11-08-2022, 03:37 PM
Sorry if I'm kinda late to the party on this. That guy in the ref is like the most muscular person I've ever seen holy cow. He has muscles I didn't even know existed.
Anyway, I'm certainly no anatomy expert, but I do think there's a couple little issues with the arm, and the leg on the right. I would check some anatomy diagrams and just make sure the major muscles groups make sense. even if you're copying the ref you still need to understand to some level to interpret it. The leg especially I just don't feel like that represents the muscles that are there. But more than that, I think it would help to shade the body with more attention to the whole form rather than separate muscles that are shaded individually. The anatomy should be there, but it should also make sense just as a tube in space. Right now, feels a bit flat because the muscles aren't really part of a bigger structure. The structure, and flow of the major muscles can make someone look stronger just as much as increasing the size of each muscle, or the definition, because it feels believable.
Other things that I just kind of notice that would really help imo is that there's a lot of places in the garments he's wearing where they are really flat across his body, without showing much overlap or wrapping around at all. Like the bracer for example. Just giving it more thickness and showing it wrapping around makes it a stronger drawing. Same with the belt thing, and the cloth.
The sword still doesn't make much sense to me. It seems like it would be sooooo thick, and kind of looks to be curving backward, instead of just the blade being curved? Not sure if that's what is meant, but I found a 3D model of a scimitar, and traced the shape of the blade, and it seems like that's more what would make sense for that kind of sword. And obviously it could have spikes and stuff on it as well, but the basic structure should read first of all.
And small nitpick, his tail seems like it would be super long, because it isn't foreshortened in space much at all. Idk might be just me but a lion's tail isn't all that long, and it's coming out of his tail-bone so there's more of it that we can't see adding to it as well. I mean, it's fantasy so it can be whatever you want it to be, but it's just something I noticed.
So yeah sorry to unload critique on an almost finished picture, I know that can be annoying, but maybe these are areas you could improve in your next one.
Anyway, I'm certainly no anatomy expert, but I do think there's a couple little issues with the arm, and the leg on the right. I would check some anatomy diagrams and just make sure the major muscles groups make sense. even if you're copying the ref you still need to understand to some level to interpret it. The leg especially I just don't feel like that represents the muscles that are there. But more than that, I think it would help to shade the body with more attention to the whole form rather than separate muscles that are shaded individually. The anatomy should be there, but it should also make sense just as a tube in space. Right now, feels a bit flat because the muscles aren't really part of a bigger structure. The structure, and flow of the major muscles can make someone look stronger just as much as increasing the size of each muscle, or the definition, because it feels believable.
Other things that I just kind of notice that would really help imo is that there's a lot of places in the garments he's wearing where they are really flat across his body, without showing much overlap or wrapping around at all. Like the bracer for example. Just giving it more thickness and showing it wrapping around makes it a stronger drawing. Same with the belt thing, and the cloth.
The sword still doesn't make much sense to me. It seems like it would be sooooo thick, and kind of looks to be curving backward, instead of just the blade being curved? Not sure if that's what is meant, but I found a 3D model of a scimitar, and traced the shape of the blade, and it seems like that's more what would make sense for that kind of sword. And obviously it could have spikes and stuff on it as well, but the basic structure should read first of all.
And small nitpick, his tail seems like it would be super long, because it isn't foreshortened in space much at all. Idk might be just me but a lion's tail isn't all that long, and it's coming out of his tail-bone so there's more of it that we can't see adding to it as well. I mean, it's fantasy so it can be whatever you want it to be, but it's just something I noticed.
So yeah sorry to unload critique on an almost finished picture, I know that can be annoying, but maybe these are areas you could improve in your next one.