The Failure Files : Part 4.

I'm sure if you go to a fairly nice place, the rental equipment will be a lot less rattier, and the instructors are probably better.

If anything, you'll ruin your wrists and tailbone before your knees.

I'd say this is one of my favorite pieces I've done of all time. I really enjoy doing the 'frozen motion' type compositions, and this is one of the few times it looked like everything went together as well as I'd imagine it would. I kept it in grays, since any attempt to color it ruined it. This has to be a way color this without fucking it up : which pretty much tells me I are the suck at color.

Which brings me to one of the reasons I commissioned you Your color work (as well as everything else, really) is very "painterly" and organic. Also what probably helps is that you use (or emulate) traditional media (watercolor it looks like?). In any case, I rather like your style so thus I'd like a piece done by you

Yea, a lot of my renditions of him suffer from pointy-nose syndrome -- I'm not sure where it comes from either, since it definitely didn't stem from my SWAT Kats fanart days. The pose however, I'm willing to say is my best work thus far -- since it's one of the few where I pushed gesture beyond what typical anatomy would call for. I think I mentioned this earlier somewhere else too.

Don't worry; you'll figure it out eventually. Once you know the rules, you know how to break them.

bahaha it's ok.

:3 Thank you.

In this particular pic, the anatomy's off (more than it usually is :B), but that's deliberate -- My wanting to push that expression (gesture) that the figure was making was far greater than my willingness to keep the anatomy intact.

It works well, and I think I need to do it more often.

Actually, out of all the things I drew -- this is probably the only one I could realistically pull off without any blood injuries or broken bones.

To be honest, it was one of the easier pieces to draw since it was : lineart, simple cel-shading, and then the "strong" sun added. Random snow added to really bring it togather.