All I want for Christmas is my one right leg.
Float like a butterfly, Sting like a WTF!?
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All I want for Christmas is my one right leg.
“Oh! You’re early! I haven’t put my clothes on, or straightened my spine out yet. Hold on.”
wildmanshedevil submitted:
So I thought I’d attempt a redraw of this Witchblade pictue, even though I have a hell of a long way to go as an artist myself. More than likely you can see my own mistakes, but that’s the beauty of the redraws - constructive criticism comes your way!
My initial thought was simply that it was an issue of “swivel waist”, which doesn’t make sense either way to me.
This is how I laid out the first problem with the picture for myself
Then the first redraw came along, after which I realised that there were other problems with the original artwork
Here’s how I tried to sort out these issues
And the conclusion I finally came to:
It was easier for me to change her pose to one where she’s sitting rather than standing. Right now I’m dreading to think of where I went wrong with my finalised image, but I hope to get constructive feedback from people!
I think you have a good attitude for your redraw. :) Try your best at it, but also be aware of your own limitations and open to feedback. It’s a good attitude for any artist in general, I think. :)
triangle—soup submitted:
Hi, this is my first redraw, critique appreciated - I want to learn!
So I did my best to try and fix her blank expression and twisty spine - I know this pose is vaguelly possible, but the extreme nature of it bothered me a little, cos it looks like she’s straining to show bum cleavage and boob cleavage at the same time. Instead I tried to follow le-mec’s video about suggesting rather than showing everything at once and tried to make her pose a little more naturalistic?
I like this redraw quite a lot. It’s both sexier and more natural. And it’s more enticing with her looking over her shoulder at us.