the 'Draw your Character' thread

Wow Spike! What an improvement :)

I'm really in a rush ATM so I can't compliment you as much as I'd like, but I really think you have a great style! Your ideas are very unique, ultra-tough looking, and really exemplify NC's setting well, I think! I also really love how you always try to put something extra in your doodles - like this time it was rain, the desert smuggler had a mirage effect, and before that you had a blur, etc etc! You did a really great job on shading the pants too - the folds are all in the right spot!

Here's my most recent doodle:

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y17...psimonksit.jpg

I think this looks much more psi-monkey than the last and has just the right amount of 'deformity' in her to look like she's a psi monk. I know it's a bit bare, I was planning on sprucing up her legs but I just wanted to post this. I'll definately decorate her when I get the chance!

I love your superhero arithmetic team Clive, I think my favorite would have to be D. Vision! You sure do have some interesting projects!

Keep on doodling!

Urglay!

Quick pencil drawing i did in English Language of the Bd Punk again which i thought came out nice, excluding the face which is a total mess, and the hands which still look like gloves :rolleyes: But the shading and rest of the body seems to of come out pretty nicely imo.

Try to ignore the face

Got the book btw, reading it through now, alot to read but the contents good, got dynamic figure drawing too, that ones already been a big help :p

Not bad your getting better, just do what me friends told me to do WAY back in highschool (ok not WAY back, its only been 3 years at most lol) Stay the HELL away from anime. I know it sounds blunt, but take it from me, study life drawing and stuff if you can and do your best to mimic real life. then when you feel your good enough, start making your own style if you can. Of course you dont HAVE to.

heheh, and to rosey, Not bad but thats the first kinda "ape" woman youve drawn so far, not a bad thing really, nice to see a stretch in anouther direction.

Here's an exeptionally quick scetch of my 'super hero' team.

They have super powers, but they don't do hero stuff. Infact they rarely use their powers at all except when they have to, and it's usually a very bloody afair when they do (though that's mainly down to the girl and her habit of pulling limbs off rather than using her powers....).

'Tigga's' powers: Demi-god (near complete mastery of telekenetics), has a range of non-mental abilities, but irrelevant when you can freeze oceans for their thermal energy.

Matt's powers: Very high powered telepath, mid level telekenetic.

Typical tactics:
Matt forces images of 'Tigga's' last horrific butchery into the mind of the baddie. 'Tigga' then procedes to forcably extract various bones/organs from the poor bastard before he dies.

If 'Tigga' isn't lost in a rampage of rage and animalistic fury, then she'll just shear-force across their necks and watch their heads fall off.

I reffer to 'Tigga' as such, because her real name is too much of a spoiler.

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Originally Posted by Clive tombstone

Not bad your getting better, just do what me friends told me to do WAY back in highschool (ok not WAY back, its only been 3 years at most lol) Stay the HELL away from anime. I know it sounds blunt, but take it from me, study life drawing and stuff if you can and do your best to mimic real life. then when you feel your good enough, start making your own style if you can. Of course you dont HAVE to.

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That seems a bit serious tbh, i dont take art at college or anything, didnt take it at high school either, so it's just something to do for fun for me :p But i do want to go into the computer entertainment industry (game design, film Cgi sequences etc) so i guess it could be something to work on, but im still gonna draw anime for now, though its kinda simple and something you can learn to do quickly,its something ive always been interested in, which is fairly sad tbh but meh :lol:
Then again that said, anyone who watches ghost in the shell and claims the drawings in that are crap, needs liar stamped on their forehead in big red letters :p

Btw Dribble Joy, you working on a comic of anysort?

Heheh, I gotta remember, not everyone is gonna be a proffessional artist or game artist when they get to college lol. sorry bout that^^. And dont get me wrong! I love anime, but the thing is that anime tends to get over done (perfesionally) I guess thats why I was trying to push yeh away from that.

Nice Idea Drib^^

quote/ 'Tigga's' powers: Demi-god (near complete mastery of telekenetics), has a range of non-mental abilities, but irrelevant when you can freeze oceans for their thermal energy. /end quote.

I want to be pedantic here. There is a significant difference between freezing the oceans, and withdrawing thermal energy from the oceans. The former requires tremendous expediture of energy to do so, the other acquires tremendous energy from doing so. Thus, edit that part, DJ.

Also, Sunny, quite nice. I can see that you're moving away a bit from your modelesque style. The skull is interestingly shaped, but everything else seems just a bit too normal (maybe the feet looks a bit larger, but hard to say)

Spike... neck looks too large, and proportion of arms seems a bit too long. Also, put a curve on the waist, or at least make the legs point a bit inwards. As it stands, she's got a man's posture, if you know what I mean. Overall, not too shabby. Try some action poses (like jumping, punching, walking, whatever). I find that it helps in getting the proportions better before I go for a frontal pose.

http://artpad.art.com/?iwn6vrpgq30

Awesome.

