Going for a painty look this time
Don’t know if i will change it yet, but using colors first is pretty cool.
Edit: redid the bg for this to look not so mspaint-like. still ridiculously happy looking.. don’t know if i wanna make it mega dark though hmm. oh well, check it out “after the jump.” Read the rest of this entry »
So I coloured the thing finally and when I finished, I looked quickly at the previous sketches that I’d done for the pic and couldn’t help but laugh lol. The end product will hopefully look good on a t-shirt.. now to pick a t-shirt. Since this is your Megab0t, Luke, you’re now the guy from Transformers with the most malleable bones in the world. How every bone in his body doesn’t break is unknown to me since he’s inside Bumblebee when the thing transforms.
Sketch progression.
I found this how-to on youtube that shows one guys method of drawing eyes so i decided to try it out. Then I went bonkers and drew everything. I’m stuck drawing line-figures in this style it seems. I need to branch out and try to draw something more naturalistic. Dah well.
“ai lao-le, i shower, I’m always-onliiinee~”
So this is backwards, but i was reading online how to design a character, and one of the key steps before you even draw anything, is to make a silhouette. Then after you do it, you identify the major basic shapes in your character, and see if they work well together. I have no idea which shapes work together, but i thought I’d try to give an RH silhouette a go, and that’s what i came up with 5mins later. Not bad, considering i wasn’t expecting it to come out looking like anything more than a mangled psychologists ink blot.
One thing to note that I learned, is that a key to a good character design, is so that people can recognize it by it’s silhouette. Check out these i found online. Who knew character design was more than just drawing a thing out and having it in a cool pose.
And if you’re gotten this far please click this for hilarious remake of Take On Me song.
So that’s the understatement of the century. Everything is different: noses, mouths, eyes. I even have to be careful how i shade you.. because it could come out looking like a freaking beard. I will try harder next time.
(read: your bits and pieces are much too hard, lol)
My thoughts go out to your family and friends. I only knew you briefly, good sir, and it’s a shame I didn’t get a chance to to know you well. Your friends loved you a lot and will carry your memory on.
Busted out the tablet again and started to sketch a friend. Something is wrong with this one.. oh well, hopefully #2 will look closer. I’ve always had trouble drawing real people. Cartoon versions of feces and/or objects.. sure. Cartoon people? Say hello to disproportionate body parts.
