[Character WIP]Unnamed Sorceress

[Bustos]

Holy stuff Moy, your good
Teach me how to draw boobs, I fail at it ahaa
I fail at drawing women in general.  People really...
I bought this Anatomy book, Imma see if it helps
Nice work so far though man

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[Chrono]

Looks creepy. The style.

[WhoDa?]

The boobs version looks like Tifa

[Moybus]

Holy stuff Moy, your good
Teach me how to draw boobs, I fail at it ahaa
I fail at drawing women in general.  People really...
I bought this Anatomy book, Imma see if it helps
Nice work so far though man

practice makes perfect. I mean it, too. Every time I draw a character, there are always major flaws. I learn from those and make sure to avoid them next time around.

http://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=88140.0

Problems: awful shading, awful shading, bad proportioning.

http://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=95130.0

Now you'll notice huge improvements, but it's still not very good. I no longer like the soft shading style, but it's not that that really hurt the drawing. The terrible perspective and thick black outlines are the two things I'm trying to avoid this time.

And that's why I always submit my work here, I'm a huge victim to beauty in the eye of the beholder. I always think my art looks amazing, then when I submit it into here I see what's wrong with it. If I hadn't have received the valuable feedback from you guys, I wouldn't have been able to draw this.

and so that's why I'm submitting this one early on, so you guys can point out flaws and I can fix them before I get too far into this and don't really feel like it.

[Moybus]

just added eyebrows... minor overlook

[Radial543]

None of your drawings have perspective; they are really boring. Your shading is pretty bad, and the line work is very shaky.

I would suggest sketching before you draw things. This allows you to have better lines in the end. As for color, I would read up on some theory on it and well as some perspective.

[Moybus]

What's wrong with the shading?
I haven't done anything that requires perspective work on here. This is just a character sketch :x

I did sketch the head, but I usually do sketch everything roughly and then erase that and smooth it out.

[Radial543]

What you want to do is make a sketch layer, reduce the opacity of the sketch layer after you are done with the initial shape, then draw over it on a new layer. Once the final line work is done, you can delete the sketch layer. I usually have multiple sketch layers.

Characters are boring just looking at you, lifeless. In fact, I think that they looks pretty terrible. All of your characters look flat, even with "shading".

As for your shading, I must say that it is very bad indeed. Read this.

[Moybus]

What you want to do is make a sketch layer, reduce the opacity of the sketch layer after you are done with the initial shape, then draw over it on a new layer. Once the final line work is done, you can delete the sketch layer. I usually have multiple sketch layers.

Characters are boring just looking at you, lifeless. In fact, I think that they looks pretty terrible. All of your characters look flat, even with "shading".

As for your shading, I must say that it is very bad indeed. Read this.

I've done the sketch layer thing before, I'll try it again.

Reading...

[Radial543]

I use this image a lot because it is a good image to reference things off of.



Notice I have many layers for different things. This includes color (which goes under the linework layers, that includes sketching). For sketching don't layer lines, make quick broad strokes.

You may notice an error in the image, though: I accidentally painted the squid's skin right on top of the ocean scape layer instead of making a new one...oops.

[Moybus]

I make a layer for just about everything. One of the most interesting things that cought my eye in that guide was that you shouldn't darken/lighten to shade, you should change saturation. I've always darkened and lightened, but the author is most definitely correct. it looks much better that way.

Edot: I changed the shading like that, but I am keeping the shadows darker. I think. It appears to become lighter when saturation is taken out :x


Thanks a ton, though. I redid the boobs to be saturation shaded and it looks soooo much better.

[Bustos]

Did you ever move forward with that squid Rad?

[Valen]

I like the blue lips. You should make the breasts a bit smaller, but that's just because I don't like them really big xP

[Moybus]

You should make the breasts a bit smaller, but that's just because I don't like them really big xP

No.

thx4bloolips support tho

[Moybus]

gah, I can NOT get these hands right.