Doodles. Been experimenting with light and shadow, shading techniques, and trying to tighten up my anatomy some.
This is just a super rough outline for something I want to bring to some degree of completion, i.e. inked and colored. I want him to have an exaggerated build, with impossibly giant shoulders, while not looking grossly Liefeldian. I'm going to rework basically the whole thing, specifically his right arm and abs, and downsize his left hand a little. And I'll probably tweak the face a little.
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edited May 2009
My stupidity obviously proceeds me, cause I don't have a frigging clue what you are talking about.
I am loving where that is heading? I am liking where the artwork is heading? I am enjoying the paintings current state and looking forward to its completion? Ye olde unfinished painting doth pleaseth me, I await with much anticipation its eventual conclusion?
Ahhh, I think my fear of your stern correctional whip has rendered me incapable of concentrating on anything apart from my grammar and spelling skills. i after e except after c.....twitch...twitch.
This might be a little on the pedantic side, but I think you should consider an alternative skeletal framework for the triclops. Right now the third eye looks sort of drawn on, because it would basically be lodged in the brain.
He's actually an established character from DC comics, so I was just going with his established design. But looking at it now, I think that, were I to draw him again, I'd make the eye bulge out from his skull more.
Preliminary reworking of the pose. I'm somewhat restricted because the sprite needs to be reflected left and right, so I wanted him holding the gun with both hands (although for quick firing with a revolver you'd typically have one hand over the hammer...). He's supposed to be sort of half-crouching/leaning forward, but his back might have a bit too much of a hunch. Also improved the hands situation. The gray lines are where his legs would be without the duster.
I think the knees might still be a bit too low, and the right hand still looks like it's at an angle towards the camera (maybe the thumb is too thick).
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looking much better. that hair is both too dark and too saturated though, it really separates from the rest of image. also, by using an unnatural hair color, you're giving it an anime-feel, which is one of the reasons I changed it to orange. the other is so that it would further the complementary color scheme.
you should take the hand from the back arm and cast it in shadow, so that it reads as a separate hand and not as the bottom of the first hand.
you should also clean up your shading on the band on the hat, matching the colors to the pants. right now the pixel placement there seems arbitrary.
you might want to clarify what the blue thing is sticking out of his chest, and stop posting it with a transparent background, because that part is blending with the forum bgcolor.
also, I think dropping his belt line and extending his vest and top of the pants down a few pixels would help with your concern that the calves are too short. That way, you're shrinking the calves in comparison, and it would just look like his pants ride a little low.
As for a character-design aspect, if you're not fully dead-set on this character, I think an older, more weathered, Sergio-Leone esque character would be a better approach.
Shirt design for a friend. Perspective is all kinds of wrong but I'll just take what I learned and apply it to future pictures rather than endlessly fiddling.
Edit: now that i look at it I might skew the text so it lines up with the tray's vanishing point. Also need to liven it up, colours are very bland
and somfing I just started using the sort of theme from the last one. I really am keen to stay up and get more of this done as I am excited about where It might go but Im so tired I feel I havnt done enough drawing in the last few days. I have tomorrow afternoon to work on it though ;D Im liking my colour choice so far. Im trying to draw in colour and not rely on the Black and white. There are still some few issues like the eyes which I will work out
P.S Mustang the eye isnt to bad. his right eye is a little off and the head generally might be a little large. I love your job with the cloth though
Starting an editorial assignment for my idea generation class. We where given two articles, one on michael jackson and the other on disney scouting in South Australia for locations for filming of John Carter of Mars
As for a character-design aspect, if you're not fully dead-set on this character, I think an older, more weathered, Sergio-Leone esque character would be a better approach.
I'm really not, but while my anatomy and pixel skills are... passable, my design talent is not so great. I'd love to have a more weathered looking character, but I spent most of my adolescence drawing generic anime guys and never really advanced.
prohass: how is that cupcake sitting on the top of a hole? look at him! he's sitting there as if he is floating above the cupcake hole.
Yeah this is a problem I realised far too late. Basically this whole picture has been great at teaching me to always do a really good initial drawing, and not just scan the first scribble I make. I was like "damn, now where will the face go?" I thought about moving it next to the hole, but I kinda wanna move on and just chalk it up to experience.
Maybe cute little 'Worms' style hands holding him up? Like lifting himself out?
I'm a fancy shmancy impressionistic painter! Just kidding, i'm not. But heres a 12 hour painting its 20X24, And it was done in a impressionistic manner.
(its still not finished)
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Might want to tone down the highlight on the fallen tree/limb, it's a bit full on.
A slightly squashed mona lisa, i'll get you yet Da Vinci!
