female heroine character design (nudity)

#1

and a zoom on that complex expression:

Its taken me ages to get this done, so much tweaking!! Any feedback would be nice. This concept I will later translate to 3d.
Her armour is more Barbarella than Joan of Arc :wink:

Hereā€™s the sketches: (had to fix the proportions when illustrating.)

And also hereā€™s the original idea (space diaz) that I did a while back, the basic idea was to make a bare chested heroine that wasnā€™t overly sexual or imposing but quite serious. http://www.gtp.org.uk/junk.images/sd/sd_old.jpg

please give me your likes and dislikes. Iā€™m going to revisit this later to do a side view and a possible action view before I model her.
The weapon is a sort of sound based thing, sonic boom arm or somethingā€¦ The final model will be used as portfolio material in a small director3d game (using flatshading)

#2

excellent job! makes me want to start doing vector art. love your website , too!

#3

love your image! and you surely know that vector is not easy at all

#4

ā€¦nice skethes (i guess you wrong with proportions)ā€¦nice design ā€¦ great expression ā€¦ good work ā€¦:slight_smile:

#5

the model is okay (some proportion probs maybe) but you used too many fill colorsā€¦ youā€™d better use gradient or simply make different shapes to provide volumes.
look at this boy i made:

the image (better like that Terminal24?)

i only used fill colors but made different shapes for the same part of the bodyā€¦ then it makes volume (not enough contrasted here).
your pic is a nice start but it needs more details.
good game anyway :slight_smile:

#6

maxou

I really have no idea what you are on about or why youā€™re pimping your work in my thread :wink:

good game? fill gadients? details? I fear you have no clue what youā€™re on about

Thanks for the comments everyone (wow its hard to get even one reply in cgtalk usually)

#7

Terminal24 itā€™s not floodingā€¦
i said i think your illustration is too flat. i said to use gradient fills and not simple colors and finally i shown you how i make volumes without gradientsā€¦ if you donā€™t know what a gradient color is, then i fear YOU have no clue what youā€™re on about. that was just a crit, thatā€™s why you posted this thread isnā€™t it? i think your job is not finished. thatā€™s all.
Sincerely.

#8

I think more detail would ruin it :wink:

As for colouring, its pretty much what Iā€™m doing at the moment - more minimal. Check my website for more.

Iā€™d never use a gradient to fill shape or volume. They are ugly :cry: but I do use gradients here and there sometimes.

Everything in moderation I believe. I think a lot of work on this forum is highly different, taking the uber detailed approach :confused:

(Thanks for taking your artwork out of this thread, nothing personal but if the shoe was on the other foot Iā€™m sure youā€™d ask me to do the same. Iā€™m confused about ā€œgood gameā€ mostlyā€¦ what game?)

#9

there were no bad intentions in my crits but you reacted like an artist who posts an image and says: ā€œyou can criticize but i wonā€™t modify my pic.ā€
i just told you some tips, i use illustrator since 5 years then i know how to get the right effects.
i saw your site and youā€™re really good in webdesign, but maybe you can checkout mine too to see what i did with gradient tools. the gradients are ugly when you use ugly colorsā€¦ itā€™s normal.
you said itā€™s pretty much what youā€™re doing right nowā€¦ well if you think it itā€™s cool but youā€™d better take care about the other guys when they give you advices. trust me (no agression just talkinā€™).
(good game: well done, nice stuff, good work)
see ya.

#10

I donā€™t want a game of tennis here with you maxou.

I think the reason why I was a bit annoyed with your first reply is because you jumped in, told me that I was doing everything wrong and posted some of your own artwork in here.

You should know, there is no right or wrong, only personal preference. I guess this is what you were trying to do, please try wording your messages differently to avoid confusion.

Again, thanks for the feed back, its a ****ing miracle that anyone repliedā€¦ cgtalk is an odd place.

#11

Looks nice but it looks too flat to me. That might be the style you are going for but I think it would look much nicer with more shading and highlights. Just my opinion.

#12

An idea ā€“ take your pencil sketch, then import that ā€œfinalā€ colored rendition of it in a new layer on top of it, then do a layer blend into the sketch, then work on some shading. It will look cool, believe me :slight_smile:

#13

looks good for a vector effect. only thing I would suggest is the arm on the left side should have something to seperate the hand from the extension (like in the original drawing you have).

#14

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