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The sketch thread!

zchin

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It looks really nice and all and I think drawing clothes on her will ruin the picture... Her left hand doesn't look like it's connected to the wrist, and her right hand looks a but too long it looks a bit like a foot/hand thingy... I like the drawing though, you should colour it and stuff like that if you fix it up a bit, well done, your drawings are always interesting :grin:

Thank you and have a nice day!
 

moxie

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wow strawberry, you're getting better and better all the time. maybe it's just because i haven't seen any other of your recent pics with torsos, but your anatomy is getting much better.

e; crap, top of the page with no content. here, have a shitty wip. i hate changing them to jpg to show but the only other extensions essentials 4 will do is riff, psd, and gif.

mc1.jpg
 

Cait

Member

Okay, I decided to post this here, since this is a sketch thread. I don't have a scanner, so please forgive my webcam photo of my drawing.
girl.jpg
 
@moe: Thanks! :3

To be honest, I'm a bit scared to draw much more than that. O.O I keep thinking I'll mess up. Mayhaps I'll end up being daring later on today and draw a full body picture. :D

@zchin: I made the hand shorter and actually colored it and stuff for fun. ^_^
 

moxie

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I'm the exact same way. I'll end up with a face I really like and think, ohgod what if I mess it up now... :specs:

It gets waay better once you've got a tablet and you're working digitally, because you have multiple layers and really plan everything out, without fear of messing up.
 
I don't know why but I am quite surprised that star can draw fairly well
o.0

She's cute, and the proportions are drawn fairly well. The fact that this is a sketchy drawing helps you, since various places could be blamed on sketch, such as where the elbow rests on top of the pillow, and the hand sorta blends into the pillow. Check out the tail as well- where it actually... um, "enters" the body is not defined by anything more than just, you know, attached to her/and the shirt, which doesn't make sense. I mean, wtf, is there a small hole there the exact size of her tail? whatevs.
What we can see of her breasts are fairly undefined so I'm not sure if the exact proportions bodywise are correct, and the hair that rests on her back looks just a bit standing up/unnatural

cool job dude
 

candle

Sponsor

That looks amazing, though there is something wrong with the tail. Despite the fact that it looks like it's jutting out of her left buttock as opposed to right above the cleft on the small of her back, I think it would be better laying down and coming out from under the sheet given her pose. Maybe with a slight curl at the end.
 

Star

Sponsor

Daxis":2w8ltohp said:
I don't know why but I am quite surprised that star can draw fairly well
o.0
Years of practice my friend. YEARS D: DX Hard bumps, Hard Bruises, Nasty Scrapes. I draw lots of crap throughout the week, it's been my goal to wanna create a webcomic that doesn't FAIL. (Most do, mine did) I just really need to work on backgrounds, seems to be my biggest weakness, mainly cause those years I spent drawing characters and animals.

See the character in my avatar, and the first pic in my sig, and the moving sprite. I did all those. I guess it's hard to tell.

Incidentally I didn't have a reference pic for this one, not that I really need one, but they are cool to have sometimes.

Boobs are supposed to be like super small, so yeah XD

I actually was wanting to put the tail underneath the dress instead of coming out of a perfectly fitting hole (That's way too over done). *bangs on head* I should of done that, well it is a sketch, plenty of room for changes.

I should post sketches here more often, I didn't know I could get such great feedback.
 
Venetia":fl6jvhjg said:
p.s. i wasn't trying to knock the pic. i just read my comment and i sound like a dick. not trying to be!!!! just was trying to be constructive ;x
you're a great artist you know i think so.
No no no, it was a great critique, and I appreciate it! I'll definitely keep that stuff in mind for the next thing I draw or if I revisit that. :)
 
off the top of my head

something's weird with the head/angle/eyes proportion, i think mostly where the hair is touching her eye

Breasts feel just the slightest bit saggy, which I think stems from this feeling i get that it's either slightly small or disproportioned, the more I look at it
lol
right next to her right breast, that bra string hanging out (I think?) could be removed, since what we see on the other side shows no/little indication of such. If not, I think it's drawn a bit small.

Something's off with the hand we see.

ugh, man it's close to good, but the legs are too much 2d-ish and now it honestly and honestly looks like either her leg got chopped off or that she's a slug. :crazy: yeah. I think this partially stems from her left leg, where the curve of the lower calf going in is done a bit weird (if you understood that)

that's as far as I got. in other news, awesome effing job and you've definitely improved very much.
 
I used a reference for this picture, but neither of the legs were shown much more than that, actually. O.O

Thanks for the rest, though. The face was the hardest part of the whole drawing for me, actually. :(
 
the boobs are fine imo. i super prefer drawings of realistic bazongas than the intensely pert, anti-gravity soupbowls people normally depict them as. besides: breasts on thin women will sag that way when benind forward. They only "plump" on heavier-set females.

the face is off because the pupils are off. it's hard for me to line up pupils right too. try drawing a line across the face at pupil-level, with a slight arc (as if it's wrapping around the skull). Then place the center points of the pupils on that line and then draw the rest of the pupil/iris around them. it won't work for vertical alignment but it will work for horizontal alignment.

Her left eye and eyebrow (her left, our right) are also doing what i call "the anime drift". since anime-esque drawing requires an economy of lines, and very small noses, it can be hard to keep the eyesockets in a reasonable distance from the bridge. What would help you here is to very very lightly block out a reasonable shape for the nose, then lightly draw in two eyesocket circles on either side. The eyebrows would trace semicircles along the tops of the eyesockets and then the placement of the eyes under them should be easy to find.

Also, about the legs, this is a good lesson in using references: photographs and photorealistic shading are capable of much more leeway in plausible negative anatomy. Meaning, her shins/down appear to be missing here. But in a photo, you would see some light shading around the knees, indicating where the musculature "bells" out and flattens when the leg is drawn together. So it looks more plausible. When transferring this particular angle to a 2D lineart image, you will have to very gently bend the perspective to show that she does, in fact, have shins/etc. So you would see a small portion of her calves and perhaps heels behind her.

Does that make sense?
 
doodled some ~*~victorian fashion~*~

was going more for a general idea of what clothes in that era was looking like, hence the messy lines and shitty anatomy, but whatever

doodle2.jpg
also some steampunk-ish stuff, concept art for a project i'm working on...................................

doodle.jpg
hello i keep butting in on all this AWESOME ART, don't mind me!
 
really? the mouth/facial area needs some work, there's possibly something off about the neck and arms, but that's about it that I notice.
 
@dadev
stoppit stoppit!!! you are getting yourself into the very very bad habit of doing slopdoodles!
don't do the small haphazard linework, take more confidence in your strokes!
you have 43million talent points but you need 72 more confidence to get to the next level!!!
even if a stroke is butts-shitty stick with it
carry it through to the next stroke
dont do little staccato jaggylines
trust me you will spend years trying to untrain yourself from doing it if you get used to it

lookup gestures do some gestures
the goal is to pick up your pencil as little as possible
it doesnt matter if it is shit, the practice in stroke movement is what is important
please please you have so much potential in cartooning dont blow it
i implore you!!!!
 

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