Just as a point of information: I purchased a book on drawing animals and yes, I got the legs of the frog wrong. But that doesn't bother me. For being a drawing without references, it's still pretty good.
Here is the third and final mock poster for my theoretical novel, Fear Adventure.
First, let's get the negatives out of the way. Her butterfly wings are a disappointment (which reminds me - I wanted the Spritel to have antennae.) The leaf should be better than it is. No collar bones I see (but that's a "who cares?"; Spritels might not have collar bones, after all.) And, no doubt, I've blown her arm muscles in some way.
In some ways, I'm happier with how she turned out than the other two. I think I did okay with the shading, and her hair, to me, looks like it has shape and mass. It is also a fuller figure than I usually do (first poster not withstanding.)
It's a learning process, after all, and any advance gives me a bit of hope that I'm not just wasting my time. I may never be a great illustrator, but I'll not be that bad, either.
Next post (assuming I don't learn some other horrible secret about a comic character) will be part two of my Spam thoughts. Then, I think I'll cover what I've learned from all of this.
image created by Cullen M. M. Waters
2 comments:
I like the figure very much, but I don't think it works too well as a poster--as a representation of a story or an idea. There are too many words, and the words are far too "central." The idea of the Spritel is front and center--people look (well, this people) and think, "What's a spritel? Oh, I guess that's one."
The other two posters worked well both visually and story-wise; they'd still be great images without the words at all. This one seems like an incidental illustration.
Ah well. Just my disorganized thoughts....
Which, strangely enough, is what I figured.
Shows you that I'm learning, doesn't it?
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