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Chrishankhah — Thief in the Night
Published: 2011-08-01 06:21:58 +0000 UTC; Views: 14255; Favourites: 379; Downloads: 221
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*Deep breath* I'm afraid to look at this any more. I might find more mistakes, which could prove fatal for me at this point! I'm on the fence about the hue, as it is -- I chose it because it seemed to make sense for a stormy night. Did I take it too far?Anyway ... I couldn't not draw Isabela! She's a pirate (!), a well designed character (with a gypsy look to her, I love that,) and, a level of comic relief bested only by Varric, (and the two of them together in a party... Oh my.)
But honestly, I tried to institute some modesty. I really tried! Somehow, I still miscalculated then angle of Heartbreaker (or is it Backstabber?), so in the end ... Gah. I'm sure I'm the only one complaining about this, so I'll shut up now.
She is, of course, rushing out of an oddly empty Qunari compound at night. I'm not sure if this fits into any canon, but to be honest, I wasn't thinking about a background when I sketched her. Since her story in Kirkwall has so much to do with the Qunari, the compound seemed as good a setting as any!
Why is it, by the way, that it never seemed to rain in Dragon Age 2? I thought the atmosphere was so beautiful in the game, that my favorite weather pattern was sorely missed!
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This is so amazing! Yes there are a few errors, but none that ruin it so... Stop picking at it!
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Too tired of looking at it to care about them. 
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The purple is a bit too much, what about a colour that is closer to a really deep blue with a hint of purple in it?
I think one of the problems with Isabela is that she is a bit too defined or rendered for the drawing :/. Especially the hair, you were going for a realistic look, but the hair has the quality of a cartoon character. I think for more realism the hair should possibly be less rendered? You could also try it out on the PSD and if it doesn't work you can get rid of it 
The only other thing is the perspective and proportion on Isabela, but it's too late to do anything about that. Since it's just a pain in the butt to have to change things like that this late in the drawing 
I think the hair might be the easiest to play around with at this stage though, making it more realistically curly/wavy and giving it some bounce might work wonders to framing her face.
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Ok, here we go -- I KNEW I had a reference for my sketch. I just couldn't find it and started worrying that I imagined things. (I do tend to imagine things.)
I got the idea for the pose (save for the angle and some other tweaks) was from this -- [link] -- The toe was "down," other leg back, you'll see other similarities. It seemed to work in the photo so the drawing didn't seem like a problem to me at the time. I can see what you mean though
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That's an incredibly posed photo. And unless Isbela runs like a deer I don't think it's very good
[link]
Google image search of "running".
When you are running properly, it's always heel first.
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I wondered if it was when I went back to it, but she isn't even touching the ground yet -- not sure how she'd pose that, lol.
A lot of the shots do have the heel down -- but a lot have the toe down. It seems to be a stage in the running sequence. If you look at this sequence : [link] the ninth pose seems to resemble something of what i was going for. It probably isn't a perfect match, but this was a drawing to practice dynamic, anyway, (something I've never been good at.) I do thank you for your advice and will take it all into consideration for the next pictures I do!
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Like I said before, the toe is only like when you are pushing away from the ground.
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Yeah, I caught that. Perhaps she is leaping, then, or it's some other roguish move I haven't figured out.
When I was sketching this, a lot of the poses I found looked too stiff, and didn't portray the movement and grace I wanted to show. So, I used a pose that looked right to me, (the one linked,) but I was deceived, I suppose, by a photograph that wasn't as feasible as it first appeared.
Because of that, though, I put many hours of work into it, and so you can understand why I might search for some explanation to prevent accepting that the image is just wrong in ways I can't change at this point. (I can only learn for next time.) I'm sure that despite all of that, you can also appreciate the good aspects in it, (I noticed you did not mention any.
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Yeah I do understand why you aren't gonna change anything to do with her body
It's just something to think about, for all the new illustrations you do as well. I find it is best to upload a WIP still in it's sketch format, and ask people what they think of it
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I often do. They usually don't get seen, though, because people don't watch scraps. (Wish they did!
[link] was the prelim. I uploaded about a week and a half ago. One fav, no comments. Blah XD
Suppose I could have submitted it to a group for more exposure/help, but, it didn't even occur to me. Maybe next time
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:<
Scraps never are posted on my Messages, that might be why most people never see them T_T. So I upload it to my main gallery with WIP in the title, and then upload the progress from there 
Your scrap looks good like that, I think adding the background just for the final version might have been a bad idea though :<. Maybe next time work the background (very sketchy mind you) into the sketch so that you can edit it easily, and if it doesn't look right on the sketch it's easier to change.
Plus when everything is together it's easier to see if it works well together then working on things separately
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Yeah, I wasn't sure what I was going to do with the background until much later on. I'd actually begun to paint this before I could think of one, but if I didn't start, I never would have. (I have to do things while I'm still in the mood because my heart dictates me; it's the bane of my artistic existence!
I should probably at least sketch on top of "planes" and draw the background from there so that everything's guaranteed to match up. My mind just isn't organized enough for it. I'd do it once or twice, and then completely forget to do it beyond that. Wish I could "download" it into my intuition instead, but they haven't come out with that technology, yet. XD (Or have they? 
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lol
It might be something that you have to constantly remind yourself to do, so that it then becomes something that you will then do naturally
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Tried that with keeping my possessions organized. Never goes too well. Something in my brain is wired all wrong, and there isn't enough coffee in the world to right that, haha.
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:<
I have like the messiest work space
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My only saving grace is the fact that my boyfriend is OCD in a cleanly way, so it keeps me from getting out of control.
... Unfortunately, that also means he's always "disorganizing" my chaotic and unsorted form of "organization" and I can never FIND anything in the unmess!
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Ah :< it's good to spread your work out in front of you though!
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I've considered changing the color, but a lot of people seem to actually like it. I did toy with it before posting, but the problem comes when the color change made everything a bit "too" clear. The storms (at least the ones around here) come on humid days, and a lot of haziness is created by the rain hitting warm pavement, so I think that was why I let the purple mute some things out.
I don't do incredibly well with realistic hair. It was painted based on my initial sketch (seemed to work then, lol!) but sort of fell away from there. Not a style I do, often. Could you possibly sketch an example of what you mean? It shouldn't be "too" late to go back and work on it, though I did do some work with the post colors.
The running thing -- Hah, I don't get to run much (asthma gets pretty bad,) so I don't catch things like that. I suppose I figured this was just as fine in the "toe" stage. I wish someone had pointed it out when I posted the prelim. sketch
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The toe stage of running is on the ground and pushing away
[link]
Here's a Google image search of "wavy hair in the wind", I would've taken a big brush in Photoshop and sketched out where I wanted the hair to go and all that and worked into it with a smaller brush
A lot of them don't have their hair blowing backwards though T_T.
I think with the hair, you could make the tips of her hair less define. Cause she has very thick hair.
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I'll mess around with the hair in a bit and see what I can come up with, thanks.
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