The quick, quick edit worked? Wow. The gazillion something layers sure come in handy.
Seraphic wrote:Yep, it's official. young_oldtype is my superior.
But I'm just a regular Air Force reservist...And an Airman at that.
There's a couple of things that I consistently notice about your Panthers. Your lineart is improving and growing more detailed all the time, of course. I suspect that all of your Panther remakes still make use of the original drawing somehow, so it carries over some of the initial problems. How about you give a shot at drawing the guy from scratch? =) My biggest problem with it (and it's a common problem a lot of people exhibit that annoys me to no end) is that the sword handle is far too thin. He'd never be able to grip it properly. Try to make the handle about half as wide as the palm or something.
Yep, all the Panthers are traced from that old notepaper drawing. Meh, I'm kinda lazy
. Idunno but they didn't get much love from me until that last redesign. As for the sword, well I might try your suggestion on the handle. The thing's based on the Sword Strike's AS sword, only solid, shorter, and functions like a heat hawk. My mistake for following it's proportions.
Nice design. But the same thing goes for his sword, too. I think the reason people keep bringing up posture when they look at your work is because of this: the way you draw your torsos, they always look like they are bending forward. (I guess people are too spoiled by looking at Gundam lineart which bends the torso back slightly.) That might just be a design choice, but the issue is that the mecha is slouching forward ahead of its center of balance. So yeah, the mechs look off balance. If you want to continue drawing the torsos this way, you should adjust accordingly and perhaps have them bending at the knees or something. I also notice that your skirts are always slanted to the side or something. (And this is very obvious because the lines on the skirt are diagonal instead of vertical.) I've always struggled with posture, so I guess we both need practice.
The torso bending is from an old figure drawing philosophy of showing as much angle of the figure as possible in a single pose. I tried to show the rather plain top view in this case. I'm trying to get away from that habit as of recently, but I guess it keeps coming back.
Very good. This one seems to improve on the posture, especially because of the bending legs. (By the way, I hope you know that you actually linked to a thumbnail of this image in your earlier post. I had to dig for the actual piece.) The arms are quite long on this guy. I hope he makes good use of that.
My bad, it is a thumb! I'll be fixing the link right away, sorry for the inconvenience. The arms by the way are for longer reach in melee combat as it was inspired by the Arche Gundam lol.
Wow. I feel terrible for the GM guy though. I guess I've always been a bit squeamish, so decapitation isn't really my cup of tea. =o
I might feel the same if it's either a Quel or Custom. I don't know why I don't like the original GM much.
Yup. Definitely my superior. He's very thin and lanky. Reminds me a lot of Suzaku Kururugi, haha. My compliments for doing such a good job on his boots. So many people neglect footwear, such as myself.
Suzaku? My friends often say Strafe looks like him! Only they refer to him, probably by mistake, as Lelouch.
I'm surprised that you said I did the boots well actually. I've been lazy on that part, neglected the sole grooves for simplicity's sake, and replaced the clearly defined laces with those bold crisscross lines. Thanks anyway.
EDIT: Oh yeah.... Why did it take you four hours to recolor the Panther to urban colors?
I colored from scratch actually. Not to mention it actually took some time to select the "perfect gray". I'm just curious, how do you lock the unused pixels? Many thanks in advance.
Gaaah, my connection's really bad tonight...
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Now that should make life a bit easier.
