Weekly Pinup Sketch

This one is being a lot of fun to draw. I love to play with different angles and poses that I wouldn't think to draw, very often. I imagine she's probably fallen out of a tree again, and is a bit embarrassed that someone might have seen her tumble. So much for the fabled dexterity of the elves!

With a few of my characters, I have become really cautious about how I draw them. I want the art I do of them to remain true to the character. In the past, as I was developing as an artist, I did draw a few of my characters (namely Lin) in fairly erotic situations, either nude or nearly so. I have come to regret this, because such pieces are so far outside of the actual personality of the character themselves. That's not to say that I won't have characters that are intended to be sexy eye candy, but it won't be all of them. The elven archer is one such character that isn't meant to be a sex symbol of any kind. Still, she's meant to be cute, and a little goofy, so these sort of pictures don't hurt her authenticity, I feel. Some things I had to be intentionally careful of, when drawing this, like making sure that she doesn't have a cameltoe, or underwear slippage. She's gotta be cute, but not trying too hard, if that makes sense. Even her choice in under garments took some consideration, and I decided to go with some booty shorts like Yoko Littner wears (in the anime: "Tango Toppa Gurren Lagann"). That way she's not too revealing, but also not losing cute/sexy points.

Anyways, thanks for reading my mental ramblings. Maybe it gives  a bit of incite into what I think about as I draw these. Some pictures are just randoms that I can do whatever I want with, while other characters require some special consideration.

Ok, that's it for now! I hope you enjoy this weeks sketch, I'll have the colors done soon! Thanks for all your support!
~Ray