I think I've made some major improvements from my initial sketches. I am really working on making the characters expressive, in facial and body language. This is something that I haven't pushed myself to do very much, so I am really excited about this piece.
YES! now that's what i'm talkin' about! I love the space you got going on now and the character design. Really good expressive characters. I love the usage of their tails as framing devices leading us up to that poor little donkey.
ReplyDeleteI think the one little tiny thing i would say is to watch out for the foxes feet being a little too close and parallel with the bottom edge.
Otherwise i think you're ready to rock this one!
Whoohoo!
YEAH!!! I almost typed "now this is what I'm talkin bout" and then I saw Scott's comment ):
ReplyDeleteAnyway awesome, I looove that lion. fantastic mane of hair. This is gonna be great :D poor little donkey awrg. Fox has a great expression too.
I agree about the fox's paws being close to the edge... maybe make the paw on the ground go down a little farther so that the feet aren't on the same plane.
Also the lions back leg looks a bit wonky... not sure what reference you used, it might actually look like that in the reference. I found a few close angles -http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/FP77NLJh2zYQ0kQuZA2Htg (a statue, but you can really see the muscle. maybe showing the muscles will help)
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_48K9G_Wg62E/SvBvvICprCI/AAAAAAAAAsc/BvAWjNNbMCA/s320/lion_crouch.jpg (a little closer)
Though I can see why you want the leg to go off the screen because it would be weird to have the edge so close to a leg that is parallel to it... hmmm.....
or maybe a different kind of crouch like this endearing lion cub - http://fanart.lionking.org/Artists/Kari/Malka.jpg hahahaha. i saw actual photos with the leg kinda like that too... could work somehow...
Yay!
yeah this is pretty awesome becca. and very different from your usual style. i like it a lot. god that donkey looks so lonely, the lion looks really menacing and the fox so conniving. can't wait to see this finished.
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