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Tutorial - Craneofacials 01
Published: 2008-04-08 20:34:19 +0000 UTC; Views: 79702; Favourites: 2322; Downloads: 1517
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Exposure to zillions of artists is one of the principal drives I've had to improve as an artist and come to where I am today. This I owe to the dev community.I'm not putting myself on a pedestal here. I'm not a seasoned comic pro... hell, I wouldn't exactly call myself a pro yet, my first printed work isn't even on the shelves yet. However, I am a professional artist, and I think I have some knowledge and experience.
That's why it's time to give back to community. Pay it forward, so to speak.
These sketches are excercises in character rendering. I reallyrecommend you do the steps in the order listed. It really helps to speedily repeat the same craneofacial makeup several times, since it helps create muscle memory. They say teaching is learning, and I agree, I got more out of making this then I think people will get out of reading it.
Anyway, I hope it helps anyone working to become a better artist. And remember, be original. No technique is the superior (certainly not mine), and take what you get out of this tutorial and make it your own.
I'll try to whip out a female heroic, and then a male and female civilian version, soon.
Disclaimer is on the bottom. Ya damn hyenas!
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Bleach characters actually have very distinguished faces compared to almost every other anime.
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I've noticed, but the visual tropes are the same.
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About 90 percent of the time, yeah, unfortunatly. It's a bad habit of japan. :/
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Did you do a Female Craneofacial yet? I've been looking for something that helps me with female facial expressions, or something exaggerated like what does.
Actually I have the hardest time with sexy poses and facial expressions regarding women.
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I never did... nor do I think I will, my style and methods have changed dramatically since I made this. I will probably make a revised, unisex craneofacial tutorial distilling the basics of my style... but not anytime soon. I am full time professional artist now, when I made this tutorial I was barely in school.
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That's a shame. Would you know anyone who is an expert or worth consulting about how to draw sensual poses?
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Porn.
And no, I'm not kidding
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That's what everyone else has said to me, but I've tried that and it doesn't really help from a drawing perspective. All I get is photographs that don't really suggest what more I can do with a female figure composition. I want to be able to pose a female figure the way I want her to be posed, but without constantly using photography as a reference which is based on how they want to pose.
People also suggest Posemaniacs but that stuff is too random and generic to be useful.
I feel like I need to ask a swimsuit model about pose techniques for this.
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Have you tried reading Hogarth?
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"Him."
This is a good read ---> [link]
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I have this book. -__-
It suggests nothing "sexy". I've read it from cover to cover.
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Then all I can say is you gotta feel teh sexeh, and if it ain't there, you need to find some.
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May i ask who the character is fourth from the top down is? (w/ the white and black hair) I feel like ive seen em before, but cant place the name. it would be most appreciated.
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excuse my ignorance, bt im nt sure what you mean? By context clues, im guessing its an original character?? bt nt sure.. 
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I'm hoping this will help me (I pretty much fail when it comes to drawing all together) But I want to try improving my skills. I want to make a Nightwing piece in the near future. We'll see what I can do... lol Thanks for posting this!
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Love this, although I have to say I don't see what is a problem with having Bleach-like characters if that's what you're going for. 
Still, this really helps with my more Amrerican comic-book ideas. Thanks!
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It's not a problem, until you try to break into other mediums besides manga but you end up transplanting the style.
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Hmm, I see your point. Thanks for the response.
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Damm, this is really helpful! Thanks for sharing ~
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Interesting! This will be very usefull, thank you for uploading!
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Y'know, there are so few male tutorials out there, most especially for MASCULINE characters, and this one just takes the cake! Bravo sir, this is so extremely helpful! Thank you for sharing!
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Yeah, the chicks get too much focus.
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Not only that, when there ARE male face tutorials, it's usually bishie/girlie manga style. While that's all fine and dandy, it can be frustrating when you're trying to creat uber manly characters!
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Ugh, I hate bishie. *fume*
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BAHAHA I don't mind em, but I find far too often the people who throw them into the story do so as an excuse for hawt boyXboy action. 
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There's certainly a "bishifying for man on man fanfiction" subset in deviantart.
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