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Looks pretty good, I like the style, though the head seems a tad too small for the body! And I'd love to see some detail added to the gun.
 
006":11d7zhuf said:
Looks pretty good, I like the style, though the head seems a tad too small for the body! And I'd love to see some detail added to the gun.

Pretty much hit it on the head. The anatomy is way off though. Oh no its not its just the head size is to small. And I don't think I'd be afraid of anyone with that little gun. It looks a tad bit like a water gun.

But its not bad.

A lighting source would also be a good thing to invest in.

Or are we not allowed to give critiques on these?
 
Makasu":3h9wyiqq said:
And I don't think I'd be afraid of anyone with that little gun.
Irrelevant. Afraid of it or not you're still going to get shot.

The head's size is fine, you people are just used to manga/anime's stupid crazy proportions. His head isn't too small, his body is a about 10% too wide.

Photoshop is just another medium, if you don't understand lines and colors you won't any better with PS. Push your lightness and darkness values, and don't shade with just black. Just keep drawing more and you'll do fine.
 
Thanks for all the feedback. The gun and the shoes aren't complete, so I'll finish them off when I get more time. I'll also adjust the eyes and the wideness.

Thanks.
 

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It looks pretty good, but I think you should practice *more* to make it look better,
and I guess he's holding a pistol on his right hand, and I think they're too simple.

Anyway, Nice drawing  :fap: :bunny:
 

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Awesome Bro

fox5 I'm no expert on character drawing, but I am someone that knows when something looks good. This doesn't.

It's no use taking soft crit from members because all it's going to do is make you feel that the mistakes in the drawing are acceptable and you'll never get any better. I'm a member on a designer forum and I get spitroasted when I whole heartidly think it's a good design. Know what I do? I do my best to shut them up. If you was really serious about getting better at this sort of thing you'll be welcoming a good critique when it comes to you.

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After writing that I haven't got the time to crit. Watch this space.
 
See the thing about what $tevo's saying is true but as an artist I don't feel its quite necessary to judge another person based upon their skill level. I mean if something's bad then okay but then again its someone's artistic vision. I'm not one for shitting on people's dreams. :/ there may be errors here and there but it is still basically a drawing. Everyone can draw its just some people have more of a developed style so there for I really don't think it'd be fair to just say, "Oh well this is complete shit you fail at life and as an artist." which is also why I never liked art classes. I don't think you can judge based solely on what you deem is "right" But $tevo does have a point. I'm just to much of a puss to be harsh...

Anyways back to the art. It looks better. Things are more in proportion. The shoulders are a tad bit to wide though, that or the head is to small. You might want to invest in trying to draw folds. The way I learned to draw them [[and this isn't correct]] is to think of them as triangles.
 
While its an okay start. There are serious problems with your anatomy.
-There is no neck! Well there is but its sitting to low on the body to actually tell.
-The torso is incredibly long or the shoulders are kinda to high. I'm not to sure which it is.
-The guy looks like he's about to topple over!

But its an okay start. You seem to have a basic of how to put together a body for the most part but you have to think in terms of cylinders and things of that nature. Because the actual body outline that you attempted is filled with epic fail. Sorry to say it.

http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/6/52931/blah.png[/img]

You'd want to go with something along the lines of this.

Which would eventually lead to something like this
http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/6/52931/blah3.png[/img]


Although my anatomy is incredibly shitty itself. :/

But more or less think of setting up the body using the letters T, an upsidedown U, and M.

Thats how I learned when I started to learn anatomy.

T-Shoulders
U-Abdomen
M-Pelvic area.

IE in case you're still kinda lost.

http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/6/52931/blah2.png[/img]

Don't mean to be posting images in your topic. :thumb:

But don't try to spend so long trying to get the body down perfectly in an initial sketch kinda thing. You're more than likely going to be changing up a lot of stuff by the time you're finished anyways because you may decide that you want a more heroic kinda pose or whatever. So don't waste to much time on it. Its just to help you get the basic idea of what you want down. BUT that doesn't mean that you can just throw out all of the basic anatomy stuff! Keep in mind of basic anatomy but don't get to caught up with it.
 
Thanks very much! That's really helped!
Yesterday, in the afternoon, I went round to see my uncle (he used to be an artist). I showed him my scetch/design, and told me pretty much exactly the same as what you've just said. So I've changed it, and worked a bit more on it. Seeing what you've said about the torso needing to be shorter though, means it needs a bit more work, but this is the new edited one, with the detail added:

http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/3049 ... opypa6.png[/img]

What do you think?
(Oh, also, I know the hands aren't detailed, and that the chest plate is too rounded. I haven't got round to doing them.)

Hope it's better.
 
Ok I ain't no super awsome artist (god forbid those who have seen my work) but that is one fat neck!
Other than that he also needs just a bit of waist like area because at the moment it looks like the only gas escape route is the mouth and I'd hate to see the other un-inviting mass come from there.
Thirdly those weird smug marks on his elbow area make his arm look twisted! In fact the way he is holdig the sword makes his arm look twisted.
Try adding fingers with gaps sothe handle is visible.
You are definately improving and for that I give you kudos!  :thumb:
 
His right arm has an unnatural curve. Arms bend at the elbow. Also, the charecter is too beefy at the waist, arms, and neck. It has great potential... Work at it!

Edit: I forgot to mention, the blades shouldn't be triangles. They should look like this.

                                                          l l
                                                          l l
                                                          l l
                                                          l l
                                                          l l      See?
                                                          l l
                                                          V
 
Cirras":3r5tm87i said:
His right arm has an unnatural curve. Arms bend at the elbow. Also, the charecter is too beefy at the waist, arms, and neck. It has great potential... Work at it!

Edit: I forgot to mention, the blades shouldn't be triangles. They should look like this.

                                                           l l
                                                           l l
                                                           l l
                                                           l l
                                                           l l      See?
                                                           l l
                                                           V

What the hell kind of exablpe is that? I think that if you actually have a picture of a sword it would better help him [[her?]] to realize this. :/  But not entirely true either. Not all blades are shaped like that. Schimtars or whatever and Raipers as well!

Anyways back to the art. I think Masc hit it on the head. Just work around that. Think of the body as 3d objects more than anything and you should be alright for the most part. Think cylinders, blocks, and spheres and it should help you in crafting a body better.
 
Thanks for all the replies. I will work on the body shape later. I'm glad I'm improving.
Also, Cirras, as Makasu said, the swords are Raipers so they're the right shape.

Oh, and I'm a boy just so everyone knows.
 

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