Thread: InTruedHer- another Tornado step-by-step

Thanks Burns - there is still something that bothers me about the last sketch: the way both arms are so parallel. Looks a bit stiff. I might go back and tinker with it, but I gotta work out the markings and background yet.

Originally Posted by RootJ

I always have a problem with feet when I draw people, whether they have footwear or not, and faces too.

Ah, those are exactly the same two things I still have issues with myself - you just don't see the piles of other "sketches" I go through! Feet I've been noticing some improvement - but faces are a bitch. I don't know how these comicbook people get gorgeous and handsome characters every time!

practice, practice, practice, I guess...

Originally Posted by Tornado Joe

Thanks Burns - there is still something that bothers me about the last sketch: the way both arms are so parallel. Looks a bit stiff. I might go back and tinker with it, but I gotta work out the markings and background yet.

hmm... maybe if the kneeling woman's arm was over the leg, rather than inside it... but then it would kinda block the breast. Honestly though, I didn't even notice that until you said it.

Originally Posted by Burns

hmm... maybe if the kneeling woman's arm was over the leg, rather than inside it... but then it would kinda block the breast.

That's not the only thing it would ruin. Heh. ( @ Joe)
But yeah, I didn't notice the arms being too parallel until he mentioned it, either.

Very nice concept, so far, Joe. Can't wait to see you work your way through it.

Originally Posted by Oneironaut

That's not the only thing it would ruin. Heh. ( @ Joe)

oh man, I didn't even notice that until I couldn't figure out what the hell you were talking about and looked at the sketch again! haha Joe you HAVE to leave it how it is!

LOL! Amazing how some things get right by some people - and also how some people catch things that even I don't intend! But yah, that one was intentional. Still, I think it looks too much like she's 'poking' rather than caressing (that just ain't my style )

uuukay.... moving on:

haha Joe you HAVE to leave it how it is!

Well shucks, I spent like an hour last night fiddling with the damn thing and may have come up with an alternative (but I agree with you two, still like the original ) I haven't scanned them yet, but I'll try and do that tonight so I can get a general concensus. The hand pictured here was just my first attempt - looks like she's got a cramp or carpel tunnel!!

Step Ib: background/setting
I always imagined these two in up on some sort of pedestal, isolated up high, yet very visible - kind of on display. Like a stage. So I came up with this sorta tree stump thinggy with a flat, soft, smooth top where they can "perform"

I think I might add some vines and stuff in the background. I'm going to try and make it so it looks like they're under a canopy of heavy foliage, with rays of light kinda peeking through. I wasn't really happy with the lighting on the last piece (HerLayRiseHer), so I'm going to try and do better with this one.

Love the pedestal, but I liked the arm in the original one better. You're right, it looks like an uncomfortable and unnatural position... and now that I know what the hand was doing before, you can't do better than that!

How about making the palm of her hand facing upward? Maybe take a little bit of the sharpness out of the angle of her wrist and make the finger that's visible be her thumb, instead of her pinky, so that shes resting on the back of her hand? That might entail bending her arm just slightly and bringing the elbow back, so that it's not straight up and down. (Her palm is facing downward in the sketch, right? That's how I see it.)

And I love the way you do those crazy-ass tree limbs/vines.