This is my attempt at an equine that's seen 'beefier days' though has the ornamented neck and skull pieces of battle with a saddle shown with my attempt at low light fur showing too
I'd like a few critiques on this given that I scared myself out of shading the whole thing cause at the time this was a real good showing of asymmetrical armoring and posture for me...redo inbound?
not much time to just get a little spirit wisping thing drawn, not much shading cause i still can't make much sense out of shadows where light's hitting vs now there's no shadow and it's a plane...that's on things to practice.
You wouldn't happen to have access to a scanner/photoshop would you? It's a little hard to look at the drawings with all of that camera pixelation getting in the way.
Also photos of drawings in a room with uneven lighting tend to kill your darks and lights, and all that lovely line work.
I was wondering if you're using any reference for your drawings? It's actually common practice for most illustrators to gather a bunch of photo reference so they can better understand the perspective and how lighting would hit the object. I usually start out with a few thumbnail sketches myself and figure out the overall composition, and then start gathering references that fit what I'm aiming towards to bring it along a step further.
I have a scanner though it doesn't like to work all the time. Right now i'm not using much for reference except bits and pieces of previous works if that makes sense. I get a sense of what I liked in past arms and try to take parts to put together keeping in mind how I want the new arm to work of course so i'm not guess drawing.
Critiques invited and wanted so I can get a progression perspective that's not my own. Sketch work for a while...
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second piece inspired by command and conquer
not much time to just get a little spirit wisping thing drawn, not much shading cause i still can't make much sense out of shadows where light's hitting vs now there's no shadow and it's a plane...that's on things to practice.
Also photos of drawings in a room with uneven lighting tend to kill your darks and lights, and all that lovely line work.
I was wondering if you're using any reference for your drawings? It's actually common practice for most illustrators to gather a bunch of photo reference so they can better understand the perspective and how lighting would hit the object. I usually start out with a few thumbnail sketches myself and figure out the overall composition, and then start gathering references that fit what I'm aiming towards to bring it along a step further.
Anyways, keep it up!