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Published: 2017-05-14 21:17:58 +0000 UTC; Views: 1525; Favourites: 75; Downloads: 0
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ZOOM INKerrigan Queen of Blades from Stracraft aka even more Blizzard Fan Art.
I personally love Kerrigan. I think her concept is just amazing and I love the fact that she looks like the most evil "Evil Queen" you could imagine even though she is quite the sweetie. They made a pretty cool background story around her and she was actually the first hero in HotS I started to play because I sympathized with the character and not just because of the play style.
Drawing Kerrigan was actually very fun but also very challenging. Because of her unusual body features there was no way to do a complete line art. I had to add all the structure of the body trough shading and highlighting and damn I had no fucking idea what I was doing. With my last drawing "lunara" I tried the first time to give something more structure trough shading and highlighting and I had to take everything I learned in my last drawing and took it in this one. I mean I know that it's visible that I had obviously no idea what the hell I was doing but I enjoyed the experiment and I'm actually kinda proud of the result considering that I really had zero knowledge. If you have any helpful tutorials about airbrush shading/highlighting please let me know!
Oh yeah I used a lot of different references for this one and kinda mixed them up. It's pretty hard to get a good reference of Kerrigan and there are a lot of different looks. As an example, I found 3 different eye colors for her. In the wiki it was yellow but I decided to use purple instead because it makes her look way more friendly.
I'm always very open for critique so please comment anything that comes in your mind that could help me to improve. It's really very very appreciated and you will get an imaginary cookie in return.
If you like my drawing please
and - Don't forget to check out my gallery and if you like what you see.Thank y'all for the support and please let me now if you would like me to critique your work as well or if you think that I should peek in your gallery!
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For critique groups etc.
- I had my problems with proper shading and highlighting as already mentioned before. This was my first try and I would be really really grateful for ANY advice / tutorial you may have for me.
- I'm pretty happy with her face but I would like to hear other opinions about it
- Do you think the anatomy is somewhere of?
- How would you improve the pose etc?
- what's your general impact?
- As always: Please say anything that you notice about the drawing, there is no need to hold back any of your thoughts.
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Those wings look awesome. Very nice done!
I also like how you did the pattern on her body. 
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aww thank you very much
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She's beautiful! She's like a Ripley xenomorph hybrid!
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Hi, thanks for the fave btw. I hope the redline helped in some way. I think I missed out on giving proper feedback on my deviation so here goes:
The pose is actually really neat. Hips and shoulders are tilted opposite ways, which makes it quite dynamic despite facing straight towards the viewer.
I have a strong suspicion that your sketch looked livelier than the finished product (it usually does) and I think you should work messier/sketchier, because as the pose looks good, yet your lines are very restrictive and don't quite follow the actual anatomy (the nose is very basic; the breasts are way different; no armpits, no collar bones...) .
Therefore it seems to me that you understand human anatomy quite well and judging from your gallery you have a great sense of composition, but cannot transfer it to the medium i.e. SAI, Photoshop or whatever program you are using.
In short:
+++ Overall effect --> Pose, composition, colour scheme
- - - Technique --> Line weight, line quality, shading - Though I think this is partially a hardware/software-problem. You might want to check up on tutorials regarding the program you're using or consider using another program. Also play with your hardware (tablet settings) and software settings (brush dynamics, density, edge hardness, layer modes, etc.) to get a feel for it and find a combination and method that works for you.
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Thank you for your critique and the red lines - both was very helpful and I will consider it in my new drawings
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Und ich les die Kommentare und merke, ich hätte auf deutsch schreiben können...
In Quintessenz: Ich würde gerne mal 'ne Skizze von dir sehen, ich glaube das wäre sehr aufschlussreich. Außerdem würde mich interessieren, welches Programm du nutzt. Ich glaube nämlich, dein Verständnis von menschlicher Anatomie ist gar nicht verkehrt und die Pose ist soweit wirklich prima.
Was mich stört sind die Linien: Linien sind ja an sich ein Mittel zur Abstraktion und die Kunst speziell beim Comic-Zeichnen liegt ein wenig darin, welche Kanten/Falten/Furchen man mit Linien abbildet oder auch nicht, und wie stark die Linien ausfallen. Und genau da liegt der Hase im Pfeffer ("there lies the bunny in the pepper..." - auf deutsch ist eben doch einfacher schreiben...): Einige scharfe Falten bzw. Kanten, z. B. in den Achseln, im Schritt oder am Nasenrücken wurden nicht abgebildet und alle Linien sind durchgängig gleich stark (nämlich sehr stark).
Ich hoffe das war kein völliges Kauderwelsch. Du bist auf einem guten Weg - einfach weiterzeichnen
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This is cool! I love the texture/patterning, the only thing i can suggest for highlighting/shading is that experimenting with brush types and settings and finding the right one for you really helps with developing a technique.
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Thank you! (and ty so much for the watch )
Yeah I thought about finding a mix between airbrush and watercolor
As said it was my first attempt so it can only get better, right?