Ya know people could probably pull off some good drawings in artpad with a graphics tablet, im sure I still have my old one somewhere.

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Originally Posted by Heavyporker

I want to be pedantic here. There is a significant difference between freezing the oceans, and withdrawing thermal energy from the oceans. The former requires tremendous expediture of energy to do so, the other acquires tremendous energy from doing so. Thus, edit that part, DJ.

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No, she literally has command over any and all kenetic energies, and can move them as she wishes. Meaning she can quite literally move that energy from one place to another.
Water holds an incredible amount of thermal energy (extremely high specific heat capacity), so is quite usefull (and it was just a somewhat dramatic example).

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Originally Posted by SPIKE (pluto)

Btw Dribble Joy, you working on a comic of anysort?

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Yes, though I won't give you the url atm becuase A: I need to send more semi-threatening mails to my domain provider and B: the artwork and writing quality is just not up to scratch yet.

The girl in the pics won't feature for ages, and she's not a near omnipotent being to begin with, she starts out just being able to make small force effects and move a pen about on a table, but it slowly improves over time.
The comic in general (as you may have gleaned) is though not initially, very dark and somewhat disturbing. None of the characters are perfect and the main character (me actually, it's about me and my mates) is an utter cunt and gets his fair share of beatings (and gun shots).
As it takes place in the UK, I also beat the crap out of the country, millions are going to die.

Tried a different sort of pose on this one, used the same character as the last two times i posted as this one required a bit of foreshorting which is something ive never done before, so i didnt want to add more complications :p Pose seems a bit uncomfortable tbh, especially the arms, ive only done the sort of resting standing pose before so forgive a few abnormailities in figure.

Edit: Forgot to resize them, they're huge (2000x2000 aprox) so expect a wait, ill scale them down soon
Original Pencil Drawing (in blue)
In black and White
In quickly done colour

Looking at a new colouring method now, a bit more advanced than the one im using at the moment, gives the pictures a professional looking finish too, so it goes without saying that it's gonna be hard to master, so just a heads up, colouring on the next few might be crap till i get it right :lol:

Ok here's my first atempt at the new coloring method just a girl about 16 years old in your basic standing position, very different from the old colouring method, seems almost like a painting done by someone with minor art talent in year 7 (11 or 12 years old for people outside of england)

Almost seems like a different author really, should come out a bit better when i eventualy master it, but until then :p

OK, another quick scetch. Still rubbish at legs.

the last pic reminds me of the fact that i want female pas :angel:

That ones pretty cool, DJ.

Not done alot of nc stuff recently, here's a melee tanks head which ive played around with the colouring on, gonna try and give the final version a dirty kinda fight for life edge. but it may take a while :p

my shitty attempt at drawing. note it was on Artpad and with a normal mouse. a 10$ mouse at that.

http://artpad.art.com/?iznhh7b2nb8

I would like to present this "self-portrait" that I did today as a sig.

http://www.geocities.com/heavyporker/TryNeocron-1.jpg


Is it not sexy?

Sunny... after long last, I finally mastered your shading/highlighting suggestions from your tutorial. What do you think?

I know that the flame's not that good, but I was a bit rushed at the end, when I added it. I flipped out with joy when I saw the illumination effect I added to the face from the flame. Pure sexiness, in my opinion.

I made another signature just now. What do you think, guys?

http://www.geocities.com/heavyporker/TryNeocron2.jpg

lol nice drawing Apocalypso. I like them both, but prefer the eye-signature the most Heavyporker, even though it looks like the torch is the characters finger that randomly caught fire. The scale is a bit off. :p

Good stuff guys, keep on drawing. Ill have something new to post in a while

Damn well better Clive, where my comics at?

(edit terribly sorry, I forgot Dev art doesnt work well) Well heres one of my little projects that I was working on for a while (I havnt finished coloring if you guys may have noticed)
I call it, "Giving Head"
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b1...ivingHead2.jpg

heheh. Honestly though, this is the last time I ink in Photoshop, Im moving to macro M flash^^

One requires a link or something in an img tag....

Anyway, I might do something today, see how it goes...

Hmm I guess I gotta re do some more things before I post again

Was the lineart initially a scanned sketch? I can see hints of sketchery on the digital lines. You still on the graphic tablet?

Right, extremely quick and scruffy doodle of DJ.

Tried a different pose, but it's all gone horribly wrong.

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j2...mon/djtwin.jpg

Aggressive female combat dwarf?