Felt like drawing Spoiler
Wow, I haven't done an oekaki in years! And it would seem I haven't colored in months either.
Anyhoo, for those that don't know. Tis Cassandra Cain (Batgirl) and Stephanie Brown (Spoiler and once Robin). I wanted to work on profiles, and wanted to draw them differently. Not sure I succeeded. They look the same except for different coloring, ( Read more... )
Anyhoo, for those that don't know. Tis Cassandra Cain (Batgirl) and Stephanie Brown (Spoiler and once Robin). I wanted to work on profiles, and wanted to draw them differently. Not sure I succeeded. They look the same except for different coloring, ( Read more... )
Help on the sketch... hm. Well, for the shoulders, one of them is closer to her body, leaving the other side looking broader and the angles of the lines connecting shoulder to neck different. It looks like you want her right arm (on our left) to look like it's behind her as arms swing when walking. You'll want to nix that line from the inside bicep towards the shoulder and put the torso in front, using a single line to create the armpit rather than the multiple ones there now. I also think having the arm a little closer to the body would look more natural; the hand should be right next to the hip, or you can partially obscure it behind the hip if you don't want to redraw it (dunno what to say about avoiding a redraw of that beautiful fabric though >.< do you have any tracing paper?). Bending the elbow more to accommodate this different hand position would also help the bone structure there. The arm is a bit stiff-looking as is because it’s extended straight out.
Moving to her left arm, the lower half looks great. Especially like that it’s overlapping her hip. The hand looks awesome. The upper arm is a little too narrow-- I'd widen the outside a little, and give the inside of the bicep just a touch of overlap over her breast to help accentuate its forwardness. Lower the breasts just a little, and let's see some hip action! The hip of the forward leg should be higher than the hip of the rear leg. Crotch a little lower, and I think the legs can be fixed with just a couple of adjustments, actually. The forward thigh should overlap the rear one a little, and the thigh should grow from the crease in the crotch (this is part of the reason it should be a little lower). And then don't let the flare of the pants leg for the rear leg overlap the leg that's in front, as it's doing just a little here ~_^ You don't need quite so much bunching and creasing of fabric at the rear knee-- it's making her kneecap look too small.
Final nitpick, I'd like to see just a little more hair by her left shoulder; the way the length tapers inward to the shoulder and then cuts back out for that long curl is doing funny things to it. Alternatively, if you want the hair looking shorter than that, erase the bottom two long curls and leave just that teeny little flip.
I also have to reiterate that the cloth is gorgeous x-X GAH I WISH I COULD DRAW FABRIC LIKE THAT. I hope that wasn't too much critique-- you only mentioned wanting help on the shoulders >.< -- because all in all your drawing skills are still enviable. Proportions overall look good, head a good size and really nice expression and hands. I look forward to seeing a more finished version of this!
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Thank you so much for the help though! I don't know if I got all that but when I go back to working on it, I'll get back to you with questions. I think for now, this helps though. :)
As for Steph's hair, her hair's kinda wild too. All artists tend to draw her hair as having a life of its own. LOL, (just like the cape!) so I tried to convey that here. She's a wild child, but a pretty one, so I didn't want to go for entirely realistic hair. I don't normally draw hair like that anyways, but yeah, I wanted it to look uneven, curled and uh...alive. XD Sorry 'bout that. ^^;
But thank you so much! ^o^ Dunno when I'll get back to it (dumb artist block) but I'll keep ya updated. :)
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