04-05-2014, 09:40 PM
@Archreux: Thanks very much! I should definitely do more studies, you are right about the skin tones. I´m almost never satisfied with them myself when painting without reference. I actually included a variety of hues into the halforc - priestess skin tones, some purples, blues and even greens, but I think it is way too subtle.
Environments are sooo much easier regarding colors than characters :)
As I try to do more foreshortening on characters and get a feel for it, I tried to ascertain where my understanding of it lies by drawing some anatomy with foreshortening (not too extreme at first) I think I failed miserably here. The jumping dwarf was actually not planned as a dwarf, but a normalsized human. It ended up too unproportionate so I turned him into a dwarf and that didn´t work out :D Oh well, you need to know when to save a drawing and when not...the sitting one turned out ok.
And here are some quick studies from reference:
Environments are sooo much easier regarding colors than characters :)
As I try to do more foreshortening on characters and get a feel for it, I tried to ascertain where my understanding of it lies by drawing some anatomy with foreshortening (not too extreme at first) I think I failed miserably here. The jumping dwarf was actually not planned as a dwarf, but a normalsized human. It ended up too unproportionate so I turned him into a dwarf and that didn´t work out :D Oh well, you need to know when to save a drawing and when not...the sitting one turned out ok.
And here are some quick studies from reference: