Graver

Great pic there, girl! I would agree with pep (great eye there!) about Radey's upper lip. The lips are in the right place, her lip ring is right, you just need to move the indention on her upper lip over to the left a touch

You work just keeps getting better and more interesting with each pice and I'm loving it!

LOVE THE COMIC!!! Can't wait to see more. Not only was it amusing, but you gave it a great look. I can now see why it took you a bit of time to get those backgrounds drawn out. I'm definitely gonna have to learn you some PSP skillz so we can see more of these! That and I gotta see what you'll do with Scarf_Girl now that's she's bought her way into the comic with her kick [censored] pic there.

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I will peeping this intently. So, how's it going to go? You do the lineart, Graver does the paints?

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Actually, Foo, the collaboration pieces will feature my amazing penciling skillz with Gill's newly found watercolor talent. Here's out first piece!

Hum, wait, you know, looking back on that, it might be best if Gill did the pencil work and I did the watercolor... yes, I think that's definitely what were gonna do

And Gill, great redesign there. I liked the old design but the new one is even better. Great work! That and I like your new avatar as well. While it doesn't quite carry the same kind of name branding that your old one did, it is much more interesting to look at

I think I commented on this one from your dump, but maybe not... can't remember, but great stuff. I tried to look into the suggestion made by Crimson_Jimson but couldn't see a major prob. in the perspective... but then again, it is 6:45 in the morning so I might not be seeing things any more.

Still, great work, and the notes on the fridge are damned amusing. Keep up the good work, culture that neurotic obsession for detail you have going there and soon you'll be amazed at the stuff you'll produce... you'll be completely out of your nut, but amazed none the less... neurotic ocd is a god thing, yay!

Yup, those are some frightening cute lill' amputees you have there Star. I especially love the one you did of your self... dead on! Except I don't remember giving you permission to wear any other color other then black! You traitor, how long have you been dabbling in color!? And the eye color on the one you did of me... is spooky dead on... nice choice! I am so loving these!

Oh, and DB, just so you know, I don't look like the chibi in real life. My eyes don't take up more then half of my skull... and believe it or not, I actually have FINGERS! But, yes, I am drop dead sexy... in fact, the girls just wont leave me alone. I hear them scratching outside my door demanding my body,... scratching and scratching! It tears at my very mind, each claw down my door, each moan and call for Graver!

I was brave the other night and armed with a rather solid golf club, I ventured out into the hall, and there they were; voluptuous artwhore sexpots calling my name, demanding my perfect body to satisfy there hideous carnal desires. In a panic, I swung the club, bringing it down hard into one of their skulls, but still she moaned. Again and again I struck until none moved in the hall outside my apartment, but still, even as they lay there, unmoving, sightless eyes staring at their own blood pooling on the floor, they moaned and called for my body! Always moaning! Always calling! You must understand, I had no where else to put them... but the attic! And still they call to me as they drip through the ceiling in red and brown. They torment me still! I hear them up there, smell them as they seep down, seeking my perfect drop dead sexy body. They leave me no other choice! Now you know why I must do what I am about to do! Now you know the horrors of my BEAUTY! It is a CURSE! A CURSE!!!!

Okay, time for an update here. I was truly wanting to have the pencils done by the end of tonight, but that just didn't happen. These past couple of days I've been feeling a bit under the weather as the heat has made me it's [censored] (it took the top and made me be the woman *sob*). Damned 105 heat index *shakes fist at the weather*

Okay, but I have managed to get Hem's all penciled in. No tree yet and no background. I will have all of that penciled in by the end of tomorrow night if not before.

Hems Pencil

And since that one is kinda small and hard to see the detail... here's a detail shot. As you could probably tell, it's going to be a very vertical piece.

And to Greymist, Pep pretty much summed up the hands and feet thing... or one reason. The hands are very important to communication in figurative art pieces... since there's no sound Thus, larger hands speak louder. Small and dainty hands would come off as very quiet and passive... and delicate. Larger hands convey utility -they look as if they can truly grasp things, hold things, manipulate things, hit things... in other words they are truly capable hands. Smaller ones come off as fragile and delicate (not really the domain of the supper hero ), if they hit something, they would break and would have a hard time really grasping something.

Feet are similar. Larger feet are stabilizing, they root the character, show that they have strong footing. They also convey a sense of utility. They have the feeling that they can carry the figure far and wide. Small feet give the idea that the character can easily be pushed over and would have a difficult time going very far on them. They are week and delicate (again, not the realm of the hero).

