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This image doesn't really have a descriptive title because it was part of a comic, "What, Me Furry?" that was posted to my homepage (along with 39 other pages) prior to my hooking up with VCL a few years ago (so it is quite old). It was initially removed and re-drawn owing to some feedback concerning the overall composition of the pic. At the time, I was courting opinion from Yerf members/fans--so what appeared to be a fairly decent to me had somehow acquired some glaring composition faults.
But the pic still looked OK to me, so it kept resurfacing in my archives. Long after the original got misplaced and all I had left was a photocopy with assorted color-pencil marks stemming from a failed attempt at color pencil work, I decided to resurrect this pic as a
full-color standalone, making numerous digital fixes to the best of my current ability. I documented the process in my Scraps gallery here, should you want to look at the work I put into re-working and revising this pic.
(6/22/2008 Edit:) See the process from the start ->at this pic<-. Nav links take you through the steps and bring you back here.
Below is the last work I did before posting the 'finished' pic. This should actually be Step Six, as I had already done most of the shading work when I decided to make even more fixes but I forgot to save that particular version seperatley :
--Changed Roland's T-shirt from blue to gray, making him look less like he was wearing scrubs and more like someone who just slept in a t-shirt and sweats.
--Increased the number of hairs reaching across Roland's visible ear and reshaped his footpads.
--Finally shaded and highlighted Tatiana's hair, something I put off for the longest time since curly hair is hard to work with in an animation-esque drawing.
--Slimmed down her right thigh some more, as it was still improperly tapered, making it unbalanced-looking.
--Extensivley re-drew Tatiana's bangs so that they extend below her eyebrows in groups of strands instead of semi-symmetrical masses. Ending them on the forehead as I've always done made them too short for my hair-highlight/shading improvement efforts to do any good. I still have work to do in this area, and may have to adopt a semi-detailed anime technique to avoid over-detailing this area.
--Trimmed her left bicep so it appears to have swung back farther. I was hoping that would fix the appearance of her left arm, but ultimatley I would still have to lower the visible portion of the arm, since too much of it is still showing for the elbow to be where I'm
implying it is.
--Reversed the colors of the background wall. Since light is coming through the window, it only makes sense that it would cast the wall surrounding the window in shadow, and light up the adjacent wall surface.
--Corrected the angle of the baseboard
--Made the outline of the curtains a shade of their base color. I'm still experimenting with the technique of colored linework, but expect to gradually expand its use to the other characters.
--Aggressivley darkened all surfaces facing away from the main light source, and desaturated most other surfaces. I noticed that most of my color pics (comics on my VCL gallery ) were all exceptionally bright and primary color-ish, which normally makes them stand out in a stack of VCL thumbnails, but is definitley out-of-place for this pic. Working on shadows helped tone down the colors and
made the scene look more like it's in a room lit only by diffuse light coming through the window.
Again, this image is several years old. The coloration and physical fixes are what's new. Had I penciled this today, it would look much better.
But the pic still looked OK to me, so it kept resurfacing in my archives. Long after the original got misplaced and all I had left was a photocopy with assorted color-pencil marks stemming from a failed attempt at color pencil work, I decided to resurrect this pic as a
full-color standalone, making numerous digital fixes to the best of my current ability. I documented the process in my Scraps gallery here, should you want to look at the work I put into re-working and revising this pic.
(6/22/2008 Edit:) See the process from the start ->at this pic<-. Nav links take you through the steps and bring you back here.
Below is the last work I did before posting the 'finished' pic. This should actually be Step Six, as I had already done most of the shading work when I decided to make even more fixes but I forgot to save that particular version seperatley :
--Changed Roland's T-shirt from blue to gray, making him look less like he was wearing scrubs and more like someone who just slept in a t-shirt and sweats.
--Increased the number of hairs reaching across Roland's visible ear and reshaped his footpads.
--Finally shaded and highlighted Tatiana's hair, something I put off for the longest time since curly hair is hard to work with in an animation-esque drawing.
--Slimmed down her right thigh some more, as it was still improperly tapered, making it unbalanced-looking.
--Extensivley re-drew Tatiana's bangs so that they extend below her eyebrows in groups of strands instead of semi-symmetrical masses. Ending them on the forehead as I've always done made them too short for my hair-highlight/shading improvement efforts to do any good. I still have work to do in this area, and may have to adopt a semi-detailed anime technique to avoid over-detailing this area.
