Clothed, sitting sideways (Meredith)

Meredith's face is not yet fixed in my head, but she has softer features than Heresy.


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This is a work in progress, partly to show the construction lines so people can advise me on them. Unlike the others, this one has been altered in Paint (I don't have another image programme) - she had a neck like a giraffe. One of her legs is longer than the other, which I need to correct. I think there's something wrong with the perspective, angle and her legs. Any thoughts?

Clothed, sitting (Heresy, young)

She hates me slightly less for this one. Slightly.

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I drew this one first after the basic construction. Originally the bandaged leg was up on a table, but then I went "OH GOD FORESHORTENING OH GOD" and wimped out. She looks too much like me, but then she would, because my default Generic Face looks like mine, and I haven't worked out her face shape.

She is meant to be holding the tankard with her fingertips given the rest of her hand is bandaged, but the hands are still wrong. Tell me what else is wrong and why :)

Topless from the back (Heresy)

My God does she hate me.

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The mouth is wrong. (She's awkward because she talks out of the side of her mouth.) Also, there's something going on with the back. When I look at it, it keeps shifting like an optical illusion. It is not obviously as "back facing, turned slightly" rather than "front facing" torso. The shoulders are off. The fall of the skirt is wrong wrong wrong. What needs changing?

Basic construction (Heresy)

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Unfinished. I was googling around for something on body proportions, and this is what I drafted as a result. The next three ones are based from this; I figured I should probably try out "standard" before trying to get clever with individuals being differently built.

Not an inline image because... linking it in makes me cringe less? OH GOD I DON'T KNOW my brain is funny. Proportions are hard, I will love you for help with them in everything in this blog.

So.

So. I've started drawing again. I'll say now that I am not good at drawing. I know this. I want to get better though. Particularly, I want to get better at drawing people. My instincts are really to bury my drawings at the bottom of a drawer, but that won't help me correct the many things wrong with them. So I'm going to stick them here. That way, any generous people who want to help can help me out, even though my scrawlings are of no interest to the general population of the internet. :)