AHHH NOW I recall how I knew who you are, I remember commenting some of your arts, sorry if they seem harsh, I am making lots of harsh critics about other's works but it's never to be mean, it is more of advices for improvement. well for this one:
The very first thing you should watch for your drawing to look a lot better is your body proportions(how much the head should be big compared to the body and the arms compared to the head etc.) and Zero here is actually too skinny, it looks like they've built his exterior over his skeleton. The limbs are also too skinny. but that's easily reparable(if I may use this turn of sentence) just draw your body parts a tad bigger(not too big.the hairs are actually well done but the only thing that would make them look even better is to add details to them, you see, one of the many and most important secret of a good drawing is details. and like everything, not enough AND too much is not good. a drawing with lacks of details seems completely empty while a drawing with tons of useless details will seem too filled and in these cases it's hard to recognize the actual drawing from the details. the best example is hairs. if you do a bunch of hair like that, it will just look like a puddle of...whatever on your character's head. and if you try to make each and every hairs of his or her chevelure you'll end up with so many lines on your sheet that it won't look like hairs anymore. so in your case, adding extra lines on Zero's hairs would look perfect so we can see the hair's separations. The coloring, on a scale of F to S I would give it a B, your coloring is already excellent but as you might know it could be improved but hey, don't worry, my voloring on a scale of F to S is around D so you are already way better than me at that. just try to add more shading to the body and such and more definition to zero's musculature so we can actualy see he has muscles. The faces is problematic though. I'll give you a good trick to start out a face, befor eI've learned that trick my worst nightmare always has been to make a face but now that I know it I have nore more problem. just start with an horizontal oval on your sheet that will act as the head. then depending of the angle of your face, start at one end of the oval and trace the rest of the head...sorry I can't explain that in word, but every art book in the world gives you that trick. if you see it you'll understand. the sole problem with the face is the fact it looks like an alien face. the nasal ways are too large and there's nothing to show that there is a nose there, just some shading or a small line between the two nasal ways would look great and the eyes are...black, that's the only thing I can see. just make the Pupils a bit less bigger and leave room for the white of the eyes.
as for the rest, just keep practicing and it should be alright!
Omega Zero
Otaku Legend | Posted 02/15/07 | Reply