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March 25th, 2008 |
One I threw together today, came out alright, I think, save for the tail. It utterly refused to cooperate at any angle, so I left it looking like it was broken halfway down.
However, the rest I'm decently pleased with, if only for the fact that I pretty much free-handed this one off with no guides. I started trying to on the head, and as usual, out and out stopped.
For once, it worked out despite that. X3 |
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March 29th, 2008 |
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I'm glad to see an update! Gimpystick's been a little quiet lately, but it's been all I can do just to update myself.
What's good:
You've got good line quality on this. This is all done with pencil, right? The figure lines look really clean. Also, intentional or not, the background lines are much lighter than the figure. This is a really useful tool for helping the figure pop out. Even if the background lines were just as dark as the figure, if the figure lines were significantly thicker (like twice as thick) then the figure would stand out just fine against a background.
The picture has some emotion in it. It may be a little bit of a static pose and he may not be emoting very seriously, but all that is fine. You must remember that I am training to be an animator, so I'm biased towards the 7 goals of drawing for animation. The first goal is emotion, which is why I bring emotion into this. Besides, a static "Here I stand, look at me. Hi" pose gets a little boring. So I'm glad you did something with the pose.
You also add a lot more detail to your clothes than I see a lot of people adding. Shredded sleeves, rips, pockets and pant cuffs. Good stuff, glad to see it!
I'm trying to figure out the one thing I'd like to focus on that would improve this picture. I was thinking of talking a little bit about perspective. Or maybe touching on texture like I did on Faileas' latest scary chicken. But I think I wanna talk about something really simple instead, that can improve the picture a lot.
Value! Not the money kind, the gray kind. You've got the lines defining all these different shapes, but they're all filled with the same white value. Throwing some solid black, or even just some gray in them would help ease the eyes that look at it by giving them better clues about how to separate them.
There's three ways to create value:
-Proximity of mark (like hatching or cross-hatching, or just filling it solid)
-Pressure (press harder with the pencil)
-Borrowed Value (a pen's mark next to a pencil will look darker)
If you fill in the stripes with a black, and the shirt/pants with different shakes of grey, and maybe do something with the hair, you'll still have the same figure, but you'll have more contrast between the different elements of the figure so things pull apart a bit and you can easily tell what's what.
Thanks again for posting on Gimpystick. Feel free to comment on other people's pictures too. Say what you like or don't like, and maybe give them a little advice you've picked up in your drawing adventures. Thanks! |
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