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By spacejack (Tue Nov 21, 2006 at 12:16:37 PM EST) (all tags)

One of the few things I miss from the old corpse job was working with a handful of highly talented people.

So the funny thing doing this was that she's an excellent animator/illustrator. Our styles are very different, but when she draws something it always looks professional and perfect - nothing looks wrong (like the poorly drawn hand does in this drawning.)

I still have a hard time getting a drawing really right; there's always something that's just not quite working.

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Actually I should qualify that by spacejack (2.00 / 0) #1 Tue Nov 21, 2006 at 12:24:05 PM EST

I pretty much only work with highly talented people now... I just miss those who didn't come with us.

God Damn! by greyrat (4.00 / 1) #2 Tue Nov 21, 2006 at 12:58:51 PM EST

Awesome face and hair again! But I think the glasses are my favorite (and the raised brow). Good hand and cigar too.

So, can I get her number?
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Good hand -- despite what you say. by greyrat (4.00 / 2) #3 Tue Nov 21, 2006 at 01:03:20 PM EST

I think you need to accept that you are a 'regional' portraitist. This, to me, is what's making your work look 'not quite right'. They're caricatures because you get each set of details right but the details don't all fit together quite right. I think that's what's appealing to me about your style.</soapbox>
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: And I like the set of her shoulders too! by greyrat (4.00 / 1) #4 Tue Nov 21, 2006 at 01:04:34 PM EST

Nice tension there...
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the hand by LilFlightTest (2.00 / 0) #11 Tue Nov 21, 2006 at 04:57:09 PM EST

i'm not too sure about that part...it took me a minute to realise that was a cigar and not some weird mutation.
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Your drawings are improving with each new one by cam (4.00 / 2) #5 Tue Nov 21, 2006 at 01:20:40 PM EST

I like the sunglass effect you did there. The hair looks good too with my eyes filling in the blank white space to give it body. Good stuff.

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Glasses by spacejack (4.00 / 2) #7 Tue Nov 21, 2006 at 01:31:25 PM EST

I was trying to figure out how to draw the dark glasses and still include her eyes. Then it struck me that it might work if I drew her face as outlines, but the part inside the glasses as high-contrast.

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: Fiendishly clever! by greyrat (2.00 / 0) #8 Tue Nov 21, 2006 at 01:52:37 PM EST

...as someone said to me recently...
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There is absolutely no correlation or causation amongst intelligence, power, talent and wealth.
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not necessarily pooly drawn.. by alprazolam (4.00 / 2) #6 Tue Nov 21, 2006 at 01:22:01 PM EST

just looks a little too big to me.

Man Hands ? by sasquatchan (2.00 / 0) #10 Tue Nov 21, 2006 at 04:53:57 PM EST

Howza adams apple ?

I mean, if that's what you dig, nothing wrong with that.

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: In my defense... by spacejack (4.00 / 1) #12 Tue Nov 21, 2006 at 08:34:25 PM EST

the hand is closest to the viewer. If you think about it like that while squinting, then it doesn't look quite as weird.

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Hot. by moonvine (4.00 / 3) #9 Tue Nov 21, 2006 at 02:24:13 PM EST

You know what? by ad hoc (4.00 / 1) #13 Tue Nov 21, 2006 at 10:30:53 PM EST

She looks like she has a super power.
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Nice!!!! by TPD (4.00 / 1) #14 Wed Nov 22, 2006 at 03:54:45 AM EST

I particularly like the implied outline around the outer rim of the glasses.

As you've said the hand and doesn't quite seem to sit quite right in the picture, I think the thumb especially doesn't seem be quite located correctly and makes the hand look wrong in 3d. Possibly the little finger could do with more of a hint of a knuckle.

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She looks gorgeous by nebbish (4.00 / 1) #15 Wed Nov 22, 2006 at 09:20:22 AM EST

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