>>22796
you do good poses.

>>22801

thanks! I really never expected anyone to say that

>>22795

I think I need start by bringing her eyes closer together

>>22804
I think its less that and more you need to add something to make the eyes stand out more? Like maybe one of those little white circle things you see in cartoons sometimes.
Take my word with a grain of salt as I am a terrible artist

>>22805
Those little shimmers? Yeah, that would probably work in a pure black eye. Shimmers always look better in my opinion, and I trust you won't prove me wrong Cathedial.

Honestly, I don't see any call for eyeshine here. If anything, her far eye is probably slightly too close to the centreline.

>>22793
Sort out where the pelvis goes during sketching. It's sort of...pinched away to nothingness here. I'm guessing >>22794
and >>22796 used references? That's good, but identify the (rough!) skeletal components and muscle masses and project those into other drawings.

>>22806
The bulge where his loincloth is wrapping around his loins is making him look weirdly twisted, and a kick where you're turning away from the target seems kind of awkward. Arm's kind of thin.

There are some pretty good anatomy concept cheatsheets here: >>1518, and the middle section of >>5196 is your general shape construction which should help you place the eyes right when rotating the head. Knowing how the character should exist all properly in 3D space helps you know where and how to simplify it for a fast 2D cartoon.

...just don't fall into the trap of spending nine hours sketching per update.

>>22812

Thanks, the plan is to have a rough character sheet for each character drawn out ahead of time so that when it comes to the quest I only need to draw once in awhile and can focus on just placing things when need be while working mainly on the story

>>22813
If that's your focus, cool, whatever gets updates out.

If you want to improve your drawing, just be aware that copypasting sprites won't help you grind technique.

>>22815

Nope but I'm drawing all the sprites myself and any time there's something more complex that "person a talks to person b and does this motion" I will have to draw it. I draw decently often enough to be able to improve off of it but I really want more quality storytelling on the fly in reaction to the whims of the audience than what I have pulled out of my rear so far.

Anonymous 2014/04/19(Sat)13:23 No. 22858 ID: fe8b1a
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How's that look?

>>22858
2 and four seem pretty good

>>22871
so I should keep the eyes vertical then?

>>22872
personally I think it could work either way. 2 works because it goes with the contours, while 4 has a more cartoony feel, I guess? It's really down to you dog

Cathedial 2014/04/20(Sun)07:02 No. 22875 ID: fe8b1a
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>>22874

I went through my old quest pages and.....

I didn't have a standard....I just did whatever...this is frustrating

>>22874

Opinions on 4 for more stationary poses and 2(without the glare) for movement?

>>22858
The first of these is closest to correct positioning. The third is distorted and the fourth is developing a bad case of flounderface.

Personally I would avoid the eyeshine. It doesn't fit the rest of the style and makes them look more vacant.

>>22878

But is the forth one not the best for displaying emotion?

>>22879
Not really, no. Given your characters are mouthless and a bit blank-faced, you'll do better at conveying emotion with posture, and part of reading that right is having the head work as a proper 3D shape.

I mean, stylized flounderfacing (rather than just copying anime's cheap shortcuts) can work, but you have to stylistically commit to it. (See e.g. redic-nomad's daft cartoons.) It's not what you're doing with anything else here.

That, or just make your entire cast doobies.

maybe they should invest in some shorts.

>>22892

Shorts are a rare commodity on remote islands. Also I'm surprised no one ever asked about his pants before.

Slowly trying to get the will to draw even if they're bad I'm still trying

It's... kindof weird that there's a bulge so often.

>>22924
I think that was addressed in the quest, if I remember right

>>22925
Was it? Or is it because he just has a package?

>>22926
that was how it was addressed, yes

>>22928
So gender means something? how would that even come handy?

