
Drawn simply as a challenge to see if I could do a decent looking mirror-image shot. Also a rare opportunity to show off a pretty girl from the front and back at the same time. Yes, tons of cross-hatching again. In this case a labor of love: I adore Anubis jackals (all that lovely smooth shiny blackness).
Category All / All
Species Unspecified / Any
Size 500 x 686px
File Size 215.8 kB
On a piece this size (8.5x11) and of "simple" complexity like this (one character, simple pose)It probably took me about 10-15 minutes to do the shading. I tend to block in the shading as I'm sketching, so by the time I actually do the cross-hatching, it's just a matter of doing a lot of parallel lines.
I think I know what you mean hear. It's a combination of weight, and lighting. Making a character look like they have weight and volume is *hard*, and I'm nowhere near as good as I'd like to be: figuring out how breasts deform when squeezed into a corset, how buttocks dimple when packed into tiny shorts. Lighting in the other hand is a *great* cheat- you can use it to imply lots of curves simply by doing really round, swoopy higl-lights.
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