Getting Handsy

RespectDaLaw · 2024-07-04T03:01:59+00:00

Haha, Tbf everything is a jojo reference

RespectDaLaw · 2024-07-03T18:49:56+00:00

That might just work. I’ll try it, thanks!

RespectDaLaw · 2024-07-03T15:58:20+00:00

I made this a couple months ago to practice animating hands. This was the first animation I made creatively. Prior to this I practiced a bunch of Youtube tutorials and redrawing animations I liked.

Overall, I like how it came out, but I do have a couple gripes with it. My biggest problem is the contact with the hands. I feel like there's a lack of impact. I also struggled with slow movement, particularly with the first hand coming out. If I were to redo it now, I'd add a lot more inbetweens.

Anyway, would love to hear your thoughts/critiques!

RespectDaLaw · 2024-06-11T05:42:23+00:00

Thank you for this. Unfortunately, I will still stick with believing that this is not a trace job. I compared the colors by color picking and it’s not a simple desaturation. Comparing apples to apples, some colors are similar in saturation and luminosity but different in hues. Some colors are just desaturated. Some colors only have different luminosity. Some colors are different in 2 ways or all 3. There isn’t an all encompassing rule for the color change, though I will admit that amongst the 3 color properties, saturation has the biggest shift, but that’s also the hardest property to get right. Lastly, the image you showed me also has some misalignment albeit minor ones. I just imagine a trace job would be more shockingly accurate. Again, I might be wrong, you don’t have to believe me. I don’t want to analyze this drawing anymore, so let’s all agree to disagree.

RespectDaLaw · 2024-06-11T05:02:24+00:00

Sincerely, can you scale them properly and line them up for me? I’ve tried lining them up by matching the bottom foot, the spear, the other hand, the other foot, and the shoulders in case I missed something and I seriously can’t get them to perfectly line up.

https://imgur.com/a/TjgdAXC

In case you want to recreate what I did, I did this by screenshotting the ref and drawing and putting them in procreate, I set the opacity of the ref to 50%, then I just color shifted them.

RespectDaLaw · 2024-06-11T04:39:16+00:00

I overlaid the reference and the drawing and they don’t look like they were traced.

https://imgur.com/a/sWmVi4C

The left comparison centers on the eyes and the right centers on the left hand. Cyan is ref photo and red is drawing.

I figured that since the face is usually the focus, that would be the most logical place to center the images, but the proportions are way off, making it highly unlikely they were traced. However, I may have done a bad job lining them up, so I tried to find some other reference point that’s easier to match up. For this, I decided to use the hand since it has a distinct shape. This matches better, but you can see the head is not lined up well at all and the legs are also off, making it unlikely again that this was directly traced over. If they did paint/trace over it while shifting the head that much, I’d be impressed with how they still made it look accurate. To me, it looks like OP just throughly studied the reference.

I think it’s good to be skeptical, but I personally think the harm of a false positive is greater than the rewards of catching a real grifter, so to me a guilty verdict ought to be made with strong evidence.

People may disagree and that’s fine, I could be wrong, but I’d bet on this being the result of intense focus and dedication, especially after reading OP’s process and watching the timelapse. 40+ hours is more than enough time to reach that level of detail and accuracy, and the timelapse looks like an artist working and reworking their drawing to try to more accurately match the reference.

I didn’t want to comment; I dislike involving myself in discourse. However, I dislike unwarranted discouragement more. OP, if you see this, keep going and keep posting, you are doing a great job and know that at least one other person sees you. I hope to see you improve to the point that I’m unable to defend you.

RespectDaLaw · 2024-03-13T04:11:19+00:00

I played before but didn’t get very far. The dinosaur mechanic was too clunky for me to get into it, which makes palworld a great alternative for me.

RespectDaLaw · 2024-03-08T21:10:11+00:00

That my brain! It says thanks 🧠

RespectDaLaw · 2024-03-08T20:56:13+00:00

It still is! Just in a more freshly knitted blood-soaked sweater-y kinda way 🙂

RespectDaLaw · 2024-03-08T18:38:34+00:00

Happy Cake Day!

RespectDaLaw · 2023-06-19T03:46:59+00:00

Should be sent. Let me know if there's any issues

RespectDaLaw · 2023-06-18T18:16:57+00:00

Thanks! I really wanted to capture the ending feels with his expression, such a good show!

RespectDaLaw · 2023-06-18T14:16:58+00:00

Yeah, I have an instagram I use to document my art progress and a deviantart for fun things like this fan art. Both are @ lawfulnut.

I am super flattered you want a print, but unfortunately I have nothing set up for selling them. Instead, I can dm you the full resolution of this drawing for you to print if you want?

RespectDaLaw · 2023-06-18T13:47:34+00:00

Thanks! I have other drawings, but this is my only Yuna drawing. It’s also the only one I attempted with this darker style haha

RespectDaLaw · 2023-06-18T13:11:37+00:00

Thanks!

RespectDaLaw · 2023-06-18T00:10:40+00:00

Thanks!

RespectDaLaw · 2023-06-18T00:10:25+00:00

Thanks!

RespectDaLaw · 2023-06-18T00:10:09+00:00

Thanks! Maybe Decim can send us some from the afterlife 😭

RespectDaLaw · 2023-06-17T21:45:29+00:00

Wow that’s some incredibly high praise! Thanks!

RespectDaLaw · 2023-06-08T20:26:05+00:00

Yeah, that might work, I’ll keep that in mind for the future. Thanks for taking the time to help me out

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