Early design for my comic book character! :o

[Immortal Goat]

[EDIT] Image deleted to save bandwidth

[Spectre X]

Wow, that's a lovely red X you've got there.

EDIT: Now it shows.



*ahem*


SWEET ZOMBIE JESUS SHRINK THAT BITCH DOWN!!!

It looks like it could be...something. I don't know what to think. It's weird.

[Immortal Goat]

IM about to re-do the pic so its smaller

[Immortal Goat]

It's smaller now.

[Spectre X]

Indeed.



It's good overall, but the wings are kind of oddly connected to him, and don't look like they'd rip such big holes in a jacket like that, if at all.

[Immortal Goat]

I'm working on the body-to-wing connection, and he ripped the holes himself. But thank you for the criticism. Remember, this is just an early drawing, though.

[mesobe]

are you guys having a discussion about a red x? cause i dont see any wings on the red x.

[Immortal Goat]

If you can't see the pics, then click here

[mesobe]

they look like spider legs witht hings hanging from them. Spiderman!

[Immortal Goat]

They're supposed to be the charred remains of his angelic wings.

[Immortal Goat]

SECOND PICTURE ADDED!

[executioneer]

the second one looks like he just got up and is about to go for his morning jog

-willie

[Immortal Goat]

[The Fifth Man]

So, Goat, would you recommend the I-Mockery forums for
having artwork critiqued?

[glowbelly]

lemme guess...you're one of the amazing artists from penny arcade.

[Immortal Goat]

Actually, no, im not from Penny Arcade. And those aren't my best works, just some shit i threw together. I am not saying they are great, i just want to know what you people think of the basic design of the character. so far, only Spectre got it so far.

[glowbelly]

hey genius, i was talkin to the guy who posted above me. that's usually how these message board things work.

[Immortal Goat]

Sorry 'bout that, Glowbelly. Didn't catch that. I just figured since everyone else was raggin on my stuff that you were too.


In all seriousness, though, Glow, what do you think I should do to fix my drawings to make them a bit more realistic? I respect your artistic opinions more than other people on this board.

[The Fifth Man]

A: Sarcasm. Figured you were used to swimming in it here
by now. Sorry to have confused you.

B: I never touch Penny Arcade. I've seen better art in my mom's
first grade class than Penny Arcade.

[glowbelly]

alrighty goat...

the first suggestion i have is to quit drawing on notebook paper. i understand that these are considered preliminary sketches, but you can do the same kind of sketches in a sketchbook. that way when you present them people like me won't get distracted by blue horizontal lines.

if this is a character for a comic book, you really need to get used to drawing the same looking figure over and over again. the top representation looks frail compared to the bottom.

also, something doesn't set well with me with his wings. i'm not a wing expert by any means, but you might want to look towards nature to figure out how they should be drawn. by looking at it is now, i can't tell if his wings were recently burned or if they have been cleaned up and this is what he was left with. i'm leaning towards the latter, because the bottom skeletal part looks too clean. plus, remember that fire isn't rational. it doesn't tend to burn two objects the same. it may be more interesting to show some kind of variation between the two.

i think the figure drawing itself is fairly good. i'm not a drawing person, so it's hard for me to tell you exactly what is wrong with the figures. i definitely think that the bottom drawing is stronger than the top. i'd like to see some more shading to soften up the hard lines.

that's all i got for you now.

[Supafly345]

I was wondering why he was asking a photographer for drawing tips.

Really all you can do is to practice as much as possible.

[Immortal Goat]

It wasn't that I was asking a photographer about drawing, I was simply asking an artist her artistic opinion. And besides, if I am going for a realistic figure, who better to ask than someone who deals with real figures all the time?

[Supafly345]

Someone who draws them.
If you are going for realism the best thing you can do is to practice drawing a model. That is what realism is mostly, life-accurate drawings. You can't expect to manifest real-to-life drawings in your head and then produce them on paper from day one. That would be like someone who tried to cook their very first cake without a recipe.

Observe ripped holes in clothing in order to emulate it for the holes in the jacket. Think "how would a hole in cloth look if a wing had just been thrust through it?" And use similar thinking for other aspects as well (wings, hair, clothing, ect). Find a picture of a wing then draw it, find a picture of the back of a man's head and draw it. If I go into specifit things then it will be my visualisations as an artist, and not yours. So develop what you notice in reality, then practice it.

[Immortal Goat]

Thank you for the tips, Supafly. I will certainly try those things.

[Immortal Goat]

click here to see it.

It is a revised version of my first drawing. I re-did the wing attatchments and the bone structure. No shading, though. Not yet, anyway.[/list]