New tablet, new sketch.

[Chicky]

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:



stage 2:



Let me know what you think, any major errors then tell me before its too late!

[nihilyst]

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

[scotch]

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)



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.

[loominous]

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:



(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.

[Chicky]

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.