Kevin's Watch

Theoretically speaking, this is work-in progress, but I have serious doubts about the progress part, especially anytime soon, so I thought I'd better put it up. However, I may get to that, so please, if you have some concerns, advice and other things in the way of helpful criticism - please, tell me, especially about technical details.

About the aura - I actually think myself it's not supposed to be that picturesque, this is for the looks, mostly to compensate for the inability of the image to pass the way it should feel. And I just like it that way Though actually hard to say for sure, at least in the defensive mode it had to look quite impressive, maybe even more than here.

May I steal it for my avatar?

I'll be very glad if anyone uses it - free promotion) And I use it as a wallpaper - fits any screen, melds with a black background smoothly))

Effaeldm, that is amazing!

Thank you very much)) I'm very glad you like it))

Well, here's some concrit. For one, you might try to draw people more from real life and study the general human anatomy. If you have a digital camera, taking photos of yourself or your friends may help comprehend things like foreshortenings better. This, regrettably, requires quite a lot of patience. Going to the sauna soon, but did a few-minute redlining of your character:



I know you went for a cartoony look, but this nonetheless shows a few issues with proportions and foreshortenings. Drawing first a kind of wire/skeleton structure beneath the figure might help. You could also try to give his arms and torso a little more form, and perhaps a slightly longer neck.

Thank you very much for this) Pleasant to see any comment on own artwork, and particularly a one well thought-out and trying to help.

As for real life, anatomy etc - like you said, patience. And generally time and effort) That's where that question mostly ends for me. You may not worry much about trying to give me technical information on drawing - I'm afraid I have access to more of it than I use. Like I mentioned to you in a comment for your "Guilt" fanfiction, I go for such a style on purpose, it saves me time both on a specific drawing and on practicing generally, which could make me more tuned for such things. Moreover, I have a different separate reason for this: I like art to depict the feel and the essence of things, not to try to be like a photo. Thus, your comment is mostly appreciated for being pleasant to see)

It may be strange to hear, but it actually somewhat reaffirmed my confidence in this depiction) The proportions did turn out quite close to realistic, as for my drawing. The foreshortenings are not supposed to be present in the way I imagined this - the arm is not extended forward, not like to propose the fragment to the viewer, it's held almost in line with the body - holding it to show, not to give. May be hard to say either way with how it's hardly possible to show for sure without some shading. Also, shortening the arm to show it extended forward could look not too good, as if it's actually too shot. Could be compensated by detalisation to show the direction, but that neither could improve on time needed, nor met my intent. Which is also why not more form to the arms and the torso.

A flowing, streaming enrobed silhouette adorned with lights and glowing. Not the looks really - I think no depiction can be true enough in this case, even true enough to what I have in my mind - but the feel. Yes, not good enough in that as well, as it could only be, but that was the higher intent for me and the one I think I got closer to.

The sketch is by hopefully a future Watcher, but hard to say for now, the coloring is mine. The colored pic is clickable - for a very large version.

Another colored sketch here kevinswatch.ihugny.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=22774

I liked the first painting. Only thing I would really change about it is the stone in his hand. It looks kind of formless and obscures the hand holding it besides.

The second one (are there supposed to be two paintings in the post? The second one doesn't load) is quite interesting. It has a primitive art feel that quite striking, very different from the suave silhouette in the first image. I had a problem with the eye. I think it's a little too low or maybe the angle it has doesn't seem to fit the rest of the face. Maybe if we had a hint of the other eye it would have helped build the image in our mind. The lack of nose makes it a little hard to facialize the shadow. The greenish halo is good. I'm glad the hand is distinct this time. I wondered a little, is the bright green triangle above his hand the stone itself, or a light the stone emits? And why do you put it behind his aura?

Edit to add - I can see the second picture (ie the sketch) now. Looks good. Seeing it I think two things could have made the stone better:

1) There is a soft bright line within Foul's halo below his shoulder that seems to continue the edge of the stone behind the halo.
2)The blurring of the thumb and fingers that are behind the stone should be done more completely so that it would be obvious that the hand is holding the stone and isn't before it and again make the stone more 3d.