my trace and model sheets!

[Raqsonu]

My first sketches here, I like to draw characters, hope to one day work as character design.
For now I can only why, but want sampled my characters painted in oil.

yo!

[Raqsonu]

well...Here is a work that took me a whole day! ! It was done in aquarela, and is a fortress orc, for the magazine dragonstale!

http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc294/raqsonu/orc.jpg

[Raqsonu]

yo!! this is my first model sheet!!
I have little experience in photoshop!
for this, speak!!


http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc294/raqsonu/chibo1.jpg

[Micaiah Nelson]

Thats weird that nobody has commented on your SB. Well I'm the first to say welcome to CA.org and your artwork is good and solid. Seems you got the anatomy down, and your anime style is on point. But one thing is you said you want to be a concept designer, then you'll need to learn how to do other styles. example; creature, horror, and realitic style of concept, and out of the anime style (but don't quit anime style) to be a popular concept artist. But I see it wont be hard for you.

[iMaiM]

I like the orc fortress a lot. You plan characters well -- all the expressions and such.

Branch out a bit more from anime, you've got great potential in a lot of fields :) can't wait to see more!

[Saturns Gate]

I would like to see more action poses from you, more fluidity in there poses ya know? What you got here is good, so keep it up and more! :)

[Kat_Warrior]

Hey!

I rather like your style, and the outfit designs you have! It looks like you have the basics down really well. :)

[HunterKiller_]

Good characters, nice style.
I can't find anything to critique. :)

[Raqsonu]

Good .. I thank everybody! First to MICAIAH NELSON! Yes! With time I show other styles, because I learn everything! Monsters, creatures, ect ... I just go by! Anime ... but I will always design for realism too! !
The iMAiN: show more!
The SATURN GATE: I do not know if I understand it, but I will more positions!
The KAT WARRIOR? Also not understand right ... But continue designing!
The HUNTER KILLER: earned!

[Raqsonu]

good..ufa! finish outers model sheets...hehehe
These characters come from a anime called chibo!
http://chibo.wordpress.com/



http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc294/raqsonu/beiji1.jpg


http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc294/raqsonu/yume1.jpg

[WaiLik]

great character design. can't wait to see more!

[Raqsonu]

Ok! Ok! I had forgotten, for the last character!
But here it is!

The other design is for the magazine drgonstale! Was done in watercolor!

Realize that you do not have much practice in photoshop! So if someone you know, I wonder how I trace the art-finalized without white dots!

http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc294/raqsonu/Arachi1.jpg

http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc294/raqsonu/cavaleiros1.jpg

[Raqsonu]

well...some works! I try put more, but...the time!!
forgive me my english!! hehehe

[Micaiah Nelson]

I love it. Reminds me of ninja scroll a little bit. i wwould sugest to go into more detail in your coloring.

[MurdokX]

I like your last landscape pic. is that watercolor? I enjoy the characters simplicity. I think you just need to work on your coloring add some more tones on em!

[Soul Karl]

well it seems like almost no ones given anything constructive for you to work on :[ sorry to see that dude - but luckily I noticed some stuff I can point out to work on :D so hurray for self betterment.

first off in concern to style which someone mentioned earlier, you should really do whatever drives you and whatever feels the most natural to you. I don't get the vibe from these that the animeish style is too forced for you - so it's fine to keep going. However, its very important that you spend a lot of time learning to draw from life before drawing only from your head. So with that said I suggest throwing down on drawing some things in front of you (people if thats at all possible - and pictures will do just fine for now). Just draw what you see and some of the anatomy issues in these will slowly dissappear and your figures and poses will be much more believable.

On to my initial intent of this post though, which pertains specifically to lineweight. It doesn't seem to be as much of a problem with your pencils, which I think have a nice fluidity to them, but when you go on over to ink a piece - they all lack any variation in the weight of your stroke. This just leads to very flat pieces. I'm assuming your using a felt tip multiliner for inking? If thats the case I would highly suggest moving over to a pen w/ a nib (can use cartridges or the old fashion dipping style :P) or a pen brush (copic makes some of these I believe). Winser-Newton i know also makes a really fine tipped sable brush you may wish to check out if thats your thing but thats kinda irrelivent. Anyways all of these will give you a much greater variation in both the fluidity and weight of your stroke with ink. If this isn't an option however, I would suggest using varying sizes of the felt tip pens for inking, and probably do a very thin maybe 0.1 or .2 for the inside strokes and maybe a .5-1 for the outside form of the figure. This will help the eye read over the picture more easily and make for a much more volumetric piece.

