Rubén Frutos
Digital artist in the grind.
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Hey, @Rubén Frutos! I agree with @Steve Lenze, such improvement!
One of the best changes I notice is on the silhouette: it feels much clearer and more readable in the newer version. The anatomy also feels more strongly constructed, and she has a much more natural and coherent gesture and expression on her pose and face. Love it all!
I also notice you made little design adjustments that definitely made a huge difference in how the concept is being represented. The fish impaled on the spear rather than in a bucket; the breasts being shown rather than covered; the visual patterns on her outfit and props; the hairstyle. The way I see it, these aspects make a lot more sense in the new design and convey more believability to the character compared to its earlier version.
In other words, congratulations!
Keep up the good work. 🙌🏻
Rubén Frutos
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Thank you so much for your kind words, Liandro.
Steve Lenze
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Wow, the last two years have been good for you, what a difference. Good drawing, good pose, good lighting. Nice job.
I took this drawing I did in September of 2020(right) and redid it now(left). Let me know what you guys think!!
Any feedback on the new character is welcome! :))
Rubén Frutos
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I loved this video so much!! I'd like to see more of @Rembert Montald in the proko channel. Thanks for the vid!!
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Glad you liked it Ruben!! Will try :)
Hey y'all! I was thinking we could share some messy sketchbook pages.
If you navigate social media, I'm pretty sure you've seen plenty of great artists or artist in general sharing their "perfect", pretty, clean sketchbook drawings.
This is one of the reasons I was so scared to draw on my sketchbook, specially having learned art in digital media. I used to start all my drawings with pencil and then erase most of them cause they were not good or clean enough.
Now, I only use a pen and I don't care if the drawings are pretty or not. Most of my sketchbook drawings are warmups, comfort drawings or just random nonesense.
Join me and share some of your messy stuff so we can help people that are struggling to just doodle around in their sketchbooks. Guys, it's okay to be messy!!
PS: No pretty, clean drawings allowed!! ;P
Rubén Frutos
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Asked for help
Here's the new version after @Steve Lenze 's critique. I actually went back to my color sketch, and touched it up a bit. Which means that I screwed up trying to "render" the bg and got carried away with contrast and detail. Thanks a lot for the critique!! It helped me out a lot.
I'd still love to know what you guys think about it!!
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This is gorgeous, @Rubén Frutos! Lovely concept, great scene. I feel like the color choices really match the idea described in the brief. Very assertive value design too.
I see @Steve Lenze already gave you some precious help - I like this new version better too! Great job!
I understand your goal was to design a keyframe, but I see a few character related things which I believe I’d spend some more time on - since you asked for feedback, and this is supposed to be a character-focused shot, I figured you might like me to mention:
. The pose of the bear. To me, it feels a bit like he’s lifting his paw, but is standing still on the same spot (like a “fake walk”) - I think I’d go after some reference to make it look like he’s in an active forward motion, walking or maybe even slightly running.
. The girl’s facial expression. Since the story is about the beginning of a big adventure, I imagine it would be nice to make her look a lot more excited and happy, maybe with wide open eyes, a hopeful and confident smile showing through. I think I’d also change her body language to match this excitement, perhaps push her torso forward, tense up her legs just a little, pull her hands a bit upward closer to her heart?
That’s it - hope it helps.
Best regards!