Beyond all that, it's just the way I draw . I like to make things good and solid and when I'm putting down my forms, I tend to go a bit overboard with the hand and it's fingers and what it's doing. I want it to stand out a bit from the arm, have the feeling that it can swivel about, etc... same with the feet. The end result is slightly larger then normal hands and feet, but then, maybe they should be. After all, after the face (and eyes) they are some of the most important parts to the human figure. They must be given their due.

Oh, and thanks for noticing the hard work on the breasts I do so hate supper inflated breasts (they just look weird). Besides that, from what I could tell from the screen shots, Hem's has large breasts... not supper large, ginormus, or emergency flotation devices for the crew and passengers of a small airline, and in CoH, I'm fairly certain large = fairly modest in all other worlds. Beyond that, when I think tiger, I think lean spring like muscle mass... not fat... unless anyone out there's seen a fat tiger, 'cause I never have. Since breasts is pretty much all fat, on a tiger girl, they'd be fairly trimmed down and lean like the rest of her.

Well, that compleatly neutered me

Great aquisition there. The colors are fantastic and I love the chunky feel that TA has in it. niiice

Okay, first off, I know I've already told you, but I LOVE your work on the vort piece! You've made some great improvements since you picked art back up again. That is some great work there... and the background turned out great because it took so long to do probably... it's that whole quality takes time thing.

And the Stags are quite nice. I love the patterning of it... it has a nice rhythm to is and real fun movement of line! Great work there. Today might have sucked but because it did, it made something good (or, more to the point, made you make something good )... definitely not all bad

I repeat, keep it up, and if there's a void in your life, fill it with art! It works for me

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LOL that is sooo cute!

SO is she balancing on the sword or laying on the ground or... ?

I hope she gets clothes :P

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Well, first, she's gonna be in a tree... I just wanted to get the general pose down first before getting all kinds of caught up in intircacies of a tree.

As for your second point, of course she will get cloths... she's not Rowr after all . Besides, that's how I figure out most all of my poses, I always do them nekkid... sans the happy funtime parts. I have to know what the meat's doing under the cloth before I could ever get the cloth to fall over the form right. If I were to start with the cloth and something went wrong, I would have a much harder time trying to figure out what was wrong since I wouldn't have a clear view or idea of the anatomy under the cloth

Edit: and Kat... I'll go ahead and take the more lively path when I get to your's

I say WIP it, WIP it good.

Okay, so just an update for y'all on my current works... HemilyTiger!

Here's the original idea sketch I did. Now, I know what your thinking and I already fixed it... the nuclear powered rubber piggies are a bit too much, so I will be removing them. However, I'm keeping the equation that solves pi... that's just too important to leave out

Either way, after several posses, it has been decided that this one fit Hem's personality the best as well as lended it's self to the most interesting layout while staying in line with the original concept above.

More to come as more is completed.

You're way ahead of me on one of those demon tablets! I tried one once and my neighbors 3 year old would have been able to out draw me. So... damned good work.

and your gonna be right scary after some art classes

mmmmMmmmmm a Feral Kat ridding a feral cat... that reminds me of this dream I had with these twins... um... never mind...

But wow, Feral turned out nice! I think it has to be your best one so far... the marker and watercolor combination works great for you! The background is quite nice on this one... great color choices... and I love the moon... and the panther came out quite nice as well. All in all, you did a bang up job.

Keep it up!

Damned nice work there Juggs! The pose is great, the nice little highlights are wonderful, the claws are EXCELLENT, and the face... and I could go on and on! I even love the news paper. I don't know what it looked like before, but I guess you did a good thing with fixing it

One little itsi-bitsy thing though (and it would probably be too big of a pain to tweak it in this work, but something to keep in mind...)... her left hand (our right) is a bit out of perspective with the wall. I can definitely see you were referencing a model when you drew this one out because I can tell where the ground was based on that hand. Next time, you might want to tweak parts of the model as you draw him/her to get the perspective to work with the image. It's a small thing (after all... no one else seemed to notice, so I'm probably just a freak )

Either way, it's still an damned excellent piece. You're one of my favorites on this forum (your work has really grown on me) and I can't wait for the next piece to be posted!

