Cieli's WIPs [updated 1/12]

[Ligre Di Cieli]

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another one  

[keiiii]

Redlines

whee - The main things to watch out for here is alignment of facial features and overall proportions. Arms seem to be your weak area. If you're having trouble, it may be helpful to try the pose yourself in front of a large mirror.


whee 2 - When you're quickly drawing the face to capture the feature alignment, I recommend drawing the eyebrows. They mark the border between the forehead and the rest of the face, and can be useful in determining facial proportions.

I like your attention to fingers, and the variety of poses you draw. Keep it up. ^^  

[Ligre Di Cieli]

Yeah I can never seem to get the arms quite right sweatdrop
Thank you! ^^  

[keiiii]

No problem! The muscles can distort the silhouette of the arms, so it can get confusing. Try drawing the bones first (no details needed, just some skeletal frame of the arms) and adding muscles on top of it ^^  

[Ligre Di Cieli]

for some reason her butt looks kinda big xD

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reference pic here:
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[zathraya]

Ligre Di Cieli

for some reason her butt looks kinda big xD

clicky

reference pic here:
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First the arms are a tad too short. The butt ends too quickly, which may be throwing you off on where to place the hand (or possibly the other way around).

Pay very close attention to the position of the hands, try and go slow to get it down right. Move you hand as your eye moves along with the reference. It takes some practice but you can get it done!

The pockets would be larger along with the roundness of the butt.

The eyes would be somewhat smaller.

Also the back of the neck starts out a little further out and leans in, due to the stretching of the neck.

Sorry for the laundry list. sweatdrop It's not bad just tweek a few things. biggrin  

[Ligre Di Cieli]

Haha its okay thanks ;D

I did this one without a reference (my internet crashed on me for a few days D<). Ahaha. ha.

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I think I'm going to go back and redo some of these.  

[Ligre Di Cieli]

update after...8 months xD
going off in a different direction for a sec, just finished this for an assignment (was rushing in the end, so the background and stuff is kind of messy).
It's a black&white drawing, I used a photo for reference of the animal and made up the background (it's supposed to look fuzzy/ambiguous around the tree branches)

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Critiques?

Edit: now that I look at it, the animal seems HUGE sweatdrop  

[Quvi]

Huge improvement since your last post. You have a greater understanding of value. Some part of the image seems a bit flat to me (Example, head). It looks like you threw in random blotches of black on the left to our right.

It's a huge pain working from photos because detail is a lot harder to see, and I understand this may have caused flatness.

I'd like to see more dark on the horn to give it a much more cone shape.

The front legs are different sizes. The one on the left looks like the leg of a malnourished calf, and the right leg got some serious pumpin' and decided to fuse together with the neck (It seriously is fused).

Overall, I like your attentiveness to detail on the animal, but don't get too caught up with the detail to fail to notice the anatomical errors.  

[Ligre Di Cieli]

Thanks for the feedback. I was rushing at the end to turn it in on time, so it wasn't the best.

Haha now that I look at it it does look like the neck fused with the leg xD  

[Ligre Di Cieli]

Just finished another piece, the head is tilted a little too much compared to the actual statue sweatdrop

Since with most pieces I try to keep my pencil lines, I tried to make this one look more smooth...

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Tips?