Sorry for not replying for a long time, busy with school/work.

Anyways, this is what I have currently -




Spoiler: "references"

This time around, I became much more satisfied with the end product, having done research and watched and rewatched more videos, practiced some concepts such as gesture, anatomy and construction drawing on paper before tackling it on pixels, and used some references (enclosed in spoiler above). But I still have some concerns, though, mainly -

- the basic concepts of anatomy present in the final version, even though I think I followed the references faithfully and closely, I'm still paranoid that there are some places that are odd/out of place.
- I couldn't draw the hand resting on the hip effectively, they all looked awkward and unnatural, so I left that out for now.
- if the proportions are correct. I compared my sketch with irl body-builders and feel like I got the sizes as accurately as I could, but I'm still open to any crits.
- the overall composition of my final sketch. Of course, it's just a sketch, saying anything about the composition won't really help right now, but I still want opinions on this.

I do think I improved on a lot, though. I feel much more confident on the gesture I did, given that it's about the 30th-ish gesture I've done in pixels, and I lost count on the ones I did on paper, last time. I'll try and tackle exaggeration soon, but I'll think with simple, realistic forms first. I've also gotten used to ignoring the contour more and more, I begin to appreciate the importance of rhythm first, then detail.

Still looking forward to more guidance.

I'm planning, emphasis on planning, haven't started yet, but have some ideas, to write a story/novel about the events of an apocalypse and post-apocalypse set in modern-day Philippines, and I'm making designs for the characters that are the main focus of the story, how does this concern you?

Because I'm looking for pointers and advice on anatomy and character design.


Here's a base for one of the characters, I feel confident I've gotten the parts mostly correct from the torso upwards, but I feel like there's something wrong with the legs/feet, I think they're too long.


Here's progress on his character design, he wears a "salakot", a respirator, body armor below an over-sized shirt with the sleeves cut-off, an equipment belt, pants with body armor below it, and sandals. I haven't gone and make the legs yet, because of doubts said before. I will also be continuing in colouring and fleshing the base out, because I need anatomy practice.

I haven't written any of the story, yet. Just want to make sure my characters are already filled with life beforehand.

1. Real blonde hair, even dyed blonde hair, isn't yellow. If you're looking to make blonde, your colours are all wrong, and looking at reference should help you find the colours you want. If you are going for outright yellow hair instead of blonde hair, then you're on the right track.

You don't actually dye your hair to achieve a blonde color, you bleach it. Dyed-yellow hair looks, in fact, very yellow.

Spoiler

Even so, blonde is a very general colour, there's white-blonde, dirty-blonde, beach-blonde, golden-blonde, blonde-at-the-roots-blonde, etc. It's all very confusing.

But, yeah, most of eishiya's points are correct, follow them.

Going very nice!

My favourite thing about this is the subject at hand. I'm always intrigued by animal hybrids ever since I saw "Girantis", by Snake. I will call this magnificent beast a Beer (bird + deer)

Your lines look a bit too jagged and square, especially near the Beer's hind areas. I recommend smoothing them out and making them more circle. The colouring at the end of it's beak also seems to distract and looks odd. The texture on the feathers are spot-on, but I would definitely recommend removing the darkest color (in the feathery area) entirely as it gets lost and just takes up space.