11
Mar
10

B&W Evil!Jowan fanart



B&W Evil!Jowan fanart, originally uploaded by to paraphrase.

I got tired of trying to fix my mistakes. Also, my hands hurt so it wasn’t going to get any better at the rate I was going anyway.

I still need to add a background of some kind and maybe add colours.

06
Mar
10

Tips, Tricks, Crits – Take Them & Use Them

Per the issues I’ve suddenly been having with my Jowan fanart now that I’ve picked the piece of paper up off my 5 inch x 3 inch desk space at work.

Evil!Jowan WIP

Okay. I narrowed it down to two things giving me problems with how he’s looking as of this pic. Well, I saw one thing and someone else pointed out the other to me. Having someone else critique your work is ALWAYS an awesome thing. They will notice things that you don’t (or things you’re trying to ignore because you aren’t good at them). Listen to these critiques and use them to grow. You don’t have to take it personally, which I know is an odd thing to say when talking about someone pointing out things that aren’t working in something as personal as a drawing/painting can be, but you should at the very least listen to them. For every one asshole who’s just trolling, there are probably ten people who are giving you an honest opinion that you could probably grow a lot from taking seriously.

1. What I noticed is that my scale and measurements are WAY off here due to the angle at which I’ve been drawing him. This is where all those little tricks artist talk about come in handy. Pick up the drawing and look at it straight on instead of looking at it from the angle of it laying flat on a hard surface. In a perfect world, we’d all have easels everywhere we might feel like drawing, but we don’t. So, pick up the drawing surface once in a while just to make sure it’s not gonna look unintentionally goofy at the end.

Holding your drawing in front of a mirror is another great way to see what is off. Something can look totally fine when you’re hunched over the paper, then you pick it up, stand in front of the mirror, and it’s like you were using your non-dominant hand with your eyes closed.

Doing this also helps when you’re measuring things out (because shock of all shocks, that actually helps too), which I also got all messed up on, but that you can’t really tell from this pic since it’s mostly just his face. I measure out by “heads”, but there might be other ways to measure the body out that would work for you better. Since I pretty much had to teach myself how to draw, I’m a late bandwagon jumper for measuring things out. Trust me though, it makes so much difference when you’re figuring things out. I think once you learn how to do all the traditional/standard ways to render a figure, it’ll make things easier for you down the line when you’re working on your own style and whatnot. That’s what I keep telling myself anyhow.

2. Jacen Burrows was awesome enough to give me the following comment. And I think if someone who draws comics for a living takes the time to comment on MY measly attempts at putting pencil to paper, I should totally take it seriously.

“Normally I’d just chalk this up as stylistic expression but since you mentioned it…I think the problem you are sensing with his head is his right eye (on our left). His left eye lines up with the edge of his nostril but the right one is set further out. It also appears to be ever so slightly lower. If you cover either eye with your finger while looking at it the piece, you’ll notice the rest seems to work, they’re just not working together. A little tweaking of that eye and I think you’ll be happy.”

I gave Jowan Sloth Eye!

In all seriousness, I do this all.the.time and it’s super annoying for me because I don’t even notice it half the time anymore. So, again, having someone who isn’t related to you, someone you don’t see on a daily basis, or someone who knows you’re not going to bawl your eyes out or tear their face off if they say, “Hey, that doesn’t look right” is a good thing. Again, it’s also a good thing not to get all butthurt when someone tells you, “Hey, that doesn’t look right.”

This still doesn’t help me with the Steve Perry hair …

05
Mar
10

Evil!Jowan WIP



Evil!Jowan WIP, originally uploaded by to paraphrase.

I don’t know. His head still looks freakish to me. I keep doing the mirror trick, but meh. Keep moving forward.

And I’m still avoiding the hands. As you can tell since I’ve already started shading the face.

Okay, okay. I got side tracked by a double feature of Conan the Barbarian and Conan the Destroyer on Encore Action.

Also, he’s got kind of a Steve Perry hairdo going on here. Kinda hard to be evil when you’re sporting that …

03
Mar
10

Dragon Age: Origins fanart WIP

WIP of a darker, more blood mage-y version of Jowan from DA:O. Not surprisingly, I’m getting held up on the hands (which you can’t see here because they SUCK).

Working on this for a comm member who helped me and The Brother locate some in-game items that the seriously lacking Prima guide didn’t even mention. Though, it is Prima, so, the suckage kind of goes without saying. Those guides are the worst. And I actually bought the Special/Collector’s Edition.

01
Mar
10

Recaps/Reviews for Fandomania Update

Not sure how many of you reading this actually read the recaps/reviews I do for Fandomania, but I thought I’d put a little update on what’s going on with that.

My paying job work hours have become … let’s just say it leaves me with little time to do anything during the week because of the hours of travel time and work time. The hours I work are very odd. Add to that the hours I’m going to need to dedicate to class work (assuming I get my tuition fixed soon) and my continuing hand pain (getting them looked at/shot up again on the 11th), I’m not going to have too much time for much else.

I’ll be covering a movie or two (Clash of the Titans!!!!!) and the rest of Fringe and Supernatural, as well as a few comics (need to keep reading them if I’m going to learn how to make them), but I won’t be covering Lost anymore. I’m not as “meh” or confused as I was in that last review I did, but there’s just way too much that goes on in that show for me to dedicate time to.

I’ll also be doing my “November 1320″ story for a March Madness writing challenge started up on Twitter. Figured it’d be nice to actually finish a story, especially if I’d like to use it for a web comic someday.

As for this blog, I’ll continue to post my personal work and my class work.




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