Between Classes

[vrt]

I go between hard round brushes and chalky ones usually. Size is pretty much always pressure-sensitive, opacity only when I need it to.

[moomoose]

alright, thanks.  still trying to get my bearings on this pressure sensitive stuff.  do you always work at the same zoom level, or is that just an artifact of 'speed painting' to not make people go crazy trying to figure out where in the image you are working?

in any event, trying out everything on a new cockatrice attempt... used a bird from sxc as a reference, below is current state with/without the bird in the background

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[moomoose]

putting everything project-wise on hold, at least until im better at this stuff.  for the time being im just going to do fun stuff and not stress about it too much.

with that said, i was making a calvin and hobbes tribute-ish type thing (somewhat more realistic and grown up, inspired by http://browse.deviantart.com/?q=hobbes#/d2k8k5s - i thought it would be fun to give it a go) when i realized i am absolutely horrible at drawing humans, let alone characters that are supposed to be recognizable.  hobbes i think turned out OK, but i am stumped on calvin.  any suggestions?

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the reference piece:

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[artimies7]

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the reference piece:

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HOMICIDAL PSYCHO JUNGLE CAT YES though 'grownup Calvin and Hobbes' fanart has never been very canonical to me.

That's a pretty good tiger, Moo, but on the person, the shoulders need to be raised and the body thinned. It takes practice.

[moomoose]

made a sketch of amigo.  why? because i was listening to devo after midnight and it just kinda happened.  that and i wanted to work on humanoid forms beyond standing staring straight forward or to the side.

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[shadow303]

made a sketch of amigo.  why? because i was listening to devo after midnight and it just kinda happened.  that and i wanted to work on humanoid forms beyond standing staring straight forward or to the side.

This sketch looks pretty cool, I really like it! With a little bit of refining this could become an awesome image.

[artimies7]

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Robot guy is cool robot.

[moomoose]

the cleaning has begun... the back leg looks awkward but not sure what to do to fix it.  added a little color to give a feel of the direction its going

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[shadow303]

the back leg looks awkward but not sure what to do to fix it.

vrt or Kamietsu will for sure be able to give you better help, but for me the problem is that the legs are not parallel and it looks like the leg has some degree to to inner side. Didn't know how to explain myself.. just a sketch what I mean:

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Also, I guess the knee needs to be moved a bit to the upper right to have the same angle as the other leg.

Hope this helps somehow.

[Kamietsu]

the back leg looks awkward but not sure what to do to fix it.

vrt will for sure be able to give you better help, but for me the problem is that the legs are not parallel and it looks like the leg has some degree to to inner side. Didn't know how to explain myself.. just a sketch what I mean:

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Also, I guess the knee needs to be moved a bit to the upper right to have the same angle as the other leg.

Hope this helps somehow.

I agree, the awkwardness of the leg on the right looks like it is bent at the wrong angle, or it is being lifted up or something not intended. The foot of it is also shown at a slightly different angle which is throwing it off some. Or so it appears. it might look better once it is cleaned up more since it is sort of hard to tell with the smudging still there.

On the knee(on the top portion of it), it has a backwards curve on it, which is weird when compared to the closest knee. You have the curve facing the bottom left when it should be facing the top right.

[Chapuz]

vrt deserves a special place in heaven the forum, as he has in the community.

[moomoose]

yeah i realized i need to position the feet directly under the shoulders and make the foot directly under the knee, danke

forgot to post the color mock up from the old version, the line work has gone under a bit more work since this, though

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