Rotohail's "Reclusive" SketchBook

[Rotohail]

Nice updated here, really enjoying your clean linework and use of perspective throughout, always very dynamic. Hope to see more progress on the coloring of the first sketch, I think that looks brilliant and would make for a great painting!  Keep up the good work :)

Many thanks! Do you mean the ones with the characters sitting and the owl? I'm working on my willpower to do so ha, that one is one of those challenges I must face to get over my fears lol. Is a work in progress.

i always love your relentless positivity roto, its inspiring on a personal level :)

if i were you, id push the living shit outta that ice surfer dude, thats a strong piece and composition. Dont let that one die out, get some good reference and dab on that for a while, keep pushing and pushing it! also love that owl :)

Hey! I'm glad! Attitude is half the battle. Else you get a moral debuff or penalty and then you miss your hits! Can fight like that, ha! Sorry, RPG jokes.

I think that one is gonna be on life support, I would like to study seas, water reflections and fix the damn legs but I feel this one has reach the point where I shelve it and try again on a few months, see if I learnt something new. Ha! Owl says hoot!

I am always in awe of your updates; they are a great joy to look over. On a personal note, I do hope you take that dead King drawing further - the overall composition and perspective of the piece is wickedly delightful.

The only thing that currently doesn't feel to be hitting the same mark as the others is the green elf girl with her owl. The main issue is around her neck and chin area. She feels like she has no real neck. You can argue that it's because of the perspective, but if you wanted to push the fact we are looking up at her defining the underside of her jaw will really help push that feeling.

Besides that ant sized nitpick, everything is looking wonderful. Keep it up.

Many thanks! Really, I appreciate it! I'm trying to work on the 3 of them, while I do smaller stuff in between.

I'll look into that, I wanted to have her neck covered with clothing and the cowl thing, but maybe is misleading at the moment. Not sure if with shadows I'll fix the effect or I'll have to redraw that area but I'm on it!

Leaving the missing extras on the characters running that lacked color, so that's one page done. I'm also leaving another one I started with a sci-fi SNK/Evangelion rip-off I wanted to explore but so far is really barebones, I want to explore the design, fix some things, see what I get from it. Maybe if I find something I like I'll try some storyboarding. I'm spreading myself kind of thin tho.

I've been working on the other pages, probably will have the portrait and flower ones done soon, although I've been avoiding my main one so that has to change, gotta clean, ink and color...