Amel's WiPs

[Amel]

I'm on a bit of a dinosaur kick and besides who doesn't love epic battles

C+C please

[Spenny]

Ahoy! Welcome to the forum!
Your anatomy on the dino is lookin pretty good! The one main thing I'd suggest before you start figuring out the people in more detail if you know the dinosaur anatomy well enough is to maybe bring things into more of a dynamic angled shot. A little closer to the action, birds eye, or snail's eye-view sort of thing. I think you could use the camera angles to make the reptile more intimidating.

[Amel]

Thanks for the advice, I try that out next time cuase I'm way to lazy to go back and change it all now

Anyways Update:

[Amel]

New superhero I'm designing don't know too much about her but she does have 2 superbuddies that I need to draw as well.

C+C please I wanna get the anatomy problems fixed before I start coloring lol

[Amel]

To impatient, classes got cancelled so I worked on the lovely superhero lady



She uhh throws voids around that eat pretty much whatever she isn't touching, she's kinda OP...

Anyway C+C always welcome

[Cheshire]

I would definitely recommend working on your anatomy, draw from life, get some anatomy books. Your figure drawing will improve a lot once you start to understand how everything works on the human body.

[Nakauri]

Oh man .. All your fantasy dino stuff is reminding me of a project I started working on in elementary school with one of my friends revolving around fantasy armour-wearing lizard creatures relating to Atlantis ... And man eating trees.

I agree with Ches-- If you spend a day or a week with a bunch of anatomy books, your figures will look pretty solid. Then it's just a matter of working on the colour rendering. The advice I typically hear is to start with black and white before colour, so you can see the different values. It looks like to me, especially on your last figure, that you're getting large areas of undifferentiated colour and it's taking away from the depth of the figure. For example, if you look at her stomach region, it's mostly just a flat surface of purple.

Your second dinosaurs colour rendering caught my eye right away. I like the Van Goghy approach in the rapid strokes of colour on him, and the texturing like that keeps undifferentiated blobs of colour at bay.

[Amel]

The picture of the girl isn't done yet but I needed feedback so I know where to build up some more color. OnceI come by some money I'll go out and see if I can find a good anatomy book, any good ones you guys can recommend? Thank you for the help and I'll see if i can't fix her up some more

[Shadeykris]

Andrew Loomis' "Figure Drawing for All It's Worth" is older than old, but it's still the good stuff.
It's out of print but people seem to make it available online. Like here:

http://fineart.sk/index.php?s=40&cat=12

There's more here too:
http://fineart.sk/index.php?cat=1

[Spenny]

Check out the resources thread for more too!

[Amel]

Cripes I'm updating this hell must've froze over...

So I am once again attempting to draw wildlife, only like realistically and not trying to play off the mistakes to it being 'stylized'

My oh my is this fox giving me a run for my money... C+C appreciated

[Spenny]

Hmm... well, lets find some reference first and see how things compare!
http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/enlarge/red-fox-sleeping_image.html
http://www.hidetanning.net/RedFoxPhotos.html
http://wildirisbooks.com/zencart/images/categories/RedFox-head2(4-07).jpg
http://s435.photobucket.com/albums/qq79/compactwater/?action=view&current=red-fox-sleeping_head.png

My first few crits when I look through some of those images would be that the head might be a bit wide, the black nose shape needs to be tweaked more, the shading on the snout is giving you a strange effect, and there are some weird shapes you're defining a bit too much in the brow. You might want to emphasize those whiskers a little more, as they're usually really nice and black and a good attraction point on the face. It also looks like this fox has a mane? Maybe a bit too much fur going on down under there. I wonder if you could post some of your reference so I can get a better idea where you are coming from and I will try to help more?

[cacodaemonia]

Yeah, I think the eyes should be a bit bigger, too, but like Spenny said, if you could post your reference that will help us give suggestions.

[Amel]

hey look i'm back...again, anyway had to scrap alot of the stuff i was working on because my other computer refuses to turn on. I could definitely use some advice on this one though, the back legs and wings are giving me trouble, but anything else you see would be great. Its a raven-fox gryphon btw.



This one is a fight between the archer and her nemisis Cyberia, anatomy critiques would be fantastic



thanks in advance guys.

[cacodaemonia]

Hm, for the gryphon, it seems like the left leg (on our right) is turned out away from the body too much.

The woman on the top looks like her butt is funky. Almost like she has an extra joint to her leg or something. Let me do a redline to explain what I mean...



Hope that helps!

[Amel]

Thanks those lines really helped, still couldn't get the head right but just need to keep practicing.

Finished version here: http://amelydia.deviantart.com/art/The- ... -132915564

New WIP:
http://i444.photobucket.com/albums/qq16 ... eeffer.jpg

More redlines would be most appreciated. DIE ZOMBIE!

[Amel]

Update its getting close to done:
http://s444.photobucket.com/albums/qq16 ... effer3.jpg

[Nihilist]

Looking good, you're improving! For next time, I suggest you study the folds in pants- even if you're not going for a realistic style, it'd help you because not everyone wears tight pants.

[cacodaemonia]

Hey, in this image, watch out for contradictory perspective. The angle of the sidewalk and the rest of the background suggests that the scene is being viewed from slightly above the heads of the characters. However, when you look at the figures, it looks like we're on eye-level, or maybe even lower (the bottoms of the girl's feet are almost flat, indicating that the POV is very low). Keep going!

[Amel]

http://i444.photobucket.com/albums/qq16 ... effer4.jpg

Update http://i444.photobucket.com/albums/qq16 ... effer5.jpg

Updated the background, perspective should be better, Thanks for the input guys

[Spenny]

Lookin' better! Your proportions are pretty good, too. As for the lighting and rendering of the characters you may want to check out some anatomy to understand how the contours of the body, and how clothes interact with them, work. A lot of really good links have been posted in the Resources Section of the forum (linked at the top of the page for now) that can be a huge help. Keep on givin' 'er! Gettin' better all the time!

[cacodaemonia]

Yeah, the perspective is definitely better. I prefer the first version, without the eyeball - I think it's a bit too distracting with that there.

[Amel]

Who's afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?
I would be if he looked like this...

anatomy help would be great, mostly on his legs, and yes he is supposed to be overly thin :3