EDIT: I forgot to shake my fist in anger. *Shakes fist in anger*
I woke up the other day and had an urge to draw some babies as I never have before. Just to expand my folio however I was like mmmm make them weird. soo.. zombie baby and that little girl with the kiss makeup on lol!.... Ive added a mouse to her hand and stuff. Ill post it when i get home. Im hoping to get that zombie baby one done tonight to but we shall see.
A refined sketch of MJ. My idea is that it;s going to be like in those Hollywood movies, where the police rock up at someones front door and stick a 'search warrent' in the house owners face. I want MJ to look very aggressive but at the same time, he's still doing his well know peace sign gesture. I need to refine the lighting and shadows to help establish that mood. My plan is to also have his lawyers standing behind him in the background.
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Crashed before I could finish.
This is just a super rough outline for something I want to bring to some degree of completion, i.e. inked and colored. I want him to have an exaggerated build, with impossibly giant shoulders, while not looking grossly Liefeldian. I'm going to rework basically the whole thing, specifically his right arm and abs, and downsize his left hand a little. And I'll probably tweak the face a little.
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hahahah, oh man, you said that as if you actually thought i'd finish it! good one, mustang!
I am loving where that is heading? I am liking where the artwork is heading? I am enjoying the paintings current state and looking forward to its completion? Ye olde unfinished painting doth pleaseth me, I await with much anticipation its eventual conclusion?
I've finished a few things.
Ahhh, I think my fear of your stern correctional whip has rendered me incapable of concentrating on anything apart from my grammar and spelling skills. i after e except after c.....twitch...twitch.
FACE
Actually, I know a few who do.
This might be a little on the pedantic side, but I think you should consider an alternative skeletal framework for the triclops. Right now the third eye looks sort of drawn on, because it would basically be lodged in the brain.
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EDIT: Oh god that eye is fucked to all hell isn't it?
looking much better. that hair is both too dark and too saturated though, it really separates from the rest of image. also, by using an unnatural hair color, you're giving it an anime-feel, which is one of the reasons I changed it to orange. the other is so that it would further the complementary color scheme.
you should take the hand from the back arm and cast it in shadow, so that it reads as a separate hand and not as the bottom of the first hand.
you should also clean up your shading on the band on the hat, matching the colors to the pants. right now the pixel placement there seems arbitrary.
you might want to clarify what the blue thing is sticking out of his chest, and stop posting it with a transparent background, because that part is blending with the forum bgcolor.
also, I think dropping his belt line and extending his vest and top of the pants down a few pixels would help with your concern that the calves are too short. That way, you're shrinking the calves in comparison, and it would just look like his pants ride a little low.
As for a character-design aspect, if you're not fully dead-set on this character, I think an older, more weathered, Sergio-Leone esque character would be a better approach.
Edit: now that i look at it I might skew the text so it lines up with the tray's vanishing point. Also need to liven it up, colours are very bland
Nice work
and somfing I just started using the sort of theme from the last one. I really am keen to stay up and get more of this done as I am excited about where It might go but Im so tired
P.S Mustang the eye isnt to bad. his right eye is a little off and the head generally might be a little large. I love your job with the cloth though
this is just a quick doodle for the MJ.
I'm really not, but while my anatomy and pixel skills are... passable, my design talent is not so great. I'd love to have a more weathered looking character, but I spent most of my adolescence drawing generic anime guys and never really advanced.
I don't see a hole. Maybe its a five-cupcake tin.
Yeah this is a problem I realised far too late. Basically this whole picture has been great at teaching me to always do a really good initial drawing, and not just scan the first scribble I make. I was like "damn, now where will the face go?" I thought about moving it next to the hole, but I kinda wanna move on and just chalk it up to experience.
Maybe cute little 'Worms' style hands holding him up? Like lifting himself out?
(its still not finished)
A slightly squashed mona lisa, i'll get you yet Da Vinci!
EDIT: I forgot to shake my fist in anger. *Shakes fist in anger*
The snow still looks like water, I havn't finished the ground yet
This is nice work BTW legg, good progression.
Agh! Flashes of Trainspotting.
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I woke up the other day and had an urge to draw some babies as I never have before. Just to expand my folio however I was like mmmm make them weird. soo.. zombie baby and that little girl with the kiss makeup on lol!.... Ive added a mouse to her hand and stuff. Ill post it when i get home. Im hoping to get that zombie baby one done tonight to but we shall see.
I think this is a pretty accurate interpretation
A refined sketch of MJ. My idea is that it;s going to be like in those Hollywood movies, where the police rock up at someones front door and stick a 'search warrent' in the house owners face. I want MJ to look very aggressive but at the same time, he's still doing his well know peace sign gesture. I need to refine the lighting and shadows to help establish that mood. My plan is to also have his lawyers standing behind him in the background.