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Your portraits look really good: you seem to have a pretty good idea of how to structure faces, though the individualization on Soldier and elf(?)Medic could use work, I suppose.
I can't really leave any solid concrit on the full body Scout sketch other than that the leg closest to the veiwer seems to be placed a little too far forward in respect to his torso, and that his hips start just a tad too low (I think). I'll compile some references and attempt a redline if you'd like.
Anyway, all that said, I like what you have here so far and I'd really like to see more.

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I forgot I had made this thread, oops!

I'd love a redline, actually. This is gonna sound stupid, but after three years of taking life drawing classes, drawing without a model is a bit... difficult I suppose.


Medic is an elf because I am a fag or something and I crossed it over with WoW. Pic Related, it's an Undead Pyro

I agree about that lovely warm color scheme! I also wish to extend birdfeet's critique, however, to human anatomy.
I'll just be general and brief. As far as I can tell, your proportions and even your perspective are pretty good. It's the structure that needs tightening up. The "how-this-part-connects-to-this-part" aspect of anatomy, basically.

Keep it up yo

Ah alright very cool! I'll be sure to practice "connecting" anatomy more, thanks very much friend

Merry Smissmass everybody!

>>6579

I actually have commissions open right now if you're interested. As for the rest of the classes, I'm thinking either pyro or heavy. I want to make them all special specific patterns so they would indeed take a lot of time. There's a link to my devfart in the second post. Note me there or tumblr if you're interested.

I did another one as a commission. Took less time than the medic due to detail plus I used the same head and leg pattern.

Great work ! It's truly amazing !

Hope to see more ;)

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1) The face is a minor problem compared to my other beef, that of body language. There's no tension in this pic at all. Please, please, please do a Spy/Medic fight to the death more justice than this.
2) Any long-running series in any drawn medium, art evolution aside, has this thing called "Being On Model". Sometimes, it's okay to exaggerate for the sake of a quick animated sequence or a single panel wild take, but in general staying as close as possible to the character as designed is Serious Business. Mickey Mouse, for example, is such an iconic character that his animators have had to redraw cels from scratch just for getting his ears wrong.
3) Even considering the way that their heads are positioned, Spy and Medic don't have the same size eyes and their mouths kind of stretched to one side. I used to do that in my own art so much that my characters looked like they're having a stroke. In comparison, you're art is positively realistic in comparison. I don't know about the other people giving you their opinions, but I am not making a value judgement on your style, just pointing out a possible shortcoming in it.

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Personally I rather like the body language. It make me think that in the rush of a fast-paced battle, the Spy ran up behind the Medic, catching him quite off his guard. (Medic somewhere between shock and confusion, and spy looks like he's in the middle of rushing from one place to another) Not exactly a struggle or "fight to the death" type scenario. Also my first immediate impression was that I love spy's expression. Whether people like the exaggeration of expression, or if it looks real or not, idk, but my first impression what that is was great.

The only thing I'd have to bring up (hate to bring up something new, but...) is that the blade doesn't quite look like it does in game. (I main spy and see that thing so stinking much) It's more correct in the very first one where Spy is reaching around the Medic.

Overall, I very much like.

It honestly isn't what I'd define as a 'fight.' A fight more or less entails an active struggle between two parties. This is more of Spy doing what he does best, which is sneaking up and taking a victim by surprise. Like the recent poster said. I do have a part 2 to this image planned, perhaps it'll be more along the lines of the fight to the death justice hoped for.
Yes, I'm aware of what on-model means. I got a degree in animation earlier this year, so I spent the past 4 1/2 years learning about the whole nine yards. However, even with maintaining model specifics, there will always, always be flukes because artists and animators will have variations in their methods. 3D can avoid this because the model is pretty much set. Shoot, half the time the characters in the official TF2 comics don't look like the characters in the game *cough Medic cough*. I could go into an entire rant about being on-model, but that's...unnecessary.
As for the mouths, I tried altering the smile and it just looked really strange every way I did it. So I went with the least strange-looking. Otherwise, when they fixed the face poser in GMod (as much as GMod can fix a face poser), that's about how it looked at that angle. I just stretched the smile even further than the model would go without Spy's cheeks extending beyond his ears.

On the knife: it's about the same as the first image, all I did was turn it sideways. I realizaed that the sharp end of the blade wasn't even touching Medic's throat while laying flat like that, so I had to re-angle it to be more threatening. Weapons are something I'm still working on though. (Dat Medigun...URGH)

Thank y'all for the critiques, they have been helpful. This one is currently fully inked and I'm gonna start coloring it soon.

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>>6712 Thank you!
I realized I haven't been here in a while... Sorry I don't have much to post here since most of my drawings are either of my oc's and/or nsfw. I hope you like cute snipers though!

It's...cute, I guess?

Feedback:
1) Composition: The cropping is very odd, since you're suggesting that the skulls themselves have expression. While the way you have it does suggest a very cramped, trapped feeling, you can also suggest that with a background (by, say, having the background of the picture be a closet or something).
2) Head/torso/limb proportion: Even taking into consideration your style, the proportions do not look "right" in my opinion. (And by "right" I don't necessarily mean "factually correct", but "makes sense".)
3) Face proportions: TF2's men have Manry Manjaws of Manriness. Faces should clearly, well, face forward, with the rest of it tapering off to the sides, like a box.
4) Proper shading techniques: Either keep it flat (since that is also a style) or utilize proper technique to suggest the volume of the object. Even today's super low-budget animated series has at least 3 shades: the base color, the highlight, and the shadow. But for better definition, I suggest a 5+ shade coloring method: dark/black outline, base color, a medium shadow, a deep shadow, and one or two levels of highlighting.

and what a great start to the new thread!