it.

TehChowd

Hmm, well, I'm no artist, but if you're asking for nit-pickings, the legs on the guy in the first drawing look kind of too skinny/small. The legs look pretty much fine in the second drawing (except for maybe the ankles?), and in the last drawing they look good (though I'm no anatomy master. I guess you could say they look fine to the lay eye?).

Neolight

Your name brings back memories of Flash animations.

I can say that you've got a really good sense of gesture and you should post moar stuff