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jeph:

--- Quote from: Vertical Stripes ---God I hate anime.
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What I like about these sketches is that you are clearly more concerned with rendering proper form and proportion than hitting all the typical anime/manga touchstones. Most American kids who want to draw anime get so fixated on the HUGE GOOGLY EYES OMG that they completely miss the excellent figure-drawing and posture skills that most actual manga artists posess.

Your style (in these drawings anyway) reminds me a lot of my pal Aido. There's some definite anime influence in there but you've made it your own.

lost in storm:
*THAT* was the advice of an artist. :D

It's a shame no files can be attached on this forum. I don't have my scans resident on a server as of now, but would like to share some of my stuff. Oh well. :(

Vertical Stripes:
Thanks everyone XD  

I also just drew this.

I was thinking of the way I'd imagined I'd look when I was older, back when I was a kid.  I'm nothing like what I wanted to be, but hey, I'm not complaining XD.

lost in storm:
Looks good! :)

Here's something I noticed a while back about my work…when you draw something standard, like a profile or face-on, you tend to shut down creative brain parts and instead crutch on left-brain "cookie-cutter" habits that you pick up learning how to draw. This can lead to less-natural looking results.

I say this, because the 3/4 drawing up top is better than the face-on, and it could be due to something like this. This is partially why I didn't like to do plain poses, but something that always trained my brain to keep from crystallizing into symbolism. Doing something that doesn't match the cookie-cutter in your head forces your brain to draw what it sees, rather than a symbol of what it sees, and voila! An awesome face, like the first pic. :D

Right now, I'm struggling with that, not having drawn since '03 and trying to get design work, all of my hard work vanished. So we're really in the same boat!

Never stop drawing, or seeing things differently, ever. :D

Vertical Stripes:
I wanted it to look like one half of her was getting ready to do a pirouet, and the other half was just going "Ta-daaaa!"

Yeah, usually full-front on is kinda... bleheeehehehehe, but it kinda needed to be for this peecshur.

I appreciate your comments a lot.  Thanks.

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