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ElementosKingu73 [2015-04-12 01:35:42 +0000 UTC]
Looking forward to the finished product.
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jbarker4th [2015-04-11 15:32:45 +0000 UTC]
Tetsuko as a jungle girl has incredible possibilities!
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Strangerataru [2015-04-08 12:57:43 +0000 UTC]
Jane of the Jungle type.
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HaggisMcCrablice In reply to Strangerataru [2015-04-09 04:58:02 +0000 UTC]
Actually, I was thinking Shanna the She-Devil (who was also the inspiration for my own character, Erinye the Jungle Goddess). I guess every good artist has to draw at least one sexy girl in leopard-skin in his career, eh...?
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HaggisMcCrablice In reply to Strangerataru [2015-04-13 07:25:49 +0000 UTC]
As I recall, Shanna wears the skin of a fallen friend, a great cat murdered by a hunter, to honor her. Β Which is actually a bit creepy, by the way....
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WheresAJacket [2015-04-06 16:08:48 +0000 UTC]
Great one there.
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Someguy1997 [2015-04-06 14:47:19 +0000 UTC]
Tetsuko of the Jungle didn't need to watch out for any trees. They cleared a path for her.
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Heli-Starr2 [2015-04-06 05:05:33 +0000 UTC]
very nice.
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DavidCMatthews In reply to JimmyDimples [2015-04-06 16:12:46 +0000 UTC]
Well, I chose the theme, the pose, and got the reference photo ready before the time started. The 15 minutes was spent entirely on drawing.
Sketch something in the space of 3 - 5 minutes? Ummm, no. I couldn't get past the chicken-scratches stage.
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FaceDownDagon [2015-04-06 04:18:31 +0000 UTC]
Forgive me if my memory is foggy, but you're a caricature artist by trade, yes? Assuming that's right, what are the time limits when doing that, and how does a 15 minute sketch like this compare?
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DavidCMatthews In reply to FaceDownDagon [2015-04-06 16:02:44 +0000 UTC]
No foggy memory there; I am indeed a portrait/caricature artist.
The time it takes to do a drawing at my job depends on where I am: at Liberty Square (Magic Kingdom), we work in pastels. It takes about 20 minutes for me to do a color drawing from profile (side of the face), and about 30 minutes for a full face.
At the Disney's Hollywood Studios park, I do profile caricatures with a marker; a drawing there takes about 5 minutes per person.
The differences between these drawings and this 15-minute sketch: when I was first hired by the company, they gave me about a month of training in techniques and drills in how to get the face drawn quickly and accurately; I'm limited in what I can draw (a few of those limits are self-imposed, admittedly; I don't try to draw realistic hands on the job, for example); and over the years I've developed a style that allows me to do these drawings relatively quickly.
Probably the most important difference, though, is that my aspirations are higher for the drawings that I do for my own projects and commissions than for the work I do at the job. At the job, I'm just trying to do work that will make the subject/customer happy; here, I'm trying to make myself happy (and I'm my toughest critic).
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JamesZorranFan789 [2015-04-06 04:09:06 +0000 UTC]
What do you call this, Jungle Dynamite?
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sheldor73 [2015-04-06 04:02:45 +0000 UTC]
Lookin good Dave, last time I tried to draw something remotely close to looking halfway like this, it took me 4 hours lol.
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chaoswolf1982 [2015-04-06 04:02:29 +0000 UTC]
I could take three or four hours and never be as good as your quarter-hour.
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