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Returning from the Office
by peppermintroo
Digital Artist
17 years ago
Gasp. Clothes. Forgive me for my sins.
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More experimentation, this time getting cartoony. I would have put more effort into this, but I was becoming increasing distressed by the suck factor of the base line art. I really need to learn how to sketch with pencil and paper if I'm going to keep this up.
But this is Ruth Ophelia Truefeather, Melvin and Clarice's mother. This would be a "photograph" taken when Melvin was around the age of one or two years, a bit before she became pregnant with Clarice. She's going to be in the next segment of ADBT (through a flashback,) though I want her identity (as Melvin's mother) to be a surprise twist at the end. For that reason, I won't be uploading this to Yiffstar until I finish said story. I feel perfectly fine uploading/explaining it here now, because I'm pretty certain that nobody on furaffinity has read any of my stories.
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<rant>
More experimentation, this time getting cartoony. I would have put more effort into this, but I was becoming increasing distressed by the suck factor of the base line art. I really need to learn how to sketch with pencil and paper if I'm going to keep this up.
But this is Ruth Ophelia Truefeather, Melvin and Clarice's mother. This would be a "photograph" taken when Melvin was around the age of one or two years, a bit before she became pregnant with Clarice. She's going to be in the next segment of ADBT (through a flashback,) though I want her identity (as Melvin's mother) to be a surprise twist at the end. For that reason, I won't be uploading this to Yiffstar until I finish said story. I feel perfectly fine uploading/explaining it here now, because I'm pretty certain that nobody on furaffinity has read any of my stories.
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you might be right about sketching analogically first. although the above linework ain't that bad I'd say. I just have a feeling the arms' lengths are a bit uneven.
nice face, too. just don't go too 'Donald Duck' with the lower jaws. :)
Looking at it again, I can see what you mean about the lower jaw looking donald duck-esque. I struggle with the beak every time I draw a platypus, re-shaping it and re-drawing it many times over, but still never end up fully happy with it. I honestly am not sure at what angle the beak should protrude from her face, and at what angle the lower jaw should hang down from the upper one. I just hope I'll get it with time and practice.
Thanks a bunch for the feedback though.
about that beak... maybe you should create some design studies with it. the way I see it it'd protrude from the skull evenly, like a fox muzzle maybe. the lower jaw should have the same length as the upper jaw. hard to tell with their rounded head shapes, though. :)