Yo. Howz da' world hanging?
Seraphic wrote:I think you did a pretty good job of coloring this. There are a couple of errors you made on Elya though. You'll have to forgive me ahead of time, because the wording of pointing out this first error is so serious that it will sound like I am kicking you directly in the balls. Again, just brace yourself. While both are drawn well, I would say that her face may not be lined up with the way her head is set. Looking at her jawline and ear, there seems to be too much space between that and everything else. Your easiest fix is to erase the jawline and ear and move them closer. Don't worry, I get alignment errors all the time. A similar problem happens on the boots. I don't think the lines look proper for the angle you are trying to get. That sort of thing needs practice. I suck at footwear also.
Nah, I don't mind at all, 'cuz I can see what you're getting at and am not really at all surprised that such an error exists. For you see, I
suck when it comes to drawing heads. Sometimes I can get lucky and can put one out on the first try. More often than not, I will instead devote more than half the time spent working on a single piece to adjusting a characters facial features, be it spacing of the eyes, the position of the nose, the shape of the mouth, the curvature of the jaw or simply the overall sizing of the head, attempting to get them to look at least
decently right in correlation to each other and
still not succeeding in the end, eventually just tossing my hands up in defeat and hoping that I can somehow fix it in Photoshop later. So, no, I don't blame you at all for the forward criticism, because it's pretty accurate. If you've got any tips that could maybe give me some help, maybe even fix this problem I've had for years, I'd take them up in a second T_T.
As for the boots, I honestly never pay very much attention to my character's footware. I could make them look good if I really wanted to. I just... well, never really feel it's all that important. All I usually do is figure out what kind of shoe they would wear and draw something that vaguely resembles that kind of shoe.
Meh.
Seraphic wrote:And I don't mind seeing that earlier attempt on Elya. For ZOINKS and giggles.
Just remember:
you asked for it.
*ducks and plugs ears*
Seraphic wrote:And have you done any more work recently, sir? =)
I have indeed. As Wingnut indicated, those three are my most recent works. However, I wouldn't recommend looking too hard when scrutinizing them. The hair-cut Elya was scribbled out in 10-20 minutes and colored in even less time. "Quality" wasn't so much my concern as it was "just-get-it-done-and-posted-as-fast-as-you-can". The last two are frankens and not even really worth talking about. These days, I franken only when I feel too lazy to draw, though I'll admit that it is easier to make pieces look more "professional", I'll say, through frankening rather than hand-drawing.
The rest of my stuff is more character art for the recently-moved Totally Awesome Random Robot RPG. They aren't really that mecha-related other than the fact that they all pilot mecha in some form or another, but hey, what the hell. I might as well post
something to make this post a legitimate update.
Tallis Stenner - A request made by Sume Gai for one of his characters, Tallis is a mechanic aboard one of the good-guys ships. I was later told that I had gotten her "personality" wrong -- she was supposed to look quiet and timid instead of spunky and confident. I thought she looked better this way, but that's just me. Needless to say, her hair was an absolute
b*tch to draw.
Lucia Kamiya - A young mobile suit pilot, I was asked to draw this by Omega. I got this one done rather quickly, so there are a few things wrong with her that I didn't notice until afterward (primarily the shape of her right hand and the way her hair is drawn) but I did end up liking the "motion" I put into her pose.
Hanzo - He's a samurai. With swords. Not much more to it than that.
Out of all my recent works, this guy is my favorite. I feel like I really nailed his look, that he came out
exactly the way I was picturing him in my head. Probably has something to do with the fact that I didn't have to draw a face.
Diablous - I swear, sometimes my brain runs like its on meth or something. The inspiration for
that guy came from me randomly wondering what a human version of
Diablomon would look like. No really, that was it. Looking at it now, he came out quite sloppy-looking. But, his personality is pretty unstable, so I guess that works.
Gabriel - I learned something after this first time trying to draw a bishounen-character:
I'm not good at it. Everything about this guy just came out looking
weird.
All of his body parts are way too long, the lines are sloppy, and his hair just didn't come out right. Oh well, it is what it is.
Miser - If Gabriel's the bishounen, then Miser was my attempt at a stripperific-bishoujo. That's... really all I was shooting for with this one, now that I think about it. Oh, she's
is in fact blind, in case you were wondering.
The Nova Prince - This one speaks for itself, I hope. Evil personified in purple armor. Again, this guy not having a face allowed me to focus more on the details of his costume, of which I'm sure you can tell I had a good deal of fun with. So long as he's striking fear into your heart, I'm happy.
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Well, there you have it. Everything I've drawn since the last one in all of their (un)glory. With any luck, my crusade to provide art for all custom characters in the TARRRPG will continue.
Now
ONWARD UNTO ETERNAL GLORY~!
