May '07 Jam: Olivie

[benjaminfaulkner]

Tried to work a bit bigger than i usually do for this one, which made it a bit harder for me to get the proportions right, but hopefully will improve in the long run and allow me to get a bit more detail into the drawings (provided i dont loose interst towards the end as i did on this and most of everything else that i do)

anyway good work so far everyone.
my personal favourites:
Creamdog
Phoebe geebees
lethologic
edrift101
uglyographer

[Tooninator]

Really awesome pieces this month. I really enjoy the reference pics too. Good choice. Although I didn't have time to do a real polished piece, I figured I'd make my warm up doodle for the jam.
it's not often I leave anything in pencil either.





-Matt

[Jaminator]

Nice sketch toonimator,

I like the touch of her smile

Good job Alix,

And only 17? That's good stuff!

[Vinny K. Krotchy]

Nice sketch indeed Matt... I like the looseness of it

[spacejack]

Graham I really enjoy yours, especially with the added cat & paw print! Great first post. I like Hache and Creamdog's designs, and I love the_opus' quick-looking strokes. Alix, I like the panel-from-graphic novel look of yours, and tooninator's got the priceless expression. Plenty other great interpretations in this jam, and a lot of solid-looking figure construction.

Here's a brush pen + dip pen drawing from me...

[morhor]

Here's my sketch

[Bluepencil]

Not special, just quick sketch and learned new toy called Alias Sketchbook Pro 2.0



Thanks
BP

[CaptainGeech]

This is my second post for this jam. I wasn't happy with this at first, when it was just a sketch. I was about to start over when I decided to try a new style on top of the sketch. Now I'm happier with it. Funny.

-Ernie

[Cleveland]

you guys are great. wish i could match your creativity and style. unfotunately not. just another straight up copy. all credit to the photographer and the model, i just pushed pixels around until it looked like the original. fun though, and i really like the outcome, i hope you do to.

cleveland

[CaptainGeech]

This looks great cleveland. you should give yourself more credit.

[Cleveland]

This looks great cleveland. you should give yourself more credit.

thanks captain. i really do like the outcome and i do think it's very good. i just don't think it's very creative. does that make sense?

cleveland

[CaptainGeech]

Yeah, I know. I feel that way about most of my stuff. That's why I sort of branched out a bit on this one. But that's the artist's perspective. In my limited experience I've come to believe that most people (non-artists) tend to go "ga-ga" over the photorealistic stuff, or like you said "straight-up" copies. It's all a matter of taste, I guess.
I saw some of your other more anime-like posts. They're really good and you seem to be developing a unique style. If you were to apply what you learn from drawing Olivie to those they'd be even better.
I personally would like to see an anime-like version of this drawing.
I'll shut up now, before I sound even more pretentious.

[Cleveland]

@captain,
i'm precisely hoping that some of this informs my more creative stuff. i'm trying to come at a technique by osmosis. i love realistic rendering, i love anime style so i hope they end up fusing right... as for an anime of olivie, hmm, i've spent a lot of time with her already and i'm kind of a muse whore... thanks for the thoughtful and kind words.

cleveland

[Cleveland]

This is my second post for this jam. I wasn't happy with this at first, when it was just a sketch. I was about to start over when I decided to try a new style on top of the sketch. Now I'm happier with it. Funny.

-Ernie

good for you. the one thing i wouldmention in this line weight. while you have nice areas of pure black, and some others with a little half-tone type thing, i would say that your line weight is overall very uniform. there are various methods that inkers use (and lord knows it took me a long time to get anything approaching an "interesting" line) but what you may want to try is making her silhouette line thicker, interior details thinner, shadow side thicker, light side thinner and try varying width within lines themselves. don't be afraid of getting real close up and editing (or redrawing) the lines until they're right. with practice it'll become second nature and more fluid and your drawings will appear looser yet more coherent and dynamic.

clevey

[CaptainGeech]

thanks for the input cleveland. line weight is definitely something i'd like to work on.