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You said asking for advice is alright here, yes? :3I'd like some tips on how to place a character in context. I'm not the best artist but I'm fairly confident with drawing people, animals, etc - but all my work looks unfinished because I leave them floating in space. Backgrounds on their own, I can do too. But when it comes to populating them? Hopeless.Any ideas?
how awesome!! How about my latest finished piece?visitors can't see pics , please register or loginLooking at it now I can see the legs are uneven. And I shaded it weird. One thing I know I'm bad about is not using proper shading Can't wait to hear your crit!
Quote from: IIya on February 01, 2012, 07:48:52 PM how awesome!! How about my latest finished piece?visitors can't see pics , please register or loginThis image has been resized. Click this bar to view the full image. The original image is sized 709x945.Looking at it now I can see the legs are uneven. And I shaded it weird. One thing I know I'm bad about is not using proper shading Can't wait to hear your crit! Ooh cool, I am already following you on devart - I thought Bumbleweet looked like a perfume pony (remember me? ) I really like the mixed media approach. I feel that (deliberate) inaccuracies can make for memorable and charming style, and that perfecting the ponies proportions too much might make it feel a bit 'clinical'? I think what I'm trying to say is it I very much like this picture the way it is It's sort of raw, spontaeneous, childish - and yet presented in a sophisticated way. If anything I'd say the picture quality is a little blurry and a higher res scan or photo might better show the grain and texture in the materials and the paper.
problem is i don't actually have that much fully developed art that's really recent...and some of those look like sketches anyway hurrr durrand technically you can still critique sketches since they're prolly easier to improve
This chappie posted a couple of weeks ago could use some work. In particular his hind leg looks pretty odd, think the problems in the shading as the lines looked okay any other pointers are welcome ^_^http://mlparena.com/mlp/index.php/topic,284612.msg14657.html#msg14657edited to add link because apparently I are a stupid
Wait a minute, did someone mention Nat Geo magazines? I have lots of them!I dug these up from my numerous sketch books...I got this whole thing started with nothing in my head and when I was done, it actually looked half-way decent. Though I can't tell when something is a little off on foreshortening or proportions. That random blue-ish squiggle in the background got started by accident, when I dropped a pencil there and liked the color.
ok that workssome of those in the gallery are pretty old though prolly should have saidalso i'm not sure what you mean by the different faces thing? since yeah some of them are old and i focus a lot on making different characters not look like the same face with different hairbecause some people do have long faces and others have round faces and stuff so...and i'm not entirely sure what you mean by solidifying my style eitheralthough i guess that's because (imo) style isn't as important as drawing well (which i admittedly...don't)but otherwise THANKS<3
Thanks! My mom tells me to use reference for my humans. but I keep forgetting. I say that my memory often can't remember anything useful unfortunately. Sorry about having a few too many pics. I can't find a human anatomy book I really like, this because the ones I see are almost always manga. Manga has become so popular I can't really find a good drawing book. It drives me crazy!