/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>6598228
Draw a line across the face and use the lasso tool. If you're using paper and pencil use an eraser. If you're using pen suck it up and try again.
>6598240
Well all I did for >>6598222 was pull up refs like the style guide and a bunch of screenshots of Nonon, then a few poses that I like (real models I found on Pinterest in this case, just some cute poses)

Then I did a figure drawing session while trying my hardest to match the refs. I found a bunch of shorthand that works for me for the specific character and refined the few rules that can be applied across all figure drawing.

You guys need to recognize that not a single artistic project you tackle will have the same rules as the last one. There are fundamentals that transfer across (in the case of this thread they're all just figure drawing), but ultimately different characters are going to need slightly different approaches. A different base shape for the eyes will work for Nonon that won't work for Ryuko, for example. You have to train THAT part of your brain, the part that lets you find those little nuances within the designs in order to crack the code for how to draw them properly. You need to learn this before you can even try applying it to your own characters, in which case it's still gonna take alot of brute force.

Just blindly copying images -will not help you- and I'm telling you this from alot more experience than most of you have combined. When you do a study like that, you need to knuckle the fuck down and figure out what you're trying to learn from it before you even start, then you need to be willing to fail and fail EARLY so you can scrap your work and start over without losing 10 hours of effort on a piece that wasn't gonna get you anything to begin with.