Clothed, standing (Heresy) FINISHED

Finished the bugger! God her skintone is difficult. I'd have thought fair skin would be harder than a deeper sligtly sallow complexion, but it's really not. Suspect my lack of a decently brown-toned pink doesn't much help, but I'm reasonably satisfied with what I did with what I have. (brown on yellow ochre, no white underlay) Salt-and-pepper hair is difficult too - haven't managed that very well.

Curious how much more manic she looks in this than she did in pencil. Colours a bit dulled by the fading daylight.

Full length. She looks orders of magnitude more manic in the fullsize original.

Top. OK, she does look fairly manic here. I think it's the whites of the eyes. Also her irises are off. Grr.


Plain inking, for completeness. Is kind of terrifyingly psychotic.Was thinking about doing it monochrome ink except for the red.


What's borked? :D

Clothed, standing (Heresy) WIP

Another WIP. Not sure why I thought drawing someone holding something straight in front of them was ever going to be a good idea. It's actually quite hard to hold a single sheet of paper like that. Looks better than the other ways though and nicely obscures the ARM OF HORROR.

This may be a vision occasionally haunting the nightmares of a couple of Heresy's old friends-the-enemies in what is now the Church of Justice. Nobody in their right mind wants to work with someone like her, even if they weren't routinely locking her up ten years ago. :P

Heresy Smith would never forge Temple papers just for the entertainment of trolling some old enemies... Probably. (Full view)

Top half. might have overspaced the eyes, but usually I do them too close together.

What's wrong with it? :D

Clothed, standing (Meredith and Mary Sue) FINISHED, coloured

FINISHED! The pencils work much better on this rougher, cheaper paper, which is worth knowing. Reasonably pleased with this now, apart from Mary Sue's borked left shoulder, which is annoying me greatly but it's too late to do anything about.

Drawing plate is fun! Mary Sue, naturally, has the right to wear all the colours in the Morvanian hierarchy and is a blonde Norscan stereotype. Meredith only has the right to wear brown and has somehow entangled herself in an old bandage, which sums up her standing in the Church pretty well actually. :P

Full view. Rotated just a touch to compensate for having drawn it at a slight angle.


Meredith closeup. Screwed up her mouth a bit. Quite pleased with how the skin turned out given the paper was dying a bit.

Closeup of dear Mary. She has a slightly odd-shaped head to my eye. Oh well.

Just because it's finished doesn't mean I don't still want to know what's wrong! :D Thanks to everyone who commented on the WIP, your comments were really really useful! :D Whether I draw too much hair visible because I'm taller than a lot of my friends and so usually see people that way is an interesting question. Working on correcting that tendency may be my next goal.

Clothed, standing (Meredith and Mary Sue) WIP Mark II

ETA: Inked the bugger! :D

INKED. I think dear Mary *is* listing slightly backwards. Perhaps she's drunk. Even Sues aren't perfect.

The consensus of comments on the last incarnation of this bastard was really helpful, thanks guys! :D Seems I was massively overcompensating for previously making heads too small. Hopefully they're at least somewhat back in proportion here. Changed what Meredith was doing to make her slightly more disorganised. I'm not entirely sure how she managed to get a bandage trailing around her leg, but shit happens. Finally referenced a pair of boots and tried to fix Meredith's shoulder. They're the work of the devil.

The paper over Meredith's head is now so rough and bastardised from the amount of rubbing-out that I'm not sure I can colour this. Hmm. What's *still* wrong? :P

Morvanian Sue is very tall. But she has a nicer spear. And Sues are larger than life. :P

Clothed, standing (Meredith and Mary Sue)

Another WIP in pencil. This is Meredith and a Morvanian Mary Sue. Meredith's Mary Sue, in fact. Meredith would like very much to be tall, look impressive in plate, have neat hair and look her age. Unfortunately she's on the short end of average, baby-faced and will never, ever have neat hair.

Morvanian Mary Sue is kind of a smug bitch.

Tell me what's wrong! :D This one is a clusterfuck of annoying difficult angles and HAND WOE. The feet need a lot of work. Ugh.

Sitting and standing, clothed (Robert and Sophia) WIP

Another WIP, this time of my M&M character and her cousin Robert, played by Entimix. I don't know what even possessed me to try someone playing the piano, let alone at a horrible angle like this. Madness.

Robert, incidentally, is intended to look a bit girly, or at least ambiguous. Difficult trying to do that, keep some family resmblance between him and Sophia, and preserve some of the physrep's features too. He is not supposed to look like his arms are on backwards though. I think I might have made his face a bit too long - are the eyes a shade high? Sophia's hands are fucked and I can't seem to unfuck them. She has a much longer nose than me. I think she may have just discovered how good a pianist her cousin Robert is. She looks excited, at any rate.

Not sure whether to ink this or colour it. I dunno. What's wrong with it? :D

Full view. Goddamn Regency pianos aren't tall enough to obscure his hands.

Detail. Mr Robert Faulconer is a very... *pretty* young man.

Clothed, standing (Heresy) INKED

Finished the bugger! Dunno whether to colour it or not. I might just leave it. Not sure about her jaw still.

Brush pen makes the fineliner much less scary! :D Thanks to porange for holding my hand while I flailed and went "wargh what do I do with the scary ink" :P

Heresy does like singing. Just not with people listening. Full length,

Headshot

Commentry, criticism and advice still as welcome as ever! Anatomy, technique, composition... you say it, I'll listen :) :)