Dec '22

Started working on this assignment:

I've got some character outfits i need to design for my story as well so utilizing that to do both.

Started setting up the body template for Maxus (making like 4 other maxus outfits for different backstory arcs - its gonna be the usual 4 views for each outfit.)

Since i had a skeleton ready i was like hey i should add muscles to that before i do the lineart for good practice.

And because i practiced the torso muscles like 60 times and the arms and legs like 30 times each (previous post ^) I remembered all the muscles! drew these without looking at my notes - straight from memory :smiley:

Well there was actually one that i forgot which is the muscle that sits on top of these (the yolk colored ones.):

here are all the sketches i have so far - side view is surprisingly hard to draw for me still lol

Dec '22

That’s great stuff! Side view of the body I also found tricky, lots of rhythms that don’t seem too intuitive on my mind at first

As for the muscle, I am mot entirely sure which you mean. There’s one that crosses over from the scapula all the way down to superficial facia and the proximal radius that starts with two heads (biceps brachii, thats the one that supinates or makes your palms face up when the elbow is flexed). That’s the more anterior or superficial muscle of the arm. Then, right under it, hugging the the middle of the humerus and inserting on the proximal ulna you have tue brachial muscle, it’s under the biceps and is actually the most important muscle for flexing the elbow joint (closing the angle between the arm and forearm.

Additionally to those two, one of the muscles of the forearm crosses over the tendon of the biceps brachii from the lateral side of the humerus towards the distal radius (brachioradialis) this one helps flex the elbow and is best seen when the forearm is pronated or not entirely supinated

As for palettes, this is a hard one! Haha, i like both the second and third versions best but somehow feel the last is coolest. I can imagine her being some sort of sci fi valkyrie defending a green friendly civilization in a far away galaxy

Keep it up!

Dec '22

thanks for the detailed comment! btw i didnt start on the palletes yet im just putting down the character sketch. once i draw the clothes then ill do the color palletes

Dec '22

Its not easy remembering the muscles, so your doing well.

Dec '22

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mitsuki-youko

Very clean studies Mitsuki!, and those Arm & Leg notes will definitely come in handy, I'll be stealing them when the time comes ty xd.

9 days later

Dec '22

@prinzmoana @Lockenheim @smudged_ink @CYP2C19 @leiana.rose Thanks for the compliments :smiley:

Busy week this week lol here's what i have so far on my color theory hw.

So with Maxus I originally designed 2 outfits - not changing the colors for those cus i like them so i messed around with the adobe color picker thingy to make them match the colors i have:

(not the best anatomy here but its more about the color than the anatomy :stuck_out_tongue:)

Now here come the actual new designs.. i have a few arcs that i need to design outfits for and this is one of them from when maxus was working in the black market when she was 16/17.

so at first, i tried picking the initial color which was gonna be white cus i thought white with highlights looked good but i felt very restricted to the colors i selected. normally what i usually do is just pick colors i think go well together instead of using a color chart...

First color chart was this..

did a few designs and didnt like it..

then tried a different color scheme.. didnt like that either

ended up going back to my old process. throwing on 2 colors, black for the cloak/hoodie and red for the highlights.. i liked what i had there so i decided to use the color picker thingy again to do the hw.

Had a few designs before i ended up with one i liked.

Ended up going with this tho i think i still ended up tweaking the final a bit like making the hoodie detail beige.:

I also designed the emblems for the different groups under this black market leader (musashi) (based on cards cus alice in wonderland theme kind of lol)




Colored:

and here's the final outfit:

I have like 3 more outfits to create for maxus so ill be back once i finish those :smiley: im also plotbuilding as i make these :smiley:

Dec '22

Yooo these symbols look so good and I love the final colors :smiley: