CGMythology's Sketchbook

[Jephyr]

Hey George! The 'Sword-Girl' turned out GREAT. Love the colors, the pose, her expression, and the cool background. The skull study is excellent — that lighting really makes it jump off the screen!

[cgmythology]

darktiste:  Great suggestions!  I'm currently studying anatomy using traditional media, I'm almost done filling the sketchbook so I'll post those studies soon.  Thanks!

JosephCow:  Thanks, glad to hear you enjoy the studies, they were a lot of fun to tackle!

Crowbit:  Thanks!  Having a lot of fun with these studies and more importantly and getting more comfortable with dynamic lighting so they're helpful!

Domincque:  Thank you and great suggestions!  I'm a bit too eager to put my final lines when working traditionally (digitally sometimes I have the same problem but it's much easier to clean up mistakes).  I'll try to be more conscious of this ;  glad you enjoy the new illustration!

Jephyr:  Thank you kindly!  Had a blast with all the material so I'm glad you enjoy them as well :)


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I'm doing a crapload of anatomy studies traditionally which I'll be posting soon and I'm learning quite a bit.  For now I thought I would take a small break from them and try out a new illustration.  Here's a sketch of Spider-Woman.  The pose was referenced from this photo here.  I just wanted to hear any input before I begin to paint it in, so if something feels off please let me know!




Edit:  Fixed some issues with the figure, hopefully it's an improvement.  Please let me know if the figure looks ok now!

[Crowbit]

The hands are looking very well done, and the overall pose looks good to me ^-^

[ruthwood]

I did notice in the reference, the upper right arm bends further back into space than in ur sketch. I wanna say the forearm appears a little short in the sketch because of that.

Everything else looks pretty awesome to me. Feel free to change that if you'd like, final result should look great anyway :)

[cgmythology]

Crowbit:  Thank you, glad to hear it!

ruthwood: Thanks and great points!  Did some minor changes to the sketch for a more natural look and went ahead and finished up the painting process.

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I finished up the painting process.  At the last stage I decided to make the eyes more symmetrical as it felt too stylized against a realistic look I was going for.  Hopefully that was the correct choice.  Any final input on the image would be appreciated before I add it to my portfolio, so if something looks off kindly let me know!  Below is the current progress followed by the steps for those interested:

[darktiste]

Would give more love to the finger and check back at the reference i felt something was off you made some finger bend to much outward.Finger bend inward not so much outwardly.

One other odd thing is the hair they make zero sense they are zero gravity hair? She is climbing a wall? Where is the ground? If she climbing than the hair should move toward the ground naturally not what i feel is a brick wall.

Actually now that i think of it maybe i am just wrong about the scene but the ''ground'' look like a wall so excuse me for my confusion it just that i am expecting a ''spider'' on a wall.

The only thing that lead me to believe she on the ground is you made the fire go up and there some kind of web... if there fire on the ground why is she crawling in it... sorry there so many question on this one.

This one didn't seem problematic at first but the more it move toward it seem hard to determine if some choose are intentional or bad planning due to sticking to much to the reference to the point physic no longer make sense.

[Jephyr]

Spiderwoman looks great, George! Kool color choices, background and pose. Small nit — I agree with Dark about her fingers especially that forward hand. But, otherwise, as usual, you knocked another one outa the park!

[Dominicque]

I like her devious smirk. From glaring at the reference, Jessica's bum appears really curved, like she has a very long torso. Unless that's a deliberate stylistic choice, in which you can ignore this comment. :D