He is going to be a side sprite, so I've cut off his shoulders to get his torso to form a triangle.
Tuna Sushi, you might want to try drawing things from life. All the best anime artist can draw less stylised characters as well, since they have to know the rules (how a human body moves, how it really looks) before they can break them, by applying a style to it.tuna_sushi wrote:Gosh, I hope I improved
wooow he looks so awesome! detective??? ºqº I cant wait to see what you guys are doingAuro-Cyanide wrote:Thank you
I don't think this is a viable sprite style :/ For me anyway. I don't think I could take doing all the emotions/poses/other changes without killing something. One off paintings is one thing, sprites are another. Though it was fun to do something like this again after so long. I might try another style now, maybe american comic or something sketchy like Hotel Dusk.
ahaha Im glad! He deserves fanart! And mongoose Susan orz!Mink wrote:@Clua: 8D! This was my reaction to seeing that:
It is :/ It isn't in the sketch so I'm not sure what the hell I was doing. We have decided to try and swing this style, maybe with some adjustments, a bit of extra edging. It took me a while to do, but I AM severely out of practice with this style so it might just be a matter of practice. I'm still a little concerned about consistency and shadows, but I'll see how it goes. It's only a very little project so if I was ever going to try out painterly sprites, this would be it.clua wrote: wooow he looks so awesome! detective??? ºqº I cant wait to see what you guys are doing
Btw Auro I dont know much about face structure(But I just google it just in case, not to say something off)
I think his left eye is small in comparison of the right one..maybe because Im taking as reference the right eye and its lenght in comparison of the eyebrow, and the left eye seems to end before(...I hope Im understandable!)
I drool on your coloring XD! Its really nice!
You'll have to forgive me for it, but I'm a little amused that your background in other styles is showing through; mainly, the parts that you usually stylise, the nose and the eyes, betray a lack of experience. I think it would be quite interesting to see you work out a full VN in a style such as this, but I'd wholeheartedly recommend that you do a couple of referenced drawing studies first. This guy has no eye sockets, for example...Auro-Cyanide wrote:Concept for the main character of a mini VN we're doing. Swinging more towards realism this time. [...] Opinions?http://i1259.photobucket.com/albums/ii5 ... ective.jpg
Actually, it's the nature of the sprite that has caused this. I am capable of creating something very close to realism, pores and all, but replicating those details with consistency for the emotional changes would make my life very difficult, not to mention the time it would take to do it. The hair was originally much more realistic, but I had to pull everything back into a more stylised form. The lack of shading around the eyes, eyebrows and mouth is because those features are all going to have to be repainted every time I change the emotions. Plus, there is another full bodied sprite that I am also going to have to do in the style I finalise and this will effect what I can and can not achieve in a short amount of time. Generally I am still trying to work out what would be the best way to shade for this style in the areas that change.Carassaurat wrote:You'll have to forgive me for it, but I'm a little amused that your background in other styles is showing through; mainly, the parts that you usually stylise, the nose and the eyes, betray a lack of experience. I think it would be quite interesting to see you work out a full VN in a style such as this, but I'd wholeheartedly recommend that you do a couple of referenced drawing studies first. This guy has no eye sockets, for example...
As an aside, if you're going with detectives of yore, you could do eveything in black and white and save yourself a little time on the colouring.
. These were all done on my 3DS thanks to the Colors! 3D app, so drawing these were kind of difficult for me (Not to mention I had zero experience with digital art aside from image manipulation in Photoshop).Far be it from me to tell you how or how not to draw, but I'll just elaborate a little bit in case there was a misunderstanding. I wasn't talking about detail, pores or hairs - that's all useless, those don't convey emotion or character. In fact, I'd draw the hair with rather less detail than you're doing now, if I were you. But you're missing some essential building blocks of a human face. Its silhouette on the right of the picture is just one long curve; does he not have cheek bones or a brow? Why doesn't he have eye lids? These are some quite important features of a face. Way more important than the detail you put in the hair or ear or background. You may have stepped up your rendering from the traditional anime style, but you're still drawing in icons and not in anatomy. And it's not just about the amount of features, but also their shape.Auro-Cyanide wrote:Actually, it's the nature of the sprite that has caused this. I am capable of creating something very close to realism, pores and all, but replicating those details with consistency for the emotional changes would make my life very difficult, not to mention the time it would take to do it. The hair was originally much more realistic, but I had to pull everything back into a more stylised form. The lack of shading around the eyes, eyebrows and mouth is because those features are all going to have to be repainted every time I change the emotions. Plus, there is another full bodied sprite that I am also going to have to do in the style I finalise and this will effect what I can and can not achieve in a short amount of time. Generally I am still trying to work out what would be the best way to shade for this style in the areas that change.
So basically you think I need to have more definition of the right side of his face? I have found generally curve is minimal at that angle, from the studies I did do http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays ... ney_01.jpg but I could probably work a bit on the temple and chin areas. The eyelid thing appears to be an older male thing, their eyes tend to be hooded and the eyelid is generally most visibly at the corners which is something I will need to detail when I do it again. The right eye needs to be fixed as is because it is too short and I would like to work a bit more on the bags and crinkles near the eyes. My sketch on the previous page is probably a more accurate representation of what I am trying to achive, the coloured version is more a test in technique before I decide what to sink time into. Thank you for your feedbackCarassaurat wrote:Far be it from me to tell you how or how not to draw, but I'll just elaborate a little bit in case there was a misunderstanding. I wasn't talking about detail, pores or hairs - that's all useless, those don't convey emotion or character. In fact, I'd draw the hair with rather less detail than you're doing now, if I were you. But you're missing some essential building blocks of a human face. Its silhouette on the right of the picture is just one long curve; does he not have cheek bones or a brow? Why doesn't he have eye lids? These are some quite important features of a face. Way more important than the detail you put in the hair or ear or background. You may have stepped up your rendering from the traditional anime style, but you're still drawing in icons and not in anatomy. And it's not just about the amount of features, but also their shape.Auro-Cyanide wrote:Actually, it's the nature of the sprite that has caused this. I am capable of creating something very close to realism, pores and all, but replicating those details with consistency for the emotional changes would make my life very difficult, not to mention the time it would take to do it. The hair was originally much more realistic, but I had to pull everything back into a more stylised form. The lack of shading around the eyes, eyebrows and mouth is because those features are all going to have to be repainted every time I change the emotions. Plus, there is another full bodied sprite that I am also going to have to do in the style I finalise and this will effect what I can and can not achieve in a short amount of time. Generally I am still trying to work out what would be the best way to shade for this style in the areas that change.
Again, if you're happy with this, continue as you were, but I think you'd draw much better if you take the time to do some studies.
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