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Okay, this one was an attempt of a shading technique i was working on - not great but not horrible...



I'm really proud of this one. I think it came out pretty much how I intended though I never finished it completely.



A girl with cool hair. Also, I tried to make the "chestular dimensions" realistic and not like a plastic surgery after-shot.



A B&W of a girl with short wild hair and a traveling cloak.



The same image as above only colored - I think it looks better in B&W and the hair is to choppy in this one.



Well since I have these images on another forum - an art forum - I made a banner to help people remember to disable their signitures. =D



So! Critique or Compliments - I want it all! Please comment on my work. Btw - this is all done just on the computer as my scanner isn't hooked up at the moment. I usually prefer realism, but it's difficult to draw realistically on the computer. If you like these pictures I can post some more. Anyway that's it!

Lata!

Looks good, especially since that was all done on computer. Nice job!

well at least someone replied - thanks for the compliment! Okay - just want to post one pic i drew of the ultra-sexy Marla Sokoloff...



And this dude.

I'm a little disappointed. Only Radical Raccoon has replied to this post!

Don't worry dude, almost no one responds to my posts either.

Who's the cute chick in the blue outfit?

Well, I'm reading this thread - I just can't think of anything to say. I think my favorite is either the girl in your first post, or the guy with a sword in your second.

The "Please remove you signature" one is funny. :lol:

Quote:Who's the cute chick in the blue outfit?

That would be the ultrasexy Marla Sokoloff. She's some actor... or something.

Quote:Well, I'm reading this thread - I just can't think of anything to say. I think my favorite is either the girl in your first post, or the guy with a sword in your second.

The "Please remove you signature" one is funny. :lol:

Well yeah that's pretty much all i wanted, what you like, what you dont like, things i could do to improve my work. Anyway thanks for the replies! ^^

The only piece of advice I can give you is that you should try to be more clean with your drawings. There are too much unneded lines in them, and they look somewhat "dirty" that way. You should try and learn what lines are necessary, and draw only those. For example, in your first drawing, there are too many unneeded lines that seem to be placed randomly. If you are gonna apply colouring you should use a different kind of shading, using colour shades for that. Otherwise it looks like a drawing intended to be B&W but coloured afterwards.

Your cleaner drawings are much better, just like the third and fourth ones. The portrait of that actress looks good if we take away those ugly lines you added at both sides of her mouth. They are not needed, such effect should have been done with colouring and not with lineart.

It's a great start and I'm sure you'll be really good with just a bit of practice.

With cartoonish style it's always better to keep things simple:

http://juez.free.fr/ojodepez/2na_th_an.php
http://juez.free.fr/ojodepez/4na_th_an.php
http://juez.free.fr/ojodepez/8na_th_an.php
http://juez.free.fr/ojodepez/7na_th_an.php
http://juez.free.fr/ojodepez/12na_th_an.php
http://juez.free.fr/ojodepez/14na_th_an.php

(my colaborations for my online comics fanzine, just as an example - I've been drawing my whole life and have realized that the simpler and cleaner is your lineart, the better)

Those comics are very good, and I always enjoy trying to learn from them.

Thanks for the advice, I agree completely about the unneeded lines. As for Marla Sokoloff, you really think those lines look bad? You're probably right... Well here's a picture I drew of one of my best friends, Jill. I know the hand's messed up, and I wasnt going to post it, but what do you think of the shading - and specifically the lines by here mouth. (like the ones on Marla's picture.) Is this sort've what you mean?

More or less: Unless the line you are drawing represents a hard (strong) feature in the model, you shouldn't use black for it. I.E. if you are drawing a 3/4 view of a face you draw the side of the nose that's further and you don't draw the one that's near. Look at the model's face: the lines around her lips are as strong as some other stuff, like the lines beneath her eyes. You didn't draw them, see? you drawed the face outline: stronger as it defines the shape, you drawed her nose outline: needed as it defines the shape. The lines beneath her eyes and the lines around her mouth don't define her shape thus are less important, hence you should use shading to make them visible, and not linear.

More or less like in the latest picture you posted.