XssVe's sketchbook

You know for pencil drawings they are great!
I cant draw fer shit most of the time... LOL but when it happens I am gleefully sketching away.

More and larger pics please... :)
 
Thanks, I finally got a few things working that have been giving me trouble, should be able to start loosening up a bit now.
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11/18/09 New scanner, all new stuff.

The new scanner is compressing my images vertically, haven't quite figured out what to do about it yet, makes all my figures look shorter and heavier than I actually drew them.

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Imagevenue has some new code, when the first image comes up, you can click on it to get to the next one.

The first one was for the "Pen" Contest, the second one is another idea I was developing for the same contest.

The second two are character/costume designs, initial forays into a Steampunk concept.
 
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I am very impressed by your artwork. I like the expressions on the faces. Very realistic fuck faces. And the physical exertion comes off nicely. You can see the thrusting, so to speak. Well done. I like the Asian pirate. Of course, I was raised on the best pirate movies from the big studios. Errol Flynn made a great pirate. Looked great in tights.
 
Thanks Allard, that one is a costume design thing, I was contemplating doing a pirate story, and I unconsciously ended up with a sort of Geena Davis looking character - I do try to avoid celebrity likeness and fanfic to avoid potential lawsuits, so I'd have to redesign the character if I ever do that.

Geena Davis is hot though...

I'm open to suggestions, good practice to try and translate other peoples ideas. I'm also thinking at some point of seeing if anybody wants to write stories around a drawing - there are some writers who do that over at Digital Webbing, which is an all ages comics creator site.
 
I like them but the woman with her fingers in the other woman's asshole looks a little too masculine to be real. Give her a more rounded look, softer to the touch. I think of fingertips pressing into female flesh causing little indentations to be so adorable, don't you? The men must be hard bodies, but the women need to be fuller. A little bit of lacy black undies or something on the woman recieving would be good, I think.

I love the idea of group sex, so the next picture is pleasing. I would adjust the pussy getting licked upward a little. Seems to far down to be realistic from my perspective. I like the cockhead just barely in the girl's mouth. Nice touch.
 
Wow, a critique, awesome - that's just what I need.

I agree, the top chick is a little butch, I get into a lot of trouble over that. It stems from drawing superheroines, and barbarian babes - woman swings a sword all day, she's not going to look like a fashion model I figure - anyway, I studied a lot of sports morphology in order to get a decent compromise between physical strength and allure, and occasionally, I draw 'em a little tight, or a little too buff.

I try to draw diferent body types as opposed to single all purpose phenotype, this girl has a little more of a distance runners morphology, alà Zola Budd - it throw people sometimes, like that Piratess, whom a lot of people seem to think is a man in spite of her hip structure.

Actually, I could go on all day about this, there was a huge blowup over a Turner cover of Powergirl. Like porn, the audience for comic books is predominantly male, but there are more and more women who read them too, and they are pissed.

Here's the story, with my astute commentary, if you're interested: http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/04/28/a-rather-lame-defense-of-michael-turner/

This debate raged for good month on female oriented comics websites and blogs, and poor Turner was roundly thrashed across the entire comix blogosphere.

Suffice it to say I'm trying to buck the stereotypes, I don't want the lesbian vollyball team on my ass either. Coming: fatter women.

I didn't really plan any of these recent ones, so I'm suprised the bottom one came out at all - I started by trying to draw the man lying down on a bed, eating the top chick out, but it came out like he was lying back against something, and the couch just slipped right in, and I managed to squeeze the bottom figure in there.

Top chicks belly button is too high, is the problem there I think, I usually spot those things after I scan but I musta missed that. Not to happy with the whole oblique/pelvis/glute area on her left side, it's not angle I draw a lot, hafta work on that. I was concentrating more on keeping the figures proportional to each other.

Thanks for taking the time to critique, and please don't be offended if I argue about it, I purpose defy certain conventions, and it doesn't always work out - you report your perceptions: perceptions are inarguable and I appreciate you sharing yours with me.
 
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If you're interested, this first one is my take on Powergirl, done around the time of the controversy for an unrelated drawoff, and it's a bit of an excercise in comparative morphology - Supergirl has a few issues, I kinda messed up her foot and never fixed it for one thing.

The second one is a recent drawing of DW member "reimagined" as heroic character, followed by a photo of the lady in question. I messed up the shoulders a bit.

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Yes, that is more like it. The superhero ladies look more feminine than the pirate with little or no breasts which confuses the viewer. Yes, the pirate has a feminine face and hip structure; it is the chest that trips up the viewer.

The second full figure drawing is really good. The lady herself ain't too bad either. We have similar builds. I was a 38 26 38 back in the day.

I was thinking you might be the person to draw in pen and ink, the picture of the Undertaker fucking through the hole in the wall in ch. 2. It would be a side view through the little windows, him on one side of the wall and her on the other.

I want to illustrate the book anyway. There would be three different artists on it, when you include you with my two oldest sons. They are working on the cover and a drawing of the Undertaker. He has Luke Wilson's build and the girl in the hole in the wall room looks like Drew Barrymore, but a bit smaller all over. Those lips, though. For sure.

Let me know what you think?
 
The pose studies are good. I am going to send you PM regarding them. The tank girl is great. I like the little wisp of her hair on top and the fuck finger, of course.
 
Thanks, yeah, I love Tank Grrl - kinda messed up on Jet Girl, the bottom figure, I've been working on that pose some since, might redo it one of these days.
 
The nipple makes all the difference. Hope to see rounder thighs on the girl in the next one maybe...
 
Yes, we are looking forward to your next posting... But don't feel pressured... All good things come in time...
 
Thank you ladies, and Bed - hands and faces evolved at the same time as linguistic abilites Christa, genetic mutations that affect linguistic abilities often also affect the face and hands, i.e., they appear to share overlapping alleles, and probobly evolved in tandem.

I think it's an oft neglected aspect of sequential art nowadays, though you find a lot of hand gesturing in older stuff, Eisner for example. Unfortunately, mine are not a hand gesturing people, so I do have to give it some thought.

Similarly, the trend is toward botoxed faces, and thin women with big tits, sort of national trend in terms of the media's dictation of allure (see Jennifer Love Hewitt, old news now that she has some lines in her face...) , I happen to like big legged women with small breasts - hey, it worked for Frazetta - but I do have to bow to popular convention to some extent, at least untill I can get those details working a little better.

Anyway, blah blah, I'm trying to get a little more expression going, and vary my bodytypes so they don't all look the same - ideally, one should be able to "read" the story, i.e.;, emotions, etc., without needing text at all - otherwise the text becomes something of a crutch.

Do you write or just read BedofRust? I'm kind of interested in swinging, it's a good subject for sequential art.

Here's another Lesbian sketch for ya - I do get in trouble for my "man hands" on women - another convention, feminine hands are supposed to be more "dainty", I just like hands, so I draw 'em like I see 'em - most of these women would also be criticized for having "small" breasts - whatever.

Trying to get rid of some of the distortion, I do a lot of thumbnails and there's always a bit of a diconnect when I change scales.

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Thanks, but don't be shy, post some work, I'll critique if you want, or not.

I've been doodling steady for a good five years just to get to this point, I did a CG painting, maybe I'll post here - but quicky realized that if I wasn't going to have to take a week to paint anything, I'd better learn to draw, and I've got a long way to go.

The great thing about art, is that there really aren't any rules, screw the critics, there's is no telling what people are going to like, and even if they don't, screw them too, do it for yourself.

Good composition and energy beats anal retentive draughtsmanship any day, I'm just a bit obsessive that way.
 
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