--Trimmed her left bicep so it appears to have swung back farther. I was hoping that would fix the appearance of her left arm, but ultimatley I would still have to lower the visible portion of the arm, since too much of it is still showing for the elbow to be where I'm
implying it is.
--Reversed the colors of the background wall. Since light is coming through the window, it only makes sense that it would cast the wall surrounding the window in shadow, and light up the adjacent wall surface.
--Corrected the angle of the baseboard
--Made the outline of the curtains a shade of their base color. I'm still experimenting with the technique of colored linework, but expect to gradually expand its use to the other characters.
--Aggressivley darkened all surfaces facing away from the main light source, and desaturated most other surfaces. I noticed that most of my color pics (comics on my VCL gallery ) were all exceptionally bright and primary color-ish, which normally makes them stand out in a stack of VCL thumbnails, but is definitley out-of-place for this pic. Working on shadows helped tone down the colors and
made the scene look more like it's in a room lit only by diffuse light coming through the window.
Again, this image is several years old. The coloration and physical fixes are what's new. Had I penciled this today, it would look much better.
Category Artwork (Digital) / General Furry Art
Species Housecat
Size 750 x 1000px
File Size 94.6 kB
The reason why you may not have received many comments on this is probably due to the fact that we aren't even able to compare; I searched your entire website and came up empty-handed for the original. Of course, that was a dastardly sneaky way to get people to read your entire comic, but I digress. :b
Being that I must take your word for the mistakes made previously, I suppose starting anew with this picture as the default is warranted. It's honestly pretty good in composition, utilizing a sort of opposition of posing to make the picture seem a good deal more full in that sense.
Critique: Almost all of my critique is anatomical, and you disabled me from having valid ones by this being an old image. Repencil it, and we'll see what I come up with. :P
The shading versus the highlights seem to be really stark in places and not in others, suggesting a more glaring comparison than is readily apparent; conforming the shading to the folds of his pants and making said shading a bit sharper would help tons. In fact, when it comes to clothing folds, a great deal of it is simply outline bumps with shading filling the rest in.
All in all, a nice edit.
Being that I must take your word for the mistakes made previously, I suppose starting anew with this picture as the default is warranted. It's honestly pretty good in composition, utilizing a sort of opposition of posing to make the picture seem a good deal more full in that sense.
Critique: Almost all of my critique is anatomical, and you disabled me from having valid ones by this being an old image. Repencil it, and we'll see what I come up with. :P
The shading versus the highlights seem to be really stark in places and not in others, suggesting a more glaring comparison than is readily apparent; conforming the shading to the folds of his pants and making said shading a bit sharper would help tons. In fact, when it comes to clothing folds, a great deal of it is simply outline bumps with shading filling the rest in.
All in all, a nice edit.
Well, actually the 'original' is in my scraps folder here on FA. It was indeed part of a set of comic pages on my MindSpring webspace (URL is in my VCL page, linked to from my userpage here). If you dug that deep to find it, I applaud your determination :)
Originally this pic was a B/W + crosshatching inked image. The renovation returned it to lineart, fixed numerous defects, and then applied digital color. You'll see that in the scrap-folder pics.
The wide difference in shading was an effect I was trying with regards to light source. The room lights are off, as the scene occurs in the morning, and the only light is coming through the window (with some reflection of the interior walls). So, I figured that all surfaces not being directly lit by the incoming sunlight would be cast in fairly dark shadow. Most of my digital color pics feature fairly bright color (as evidenced by my VCL gallery) and I was attempting to see if I could knock down the brightness a bit where warranted.
Originally this pic was a B/W + crosshatching inked image. The renovation returned it to lineart, fixed numerous defects, and then applied digital color. You'll see that in the scrap-folder pics.
The wide difference in shading was an effect I was trying with regards to light source. The room lights are off, as the scene occurs in the morning, and the only light is coming through the window (with some reflection of the interior walls). So, I figured that all surfaces not being directly lit by the incoming sunlight would be cast in fairly dark shadow. Most of my digital color pics feature fairly bright color (as evidenced by my VCL gallery) and I was attempting to see if I could knock down the brightness a bit where warranted.
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