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Thank you, you're right about the neck, the left side should be in shadow, and I understand completely what you mean about the face, but any edits to the face will come last as I just want to get the figure fleshed out as of now. One of the legs is bent, but I will check the other one to see if it is a proper length.
edit- need to thin out closest forearm.
When figure drawing, I generally make a stick figure "skeleton" of the character so I can get all the proportions down and the angles right. I don't know if you did that here, but from what I can tell it looks like you didn't (legs too short, left arm too short, especially the upper arm, torso also a tad on the short side). I'd suggest doing that on physical paper first, and then using it as a template when you draw it digitally.
About the left arm: when it's straight up in the air, the elbow joint should be about level with the top of his head. Picturing it now, it looks like it'd end up around brow or forehead level, especially at the angle we are viewing it from.
I'm no expert in art, as I've received no formal education other than the things they make you learn in middle school, this is just how I'm perceiving it. Being thus uneducated, I can infer that other uneducated people might see it as awkward as well.
Ok, the left arm is fixed, right arm is lengthened a bit, the bent leg was fine, straight one was too short, I am going to have to redo the left forearm, or I would post the picture. I would draw from paper but I do not posses a scanner and my camera is a piece of shit. Also I have not even taken any art classes so some of the things like setting up a skeleton are unknown to me, I have just found ways to work around them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Warsaw
Hell, you don't need to scan the skeleton in. As long as you have it somewhere visible, it will be of some use.
Face proportions are wrong, muscles are totally wrong. You're aiming to win yet it seems like you don't try to really observe what you're attempting to paint. Even the way you're painting muscles looks totally contradictory to the way flexors and extensors work. The ribcage area and the outstretched arm are very obvious when it comes to this (especially muscle group placement under that arm).
People are everywhere, google images and IRL.
So I am designing a "new" type of gun for halo, I hope I am doing everything right, if not, when I post it tell me and I will make the necessary changes.
and you will actually finish this one?
ha ha ha
Crit:
The albow seems very weird and deformed. I did read part of Snaf's post and I agree with him. The muscles do look odd in some parts.
The face, well, you should forget for now and just work on the main body, then come back to it. People do tend to notice face's more on an image, but in this case it seems that the images has a posture to indicate an object or feeling ect...
What happened to the image where you had a grassy environment with cliffs and forerunner structures ect? Just finish a damn painting man...
And seeming as you are designing a new weapons which is based around Halo please do not make it just black and white blocky details like you used to. Give it shading and shiny, so it looks 3dish...
(Again, sorry if my post makes no sense as I have been mates 18th party.)
Typed this just now as a reply to a man who wrote this on facepunch, not really meant to mean anything, just my quick thought process over it, thought it would be fun to discuss it.
Here's what he wrote:
Here is some stuff I wrote on the front of a Chemistry mock exam in the spare time at the end, please bear in mind that I was mildly depressed at the time, as I often am when I think of these things, and the train of thought often wavers all over the place:
Intellectual Writings posted:
When you consider all the people that exist, have existed, and will exist, and so all the choices and decisions that ever have and ever will be made; my choices and I are less significant than a single electron in the universe at a given time.
The thing is, so much could happen in my life, that I could actually be very important, that i could change the world; just like one electron in the right place at the right time, could change the universe. But the chances of that are so very slim, very slim indeed, that my choices, my worries, and my fears are all so very worthless, meaningless and insognificant. So much so, that odds dictate that I should fear nothing, worry about nothing.
But that is not human nature. The healthy human mind will have trouble grasping this concept, as it always wants to survive and survive and survive, always wants to live on. But if everything is so insignificant, why do we continue to live, to grasp to survival. As I said before, it is human nature, indeed it is an instinkt among all organisms, but why is it, especially for us humans. why do we continue to doom this planet that would do so much better without us, we always overcome illness and "problems" with nature. But why, what is the point of life?
Well, that is the question now isn't it?
There is a theory, of which I cannot remember the name, which states that up until the outcome of a choice or situation is made/found, the every single possibility is happening at the same time. If this is so, then potentially everyone is always special, everyone is always able to change the world.
But yet again, human nature steps in,wanting the easy way out, usually doing very little and changing even less unless the situation demands it.
We always want to survive, to thrive, for no reason in particular except the reason of survival itself. It's just what we do, no matter what the consequences; so it is human nature in its laziness that stops us from changing the world, but it is also human nature, in its need to survive that often drives the biggest, most world changing of all decisions. Just like it is the electrons nature to bond, leading it do either do very little and effect less, or just happen to bond with the right atom, at the right time in the right place, that could change the entire course of the universe, or at least a few galaxies.
As i mentioned earlier, it is very hard for the human mind to grasp this kind of concept. The reason for this that the human mind and imagination is extremely limited. We cannot truly imagine/ make anything up, not really, we just re-use what we know/have experienced. Due to this, and the rather small scope of the lives most of us live, it can be very difficult to grasp the sheer scale of this kind of concept. I cannot fully grasp it, no way, not ever. Anyone that says they can, are lying. The only being(s) that grasp the entire course of time's choices are the being referred to as Gods. But I, like many others can grasp the overall idea and a small amount of this concept; but then there are the ones who really can't grasp this, the simpletons, the idiots, the under-educated, the narrow minded and arrogant; and from personal experience I can predict that these people may react with the most basic of all human reactions: Anger. They may call this stupid because they don't understand, they may call me weird or strange (not that I disagree) but those with an open mind will be able to grasp this quite well.
Also linked to limited-ness of the human mind/imagination (and aliens), our scientists say that most/many planets cannot support life. But this could quite possibly be due to a limited understanding of science. aliens may work in a completely different way to how we do, and may break many "laws" of science, as none of these "laws" are set in stone, they are just solutions hypothesized to fit both the problem and the solution, and are often replaced by better theories all the time. In this way, if a grown adult ever saw one of these "impossible" aliens, then they would probably either die or become heavily mentally effected, because they could not handle this "thing" that goes against all they "know". The only ones that could handle these life-forms would be the EXTREMELY open minded, so open minded that often their mind would be unstable, yes the 'loons. The other group who could handle this are the ones that are open minded, because they have nothing filling them, young children for example.
I am aware there are mistakes, it is nearly 3AM as i write this, and I will fix them later. Also, yes, I am fond of my commas.
My reply:
This is less an intellectual writing and more of a musing that has been thought since the dawn of asking "why". You are entirely correct in the thought that humans reuse everything, even history, and your very writing is an example of that. Life is merely a definition given by humans, same as time and any other word. That is why there is no true meaning to life as life is not a universal thing (given the thought that there is other beings in this universe). This is the same to all other words except for things such as adjectives, and even then these can only be used as a matter of opinions. But, if you want to honestly have an answer to the meaning of life, its to live. It's that simple, people over think it, there is nothing more or nothing less, your whole life is to live. You eat, you sleep, you grow, you make choices, it's living, whether its in a shit hole or in a palace, all people are just living, same as anything else. The factors that come and go and change the individual or the world are insignificant because they are not life, they are a separate variable, just like in an equation. Life can be x, it can equal anything, the variables such as 3x + 3 = 6 simply define one scenario out of infinity for that life. So in finality, the meaning of life in the simplest terms is to live.
Yes I kind of contradict myself, oh well.
If you simplify it down entirely, life is just a self-sustaining reaction. Life has evolved to sustain itself and not the resources it depends upon.