Input on a Work In Progress
By
Blood_Wolffe,
Posted on: 2007-05-15 06:16 in Multi-Media Fan Creations
Looking good so far!!
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My first thought was have the hands in a claw-like pose and have him turning into metal. Colossus is the one that turns into metal right?
He could be bending a steel girder, holding a broken piece of wall keeping it from falling on little orphan children, or picking up a badguy. Those were my ideas.
EDIT: Also, I think his lats go out too much, especially the one on the right (viewer's right) and the triceps go in too far where they meet the lats. Although I wouldn't be surprised if the bodybuilder you got the pose from had the same problem. It just looked a little off to me.
I would say make his upper body wider (namely, the shoulders), and moving it down a bit. His waist looks too thin and it doesn't seem like it rotates enough to meet up with the crotch. I would also suggest tilting his left arm (his left) further back.
What i think is going on is the top and bottom halves don't come together well. Seperately, they're very good, but i think you have too much space between the bottom ab and the crotch, and the center of the abdomen doesn't line up with the center of the crotch.
Forgive me if that was too harsh or seemed disjointed and rushed together. The bell to my next class just rang >_>.
Looking good,
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Love the clean linework Juggy, yer always a pro at that.
Two quibbles
First: Is he supposed to be carrying weight in his arms? I don't feel it in the pose unless he's carrying something light, like ya know, a car.
Second: The pose is doing what we call in animation, twinning.
This means that the arms are roughly at the same angle/height.
Even though the viewer's left arm is turned slightly, maybe if you lasso'd it in photoshop and tweaked it somewhat down, it would make your pose ten times more dynamic.
You've been improving leaps and bounds since I first saw your stuff on the boards, and I LOVE Colossus' face here. You've got his personality spot on. Good luck!
Ok, so I did up a tutorial a month or so ago onbasic digital coloring tips and people seemed to dig it. I figured if people liked to see that, they might also like to see how I draw digitally (bah, who uses a pencil anymore. lol).
I'm going to post here at most stages and get some feedback from you guys... and eventually post the final tutorial.
Feel free to jump in and comment/critique any stage. My goal is to write this and design it in a way that if someone was just getting into digital drawing they'd be able to figure it out.
Stage one: The Red
In this stage I set up the general pose with "red bubbles". Basically just fooling around and seeing if the pieces look like they might fit together. I used a bodybuilding pose as reference for this shot, so as long as I didn't stray too far from the mark - it should work.
Stage two: The Blue
This is where I really start to sketch. I fill in the muscles and structure and further test the limits of the pose. If all looks good, I move on, if not, I head back to stage one. This one is looking pretty decent, but I'm not sure what I'm going to do with the hands. I was thinking of having him hold something large ... but haven't decided on it yet.
Thoughts?