I was trying the Loomis method for heads after seeing the first 10 minutes of this video and I finally figured out how to draw 3/4 faces appropriately 😁
Use a sphere, chop the sides off and draw 90° guidelines onto the sides. These guidelines determine the way a character is facing.
Now I'm looking through old pictures and thinking like: aww that looks so cute. I should totally take some of the old designs and integrate them into the new ones.
like, here what I'm talking about (old one above, new one below):
I really like the eyes of the old one, the loose hairstrains and the staff. THAT STAFF IS SO COOL!!! Imagine her pulling out a giant ink pen out of it.
In the new design, I merged the eye colours (might undo that, I think I like the separate colours. I also did that originally to set her colour-sceme, since the cloak was ... all colours.) I replaced the staff with a scroll because she wouldn't be fighting, but currently I'm like, I don't care, I want staff, gimme staff o.o
Maybe I'll merge what I listed above from the old design with the hairstyle and outfit from the lower one. (If I make that staff a giant ink pen, that vial of ink will clearly need to be bigger. Or could it be, that she just spills the ink over the tip of the pen and then starts to draw?)
Edit: Oh and in terms of creativity and the creative way I decided their names (it was simply their profession. I was lazy 😅) I decided to put a little more effort in and rename them. So er name is not Creativity or Crea anymore, her new name is Yishu.
Yishu, the guardian of creativity
Do you sometimes also have the feeling after just drawing a sketch of your OC like, damn, he looks too good.
Look at this goofball:
Not sure if I liie what I did with the nose on the left one, but trying to adapt the mha-noses to more realistic proportions and it looked in most cases allright I think? Got to try it out a little more.
BUT that's my design for my OC Space, seventh Guardian and Guardian of Space (Yeah, I need to figure out a name AND a backstory for him. Still don't have a clue if I go more fantasy or realistic about this storywise.)
He's an energetic little goofball and he and he and Blake (not sure, did I post about him already? I think I have.) Are siblings. Well, they think they are, because they look the same and both joined the Guardians at the same time. In reality, they are just alternate versions of the same person from different enviroments.
I am currently working on a little something which I'm not sure if I'll manage to make something out of it but I'm motivated to continue.
I wanted to maybe make a one-paged small teensy tiny comic about one of my OCs. Currently, I am still working on their designs and hopefully I'll get something done this time, but I'm confident 😁
PS: I am also currently amazed by animation again. I'll keep training a little and then I can share something with you.
(I am also trying to post more often, but let's see how that'll turn out 😂)
Geez, I completley forgot I did this some time ago ... how did I even do this?
Heya, you know that rhythm game Friday Night Funkin?
I was lately thinking about, how cool it would be to sing against all of the sanses...
... yeah, I guess I have a new obsession...
(also lately got a little into drawing models for animation and the process of organized drawing is kind of satisfying)
Killer Sans by @rahafwabas
I'm currently having same character syndrome, wooooo!
Or maybe it's a lack of inspiration.
But at least I got back to drawing and liking my current style again.
Why does it always happen that I get carried away at some point while doodeling? Here, have a happy Izuku.
I should also try again working on my own artstlye again and just stop drawing screencaps from mha.
Ehh, whatever. Too much fun to stop 😝
I am trying to animate again :D
but nothing too big this time.
I was thinking about, how one of my OC's powers would work, and I had a little idea for a loop (after watching a sick fighting animation on Youtube, just that I couldn't figure out how to make something like that, so I'll just make a loop)
Anyway, I wanted to animate my OC Kael (Guardian of Time) and even with the keyframes, I am already impressed with how that looks.
Sneak peek below :D but don't expect too much
Note: Roughing it out, setting basic proportions, and so on ... I don't know if my timings are fine or if I need to tweak something about it ...
More sneak peek
I'm currently really pushing through. Also realised, I don't use any in-betweens by now XD (at least for now, but the animation feels fluid enough) AND I also needed to figure out the rest of the character design. I guess for now, I have something I might stick with, but this could change in the end or become more detailed.
AND NOW I FINALLY REALIZED WHY A CERTAIN PART LOOKED WEIRD!!! I copied the pose right as he turns around and forgot to change the legs so suddenly they were swapped.
And now I am realising that this might take some more brain power to fix, than just change that one frame ................
I think, I fixed it ... I guess it was not that visible from the beginning anyway ... just the feeling that was bugging me.
Well, it's still wrong and feels wrong. But this clearly takes more brain capacity than I currently have left. Guess I'll roughly animate the rest and continue hopefully tomorrow.
So, current state for today: (and yes, I still need to fix that stupid frame, or isn't it even noticeable?)
Found this little goober while looking through my sketchbook.