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April 18th, 2007 |
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A drawing of my friend Jesse as she was being coy with the camera. I'm sorta happy with how this came out with how long it's been since I've done any photo reference stuff. Must keep plugging away! |
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April 18th, 2007 |
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Hi Gimpy! <3
Nice line work. Almost nothing hairy, the lines are full and complete for the parts they need to be so they define the form very well.
Ever think of going for realistic faces? I really like how you do them, but it was unexpected to find a stylized face on her, especially being a photo reference.
Also, you have a tangent between her raised leg and the bra, and it makes that section confused and pulls the leg back in space. It's more than a tangent, even, as the contour continues in the same swoop up the leg as the bra would. Even if that's the way it really is, it ends up confusing in a picture. Never be afraid to take artistic license and change reality!
Nice to see you updating! Welcome back! |
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April 18th, 2007 |
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Yeah I have no idea why I cartooned up the face. Probably just wasn't comfortable drawing realistically. I remember the process went something like... "That looks like crap. I better change that." and then that came out more natural looking.
Hopefully I'll drop it as a defense mechanism soon enough.
Btw, nice note about the tangent. All my sketches are done pretty light and then the contrast is amplified in photoshop. So sketch lines will bleed through on occasion. I might try to sketch in blue or just erase the sketch lines so they don't pop through the final ones like that.
Good call. =) |
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April 19th, 2007 |
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They introduced us to Prismacolor Col-Erase pencils at DigiPen. They're highly recommended for animation, because you can color-code things. Besides, coloring in color is so much more interesting than grey graphite.
The downsides are that the lead breaks easily and they don't erase quite as well as normal graphite. But they're colored and so neat and fun!
And if you want quality graphite, get the Tombow Monos. The single most awesomest pencil I have ever used. I've gone through a whole box of 2Bs and the lead broke ONCE when I was sharpening. The downside is they're barely larger than a Col-Erase pencil, and some electric pencil sharpeners don't handle that very well.
There was this other kind of graphite that amazed me because it glided across the page like it wasn't even there. But I'm amazingly tired, and now that I think about it, it was a pen. It was Bic and white with a striped black grip. Can't remember the name. Great ballpoint pen, though. Smoothest use I've ever had out of one.
I'm done art geeking on you. |
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