LadyJudgement

If you have COV, it might be faster and easier to look for a Brute for a team, but instead ask them if you can take screens of them, using their toggles. Good luck...

hate to say it but the new version makes him look more grown up...

not bad... like action...

look closer

MORE MORE!! Was just getting good...

I too vote for 3, seen the rest enough...

i'm just busting on ya, no offense meant

whoops forgot, no wacom = lots of pain...

I hand sketch when I'm not in front of my pc, usually a mechanical pencil, but traditional work requires a lot of free time which I don't have. So at my pc, I use Illustrator to sketch, ink and then turn the finish into a jpg. I then place that into Photoshop (CS3 rocks the house) and use multiple layers to color it off.

I have tried other programs, but since I've been teaching myself the learning curve of Adobe products, it just makes sense to stick with it. There are some free trials for many programs, Open Canvas, Comic Works, which do amazing comic only things... so it pays I think to stick to one you like and try to emulate the results of finished work you enjoy.

I could give you a traditional break down if you like, since that's how I think many people start. But that would be another question...

LJ

I totally agree, love Marcio's work...

Some artists will take influence/infamy if you worded it right... not myself any more, but I do recall someone offering it earlier.

Somebody fix it, it's giving me epilepsy, and I don't want epilepsy...

Read this thread for some answers...

Ha I just bought that book, waited a frickin month to get it from Oregon to Canada... it's been out of print, and I love it! In fact I used parts of it today...

Ah so the cape should be green, couldn't tell in my screen, I'll adjust that asap...

edit: fixed, and sent the large file to PS.

LJ

Upcoming male version for the girls... this one is Empress's character, "Fault Trace". I took the liberty of stripping his tunic and gloves... final shot will be deep in shadows.

LJ

congrats, john rocks the house! love the nkk pieces...

See I could never use Poser like you Dj, I'd just spend all my time making boobs.

It's coming... and I believe you were one of the two I chose.

Hope you like my version: Ilseroth, I took liberties with the concept...

LJ

I've done other mock covers of various female heroes for this version, and actually tomorrow, I'll be doing the first of 2 male versions, which will read: entertainment for heroines.

Basically it's a Playboy tribute.

Suggestions

First things first, drawing women comes down to 2 things, making it sexy and or feminine, and making it curvy and NOT like a man which is all about jagged sharp angles to form muscles.

Less is more, because you can define things on a woman, that you can't on a man, or that would make a man look less muscular if you used the same technique.

The obvious area where this occurs is the center line which can form the stomach. On a man you have to draw the abs, but a six pack and defined ribs on a girl will make her look less womanly, and I'm talking over emphasis on these areas. You can define them, but it should be done with the most minimal and light weight lines you can make.

Here's what I did on your piece:

1) the shoulders are rounded, they can be as wide as you like but they should be rounded as supposed to squarish on a guy.

2) this bicep/tricep muscle are long and thin like a cylinder, straight on either side, you can define the muscles, but keep it lean.

3) the forearm muscle MUST be defined on both men and women, it just makes the difference from your bicep going straight to your wrist, and defines the forearm with making sure you place curves here, that taper into...

4) the wrist, which tapers until the hand forms. Forearms are more like a bowling pin, then a straight cylinder.

5) the hips curve from the top of the waist to the knee, it has a few breaks depending on the girl, but this curve can't be ignored. If you draw it at the same width as the shoulders, it forms that "hour glass" figure.

6) the knee, stops the rest of the leg curve, it's short, straight, almost block like, and has tendons on either side, but that's another thing altogether, for now just draw that long curve, break it with a short straight line, and then...

7) make the calve curve, like the forearm, must curve at the top then taper to the ankle. The Curve is NOT even from the knee to the ankle, it forms closer at the top, closer to the knee, then forms the side of the leg.

Thing to remember is the thigh is longer than the knee and calve put together... slightly longer, but longer.

8) the side again here tapers, is not straight down, I won't go into feet, because I hate them, you should ask Fuzzy Wombat who draws the best shoes I've seen in a long time.

9) another thing to consider here is that if the arm bends like you have it, the inner bent curve is a pinched > sign, unlike the right angle of the elbow forming here on the outer edge of the arm.

10) Don't forget your central line, can curve. Here I drew it to show how the nose and face would turn.

11) the shoulder line forms along the collar bone, and then curves down to form the shoulder, your drawing has the shoulders curving above this line.

12) the central body line can curve slightly, to emphasize a woman's curves, where as on a man this tends to typically be straight to show power.

13) lastly the legs curve in different directions from the body line, yours are curving in the same direction, making her appear to be leaning and not standing. Which is why I place the back leg forward, to shift her weight.

Everyone's given you great suggestions. I would suggest studying what you have, making a new drawing, and keep at it. The male figure by the way has a nice whimsical quality.

LJ

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*pouts* If this is over my submission please don't argue ^^"
I knew whatever I could come up with would not meet his standards 'cause well, I'm no artist ^^
I was just bored and felt like seeing what I could do, and see if anyone would like it... (poster included..).

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I thought your take was quite good, it's a close up which not many people do, and it had a lot of extra lines for mood and movement... I could easily use that as a basis for a more realistic piece.

I just wanted to acknowledge that you took the time and it should be appreciated.

So if it's near enough realism, that's okay... but it's fine to turn down any artist's attempt who's feeling generous. I think if you want that kind of realism, perhaps ask for a 3D render and not a drawing. Comic art is pretty far from realism, unless yer doing watercolor cover work... or tight tight pencils/inks. And if so, that stuff isn't often free.

Ah I was waiting for this to be done, spectacular!