My works....

I love seeing things threads like this. You definitely have a lot of potential and I hope you continue to refine your work, and post it here!

Damn, that Rin and Saber one looks awesome, I guess Rin's arm does look rather straight, but still, I love how you do your feet. Man, I need to learn how to do those, I'm tired of cutting them out in my pics.

these aren't bad, i like.=]

I am no artist, but I like this image. I think it shows that you know WHAT to draw and HOW it is drawn, which is probably a hard thing to do.

i like the first pic.

Thank you people for the comments, I really appreciate it! :D



Thanks for pointing out, and everyone seems to agree on it. I'll try to correct it. This will helps me a lot in improving myself. Its kinda hard to see mistakes when you are drawing by yourself.


Seems suddenly people are starting to have a liking at the first pic. Hehe, thank you guys!



Thanks Jacob! Yeah I'll sure be posting my work here and only here in Fakku, though I'm kinda getting slow nowadays with things that are happening in life.

Some more sketches.

Pic 8-Lotion request

Well, I'm glad to be of assistance. I'm sure everyone else feels the same.


Is this an angle you're not used to drawing? If so, then you probably already know what's wrong with it. Something seems to be up with the link to the second pic though.

Yeah I guess... mostly on the lower part since I have to reference myself and had trouble seeing my back :?

Whoops I didn't realize the link of other pic doesn't work.

repost
pic 9-Iroha 2

the lotion request arm is a bit wrong in for shortening, i think the hnad needs te get bigger so it feels like its coming towards you. They both look great.

Hi there. Your curves are really nice and you choose your subjects well.

However, take note to balance off your eyes (notice Rin's right eye is smaller then the left? It's supposed to be the other way round). When using paper to sketch, hold the paper up in the sunlight from the other side. Your eyes are never balanced as you have a master eye and a weaker eye so this should help you to spot what's wrong easily. You do not need to draw noses with that much strength too so maybe easing it a bit can help make it look more natural.

Most of the problems i see are facial and probably too much curves (exp, Rin's waist area. Some parts do not need to show the muscles too explicitly as well as colouring should do the trick most of the time.

Also, the calves are not folding in properly for Lotion. The whole calve should cover more of the thighs. Now it seems like she's on an angle but she's not. Try to shift it upwards more

Lastly, i recommend to use Sai for lining/sketching. Photoshop is excellent for effects but for brush tips you can go with your liking of either as they're both excellent. You just need to choose which style you like =) Sai is easier on beginners as most of the options are already preset more suited for anime art and it also has auto smoothening function for its pen tool, excellent for doing lineart. Photoshop has filters, effects, layer options and stuff. Basically the proxor software =)

Why not try doing full colour CGs?

Well, I'm going to ignore the awkward pose, because I am especially guilty of that. Anyway ... hmm ... the area of the legs below the knees seem rather thin. The arms also seem to be unusually thin. The perspective on her right arm makes it look like that arm is downwards instead of outwards.

Dang how do you get your lines that light and soft? My lines look a lot different from yours.

Your, dont press so hard?

Oh I didn't realized that Rin's eyes are not of the same size and yeah I did the paper turning to check if theres anything wrong though I'm using table lamp instead of sunlight. Must've missed that one... It would be easier if I have a light box.

Yeah there are lots of mistakes in the lotion request image, I just wanted to test drawing action from the back which I'm still trying to get the hang of it.

I've heard a lot about SAI.... the problem is I have to download it and can only use it for 30 days then I have to pay for it, furthermore I don't have a tablet to begin with and I heard its kinda useless to use SAI without one. However I still have interest in the program. Also thanks for the comment.




Thanks, I think you are right I have doubt when i actually finished with the hand but can't seem to figure out if there's anything wrong with it.



Haha, I purposely did the pose like that since it looked pretty interesting. Yeah, the legs below the knee was also purposely done like that, I was just trying something different since I realize some artist like to do it like that. :)

Yeah the right arm is actually going downwards because the movement is actually after an attack and not a starting one. Still, I appreciate your view on the pic.



I used Rotring mechanical pencils (0.7,0.5) on all my sketches and use B or HB leads. Only if I'm really going to do a permanent sketches I'll be adding the use of 2B leads. Also like f0dd3r said, don't press too hard on the paper.....but sometimes I still do that :?

Haha, 100th post!

I hope this is not considered double posting... because I don't like replying to myself but I wanted to share something I recently did for fun.

Pic 10-My attempt in colouring (photoshop, pen tool, mouse)


Original Sketch


I hope people will post their artworks again...

Cool, i like, did around 5 more full page sketches but still dead scanner, can't help it.

Not bad for your first try. How many layers did you use?

Well, its not actually my first try... though this is the first one where I used pen tools for the lineart. And as for layers, I used 20 for this one...

Sorry to hear about the scanner. Really hope it could be fixed so I can see more of your works and of course my LuckyxCross poster.:)

Hmm i recommend you try using a tablet, or getting one. It's currently pretty cheap if you hunt down this tablet called Deleter XP Pen tablet. They're equally as powerful as an Intuos 3 with an effective pressure sensitivity of 1024 layers and its much more compact, comparing the A5 sizes of both tablets. Only drawback is that it requires batteries to operate the pen. The price is around USD$60, dirt cheap.

Once you get your tablet, you can try doing gradient effects on your hair/ skin tones, to give u a much softer and well blended effect. Also, i recommend you to work with a lineart layer on a totally new transparent layer. Upon doing so, you can colour your lineart, blending the lineart into your character skin. Lock your transparency (button on Layer tab) and then colour over it with a darker toned colour of your choice.

Well, I hope my comments help, that is unless you love Vectoring DDD=

Well if all else fails, i'll use my suckass document scanner =/ (3 scanners in the house)

@ Temcor: Hey, that's pretty nice! I find it funny that the shine on the hair is different in your posted color image than in your avatar. Also, I don't consider it double posting since there was a significant time difference between the posts.

Ugh, I don't like to do vectoring... its takes lots of my time and the line doesn't seem natural.

Hey, I never knew there was such a cheap tablet that as good as a Wacom tablets. I don't mind for battery though. Also thanks for the tips, I really wanted to do colouring the way you and other artists do furthermore with tablets I can start drawing backgrounds.



Lol, yeah the avie and the original pic have different highlights. I think the one in the original seems kinda rough and doesn't look really nice when I make it smaller so I decided to go for a simple highlights for my avvie. I think the highlights on the avatar is more better than the original.Thanks for the comment.^ ^