Yang Xiao Long in Profile By kmkibble75 Watch

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Something I want to start working on is drawing full-body poses within a limited space or canvas. I don’t want to give myself the out of just adding more space to the edge of the canvas when working digitally – I want to force myself to figure out what details are necessary and which ones aren’t. I had this pose sitting in my reference folder for a while, and I thought it’d fit Yang well. Obviously I left the tails of her jacket off, but I wanted to have to draw her legs in full. (The line beneath her boots is just a grounding detail to make sure her foot was straight, and I thought the pic looked better with it there.)



The shading and highlighting was kind of done as an afterthought since I was mostly concerned about proportions, but please do let me know if you think anything is off there.



At any rate, any comments, tips, or critiques are welcome and appreciated. I hope you like this one!



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Disclaimer: I’m red-green colorblind. Because of this, it’s difficult for me to tell similar shades/hues of different colors apart, and, therefore, I need to work with very limited palettes when I color pieces. For shading and highlights, I’ll generally adjust the ‘value’ portion of the HSV setting to make the base color lighter or darker; I’m unable to ‘cool’ shadows by adding blue or anything like that. I’ve often been told to be bolder in my highlighting and shading, and I’m trying to be so, but… sometimes it still seems pretty tame. I’m just saying this in case you mentioned I need to do that on a previous piece – I’m not ignoring you, and I appreciate the input. It’s just not very easy for me to implement confidently.

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Published : Jul 25, 2018