emma's sketchbook [update: 6/9 =D]

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Emx2a'a Sketchbook

Welcome To My Sketchbook =]

Short Biography
my name is emma and i live in the eastern time zone
currently, i'm 15, turning 16 may 25 [2008]
i've been drawing animeishly since early january '06
i usually leave sketches in pencil
but i do ink and marker things from time to time =D
umm, yea, that's it, please critique *3*

My Policy On Critiques:
i do not want you to be nice to me when critiquing.
be mean!!!!
tear my art apart from limb to limb!!
pleaseee!!

 

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Goals And Mentors

What I'm Working On:
right now i'm trying to straighten out some anatomical issues, but i would also like to improve in:
facial structure
mechanical drawing
background drawing
hand-inking techniques
more detailed folds

sooo.... if you can help me in any of those areas, thanks :3

Mentors:
eejbeej =D
assignment: draw faces from observation  

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Sketches And Stuff
[deviantart]

these are my latest sketches, i had recently studied anatomy, so critique on that area would be very apreciated =]
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Most Recent
some color ideas for my most recent work :]



once again, tear them apart with critiques please XD  

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Other Information

My Deviantart [take a look, will you?]: emx2a

My Progress Post: here

My Latest Thread In The Picture Post: here
note: if link is green, feel free to comment, otherwise, just look =]

My Favorite Resources:
rivenphoenix anatomy lessons
this guy is amazingly amazing and his lessons are very helpful. the first few lessons are in full while most of them are clips from his DVD set which i am going to soon obtain >: D
dafont fonts
this site has some pretty stellar fonts that i use a LOT
Nena
just a german song i love :3

My Mediums:
HB pencil
computer paper
prismacolor markers
art gum eraser
open canvas 4.06E plus
the gimp  

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End.

 

[Wispered]

You have a decent start on your grasp of anatomy, many kudos go to you.
A few general things I've noticed, you tend to draw your fingers too short. In general they are about as long as a person's palm. The legs are -really- skinny, but I think thats because the whole body seems to taper a bit as it goes down. Just watch your proportions that way. And lastly, the faces don't seem to get as much TLC as you give to your bodies.
Otherwise, awesomeness, you've got a really great start. ^_^  

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oh thank you very much for that =D
i think that i have been thinking that i've been drawing fingers short recently, but now that i think about it, most of the fingers in my drawings have been on the short side sweatdrop
roooar! the legs =[ i need to figure those out too ^_^;;
the crotch is too wide me thinks?
oh my goodness! you're right, i don't take enough time on the faces, i usually jsut leave em till last and then smack on some eyes, a nose and a mouth D=
well those critiques were all really helpful, thanks =]  

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updated version/line art POSTED!

yay.


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[Wispered]

I love the amount of detail you put into your costumes, they're so interesting.
The way she's leaning makes the way her key is falling seem a touch unnatural, especially with the chain so straight like that. With the chain like that it looks like its being pulled and not perhaps just settled on her bust. If thats the case the key should hang more in the direction she's leaning.
My other crit would be that her leg that appears to be closest gets skinnier than the other one after the knee.
Hope that helps ^_^  

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thank you for the follow up critique =D
i see what you mean with the key, i should be taking the gravity pull into consideration when drawing stuff like that eh?
so maybe i should make the knee joints bigger next time?
thanks again :3  

[Wispered]

Maybe the knee joints -would- help? *is a little fuzzy at the moment* As long as you remember to adjust any proportions surrounding that depend on it.

For the deer! Legs look much more in proportion and they're awfully cute. I think maybe her rib cage comes down a touch too far, not much, just a bit. The chest area is a little hard to read, though that may just be because lineart can get that way (lack of shadows and stuff in lineart).
Your palms are getting to a better size, but the fingers are still too short.
Love the ears and the eyes. Eyebrows should probably be a touch longer but I don't really mind them as they are.
Good stuff ^_^  

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oh thanks for the critique =D
yea, i think i messed up the torse =/
someone else said that the pelvis was tilted in a weird direction.
oh and yes, her eyebrows are short on purpose XD
thankies =D  

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Lalalala. So you gotta be all competitive like. Dx I'm around your age...


Well, anyways...I think that it looks like she's about to fall over because of the postitioning of her torso....Hmmm. And it seems like one hand is a tad bit bigger than the other....But that's all I can come up with...xD

 

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ah thanks for the critique :3
i though i thanked you already but i guess i didn't =/
sorry sweatdrop
ah and by competative, i mean, i don't really fell good when people that are around my age are super geniuses at art, ya know?
kinda makes me uneasy sweatdrop  

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This latest one is really cute. I think the problem with the upper part is her neck is a bit too thick and her chin looks too tucked in, as if she's pulling it in more than it would naturally sit.
The foot she's balancing on seems a bit awkward, I think the outward bend on the top may be too much of an arc.

Otherwise good stuff. I like how you handle costuming and such