mechapark's sketchbook

[mechapark12]

Nice feet, dude! Your sketches have a good sense of structure, looks very promising. Welcome to the forum.

Thanks! I try to work on them since I want to continuously improve.

Those feet have great form and accurate proportions and those shoes and trouser rendering look divine! Welcome.

Thank you!

Hmmm, fresh blood. Welcome to Crimson Daggers!

I'll add my voice to the feet chorus. These stylized walking feet are wonderful! It's is a body part artists tend to neglect, it's satisfying to see the care you've put into them.

You've also got a good grasp of anime voice. Classic badass pose and composition, good hair treatment, and the style itself is pleasant.

If I may offer a critique, be careful with the perspective. The people on the ground seem off. There's a technique where you use guide lines to scale them, you'd have to use the lying down variation:



(images courtesy of Andrew Loomis)

The character is also a bit off. He seems a bit elongated, which is certainly an artistic choice in anime/manga, but his torso and neck are bulky for this archetype. Take this with a grain of salt because I'm not very good at figure drawing yet, but rotating a bit to remove the tricky camera skew and using his shoulders as the point of reference:


(rotating back...)



Getting the perspective and general shape right can make pushing the pose and adding the style easier. If lost at some point you'll always have a sanity check sketch to return to.

Here are couple of places to grab references when in doubt. They offer paid content, but browsing thumbnails is free ;)

https://www.bodiesinmotion.photo
https://www.3dscanstore.com

Thank you for the feedback! I had to wait until I got home to leave a message for everyone (and it's been a while since I've signed up for one of the old school forums and recalled how to use it haha ).

Yeah, I definitely need to work more on perspective. I think so far the only exercises I've done is pretty much do urban sketching (like draw buildings, draw environments if given enough time), since I feel like it's the most effective way for me to gain an intuitive sense of understanding perspective.