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[rogaforyn]

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[thooruchan]

Ok, let me try to explain my notes in a way that makes sense and is helpful.

the little head doodles on the left corner are a quick guide to drawing heads (at least from a front or 3/4 view) and everyone and their mothers use it (even the pros? ESPECIALLY the pros!).
Start with a ball, which is the cranium, then you add the jaw and ears (and observe that the jawline connects to the ears.)
the ears are your reference for where the eyes go (eyes must be at same high as the ears) and from there you draw two lines, one horizontal for the eyes (so we keep them at the same level) and one splitting the head in two vertically, which is were we'll put the nose and mouth.
On this you did pretty decently and actual congratulations for drawing an appropriate amount of backhead (so many people seems to think the head ends at the ears and there is nothing else behind!)

As for the body, it's not too bad and again, kudos for drawing her reasonably proportional. However, it does show that you don't know your anatomy, and that is key to drawing characters.
You need to learn how articulations and muscles connect and shape. See for example that the shoulder is connected to the collarbone and they move together, the neck line and muscles ALSO connect to the collarbone.
Take note of where and how the hips connect to the torso/stomach and how the belly would sit depending on the amount of flesh.
My recommendation is that you get yourself (buy or download) a good anatomy book. Once you understand how to body works, you will know how it looks and how to draw it!

Last note; ALWAYS no matter what, draw the character's naked form first, and only then draw the clothes on top. Clothes drape around the body, you need to know how to body is posed to get how the clothes are going to stretch, fold and fall. Drawing only the lines of the hems makes it look like it's body paint. Add folds and volume to give weight and realism to clothes.

Hope that made sense, feel free to shoot me any questions if there is something I didn't edxplain clearly enough.

[rogaforyn]

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[thooruchan]

@thooruchan I have no words to say how much this helps me. I'm always bad at anatomy, and my weak point is on shoulders. I will take your recommendation, I gonna download an anatomy book... for a long time i gave up drawing, because i'm never good enough, but you showed me that i'm reaching something(Not so good as yours, because it's notable a difference in details, but i will improve it).
On google i found the "Bridgman - Complete Guide to Drawing from Life", downloaded here... I will find anothers too.
THX thooruchan

ps: sry for my bad english

Glad to help! Don't worry about learning, it takes years and years. And even then sometimes we still make mistakes. I have a gift for breaking knees, for example :p

Your English is great! I know I didn't exactly check mine with that post, I'm glad it made sense to you.
Where are you from? (just curious, as I know there's a lot of people from a ton of different places in these forums)
I'm from Spain

[rogaforyn]

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[thooruchan]

If you can awnser, another doubt that i have: The characters of a VN need to be at one single position(or all characters on a front position, or in 3/4 view)?

It's up to you!
The common idea is that if your protagonist is off-screen or uses a small side-image in the text window, the other characters would look straightforward at the camera, (aka the player, who is controlling the protag in a 1st person POV) they can be facing the camera or be at a 3/4 angle as long as their eyes are directed at you.
A good example of this is Cute Demon Crashers

On the other hand, if the protagonist is onscreen the characters should be able to look at each other, so a 3/4 or profile would be better (making sure they are in fact facing each other!)
For refs on this, check out The World Ends With You or Ghost Trick (not VN but they have VN-like scenes and the writing os amazing, so they are good games to take notes from)

[rogaforyn]

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[thooruchan]

I ended spending the entire day out with family stuff, but I'll try to post a reply with a little tutorial tomorrow. ;3

[rogaforyn]

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