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Post by babybro on Mar 26, 2009 22:56:32 GMT -5
Hey all, here is a sneak piece at one of the sketches that will be in my sketchbook that I'm selling at comic con. The picture holds superman, supergirl, and my two main characters from my comic, Angel and Cara. In the picture, Cara, Supergirl and Superman are teaching Angel how to fly, and so far I think it's coming out pretty well. This is just the first stage though, the full picture you'll see in my sketchbook will have the picture fully shaded and a background. Let me know what you guys think.  |
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Post by mistresslegato on Mar 27, 2009 2:00:04 GMT -5
Super man doesn't seem bulky enough. He's a big guy! Also, the kids bottom half is much too small.
Again, check out some anatomy stuff and work on it.
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Post by melo on Mar 27, 2009 9:04:20 GMT -5
use some photo references;)
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Post by chargedgraphite on Mar 27, 2009 11:15:42 GMT -5
The biggest thing is that you simply need to learn and practice the basics of character construction. This disproportioning issue is a dead giveaway.
You can look at all of the anatomy and reference material in the world but until you get down and dirty by putting in the effort to learn that, you are a sitting duck.
Get a copy of ' How to draw the Marvel way ' and use the examples in the ' Artists Resources ' area of this forum to see examples of what I'm talking about. Your problem is that you aren't using a proportionately scaled underlay. The form isn't in proportion because you are designing your stuff without any form to build on.
Just like we have skeletons that hold us up, your characters must have that structure too. You have a good sense of anatomy, as all of your primary muscles are in your image, however, they need something to attach to or they will continue to come out the way they do, looking ackward.
Notice how your character's heads are too large for the bodies attached to them and superman is the smallest guy in the image, when he should be the largest, and most importantly, how the boy's body is set so that it looks cut off and set behind him rather than a part of him.
I don't mean to be harsh by any means. I'm just being honest with you because I want to help. Get yourself a pack of cheap copy paper from a local Wal-Mart . It's like 500 sheets for a few bucks and just scrap hundreds of forms in every possible pose you can think of. Use the classic stick figure base and build your characters up from there. I promise you that if you do that, you will be able to draw figures that look a 1000x's better than this current stuff.
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Post by babybro on Mar 28, 2009 3:15:01 GMT -5
Well that's the thing, I do the skeleton format. The initial outline starting from skeleton, and than working towards the middle build by using circles, cylinders and square, than adding details such as the muscle and than finalizing the piece. So that means that there is something else wrong with the image, or I am doing something else wrong since I am using the skeleton form as my foundation.
But I definitely appreciate the critique that you guys gave me, especially your charged who went into detail on what's wrong. I tried to make superman smaller because he was the farthest away, I didn't know he would be the biggest even though he's the farthest away.
Is he really that big? LOL!
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Post by chargedgraphite on Mar 28, 2009 13:33:00 GMT -5
Work on building your characters and your proper proportions of the characters then. Draw like 20 of male and female figures in just that state of basic stick figure frames and make sure your heads aren't too big for the chest and so on...
Next, try an exercise with a cheap picture frame and some different sized objects in your house. Set the objects up somewhere, overlapping each other to show their size association with each other.
Look at them from various points around the room through this frame and use it as your restricted point of view. It will always prove that no matter how near or far something is from you, the objects will still maintain their original mass.
Same thing with Superman, in relation to the other characters in the shot, he still should be proportionate to them as well as to the perspective point of view.
Check it out and you'll see what I mean.
Also, keep your men and women respectfully 8.5 head lengths tall. The head is never more than half the width of the chest from shoulder to shoulder. There are exceptions to this rule but not for ' normal ' characters. Mutations and such cause different structures to work from.
Practice...a lot!
Hope that helps.
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