Vortexblast's work, drawings and etc... thread.

[Crombie]

The coloring is nice, but the face look a little flat, the eyes should look a little more squished, the chin needs to be a little more defined, and there needs to be more shading under the eyebrows to indicate depth. Hope that helps.

[vortexblast]

Jun 12, 2011 16:53:45 GMT -5 Crombie said:

The coloring is nice, but the face look a little flat, the eyes should look a little more squished, the chin needs to be a little more defined, and there needs to be more shading under the eyebrows to indicate depth. Hope that helps.

Thanks, I'll take those advices the next time I do a profile drawing although I don't quite understand your definition of "the chin needs to be a little more defined". Does it lack shading? Or is the general shape of the chin wrong?

Anyway, I'm suffering of lack of inspiration for my next drawing now. So there might not be too much of it in the coming days. Time to bring back nostalgia by watching obscure, unpopular animes from my childhood, it should help me motivate for my next drawing.

[vortexblast]

This was an old drawing that started on paper as a simple sketch that I never bothered finishing it. I've redrawn most of it, inked it and painted it but I still think that there are more improvements to make.

vortexblast.deviantart.com/#/d3ivzyj
Some major problems that I can point out are of course the hands and the feet. They are massively wrong. The head of the kid chasing the man is too big and his neck is too long.
If you don't understand what this drawing means, which I'm sure you do, I'm going to explain it.
The kid on the far left is Suono, you might recognise him from my past drawings. The man on far right is Eden, his ancestor or great-great-great-grandfather.
This scene takes place in a long olive green corridor with many black doors on both sides hence the quote in the far bottom right. It is actually a dream inside Suono's mind.
He tries to search a way out but most of these doors go to nowhere until he opened one and finds Eden where he will explain the purpose of Suono's existence. I've portrayed Suono as a kid to represent a metaphor which does relate to the title. "Running away from fear, Chasing an Illusion"

[vortexblast]

Hmmm, it's been very quiet around here lately... Not much activity, that's a shame.
I made another one and I need your opinion on where I can improve it before I watercolour it.

vortexblast.deviantart.com/gallery/30046107#/d3j1hcx
Comments or crits please?

I know that the shading is bad but I did it very quickly since I want to paint it.

[dvandom]

If you try sitting like that pose, it's certainly possible, but you'll likely find that you have to make a small effort to keep your right arm behind your leg (especially since the wall keeps the upper arm from moving backwards). A more relaxed version would let the right elbow stick out from behind the leg. I'd suggest the upper arm angled out about 30 degrees away from the vertical, and then the upper arm would be around 45 degrees, resulting in some arm poking out the side.

---Dave

[vortexblast]

Jun 16, 2011 6:55:34 GMT -5 dvandom said:

If you try sitting like that pose, it's certainly possible, but you'll likely find that you have to make a small effort to keep your right arm behind your leg (especially since the wall keeps the upper arm from moving backwards). A more relaxed version would let the right elbow stick out from behind the leg. I'd suggest the upper arm angled out about 30 degrees away from the vertical, and then the upper arm would be around 45 degrees, resulting in some arm poking out the side.

---Dave

I tried doing that pose IRL and it's perfectly possible and the leg perfectly hides the lower and upper arm depending on the angle. I tried fixing it the way you told me to do it but I found it a bit strange, so I left it as it is.

Then I coloured it, it was a very, very painstaking process. Corel Painter 12 can be too much of a pain (bugs, glitches, lags and etc...) but the results are impressive by my standards.

vortexblast.deviantart.com/art/Ange-de-la-Galle-213745212
I would gladly appreciate any feedback, criticism, comments, nitpicks and everything else because I spent too much time on this drawing and now I'm exhausted. I don't want all this work to go down the drain

[vortexblast]

So I had a one month break and I'm back and I will draw a lot more from now on. Think of this drawing as training exercise but what do you think of it?
This is Mortis, one of the antagonists in my Ghosts series. Oh yeah, BTW he's got big strong arms so it's normal that his arms are quite big.

[vortexblast]

Something in the works



I hope it will turn out good.

[vortexblast]

So this is the finished product:

vortexblast.deviantart.com/#/d48tj5j
This is my interpretation of the original version. It's just a tribute.
So how is it?
BTW, if you don't know what The Skull Man is, here's a link.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Skull_Man

[vortexblast]

Surprised to see no feedback of my drawings after 4 months. Is my drawings that boring or is it something else?
This is my latest for a friend.

I would like some critiques please. But a detailed one if you can
BTW, she's levitating. I would digitalize it when I'll have time that's why I didn't bother much with the shading.

[Caliber Mengsk]

..... all of your eyes are really funky looking to me.... T__T they scare me. (everything else is pretty darn good )

The skin tone in general, has to much yellow, and not enough red. (especially apparent in the last pic on the first page)

If you darken your image, the skin should look brownish, not orange or yellow... O-o Just a little thing. Figuring out colors is a pain, and while skin isn't solid red, it also isn't solid yellow...


O-o just stating a few observations I made

[vortexblast]

@caliber Mengsk
Well I'm heavily influenced by 2 mangakas and I draw the eyes a bit like them.
And you're right, skin colouring is my worst part. I always get it wrong. Thanks for that little comment.

Here's my latest creation, a colouring from my last drawing. I think probably my best colouring job I've done.

vortexblast.deviantart.com/art/The-Fragile-Dark-Angel-267173220
Anyway, what do you think on this one?