I'm Not Dead I Swear {NSFW}

[Sponson]

Okay, so I'm practically definitely done with TF2, it just lost its glory for me. Like it was cool and all that stuff when the pyro and heavy shit came out. Then it started becoming rage territory with the scoot and huntard stuff. Then the demo/soldier updates I realized I didn't care enough.
I play a lot of left 4 dead 2 when I can (i.e. never), but I dunno, I don't feel as attached to this community as I did before.

I dunno if its because I haven't been gaming as much because of school or what. But whichever. I still come on now and then but... yeah.

So school has been shooting me with lots of work, which is fine and dandy, except I feel guilty because I am unable to upkeep some promises to caff now and then. But hey, I draaaaw shit.

Of which, I'm gonna try and juggle stuff and try to get more active on this forum again.
This thread is now a blog.

So heres a drawin' I gotta do for an illustration class. The project is to take a fairy tale character (given to us by the teacher) and contemporalize them, as if they were born into today's world while retaining their "aura".
Super w.i.p., this thing is 18x24 at 300dpi.

[If-I-Die-Its-Lag]

Lacks big breasts.


Also, welcome back.

[copulatingduck]

id imagine big breasts become a bit harder to draw when it's for a class. And i dont think red riding hood with giant pornstar tits is really retaining her aura. lol

[beep beep diglett]

id imagine big breasts become a bit harder to draw when it's for a class. And i dont think red riding hood with giant pornstar tits is really retaining her aura. lol

my homeopathic crystals tell me that her aura is a bright red tit so i think you're safe

[CaffeinePowered]

Very nice

[Versus]

id imagine big breasts become a bit harder to draw when it's for a class. And i dont think red riding hood with giant pornstar tits is really retaining her aura. lol

lol

gl spoonson :-*

[rumsfald]

Welcome back.

Also, I evidently didn't read the part that said you had to play games to post here. Oops.

[Luinbariel]

Why not get an art blog? Not that I'm against your posting here, of course, but those tend to be useful for keeping things in order and watching your own progression as well.

[beep beep diglett]

Why not get an art blog? Not that I'm against your posting here, of course, but those tend to be useful for keeping things in order and watching your own progression as well.

art blog/porn blog

id bookmark both

[A. Crow]

Also, I evidently didn't read the part that said you had to play games to post here. Oops.

Sweet, I can keep posting.

[Sponson]

Welcome back.

Also, I evidently didn't read the part that said you had to play games to post here. Oops.

Its really the semantic of gaming and a gaming based forum.

[Versus]

nude version

[Greatbacon]

[quote author=rumsfald link=topic=4161.msg135108#msg135108 date=1265159710]

Welcome back.

Also, I evidently didn't read the part that said you had to play games to post here. Oops.

Its really the semantic of gaming and a gaming based forum.
[/quote]Nah, it's more of a gamer's forum than a gaming forum.  Also, nice pic.

[beep beep diglett]

[quote author=Sponson link=topic=4161.msg135143#msg135143 date=1265168783]
[quote author=rumsfald link=topic=4161.msg135108#msg135108 date=1265159710]

Welcome back.

Also, I evidently didn't read the part that said you had to play games to post here. Oops.

Its really the semantic of gaming and a gaming based forum.
[/quote]Nah, it's more of a gamer's forum than a gaming forum.  Also, nice picboat.
[/quote]

[Didzo]

The face on the last one is a bit too skewed for my taste...

[Sponson]

The face on the last one is a bit too skewed for my taste...

What do you mean? Is one eye to big compared to the other?

[CaffeinePowered]

[quote author=Greatbacon link=topic=4161.msg135146#msg135146 date=1265169938]
[quote author=Sponson link=topic=4161.msg135143#msg135143 date=1265168783]
[quote author=rumsfald link=topic=4161.msg135108#msg135108 date=1265159710]

Welcome back.

Also, I evidently didn't read the part that said you had to play games to post here. Oops.

Its really the semantic of gaming and a gaming based forum.
[/quote]Nah, it's more of a gamer's forum than a gaming forum.  Also, nice picboat.
[/quote]
[/quote]

[Surf314]

Constructive criticism:

I like the sketch and overall construction, but the colors and details need a lot of refining. Your backgrounds tend not to be as detailed and that usually works but it seems like the assignment wants you to try and tell a story with your art. You should try and make the woods look more menacing, but keep her looking mischievous and unafraid. This is definitely a modern take as modern stories tend towards strong female characters where before they were helpless damsels in distress.

It's very comic book like but the best comic artists can tell an entire story visually. So you need to put in all the touches that make this red riding hood distinctive. I have a basic idea of her now: she's playful and mischievious, she's a bit dangerous, she can take care of herself, she can bend her former foe to her will but you would assume she still has other challenges. I can read this much from the cocking of her head and the protectiveness of the wolf, but I want to know more about her.

Ryan Kelly is one of my favorite comic book artists. I'm sure there are better examples but that's a good place to go to get an idea of what I'm talking about. Even the first sketch on his blog has a lot of visual reading. You can form a story for that scene with just the sketch.

[Sponson]

Constructive criticism:

I like the sketch and overall construction, but the colors and details need a lot of refining. Your backgrounds tend not to be as detailed and that usually works but it seems like the assignment wants you to try and tell a story with your art. You should try and make the woods look more menacing, but keep her looking mischievous and unafraid. This is definitely a modern take as modern stories tend towards strong female characters where before they were helpless damsels in distress.

It's very comic book like but the best comic artists can tell an entire story visually. So you need to put in all the touches that make this red riding hood distinctive. I have a basic idea of her now: she's playful and mischievious, she's a bit dangerous, she can take care of herself, she can bend her former foe to her will but you would assume she still has other challenges. I can read this much from the cocking of her head and the protectiveness of the wolf, but I want to know more about her.

Ryan Kelly is one of my favorite comic book artists. I'm sure there are better examples but that's a good place to go to get an idea of what I'm talking about. Even the first sketch on his blog has a lot of visual reading. You can form a story for that scene with just the sketch.

We're suppose to exclude as much narrative as we can actually. As for the menacing woods, I like that idea.
Edit: that was a very good crit, and I appreciate that a lot. I'm tryin to figure out the color dealie. I wanted a super saturated red supported by mid-saturated warm greens and browns. The wolf would most likely be cool blue-gray in color, to contrast itself with red, while keeping in with the unsaturated but high-in value road.

A fellow illustrator of mine does these amazing trees, and I gotta get my hands on a picture of them so I can learrrrrn.

[Didzo]

[quote author=Didzo link=topic=4161.msg135149#msg135149 date=1265170796]
The face on the last one is a bit too skewed for my taste...

What do you mean? Is one eye to big compared to the other?
[/quote]

Exactly.