[GALLERY] Rob's WIPs

[NuggetWarmer]

Those are cool! :o Good work!

[Rob Oplawar]

Ok, I had so much fun drawing that MC that I just had to do it again.
Silly me, I tried a self-portrait. I read Ctrl-Alt-Del a lot, so I tried to do myself in that style. XD
Before you look inside the spoilers, know a couple of things:

This was way harder than the MC because MC's armor is all hard lines and such, which are easy with a mouse. But this is all curvy, and it's really hard to draw curves with a mouse.
Plus, I haven't tried drawing cartoon people since like 5th grade, and I don't consider myself that type of artist.
That said, I think I did respectably well on this.

Ok, so I modified myself slightly- I have pretty bad acne which I left off altogether, and I cut my hair a couple of months ago so it isn't that long anymore. But the rest is pretty accurate- the clothes are even based off of what I'm currently wearing.

Ok, also, I cheated on the face a bit- the first time I sketched it was a disaster, so I used a reference pic of myself fairly heavily to get it right the second time around.

e:
roboplawar (9:48:16 PM): yep, there are two reasons my hands are in my pockets
roboplawar (9:48:34 PM): first, because that's where they usually are when I'm standing, and second, because I can't draw hands for shit

[Rob Oplawar]

I really enjoy drawing in this style. Sheesh, I'm at it again, with yet another drawing. This time I'm doing a big picture that's going to take me a long time to finish, but once I'm done that should get it out of my system.
I'm doing a picture of the character you play as in BCE and his squad of 6 ODSTs posing in a darkened hallway.

So far I've got the main character done. I need to get more efficient at doing this- it took me nearly two hours just to do this one character. At this rate, it's gonna take me at least 14 hours more to finish this drawing.

[Con]

The barrel of the gun isn't aligned, but you probably know that. I love your new sig too

[Mass]

The barrel of the gun isn't aligned, but you probably know that. I love your new sig too

Thanks, I made it.

[Rob Oplawar]

I guess I'll go ahead and introduce the characters here as I draw them:

Squad Alpha of the UNSC Argo Helljumper division.


Cpl. Peter Welsch
Age: 24
Specialization: Assault
Weapon: Battle Rifle
Color Code: Green
Carries ammunition backpack
Background: Grew up operating farming equipment in the rural town of Dry Lake- at age 18 he joined the UNSCDF because of the career advancement opportunities it provides.

e: btw, this one took and hour and a half to draw. Am I speeding up, or was there less to do in this image? =P

[rossmum]

That's awesome.

[Pooky]

How are you going to distinguish them if they all have helmets

Maybe you could do something Republic Commando style and have them paint their armour

[Sever]

The armors' secondary colors, I believe, seeing that the first one was white and the second one is green.

[Rob Oplawar]

^ right. They each have a unique secondary color, and also there will be a couple of head and body permutations (3 will have WoL's helmet instead of mine, and the fourth will have a another helmet I haven't shown yet, and some like Welsch will have backpacks), and also they carry a couple of different weapons and have different combat parameters.

e: Yeah, I might note that currently they are all in the map with exactly the same biped, but even so I've become pretty adept at identifying each one of them pretty quickly, based on the weapon he's holding and the way he uses it. But then again, I'm like, their creator. Of course I can tell my childrens apart.
Mostly I use this knowledge of which is which to scold them:
"Goddammit Welsch, the door is the other way! Why are you going that way?!"
"Parsons, move your ass! You're blocking the rest of the squad!"
etc. etc.


ee: I dun got bord :X

eee: Oshi, I'm really bored. Stop me before I embarrass myself. Oops, too late.