April Weekly Challenge Hangout

ZekeDraws 2023-04-25 07:15:48 UTC #21

I'm working on my week 4 stuff; I kind of wanted it all to be a surprise, but this is such an extreme pose that I wanted some feedback on if it looks right before I continue on with it. My main concern is the perspective; I'd appreciate thoughts on the anatomy too, though the character will be completely covered by clothes in the final image:

cedricgo 2023-04-25 16:59:23 UTC #22

Honestly I think it's looking pretty good in terms of the perspective and anatomy. I don't think I see anything that jumps at me at looking off. Good job!

ZekeDraws 2023-04-25 17:31:50 UTC #23

Thank you!

malcom 2023-04-25 18:05:06 UTC #24

I did a rough drawover. I think drawing a box or even making a quick 3 point perspective grid would help a lot. Mine isn't perfect, but, my intention is that you get a better idea on how to improve it. Things like finding the half way point of the body by finding the half way point of the box/rectangle your character will be in. You did a good job for the most part. Just some minor tweaks needed.

ZekeDraws 2023-04-26 00:07:33 UTC #25

Thank you for the example!

malcom 2023-04-26 03:15:09 UTC #26

Here's a small wip for week 4. Working on the character design and poses at the same time.
May change hair and clothing a bit as I go. Let me know what you think so far?

ZekeDraws 2023-04-26 08:08:25 UTC #27

These are great! Also, I need to hurry up .

malcom 2023-04-29 03:35:19 UTC #28

QUICKS QUESTION: Do you guys need more time?

Anywhooo...............We're making progress some what. Refined the design some more/changed a lot. I think I can finish in time.

ZekeDraws 2023-04-29 06:58:50 UTC #29

I'm probably going to need a little more time, but I didn't manage my time as well as I should have (I forgot about work ), so I don't know if the deadline should be adjusted because of that.

ZekeDraws 2023-04-29 06:59:23 UTC #30

Your character is looking good, by the way!

malcom 2023-04-29 17:00:39 UTC #31

@ZekeDraws I don't mind extended it an extra day. Thanks for the feedback.

Datwaz_Klauzinov 2023-04-29 22:41:25 UTC #32

Thanks for the deadline extension. Here is a quick preview of my last pose that need to be cleaned and completed (4 of them already done, they just need flat colors now).

malcom 2023-04-30 05:24:49 UTC #33

No problem. Best luck on finishing. Guessing your character is some kind of demon soldier?

malcom 2023-04-30 05:28:42 UTC #34

Well my keyboard on pc is missed up at the moment so I'll have to finish on my ipad later.

Current WIP

ZekeDraws 2023-04-30 06:13:32 UTC #35

I too am grateful for the extension; just one and a half poses left.

Datwaz_Klauzinov 2023-05-01 09:45:46 UTC #36

Exactly.
However, despite the deadline extension, I miscalculated the necessary time to complete a pose with colors and corrections, so one of my pose is lineart only.
I note it on the side for the next time.

malcom 2023-05-01 16:55:26 UTC #37

No worries. Glad you still posted regardless. To reflect, I think this challenge was hard due to the 5 colored pose requirement. Just line art would have been easier or to have less poses.
On one side, time management is a good skill to train, but, at the same time I don't know if having challenges like this is too MUCH if you know what I mean.

At the end of the day, my goal was for artist to take steps towards getting better at posing characters and I feel that it did work. Seeing what everyone has done over the month has been amazing to see. I felt I improved a lot this month as well.

So maybe will try this again in the future, but maybe with a few changes.

malcom 2023-05-01 17:00:45 UTC #38

@ZekeDraws
@Skye_H
@Datwaz_Klauzinov
@cedricgo
@patrycja.lerch

I would love to hear everyone's feedback for this monthly event.
Did you find it fun?
Did you feel that the topics per week helped you level up throughout the month?
How was the overall difficulty? Easy mode, Normal, Hard, Dark Souls or 90s video game BS
What would you like to see in the future?
What would you improve?
Would you do it again?
Anything else that you can think of post it. I would love to hear everyone's feedback so we can make these even better.

patrycja.lerch 2023-05-02 19:00:44 UTC #39

I managed to join only one challenge but I enjoyed it. And it motivated me to do gesture drawing for a week which was helpful

I would love to participate in the next event. Need to work on time management

Optional themes with the main theme would be interesting. For example making poses for super hero, fighter or water based character. Think of it like smaller challenge inside of challenge.

malcom 2023-05-02 19:03:08 UTC #40

That's a good idea. We'll try that out one of these days.