Elf Portrait art thread: Archer by Ranger M

Post by **irrevenant** » February 27th, 2006, 8:51 pm

Squig wrote:[flame]Do every elf-like creature need to have 25cm long ears?[/flame]
Ok, i know, world of warcraft set the tendance but still, i can't help but find that awkward.

It predates WoW; eg. Manga often draws elves that way.

I don't mind it; it help differentiates elves from vulcans.

JW · Post by JW » February 27th, 2006, 9:31 pm

Squig wrote: I agree with toms about the weird looking flower and the light effect which should go over the character (maybe reduced a bit)

Maybe the 'tentacle' thingies should be a bit brighter, to match with the light sphere colors. And there should be a hint of dark where the hand is supposed to be, if it is between the observer and the light sphere.

Anyway, this portrait is progressing very well!

1) I think the flower is fine.
2) Please let's keep from referring to light strands as "tentacles"
3) The light strands look fine
4) The portrait looks pretty complete to me

jonadab · Post by **jonadab** » February 28th, 2006, 4:06 am

The druid is much improved. Here's a minor nitpick, though: is the top strand of lacing on the skirt supposed to be more blueish than the lower strands?

The orc, IMO, looks better than the first draft of the druid did. Are orcs easier to draw than elves, or have your drawing skills already improved? The bottom of the breastplate does seem like it's curved out (forward, away from the body), though -- is that deliberate? Also, the cuff on the right glove seems more snug than the one on the left glove.

On both the druid's skirt and the orc's pants, the shading is not antialiased (where it goes from darker green to lighter green, and perhaps should be -- although someone with relatively little drawing ability (but more experience with Gimp) could make those adjustments. I could do that, for instance.

Edit: Hmm... perhaps I should put something where my mouth is there.

Post by **Thrawn** » February 28th, 2006, 12:35 pm

yah, I'm noticing these, but it's hard to fix. Thanks.

Anyways, two more sketches, (and one water color of one that I will be completing in GIMP, just to see if I can.
normalish images now...

Ranger M · Post by **Ranger M** » February 28th, 2006, 1:06 pm

swear those are good, I wish that I could draw that well. (mine take sufficiently long, and are sufficiently bad that I always do my sketches on my laptop for my portraits)

toms · Post by **toms** » February 28th, 2006, 2:48 pm

Ranger M wrote:swear those are good, I wish that I could draw that well. (mine take sufficiently long, and are sufficiently bad that I always do my sketches on my laptop for my portraits)

... Ok, I shut up.

Thrawn: Good drawings, but: What are those thick lines good for? (with zoomig out, this may disappear, but you do an easier job at inking without them)
Why do you watercoloring? IÃ‚Â´ve never seen that before.

Sword

Post by **Thrawn** » February 28th, 2006, 4:55 pm

toms wrote:
Ranger M wrote:swear those are good, I wish that I could draw that well. (mine take sufficiently long, and are sufficiently bad that I always do my sketches on my laptop for my portraits)
... Ok, I shut up.

Thrawn: Good drawings, but: What are those thick lines good for? (with zoomig out, this may disappear, but you do an easier job at inking without them)

Why do you watercoloring? IÃ‚Â´ve never seen that before.

Sword

1: I lost thin outlining pen.
2: I used it because I haven't kept my painting skills up for ovre 4 weeks, which sucks as I'm part of a city-wide painting crew. Plus I like to experiment.
3: Which one? the one in the sheath, or the one going back?

Garm · Post by **Garm** » February 28th, 2006, 5:08 pm

??big??

But it looks realy nice with the watercolour(is it the right name?)

Ranger M · Post by **Ranger M** » February 28th, 2006, 5:22 pm

Garm wrote:??big??

But it looks realy nice with the watercolour(is it the right name?)

unless you make a tiny image on your bit of paper, the scanned image is always big, fact of life. and actually it's a good thing, because it means that you can have a high resolution image for if you need it for something.

Post by **Thrawn** » February 28th, 2006, 7:49 pm

besides all this ohhing and ahhing, and a cryptic "Sword

, are there any really serious problems, sketch-wise? I'll be editting from sketch, not on computer, so getting those cleared away now will be of great help.

Post by **Darth Fool** » February 28th, 2006, 8:06 pm

try posting reduced sized images.

Post by **Thrawn** » February 28th, 2006, 8:09 pm

Darth Fool wrote:try posting reduced sized images.

I will when I am at home--2-3 more hours

Post by **Thrawn** » February 28th, 2006, 10:45 pm

images resized, and better outlined watercolor

Mith · Post by **Mith** » March 1st, 2006, 10:58 am

re: colored image:

Nice one!
In the attached image, i do two suggestions for improvement. I think his left
arm is too far from the body. Another thing that seems weird to me is his shoulder protection on his right side. It looks a bit 'loose'.

If you apply both changes, he'll be less 'heroic' but that is IMHO not a bad thing. As is, i think he is 'oversized'.

Post by **Thrawn** » March 3rd, 2006, 10:40 pm

I disagree about the left arm, but in sketch I'll fix the right one...

I've begun coloring one of the pictures

Also, should I post the druid in the art section, as I'm still not sure what has to be done with it?

also, I need more sritisism's along the line Mith is taking, as they help me fix the drawings.