12-27-2023, 06:38 AM
The main issues I see in your girl painting are:
-Too much of the whites of the eyes are showing, making her look a bit surprised/alarmed. This can be remedied by enlarging the irises (which also helps her look more innocent/cuter, if you don't mind that), or closing down her eyes a bit.
-Her bottom lip is significantly thinner than her upper lip, to the point of creating the illusion she might be sucking in her bottom lip or biting down on it with her upper teeth.
-Not enough definition to the teeth that are showing, making it seem like her upper front teeth are very long and coming all the way down and touching her bottom teeth or her bottom teeth are very long and protruding way up and touching her upper lips. Neither is ideal if attractiveness is part of the goal.
It's interesting that you're utilizing AI to help you in that way. A lot of artists find it disheartening how AI-generated art has advanced so far in just the last few years that they are spitting out results that are better than vast majority of the artists can do. But we're also seeing a lot of backlash against AI art in the general population now, so in a way it's nice to know that must people don't like the idea of AI generated art, regardless of how good it looks, knowing that it's just machine learning stealing bits and pieces and sensibilities from countless artists, while taking away jobs from real human being artists it's stealing from. So your approach is basically being smart about the whole thing. Use it to your advantage, while the result is still through human artistic sensibility, but aided by AI who did a lot of R&D on your behalf. Whether this is seen as cheating or just being resourceful will probably be debated, but at least it's an attempt to take the weapon used against you and making it working for you instead.
As for the common enemy creature design, I agree that the arms with that extra segment looks odd and unconvincing. If this was my design and I was troubleshooting it, I would ask myself why that extra red segment of the limb needs to exist, and why the forearm design seems to include the deltoid as if a whole arm was ripped out of a body and then reattached to that red segment (but also strangely missing the elbow)? Why is the red segment missing the muscle mass it seems to need to control the very long and heavy-looking forearm? Does it make sense? If not, are there better ways to achieve an interesting design that elicits the desired response from my audience?
When I do creature design, because I'm also a writer/storyteller, I always first ask myself what purpose does this creature serve in the story. What am I trying to achieve with it that will enhance the story? How this creature came to be and why did it grow/evolve the way it did? The design elements have to make logical sense in the context of its typical habitat, it's diet, its hunting/gathering methods, its social hierarchy, its survival tactics, and its overall environment in a larger sense. If you study enough evolutionary biology, you'll see patterns of how and why different creatures evolved the way they do, and then combine that with the history or robotics, there are also patterns of how scientists utilize lessons they learned from nature and applying them to robot, prosthetic, and biomechanical designs. These things become internalized so you can call upon them when coming up with effective and interesting new designs. With every design element, simply ask yourself, why does this element exist in this way? Is it logical and feasible based on the criteria of presented by mother nature and the principles of biomechanical design? Are there better ways to do it?
-Too much of the whites of the eyes are showing, making her look a bit surprised/alarmed. This can be remedied by enlarging the irises (which also helps her look more innocent/cuter, if you don't mind that), or closing down her eyes a bit.
-Her bottom lip is significantly thinner than her upper lip, to the point of creating the illusion she might be sucking in her bottom lip or biting down on it with her upper teeth.
-Not enough definition to the teeth that are showing, making it seem like her upper front teeth are very long and coming all the way down and touching her bottom teeth or her bottom teeth are very long and protruding way up and touching her upper lips. Neither is ideal if attractiveness is part of the goal.
It's interesting that you're utilizing AI to help you in that way. A lot of artists find it disheartening how AI-generated art has advanced so far in just the last few years that they are spitting out results that are better than vast majority of the artists can do. But we're also seeing a lot of backlash against AI art in the general population now, so in a way it's nice to know that must people don't like the idea of AI generated art, regardless of how good it looks, knowing that it's just machine learning stealing bits and pieces and sensibilities from countless artists, while taking away jobs from real human being artists it's stealing from. So your approach is basically being smart about the whole thing. Use it to your advantage, while the result is still through human artistic sensibility, but aided by AI who did a lot of R&D on your behalf. Whether this is seen as cheating or just being resourceful will probably be debated, but at least it's an attempt to take the weapon used against you and making it working for you instead.
As for the common enemy creature design, I agree that the arms with that extra segment looks odd and unconvincing. If this was my design and I was troubleshooting it, I would ask myself why that extra red segment of the limb needs to exist, and why the forearm design seems to include the deltoid as if a whole arm was ripped out of a body and then reattached to that red segment (but also strangely missing the elbow)? Why is the red segment missing the muscle mass it seems to need to control the very long and heavy-looking forearm? Does it make sense? If not, are there better ways to achieve an interesting design that elicits the desired response from my audience?
When I do creature design, because I'm also a writer/storyteller, I always first ask myself what purpose does this creature serve in the story. What am I trying to achieve with it that will enhance the story? How this creature came to be and why did it grow/evolve the way it did? The design elements have to make logical sense in the context of its typical habitat, it's diet, its hunting/gathering methods, its social hierarchy, its survival tactics, and its overall environment in a larger sense. If you study enough evolutionary biology, you'll see patterns of how and why different creatures evolved the way they do, and then combine that with the history or robotics, there are also patterns of how scientists utilize lessons they learned from nature and applying them to robot, prosthetic, and biomechanical designs. These things become internalized so you can call upon them when coming up with effective and interesting new designs. With every design element, simply ask yourself, why does this element exist in this way? Is it logical and feasible based on the criteria of presented by mother nature and the principles of biomechanical design? Are there better ways to do it?