Howdy, enough of the crap songwriting, heres one of my recent sketches. I managed to acquire a waocom sapphire from a friend which has replaced my old serial waocom.
Bloody hell this thing feels nicer, so much more sensitivity.
Anyway here's my latest sketch, i'll update with a new post as i update the picture (dont count on daily updates, the new ladyfriend has her needs).
stage 1:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v54/oversizedchicken/stage1.gif)
stage 2:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v54/oversizedchicken/stage2.gif)
Let me know what you think, any major errors then tell me before its too late!
Well, the positions of her left leg and left arm look a bit ouch; I don't think that's a comfortable or even possible position to sit at all. Other than that it looks okay to me so far.
cheers
nihilyst
I think it's a good idea if you're not sure about posing and stuff to draw less to start with. Slapping down blocks of shadow like a painter is ok if you have a great deal of confidence, but it's easy to miss the posing to start with. Reducing the number of lines... (excuse the photoshop lines, I don't have a fully working tablet atm)
(http://caverider.com/temp/chickychick.png)
it's easier to see how uncomfortable the leg pose is. I'd suggest revisiting that before going too far.
Also, I think the eyes in the second stage are quite hidden and poorly positioned compared to where I thought they were going, based on the first. The makeup kills the face a bit. If you want to practice, I'd say steer clear of things like that, don't let yourself hide anything.
I tried to change it a little to make it a more comfortable pose, but I can't find a similar one that works.
I was unsure what kind of facial expression you were going for (looked either sad or like a runny mascara), so I went with sad.
If you're aiming at taking this thing further than a small sketch, I agree with scotch's advice of reducing the lines and making sure that the posing n such is solid to start with, otherwise you're probably gonna end up spending ages modifying it later on, or be stuck with a funky looking result.
If it's more of a sketch where you more spontaneously want to blob something down and don't want to ruin it with too much pre-work, I think you could just remove some of the lines n modify some stuff to get sort of a xerox look:
(http://marcus.krupa.se/AGS/wl.gif)
(I basically removed some of the outlines n shadow blobs n added some black areas. The pose was modified a bit as well)
I went with the first version because I think the second one started to mess with the values a bit. Adding mid tones is really tricky because as soon as you lay down the first value at a particular place, all other values must be carefully based around it. The mid values also to a large degree determine the surface material, and it's easy to end up with a skin that looks like some kind of metal or something else weird.
About the outlines, I just removed some of the ones that encapsulated areas being hit quite directly by the light.
Some really positive advice guys, i'll get to work on another drawing keeping your points in mind soon. I think i'll leave this one for now.
I really like what you did with the shading loominous, it gives the image a very professional feel. Expect an image from me within the next few days.