Getting back into drawing...

Well, I'm getting back into drawing humanoids after many years of doing nothing but tribal tattoos and regular designs.

Here's a work in progress I'm doing of my MA/WP scrapper and a close friend of hers. It'll take me a bit to get it up to teh way I want it, but any comments/suggestions you have, I'd be more than happy to get the response!

Deaths Dance and Friend
Gobbie Fae

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Well, I'm getting back into drawing humanoids after many years of doing nothing but tribal tattoos and regular designs.

Here's a work in progress I'm doing of my MA/WP scrapper and a close friend of hers. It'll take me a bit to get it up to teh way I want it, but any comments/suggestions you have, I'd be more than happy to get the response!

Deaths Dance and Friend
Gobbie Fae

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Whenever I see posts like this, I fully expect some 14-year old with no artistic talent or ability whatsoever to post some crudely drawn stick figures or recolored Sonic the Hedgehog or Pokemon drawings.

It's nice to be pleasantly surprised. A little rough, but still pretty nice considering you haven't drawn in 6 years.

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Well, I'm getting back into drawing humanoids after many years of doing nothing but tribal tattoos and regular designs.

Here's a work in progress I'm doing of my MA/WP scrapper and a close friend of hers. It'll take me a bit to get it up to teh way I want it, but any comments/suggestions you have, I'd be more than happy to get the response!

Deaths Dance and Friend
Gobbie Fae

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hey, that's quite good for not drawing anything of humanoid ilk for so long, certainly not rusty
It looks like just a black shadow of a kheldian dwarf, but that may be intentional. I'll save the rest of my comment for when it it's finish

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Acyually, it is *grins* I'm still rough on the shading (mostly prelimenary work here lol), but I wanted the general concept of her..."friend" to be more of a watching shadow or guardian.

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Like everyone has said looks great for what it is considering the time frame.
If anything just watch the porportions if you trying to center the character or darken the back a bit if it's more turned and in the "shadow".

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Well, I'm getting back into drawing humanoids after many years of doing nothing but tribal tattoos and regular designs.

Deaths Dance and Friend


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In its current form it is quite like a tattoo design. Efficient detailing, simple and interesting silhouette, solid fills.

Interestingly, many painters when planning out a new piece prefer to set up a first layer in much the same way. They would separate out areas of the canvas into blocks, painting each block with a single pale color foundation, suitable for the tone of the subjects they plan to detail there in later layers.

Of course, it's not reasonable to assume you're really going to go with that kind of dedicated painter's technique with your piece. But it's nice to note that your practice with tattooing has set you up well for learning and working with more progressive techniques if you feel like it.

And even if you just want to stick with CoH fanart for now, it's looking good so far. Thanks for the post.

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Now that I didn't know! Never did any painting...most of my art went form simple sketches to a few humanoids, then hopped off the main path to the world of tattoos *laughs* Incidentally, I'm still working on drawing up my next 5 tattoos, but that's beside the point.

Once I finish this one, a few of my friends were nice enough to stand still and let me play photographer with their toons so I have many more to practice on! This one though is looking alot better than I thought it would be at first!

Thanks for the input guys, keep it coming!

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