[derm]

Been a while... anyway, I felt compelled to draw a man in a suit on the subway with a bloody katana, so here's what I've got so far. I guess I'm not really too much of an artist by this board's standards, so I'm sure someone will have a lot to criticize.

Here it is with what I have colored so far:



And here is the line work: Line-Art.

[ June 17, 2002: Message edited by: derm ]

[Evenflcw]

It doesn't look bad at all imo, well within this boards standards. Anatomywise it looks pretty ok. Shoulders and neck looks abit small though. What I'm having some problems with, is imagining the story behind this pic. What has just happened? Imo, he looks like a businessman who just made his first kill, and is having a hard time understanding what he's just done.

[derm]

You've about hit it on the nose. You can't see the lines suggesting his withered/tired facial appearance in this smaller shot, but that's what I will be going for when I get to that.

[derm]

Here it is so far. I'm still contemplating exactly what will be in the background... aside from the blood oin the sword, though, this guy's near done I think.

[Karp]

i think he looks a bit pale right now

and his smudgy face just doesnt really fit

maybe add a few days of not shaving
add some more shadow to the face, some grooves, more emotion
its kinda empty now

[derm]

Actually he's got more to his face than you can see there, as well as a sort of afternoon shadow that just looked like dirt if anything in the small version. Here's a closer shot of his face:



What do you think?


I'm thinking of making him right around the corner from a hallway on the subway, and father down the hallway is a shadowy figure slumped to the floor. Later, though...


<edit>Typo in the image url

[ June 20, 2002: Message edited by: derm ]

[Karp]

because the guy looks pretty normal except for the sword, you might wanna do something like.... *brainstorm*


make him sit on a pretty normal bench along the sidewalk
with a little stream of blood coming from an alley left to him...
and make the alley dark so you'll only see a hand on the floor
the rest is cut of by darkness
so the source of blood is vague

bah cant explain so i made a 2min drawing
nope, i dont have a wacom or anything l33t, so you'll have to do with this sketch

[[666]Flat]

How you you call your pic? "The last start-up entrepreneur", maybe?

[ June 20, 2002: Message edited by: [666]Flat ]

[Jeise]

Like has been said many times before on this board: vary your colours. I can count the number of hues you used, and that's a bad thing.

[PaK0r]

more of an indication of some defined light sources would help this painting. it seems very flat to me.