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Harlequenne — character doodles 2
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I read your forum thing, and your journal and it sounds like you want a critique, if this is the wrong assumption, nvm.
The first thing I noticed was that your characters have no jaw line or cheek bones, the faces you draw are just ovals, a real face isn't. Even in anime there's a clearly defined chin, and all important cheek bones see [link]
But one thing I would really like to pick you up on is those hands, or should I say, lack there of. So you're bad at hands, everyone is, you're not going to be magically better at drawing them if you hide them all the time. Now when I was doing that, I made up all kinds of reasons for them to have their hands behind their back, or in their pocket or something. No. That's back. It doesn't matter what excuse you make, people can always tell you're avoiding drawing them because you're not comfortable with how you draw them. That's a defeatist attitude to start with, and not good for someone with so much drive to have.
Hope you can understand some of these things. If there's anything or a specific work you'd like a more in depth critique about, I'll always have time for it.
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To start with, thank you -so- much for responding and coming to look through my gallery, I appreciate it -so- much. And -extra- thank yous for the helpful link.
As far as the hands go, my honest problem with them is that I can't find poses that -do- show them that don't look...well, posed. And I don't like that. But I will work on the face shapes, and trying to show off thehands more. Again, I really appreciate it.
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Its perfectly okay for things to look posed, its called pin-up style (though doesn't require teh nudies) eg: [link] or even [link]
not everything has to look like a naturally occurring position, especially when you're starting off. Even in anime and manga characters will strike poses for little more reason than the artist liked the pose, but it still works.
Anyway, thanks for reading, cant wait for your future drawings
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