My sister recently won the battle with cancer and I wanted to do a drawing for her. This is just a planed sketch so comments and critiques are greatly welcome. Please help me make this the best it can be. :lovin:
very good! You know your grayscale very well. If you were to add color, it would look brilliant. Copic sketch markers I assume(?)
Right forearm looks a little thin. Otherwise I don’t see any problems.
Looks nice.
perspective?^
The pole being held has no perspective so neither should the arm really. It’s only a few inches in the distance compared to the other arm.
It’s only slightly too small in my eyes. Nothing to really worry about.
yep your right. I had to wipe my eyeballs
X_Sword- Thanx for the comment. I use tombow markers there low quality causes a layering effect and you can do all that range with 2 markers.
JasonLee- I can see what you mean with the arms. I’m going to tweak them on the next sketch of this and play with the foreshortening.
no prob dude. Ill devwatch u i like what I see
Looks fantastic. Love the expressions.
It’s the bomb-diggity. Are we gonna see this happen in the next Dynasty Warriors or what. I wanna ride some pandas…or koalas. What is that anyway, lol. I really like the character design though.
lol it’s my first attempt at drawing a panda.
Very nice.
Also, that is good news about your sister :tup:
It’s great to hear that your sister is doing well!
As for your piece, I think it’s a great start. I think that panda looks really rad and the chick is an overall cool design.
I do think that the composition needs some retuning. There isn’t much breathing room, particular at the top of the image. The scarf seems forced into that area above her head when my eyes are trying to follow it through beyond the page.
There is an awkward, empty space between the panda’s tail and her staff. It’s putting your piece off balance. I would give more space to the left, tweaking the position of your characters so they are are at least oriented in the center. If anything, seeing as they are facing towards the left, I would move any obvious empty space on the left side of the page. If the body language and orientation of your objects lead you one direction, in most cases, there should be more space on that side.
Your drawing has volume to it, and the scarf is flattening all your hard work. I think you can add some thickness to it by addressing the areas where 3 lines converge.
Take your drawing and look at it in the mirror or flip it horizontally in photoshop. You’ll be able to spot things you haven’t noticed before. Rotate the drawing so you can check for facial symmetry and in case there are other random wtf’s.
Your piece will definitely become the awesome that you want it to be. Keep it up.
Out of all the places I posted this. Your the first one to post what I needed to hear. I will take all this in mind for the next version for sure. Thanx for the great advice. Rep you if I could. :lovin:
Thats adorable. I want one!
dammit! shu beat me to the punch ><
but i definitely agree with everything he said since he actually caught much more important stuff than i saw ^^;
more on the scarf, it feels extra flat above the head, mainly due to the line weight. you could fix this by lightening the lines on the parts of the scarf behind the character’s head. you should prbly lighten the shadows on said parts of the scarf, as well, to help with the same problem. it’ll also fix the lighting in that area, as parts of the scarf are facing toward your light source and wouldn’t show as much contrast in most of the exposed spots. also gives more depth.
i feel you could make the figure pop a little more by bumping up the shadows on the armor just a bit more. very little. maybe the chain mail too. the bells would be a good place to hit as well. the tones in that area start to get a little too similar. the whole panda scarf in general could use just a small bump. it’ll support eye movement w/o taking away from the main focus of the drawing.
the dark objects in the background should come forward and the lighter objects behind those. that’s the general rule for showing depth. darker things “come forward” and lighter objects “move backward.” if you know this already i’m really sorry for the explanation ^^; since it’s the background tho, it’d be best to bring down the contrast. lighten the dark objects some and darken the stuff in the middle. you’ll have a background that isn’t fighting with the foreground and add a bit of focus blur. i wonder if that was what you were going for in the first place? ^^
other than that great drawing. it’s got a good flow going. and definitely does not feel like a sketch, but a start to something finished.