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Published: 2013-03-29 15:38:07 +0000 UTC; Views: 4230; Favourites: 31; Downloads: 0
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Another process drawing of the character Sophia putting her Chun-li on. I've gotten requests for these process images. Typically, I'll do a rough cartoon of the scene, then detail the characters on margins or separate pages. When I'm satisfied with the composition, I'll trace in the characters and clean up the pencils. I then Photoshop the pencils in, adjust all the lines to a light non-repro blue of the same value, then print on high quality paper. I can then ink, using Pigma or Prismacolor lining pens. Then it's back to the scanner at high-res, high contrast. This washes out any of the blue lines. After that, its Photoshop for colors, and viola!You can see subtle changes through the process. I changed her mask so you could see more of her expression, for example
I hope this helps those of you learning. It was a bit of trial and error, and lots of practice.
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if im nice to her you think she would let me rub her bulging muscular thighs and not beat me to a bloody puddle lol ?
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how long have you practiced the human anatomy, your art is great and i use it for muscle reference a lot.
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Thanks for the complement!
Years and years, including a bit of formal instruction, with live figures. One valuable exercise is to charcoal sketch your view of the nude figure, in one minute, then he/she changes position, and you go again. No dithering! you learn to translate what your eye sees to clean simple gestures in a matter of a few strokes. It also forces you to stop thinking about what you think you see, and just draw what you see. You get muscle memory from that.
Last thing to say: Screw what the texts and other artists say about proportions. A lot of artists, especially in the comic/manga world, draw really outlandish figures, with tiny heads, and exceptionally long arms and legs in proportion. Very narrow-waisted women, too. These tend to create Barbies and Kens, which as we know, don't really exist. It's hard to accept this for many.
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Typically it takes about two-three evenings to do a single character drawing. This was a more complex one, taking about 4 days. My challenge is to not spend too much time on the main character at the expense of the quality of the secondary characters. But, hey, making Sophia as sexy and fun as possible is worth it!
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