DECEMBER CONTEST: YETI - first sketches - feedback please
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Hi, I wanted to share my yeti here. This kind of promt is usually not my cup of tee, I would never have thought of drawing a yeti. But as I have started today and somehow really liked the process, I thought I can as well follow through. Any Ideas how to improve the first sketches? Give more character to him. Any poses really off?
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@doro_thea very cute! I like how you added the cast it adds a lot of character to him or her
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@doro_thea Hi, I really like the cute little horns, the sort of mohawk from the nose to the back and the smirk of a smile in the third one.
This comment is more on the size proportion of the crutches, one is larger (right one) and one is smaller (left one). I realize you will have some perspective but not this noticeable. Also your yeti sitting down, his bum is uncomfortably pointy. And also in this sit down pose there is a tangent with the toe of his boot touching his leg (maybe bring it out more because it looks to me as one shape and a second or two more to remember it is a cast/boot).
Hope this was what you were looking for.
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@Heather-Boyd Thank you so much! This is very valid feedback. I will take all of this into account. Now that you say it it is so obvious, I didn't see it though before. I'll post an update later on. would be happy to get your feedback than as well.
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looking Good! The shape is great. In the sitting pose the head and shoulder are blending together a bit too much. They're located very close but they still need to be distinct. Try doing an underdrawing with simple shapes to really block out the structure of that pose. but I think you nailed the others.
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@Naters-Calderone Thanks so much for pointing this out! going to try it.
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@doro_thea I love the crutches idea! The forward 3/4 the crutch to the back seems too short for when the shoulder and crutch are in the front. Also the face in the one of him sitting seems a different shape than the rest of them.
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@Meg-Clayburn-0 thanks for pointing that out, so true. I will need to look at that in the next round of working on it. for now, I worked on colour today.
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Hi, here are my updates. I worked on the colour and it took me quite a while to figure out what colour the snow could be and how to make the character pop. I looked at some snow by night pictures and really liked the ones where it went into the purple/ blue direction. Do you think it is too purple?
I am super into stencilling that the moment, therefore I basically did digital stencilling. I really like the flatness of this technique, do you think I should add some shadow on the ground though, to make the yeti more grounded?
Anything else that you see that I should be working on?
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Which one do you like better? with or without the necklace / wording?
Is it okay if I turn all the poses into a small story strip?
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@doro_thea without the necklace is better. I'm back and forth on the wording and really like the panel idea! It looks so clean!
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@doro_thea back to the paneling, I would try not to cut off any part of the character or put it to close to the edge of it creates a tablet and that's where my eye goes. Specifically in the 2nd one, it's barely cuts part of the crutch off and it's kinda distracting, and in the 4th one ours super close to the edge on the right side.
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@Meg-Clayburn thanks, that is great feedback. I will try to fix it... Is it the letting I used that leaves you unsure, or the wording it self?
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@doro_thea I really like the way you incorporated all five poses into one piece with an organic approach that makes it look like one image instead of a handful of images slapped on a sheet (like I did lol). Your rendered yetis look so good too! Nice work:)
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@doro_thea I think it's the lettering. I feel it's kind of distracting.
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@DaveLeekArt Thank you! yours is stunning though, I love how much character he has!
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@doro_thea thank you so much!
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@doro_thea Your yeti is looking too cute! Love what you did with the overall design of the character sheet itself
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@doro_thea I definitely prefer the yeti without the necklace
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@Jacy13 that you! and I went without the neckless... I think that it was just me thinking it could be funny at one point...
