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Continuing the trend of using the RWBY team to practice my full figure drawing, here's Ruby (with bonus Zwei. I had no idea corgis would be so fun to draw).Ruby always gives me trouble --- I think I just have a really hard time capturing her innate innocence for one reason or other. I mean, it's not like I draw the women I do to be sex bombs or anything, but there's a general youthfulness about her that I'm not sure carries over into my stuff.

That said, save for all of the damn buckles and straps she insists on wearing, she is fun to draw. I originally had some rose petal wafting through the air from her cloak, but they kind of overpowered Zwei, so I took them out. As far as the backgrounds go, in the past I've used the girls' eye colors as a basis, sort of to draw their eyes out (my absolute favorite part to draw), but with Ruby having silver eyes, that didn't provide any pop. It was just another shade of grey. So I used (what I think is) blue to contrast the red of her outfit. And of course Zwei had to get his own frame, too.

Anyway, let me know what you think -- my main concern is getting the proportions right, but if you have any tips or tricks for other aspects of the drawing, I'd love to hear them.
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Disclaimer: I’m red-green colorblind. Because of this, it’s difficult for me to tell similar shades/hues of different colors apart, and, therefore, I need to work with very limited palettes when I color pieces. For shading and highlights, I’ll generally adjust the ‘value’ portion of the HSV setting to make the base color lighter or darker; I’m unable to ‘cool’ shadows by adding blue or anything like that. I’ve often been told to be bolder in my highlighting and shading, and I’m trying to be so, but… sometimes it still seems pretty tame. I’m just saying this in case you mentioned I need to do that on a previous piece – I’m not ignoring you, and I appreciate the input. It’s just not very easy for me to implement confidently.

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Continuing the trend of using the RWBY team to practice my full figure drawing, here's Ruby (with bonus Zwei. I had no idea corgis would be so fun to draw).Ruby always gives me trouble --- I think I just have a really hard time capturing her innate innocence for one reason or other. I mean, it's not like I draw the women I do to be sex bombs or anything, but there's a general youthfulness about her that I'm not sure carries over into my stuff.

That said, save for all of the damn buckles and straps she insists on wearing, she is fun to draw. I originally had some rose petal wafting through the air from her cloak, but they kind of overpowered Zwei, so I took them out. As far as the backgrounds go, in the past I've used the girls' eye colors as a basis, sort of to draw their eyes out (my absolute favorite part to draw), but with Ruby having silver eyes, that didn't provide any pop. It was just another shade of grey. So I used (what I think is) blue to contrast the red of her outfit. And of course Zwei had to get his own frame, too.

Anyway, let me know what you think -- my main concern is getting the proportions right, but if you have any tips or tricks for other aspects of the drawing, I'd love to hear them.
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Disclaimer: I’m red-green colorblind. Because of this, it’s difficult for me to tell similar shades/hues of different colors apart, and, therefore, I need to work with very limited palettes when I color pieces. For shading and highlights, I’ll generally adjust the ‘value’ portion of the HSV setting to make the base color lighter or darker; I’m unable to ‘cool’ shadows by adding blue or anything like that. I’ve often been told to be bolder in my highlighting and shading, and I’m trying to be so, but… sometimes it still seems pretty tame. I’m just saying this in case you mentioned I need to do that on a previous piece – I’m not ignoring you, and I appreciate the input. It’s just not very easy for me to implement confidently.