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MR Pub / Re: Chit Chat 2018

« on: Today at 03:09:40 PM »

yeah it only needs 5+ people who all talk a lot to completely nuke the place with posts :P
I thought lately it was actually a bit more active than a few months before, but I still thought it was quiet anyway :P

edit, that being said out of 499 posts in August atm, I've made 135 of them lol
so I'm one of those talking a lot persons apparently :P

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Develop Your Story / Re: My Manga Story!!

« on: Today at 03:03:39 PM »

read up to ch15

points of interest:
ch13 page12 p1 - We then see him driving in his car while humming ode to joy by Beethoven
how do you intend on showing this? anime is easy but manga not so easy.

ch13 page 14 woahhhhhhh cliffffhangerrrrrrr

ch14 page4 p1-They are all dressed in attire that fits the culture in this town
make sure to elaborate on that, you mean the whole town is western (as in old western) style?

ch14 page 15 p4 - "What’s going on…"
who says this or what? its a narration?

ch15 page1 p1 - Everyone in there positions??
typo (their)

ch15 page4 p1-and get a mini introduction to her a cop who is also in charge of the night watch of this neighborhood
you mean like an info box next to the image or overlayed? like in Conan for the suspects?

ch15 page7 p4 -"neither did he"
lol

ch15 page12 p5-They had some difficulties there as well (controlling Mitsugi)
what sort of image did you have in mind for this?

ch15 page12,13 - are these texts narration or manga panels?

so far you have good endings to the chapters which make the reader want to turn to the next one, and the story is progressing well. perhaps a little more descriptions of locations would be nice, as unlike a novel which is left to the readers imagination, a manga script needs to be turned into a physical definite image. unless you intend on giving your artist a significant amount of freedom, you might want to increase the amount of details mentioned, especially regarding new locations.

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Collaboration (Art Exchange) / Re: I'll draw!!!! For free!!!! Suuper's request thread

« on: Today at 02:38:52 PM »

gottit :P

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Manga Art Gallery / Re: Walter's Gallery

« on: Today at 07:21:36 AM »

awesome!
its great you can draw so many varied characters and get their likeness so recognizable.
I'm wondering though, in almost all of your images you don't shade to the edge of objects, so it gives off a bit of an unusual feel sometimes (typically I expect the edges to be darker and the middle part lighter in the most general sense). is that deliberate or are you still figuring out your shading methods? I ask because I too avoided edges for a while on some of my older pieces because I didn't know how to clean up the mess of blending off of the edges of my character!!

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Manga Art Gallery / Re: Nomena Art & Tutorials at reply 124, p.9

« on: Today at 07:17:23 AM »

nice one. I haven't seen the anime it's from yet so I cant comment on the resemblance. Did you use a bit of watercolour pencils as well in there?
I don't know how well this applies to watercolour but it would be nice to see some darks in there as well, especially on the hair, a bit more variety in shade would look fantastic.
pretty decent anatomy, and the face is really pretty!

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Manga Art Gallery / Re: Anmonia's gallery

« on: Today at 07:14:13 AM »

OOOOHHHHH YEAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
that's the kinda level grinding stuff I like to see :P
you look like you've got a really good base for your guidelines too which makes a good difference.
also great use of occasional props and gloves (yes I did see the SnK one too, I get the feeling I will see more in the future!), as object interaction is a very large part of "hands". the poses look really natural and flowing, as well as being pretty spot on for accuracy too within that style.
they are indeed very fun to draw, even better is drawing a good pair of hands on an awesome character :P
well done and keep that going!

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Collaboration (Art Exchange) / Re: I'll draw!!!! For free!!!! Suuper's request thread

« on: Today at 07:08:14 AM »

gotcha! I probably can't manage all of those things at once but I will have a crack at it!!
sorry for not labeling any of my layers in the file lol

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Collaboration (Art Exchange) / Re: I'll draw!!!! For free!!!! Suuper's request thread

« on: Today at 04:07:26 AM »

so glad you like it! and yes it's so true I'm realizing the lack of skills in so many areas I have lots to go on :P

the full image file is on the previous post, you mean the actual GIMP file? no problem lemme just upload that. 43mb is the largest GIMP file I have made to date, the previous record being 23mb :P
here is the link https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Z8P450FoUIfqbx1af54wVsbSBLV6d7Wd

PS for "fantasy accesories" on the second one, are we talking medieval fantasy or sci-fi? big difference there :P

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Manga Art Gallery / Re: Kesashi's Gallery

« on: Today at 03:02:49 AM »

This character is supposed to wield 2 large shields, so that's the reason why she's not so concerned about wearing so much armor into battle.