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Yeah definitely, its awesome for a first attempt!
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this is gonna be kinda quick-
nice job! nice lineart!
The hands could use some shading tho
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thanks!
And yes you're right about the hands thought about that too after I've uploaded the drawing
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Hey!
Dropping by from :iconprojectcomment: and hopefully with some helpful ideas.
All in all the impact of the picture is good. The anatomy looks right and the pose has some relaxed grace to it. Very Kerrigan-like So in my opinion the basic sketch is very good!
I also like the face, but the smile is maybe a bit too nice. More like beauty shot, less like the killing machine queen
So my critique will be mainly on the color.
First off, try to add some depth to the background, nothing elaborate, more like in here:
www.artstation.com/artwork/9Ey…
This will also help you to fix the light source (direction, temperature etc.), which is at the moment a bit indefinite and diffuse. The light can be like in your picture on a cloudy day, but such light flattens the image as you can not play with deep shadows and bright highlights.
In my opinion (and I am by no means an expert) the texture needs more definition. Even though you work with airbrushes don't shy away from hard edges, you need them! You can use multiple types of brushes in one picture, pick at least one hard (but don't go berzerk with it 
Keeping the outlines is a very interesting decision, but it is hard to get it working. You can look up wallpapers for GTA5, they use this kind of style and they know how to do it right (I don't, wich I would.... so, can't help you with this ).
Some minor things: you might add some highlights to the hair to give them a bit more definition; maybe out one heel down, on the right side probably to keep the hip in the same position.
But don't get me wrong, the picture is really good, you just need some more practice
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Hey - Thank you very much for your critique!
I actually wanted to make her look kind - I love Kerrigan because she's actually not the killing machine queen she's used to be....well not anymore (to be fair I would be damn mad too if my own people would betray me - there would be no need for any psy-control to make me damn evil) My first version, was Kerrigan with yellow eyes and "evil-eyebrows"
The pose is actually the pose from HotS in champion selection - I suck at finding my own poses and I felt like I hadn't enough knowledge about Kerrigan to experiment with my own poses, I will try to focus on that in another drawing with a less complicated character
Thank you for the link it seems to be very useful - I wasn't really happy with my background I tried out a shitton of background colors and nothing seemed to fit very well - never thought that it could be so difficult to just create a "one-color" simple background
I will try to experiment with more brushes (thought about using my watercolor brush). I actually tried to find some tutorials about which brushes I should use and how I should use them to shade but I haven't really found anything....I really expected to find a lot of videos on that topic but nope. (If you have any helpful advice on that topic I would be sooo glad to hear it )
Funny that you talk about the outlines because I actually didn't want to keep them. 
I will try to improve my placement of the highlights - again thank you very much for your time and your critique
EDIT: und dann, am ande einer Textwall in schlechtem englisch, merk ich dass du ja deutschsprachig bist und ich mir das Englisch auch hätte sparen können
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Dann mache ich mal auf Deutsch weiter
Ich kann zum Airbrush leider nicht viel sagen, bin kein Fan von diesen Pinseln und kann mit denen noch weniger umgehen. Was ich gefunden habe ist dieses Speedpaint hier:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTxzgc…
Du siehst im Groben die Arbeitsweise. Wenn ich das richtig gemerkt habe wird mit dem gleichen Pinsel gemalt und er / sie ändert lediglich die Piselgröße. Aber wie gesagt, ich bin wirklich kein Experte für Airbrushes.
Es kostet zwar Überwindung (und ich wäre froh, wenn ich diesen Tipp von mir selbst befolgen könnte xD), aber scheu dich nicht vor stärkeren Kontrasten. In dem verlinkten Video sieht man an einigen Stellen wie der Zeichner starke Wertunterschiede reinsetzt und sie auch nicht 'rausglättet'. Macht das Bild lebhafter.
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Heyo....hab mir das video angeschaut...ziemlich beeindruckend was einer mit nem airbrush allein anstellen kann aber eigentlich bin ich auch kein fan davon, ich muss erst noch das richtige tool für mich finden
Ich hab mich gestern mal an ne zeichnung komplett ohne lineart rangewagt und der Tipp mit starken kontrasten war super hilfreich. Ich war an der nase nämlich fast am verzweifeln bis ich irgendwann mit nem wasserfarbpinsel schön dunkel schattiert hab und voila....eine Nase erschien.
Irgendwie hab ich aber immer mehr das gefühl, dass ich mich später für einfaches cell shading + lineart entscheiden werde....Ich merk immer mehr, dass mir das am meisten spass macht, das Bild ohne lineart war geradezu ermüdend
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Spectacular, you are an artist of pure originality
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Thank you very much but the character design isn't mine, Kerrigan belongs to Blizzard.
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This is quite good, but I feel like you could really improve on the colouring, as it looks rather rough.
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she looks awesome and details are amazing nice job!! looks class!!
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