My version of April being tickled

[rajee]

I have to thank Mr. Hart's book "Drawing Comicbook Men and Women".
A link if you still can't see it isMY Yahoo group

 

[Doctor Spooky]

I can't see either image

I can't see either image. Is there a link?

 

[Celtic_Emperor]

Its normally like this. He probably has the pictures on a bad server, as most people here do. So links may or may not do any good.


- Damien

 

[rajee]

Try now...

I added a link. I put all my drawings in my yahoo group. You should be able to see it now.

 

[Celtic_Emperor]

You've amassed quite a collection so far rajee.

What are the time frames in which you draw your pictures? In other words, how often do you draw and upload these pictures? Whats your average? I ask because you have such a collection in a short ammount of time.


- Damien

 

[rajee]

It depends really...

The recent ones I will maybe do 7 in a week. Some of those are years old. I am interested in some pointers in drawing a semi-realistic female body. Any advice?

 

[Celtic_Emperor]

I see, very good then. I'm trying to produce more pictures per week, but its proving difficult, because I spend extra time with each picture. Although I'm glad I do, as it makes the final product even better.

Hmm, well I could try, but to be honest, I'm no expert in drawing regular cartoonish females. I only draw anime-style artwork. But most of the principles are the same.

So, one thing that you must try and do, is put more volume into the bodies and make them more proportionate. Even if nothing else changes, don't worry about that. Just try and change a few things at a time, or only a couple. About the volume, for example, when you draw the characters bound by rope, its like their legs are flat and are paper thin. Thats a lack of volume, and it takes away realism. So what I would suggest you try and do is put more volume into the body where it is needed, and try and keep the whole body proportionate to what a real one would look like. If you need examples or references, you can find pictures anywhere, and since your drawings are tickling drawings, you can even look here on this site for sample pictures to use.

One thing also, alot of your characters, who are being tickled, have the same expression on their face, and more often then not, your over-exagerating the effect the tickling is having on them. For example, sometimes you draw the character crying. While that is possible I suppose, what you might try and do, is not make the tears look like their shooting out of the eyes, and rather have them trickling down the face. This adds a sense of realism, and helps the overall picture.

If you need more advice, just ask. Feel free to ask questions also. 🙂


- Damien

 

[grippedchimp]

Advice? Well hard for me to elaborate advice sometimes. However, a good place to go is this place...

http://www.howtodrawmanga.com/tutorial/tutorial.html

I used this place as a reference to improve my art one time. Julie Dillon has done a fantastic tutorial here.

 

[Celtic_Emperor]

That may or may not help him. For one thing, its manga, second it doesn't help him improve the look of the situation.

A picture could look abstract or distorted and still be a masterpiece. The trick however is to at least effectively communicate to the viewer whats going on. While its obvious because we know beforehand, and you can tell somewhat, those manga tutorials aren't going to help him sell his pictures. He needs to work it, thats all really. If theres one bad thing about manga, its that its almost clone-like. And that makes it difficult to create your own style. And I'm not exactly sure what 'look' rajee is going for with his art. If he wants to cross over to anime/manga and join us so to speak, that would be great, and in that case the tutorial will help him somewhat. I honestly think we can help him more then those books can though..


- Damien

 

[grippedchimp]

Well, pardon me. I was meant to show him this female body tutorial, as he requseted...

http://www.howtodrawmanga.com/tutorial/fbodymain.html

 

[Celtic_Emperor]

Theres no need to be pardoned, you didn't say anything wrong. 🙂 I'm sure he'll appriciate the help, in any form.


- Damien

 

[rajee]

Thanks so much Guys

I am printing the pages as I type this to you. I will make an earnest attempt to incorporate the tips from the tutorial pages and Celtic_Emperor in my following cartoons.