Reply With QuoteThis last one is some damn fine work my friend.
Looking forward to the final version.
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As much as you seem to regret your "out of date" style... I'm one of those who doesn't enjoy the new "anime/manga" fantasy art that seems to be coming out more and more. Then again I was an absolute died in the wool 2E artwork kind of guy.
So I appreciate a little bit of the "older school" you're throwing out there and if you feel like getting some text-based inspiration for some of your subsequent "drawings that aren't maps"... I'd be more than glad to throw you a little text I've been working on... (just a measley 130k words). PM me if you're interested and if you're not... just keep cranking them out baby.
This last one is some damn fine work my friend.
Looking forward to the final version.
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I love that the toes are pointed on the foot that's up. I grew up with dance, and it's the little things that make the picture real.
G - I nearly killed myself trying to draw those toes. Since I do this in the evenings I didn't have access to my sis and my nieces are with their dad for a few days so I stood in front of the bathroom mirror with my leg in the air (nice visual, eh?). Lost my balance about 5 times and gave myself a real crick in my hip...pathetic - I used to be a good dancer in college, well club dancer. It's always the little things that count.
J - Yeah, I'm no fan of Anime either. I'll just leave it at that.
Last edited by Ascension; 10-06-2009 at 03:26 PM.
If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer (father of the atom bomb) alluding to The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 11, Verse 32)
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Awww ... sorry for the crick in the hip but it was well worth it! The things we go through for our art eh?
I sure needed that picture in my head Ascension, thanks.
Wow, for a 12 year hiatus, you're doing good.
Would you like some criticism? Or just getting back into the groove?
Fire away, can't get better without knowing what's wrong. I'm in the process of coloring (off and on) right now so any suggestions would be on a different sketch.
If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer (father of the atom bomb) alluding to The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 11, Verse 32)
My Maps ~ My Brushes ~ My Tutorials ~ My Challenge Maps
Well, one thing that strikes me, you have a sense of what muscles go where, but not how they exactly look when they're in a certain position. Like the dancer, it's clear what pose you want to communicate, but you seem to fall back to certain 'symbols' of how these things look.
One thing you might try, is, before you start on your figure, do some warm-up exercises using PoseManiacs (the applet itself is perhaps NSFW). It's an applet that shows a certain pose of a modelled man or woman, showing the muscles and some fat (so basically nude, without the skin, so therefore perhaps NSFW). The idea is by trying to draw the pose for a certain time, like 30 seconds, you quickly learn the proportions and how a human body looks. It might amaze you how some things look in certain perspectives.
(I'm by no means a pro myself, but I picked this up while browsing ConceptArt.org, and I notice my figure work becomes more confident and accurate when I practise PoseManiacs for a while
Hope this helps, look forward to see some more
That's a cool link. I'll definitely use that, I love doing quick stuff for practice.
If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer (father of the atom bomb) alluding to The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 11, Verse 32)
My Maps ~ My Brushes ~ My Tutorials ~ My Challenge Maps
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