I can draw too!

Posted by Astryl on May 6, 2013, 9:57 a.m.

I was sitting around and mulling over ways to avoid Mandatory Humiliation in the Complete-a-game comp, and started sketching a concept of the player character, as I would imagine it.

The character is called a 'Hunter', (Also the name of the game), and has a Megaman-ish design. 'cept it's more Swords 'n Sorcery than Run 'n Gun.

Oh, and I committed several cardinal sins of artistry by drawing this on lined paper with a Parker ballpoint pen. (Because I was too lazy to dig out my drawing paper and pencils).

Anyway, my scanner is now plugged in again. Expect more drawings.

Comments

Visor 11 years, 6 months ago

He looks just like the guy in your banner (Minus a few helmet fins). Actually, now that I think about it, he reminds me a little of Zero.

If I were to fight him, I'd stab him straight in the neck. That is the Achilles heel of his Armour by my analysis.

Charlie Carlo 11 years, 6 months ago

Dude this is good shading and technical…ness. But I think you should work on your anatomy and test out different designs. All your designs seem to be "Megaman, but slightly different" and I'm not saying that's bad just that you should try a whole plethora of other kinds of designs and then come back to it with your new found knowledge of other things, you know?

The best thing an artist can do is work that they don't do.

panzercretin 11 years, 6 months ago

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The best thing an artist can do is work that they don't do.

I hated watercolor before my art teacher suggested it at random.

Astryl 11 years, 6 months ago

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But I think you should work on your anatomy

Probably. Though I think I would've netted better results if I hadn't sketched everything in ink from the start, so for a lazy sketch, it passes my seal of approval. I'm usually pretty OCD about my art.

On paper, I often draw a wide variety of things, usually for birthday cards. Animals, buildings, vistas, etc.

Now, after taking the first step and removing my scanner from wherever it was being kept, I need to get my drawing kit out again.

EDIT: Oh, I did some 'finishing' work on the head/shoulder area last night. New avatar. :P

panzercretin 11 years, 6 months ago

dat eye

Toast 11 years, 6 months ago

The lighting and proportion is kind of confused. Each panel of his armour appears to be lit from a different direction (from the front, from behind, from the top) so it looks flat.

The eye of his helmet that we can see appears to be taking up exactly half of his face, from somewhere on his hairline all the way to the bridge of his nose. If there is another eye it is much smaller or inexistent. Perhaps that's intended but it reads strangely.

The eye itself is shaded well

Astryl 11 years, 6 months ago

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If there is another eye it is much smaller or inexistent. Perhaps that's intended but it reads strangely.

There is another eye, technically speaking. I think I accidentally hit it with another line. Another reason not to draw in ballpoint pen. :P

JuurianChi 11 years, 6 months ago

There's no reason "not" to use ballpoint.

You just need to keep practicing.

Astryl 11 years, 6 months ago

Usually, for a detailed drawing, one would use a pencil first, then ink afterwards. Point is: I used a pen first. So I can't exactly go back and correct the original sketch without messing it up further.

panzercretin 11 years, 6 months ago

From what I'm seeing you colored in the other eye with gray so it looks like part of the bridge. That's the only way I could make sense out of it.

Actually, that design might be cool if you can find a way to work it - with one of the eyepieces replaced/covered with metal. Maybe there's some crazy cyberpunk GUI thing going on there, or like some interface where the only open place to plug into the suit is through your eye socket so they take out one of your eyes in order to let you use it. Morbid as shit but it could work if you know how to rock it.