timrehix ([info]timrehix) wrote,
@ 2008-02-08 01:19:00
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Picture Challenge: Personal space, much?
So Jason and I frequently talk about Naruto and web comics when we are on lunch. We created a pair of “ninja” who are brothers and belong to a traveling village. My character leaves the village to learn various elemental jutsu from the other hidden villages. Jason’s character learns various chain themed jutsu. For my character to leave the village the two brothers fight and fake my characters death. That is what is happening in this picture.

I would like to say, I love the feet in this picture. The hair of Jasons character also kicks ass. I intentionally made them long and thin. I did it because I have never (and I didn’t realize this until I started the picture) drawn two people interacting like this before. I thought longer forms would be easier to pose.

The hands are a mixed bag, and way to small (damn) but over all I approve.

Next week, the challenge is to draw your DnD character doing what ever it is your character does best. Tingirl unless you have a DnD character I don’t know about, draw a Druid, Ranger, Paladin, Aristocrat or Commoner.

Edit: because we have done the draw a person challenge before, I am adding the stipulation to this drawing has to be an “action pose” they can’t just be standing there.


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[info]tingirl
2008-02-09 12:50 pm UTC (link)
I don't know these characters, so I'm stuck talking about Mr. Profile and Mr. Three-quarterview.

In general: I think you do yourself a disservice by seeking stylization as a way to make things easier. It might work for individual pictures, but it's much much easier in the long run to learn the proportions and then begin breaking them. For one thing, proper relative proportions go a long way towards making a picture look stylized instead of just distorted.

Specific tip: Remember heads are as long forehead-to-back as they are top-to-chin.

That said, you know I like your stylization.

Also, rare for anyone heavily influenced by anime, you seem to understand that human necks are generally *thicker* than the heads they support. Good job!

Threequarter: Wait, is he stabbing Mr. Profile?
Face is kinda flat. In three-quarter view, the face bends in around the eye and narrows around the mouth, rounding out at the forehead, cheek, and chin. Also, you've got the mouth angled on a straight downward slant; unless there's a reason for a character to have an uneven face, remember that facial features follow a curved line around the head, like latitude lines.

Profile: Why is his mouth black? Is he coughing up blood? Wearing lipstick? I told you I don't know the character.

The hair/shoulders conjunction is ... confused. There are ways to make it much clearer, but they may require more skill with foreshortening and anatomy than you currently have (NOT a slam, everyone has their temporary weaknesses to work around...) in which case, you could just move the hair out of the way to show the torso interaction a little more.

And, evidently, I could go on, but my laptop is dying.


Next Week: I don't have a DnD character, but I've had many RPG characters. If you're just wanting me to draw a picture from the Tolkienesque fantasy world, I can do that, but if you want more an actual character picture, tell me that.

And: Don't forget you also get to snark on my picture, right?

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[info]timrehix
2008-02-09 06:20 pm UTC (link)
Oh, if you have an RPG character then draw that character. I just added the contrition that it should be an "action pose"

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[info]rubyredrose
2008-02-15 07:31 pm UTC (link)
Hmm...needs color. The tangle of limbs is a bit confusing to sort out without it. A few oddities: Long haired character's hair seems to be showing that he's been knocked backwards (since it's thrown forwards) but his sleeves are showing that he's either standing still or moving forwards since they're mostly hanging down and towards his back.

The short haired character's hair is in fact well done. Good feet also. The designs don't much look like naruto style, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. (I think they look pretty silly a lot of the time.) A thought regarding composition: good full body picture, but you can get a neat shot of the same pose by moving the camera behind long hair's shoulder, and it becomes very cinematic. The shadow does a good job of giving weight and placement to the figures.

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