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MAGNUS-8M — Option - Stage Select
Published: 2014-06-10 01:27:15 +0000 UTC; Views: 1384; Favourites: 18; Downloads: 0
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I named it that mostly because as I began to draw her face, she reminded me of Mega Man's face for stage select(so it's gets this music: youtu.be/ZTnoX9JFblo ). She's also soooomewhat similar to Mega Man because of her ability to "become" whatever outfit she wears...it's not like she automatically has weapons that are aligned with said outfits, but if she has weapons that go along with her current "character", she does become mostly-adept at using them.Not like I'm "back" or anything, but I managed to finish this within about two weeks. The sketch came out pretty quick, but I went ahead and sketched it twice so I could improve the lines a little, and then using the vector-lines in SAI now that I've learned to use them a couple projects ago, it went kinda-fast. Still took about two or three two-hour-sessions to finish the lineart though.
In some ways there are some improvements from what I've done before...but really I think that only is true because I put more detail into it -- it's just that the detailed-extras are no better quality than the lesser details I've put into other drawings. I just can't understand how DIFFERENT my approach to drawing is to the artists I look up to... even people on Pixiv who maybe aren't AS GOOD as the best artists on Pixiv, they're still leagues better than me, and effortlessly so to boot. I just don't get it. I'll keep trying of course, but these days I don't really push myself. This project, I felt like I really was interested in it so I did my best to complete it, and sometimes maybe even looked forward to working on it a little bit. Not every day, though. But in the end, it's about the same quality really, and that bugs me. I hate to think I need to trace the works of the ones I admire in order to understand it a little better before trying to adapt my style into them, but doing it myself and trying to figure it out, I'm just not getting anywhere really. Oh well. Keep to try.
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Yep, she be naked all the times, unless she cosplays as something of course. But at least they look like they have clothes on... in almost somewhat school-mizu form.
Just think of her sister-model Melody... she wears boots, headphones, and a lab-coat. That's it. ...but she also looks like she's wearing a one-piece swimsuit, so y'know.
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Oh! So that's like the plastic underwear of barbie and ken doll that you can't take off?
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Kinda... I guess it's like arm-length gloves and thigh-length pantyhose, and a neck-and-face mask/hood, except instead of cloth, it's a synthetic skin. At least that was the idea for the legs...I like the idea of a sort of synthetic-skin-stocking for some reason because it's backwards from what you expect.. 
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The amount of detail put on this is really great. Perhaps one of your best works yet.
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Thanks a lot! I didn't much improve my drawing ability, but things finished quickly enough that I was able to populate it with more and more stuff(although I had to change and/or skip some things because I couldn't quite do them right).
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Well I have to give you credit, and say I think it's awesome that you experiment with different perspectives every so often. I agree with the comment above admiring the lighting; I think that's a strong point of your work and it's great to see being put to such great use in this particular drawing. The details are also pretty slick when it comes to the articles of clothing scattered about surrounding her on the floor--each one looks different and like it had unique attention paid to each one. All in all, certainly not bad whatsoever and it still amazes me how much you can accomplish in such a short amount of time.
Nice goin'.
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I'd like to do more than just perspective... in the end, this is technically still a front-facing "standing" normal pose that I want to get away from...I just bent the legs and hid the hands, rotated the body during sketch phase, then drew a background that suggests the view is from up high. I don't mean to kill the magic with that, I just mean that I see so many interesting drawings from others, but I still default to drawing like this. I get bored, try to draw, do the same front-facing stand-up pose, realize it's not too bad, and then want to finish it. I really need to get myself to do more with poses, but it's a bigger leap out of my comfort zone than I realize because it not only means trying to recreate basic anatomy correctly, but also put them in odd positions, or resize them strangely in an effort to get foreshortening to be correct. Most of my finished drawings lately are just doodles I decided to finish, with only a few of them being purposeful experiments that I actually stuck with long enough to finish...and of course there are plenty of unfinished experiments I wanted to finish but never really did.
Anyway yeah, that was one thing I wanted to mess with, creating an environment, and drawing other clothes around. Not the best, the police-cap giving me the most trouble, and the scuba mask looking a bit dull and incorrectly sized(when horizontally flipped). But overall it was a fun drawing, and for how long I've been on art block, didn't take toooo comparatively long. Anyways thanks as usual! I'll just have to look for something else to do... I like finishing projects, but I hate not having anything in mind to do... ._.
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There's a lot of different things when considering dynamic poses. You strive to challenge yourself while also remaining accurate to how it might appear in reality. With me I still have really old WIPs that at this point I kind of doubt I'll ever finish, unless I got really bored and had nothing else on my mind to work on. It never hurts to look at stock references every so often, if you need to.
