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lildogie — Eridan Ampora
Published: 2013-09-02 20:17:51 +0000 UTC; Views: 491; Favourites: 25; Downloads: 0
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Portrait 2 of 4, part of a set with Sollux , Gamzee , and Karkat .Even if it's just a portrait, it felt good to draw using the whole page. I feel like I haven't been doing enough of that.
Also posted on tumblr .
Eridan Ampora & Homestuck (c) Andrew Hussie.
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Oh my! I leave you for a couple of weeks and you become a master at digital...!
I really like this! agh...how difficult, I wanted to tell you what I like but I don't even know where to start..!
Well what stroke me first was the color, the shading is amazing, is it 3 levels of it?Like dark, normal and lighter?
The highlight on the nose is so masterful...!
to give some more insightfu feedbacl, but I don't.I'll just say that the shadows you put really give the sense of depth
and shape (the horns, the scarf, the nose...they're all so 3d!)
Second thing that really strike me is the composition. You said it felt good using the whole page, and now that I think about it
I understand what you mean... Well you did a great job at that. This drawing "fills the whole page" without giving a sense
of claustrophobia..You cut it really well and, if my eyesight doesn't play tricks on me, you even put the center of the face
(that should be between the eyes) as the centre of the whole picture...I think that one of the reasons why it feels so balanced...
my compliments if you did it on purpose, and my envy if you just did it naturally!!XD
It is also very well balanced comparing the body to the background (love your "designer like" BGs by the way!XD), the curve of the mantleand the egg shaped design...it looks great!
My favourite part is probably the thoughtful expression (ahh your eyes...always so soulful!)
I'm so sorry I don't know who thus guy is or what's really going on, but thefeeling is still pretty clear even to myself!XD
The pose is great too (lovely hand my dear, and the shading there...!) but how you drew the
flesh of the cheek being gently pushed by the thumb....
Then last, but not least, the amount of detalis, the rings, the shadows/highlight on the rings!!(why, you even did that on the NAILS!!!) It's not just the details themselved I find great, but how easily they seem to go with rest...
ususally when I do details, it'd look like "oh here she bothered herself to make some details" and you can spot them from a mile away.. but here they just blend...the whole picture has a sense of.."naturality" (uhmm this word doesn't exist in English,does it?) well..like natural.. real....realistic if you want...effortless as well (though I don't believe it actually was "effortless" on your side!XD)
Wow really well done my friend!! Maybe I should stop watching you more often if my absence makes you improve so much!!XD
Kidding, but I guess that not watching you for a while (for which I'm absolutely sorry!!) made me see your "power up" all the more clearly whereas if I had seen you progressing to this I probably would have noticed less..Of course it's not like you were not good before (hell, you know you were!
My, I'm so proud of you!!Well done my dear!!!Keep it up, always!!!
And sorry it took me so long!!!
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Oh my gosh, thank you so much! <333333
You're right about the shading--I did three levels for his skin. I'm really glad you like it! You know when I said before I should really make a careful study of lighting? It just happened that in the reference photo I took, the shadows were really clear, so I decided to concentrate on them and try to make more realistic shadows than I usually do. They're still very simplified, but I'm pretty happy with the effect! The details of the face you mentioned (thank you! <3), like the fold in the cheek, came from looking at the picture... it wouldn't have occurred to me otherwise. I really need to draw more from life! Having a model makes a big difference... >_>;
Eheh, I just tried to put his face more or less in the middle; if I actually centered the central point, that was just luck!
It makes me really happy to think I might have improved some in the time we've known each other! Thank you! <3 (Ahhh, and don't worry! I'm so awful at keeping up with everything, myself! *hugs*)
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