Sketchy Sunday 16 (belated)
Apr. 21st, 2014 10:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rhondacrockettYes, yes, I know it's not Sunday anymore! But the internet was playing up yesterday and I wasn't able to post until today. Better late than never, eh?
I am totally blaming Tues/Wednesday's and Thurs/Fri/Sat/Sunday's sketches on the fact that I've been listening to Evanescence's Fallen for the past week and a half; I blame that on this particular post on the Mary Sue Problems Tumblr, and I blame that on this post on Paperback Writer lol.
This week has been a case of being-really-happy-even-though-I-know-there-are-problems. Thurs/Fri/Sat/Sunday's, for instance: I know I'm all over the place with my perspective and placement of shadows and my attempts to make the boulders in the foreground look 3D are clumsy - but I still like it a lot. And Tues/Wednesday's, well...
...the wings are weird. They're supposed to be folded back-to-back and stretched straight up (or down, depending on your perspective), so that they're as thin and flat as possible: the wing equivalent of putting your arms above your head with hands pressed palm-to-palm. I just could not work out how to put that on paper, so I ended up with the mess above. But I love the feathery detail along the edges of the wings, I think it works really well. And I adore his little upside-down head! - as long as it's upside down; when you rotate it, he looks like a pig.
Also, in the rotated version his legs look ridiculously short, but in the original they look fine. I wanted his body to look curved, with the legs and head bending back from the viewer and his trunk pushed forward... and I kinda think it does look like that... but I don't know if anyone else sees it...
I am totally blaming Tues/Wednesday's and Thurs/Fri/Sat/Sunday's sketches on the fact that I've been listening to Evanescence's Fallen for the past week and a half; I blame that on this particular post on the Mary Sue Problems Tumblr, and I blame that on this post on Paperback Writer lol.
This week has been a case of being-really-happy-even-though-I-know-there-are-problems. Thurs/Fri/Sat/Sunday's, for instance: I know I'm all over the place with my perspective and placement of shadows and my attempts to make the boulders in the foreground look 3D are clumsy - but I still like it a lot. And Tues/Wednesday's, well...
...the wings are weird. They're supposed to be folded back-to-back and stretched straight up (or down, depending on your perspective), so that they're as thin and flat as possible: the wing equivalent of putting your arms above your head with hands pressed palm-to-palm. I just could not work out how to put that on paper, so I ended up with the mess above. But I love the feathery detail along the edges of the wings, I think it works really well. And I adore his little upside-down head! - as long as it's upside down; when you rotate it, he looks like a pig.
Also, in the rotated version his legs look ridiculously short, but in the original they look fine. I wanted his body to look curved, with the legs and head bending back from the viewer and his trunk pushed forward... and I kinda think it does look like that... but I don't know if anyone else sees it...
