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I was given a description for these characters/the scene, so instead of drawing a generic fight scene that I could pretty much swap in virtually any characters, I tried to set this up specifically for these characters.

I was trying to show Durandal as clearly losing but determined and having fight in him. Then there's Tycho, who I wanted to show as dominant, confident, and savage (I think that's the word I was looking for ...). Kind of "playing" with Durandal, like he knows he (Tycho) can't lose.

The idea here is that Durandal threw a punch, which Tycho caught him by the arm on and is restraining him. Holding Durandal in place, Tycho's just headbutting him multiple times, making him buckle to the ground.

I did my usual scuff marks and cracks and stuff for battle damage on both characters even though I imagine Tycho wouldn't be getting hit much. I didn't want to leave him spotless though, or it as a picture might look unbalanced. I figure most of the damage is from hitting Durandal though, rather than getting hit himself. That's why the biggest damage is mostly on striking points like the knees, feet, and fists.

I ran into a lot of problems drawing this. It didn't take me long to get the pose layout down and I was pleased with it for the most part. Pleased to the point where I was afraid to erase it out of fear I wouldn't be able to redo it.

As usual, I ran out of space on the paper and I'd have to redo the pose if I wanted to shrink it down (risking ruining the pose). So I didn't redraw the whole thing, but I had to try adjusting the legs because they looked kind of short. Actually, the whole bodies look kinda squat, but it's mostly the legs I struggled with. I'm not sure the posing and perspective can reasonably account for the short length of the bodies. I also had to try and make the planes (like the distance between their legs)/perspective make sense.

There was something about Durandal's legs that looked off (in relation to each other). I couldn't find any reference photos that matched the pose I laid out though, and I don't want to compromise my poses just so I have appropriate reference to use to make sure I'm doing things right. As much as I hate having errors, I'd prefer it still be my original ideas rather than being more based on other people's ideas/photos for more "accuracy".

I could go on, but it's hard to explain with just words and I'm sure anyone reading this already gets the general idea of the struggle I was having.

Making it more difficult was trying to figure out the clothing in relation to the poses/perspective. Mainly I'm referring to Durandal's top (I'm not sure that torso piece thing looks right) and Tycho's coat (I had no idea how his coat should look in that pose ). To a lesser extent, his torso piece too.

tl;dr
I usually run into problems drawing clothes.

Honestly, this is probably part of the reason some of my pictures years ago or some of my character designs lack a lot of clothes or I don't draw their full designs; it makes too many problems and often just leaves me frustrated with a picture.
Though I'm not necessarily saying I would've preferred being asked to draw these characters fighting sans clothes.

Oh yeah...I also had trouble with the faces, mostly Durandal. I'm not used to drawing this perspective, like how he's supposed to be looking down. I'm not sure I did it right. This is actually a redraw; I think it looked better before but I had to erase it to redraw it, trying to make his head look a little bigger. Then the redraw, which is here, didn't turn out as well.

I was trying to make his head look a little bigger because Tycho's headbutt isn't actually making contact with Durandal's head!!
Really, it's only touching his hair; his actual skull is like a couple of inches away from Tycho's helmet (which I hear is worn for the same reason as Durandal's not-pictured mask, but doesn't work as well).

Redrawing part of the head didn't work, and making the whole head any bigger would've made his head out of proportion with his body. I also didn't think I could mess with redrawing Tycho's for the same reasons.
Basically, changing something would've meant having to change everything.

I suppose Durandal's head could already be reeling from the headbutt and that's why they're not making contact, but it still bugs me that it doesn't look as painful and impactful as I wanted.

I was not pleased with the picture while I was drawing it with all these problems, but I'm not sure how I feel about it now. At least Radix's cool colouring job makes it easier to look at.

Oh, almost forgot: TKO is Tycho Knockout.

Description
For ; her colour version is here:
general-radix.deviantart.com/a…

I was given a description for these characters/the scene, so instead of drawing a generic fight scene that I could pretty much swap in virtually any characters, I tried to set this up specifically for these characters.

I was trying to show Durandal as clearly losing but determined and having fight in him. Then there's Tycho, who I wanted to show as dominant, confident, and savage (I think that's the word I was looking for ...). Kind of "playing" with Durandal, like he knows he (Tycho) can't lose.

The idea here is that Durandal threw a punch, which Tycho caught him by the arm on and is restraining him. Holding Durandal in place, Tycho's just headbutting him multiple times, making him buckle to the ground.

I did my usual scuff marks and cracks and stuff for battle damage on both characters even though I imagine Tycho wouldn't be getting hit much. I didn't want to leave him spotless though, or it as a picture might look unbalanced. I figure most of the damage is from hitting Durandal though, rather than getting hit himself. That's why the biggest damage is mostly on striking points like the knees, feet, and fists.

I ran into a lot of problems drawing this. It didn't take me long to get the pose layout down and I was pleased with it for the most part. Pleased to the point where I was afraid to erase it out of fear I wouldn't be able to redo it.

As usual, I ran out of space on the paper and I'd have to redo the pose if I wanted to shrink it down (risking ruining the pose). So I didn't redraw the whole thing, but I had to try adjusting the legs because they looked kind of short. Actually, the whole bodies look kinda squat, but it's mostly the legs I struggled with. I'm not sure the posing and perspective can reasonably account for the short length of the bodies. I also had to try and make the planes (like the distance between their legs)/perspective make sense.

There was something about Durandal's legs that looked off (in relation to each other). I couldn't find any reference photos that matched the pose I laid out though, and I don't want to compromise my poses just so I have appropriate reference to use to make sure I'm doing things right. As much as I hate having errors, I'd prefer it still be my original ideas rather than being more based on other people's ideas/photos for more "accuracy".

I could go on, but it's hard to explain with just words and I'm sure anyone reading this already gets the general idea of the struggle I was having.

Making it more difficult was trying to figure out the clothing in relation to the poses/perspective. Mainly I'm referring to Durandal's top (I'm not sure that torso piece thing looks right) and Tycho's coat (I had no idea how his coat should look in that pose ). To a lesser extent, his torso piece too.

tl;dr
I usually run into problems drawing clothes.

Honestly, this is probably part of the reason some of my pictures years ago or some of my character designs lack a lot of clothes or I don't draw their full designs; it makes too many problems and often just leaves me frustrated with a picture.
Though I'm not necessarily saying I would've preferred being asked to draw these characters fighting sans clothes.

Oh yeah...I also had trouble with the faces, mostly Durandal. I'm not used to drawing this perspective, like how he's supposed to be looking down. I'm not sure I did it right. This is actually a redraw; I think it looked better before but I had to erase it to redraw it, trying to make his head look a little bigger. Then the redraw, which is here, didn't turn out as well.

I was trying to make his head look a little bigger because Tycho's headbutt isn't actually making contact with Durandal's head!!
Really, it's only touching his hair; his actual skull is like a couple of inches away from Tycho's helmet (which I hear is worn for the same reason as Durandal's not-pictured mask, but doesn't work as well).

Redrawing part of the head didn't work, and making the whole head any bigger would've made his head out of proportion with his body. I also didn't think I could mess with redrawing Tycho's for the same reasons.
Basically, changing something would've meant having to change everything.

I suppose Durandal's head could already be reeling from the headbutt and that's why they're not making contact, but it still bugs me that it doesn't look as painful and impactful as I wanted.

I was not pleased with the picture while I was drawing it with all these problems, but I'm not sure how I feel about it now. At least Radix's cool colouring job makes it easier to look at.

Oh, almost forgot: TKO is Tycho Knockout.