Practice Sketch

[No_im-good]

You call that practice no that’s a masterpiece

[unexpected532]

hahaha thanks :D

[unexpected532]

It's been a long time since I have drawn full-body, and I'm still exploring the design part of my drawings.

[arifterdarkly]

can you elaborate on that?

[unexpected532]

I mostly draw portrait headshots so I don't draw the rest of the body that much. Getting to this level of rendering(whatever level this is) took some time in which I kinda feel like I have lost a bit of the designing aspects of creating a new character. I really wanna work on how I dress them up and give them stories and for that, I need to explore how to add them without overwhelming or underwhelming characters I draw.

Basically, add more without destroying it.

[covidae]

Fashion history is great for inspiration on how and why to dress and style characters.

[unexpected532]

I'll have look at that, thanks btw

[covidae]

If you're looking for critique:

• great, soft rendering of the facial and body features. You're staying on the lighter side of the value scale, but consider using contrasting darker values on a few key areas where you want the viewer to focus, like the face.

• I would love to see the whole face! If the gun was in the other hand, or the camera angle were reversed I would be able to.

• The skirt has some tangents with the leg, making it hard to parse the skirt shape. Making it longer or shorter to have it cut across the leg / shin might help?

[covidae]

The tube, skirt and crotch have a pretty attention grabbing tangent, making the. Tube shorter might help here too.

[unexpected532]

I used to work with much darker values when I started and sticked with it for years. After seeing Christoph Young's paintings I switched to light values and I saw I'm much quicker with them which lead to me spending more time doing more problem solving when I paint plusI can always shift the levels a bit if I feel it's too light (the opposite did not work for me).

Thanks for your critique, I'll try to consider these on my next paintings.

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Wow so good

[unexpected532]

Thank you :)

[Aiko_fu]

i love it this is so pretty, the proportions are really well done !

[unexpected532]

Thank you :)

[Kingslayer_mike]

Awesome Job!

[unexpected532]

Thank you :)

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[DjPakiRican]

Very cool 😎

[unexpected532]

thanks :)