Art: Yi-jie base poses & detailed sketches!
Added 2021-09-23 13:13:40 +0000 UTCHey everyone,
I wanted to share some more art with you again :) So one of the things I've worked on this week, were the character poses for Yi-jie.
But before I started on that, I first wanted to detail the original design a bit more. So I refined her body & arms, and also changed her face so it would be less generic (see previous post for comparison). And once I was happy with that, I expanded te image again into several poses & facial expressions.
Here you can see the results :)
I thought, her mechanical arms were pretty cool...but they are also quite complicated to draw :) So when possible, I will always reuse bits I drew before, to safe myself some time and so that things will look the same in each pose.
Here I could only reuse the lower arm, but I still had to redraw the shoulder-pad, hand and upper arm.
Now I also thought it might be interesting to show you, how I actually look at my drawings; because most of the time, I zoom in quite a bit, like this.
Now here you can see that my lines aren't always super sharp. Instead they are often quite soft & painterly. At first I saw these messy lines as 'imperfections' , and tried to clean it up by making the lines sharper. But every time I did that, it would hurt the image and made it look cheaper somehow. So... I tried to embraced the imperfections. And in a strange way it helps to bring the image to life :)
Well, and that's all I can share for now... without giving away to many plot-spoilers ;)
And as always, I'd love to hear what you think of it!
All the best,
Robin
Comments
Haha -I guess that's her backstory now!
Robin
2021-09-29 10:29:07 +0000 UTCWow. That vibrator is so powerful, it made her arm disintegrate! Where can I get one?
2021-09-24 23:32:53 +0000 UTCThank you so much Gotan! :)
Robin
2021-09-24 08:30:52 +0000 UTCNo worries, all suggestions are welcome! Well, to be honest; the main goal here was to come up with a sexy outfit for a plasma smith, working in a hot enviorment. So logic didn't prevail here :) But I tried to make it as logical as possible. So, this suit would probably not be the most comfortable. But I was very aware of this; in one of my story variations, I actually had Keen put on these mechanical arms; which would really empasize how uncomfortable this really is, especially for men :D But maybe I'm wrong, and perhaps this will wear like a bathing suit or so? I guess we'll need to wait for cosplayers to make this and then we'll probably find out :)
Robin
2021-09-24 08:29:49 +0000 UTCGreat work, slingshots are awesome
Gotan
2021-09-24 01:25:42 +0000 UTCWonderful work, as always, Robin. Thank you! I have a design question about Yie-jie's outfit, though: Wouldn't it be uncomfortable to have two fixed strips of silk? cloth? leather? looped around one's most sensitive parts? Do these "futuristic suspenders" automatically adjust their length to prevent such problems? I fully realize that Yi-jie is a cartoon character, but all of your work so far passes basic design logic, so I'm wondering if I'm seeing the character's outfit correctly, or if there's more going on to design than I realize? No offense intended to you or your beautiful artwork; I'm just wondering how the outfit might function. Cheers! D.
Dacer
2021-09-23 22:58:00 +0000 UTC
