Friday, February 5, 2010

Octo and Ruby: construction and creative ideas


This is a drawing for my buddy Luz. She's also an art student and I promised her a drawing a while back to basically beat my own ass into learning more. What I'm looking for is a critique on my construction, I plan to redraw and colour it so it looks good, but I need ideas on:

1) How is my construction? I know that she's a "stylized" character but I tried to draw her really round. If you think it's bad is there any thing I can do to make it better?

2) Is there anything can do to make the pose clearer or more interesting?

3) Finally, is there anything at all I can do about the composition? It looks fine to me, but I'm more worried about what others will say. I don't want to give Luz a gift and visitors to her home wonder to themselves, "Why does she have crap on her walls? She should clean up after that dog."

Leave your critiques in the comments.

5 comments:

  1. Work on your confidence hun. I think it's good. Really like the legs. Just think you could work on better facial expressions.

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  2. Can you tell me what's wrong with the expression?

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  3. Hmm... It kinda looks like she's staring off into the distance, rather than up at the adorable octopus on her head, which I'm assuming is supposed to be what she's looking at?
    That's the only slight problem I have with it. =)
    (Found this link on John K's blog.)

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  4. Teahound= She isn't looking at it. I've actually noticed that I keep doing this thing where my pinup drawings are just looking of at some unknown object. I do it on purpose but I get ticked when I realize what I've done.

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