The lack of face - I'm still unsure about what kind of faces I want to go for I mean like facial features...obviously I've got the head down already but the lips and stuff...still need to work on them or keep working on them...
Also there's the worry about change of expression to show wether a character is joking or not , ect. I haven't made any expressions for them yet. ( I can't remember when I started on these by the way )
Black lines and shading - I am more comfortable working with Black lines
...I can do color / colored lines but it takes longer and I get annoyed with it.
I think I've rarely tried shading , I think shading can make characters look diseased ..it's funny how decent shaders seem to make such good characters yet at the same time / in a way the characters can look diseased if you're looking at them too closely. So , I do not use shading partly due to my opinions on it and partly due to my lack of skill / knowledge when it comes to shading.
"Flatness" : I think lack of shading may have something to do with it but I don't understand why people make such a big deal about flatness , my hope is that if / when I've got a finished Ren'ai (or any other type game or project for that matter ) , people will enjoy my work despite the "flatness" of my art.
Background : I just threw in those gradients as the BGs because the previews would've been boring without some sort of background.
I love gradients , but I know alot of people get annoyed with people using the easy way out / overusing gradients so I don't know...I'd love to use some gradients for BGs , though. I'm still planning on using photos and stuff I've drawn myself for BGs too. Maybe some adventures will have only photographic BGs , maybe some will only have drawn BGs , whatever. I haven't decided yet. As you've seen , I've been working on the characters , making sure I can make a game using Ren'Py , ect. more than anything else when I do work on Ren'ai.
I completely lost track of the males and have so much crap on my computer that I fear I may have lost them forever / will have to do them all over again and of course I hate having to go through tons of stuff just to find one thing or a few things , hence the lack of a male character preview. *cries* Actually I did do some searching but so far , I haven't found the guys and I can't remember what I named the files so it's that much harder.
I have other ren'ai related stuff such as scripts and the beginnings of things...
( ie - plot or whatever - Maria : "Let's go to the mall!" John ( choice one ) : "I don't feel like going to the mall. Let's do something else." John ( choice two ) : "Yeah , just let me get some things done real quick and then we'll go." )
More previews later , maybe. Feel free to add previews to your own work 'cause I feel like it would be a bad / sad thing if I started a thread with so few previews ...and only my previews. Besides , I love to see others work.
Oh , and ...yes , I'm planning on adding catgirls into at least one Ren'ai.
The gradients I used were chosen for the fact that the first one gives one the concept of a beach and the other of a field. Therefore making perfect BGs in my opinion rather than ...um...a peppermint gradient , for example.
The non-natural colors chosen for the catgirl - I like how they look together. Plus if I am going to add a catgirl , why not take it further and give her funky colors. Heh. I will try to have some more "natural" catgirls too but right now I'm in love with the fiery catgirl and want to put her in a game. Baggy pants and big boots thing - Don't worry they don't really have fat legs or anything...that's just what I ended up drawing when I first started working on the character art. I've got them with better / actual legs. No hands / paws thing - I chose to draw the arms like that so that I wouldn't have to draw hands / paws. *sweatdrop* I can have alot of trouble with drawing hands...paws...not so much...but it's been a while since I've tried.....and since these are just previews , who knows , maybe by the time I release something the characters will have hands / you'll see their hands ( or paws in the case of catgirls and catboys ) .
Centaurs and other character ideas have not been drawn yet ...only humans and catpeople. Apoligies to fans of other species / creatures. Heh.
Now , some examples of BGs I've drawn / made pixel by pixel and stuff :
These are actually sized for use in Adventure Game Studio aka AGS but , of course , I could work on bigger or smaller BGs if I had / wanted to.
As you can see , the first BG preview is lacking a cityscape or anything else that might be interesting like that but the second one is finished.
Sorry again for lack of certain features.
I just remembered a couple of other things - I've only worked on one hairstyle so far that's why both the human and the catgirl have the same hairstyle right now ...the fact that they have the same hair color is just another laziness issue ...I just wanted to show off some characters and didn't notice they had the same hair color until I already posted and then I didn't want to change it since I'd already put both up anyway. The catgirls have a base with the hair and the other is without so if you consider bald / realistic or whatever a hairstyle...then the catgirls have two hairstyles / hair choices. Heh.
I hope I didn't forget any other details that might've been worth discussing. I hope you like these previews. Thank you for checking out this post / thread.
Why is the word project in Yellow? Did I mispell it earlier? *confused look , laughs*
Even this smilie is shaded. You know how smilie faces look without shading-- it's sort of inhuman.
