Heya!! I made this a while back, but I was hoping to get some tips on anatomy, posing, and maybe help with coloring the hair(it’s supposed to resemble space pfpfpf) if that’s not too much!! Yallre angels and I hope all the mods have a good day!
Thank you! : D I’m sure my fellow mods are having a great day, as well as I. (Mod Seraphtonin here chiming in with how I, too, am having a great day : ))
There were a few things about this composition that made it come across a little confusing. When drawing dramatic poses, you’ll oftentimes find that opening up the torso, by pushing the arms back can give your composition some much-needed air. This’ll make your character seem less closed off and more visually interesting.
This is especially important when you want to draw scenes with relaxing atmospheres, or portray a character as “ open “ and “casual”. You’ll want the body language to be open and casual as well!
Closing the body language in on itself leads to tension, and we’re lead to believe that the character is either in the middle of some strenuous movement or feeling somewhat stressed.
This is of course not a 100% rule-do-not-break-ever, since varied situations, camera angles etc, contribute to the viability of whether open/closed body language should be applied faithfully to the statement above. But, think of it as a frequent observation.
You got me with cosmic hair though. (Mod Seraphtonin: I also love that cosmic hair. Also, I like your daring purple-and-yellow colour scheme. Not nearly enough new artists experiment with complementary colours and I admire that boldness)
Conveying something so ethereal and weightless as ‘space’ can be really tricky without the right kind of reference and know-how. The key is subtlety. Play around with opacity and don’t let anything come across as “ solid”. Solid lines, straight lines, harsh shading, etc all make an object seem solid, like it has mass. Make sure you keep your lineart soft and subtle, and colour saturation / opaqueness down. You can study things like fire, as that might be the closest representation of weightlessness in pressurized atmospheres as I can come up with, on top of my head. When we observe fire, we don’t observe a solid object ( hence why fire, despite appearing like solid matter, does not cast a shadow off itself ). We instead see a vast amount of values forming into organic shapes that effortlessly wind into one another.
( Value is defined as the relative lightness or darkness of a color. It is an important tool for the designer/artist, in the way that it defines form and creates spatial illusions. ) http://char.txa.cornell.edu/language/element/color/color.htm I’d say take a moment to just observe a candle, or a fireplace, or a campfire. Pay attention to the many nuances within it, the way the flame moves, both when still, and when interacted with.
- Mod Wackart ( ko-fi )
