BattleWraith
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If the idea takes off, I'll take a stab at it.
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I suspect that your friend has an idea of where they want their art to be, as well as an awareness of where their abilites are at the moment. Since their skill falls so short of their ideal, they don't value the work they produce. I feel the same way about a lot of my stuff.
As for critique: the image doesn't have enough variation between light and shadow which makes it very flat. The gnome has a bright light source reflecting off of his helmet, so there should be some dark shadows on the opposite side, especially where the cloak comes out behind the body. There should also be some strong specular highlights on the side facing the light, especially on the hard surfaces, helmet, gun, boots, etc.
The image is done in very primary colors without much gradiation, which again is flattening. Some of the folds look like puckers or indentations rather than folds because of this. There isn't any bounced or reflected light to help define volume.
Also, the image is very unrealistic because you don't see my fist in there laying an energy transfer on the back of your head. That's probably the most important thing. -
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Maybe don't even worry about inking it at all. In my experience the whole emphasis on drawing in pencils, then inking the pencils, and then coloring the linework stems from people's interest in traditional comic or anime approaches.
If you're going to take your pencils into photoshop and don't have a tablet, I recommend doing the best you can on the pencils with regard to clean linework, tonal variation, etc. Then scan it in. Your linework will be the default background layer. Make a duplicate layer, set it to multiply, and depending on the quality of your original linework, voila its inked. You may need to tinker with the opacity of the duplicate layer or do some cleanup if sections are to scribbly, but I've seen plenty of top notch digital artists not even bother with any sort of inking stage. -
You're the artist, you decide where the light comes from. Pick an area of the page and designate that as the lightsource. Or actually have a light source in the composition.
One of the first things you do in a formal art training is to learn how to shade basic shapes (spheres, cones, boxes, etc.) A good thing to try would be a sphere. Draw a circle, pick a corner of the page to be the light source. Then draw five little boxes near the top of the page and have the first one be a light grey. Then have each one after that be a couple shades darker.
When you do the sphere, the brightest point will be white, with no shading. Then you move a bit farther away on the surface of the sphere and cover the rest with the light tone from the first box. Then move a lttle farther in and use the second tone, and so on. Be sure that you shading follows the contour of the ball to suggest volume. The darkest shadow on the ball will be somewhere just below the middle. The ball will actually lighten a bit as you reach the bottom due to reflected light from the ground.
Good art requires a knowledge of shading. Even the most basic cell from an animation with limited tonal palette will have degrees of light and shadow. Shading is what contributes volume to a picture and it's essential if you're going to communicate the kind of materials in your scene (e.g. skin, leather, glass, metal, etc.) The sooner you get a grip on this, the sooner your art will progress.
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That looks awesome, BW. Is it going to be colored?
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I dunno. I did it to get a feel for drawing her character in preparation for another piece. So I'm not sure it's worth lingering on this one.
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man. i need to get on your list, BW
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You're already on the list Rowrsie. -
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Man, I need to get a MarD pic. Very talented! We'll talk?
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Sure thing, just send me a pm.
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How do you do that flat grey without being all uhm. Liney. >.<; I can't seem to do that with pencil - and my pens are too dark and never cover enough; is it a special pen or marker? Or just a photoshop technique I haven't mastered yet?
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It's not a stupid question and you don't have to apologize for asking
Everything I post here has been done in Photoshop. When I want to add a flat grey in an area, like in that pic, I create a new layer and set it to multiply. Multiply adds value (i.e. it only makes things darker) to whatever is there, unlike a normal layer which would cover up anything below it. So black lines will stay black but lighter areas will get darker, so you can still see the sketch lines underneath.
The layer with the grey, the grey color is 100% opaque so you don't see any streaks, as if i spraypainted something with one color until the whole object was the same tone. If I lowered the opacity on the brush i was using, you would see streaks, strokes, etc. Hope that makes sense. -
Here's a sketch:
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/41816714/
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Thx man. Also what are their powersets?
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Do you have reference pics for these characters somewhere Buckeyestar?
Very nice piece, I like Brandon's style a lot. -
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Sooooo.....
what are ya trying to say huh?
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Lol what? That's one of my arena pvp characters. I had her long before I ever saw that twinkle in your...um...visor I guess. -
The reason I asked is because I went through the portfolio to which he linked and didn't see anything that really stood out as objectionable. It's possible I didn't pay close enough attention.
I was also wondering if you objected due to the content of the site as a whole, not that artist in particular. That would be understandable, but if that was the case then I'd think anything posted at Deviant Art would fall under the same category. I come across quite a bit of sexually charged imagery and nudity there just casually following links to different sections. -
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Having been around some colorful people in my life, transformation from one thing to another, specifically that site, is a fetish. His regular portfolio is fine, but the first one was still not work safe :P
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Are you saying that a site can be NSFW purely on the basis of being centered around someone's fetish? So if I had a book fetish and linked to a site that showed....big piles of books, books with bookmarks, books in disarray, pages torn out, etc. then I'd be obligated to post NSFW? -
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Nice piece! Very sensual.
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It was to prepare you for THOR's BEEFCAKE ASSASSIN.
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Nice pic! If you're working digitally, we should collaborate sometime.
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I like the first one better too. Both are very well done. I liked his work on the coh comic when he was the penciler.
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Lol nice initiative! If a woman wanted me to do a sexed up version of her male character, I probably would. But so far the women for which I've done fanart have wanted sexy pics of their female characters too. Are these your characters? If so, I can try taking a stab at doing a beefcake version of one of them when i get some time if you'd like. Anyway, good job!
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I once heard a plan to take down Hammi that involved everyone getting the nemesis staff and blasting him (it) from range with it. Oddly this one never got past the planning stage.
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Thx guys, this was an enjoyable one to work on.
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Ok here is the final version. There wasn't that much to add:
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/40021360/
TA PM me about getting the hi rez file. -
Almost complete. Need to figure out what I want to do with the background, if anything.
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Thx for the replies everyone! Here's another update:
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/39949807/