Meech and her art~! - Printable Version

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Meech and her art~! - Meech - 06-07-2006

I haven't doodled in a while. I'm an art major, so... I should be, you know, drawing, or something like that. Icon_razz

So I did! And it decidedly became my RO character. I'm not very adept at using a tablet -- much more comfortable painting, really -- but it's fun nonetheless. I played around with the face and hair, and got bored when it came to the rest, so they were just roughed in.

:D

[Image: meech.jpg]

RE: Meech and her art~! - Motenai_Ronin - 06-07-2006

it has a nice aesthetci quality. the flower is a nice touch. Icon_wink

i think i see a lipstick print on her right cheek. Icon_confused

and her right face, is she winking cause it looks more like half her face is asleep and half isn't. Icon_eek

especially with your choice of lighting/shadow.

otherwise i like the eye, nice blue, and thick lashes Icon_razz

RE: Meech and her art~! - Meech - 06-08-2006

Motenai_Ronin Wrote:it has a nice aesthetci quality. the flower is a nice touch. i think i see a lipstick print on her right cheek. and her right face, is she winking cause it looks more like half her face is asleep and half isn't. especially with your choice of lighting/shadow.

otherwise i like the eye, nice blue, and thick lashes

Flesh tones usually incorporate pink and green and purple and yellow and all sorts of colors, so the "lipstick print" is most likely from me doodling with different colors in the face. Even if it was a doodle, I was having trouble with adding more depth to the face without making it look too stark, so I just opted to play with the subtler stuff instead. Not trying to make excuses, but just stating what's going on. :D

Looks like she's winking to me. Icon_confused

Generally, one eye is closed and one eye is open when winking. Icon_wink

And since it was from a view slightly higher than straight on, I opted to curve the lashes downward instead of upward -- also because it makes it a more... subdued wink than a super-happy one. If that makes sense? Kind of like a relaxed wink instead of a tight one. I might not have gotten that across very well in the doodle though, so if I mess with this anymore, I'll work on that.

Anyway, there are plenty of things wrong with it even from my stance -- the face is flat and the colors in it turned out more confusing than I thought, the shoulders aren't angled quite right, the neck isn't really well incorporated into the face, a lot of it's too sketchy to really make out what's happening, there's not a strong lightsource which helps add to the flatness, other things look quite flat, what's happening in the torso area srsly, wtf are her arms! Icon_lol

And a ton of other things that would've been addressed if it were an actual piece and not a silly tablet doodle. :D

It's something I really would like to become better at, the tablet! So it takes practice and criticism. I'm a painting major, so painting is much more my fort?.

Again though, thanks for the comment! Glad you liked the eye and lashes (some of my favorite parts too!), and also glad you pointed the other things out. Icon_mrgreen

RE: Meech and her art~! - Ryxingeir - 06-08-2006

it's a better person than i could ever draw in cg, i like it Meech n_n

RE: Meech and her art~! - Baztastic - 06-08-2006

draw me a stick figure.

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RE: Meech and her art~! - Meech - 06-08-2006

Ryxingeir Wrote:it's a better person than i could ever draw in cg, i like it Meech n_n

Awww, thanks! Glad you like it. Icon_biggrin

Baztastic Wrote:draw me a stick figure.

Okay! :D

lolololz purple bear wtf. or something like that, I can't rightly remember. BUT IT WAS FUNNY.

RE: Meech and her art~! - Meech - 06-08-2006

[Image: bazzy.jpg]

Here you go Bazzy! Keii helped. As in, he made it funny. XD

RE: Meech and her art~! - Motenai_Ronin - 06-08-2006

ahh relaxed wink heh heh...in my book that means a sleepy blink. Icon_wink

in anycase the emotions of the sides of the face seem very asymetrical. Icon_suprised

So is she looking up at the viewer? Icon_razz

Although i didn't notice it at first, the neck is kind of giraffish, and i didn't miss the arms. You can just say she tucked them behind her, which would make sense if she was looking up. Icon_biggrin

Oh and since her green muffler seems to blowing up or back, w/e, Icon_confused

is her hair doing that too? Hard to tell. Icon_redface

RE: Meech and her art~! - Keii - 06-09-2006

Hehe, I thought the thing about the left side of the face too, Motenai. I also noticed the wink looked a smidge further down than it would were she really shutting an eye, and I helped her with it earlier today. The emotion could go a bit more in the direction of the attitude that comes with a casual wink, but I do like it. I think it's obvious her attention is directed at the viewer, honestly, and I think the neck might be a bit long, but it's hardly anything out of the ordinary for a style like this, and has no negative impact on the drawing. I have to say, though, this IS a traditional bust of the character, and the matter of arms is entirely irrelevant. Icon_razz

The cloak does look a bit blown in the wind, and I'm pretty sure the hair follows that pattern, even though it's also in the style of the hair to feather out that way. Icon_smile

If I could offer any more advice for you, peach, it'd be to consider the shape of the skull more when you draw hair, as this seems lopsided to the point of being rather curious, and to keep experimenting with this style, as it seems you're making pretty good leaps and bounds but you've still got a ways to really nailing it down. Icon_smile

RE: Meech and her art~! - Meech - 06-11-2006

Keii~~, you're so good at critiques. They help me a lot. Smooch! :3

Okay, so this time I fiddled around in Corel Painter instead of Photoshop. It's... fun! Here's a work in progress I started... I'm still messing with quite a few things on it, so it might be quite a bit different when I finish it up. Icon_eek

Much different feel than the other, huh? XD Details are forthcoming. I'm having a ton of fun with this one -- feel free to give constructive criticism! Definitely helpful at such stages of a drawing. A lot of the outlining is definitely wobbly and sketchy; more about defining where things are going than actually being part of the drawing.

:D