On the note of coloring I'm not really feeling the psudo cell-shading you have going on. I'd suggest either fleshing it out fully (by smoothing out the hard devisions between colors) or dropping those middle tones between the shadow and main color. Either one should work just fine. Also your shadows and highlights are working only with the local value, meaning your not taking light into account (and it should be taken into account since its lighting your piece). A shadow from a white light is going to give a neutral shadow, however the shadow of an object contains a very muted tint of its complimentary color. Also if you're hit with a warm light such as yellow or orange (from like the sun) the shadow will be cool and be made up of the complimentary color of the light source. I'm not exactly the best person to ask about color however, so I would try and look up some guides on coloring and such, and also before moving on to digital, I would make sure to work mostly on traditional mediums (though you appear to be doing that).

anyways dude I hope some of this helped :] this is a good start to a sketch book - keep it up man :D

[Raqsonu]

Caraca! This is the first time I receive a good comment, I say ... a great comment.
Yes I use aquarela in some designs! And I am still learning shadow and light ...
My colors are still weak because I am studying and possibly show some results soon!
But sincerely thank soulkar! Ehhehe I specialize me and I will not be alone in anime!

[Raqsonu]

outer! but now photoshop!!

[The Curehead]

nice stuff,i really like the design on archi,and the castle scape.

I usually am not mad out anime i see on ca,but yours is really good,as someone else said it looks natural to you.
very good emotions in the characters too.

[Soul Karl]

hey dude - on this new one don't be afraid to push your colors much harder than you are. I think you're playing it pretty safe. Try to push it further than you think you can (darker darks and the shadows should have different colors in them, not just adding black to it but the opposite color on the wheel). give that a shot and see if you don't like the results better for the colors. I think you'll be suprised at how much color choice will help this. Also its not like you have to mix the colors on photoshop, and theyll never run out - so experiment a little more and see what you cant come up with (I'd also suggest reading up some on color theory if your really interested in coloring)

peace dude keep it up

edit: also I noticed you listened to what I said about lineweight with the heavy outerline and thinner inside lines. As it was however your lines were fairly thick, so if you can get any smaller pens Id suggest keeping the lineweight you have on your thin lines now for your outer ones and make a thinner line for the inside, otherwise the outside line is just overpowering the piece)

[Stoat]

I usually don't like character drawing, because people often use heavy stylization instead of learning how to draw. I don't get that from your stuff at all. The stylization is there, but you're clearly making an honest effort to learn the body and how to turn 3D forms in space.

I particularly like those first few pages of studies you posted. And the scenes. More, please!

[Raqsonu]

more draw, now photoshop!!

[SEVANS]

You have some very nice body language and facial expressions in your characters.

I'm not to fond of your colouring though, to ME it almost appears like you can't pick whether you want it to be slickly cel shaded or loosely washed and seem to be in a weird middle ground (really evident on the last piece)

[Dan Valkar]

as everyone said...nice character design man! also i like very much ur faces...i think u gotta work more on colour ...i think that u should leave the anime style a little to colour...as sevans said..to much like a cell shade...well anyway great and cool sb..keep drawin'!!!

[Raqsonu]

Good ... there some sketches that my plain crazy in my head ... heheh
I am open to criticisms to anatomy, composition and realism!

Beyond this there is also the scene from above but in watercolor! Since the photoshop I still do not have a good basis!

Until then!

[Raqsonu]

some characters...

The second design was done in aquarela!

http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc294/raqsonu/DESENHOANDR0001-1.jpg

[Micaiah Nelson]

I love these new sketches. I also love the first picture in your last post!

[Raqsonu]

Thanks! My specialty is watercolor for now ...

So I am adding two more ...

If you have someone with experience ... I accept suggestions!

