Jade's Sketchbook

[JadeSky]

The Preston Blair book called advanced animation has great designs for cartoon cats and things - they can be made more realistic once you get a sense for how the forms fit together.  I liked your character design above. Getting more volume to the forms will help, like was already suggested.  You want to use any lines you can to show the volume - the crease of arms,  bracelets, the spear and hand around it can all be used to show the cylinder and sphere like forms they are made of!  You did it with the waistband nicely, use every opportunity to show the form :)

Thank you for your suggestions. That is something I need to work on remembering for the future. I think I've seen how to suggest the shape of the spear more, sometimes I can get confused by my own shapes. 

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