Some of my new artwork, please coment :-)

diabeticbumbleB · March 2011

Heres some new characters I have designed for some recent game projects, Let me know what you think.

Im a skilled visual artist available for any creations, be it designing characters from scratch or picking apart and bringing your imaginations to life. Im a perfectinist and passionate about my work so every image i create for you will be guaranteed at the highest quality. I can pretty much create anything you ask for, from realistic digital paintings to simple cartoons, animals, people, monsters. I love creating background and large pieces. I have advanced skills in photoshop, illustrator etc and will happily take on any project needed. Heres a link to my porfolio website, and I have a host of other stuff available to send if you need examples.

Contact me on dan@purebodypromotions.com with your budget and what you require and I will get back to you as soon as I can .

Look forward to hearing from you :-D

Canioh · March 2011

That looks pretty good, nice job!

DimensionGames · March 2011

I am currently working with dan on one of my projects and receive quick responses and updates of the project and prices are very reasonable.

Cheers.

scitunes · March 2011

Looks great! May end up using your services in the future.

mzx · March 2011

I'm also working with dan on one of my projects and he's really great! Beautiful graphics and very fast responses! Dan is the MAN!

iTouchGamer · March 2011

Nice artwork!! I will consider using you very soon.

kietz · March 2011

Nice stuff, i think i like the vector images the best

diabeticbumbleB · April 2011

Heya, Im now free to hire for more projects - drop me an email if you require any artwork and I will be more than happy to create some great graphics for you.

Thanks :-)

Dizko · April 2011

I think you have some solid techniques going on there, you have a decent handling on light rendering, shading etc.

Try not to take offense to anything below, I'm giving you my honest critique and I think you have a fair amount of potential.

You might perhaps need a bit of schooling on color theory, for example pairing a red-purple outfit with a bright red headed woman isn't the best example of good color theory. Those two color sort of wash together, you would ideally want to contrast the colors so that the red hair pops more. For example, if I were doing that same character, I would give her a dark green or blue outfit.

Color theory can be a bit tricky to get used to, but I would definitely look into it and download yourself a color wheel.

I think the weakest aspect of your work is your human forms. The proportions and whatnot need some work. I would suggest getting yourself a figure drawing book and practice drawing the human figure. A good book will teach you how to break down a body and set it up so that the proportions are correct (which is the most important part) If you're really serious about art, I would also suggest looking into a figure drawing class.

A book like this should help you a lot

There are two really important lessons that any artist should know. How to do figure drawing -- this will allow you to draw any human form very well, be it real or imaginary -- and how to draw perspective.

And just so you don't think I'm some random dude talking nonsense about art, here is some examples of my figure drawing.

Potentially NSFW (nude figure drawings)

diabeticbumbleB · April 2011

Thanks for you critique its appreciated thanks for taking your time to write :-)

The reasoning behind the whole woman being red is set to reperesent fire, from the body up she is the colour of crimson and yellow (kinda like the deep colours of lava/fire) then her hair of course is bright orange - like a fire on top of her head.. she's a superhero that has some fire powers and a feiry character..... any other colour outfit would sway away from the that feiry effect I was perceiving. Then I used the blue for the weaopns - bright blue against the orange and red really stands out (opposite colours) - my idea was then to draw the attention to her laser torch weapons instead of just the character or her hair.. again if she was any other colour the blue wouldnt show up and also there would be too many colours standing out.. I like to have one item that really glows on each of my characters..

The human posture and stuff, I spent alot of my early artist life drawing creatures and aliens where the human form isnt necessary to learn but been spending the last year learning the human form.. at the moment im doing a course on the muscles and how each muscle looks at different proportions (quite a lot to take in) and theres still and always will be room for improvement,... the images you see there are if drawn on purpose to make the proportions look slightly exagerated (i.e the really thin waist, large breast, then big thighs.. she then looks really cartoony) and instead of showing all the muscles and keeping the body true to from i round of bits and create a more cartoony appearance - I would agree I always look back at my work and pick out hundreds of things that I could always perform on but I guess thats what makes my passion - always wanting to better myself :-) im running an exhibition at the moment and my paintings represent the human form but my style is to either create really elongated body bodies with spindly limbs. Ill put some up once i have them scanned onto a computer :-)

Here's some sketches that you may want to take a look at, again you will notice (especially on the death angel picture that I have elongated the torso...and again the last one, making her eyes look alot bigger than a humans normally would) I like my work to look slightly abstract but not loosing too much of the realness - if that makes any sense lol

Again thanks for taking your time to comment :-)

Dizko · April 2011

Hey no problem, critique is part of the art process!

I understand where you're coming from, and I do think you have a consistent and distinct style, and that's hard to achieve.

I would still suggest that you ought to pay attention to proportions even when creating fictional characters, even if you're exaggerating certain features. Obviously, if you're doing a cartoon character, there is a lot more flexibility.

For example in this drawing

I would make the hips wider. Typically females hips are at least as wide or wider than their shoulder span. Males are the opposite, they have a wide shoulder span and narrow hips. And even though this clearly is a fantasy character, you still want to apply somewhat realistic proportions.

All in all though, keep up the great work!

Some of my new artwork, please coment :-)

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