Does this look like a man?

Daniel Thomas · Mon 20/02/2006 20:49:45

Yea, but my eyes is somewhat missaligned and off(on the picture that is), but just to make my point clear. Her ear should probably be a little higher, didnt notice when I miss aligned the eyes though. me and my quick paintovers.

Igor · Mon 20/02/2006 22:58:02

The new sketch looks good. In my opinion, however, it misses the energy and uniqueness of the original. It's more.. generic?
Also some anatomic&posing shortcomings are now much more evidential (such "round" style requires completely accurate anathomy or it won't look good).
Don't get me wrong, i think it still looks very good.. but i like the first one better

Daniel Thomas · Mon 20/02/2006 23:12:23

Ill say: Work on perfecting the anatomy, when you mastered anatomy you can probably make it any style you want, even if it would feel like a "backstep" it will pay off bigtime..

Myself was very hard into anime, but I recently started to study gloomis etc, if you can draw the real thing then you will be able to adept any style.. practicing drawing is always practicing drawing.. I wish I started learning the real thing from the beginning, but I didnt so now Im practicing and trying my best.

Just my 5cents :>

Squinky · Tue 21/02/2006 01:33:35

Yeah, her eyes do look frigging crazy don't they?

I'll take another stab at her in a bit, although I think Mr. Zyndikate's edit (very much appreciated) is pretty manga/ anime styled, but then again, I did over do her eye size, so I can see that assumption popping up. I don't really want to draw the cookie cutter skinny woman you see everybody drawing, but I sure don't want to have people ever mistake a female drawing of mine for a male again. Kinda is a blow to the ego....

And on the anatomy, I've been trying to warm up with a good bit of just anatomy practice before I do any real art, about an hour when I wake up, and I sit and do some up at night if all works well. So, I'm hopeing it will sink in quickly.

Thanks again.

Edit----Whelp, fixed her up a bit and inked. Calling it done on this character, but I gotta do a bunch more women according to my request list over there, so I might post the next one up so I can refine the woman thing some more. Thanks again all.

Ionias · Tue 21/02/2006 03:53:40

That is a great final edit. You've got the style of the first one back, but now she is 100% all woman. Nice work. My only critique would be her ear. It needs just a slight touch up to fit in with the sleeker face.

Squinky · Tue 21/02/2006 06:51:57

Yeah, the ear is weird now, since I moved the hair and stuff down as suggested. Thanks again Ionias.

Okay, heres the next woman in line, a healer type/half indian/shaman gal. Is she okay? Hit me with the crits if I'm not starting to get to greedy. (And yeah, I need to stop using the crap-ass photoshop backgrounds, I know.)

Helm · Tue 21/02/2006 07:39:28

Yeah, lose the backgrounds.

You've gotten better - again. She looks distinctively female, which was your trouble before, pretty and all. You acessorize the characters pretty hardcore, but you've always done that and it has it's charm. Maybe it's time you started working on implying shading with the inking, not just texture. My biggest crit is that right now, there's about even amount of detail all-over. Don't be afraid of white space. Use more detail where you want the eye to be drawn at. And unless you plan to colour everything in a different way, be it pc or whatever, start using black as a tool as well. Right now you're not. Places where you want to imply darkness? Don't be afraid of pure black. Transist between pure black and pure white with various techniques, maybe cross-hatching, maybe feathering, maybe even harsh noise springling, whatever. Try things, your lineart can handle them.

Oh yeah, the head I think is a little small for the body, probably a bit high too, but nitpick.

Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens · Tue 21/02/2006 19:48:24

This one definitely looks female and cute. The only problem I see is the left shoulder, it doesn't seem to be far enough from her neck, great work though.

lo_res_man · Tue 21/02/2006 20:22:27

Its great, reminds me of someone though, but I guess thats a good sign. anyway if I can make a critic its that one breast seems bigger then the other, as well they don't really seem to be on the same angle as her body.
I mean, her bodys tilted one direction and her breasts in another. just my humble opinion.

Squinky · Tue 21/02/2006 21:44:57

Coolness.

I've gotten to the point where I am kinda tired with my way of texturing/detailing, because it does seem to all look the same, but it's like a sick disease, I cant stop. I've fooled around with different tones, and I'll keep fooling.

Thanks for the tips guys.