Okay, first and foremost, two things: 1. I suck at digital art, even with a tablet, so I'm sorry about the draw-over quality. and 2. considering this seems to be your first try at drawing from a reference, it's quite good.
Okay, so, working our way up from the bottom:
- His front foot should be lower on the paper, generally speaking lower = closer to us. ( I do love the line of that leg, though ) I'd probably go a little lower than the black line, though.
- Back leg muscles need to be more defined; his weight is on that leg, so the muscles will bulge more under that pressure.
-The butt cheek nearest us needs to be a bit more defined, as it is nearest us, and so that it doesn't look like it corresponds to his back leg. (see green line)
- Crotch area: even though his front leg obscures quite a bit of his back thigh, you should still be able to see a little where his leg joins his hip. (also, there isn't much room for his junk. I understand that it wasn't in the reference, but just keep that in mind.
-Torso isn't as turned as my drawover shows, but I just needed to show you how and where his abs and pecs should fit.
- Left arm (his left, our right) drawover is kinda wonky, I'm sorry, but I'm just trying to show how his bicep should join his elbow, it's a bit stylized, but it gets the message across.
- Back arm probably shouldn't show that much.
- Pay close attention to the line of the shoulder and neck, because that can make or break a drawing.
- He's looking up, which means you should see less of the top of his head and more of the lower part, and his facial features should slant downward. ... I'm doing a bad job of explaining that, so
tutorial, and a
chart.
Also, just in general, I have a list of pretty damned good tutorials (by pretty awesome artists) that you should check out
here.Assignment 2After you correct some of the errors, erase the lines of the muscles (but keep the contours of the prominent ones) and reinforce the outline and add details onto his body. Feel free to make him more or less muscular or add weight to him or stylize it, but don't change his proportions too much. Oh, and don't add hair or clothing yet. You can add facial features if you'd like, but I'll go over that when we get to details like hair and clothing.
Here's a pretty good tutorial to help you along. Don't concentrate too much on the silhouetting bit, we'll do that later when we start to use our own poses. (Isn't alexds1 the goddess of tutorials?)
Oh, and if you ever feel like I'm going too fast, please tell me.