Not too bad there, Vorpal... and thank you for not posting in purple any longer! Nothing worse then having to highlight what you're trying to read... means a lot of things wont get read

As for your TA portrait, first I gotta say nice color choice I do loves me some brown (it is the new black don't you know)... that and I'm a sucker for anything that even hints at being sepia toned.

I do have one major issue with this one... the words. Unless the words are an integral part of the over all design, it's a good idea just to leave them off. On this piece, they really don't add much of anything to the image. In fact, they kind of detract from it. They look like they were tossed on as an after-thought which detracts from the over all aesthetic appeal of your drawing. Some nice negative space up there would have been far more effective and would have heightened the drawing you did of TA instead of taking away from it... it's like getting a nice subtly seasoned steak and then covering it in ketchup.

Other then that, it's a nice drawing... and I'd like to see more drawing out of you... and less writing

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What do you ride?

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Errm, can't discuss that here. Also she flies :P

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LOL


Now where is THAT pic?

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Hum... are ya daring Star to do that one... are ya? 'Cause that sounded like a dare to me

Damn, you guys did a bang up job there! The cityscape is just amazing and the setting sun was done quite well. I love the glow of the backlighting from it on Snow... it's a pleasure just to sit and stare at it!

*headbangs in from stage left*

More bleeding topless virgins, NOW! Oh, ooooo, nice one there, Star, very nice. This has to be your most vivid works to date and I like it. I love the hard feeling you pulled off with his chest plates as well as the proportions. The head / chest / arms are the closest I have ever seen you get proportion wise... excellent job there! I still say that he could use a little more crotch though. Great work though!

HAIL SATAN!

*Flashes the devil horns and head bangs out, exiting stage right*

Wow, I'm glad you guys've thought so much of a piece that wasn't near finished. But fear not, for your sleepless nights of tossing and turning, of wondering and speculation about what the finished piece would look like are over! (that was just probably me ). Either way, here's the finished...

Thors Assassin

It took me a bit longer then I had thought to finish up, but they always do and I think I'm satisfied with the results on this one... just hope the big guy digs it as well.

Up next is HemilyTiger followed by Mysticfire, thanks for being patient with me, guys

Wwo, thise piece is turning out pretty sweet there. I love the chunky feel of the lines you use! And the lill' bear eating the snow cone is a great touch!

I can't wait to see what this one will look like colored.

That turned out pretty sweet there. I love the colors you chose and the background turned out great (it looks almost looks like cell art)

As for areas to maybe work on in the future... I noticed a bit of white here and there around the figure where you had cut the background away. Next time might want to go around the cut out figure and erase or darken any white on the outside of the black lines.

Also, the perspective on TA's feet and the perspective used for the background is a bit off. It's not bad at all, just a touch off. Since I believe you sketch these out and then scan them in, try using tracing paper so you can draw one thing over the other and make sure the perspectives line up.

Just a couple of small things for a great piece.

Wow, those colors almost glow! Nice touch up!

Almost There...

And, SweetThang, I really like the way you think. Unfortunately, on the staff, that wasn't a hidden reference to Thor's first appearance in marvel comics (I honestly know very little about the marvel thor )... but I really wish it was now. On the staff, the rune below Raido is Eihwas... the linking of the realms of gods and man... and looking back at it, I see now that I goofed a bit and penciled the rune in facing the wrong direction *bad me!* That will be fixed

As for the other rune in question, it is Naudhiz, strength from need and acknowledgment of one's own fate (or being tied to fate). Gebo would have worked in it's roles as unifier of individuals (Thor and some guy who becomes his assassin) but the sexual overtones of such a unification I figured might not be all that appreciated

What about Test? Poor poor Test... no one around to represent test...

ooOOOOo... I love the Abby and GB piece! It turned out great. Nice choice on the colors there, and good fix on GB's legs and the worms in the boot are an extra special nice touch. I do got a quick question... are Abby's eyes two different colors there... like... oh, like Delirium's?! If so, niiiice touch and if not, I'll just pretend they are anyway

Ayu turned out right nice as well. For your second attempt with markers, it's great. I kinda wish you had done more with the border, maybe a thicker line for it or more swirling in the corners. Still, great stuff... I can't wait to see what else you pull of with the markers now.

I really like it so far. The lighting is a very nice touch and the pose is... well... it's a good pose

I do have to ask, are you finnished with it because it looks like Miss. Liberty could use a touch more definition in her boots and right arm (our left).

Great stuff though and a real joy to the eye!