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    The lifted leg looks thinner, but good drawig anyway.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Thanqol View Post
    Day 1131: Soul Tracer

    I'm trying and trying to avoid using hard black lines whenever I can because those are kind of a trap, I think. So here's another experiment. Turned out pretty cool, I might stick with it.

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    Squeeeee! You totally nailed the design to my mental image, including picking a good eye color, which I totally forgot about.

    I will echo that the lifted leg does look slightly atrophied compared to the others, I think it's that the proportions on the upper muscles where it joins the body are off. That is, if it were just a tad shorter but equally thick, I doubt anyone would notice, but being a tad shorter and proportionally smaller to the other legs draws more attention.

    I'm considering using this as an avatar for a while after the game gets started if I can figure out how to shrink it down without making it look awful, or maybe just use the head.
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    Ponies tend to shrink down to avatar size decently well. The main thing that you might want to change is just thickening the lines around the nose because those seem to disappear the fastest.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Madcrafter View Post
    Ponies tend to shrink down to avatar size decently well. The main thing that you might want to change is just thickening the lines around the nose because those seem to disappear the fastest.
    I am unfamiliar enough with basic art programs that I have no idea how to do that.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Anarion View Post
    I am unfamiliar enough with basic art programs that I have no idea how to do that.
    You'd want me to do that anyway so I can get rid of the background and such. I'll do it this evening.

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    Day 1132: Generic Anime Chick #401540

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    Quote Originally Posted by Thanqol View Post
    You'd want me to do that anyway so I can get rid of the background and such. I'll do it this evening.

    E:

    Nice, I'll tag this in when I get home tonight. Don't want to save it on my work computer.

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    Haha, she has a bow on a sailor suit. I can't figure out what the linework at the end of her left arm is supposed to be though.
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    Nice! Can I see the other 401539?
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    Day 1133: Mild Surprise!

    I got nothin'.

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    THE NEW SYSTEM

    Okay I'm mostly recovered from Pheno at this point and, once I kick this EU4 addiction, I'll be back in business. But I've been feeling vague and drift-y for a little while now, not knowing how to structure my daily drawing especially when I'm tired or busy. So I'm making this handy-dandy little roster that I'm going to cycle through for the foreseeable future, sourced from this video.

    So:

    1: Proportion and Placement
    2: Form and Construction
    3: Perspective
    4: Anatomy
    5: Gesture
    6: Composition
    7: Values
    8: Colour Theory

    One day on each topic, down to the next one, and then loops back to the beginning. Keeps me working on a wide variety of things and forces me to think a little more about what I'm out to learn each day while also not being rigorous enough to get me to forget. It's a good system, let's see how it goes.

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    Day 1134: (1) Instant Regret

    WHY DID I DO THIS PROPORTIONS ARE SO HARD AND BORING

    Seriously, though, I needed this. And I think that the circly method I discovered here has real potential 'cause I cannot hack that eight-heads-line thing for more than I physically have to.

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    Really. Those look kind of weird. And why must there always be a pony?!?!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Duck999 View Post
    Really. Those look kind of weird. And why must there always be a pony?!?!
    Your question in white text makes no sense. If you're drawing a picture of a pony, obviously it's going to have a pony in it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Anarion View Post
    Your question in white text makes no sense. If you're drawing a picture of a pony, obviously it's going to have a pony in it.
    Not this again. The pony is a part of a picture, then there are those other weird fleshy things called humans. (Hue-mans)
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    Oh no, Duck999 is a mason.

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    Slii: Slii is town. He looks better than Duck even with that mason claim.

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    Day 1135: (2) STARING AT CUBES

    I stared at my dice for twenty solid minutes, gently turning it over in my hands and making sketches. It was driving me insane. Everything I knew said that I shouldn't be able to be seeing the things I was seeing. How can it be possible to see four sides of a cube at the same time? How was I supposed to draw it without it coming across as some weird optical illusion?

    Then I remembered that I have two eyes. Two eyes together can focus on a small dice from different directions. Closing one eye solved my problem.

    Goddamn it.

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    Nice. I really started laughing at the I have two eyes at the end.
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    Slii: Slii is town. He looks better than Duck even with that mason claim.

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    Day 1135: (2) STARING AT CUBES

    I stared at my dice for twenty solid minutes, gently turning it over in my hands and making sketches. It was driving me insane. Everything I knew said that I shouldn't be able to be seeing the things I was seeing. How can it be possible to see four sides of a cube at the same time? How was I supposed to draw it without it coming across as some weird optical illusion?

    Then I remembered that I have two eyes. Two eyes together can focus on a small dice from different directions. Closing one eye solved my problem.

    Goddamn it.

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    Costs of depth perception. Also that dice cube in the angry eyes picture looks like a stylized nose.
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    Much respect for making something of a training regime. I've been doing the absolute minimum for weeks and it's starting to become bothersome.

    Only one solution for that I suppose.
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    Day 1136: (3) like a line with lines through it

    I really want to do some in-depth work with perspective but I need videos and materials for that and today I just gave my LP another shove on the path to Maximum Hitler and also worked or something idk

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    Such pony. Wow.
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    I like the obscenely long leg.
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    I was honestly expecting a cubism joke in there somewhere...
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    Day 1137: (4) Shoulders

    Following along

    Nothing remarkable today other than being tired to bits. Anatomy's a lot easier for me than most of this other stuff, so this was a welcome break.

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    If those are supposed to be plain shoulders, they look like they have pads or armor. If they are supposed to have pads or armor... good job.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Duck999 View Post
    If those are supposed to be plain shoulders, they look like they have pads or armor. If they are supposed to have pads or armor... good job.
    Exposed musculature.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Duck999 View Post
    If those are supposed to be plain shoulders, they look like they have pads or armor. If they are supposed to have pads or armor... good job.
    Did you watch the video? This is basically an anatomy lesson about how to portray bones and, as Thanqol said, exposed musculature. It's for being really accurate and catching all the details of a real subject.
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    Day 1138: (5) Triangle People

    A useful trick to 30-second gesture drawing is to draw people as arrangements of triangles. You'll notice that my figures today became a lot more comprehensible when I started doing that.

    This system is actually really great for me. I haven't had a lot of time recently and art's started to be one of those 'urgh' things, but now I'm actually starting to get really pumped for drawing again. As soon as my calendar opens up next week I'm going to commit a lot harder to this stuff because I'm starting to taste the fun again.

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    I have never seen such good drawings out of triangles. That will be my method whenever I am not supposed to be using stick figures now.
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    Day 1139: (6) Imaginaaaaation!

    Today I'm doing composition using the Metal Mask colour palette!

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    Today I'm doing composition using the Metal Mask colour palette!

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    Very Picasso-esque.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Anarion View Post
    Very Picasso-esque.
    Yes, yes it is. With the use of shapes...
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    Slii: Slii is town. He looks better than Duck even with that mason claim.

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