Inspired by Viewtifull Joe. Made it a while ago. Wanted to post it 'cause ijffdrie is constantly posting kewl concept stuff. This took me about 2 hours, though. I bet ijffdrie is faster. :/
*facepalm* And now I notice that the right wristband is incomplete. And why did I buy a phone with an 8MP camera if photobucket changes them to less then 2MP? Anybody know a better hosting site? -_-'
Just put it on imageshack? Or http://snelhest.org/upload/ Or do kids require logins everywhere these days?
make an album at this site Ijffdrie might be faster, but from what I've seen, you are better ^^ An Ancient Evil survived
I really like the head, especially the open mouth. Great attention to detail. It does not make sense to me why part of his jaw is obscured by his right arm. The arms seem too stubby for that to be possible. Lets talk shading. Again, I really like the head. It seems you shaded that more in a way to show style rather than illustrating where the point of light is. Which is ofc perfectly fine, but the rest of him seems to be shaded according to a point of light and the mixing of the two doesn't work much in my eyes. The top of his axe is way too dark. I'm guessing you put the light source directly in front of him and that a a shadow falling from his head. If that's the case then his left side, along the ribcage should be as dark as well. Again it's hard for me to critique as I'm not sure if you shading is meant to be more stylized or realistic. I really like the fact that you gave him a background rather than just putting a character on a blank page. The background really aids in showing some action and giving sort of a story to your work. Overall I really do like, your technique could just use more polish, aka practice. Plan on posting anything else soon?
I was planning on posting some more, yes. But I haven't had the time yet to make anything good yet. Or to be honest: haven't had the patience yet. As for the shading: it's more for style then that I was working with a specific lightsource. I wanted to give it more of a 3 dimensional look, instead of making it feel so flat. Other then that, I don't really like putting to much thought in light and all that when there are huge flames in the background. There's basically light all over the place. Haha. The axe was more or less a complete failure. I tried to erase it again, but it didn't come off anymore for some reason. Probably pressed to hard on the paper. Just pretend it's blood or something. Because you know, it's still an axe. And the arm isn't in front of his jaw. At least not a lot. He(?) is turning his head a bit to the right, and his right arm is in a stretched position pointing to the left. The left arm is bend at the elbow. I thought it looked pretty real for holding an axe. :/ The only thing I don't like are the teeth. Just can't seen to get any teeth properly done. Ever.
The arm is indeed foreshortened well. Just doesn't seem right to me spacialy that it could obscure any of it's lower jaw. I might just be an *** though. I think the teeth look good, but they are hard to see. If you wanna practice doing little pointed teeth like that you could always get a pysical cone, light it from one side and draw that worrying mostly about the shading. That could help you make them look less flat. Playing with the line weight at the bottom of the teeth might make them look more like they are firmly inserted in his gums. But it's hard to give any advice since I don't know what you specifically dislike about them. Oh btw, if I ever piss you off when saying something about your artwork....I mean no harm, but do let me know.
Haha, I'm hardly call it art if you see what those people over at deviantart make with just a pencil. All comments are welcome. I plan to really start taking this more seriously. Just need some better pencils... Thanks for the tip on the teeth.
