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Naarok0fKor [2018-06-19 21:48:05 +0000 UTC]

Careful!....Darth Benderous is looking for trouble...
 

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Crossup [2018-02-26 06:51:55 +0000 UTC]

Is this guy based on or semi-based on Mace Windu? either way, it is pretty cool looking. His lightsaber looks a little small to me but that may just be a personal taste thing. the shading for the most part is basic but that works for this for me. also, his stance looks a little awkward, he seems to be a little off balance and off-kilter making him seem off. another thing that may be a little bothersome is that since his pose is kind of off his lightsaber is really close to his head and he may eventually cut off his head by accident. your hands are pretty good since they are one of if not the most difficult thing to draw on people. I know I hate drawing hands and I still suck at drawing them and I have been drawing for a while now. your line of action works and is nice for the picture it just needs some tweaking his left knee, in particular, seems to be broken. I would recommend finding some poses on the internet that fit the aesthetic that you are looking for and base your picture off of. I don't mean to nit-pick but these are the things that I notice right away with your picture right now that I am looking at the picture. The best tip here is, keep drawing if you continue to draw then you will get better and better and these things will become second nature. also, take some time to print out your artwork and let someone else see it so they can critique it and help you get better.   

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MagerBlutooth [2018-02-25 01:57:32 +0000 UTC]

Effectively drawing characters in an interesting and technically proficient manner is one of the fields of study I'm fervently invested in at the moment, and I'm hoping I can use my experience and knowledge to provide you with some relevant feedback. I'd like to start with some observations about how the character has been drawn. By my estimations, the body has been skillfully proportioned, and the sections dividing the head from the torso from the pelvis look distinctly segmented thanks to the great color contrast. The arms look the right length compared to the legs, the hands look the right size compared to the head and feet, the shoulders look wide enough compared to the hips, everything about the anatomy appears to capture that sense of reality. Where I see room for improvement is in the posing of the body. 

Your picture has the right idea for an interesting pose, as the picture's "line of action" flows in a clean curve from the head to the extended leg. However, it gets cut in half by the lightsaber, and if I follow the line the saber creates, it flows into the hand holding it to create a second line of action, one that clashes with the primary one. These two lines form a cross, which lessens the focus of the image to any one area and leaves the viewer a little lost as to where to direct their attention Consider this picture's main two areas of focus: the lightsaber and Finn's face. The face of a character is nearly always a point of focus for a character piece, as it features most of a character's identity, to the point where well-designed characters can be recognized by face alone. The lightsaber operates as a second point of focus due to the heavy color contrast it creates with the rest of the image, in addition to the glow effect. In order to best highlight these two points of focus, you'll want your pose to smoothly transition between each one. 



The above picture, for instance, uses the lightsaber to create asymmetry in the pose, by having one arm extend further out than the other. As the brightest and most eye-drawing part of the image, the viewer gets drawn to it first, and they can smoothly follow it through the arm and up to the face, at which point they're right in the middle of the image and at the top of the primary line of action. It's a very clean picture to look at, and a good part of that is because the pose carries a strong sense of flow that places emphasis on what's important in the image. 



The above picture also uses Finn, and you can see how the lightsaber is much closer to flowing with the primary line of action. If you were to draw the curve of the line of action and continue past the head, the tip of the lightsaber would intersect with the curve, maintaining that rhythm. This picture in particular showcases a strong understanding of gesture. Note how the poses of both characters are highly readable despite them being mostly shrouded in darkness. If you were to view either of the two characters presented as silhouettes, you could still easily read their poses and general body shapes. Your picture also does a good job with the silhouette, as much of the body and pose are readable from the silhouette alone. The exception I'd note is toward the chest area of the body, where the hands become invisible due to being overlapped by the body around it. I could see the pose being strengthened by pulling his hands lower so they were more visible in the silhouette, resulting in the lightsaber pointing up and to the left.

One thing I will say about your silhouette is that it's lacking in the negative space department. If you look at either of the examples above, you can see how the artists left small sections of space between significant objects, even if the spaces are thin and barely noticeable. The reason this empty space is present is because it strengthens the silhouette, and with it the pose. This empty space helps to distinguish key objects and focus points from one another without needing to use color to do so. If you look at your image again, you can see how the area between the legs is a prime location for some negative space, but much of it is taken up by the bottom of the flowing cape, adding some more ambiguity in that region. There's a similar issue with the left side of the cloak getting in the way of the negative space created between the right elbow (our left) and the bent knee. You can see in the above pictures again how the lightsaber is used to create negative space for all three poses, thus allowing each one to stand as an independent agent in the image. In your image, the lightsaber forms some attempted negative space with the left (our right) arm, but it doesn't serve its purpose since the space created is covered by the chest. It does create some with the flowing cape, though it misses out on a lot of opportunity by creating none with the entire bottom half of the saber. 

Your colors are very well balanced, with the majority of them kept neutral and tame. The alternation between light and dark hues allows each section to stand out, the white shirt in particular helping greatly to highlight the face. This picture would easily pass the grayscale test, and I see little room for improvement when it comes to color balance. If I had to make any suggestion about the coloring, it would be that the colors themselves could be more engaging. I could best describe the color palette as well-constructed but safe. The best way I've found to analyze a color palette is to view the image as a thumbnail, because the strongest colors tend to leap out at you. You'll find that when a picture has a really strong color palette, the eye is drawn to it automatically. 



Anatomy, form, and expression may require careful analysis and study, but there's no hiding a strong color palette, not even as a thumbnail. You might be surprised what sort of colors you can get away with while still maintaining a realistic look. Just try eye-dropping the above image to see what I mean.

I see the signs of a developing artist who's made many steps forward. Aside from the advice I've hopefully managed to provide you, the best tip I could give you would be to practice some gesture drawings. If you haven't yet tried it, attempt quick 30-second drawings of people that try to capture as much of the pose as possible within that 30 seconds. The time limit helps your brain to quickly determine the key areas you need to draw to get the pose down before time runs out. There's less focus on proportions and anatomy and more focus on simply capturing that "humanity". In terms of studying how to draw interesting poses, it's the sort of thing you really can't practice enough. Drawing straight from life is the best way to go about it, but if you can't find the right model for it, this website is an excellent resource for daily gesture practice:
line-of-action.com/practice-to…

I hope you can make use of this info and continue finding new areas to improve your skills. 

Make the most!
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charmedstudio [2018-02-19 04:18:41 +0000 UTC]

Looks great. 

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ChrysaorIV [2018-02-19 02:19:08 +0000 UTC]

not bad, though keep practicing the hands

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