>>22929
cockslapping, assumedly.
Be aware that I read the first two updates and it was forever ago, so I may in fact be wrong

Looking at the old progress you had for Able quest, you seemed to use a paintbrush instead of pencil. Have you changed to using a pencil tool or simply rendering the colors to a limit before you start drawing? For example, you can set it to five indexed colors: Black, White, 25%, 50%, and 75% gray. These five shades of grayscale are all you would need to draw that dog, after all.

>>22941
0.0 I still use paintbrush it's just seems easier and softer.

I'm not very good at this

Tokoshoran!!MvZwquBGL0 2014/04/23(Wed)19:44 No. 22947 ID: ca0da5
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>>22942
Well, here's the thing: The paintbrush can still be used but in a sharper way. I don't mean more intelligent, but sharper as in pointier. Being not anti-aliased. I don't know what program you use, but if it's GIMP, you can do it like so: Image>Mode>Indexed
Use custom pallet and open the pallet selection window. From there, you can make an entirely new one, and limit it to the few colors, such as five grayscale colors and red, since you seem to like red.

I've included an image of what the pallet editing screen should look like. You can click the "new color" button to add in a new square, though by default I believe it's always black. Using a pallet with a paintbrush gives you that sharp look a like of "Sprite" type quests use.

>>22947
I mean, don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with using the paintbrush on RBG mode, I just thought you were going for the sharper look.

>>22947

I use CS2

But I think what I got going on atm is ok. Later I can go and change things.

>>22947
thanks for the help though

Anonymous 2014/04/24(Thu)11:35 No. 22959 ID: 4a20fa
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>>22946
>Big Head mutator
It can help to measure (at least eyeballing it) bodypart lengths in terms of the head.

It's fine for the total to differ from some platonic ideal (generally cartoon characters are fewer heads high, superheroes more), but it should be consistent across drawings of the same character, and largely across characters of the same build.

>>22959
I was drawing with two of my previous pieces in the background...I am literally horrible at art

>>22960
That's why I was thinking you wanted to go for sprites, get a set appearance. That way you could get the head and varients, then a body, arms for when appropriate, and leg positions. Then all you'd have to do is draw the scene.

>>22966

What I was planning on doing was copypasting this guys and then when it came to any other poses or close ups I'd try and do them on the fly. I only wanted to do everything beforehand because when I was doing the quest on /tg/ I was wearing myself out.

Mostly i'm just trying to take a step away and up from the ruby quest homage it used to be. I originally started a thread on /tg/ to see how many ruby quest fans I could get just by posting weaver's usual quest beginnings(black with two white things and a red thing) then thought "eh there's people maybe I could do something with it" and literally kept changing what I wanted to do with it till I came up with a solid plan. I want to let this run it's course and then figure out all the things i did right/wrong when it's done. I really like this style of story telling but I'm bad at remembering details.

TLDR: I'm trying to do all this because I enjoy quests, I'm just bad at them and I appreciate all the helpful suggestions.

>>22974
Well, something to keep in mind: You work through the use of gifs. Draw your image on its own layer, make sure it has no background it's being drawn on. The layer should be entirely transparent. This also means that once you are done and ready to flatten the image to one layer, you'll want to remove the background layer.

The reason for this is to avoid white outlines. They can be useful, do not misunderstand, but you want to be careful when making them. As a suggestion, you can use the "select like colors" wand and then Edit>Grow Selection by three to seven pixels, and then dump white paint "behind" it. If it gets an aliased sharpness to it, just undo, Edit>Feather Selection by two or three, then dump the paint again. It will get an anti-aliased feel to it, a smoothness, just from that feathering.

>>22978
I work with photoshop files then save as gif
work the lines on one layer and the color on another

>>22978
This is...pretty crazy. If you want antialiasing, supersample. Draw (and flood-fill) with crisp edges at several times the desired size, then downscale.

However I'm honestly not seeing that as a problem here, because the "fill behind" technique also works if you're careful.

Cathedial 2014/05/14(Wed)17:07 No. 23164 ID: fe8b1a
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took waaaay to long to get it how i wanted it