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Something I've sketched, inked, and colored intermittently during my Wednesday night class--experimenting with a style of drawing Kio that would work well for a comic.
Category Artwork (Traditional) / General Furry Art
Species Canine (Other)
Size 700 x 394px
File Size 80.7 kB
I often sit on the fence about that issue :P I used to not like it at all, but then tons of people started saying how much they hate it, and I guess it just gave me a perverse desire to use it! x) I'll probably experiment a bit more to see which 'style' I'd prefer to use for the comic.
Thanks, though! I like hearing people's opinions, even when they don't agree with mine :)
Thanks, though! I like hearing people's opinions, even when they don't agree with mine :)
It seems an odd convention to me, because it negates our visual experience: hair is never translucent. We can see through the gaps between strands of hair, but we cannot see through hair itself.
If anything, it seems the result of poor observational skills and lazy conformity, and we have too much of both of FA. Your work is too lively and fresh to be saddled with such a dead, cliched approach.
Mark
If anything, it seems the result of poor observational skills and lazy conformity, and we have too much of both of FA. Your work is too lively and fresh to be saddled with such a dead, cliched approach.
Mark
Given that the artist can choose as appropriate to either hide or not hide the eye behind hair (since common cartoon convention allows for either, or both, and this is a cartoon character design), and also given that this was specifically a design concept, showing all features seems pretty normal.
Not everything about cartoon characters has to exactly mimic real life...especially seeing as none of the rest of the design shows much visual verisimilitude. Stylized features on a stylized character...err, surprise?
Not everything about cartoon characters has to exactly mimic real life...especially seeing as none of the rest of the design shows much visual verisimilitude. Stylized features on a stylized character...err, surprise?
Some stylizations work better than others, because they allow an artist to bring a sense of realism to the unreal.
For instance, crosshatching: hardly found in the real world, but an effective (and cheaply-printed) way to suggest form and value.
The choice for any cartoonist remains: does the convention allow the cartoonist to express the world as she perceives it... or as a way to avoid the work of observation and expression?
Mark
For instance, crosshatching: hardly found in the real world, but an effective (and cheaply-printed) way to suggest form and value.
The choice for any cartoonist remains: does the convention allow the cartoonist to express the world as she perceives it... or as a way to avoid the work of observation and expression?
Mark
I’m not fond of it myself, but I’ve learned there are reasons for it, and they are not invalid reasons. It arose in manga decades ago as a method of showing the reader a character’s facial expression even through long hair. It’s not at all about laziness, it’s about stylistic conventions.
Lots of things about art “negate our visual experience”, but we do it anyway. How about the fact that furry characters in themselves negate our visual experience? I haven’t seen a real one around lately.
I’m afraid I don’t get how it is the result of poor observational skills. . . .
Lots of things about art “negate our visual experience”, but we do it anyway. How about the fact that furry characters in themselves negate our visual experience? I haven’t seen a real one around lately.
I’m afraid I don’t get how it is the result of poor observational skills. . . .
>>Lots of things about art “negate our visual experience”, but we do it anyway.
Which is why I mentioned cross-hatching as one example.
>>I’m afraid I don’t get how it is the result of poor observational skills.
An artist can be tempted to rely too much upon the work of others, and less upon her own direct observations. Perhaps, then, the lack is not so much of skill, but of will. It's a deficit that nags at me every time I look at the covers on the comic book stands -- something I try to avoid these days. :)
Mark
Which is why I mentioned cross-hatching as one example.
>>I’m afraid I don’t get how it is the result of poor observational skills.
An artist can be tempted to rely too much upon the work of others, and less upon her own direct observations. Perhaps, then, the lack is not so much of skill, but of will. It's a deficit that nags at me every time I look at the covers on the comic book stands -- something I try to avoid these days. :)
Mark
I used a chop :P
When I went to Hong Kong this summer, I commissioned an artisan to make a custom chop for me what said 'Red Dog' and Keovi on it. It ended up being about USD$30 for this one.
The lady made it by using a Dremel or similar tool to carve out the writing from the stone chop (I'm not sure what kind of rock it is). I'm sure you could do something similar, find someone to make one for you, or order a rubber stamp. I plan to get this made into a rubber stamp, actually, because the stone chop only cooperates with special, kinda pricey ink.
For all of the stuff I've posted online with this signature, I just scanned in a nice stamp I made with the chop, then adjusted it in PS, and drop the stamp file onto any work I post.
Hope that helps!
When I went to Hong Kong this summer, I commissioned an artisan to make a custom chop for me what said 'Red Dog' and Keovi on it. It ended up being about USD$30 for this one.
The lady made it by using a Dremel or similar tool to carve out the writing from the stone chop (I'm not sure what kind of rock it is). I'm sure you could do something similar, find someone to make one for you, or order a rubber stamp. I plan to get this made into a rubber stamp, actually, because the stone chop only cooperates with special, kinda pricey ink.
For all of the stuff I've posted online with this signature, I just scanned in a nice stamp I made with the chop, then adjusted it in PS, and drop the stamp file onto any work I post.
Hope that helps!
I would have been sewing catsuits when I originally bought it - working out my own pattern-making instructions on stretchy.org until I eventually managed a zentai suit which used an elasticated overlap at the shoulder blades to avoid needing anything other than soft fabric: no nasty unstretchy zip down the back to restrict movement or pucker in an unsightly way. I think a few fursuiters used the basic catsuit instructions.
Of late, not a whole lot: a couple of fleece onesies and some net curtains following a house move. Does putting up shelves count as creative? :)
Of late, not a whole lot: a couple of fleece onesies and some net curtains following a house move. Does putting up shelves count as creative? :)
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