Comics art and boobers (by vemp)

Hey Vemp, I have been meaning to ask...

Are you doing this on your own, or you are you actually taking courses in arts somewhere? Are you planning on using comic book character as part of your portfolio? How far are you planning on taking your art? I am assuming that you are going to do this professionally.

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Originally Posted by vemp

I encourage everyone to make constructive comments, not just "nice art" comments. I really want to know what are my flaws and what I need to improve. Once, again, thanks!

Considering just how good you are, we think you have a lot to offer on that front also. You seem to be fairly confident in drawing super hero character (particularly females. >.>) Maybe its time you start to deviating in terms of your subjects? For example, draw some "stuff" other then characters, cars, your living room, etc.

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Somehow uncharacteristic, but its funny. I enjoyed it. :b Hey, have you ever thought that in certain comic, that the black and white version worked better then the color version? Even in some of the recent ones, when it is fully colored, the line art lost some of its impect.

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I think you need to talk more about the stuff that you are doing, and you should be able to. This would help promote discussion, at least, to the otherwise stale Creator’s Café.

It is very, very nicely done, as usual. Some of the rougher edges of the earlier pieces aren’t present here anymore, which is nice. Have I said that you should start drawing your own comic? Yes? DO IT!

The foreshortening is a difficult although interesting problem. I think her right leg and shin should show. I am not sure what you want to do with her fist though, her left fist in particular. I think a clutched fist might work well.

Back to the foreshortening, the chest looks bulky compare to the torso and the (Is it just me or your girls all have big breast but small butts? O.o) hips, this feel like dynamic angle here with that leg. If you could stack the torso and chest, you could heighten the optical illusion to make the pose more dynamic.

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Also, I can't go into making my own comics yet cause I'm not that confident with my art yet. I guess that could wait. heh.

Confidents comes from experience, you won't gain experience if you never try. Its not like "drawing comic" has to be submitting something to the DC/Marvel and get published. Besides, drawing comic book its about presenting an idea, and has it speak to something of your own identity. It is get across either from your art or the story that you are writing. Even though people usually don't get mega-sellers in their first attempt at something like this, they'll usually learn a lot. I know I do.


I tried actually working on the pose today. Although we probably have a different approch to this, but I feel that her right leg doesn't have to stretch back as much as it has now. Do you do thumb nail sketches?

I was speaking idiomatically.

The pose looks awkward. I don't think having it contorted this way looks good. The "curve" is disrupted when you twist the upperbody and lowerbody in different direction like that, it also looks like they should be going at seperate direction. She is certainly top heavy, not just because of her chest, but it doesn't really feel like its foreshortening because the torso and other parts doesn't "stack".

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I like it. The body construction seem more realistic then a superhero proportion. Even though I feel the shoulder seem to be slump a bit too much. If this is a super hero, his arm would be larger, but that depends on whose convention you are following. You seem to do small lower body for some reason.

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You guys seem to have a very different approach to this. Yours looks far more finished though, the other guys seem to still be at sketch stages. Is there a time limit? I am not sure if your piece really screams "self-doubt", he just doesn't really look like the type, I guess. Maybe you can make the second expression from the right just a little bit more pronounce?

It’s interesting to see that the other guy actually puts it in some sort of context. The self-doubting guy looks okay, but the girl's anatomy is shaky. Clothing are not conform to the shape of an actual body, it feels like as if he drawn the clothing first, the hip does look like it is not connected to the leg correctly.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

I actually really like this werewolf/dog (?) thingy. It looks rather convincing. Just because it is drawn from imagination doesn't mean those creatures shouldn't have at least some semblance to some of the real life animals in terms of how they move or body structures. Its all about organizing the thought process, some of the thing that one might think about when designing a certain creatures might be some the practicalities of some of their features, sometimes based on the environment that those creatures lived in, or the circumstances in which the creature is created. Of course, that doesn't mean one must apply those logic (and you can come up with the look, and reverse engineer the logic too), its just that it would be easier to organize your thought and find references.

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Originally Posted by vemp

Very busy with school and shit. No time to draw properly.

No such thing. You don't draw just because you don't feel like it. Otherwise you draw on the fly if you have to. Hold that thought, how about "improperly done" ones? like sketch, doodles and drawing done from life? Those could be very interesting to see also, even though it is meant to be thrown away after a time.

Besides the tissue paper art thingy, I haven't seem you done much studies.

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Wow, you are joining a art associate? That's kinda exciting, actually. :3 This could be your springboard to opportunity in the industry sometimes, I thought it could be a tight fit for you guys. Are you guys doing publication also or simply exhibitions?

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Originally Posted by vemp

My sketch for tonight. Took me 45 minutes approx.

Considering that you have tried alternative hand pose, not really. It looks good, I wish you would challenge yourself a bit, but its tall order considering that you are so busy.

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Are you often very tired when you are in your off time?

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I am with spiderman.

You are saying it as if I am always here. oh wait, I am, nevermind

But that'll change once this semaster starts.


The line art looks really good, I am sure Jessykins will be happy. :3

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I actually perfer the black and white look.

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Awesome, now there is something different. :3 You are really getting better at this fill in the darkness business. fading between the light and darkness is pretty naturally looking now, especially on the face. Hm, although I thought the shirt is rather clean cut for an undead. :b I think it'd be interesting if it is broken up more so we can see into it a little, but this is looking really good.

When you are working with other artist, and see different things people do, it really helps you improve. :3 Gotta have that competitive edge.

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Wonderful. This is the best composition that I have seen from you so far. One thing to keep in mind when it comes to given then shadows is that, the light acts very linearly on objects. So I guess there could be several inconsistencies in terms of their placement throughout, in particular, the column. So that even though there is a shadow core, there shouldn't be light equality light at the backside unless there is a second light source. Inconsistencies in terms of shadows can reduce the depth to a considerable extend, and especially that you are using a strong contrast for shadows at this point.

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Nice, the line work looks spot on. If you could just push the chiaroscuro (the transition between light and dark) aspect of the shading further, it would be just perfect. :3

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Originally Posted by vemp

Another one I did while waiting for a download to finish. Took me about an hour, and a bit more for the cleaning. I'm doing these for familiarizaiton of the anatomy structure of the female body. I'm still learning. Reference is a Heidi Klum pic.

I still can't draw hands

I am still at school, so I couldn't really view it in full size to make specific critques. >.>;;

Do you use anatomy books? You can really use some shading exercises, because those exercise doesn't just help you learn how to render forms, but also force you to think of human forms in the sense of light and dark, and how different form effects lights that travels throughout a surface of a structure, and then it would make it easier to construe shapes from different angle that way. :3

I also gotta admit, I am not the best of hand drawer, however, you can always use your own hand as a model, and often people make a full sheets of drawing just of hands. Drawing hands could be fun, because there are a lot of expression that can come from the hand, be it compositional and emotional expression.

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Put her nipples on her vemp.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by Jessykins <3

I find your lack of nipples disturbing!

Funny thing, I just saw New Hope yesterday.


As for the figure, I wonder if you can give her a little bit more waist and fuller hips, making a more an all around figure.

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Originally Posted by Vemp

First drawing of the year

Not bad. Something about the overall line quality makes it hard to distinguish the boundary between the two women in some parts. Also, I think you might want to give a little more definition to the back of the woman on the right, I mean shoulder blade and such. Well rendered upper back can be sexy too. I thought that same woman’s outline can have a little more curve, but that’s probably just my preference talking. Are you using reference?

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Vemp

This is for Qwarky.

She needs more hips. :3 Gotta hit that hour glass shapes. :3

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