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2D All the way! / An Attempt At Improving My Drawing Skills

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RalphY
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Posted: 7th Aug 2007 17:10 Edited at: 7th Aug 2007 17:10
I've been to busy lately with other stuff to really concentrate on my game, so I thought I would try doing some concept art for it in my free time, only problem being I can't really draw all that well. So instead I thought I would try improving my drawing ability so that then I can start on some concept art.

Programming wise my game has got to the stage where I could do with creating concept art for a character model. My game will have a sort of anime style to the character models so that's what I've been practising.



I'm reasonably happy with the general shape, however shading it has been a nightmare, I found it hard to get the shadows to look correct and I still think there off. I did it on my tablet pc and looking at it on my main comp now I notice the colours don't look anywhere near as good as they did on my tablet, oh well.

If any of the more skilled artist in this forum could post some comments/criticisms to help me improve that would be great. Also apologies if this shouldn't be here, I assumed 2D chat was the equivalent of 3D chat, however glancing through the topics here it seems it's more code oriented.
Zergei
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Posted: 8th Aug 2007 03:29
Im no artist, thought i like how the shades turned out.
However i was a bit more concerned about the position, size and form of the eyes, mouth, ear and eyebrow ... so i went ahead and did some changes of my own. Tell me if ya like it better or not.

Further on my stuff at...
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Shadow heart
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Posted: 8th Aug 2007 11:08
looks nice and yeah i really like the shading but the eye positioning could use a littel worklooks good though

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Xenocythe
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Posted: 8th Aug 2007 11:17
Zergei has it right

Great work though, looks nice.

RalphY
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Posted: 8th Aug 2007 15:44
Thanks all for the feedback. Funny how none of you seem to have a problem with the shading, I thought that would be the first thing that people pointed out as “wrong”.

@Zergei – Yeah I can see what you mean about the face now looking at your modified image. Thanks for taking the time to make those changes, they have been a lot of help.
Xenocythe
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Posted: 8th Aug 2007 19:50
Well, thats the thing- we all suck at shading


Anyways, the long strand of hair coming down (on our right) should leave a shadow on her face/neck.

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Posted: 25th Aug 2007 08:10
looks good.

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