Summer Characters

 More art practice today. Let me show it for you. 

These are going to be in order. First off is something from last night. This is fanart of, actually, Imogen Temult, who is a character from Critical Role. What I find interesting about this is that I didn't feel like drawing fanart of Imogen in particular. I think her design has some interesting elements I wanted to attempt in my style, particularly her pronounced lips and mid-length, curly hair. Usually, my characters have indiscernible lips and short hair in anime style triangles. This picture, and some other practice, made me realize I've still been drawing the heads too big in proportion to the body and the neck too long. Let's see what happens when I practice not doing that... 

Unrelated character. You'll notice the neck is shorter and the head smaller. This was drawn mostly to experiment with a different method of drawing a feminine body. See the three lines that make up the torso below the pectorals? And how the back is concave?

This was practice doing faces from a character from the anime Land of the Lustrous, which is an anime about gem people defending their home from invaders from the moon. This character is "Phosphophyllite" or "Phos" for short. It's a 3D CGI series that incorporates CGI and 2D better than almost anything else I've seen, especially on tv. I didn't sign this picture because I used a reference.

This is one of mine. A picture using what I've practiced. You'll note the style of the eyes, the distance between the nose and mouth, the body shape, and the hands. Proportions between the upper and lower body are still off. I should've put more time into those before drawing the desk.

Now this is nice. Slight bird's-eye-view. New eye shape. Good proportions. Decent work on the hands. And, of course, the mouth is the right distance from the nose. 

Here's something a little different. Dynamic posing with one finger pointed towards the "camera." I got his back arm in the right place, which I'm very happy about. The foreshortening is good, as are the proportions. I like the expression I did. He definitely looks pretty crazy.

Part of my interest in drawing cute characters is that it helps you draw really scary ones. Once you know the rules, you can break them better. I'm really happy with his pose here. The arms look great, and I finally got the tuchus in the right place for one of these poses. (Side note: "tuchus" was not in Blogger's dictionary. I had to look it up on Merriam-Webster to make sure it was spelled right. I didn't know it came from Yiddish until now.) The face took some experimenting, but I'm very happy with how I got it to look, and it didn't take too long. I also didn't have to look anything up for this drawing, which I appreciated.

God be with me. Lord save me. I love you.