Red Ridinghood all growed up
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A couple of weeks ago in the middle of trying to finish up my documtation on a few projects for school I stated this. I know the idea of updating fairytail characters isn't really new, but I liked the doodle so I though I would continue on with it.
I know there are things wrong with this so I'd like to get some advice on how to fix it. Like the legs are bowed and the proportions seem wrong to me, but I can't figure out what I need to do to fix it.
I know there are things wrong with this so I'd like to get some advice on how to fix it. Like the legs are bowed and the proportions seem wrong to me, but I can't figure out what I need to do to fix it.
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I like the character very much.
It's very cute.
Are you planing to make a 3d model?
Etienne
As for boobs, voodoo, even tough I like them as much are the next guy, biguns just don't fit this character, but thanks for noticing. . . I guess
Dhin, the concept is a good start. I believe the arms are too long, maybe even too large. I like the stance in the original concept better. A lady shouldn't stand around with her legs spread like the colored version. For reference, perhaps you can straighten her knees and turn her ankles so her toes point inward more. Don't rely on the line tool for outlining shapes. Try using the pen tool. And add difference in line thickness. Thick lines for outline and major shapes, small lines for small details. Also, pay close attention to your perspective. As the top edge of her socks curve downward, so should the bottom of her skirt. Ellipses below a horizon line slope downward, while ellipses above slope upward. You should work on her decorations. Copy/Pasting the same ornament all over shows your lack of effort to viewers. Finally, a bit of highlighting and shadowing, one tone each, would help bring out her shapes. Maybe even a boob to satisfy the masses. You know they only want to see it so they can reply with "Oh, what big breast you have."
For some reason, what you're doing makes me think of this Jake Parker piece. It's pretty flat also, but there's enough done with her and around her to create the sense of space:
Take what you want from that.
/jzero
The digital is odd.. looks like she has just been bummed with the legs (not to sound too offensive)
it looks like she is about to give birth. And I suggest
doing the digital one with a 1 pixel thick brush, looks
like you used 3. And that emblem thing is overused on her.
Gets annoying seeing about 20 of those all over her body.
So, I guess i'm just saying it needs alot of work :P.
Oh, where's her boobs if she's all grown up?
Not all sexy women have breats
@Dhin When's the next update?
I agree to show a regual pause might help people see the character a little more...
Etienne
True, but there should be some indication of SOMETHING being there.
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You mean there should be some indication of titties, tits, ta-tas, boobs, melons, jugs, knockers, honkers, headlights, twins, bazookas, bazongas, rack, cantaloupes, peaches, yabos, pomegranates, ya-yas, hee-haws, honeydews, boobs/boobies, cups, balloons, mammaries, hooters, bazookers, nips, coconuts, rascals, waps, baps, buns, cushions, dirty pillows, bust, chest, bosoms, bouncy castles, puppies, or funbags?
Indicating breasts in that outfit wouldn't make sense anyway because they'd be underneith the cape, which appears to be made of something pretty heavy (going by where it folds--out just past the arms instead of right on them, like a thicker material would do). So with that style of coloring and line definition, they'd probably look too forced because the lines indicating them would be mostly squeezed in around the cape. Off-topic a bit, you never hear anyone complain about a missing pants-bulge on a male character.
Off-topic a bit, you never hear anyone complain about a missing pants-bulge on a male character.
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Rotfflhao. That has to be the best Quote for the month.
Anyway I'll get an update out soon.
Now personally I like the hair and the outfit as they provide two rather contrasting themes. The outfit, for the most part, projects a very conservative mood. The neck line shows the throat and a bit of the collar, but no cleavage, and the swell of the breasts, if in fact there is such a thing to her, is covered by the front portion of the cloak (consider adding some sort of latch to that so it doesn't look in danger of simply falling off). The arms are also covered, plus gloves) and she's wearing a skirt that leaves everything to the imagination.
The hair on the other hand (as well as the makeup in the colored image) is very playful. It has a life too it that the rest of the outfit seems to be trying to stifle. Maybe Red learned a thing or two for her encounter with the wolf and she's become a stronger person in the intervening years, who knows. It's an interesting dichotomy and you might want to push it further. if you do however, think about covering the legs as well to push the conservative outfit to it's justifiable limit.
Hope this helped.
The time pierod I was shooting for was late 1800's early 1900's. Red is older, wiser and due to the earlier encounter with the wolf, a bit darker. The hatchet in the sketch is hers (actually she has two,) She also has a modified piece maker with silver bullets.
The hem of the dress is ment to be the risky bit of her looks along with the hair. The breasts where ment to be almost completely hiden, bound tight to her body. As went fighting in close contact the jiggling and wiggling of to free boomers would through her totally off ballance (even small ones, ask your girlfriends and wives about it, they will tell you the hate the things when they jog or run or so on.) And she has a small frame so anything large than a b-cup would look out of place and unnatual (not that that really stops any body from drawing or modeling girls that way.) So really I'm just trying to give her a sexy innocent look with out resorting to the hyper-sexual look of most female models.
As far as the wolf icon goes originally it was only ment for the chocker, I was just playing with it to check what it would look like on the buckels.
Okay I've been sketching her in a fight pose, but I don't have a scanner so I'll have to wait until Monday to post it. Which give me time to work some more on her. I've shortened the arms a little more thoug, as well and add lenght to the legs and body (and there is a bit the breast blug too.) Anyway I post it when I get it scanned.
So I'm assuming that she's turned into a wolf hunter eh? Weres specifically based on the silver bullets.
I'm not sure about the second pose (the one with the gun,) I think she's too long in that one. Anyway are these better?
I really like Drawing no1.
Etienne