Henri

Good one R-Tech, some nice costumes you've submitted there. I'll just post the one from the other thread for now, but i'll have a trawl through my costume files to find some more i think people might like to use or take inspiration from. Files available on request.




hopefully if the thread takes off we can get it stickied too.

on the subject of proportions and stuff Junior, have you seen any of the books out there on the matter. Two that i bought that were very useful for all sorts of stuff, perspective, anatomy, proportions, etc, were:

Drawing comics the marvel way and drawing cutting edge anatomy (edit: images removed as it may have been advertising, i see photophucket had already removed one )

prehaps if you don't want to buy them, see if they have them at the library or somet first. Lots of good, step by step illustrations in there and also explanations of why that's the way to draw stuff. Sure there's more out there too, but this is just two i found useful

k, here's mine. Very hard subject i thought this month, almost didn't make it!

k, first things first. Where's the light coming from? the usual is a sunny day or overhead lit room, so all light is from above and all prominent features, nose, bottom lip, etc, will have darker coloured shadow below. Side or below light works the same, once you get the 'shadow is opposite the light' thing, you'll be fine. You're doing great DD, i know you'll make this another brilliant piece

edit: i should add, that initial sketch is really good, everything is as it should be, the only thing i'd say is (something i'm guilty of) you've drawn it small and blown it up. That doesn't work, you have to draw it big and shrink it down if necessary. Computers can't creat pixels, they just replicate them, which makes stuff look blocky if you blow it up, ( well, some software can do it i think, i'd need educating in that too tho ) but i thing drawing big to start with will help.

double edit: omg i shouldn't post when i'm pissed, but something else i just thought of, about light source, you get to choose where it's coming from. So if you think, bah, that's just not going to work with over head lighting, just change it, light it from below, the side, the back, whatever, it's your choice

really good pencil work JK.

If you're still looking for more I'll put up my Rad/Ngy blaster, Starlord Nebulon. He's an lone traveller among the stars.

Welcome to the boards Junior, you really are improving with each piece that your dad has been posting here, well done and keep up the good work. Also PS was right, i DO love it Really happy you chose him and glad he was an interesting subject for you. Looks like it was some battle!

Your linework is looking great too PS, well done that man.

brilliant, can't wait to see it

WOW! just... WOW!

That is really good work Deedee. The hair is amazingly realistic, and the eye's, yep, brilliant.

Thanks DD, that's really cool of you to say

btw, are you a Unionite? I was wondering with you being in europe, just never seen you.

looking good Bubba. A tip if your going to add a background. Best way would be to paint the background on a separate sheet, then lift your image off the white and lay it over the background. Rather than trying to draw the background around your image. You may have already known that

On another note, i just spotted one of your AE arcs, ctrl-alt-del was it? Brilliant, really enjoyed it. The emotes when your collecting all the items that might be the artifact had me in stitches, favourite one, 'Y'know, I think this may just be a trash can...' lol Good stuff.

gah, well done DD, not even started mine yet. To be honest i've no clue how to do this 'secret message' theme, plus i've just got no time at the moment, not looking good :/

Yep, i can see what both you and Chris are saying about the lighting of his inner legs, i think i can probably adjust that area without too much trouble so i'll work on that later.

The bright area in the sky is the moon obscured by the thick cloud. My thought was that the moonlight would be too difused to cast any really strong light, so the only light source would be cast up from the street below.

I'm really appreciating all the comments you guys are making. The simple 'That is great, Henri!' comments really boost my confidence and make me want to do more, and the crit comments make me look at where i've gone wrong and try an improve on my skills. You all rock \m/.

Hehe, thanks very much Vex, my first ever 'outstanding'! There will certainly be more painting to come... soon... ish...

For now heres a sketch an artish over on DA did for me as a warm up exercise. I like this a lot, as it feels very similar in style to the comics i first remember reading as a kid, with that dot colouring effect. Well, dot shading i guess as it's not in colour, you get my meaning tho Thanks to Goblin Queen for pointing him out

Robot H3NRi by fishcat101

Cheers for the comments guys, very much appreciated. I've had a long struggle with altitus, but H3 has really come through for me as a fun toon. Spines/Scrapper ftw

Chris, as you know I always value your critic. What's your advice on the background? I wanted a stormy, dramatic feel to the piece to add to the inhuman, emotionless nature of H3. I thought it worked ok, but always happy to hear opinions. Also, sorry if I sound curt, I,m typing from phone.

Hi everyone. Not posted anything in here for ages but thought i'd share a digital art piece i've just finished. It's kind of to celebrate my first level50 (and first incarnate a suppose, tier 2 so far, need a few more shards for level shift )

So here's the man... erm... bot himself:

Robot H3 NRi.



cheers H.

cool, and there's nothing wrong with that. I'm also trying to create stuff that's not just the epic one on one battle scene... not sure i'm doing it yet

If you draw an unknown character of your own, battling with an unknown evil looking guy, fists, fire, action, you instantly know the story, an epic battle between two adversaries.

If you draw 4 guys all doing 'their thing' on a couch, the viewer needs spoon feeding the story.

My very uneducated explaination there

Ahh, that's a shame you're feeling that Kai, don't take it personally tho. It's not your art or anything, it just (well, for me) i've no idea who these characters are, or what the story is that your trying to depict. I know you've given a little bio there of what's going on, but you've written it very personally, ie: everyone knows these individual characters, they're just acting as they would... but i don't know them, and the bio makes me feel worse coz i don't get the story. This is just my opinion, prolly different for others, and hope you're not annoyed at me saying this, just wanted to explain why maybe no one is commenting.

Hehe, brilliant Wei Yau! Really good twist to link the fairytales with the CoH story.