Thursday, December 25, 2008

Happy Holidays!

Marry Christmas to all, and enjoy this sketch from a few months back of two of my favorite videogame characters.... Cloud Strife, and Vincent Valentine from Final Fantasy VII. Unfortunately I had to upload this since my access to the scanner is null due to me moving, but by all means, give feedback. And Don't forget to enjoy your Holidays....
























I keep wondering If inking it would be wise, any suggestions?

Peace and blessings...

Mello!
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4 comments:

TMALO70 said...

INK IT!!!

Take a Kneaded Eraser to it, Gently... Take some the Graphite off, in order to avoid smudgin' too much...
Don't do any hatching... Just go for Straight Blacks as Shadows on these...

Now for some Constructive Crits (Which I Expect From You as Well)... If Cloud is Runnin' Forward, His back leg looks more "BowLegged" than "ForeShortened" ... The reason it looks that way, is because both legs are on the same plane... While Vincent's legs are on the same plane as well, You foreshortened the Leg above Cloud, only showin' Us the Front View of His Leg (Which Totally Worked for Me)... If He's just in an Actiony Pose, the leg under Vincent could be in a more Dynamic position to go with His Upper Body's Motion... I'll email You some pics to reference, either way if that'll help some... If You want to look around as well, go to flickr.com , Scroll down to the bottom, and click popular tags... In the search bar, type in Gymanstics, Parkour, Free Running, Kung-Fu, any of that stuff and grab shots from that... Look at the way the Body moves on a real body, and translate that into Your Style... It'll add to Your Pose Repitoire... It's what I do, other than People watch...

I Hope Any of This Helped and Encouraged... I Love seein' New Posts By You... Keep it goin' Man...

Later

January 4, 2009 at 6:55 PM
Mello said...

Thanks bro,

I knew something looked kind of hokey with the drawing, I'll definitely hit up flickr.com.

Once again thanks for the advice, And I'll see to post both the inked version and maybe a new piece with these two guys with some better positioning.

January 6, 2009 at 2:01 PM
TMALO70 said...

HEY!!!

Carmello...

Where You At?!?

I Hope Everythin' is Alright, and You're just Drawin' You Ass Off...

T...

January 15, 2009 at 4:53 AM
Mello said...

Hey Tony,

Sorry for the absence, but you know how unpacking can be sometimes. I'm going to see to get more stuff up, other than that, I'm definitely going to contact you soon, hopefully I can get some art up either later today, or tomorrow, because I gotta be honest, I really gotta start postin' on this blog more than I have.
Oh well,

Later bro....

Mello


...By the by, found a bookstore with a whole bunch of issues of Heavy Metal from the 70s and 80s!!!

January 20, 2009 at 12:54 AM

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