Shadowrun character

Belruel

hey, i've been doodling on a sketch of my shadowrun character (just started playing last week with some dudes on the forum) and i have been running into some tough spots.

chicoblue already helped me a lot with the face and hands, but i am terribly out of practice with drawing people, and i would love it if you guys could put your collective awesome might towards helping me improve this in any way.

i'll take any advice/sketch overs you guys feel generous enough to send my way

the red arrows point to areas that i think i really need help with
notes:
-not sure about the positioning og the eyes themselves, and the iris/pupil part i have sketched in right now is in no way final, i just wasn't sure what i was going to have her be looking at yet, but blank eyes bother me


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Projeck

I like it! everything looks solid to me, cant wait to see it farther down the road!

Talleyrand

I'm usually not a great source of advice but it does seem like something is off with the face. Maybe it's the difference between the pupils themselves, but hey, it's Shadowrun. For all I know one of them shoots laser beams. The only other thing I see that might be a problem is her hairline. It's seems somewhat unsymmetrical.

The feet and jacket seem like you're getting close to nailing them and I don't see what's wrong with her thumb.

nakirush

I think the eye problem is more of a jawline/hairline issue. It looks like there's a slight perspective problem.

Belruel

oh thank you, that hairline looks much better, i will go tweak that up next time i start working on it

Tam

Most obviously:

She seems to be shooting one way and looking another
The head is misplaced on the neck
The thighs are gigantic
The legs seem to come straight out of the waist rather than the hips

JohnnyCache

She should be looking down at least one of the guns she's firing.

Also...feat?

Tam

You want to establish the plane of the face with parallel lines. Here's a basic correction overpaint
the arms were two different lengths as well.

Belruel

that drawover helps immensely tam, i hadn't even noticed the waist thing at all

Tam

Glad to be of help. You might want to tone down the thighs even more though- my "correction" actually looks pretty big now.

DeeLock

Well the biggest problem i have is the balance of the drawing. It's like she's leaning way back but if she was actually doing that she'd fall right over. Try doing it, you'll end up on your ass.

If you flip the canvas you can notice these kinds of problems better. Proportion and anatomy errors are easier to see once you flip the image.

Here you'll notice that her eyes are all outa whack and she's about to fall over.


I did a quick drawover to show how she can be balanced out a bit better.


Now the weight is centered over her feet (i hope) and she's not in danger of falling over.

Of course if you want her to be flying backwards she could be, but it doesn't really make sense if she's squatting.

There's also a few anatomical errors that i fixed, like her eyes and her arms (they were different sizes the far one was longer than the close one.)

Futore

Something that would make this look more realistic would be taking into account how you would actually shoot in a crouching position like that.

They're huge hand guns, which always have a lot of recoil since they're high calibre and have a light weight. and she's holding two. so, her back would be slanted like you and Tam drew from taking the force

the problem with balance that dee lock is talking about would be corrected by her leaning more on her back foot. Also, spread the feet apart just a little so that she can be leaning on the back more

srsizzy

Just a note, the facial expression is incredibly static.

Scosglen

Tam's drawover prettymuch covered everything. I would bitch about the arms but you're putting an overcoat on her anyway so It's a little moot.

My only suggestion would be that having both arms locked at the elbows makes the pose a little bit stiff.

Futore

Tam, your avatar is hypnotizing.

but, I just pasted a bunch of your avs together so that they'd dance together, and um, they yell AIDS at me

Tam

Futore wrote: »

Tam, your avatar is hypnotizing.

but, I just pasted a bunch of your avs together so that they'd dance together, and um, they yell AIDS at me

wait

what

I haven't used the version that flashed AIDS in a long time.

Futore

I guess it's what PA has saved as your av

Tam

Futore wrote: »

I guess it's what PA has saved as your av

huh

weird

Belruel

its the non aids one for me tam