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Published: 2009-11-16 16:49:25 +0000 UTC; Views: 445; Favourites: 0; Downloads: 9
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everybody...this is Kumasay hello Kuma ^^
this is one of my characters for my comic i am still developing
this is just a head shot, i am still finishing the full body
his name is Kuma, hes a Wrestler
evrybody comment on Kuma and let me know what you think, he doesnt look to FlaT does he??
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Nice head shot. You've got the shadowing just about right (following the contours of the cartoon head). There's something not-quite-doing-it-for-me about that line placement up the side of his neck... actually, I think it might be a little too dark and standing out.
I can see a Cheeks nose.
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btw, do you think his shading is to dark, and blocky? like i know it meant to be blocky, thats the style, but does it look to dark to be real?
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No no. It looks good overall. The blocky style of shading goes well with the overall cartoon style.
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lol caught me!
yer i do losely base my characters of cheeks style
i hope as a character designer that isnt a bad thing?
(manga steal noses all the time lol)
the line placement, i think that near the ear, if thats what your talking about, then yes i think i didnt curve it in enough, the darker line im having trouble seeing tho atm
is this picture still to flat? do u think
(i will still try making the outline a bit thicker)
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Also, you're shadowing has helped keep it from being flat.
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i think thats what mine needs than
the shadowing stops it from beeign too flat
(he has some pictures where he doesnt shadow and they still dont look flat, lol i dont know how he does it)
cartoon shading you can be prety out, and it wont matter, but you still gota folow a basic shading guidline or the picture wont make sence
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He's been doing this stuff for years continuously so don't get too down on yourself. He's also probably got a traditional fine arts background/experince as well. I look around and see all these guys and girls on here who absolutely kick my ass when it comes to skills but I have to remember that I'm still learning myself and my art is different again to other people.
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im using the pen tool btw
is it realy noticable? (jsut when i look at cartoons they look like there done with the pen tool and thats what all my teachers at this game design coarse have told me to) im prety new at it, but is it noticible or am i using it ok?
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The pen tool is fine, especially if you're after those fine smooth cartoony lines. I think just beef the thickness up a tiny amount.
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oright then cool
do you think im using the pen tool ok tho?
be honest lol
its a tricky tool to use sometimes
and yes im going to try, by beef up the lines, do you mean just the OUTLINE?
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Not just the outline (though start there and see how it looks) but also the major lines of your images.
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oright then man i will
look at for my new pics il try to do one every day or 2, and i apriciate all the help you give
thank u
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Ofcoarse man
Yer I look at my comments and page views and im like wwwwhhhyyy!!! Lol
But then I gta relise that I have only had this for 2 weeks
And when I look at cheeks and all the other talent on this website. Im like why arnt I that good. And then I have to relise that most of these artists are over the age of like 25
And im only 18
So I still got a while to go
Ur art is realy good tho
Its proffesional
Where do you work. U said u we're a teacher?
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Thanks for the praise, man.
I work at a TAFE in North Melbourne teaching Certificate II Multimedia and I'm a high school Visual Arts teacher by training. Though I'm heading back to school next year to do 3D animation and games design and at the end of 2011 I'm looking to getting out of teaching altogether.
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ahh that is sick man
my gf is begging me to go to melbourne
because theres grat fasion designing coarses
but i told her i need to stay here for a while
anyway wow, so i guess you have had alot of experience
so whats it like being a teacher in the industry, do you like it? your looking to get out of it, what do you want to do instead?
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Being a teacher is pretty good. It can get a bit difficult especially when you have students who have talent but waste it by screwing around all the time. It's also hard sometimes to get time to do your own stuff because you're so buggered at the end of the day that the last thing you want to do is draw.
My goal is to be doing games design (environment and character creation, rendering, animating etc) in one of the studios down here by the end of 2011 or the beginning of 2012.
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wow good on you man
myabe one day il see u there ^^
yer theres alot of people in my class that dont realy want to be here
i guess im one of them atm, i realy want to move over into cartooning and animation
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Taking inspiration from other artists is cool. Just don't copy outright.
The line I'm talking about is the one that runs from just below his ear down towards the bottom of his neck (where it goes pointy at the bottom). It's standing out a little too much (I think). Mind you, I'm just being picky I think.
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thats cool
yer i can see that the shade line is a bit too dark comapared to the light line
maybe if i just tweak that a little and not make it so dark
i try to make my style look like my style a little bit
you dont think im copy cheeks entirely am i?
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No no. You've definitely got some influence from him but you'll find your own style will grow in its own way with more practice and time. So don't freak out too much.
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ok good
phew*
just i saw cheeks get realy up this guy for copying his poses on his blog
it went for like a couple of weeks
i wouldnt want cheeks ever saying im copying him
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I think he was just a bit annoyed at that guy because it was obvious that he was copying complete pictures and not crediting Cheeks for the ideas. Emulating another person's style (especially when you're just starting out) is okay because, as you grow as an artist, you'll find that your own style will develop it's own look and it won't matter in the long run.
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true, yer i try to make my style difrent a little
i dont want people thinking my art is just a bad version of cheeks, that wouldnt be cool at all lol
but im sure itl grow, like you said
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That's pretty cool. I wouldn't wanna run into him in a dark alley lol.
To be honest, he really looks like something from a 1990s cartoon, which is actually pretty cool. He doesn't look to flat to me.
Nice job.
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haha no you wouldnt trust me
hes a mean guy in the comic
1990's lol?
that wasnt my intention but lol thank you anyway
^^
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