Nice job with the forced perspective on Iron Man's hand. You're definitely improving.

I think I might have an idea why his feet and Dante's coat are bothering you, if you wouldn't mind me offering suggestions. Iron Man's foot is almost completely vertical there. His leg, however, looks like it's straight up and down. Your foot doesn't really bend that far. If his leg is straight up and down, you'd see a little of the top of his shoe, at the toe. If his leg is supposed to be stretched towards the "camera," then you'd see less of his shin because his foot is closer to the viewer. It might be his kneecap, too-- since his shin is not shaded or fixed with any defining lines, it's more difficult to tell the exact position of his leg. If his leg is straight up and down, then the top of his "boot" there on his kneecap would fall at the natural knee, where it is right now. If the foot is supposed to look like it's extended towards the viewer, it would be in a slightly different spot. Forced perspective like that is pretty tough; I have trouble with it too.

Or maybe it's the shape of his foot that bugs you? He doesn't appear to have arches right now: Both sides of his foot curve at the same angle. The inner edge of the foot would curve inward, at the arch, and the outer edge of the foot would be straighter and would NOT curve in.


As for Dante's coat, there's a couple of things you could do. The easiest fix would be to extend the edge of Dante's raised foot to extend beyond the edge of the coat, even if only by a tiny bit. Then it establishes the position of his foot in relation to the coat. Also, the curve of that fold is in the exact position of the rest of the coat's edge. That suggests that the corner that folds back is actually longer then the rest of the coat. If you cut back that edge just a little, maybe make it a concave instead of a convex edge, it'll look a bit more... "right," maybe.


Would you mind if I illustrated what I'm talking about? I'm not so great explaining these things in words, so I did a quick doodle in Paint over your drawing. Is this helpful at all? The foot I drew isn't on the right angle, now that I look at it (it should probably tilt further to the left), but does it help illustrate what I'm talking about with the top of the shoe?
http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/1396/helpkg6.png



One last minor thing. I think one of the problems might be that Iron Man's shoulders and hips aren't on a parallel line with one another. His shoulders are slanted, showing that he's turned slightly on the z axis and is flying backwards. His hips, however, are on a perfect horizontal line. If he was standing straight on the ground, that'd be great. But since his torso is turned slightly, his hips should probably follow that same angle. Then his far foot would be a bit higher up than his closer foot, further accentuating the fact that he's turned on the z axis and helping create perspective.

Heh, thanks Mauve that was really in-depth...

I mean, I knew why the feet and coat bothered me, though. The former I just kind of gave up on because I'd been working on it for a while and would have to erase it all to fix it. The latter was too rounded and such. I'm just too lazy to go back and fix it, because I didn't notice until after I scanned it. :sweatdrop

I see what you mean with the hips, though.

Thanks for the help!

Holy cow, I've missed a lot while I was on vacation. I don't know where to start!

TDK - That knight guy from three pages back looks pretty good. I particularly like the cape. Capes for the win! And I really liked your Dante vs Iron man, although at first I thought that Dante might have been Edward from FMA. :D
Celes - Crazy awesome character sketch. I really like the hair.
Ryong - Very awesome sprite-work. I really love the glowyness of the sword.
Doc Ock - Long live scratchboard! I absolutely love the drawing on it. Keep on scratchin'! It makes me want to use that scratchboard I bought a couple years ago... And your vader picture made me laugh.
Khael - Holy cow that's awesome. Hands hands hands. I bow to your hand-drawing skills.
Savage Thinking - That's sweet. I really like the subject matter of it. Very cool take on having your little avatar draw yourself.
TopHat - Batman! Very nice. I like the cell shading that you used on it.

Edward Elric fighting Kratos from God of War:
http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/2417/edkratoszo4.png

Obviously Edward would win. =D


Well, today was an epic day for me. After over a year of working on this picture, I finally finished it.

http://img159.imageshack.us/img159/7...inationsc7.jpg

Holy shit, CJ, that's amazing.

Beyond the totally amazing colors and everything, I just have to ask; how do you come up with this shit? This is great!

Drugs, yo.

Actually not. Hah. I'm guessing its whatever part of my brain that makes stuff like this come out. Sometimes crazy stuff comes out, sometime awesome stuff comes out. XD

this one in particular, I knew I wanted to draw someone playing with sidewalk chalk and the sidewalk chalk turned into something more, and then from there I just filled the upper half of the page with anything that came to mind. There was more drawn, but after a year or so, and my inability to make some drawings clear enough, I had no idea what they were supposed to be, so I played it by ear when I started coloring.

I'm glad you liked it though. ^^ Coloring is usually my weak point (in my opinion), so it's nice to see a picture that is pretty much 100% coloring go well.

I'm sorry, but Celes wins. Hands down.

>.> I cant draw D:

News: I am completely in love with WALL-E, so I did this really quick:

http://img379.imageshack.us/img379/9947/evayx2.jpg

Please note that I used this as a reference. I usually don't try to follow a reference so closely (unless in art class and I'm supposed to), but I really wanted to see how to color it to make it look cool and shiny, like in the movie, so I tried to get as close as I could to the original. The hardest part were getting the eyes to look digital-ish. I opted for the black background because it makes making something that white so much easier. XD

It's my crazy little dream to maybe work for something like Pixar someday. :sweatdrop

EDIT: Also! Thank you Cid! As long as you were talking about me and not the other Celes. I wasn't sure whether to take the compliment or not, since there's two of us. XD Hehe. So if it is me, thank you a bunch!

CJ, that first picture you drew kicks major ass. The outlandish and surreal nature of the drawing is really amazing. What stands out to me are the buildings. They just seem so crisp in comparison to everything else and just immediately catches my attention.

The girl, however, bothers me. The way her face is angled, it seems like less of it should be showing. Her arms along with her shoulders looks like she's really stiff. Her torso seems too long and her legs are angled rather awkwardly.

The coloring for the overall picture is just spectacular.

As for the EVE picture, the shadowing is pretty spot on, but the use of shapes to make the basic flat figure is kind of off. Like nudging over some of the shapes just a bit would help a lot. The shadowing for the top part of her torso would need some touching up as it just seems wonky.

Looks pretty cool overall.