a few sketches

[ChaosJT]

Here are just a few sketches. They were for the jasg, and i had fun drawing them. c&c please.

Loki
http://www.joinedartists.com/uploads/loki11804.jpg

a quick anime sketch done under 10 minutes
http://www.joinedartists.com/uploads/xmasanime.jpg

a skull collecter (his arms are supposed to be too long)
http://www.joinedartists.com/uploads/skullcollector11804.jpg

[ceedubya]

My critque and comment

1. Get your damn elbow off the table! (not kidding)
2. Dont press so hard
3. If you are going to push the porportions of a body, make sure you can do a normal body first

cw

[ChaosJT]

replies to ceedubya

1. i don't draw with my elbow on the table.
2. these were done in a pitt pen not a pencil.
3. I'm not sure what you mean by doing a normal body? If you are reffering to the 3rd drawings body, then maybe I should have also mentioned that the body is not of a normal person. It's kinda like an alien sort of ripcage with a stomach that is kinda shrunk in (if that makes sence)

[ceedubya]

By a 'normal' body, i mean a realistic human figure shape from a photograph or from still life.

If you aren't drawing with your elbow on the table, then either you are leaning sideways, either on your left hand, or just out of habit. The drawings shown here are leaning to the left, which is symptomatic of one of these 3 things.

Your stuff will improve if you try to avoid any of these things. I'm assuming that's the point of posting these...If you'd like I could say something like

"WOW THOSE ARE AWESOME DUDE KEEP GOING!!!!"

how's that?

cw

[ChaosJT]

You are correct, me posting this stuff here is so I can learn, but in your first post you just said to get my elbow off of the table. In your 3rd post you say that I am either leaning or that i am leaning on my left, or my left hand. and you stated why. This i understand and I appreciate. Because now I have to take notice on how I sit when I draw. I thank you for that. You're comment about the normal body though sounds like an insult because you do not explain your reason why you tell me to learn to draw a "normal" body. If you could please explain what makes you say that, or have any details to point out in my art I would appreciate that as well, so I understand why you say this.
Thank you.

[ceedubya]

Yeah, i understand why you'd be ticked about that. That was not my intent.

Simply put, taking the human form in real life and scribing it to paper is pretty difficult. But if you actually measured out the dimensions of a live person, and scaled them down to fit on a page, you would have the basis for the human form in 2D.

Then once you have done the basis (reality) then you can go ahead and begin to scale and push the porportions of legs, arms, torsos, heads. Capcom artists used to be the leaders in pseudo realistic body porportions, with exaggerated heads, hands and feet. The rest of the bodies were realistic and porportional to a live person. But since they already have the basic understanding of human shape and porportion, they can skew or 'stylize' the body as a result. It would be safe to say that the Capcom guys spent dozens of hours sketching normal bodies before they began to change them.

That's all I'm saying. Start with the basics, then tweak. Dont start with the tweak, and work towards the basics. Doing so will improve your work and provide the opportunity to understand the rules of the human form for more effective artwork.

Besides, the most beautiful thing in the world is the human body.

http://www.sftchina.com/gallery/Capcom_Design_Works/

cw