Allenthelost's Sketchbook

[allenthelost]

wasup allen, it seems you have a lot of mileage already, i think you have an idea of an appealing style, i think youd benefit a lot from studying artists with a different shape language to your own, or at least a more refined one, like leyendecker for example. that, or some longer more sustained studies of a subject matter, like really drilling into how to draw and render a hand with all its planes in tact, showing a complete understanding of form. 

I think your characters in the dragon sketch above are cool, but their poses are very stiff and i feel theres some story in the picture but i cant tell what it is. i guess the characters are afraid of the dragon? His pose isnt very aggressive, it kinda looks like he wants a hug but just has a neutral dragon expression. Theres a lot of angles one could play with to show the hostility, like making him dramatically bigger and more intimidating than the others. that and you are showing the characters all "cheating out" facing the audience, when you know, you are an artist and you can show the back of their head, and if they have those features we expect from them, they will still read as that character ;)

Heya Fedodika!!
Been away from Crimson Daggers for quite a while, so I hope that even though I haven’t been active here that I still have hopefully improved! If not just a little bit ;)

I think the main reason why they are still is because I didn’t use a reference when I drew the poses, they felt less stiff during the sketching phase so I think that I potentially wasn’t fully able to capture the same kind of...fluidness??? (is that even a word? oh well)
But I do actually have a good explanation for the whole “danger who?” that you mentioned! Basically this drawing was mainly to illustrate a situation that happened in one of the many DnD sessions I’ve been in! Basically that dragon dude isn’t a threat here, instead what is suppose to be happening here is that everyone is surprised over the fact that the lad who is sitting on that gal in the drawn (which is also my character. the gal currently being sat upon) just teleported in basically.
However now that I look the drawing over I didn’t illustrate that at all, it just looks like the lad is sitting on her x’D. (and 100% I wanted to show my bud that I play DnD with all of their characters head on, so I basically scened this like a theatre) But.... I know this all sounds like excuses tbh so next time I’ll think more about the composition! 
I could have angled this all in a way that could have show some of the characters faces more naturally than I am doing in that drawing. So you’ve given me something to think about at least!

And thank you a lot for the recommendation about studying different artists! I very recently did a study of  Alphonse Mucha (at first for Uni, but then for fun) and I did a couple of drawings based upon what I gathered from studying his works a lil bit, so I will most definitely check out Leyendecker! So thank you for the tip!