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[Patchouli]

This would probably be useful reference:
http://www.posemaniacs.com/archives/153

Anatomy is something you just have to keep looking at and drawing until you get it down, unfortunately. My anatomy isn't too great, so take these pictures only as a vague guide. I am also crap at explaining.

-Something is a bit weird with the way her upper body connects with her lower body.

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This is how I sort of interpret her pose. Like you can see in the right picture, I sort of see it like her upper body has kind of detached and shifted to the right slightly.

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Aside from that, the closest thing I can imagine that's similar to your pose is a sort of off-balance dance. The reason is because both poses would end up with the person in a unstable position because of how the upper body is shifted. The red line is supposed to sort of be where their center of mass lies above the ground. They're both unsupported and off-center, so they'll fall. Actually, this lady is sort of catching her balance, and a bit of arm swinging will get her there.

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I actually screwed up here, and she's still not balanced, but whatever. She looks stable, so a photoshop rotation should fix it. In the above case, with the dancing balance lady, rotating the canvas wouldn't fix the balance problem because the body itself doesn't look stable or balanced.

-The pose and body is quite stiff.

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If you look at the first stick figure picture I posted, the one on the left is how I interpreted the side view. Looks pretty stiff. Adding the second leg in the stick figure would have helped a bit, but I made an example here. The left is how I saw your pose, the back bent back significantly, with the head directly straight. Actually, I don't know why I see it like that, I suppose that's how I imagine the "THIS IS MY POWER" pose. Anyways, in the second picture, the only difference is that I tilted the head back to a more natural position. Just that alone makes the pose flow better, and I think it gives off a better flair of the confidence that's part of her character, but that's up to interpretation.

As for the body, it just plain lack smooth form. Most of it is just anatomy issues. Do a TON of gesture drawings. Seriously. Gesture drawings, a ton.

-Some shading notes.

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Some example of how you'd sort of block in shading. It's just a vague idea. Don't reference this exactly, because it is wrong. 

I'm not good at shading or choosing colors, but I think you need to use a bigger brush, and block in the basic shadows first. You can shade softer later, but I find life a bit easier to start blocking first. You also need a LOT more contrast with shading.

Some fun little exercises:
-Make a black and white picture only. Shade with black.
-Doodle in the old MSPaint. You won't have your fancy smoothing effects when shading.
-Go to http://kuler.adobe.com/. Pick a color scheme, and make a picture ONLY using those colors. This one is pretty fun actually, and make sure to try and figure out why some of those colors work together.

Also, I'm absolute trash at color theory, but I do know that with shadows, you don't simply want to take the same color and just make it darker for shading. There is weird voodoo involved that I do not completely understand, and you will have to look for further info online.

[Errol]

Thanks for the help, first of all...
Pose was supposed to express the following, as was already said earlier: Smug confidence, elegance. It might not even need to be a solid standing position, could be sort of like "just hovered down".
No filters or graphic effects were used in the making of the picture, especially the shading (which I tend to apply too sparingly). I just took a bog-standard water color brush and went over it. Perhaps I should just use a bog-standard color filling in tool instead, aka paint brush/pencil. Doesn't hurt to start at the basics.
Not being capable of making the pieces fit together is actually kind of a long term disease for me. Not uncurable, though.

You'd perhaps be surprised, but experimenting with limited palettes/weird coloring is something I like to do, although it only shows in some canvas works I have lying around in my room (and, tbh, they all are kind of crappy, but it's the crazy ideas that I used in their making, for me)

[Patchouli]

To convey elegance and such via pose, you definitely need to practice gestures, and start to take a look at understanding line of action. It'll also help you piece the body together. I may be wrong, but sheer volume helps out a lot here, and you just want to pump out a ton of tiny doodles to practice this sort of stuff.

There is also a pretty neat reference for the "floating down" pose in site I linked before.

Using a watercolor brush is fine, just make sure to block the stuff out first.

[Conan]

I just might give this a shot. However, I do not like to use MS paint and will be submitting hand-drawn pencil pictures.

However, if you request something specifically I might give MS Paint a shot.

[Nivim]

 Just use what you want to learn about, get experience in, and have fun with. Besides, if we were going to demand you use a certain medium, and if that medium was digital, we would not ask you to inflict MS Paint on us, but instead recommend at least GIMP (which is free) or Photoshop (if you already have it).

[jrmy]

finals are over yesssss just many years of tertiary education to goooo

that is a mildly sad thought! however now I can get down to sleeping and wiling my time away in other non-productive pursuits. like drawing!



this was a request from one of my friends. I decided to post it here because I think it's probably the nicest thing I've drawn to date, and if people can tell me how to make it better.. that would be pretty neat. :V

[Jopax]

It's a flying penguin, i don't think it gets any better than that

I like the perspective you did with the color there, reminds me of those shadow puppet cartoons.

[freeformschooler]

I like the background. I know someone else who does cool layered monotone backgrounds like that. Every time I try to pull it off it looks terrible.

[Sean Mirrsen]

Here's another one from the Multiworlds:



Comments welcome, I guess. Shading's still all over the place I think, but at least I'm getting the hang of decent linework.

[Hippoman]

I'm not one to say much, so don't really take my words to thought, but it just seems a bit... awkward.

The guy on left doesn't seem... realistic? It's hard to put it in words but I'm just getting the feeling that this scene couldn't happen, the people don't seem to convey what they would if this were happening.

It might be the posing, or the facial expressions, but I can't tell.

[Sean Mirrsen]

Yeah, the pose is a little off on the left guy, and the proportions aren't very accurate. I guess it's a weird case of uncanny valley - it's close to believable, but odd enough to create a disproportionately large negative effect.

I guess it doesn't help that I had to flip the whole thing horizontally after completing the linework - weapons were in the wrong hands.

[Jopax]

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Damn LoL and it's waiting queue's making me doodle in boredom :I

[Svampapa]

I drew something! Has been a while.

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A modeling sheet, for reference in a 3d modeling environment. Anyone got any tips for making these?

[strongrudder]

The only tip off the top of my head is to make sure you're using horizontal lines to track landmarks on the body between views. That way you make sure your proportions stay consistent when you actually model. Having the two views disagree on just where the knees (or whatever) ought to be placed is annoying to deal with.

[Svampapa]

Yep. Got so many guides running I can hardly see where to paint!

One mistake was making the sideview first I think. Probably would have been better to do the front first.