Any time though! I certainly admire the effort that goes into finishing a piece when it comes to your style and approach. You can't help but notice the heart that goes into what you do.
Hopefully you'll be able to finish more things soon, in any case I suppose.
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I'm actually(supposed to be) working on a new drawing, but it was inspired by E3, soooo the downside to that is that E3 is over, and millions of people have probably already done it. I know I've seen fan art similar to it anyway, but I would be pretty deflated if I finished it only to have people accuse me of copying someone else when I didn't know that someone else already did it. But oh well, I might finish it, but at this rate it'll be another week or so. ;_; Not to mention it's a tall order, I want it to be better, and for the subject matter I might attempt a new coloring style which will slow things down, so I dunno..
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Hey, look at it from my example. Remember that "Mindfreakachu" picture I did four years ago? Well as it turns out, I had that idea since high school by crossing the names of Criss Angel: Mindfreak and Pikachu together to form "Mindfreakachu", but I hadn't gotten around to doing it until years later back in 2010. Then I found out through a dA search someone else had already drawn Criss Angel as a Pikachu, although it was uploaded a few months before I put up my own version, and they hadn't used the "Mindfreakachu" term I had thought up. So I still went with it anyway.
So I wouldn't worry too much about it.
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Looks nice but, it looks like she's a hollow doll not really a machine like megaman, I would suggest maybe adding some highlights in the eyes or in the hip joints to maybe show their is a spark of life in her. Sometimes add some small stuff makes the picture pop. Nicely done Magnus
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Ah, thanks for the comment! Usually I go all out writing descriptions, but I've written them so much that I leave them out sometimes.
What I didn't fully mention is that she is a "failed project" to create a series of robots that follow a certain line of emotion, in order to prototype emotions for creating a full personality that could eventually choose to become its own. Option's range of emotions were accidentally "averaged" in a manner of speaking, so that no one emotion rises above the rest. In her default state, she is supposed to be more or less an empty-doll - when she wears certain clothing types, that's when she begins to act out the character of the costume she's wearing, and then she'll display a little more emotion. I had to hold myself back from putting highlights in her eyes because usually the eyes are my favorite part to draw. Really, I was hesitant to add any shading or texture at all, but I messed with it and felt that it still had a flat enough look to them.
I only have two of these machine~y type robots... the rest I kind of quickly got into the 'looks like a human, but acts or does things only a robot could' kind of design. So I kind of treasure Option and Melody as being emotionally "dead", yet still having a thin layer of unexpressed personality that really does exist(and would be brought out over time). As usual, it's something I'd be better able to show if I was able to fulfill my idea for a manga these characters are supposed to be for, but it's just way too much work for me when I go through art blocks like this..
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Ahh I see, I wouldn't call it a failed project, maybe if you sliced in half the girl one side the doll and the otherside dressed and showing emotions that you speak of, just an idea...
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In-story, "Option" is a failed-project; she was intended to have emotions, but she was accidentally averaged-out. The point of the project was to make robots with perfect human emotion and intelligence, so in that idea Option is a failure. The only way to bring out those emotions is to dress her in different costumes(but she can mostly only say her own name, 'Option'). The majority of the robots created after her are also failures, with one of them being so advanced she's effectively titled "princess of robots" later on...but she's still a failed project and can't be used to safely prototype an exact template for a specific emotion because she's too random.
Out-Of-Character, I made her that way as part of the story, so she's not a failed-project from my perspective, but in-story she is. The idea of doing a half-and-half thing would be interesting, but there are so many different clothing options she could have that it'd be odd to have just one be the opposite side. And she technically has emotions/personality, they're just so suppressed they go unnoticed by the average person. Eventually Meiji and Penelope(Option's inventors) are able to understand what she's saying in her pokemon-like gibberish after being around her for so long(and similar to R2D2, in terms of code, she can make perfect sense, but in code her statements are pretty dry).
I have thought about doing a sort of multi-angle picture, where you see a large face portrait of her in default form, followed by illogically placed angles and poses of her in different uniforms(in an artistic arrangement)...but it'd be a lot of work and there are many other characters I'd like to draw in the meantime. I'll keep the ideas in mind of course.
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Haha, thanks.. I kind of added in that opened-bay-door lighting at the last second as an experiment, and it seemed to pull things together a little better. Without it, the lighting was a little more gray and dull(although I guess that would have worked in a dark-ish room too).
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Thanks a lot! Hope your own art goes well~
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