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[riff13]

More Ergo Proxy fan art. I really dig this show and I love Re-l's character/costume design. Even if I take a few liberties with it.

Comments

[the_z]

Wow, this is really different from your normal stuff. Very sensual too.

[riff13]

Thanks...I wouldn't really say it's diffrent from my normal stuff, (although it is certainly much different from the cartoony illustrative style used in AtA, so I know what you mean and I'm not arguing that point) but whenever I do fan art I typically revert to my heavely image-comics-influenced style of drawing.

Ergo Proxy
Bleach
Zoro
Kakashi
Even my Little Firecracker...

I think that's part of why my other webcomic idea "The Revenant" won't let go. because I'd be doing that as an American style comic book, which is really what I cut my artistic teeth on. And the longer i simply do the cartoony stuff the more I frear I'm going to lose my realistic drawing skills. I really do need to fins a life drawing class down here.

And as for the sensuality...that's something I've been conciously working on. Not sure why I wanted to start bringing more sensuality to my drawings, but I have...that't part of why I did that one Nami picture

Sorry, I'm sure that's more than you expected to get in a reply. ^_^;;

[the_z]

Don't apologize for the reply ^^ I think even as far as your comic-style goes, this picture is cleaner and much more deliberate (but that may be due to the lack of heavy hatching in some of the pictures). I think the generous use of solid black is really what distinguishes it-- and it shows a good deal of confidence too. That may sound strange to say, but I have trouble assigning black to an entire region like that. I'm always very hesitant and I know I'm not alone in that respect.

The shading/coloring in contrast really 'pops'. It all comes together into a great composition!

[riff13]

Ah, yeah, leaning to cut back on the hatching and cross hatching has been a learning prosses as seen in the example pics I showed. But going higher contrast and adding more black seemed the natural porgression for me.

I've also learned a lot from actually studying Frank Miller's art rather than just enjoying his comics.

[the_z]

If you're going for that sort of heavy black/blocking effect, Frank Miller is definitely the one to study!