Rotten's Pocket

[Pubic Enemy]

Sorry to hear about the illness Rotten; hope you're feeling better. The original version of this piece was already pretty good, but your new version is definitely an improvement. The face in particular is more beautiful and naturalistic.

[dimensional-knight]

I hope you feel better soon. Chronic illness is hell.

I'm a bit late to the party, but I love your food and botanical illustrations! And your patience with all that hair and feathers is impressive. Amazingly detailed work!

Just to make myself useful — and please don't take it as something you got to fix in your latest piece as it's very advanced already, but as something to keep an eye in future artworks — there are some minor placement issues that are flattening her image.

Her torso is too flat, which in my book is way better than a too cylindrical of a torso, but can easily lead to placing shoulders too far to the sides, outside their sockets. Her left shoulder which should be slightly occluded by her body is the most noticeable. It's taking her entire torso out of alignment with her neck and head. This can be avoided by drawing circles for the sockets so you can better guess where the back would connect with them, resulting in something more like this:





Also, keep an eye out for where the sternocleidomastoid ends. It not only nests between the clavicles but more or less grabs the underside of them.




Depending on the pose, in women it often looks like thin tendon-like structures converging to between the head of the clavicles. When they're visible sometimes the hollow between them is higher and gentler, when it's deep it'll sit lower than the top of the clavicles.

[RottenPocket]

That's alright, it's what this place is for. I tried to incorporate changes it regardless. I'm still out of it, back at work which has its own set of challenges [trying to refrain from venting about it] and have continued to chip away. I promise to come back and give everyone some attention but I may take a break for a bit. I'm so tired.

[AChi]

amazing work! lots of detail in wings and hair. for next step I would suggest to focus on hands/arms as they are a bit out of perspective.
but first of all, hope you have a good break.

[dimensional-knight]

Great work! But please do take a break, rest all you need. I hope you're feeling better when you return.

[JosephCow]

Dang, that looks sick dude! The detail of the hair is kind of unbelievable.

[neopatogen]

That's alright, it's what this place is for. I tried to incorporate changes it regardless. I'm still out of it, back at work which has its own set of challenges [trying to refrain from venting about it] and have continued to chip away. I promise to come back and give everyone some attention but I may take a break for a bit. I'm so tired.

Looking cool as usual!!

[RottenPocket]

A Drawing a Day keeps the demons at bay. Managed to get some ideas down but not carried through further than a rough sketch.


Turns out I maintain my reputation for crisis happening in threes - I broke my toe shortly after my last post. Not going to go on about it but there was a big ass bruise, an xray with an angry snapped metatarsal and so I've forked out a few hundred on an electric scooter, because walking is my main mode of transport and used to have only two speeds, go and go faster, which I can't do currently... And I also now need to buy shoes up in size because a pinky toe is not only useless but incredibly painful when you shatter it.


 


I just had a pose in mind - and a headdress which this looks nothing like. I wasn't using my design brain much but the idea's down for me to revisit later...

[Leo Ki]

She's badass. Waiting for the next iteration with the design brain turned on.
May your pinky toe keep the promise of healing fast.

[RottenPocket]

Hello,

 I don't have much to show for my time except a bunch of janky faces and half hearted attempts at rendering. It's been hard to keep the furnace burning and be productive. It gets harder every new life change but it is what it is. Have at ye.

[RottenPocket]

I took a week off from work as a combined avoidance strategy for several events that converge this time of a September - and to Paint. It's already Tuesday...



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It's dark, which is intentional for two reasons, hide the fur so I don't have to paint it and wolfy eyes.



I could have spent another week on this one, or gone over it with a steady hand instead of the turbulent commute to work. 



Overall this was a fast one done yesterday morning. I would have coloured it but I enjoyed the sandy monochrome so it only has a slight tint on the skin hair and jewellery. I had intended to join the previous CHOW but couldn't get it down in time.