good good post more please

>>6497
i drew the shit bird B)

to the person who reverse image searched my steam avatar to find this thread:

when you meet someone new on the internet, realize that they are not obligated to share any amount of personal information with you. they are not obligated to share their name, gender, or city. they are not obligated to tell you why they won’t share this information.

trying to dig up information on the person, such as ip address, e-mail, websites, social networking accounts, is intrusive and creepy. “But I’m nosy!” is not a viable excuse by any standard.

>>6451

GUESS WHO GOT A NEW (kind of cheap) SCANNER!

Also, trying out shading for the first time in FOREVER. How does it look?

>>6485
Thank you so much for taking my request! And that's good news about your scanner. what do you draw things with?

Wow I thought I had more Demoman reaction pics wtf i spent like ten minutes searching

>>6494

I draw the picture on white paper w/ a ballpoint pen, then enhance the lines and color it in GIMP (a lot like Photoshop, but free.)

ACTUALLY how about about requests. That would be grand.
(Ideas are hard to come up with)

Here's a very simple redline. Included is a side view of Solly's head.

As far as ideas go, here's some stuff that have been percolating in my head but I am too lazy haven't got around to drawing:
- golf day
- classes as a baseball team
- the travails of being Medic

I dunno shit about redlining - sorry, bro

This took me a disgustingly long time oh god but here's my most recent version of this
Changed a lot, including turning that arm around, which took me longer than it should have to realize why it wasn't looking right. Right now I'm having trouble getting the mask to look even remotely plausible, and his left foot may or may not be able to bend like that.
Tear it to shreds, luvs!

Let's start at the very beginning. A very good place to start.

First, let's look at Pyro's head straight on and break it down into basic shapes. It's made of a half of a sphere for the head, a tapered cone for the mouth, and three cylinders (the eyes and the filter).

Now, the "camera" is aiming upwards at Pyro's head, so it's time for some extreme foreshortening. What I drew was very approximate, using an actual prop to help with the how it's supposed to look because I suck at imagining 3-D space, so I suggest you redo this step yourself.

I played around with some 1-point perspective, but I found that it warped the Pyro's head to the point of being unrecognizable. It's up to you if you want to take that step. There's plenty of tutorials on how to do 1-point perspective.

Same goes for the rest of the body. As a whole, Pyro is rather pear-shaped, but for the same of simplicity start by breaking the body down into boxes, the limbs into cylinders, and the hands and feet into boxes.

The other comments that I made the last time about the composition, the body proportions, and the details still apply.

Whoops, hit send too fast.

This was supposed to be the accompanying picture with my wall of words. Hope it helps.

And here's the lines if you feel so inclined as to colour them in yourself~

Oh my god I love everything about everything. Please post more!

>>6414
Thankyou!!

Here's just... um, this started out being my new steam avatar, then I started turning into a full fledged picture, then started listening to pink floyd.

I'm really not sure what to think about this one guys

>>6416
Well, I like it a lot! Can it be your official style from now on? Please?

>>6416
Reminds me a bit of Trevor Goodchild from Aeon Flux, which, now that I think of it, is perfect for Medic. Your comic/cartoon styled art is really gorgeous.

The way Medic's mouth sticks out looks weird. But otherwise I love the style and the coloring of this!

This isn't really the place for this kind of thing.

now, with slightly less eye raping transparency

Looking pretty good, actually.

His near arm was short. Elbows are level with the waistline when the arms are hanging freely.
You had some weird perspective making Medic's face look flat, which in turn made him look Asian. Remember, there is foreshortening on faces, too.
The hands look pretty good for hands floating around by themselves, but I really can't speak for how well they're interacting with the thingamabob he's holding onto, because the thingamabob in question isn't finished enough for me be able to figure out its shape. Once you finish up shading the thingamabob, you might want to run it through Workshop again to see what we think then.

You're actually doing pretty good with the fabric. You just need to be a little more careful about identifying sources of pressure on the fabric, such as the stiffness of the class patch, the pull of the buttonholes against the buttons, or his medipack straps pressing against his body and pinning down the coat. Just little things like that make the difference between fabric that "doesn't look wrong," and fabric that "looks perfect."

Your colour will look a lot better once you get some big old, shamelessly blue-tinted shadows onto Medic's skin and shirt. I think you'll get even more stunning results if you take the hue contrast in your lighting even further, making the highlights even more red-white, and the shadows even more blue.

Hey You Guys!

It;'s Here! It's Here! See for yourself the what goes on inside the mask. If You Dare.

video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUhOnX8qt3I

You've shown a pretty good grasp of volume and proportion so far, but the shading needs to be even more extreme and the proportions more closely reflect the original reference.

Shading:
- Shadowed areas should be even darker, using complementary colors instead of just more saturated hues. Then, to better define the volume, add a little bit of a rim highlight to the dark side.
- Give Scout more muscle definition besides in his arms.

Proportions:
- Scout's eyes are crooked, even if they're supposed to be almond-shaped in this picture.
- The face is, skull aside, rather box-shaped, and the potion of the face that the eyes, nose mouth are in should face distinctively forward, especially in 3/4ths view.
- The proportions of the face should be in rough thirds: hairline to brow, nose, bottom of the nose to chin. Scout's nose is, therefore, too low on his face.
- His chin also needs more definition. TF2 is a game full of Manry Men and Manry Jawlines of Masculinity, even on Scout. Generally, I also don't color lips on men since that gives the appearance of wearing makeup, but that's more of a personal preference.
- His cheekbones are, ironically enough, too well defined, making him look like he hasn't had a proper meal in ages. Smooth out some of that shading.
- His back and shoulders look a bit too high on his body, but that might vary from person to person. Consult pictures of shirtless dudes to get a better idea of how it's supposed to be proportioned.

Thanks so much!

My tablets bein' a peen, but I'll get to work on it as soon as I can.