[Nettle_Mountain]

Hello ragsonu, I think i might have few suggestions for you how to push your watercolours further.I was asked while ago in DA about retouching digitally watercolours and this might help you:

"
-Scan them 300dp

-Make sure you have photoshop

-Use following functions for retouching colours: Saturation, levels, contrast, selective colour, channel mixer.

-You learn to use these by success and error, put preview on when you are using these (from down left corner) and see how your images change

-If you wannabe real pro, you use curves, but it needs practise. Scourge for some tutorial
"

Other thing is the same problem i am struggling right now with my watercolours, white area. Your desing and composotion is very good but colours are pale, with lots of white area and colours too close to the white.

if you don't still use, get heavy paper for watercolouring +150mg, get some and look for the difference how colour looks with different weight paper.

It might be interesting to do a single A4 composition, character and a backround in ink. scan & copy it to the heavy paper so you have original and duplicate.In first one watercolour picture just like you have used to and in second one colour it again but instead of leaving white area use pale colour in the place of white,and i mean all white and push more colour to picture to make those pale colour areas to look light compared to the shadow colours. This is what i will try myself to see difference.

This is schoolwork, i should have used curves to get more middle shade colour in this picture and use more aggression in colouring to drive white away, still much to learn... http://matsurus.deviantart.com/art/welcome-to-the-jungle-67687635

Take these with little salt, well anyway my 2 cents.
keep posting :)

[Raqsonu]

It is incredible .. before had not understood as coloring in photoshop ... But now I am learning ...

My resources are for now only by the mouse ... but once I get a tablet!

But in the meantime ... how can work better with the colors?
Realized that is half opaque ...


http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc294/raqsonu/blake1.jpg

[Carbono]

E ai Rag, legal ver outro brasileiro por aqui.

Seu estilo de anime tá muito bom, vários designs legais, e sem dúvida o uso de aquarela tá muito bom.
Não tenho realmente nenhuma crítica a fazer ao teu trabalho, eu só recomendaria 'brincar' um pouco com outros estilos, desenhar um pouco de anatomia ou de fotos, em outras palavras, expandir sua biblioteca de 'estilos'.

Continue assim!

[Raqsonu]

que maravilha! claro! estou expandindo!

Good .. finished the two drawings by photoshop!
I hope not to have done next to the anime style, because I am also copying photographs and anatomy real!
Again everything by the mouse! But in February already have my tablet!!

[Raqsonu]

Hoa!
Here I am! Not had a Tablet! Now I have a little learning and use it!
Who want, something comment because I am still inexperienced middle!

[Micaiah Nelson]

Everything is looking great. I see your getting the hang of photoshop. Heres some helpful info from the pros. (If your not firmiliar with them already.)
http://imaginefx.com/02287754333284419776/tutorial.pdf
http://imaginefx.com/-2287754330326480692/Workshops.html
Good luck.

[Soul Karl]

damn dude - I haven't stopped in here for a while :]

these are looking way improved from before, and I'm really digging just how much fun it looks like your having designing some of these things. Just keep at it studying anatomy and such, and seriously do more of these ones pushing realism that you did in photoshop of those 2 chicks. The second one especially shows a huge improvement in form and color :D its great to see and the more you do the more ingrained its gonna become. (looking back on it the colors are super flat in the first one by comparison, see if you can't do some more like the second - because that ones super tightened down :D)

also that like enviro of the lava and the bridge looks pretty swanky as well, the lighting on the bricks is looking good in that :D Just keep at it and make sure not to get caught up in photoshop too much. (also I'm impressed what you can do with a mouse, but I can't help but wonder if just doing it non digitally would help you more since it would be giving you muscle memory as well? just some food for thought =/

peace dude :D

[Raqsonu]

OK! I thank you very soul karl!
.. and I'm training hard!
I can not say that very good! but I am looking non-stop!
.. shadow colors! and degradees!
in addition to being familiar with me all kinds of brushes and techniques in photoshop!

here are some!

[Onimetal]

E ae!
Pow, pensei que n ia ver um brazuca por aqui^^
Muito obrigado pelo elogio, tbm curti muito teu material por aqui!
E vamo que vamo, hehe!

[vayne108]

Sweet stuff, my friend I'm glad I found you here to!!