Elven Girl

Posted Mar 15, 2008, 2:50:29 AM UTC

I was just drawing a little while today and made this elven girl. She is my character but nothing too special yet. She is unfinished, but then most of my drawings are.. I'll probably work on her some more when I have time. But for now, if anyone would like to comment, it's appreciated! :)

Edit: I drew it only with mechanical pencil - not that it really looks like anything else.

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ArkillianDragon
Mar 15, 2008, 8:31:42 PM UTC
Attached a visual critique just in case ^^ Her head tilting is ok, but her head is unbalanced. If you move it sideways then her head balances over her body. At the moment, she looks like she has a bad neck. Her body doesn't suggest a pose that looks comfortable with her head being so far forward. It's all about where the spine attaches. If the body is equally supporting itself with the connection to the head being centralised, she'll look balanced- I hope that makes sense ^^;
Image attached
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- Raihonna
  Mar 16, 2008, 1:56:58 PM UTC
  Thank you so much Ark! I really needed that. I have a lot of trouble with placing. I don't want to redraw her head though lol and I don't have photoshop or real editing tools but I could try using a select, copy and paste thing on paint I guess. I'll see what I can do for that, and thank you!
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  ArkillianDragon
  Mar 16, 2008, 2:57:00 PM UTC
  NP ^^ I hope my explanation why was clear enough ^^; It's all to do with the foranum magnum- that hole at the base of your skull. Your body fights to keep that above your feet. You *can* break this rule with extra forces opposing it, putting the balancing weight on something etc... but in the end, if you have the body leaning foreward some, it much lean backwards in another way to compensate (The human body is surprisingly smart). The body also compensates if you move your shoulder, hips etc... I figured it'd help... I didn't think you'd redraw it... I guess you could trace her head through to another piece of paper, but that's up to you (You can hold it up to the light- its a handy technique )
  
  Even if it only helps for future pics though, I'm glad I could help ^^
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ArkillianDragon
Mar 15, 2008, 6:41:00 PM UTC
Are you wanting constructive comments? Or just positive feed back?
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- Raihonna
  Mar 15, 2008, 8:12:08 PM UTC
  Either, I suppose! But I'm still working on it and there's going to be another character there - it's why her head is positioned that way. I know it's not perfect -pouts- I have some vision problems lol And, thanks!
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