Crackpot fanart theories and Wraithfall

[mutecornett]

devildoll kindly scanned Wraithfall, so I downloaded it out of curiosity and uh. SGA tie-in comic, how is it that you trace so obviously and yet Teyla looks like a Korean girl with her hair bleached to a brassy red in that second panel of the first page, and Rodney looks freaky and utterly unlike himself?

Comments

[ileliberte]

I think somone mentioned on the thread (was it you?) about choosing the wrong things to trace and I think that's the major problem with drawing strictly representational art. I've been working on a piece with John and Teyla stick-fighting (is there a better name for it?) and my default attitude is to be fussy and pernickety, so trying to get away from a point where drawing every single crease on the face makes Teyla look like a 90 year old woman rather than a hot young 20s-30s to a place where the essential Teylaness has to be preserved but some artistic license has to be taken in what to discard from the original. In a lot of the Rodney pictures in the comic, the lines are there, but I think the artist chose the wrong ones to keep, thus probably making it a good partial tracing, if anything, but losing out on the personality and making it into a random person who has a vaguely Rodney-like face. Same with Teyla, if even more so since in trying to make it feminine, even less lines seem to have been included. With John, I think the shape of his face, ears, nose and hair is already so distinctive that the lines on the face itself are not as important, so the likeness comes about even with a minimal trace with some lines scattered here and there. Also, the style of coloring chosen also serves as a problem at times with the shadows looking either too pronounced or too indecisive and not giving the right dimensions either way.

[mutecornett]

I think this hits exactly what's wrong with the comic--and it would explain why John ended up looking all right. But, er, yes, that was me in reply to fan_this up above. :3