At least you justified it unlike everyone else :P
we need more multicultural themed art. i draw way too many white people now that I mention it :/

I'm probably going to get some sleep after this one. But then again, I might not.

Amen brother

nice purpley glowing sword and belt. How did you get that effect?
lovely face on that one, maybe a bit of shade around the leg where it meets the front of the dress would look good I think, it looks more flat than everything else. But I can't shade so don't take my word for it :P

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Manga Art Gallery / Re: Suuper's manga (+digital and 3D)

« on: August 19, 2018, 06:34:23 PM »

haha yeah drawing other people's characters was a lot harder than I thought it would be definitely. I feel like I'm on a huge learning curve at the moment. So much to learn!!
ahhhhh some females would be a good mix :P

Since they're so much more in your wheelhouse.

Well working outside my ability/comfort zone is always good practice anyway :P

EDIT: as promised, the animation

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EDIT: Sorting out my 170GB+ of "references"
I have over 750,000 images/files of EVERYTHING, including over 10,000 of my own photos, including over 100 unopened .zip files. Plus over 300 .pdf files of books and the like. Half the trouble is deciding on a structure sturdy enough for actually sorting them logically so they can be found again. its a shame I cant tag each image with multiple tags in a short space of time, I'll have to use grouping to a large extent just to cover it all. Will I ever use all of them? maybe :P

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Manga Art Gallery / Re: Suuper's manga (+digital and 3D)

« on: August 19, 2018, 06:19:48 PM »

thanks!
yeah rendering metal is hard enough without it being ornate details! I need to brush up (or rather, learn) rendering different materials otherwise I'm going to get stuck real quick.
haha yeah it does resemble that lol

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Manga Art Gallery / Re: Suuper's manga (+digital and 3D)

« on: August 19, 2018, 06:08:58 PM »

@walterB thanks! I think its half my attitude getting better as well as having more time and energy to draw!

latest: some male body practice before doing KeanFox's request on my request thread.

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and here's the completed request. I wasn't sure for the first few whether to put these on this thread as well but I think I will from here, partly because it's more noticeable I think. Animated WIP to follow.

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Collaboration (Art Exchange) / Re: I'll draw!!!! For free!!!! Suuper's request thread

« on: August 19, 2018, 06:03:11 PM »

-having a deadline seriously helps with productiveness.

@KeanFox here's your first character. Since he as an attack spell (I assume that's what it was) I figured a fighting pose would look good. Added some cool gauntlets. Also no idea why shirtless so added a similarly themed shirt. Took 95 minutes. Full image here https://drive.google.com/open?id=1i1FU82bQOmW3C-8qKJ1GCLPtWsHKBXf7

First time drawing an effect seriously I think
Also first time seriously shading with a definite light source I think
Hands were a bit small but couldn't fix that, I tried :P



next request will be done on or before 22nd August. I have legitimate work next week so might be a tad difficult, but that's half the fun :P

PS an alternate anime friend added this request

Something with wings and fire, that can destruct. Scars, white hair, kind of like an antihero. A big man, jojo style, like a warrior. Jojo pose as well

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Manga Art Gallery / Re: Suuper's manga (+digital and 3D)

« on: August 18, 2018, 03:35:36 AM »

latest couple of sketches.I noticed that out of August, I have drawn on all but 2 days so far, which is a bit surprising, so its close to joining sketch survival or the 20 sketches in 3 days again :P
just trying to improve consistency and accuracy on basic proportions at the moment.

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Manga Art Gallery / Re: Anmonia's gallery

« on: August 18, 2018, 03:24:05 AM »

don't worry about hands being a difficult thing to draw, its something most artists have trouble with. being a complex thing to draw makes it hard enough, but our familiarity with our own hands means its much easier to find things wrong with our drawings. focused studies is a great idea and takes up about 80% of my drawing time :P

often my best drawings happen without hardly any guidelines too lol. but as you say it can be a rather infrequent thing, which is why it's so hard to work on those skills to get them under our control :P