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[burningpet]

i made a typo, its mandryk.

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=200937

you can see the characters that heavily inspired those if you scroll down abit.

yeah, thats a rough for a crossbow, a carved bones shooting one.

[Spreggo]

Derp: You have a good style developing, but I think you might benefit from studying models from life a bit more. The figures are almost believable, but there is a stiffness and a little oddness about the limbs that seems to hurt the naturalism. Life studies will surely iron that out.

Mendonca: Are you working partly from photos?

burningpet: These are fantastic Try to find where your figures are divided between light and dark. As a rule, the lightest part of the dark area, should never be as light as the darkest part of the light area. It is difficult to get the meaning of that statement and apply it - let me know and I will try and find an example. The other thing is to conserve your white highlights for only the areas where you want to draw the viewers attention. Generally these whites should also have the sharpest edges in the painting.

[freeformschooler]

I think everything I've posted here has been in a completely different style. I don't generally stick to one. I like to experiment.

Anyway, I just drew this with shapes and fills in GIMP, very fast. I don't like how big the eyes are, or how the left leg (foot? shoe?) is very wonky, but boy I sure do love some Kirby.

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EDIT: I made another image in this same style in the time it took this thread to not have any posts. Actually, it took me an hour, but that's because I've really never drawn in this style before except the above case, and it's entirely lines, fills and shapes. No freehanding here.

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Link's face looks very silly, and I had originally added more features like eyebrows to make him more Wind Waker-y, but then I decided I just liked the almost Lucky Cat-esque Link face instead.

And now I just realized that I got a couple of the shades wrong herp derp, AND the right hand looks awful.

[mendonca]

Mendonca: Are you working partly from photos?

'fraid not. all just spills out the mind. How so?

[freeformschooler]

I made a Mario, too, just now. I like this one even less than the Link one.

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What do you guys think?

[Nivim]

 It's speed ~pixel art, where the normal advantage is in working on detail; not really much to critique that doesn't break down to how steady your mouse is. A couple things do stick out, like Link's mangled legs, deformed right hand, Mario's torn overalls, and doll-like limbs. Why not try things other than characters? Like the view while sitting on the inside of a toroidal space station? A ridiculously large one where you can see windows, semi-buildings, and varied spokes (to a central structure) stretching off into the distance and up above.

[freeformschooler]

Hey, yeah, thanks Nivm. I was just experimenting, I'm glad you said that. Building structures are much more my speed, I'm glad I'm not a character artist. Especially since I can't do hands. Thanks for the critique, again. It's a shame we don't have more active artists so that my pixel art doesn't stay at the bottom for like days.

Thanks for the idea for the space station, too. I think I might try to do that in 3D sometime, render it and stick it in here.

[Spreggo]

'fraid not. all just spills out the mind. How so?

Something just looked photographic about them. It is hard to describe, but drawings tend to look a certain way when done from photo reference, I guess because cameras and eyes see differently. But, since you aren't working from a photo I would just say you are doing a really good job with form!

freeformschooler: Guild participation comes in waves, because of everyone's schedules I think.

I think your drawings look good but you need to put more care into the structure of the character's bodies. Mario and Link don't seem to have a skeleton. Kirby is an exception to that for obvious reasons. Maybe look at some skeleton anatomy photos and think about how the forms of the body are dictated by the positions of the bones. It should remedy the 'dolls limbs,' issue.

[lordnincompoop]

I'm not sure what position the Mario's supposed to be in; either looking up or from the front seems to be what you're trying to do. He doesn't seem to be standing properly because of the position of the feet, and his arms are a bit lopsided.

[freeformschooler]

Yeah, that's one of the reasons I said that I tend not to draw human-like things when I first joined the guild. Spreggo, I'll definitely look up some online resources on that (and at my library), it would be a good thing to know. LN is right, too, in that I was attempting to do a coherent pose but it sort of fell through once I got to the legs, and that's most noticeable in Link but still very noticable in Mario.

In other news I've been reading the archive and @burningpet my God do you have a Deviantart? Because I would like to see some more of your work.

[Lofn]

I'm working on a picture to submit to the monthly art contest for a MUD I play.  My character is the lizard and she does NOT get on well with the fishwoman she is forced to work with. >_>

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[Spreggo]

Very nice, what are their roles?

[freeformschooler]

Whoa  that's pretty impressive, I hope you win a prize. Anyway, if you're not done with it yet, the only problem I could spot is that the sense of depth is messed up by the table the lizard is on and whatever (counter? looks like it) the fish is behind sort of blending together near the lizard. Unless they do blend together and that's intentional.

(love the bluh bluh's)

[Lofn]

Very nice, what are their roles?

They're a pair of occultists/researchers working on the cure to a bioweapon that's spreading through the game at the moment.  The fishwoman (Prism) is a proponent of Old School magical theory, as opposed to my character (Yusri) who is rigidly scientific and methodical.  They are both pretty much convinced that they're always right. 

the only problem I could spot is that the sense of depth is messed up by the table the lizard is on and whatever (counter? looks like it) the fish is behind sort of blending together near the lizard.

I'm not quite sure what's going on there, but I think I will probably pretend it's intentional and try and add more depth when I do the colouring.  I'm not inclined to spend a whole lot more time on this one.

(love the bluh bluh's)

Spoiler: "HUGE FISH." (click to show/hide)

Cabalist Prism yells, "I told you about the ice, Zuhayr. I warned you."
You slip and fall on the ice as you try to leave.
You stand up and stretch your arms out wide.
You slip and fall on the ice as you try to leave.
You stand up and stretch your arms out wide.
You yell, "I can't- gah! It keeps happening!"

[lordnincompoop]

If my guess is correct and that's two panels, either you have to make the border between them clearer (move the lizardman's arms) or put some more space in between them. Right now, it all looks to be part of the same scene.