Ok, my next baddie for my game is kind of zany.  It's a giant, but you only get to see his feet.  So.. here they are.  Eventually there will be sandals too.



I've done more work on the foot on our left.  How am I doing so far?  C+C is appreciated.

I'm particularly concerned with shape and volume.  Something seems a little wonky, but I can't put my finger on it.

This is an anatomical stretch for me since I've never drawn feet this large before.

Reference is my fat ugly feet.

Everyone's encouragement is going to be the death of this project of mine

Well, after hearing the talk about contrast and seeing Redshrike's edit, i decided to pour some more time into this adding the contrast.  Of course when I did that I began seeing a bunch of other stuff and put another 6hrs on this.. 

So.. here's my 16hr dragon.



Still open for comments, but I doubt I'll put any more time towards this.

Thanks for the great comments everyone.  I've been sick with the flu the past couple of days, but I'll be working on it more tonight.  So, an update will be coming shortly.

EDIT: regarding my avatar.. yeah it is.. well.. i mean it was shrunk down and pixeled over.  (Not sure if that's still cheating)  But that's also back when i *really* sucked at pixel art, and now I only moderately suck.  I should update it at some point.  Too busy right now.  My boy's almost 2 now and he was quite little in that picture.  And, yes, the palette is very saturated and the skin tones unnatural 

Can I bump this topic?  Seems like such a great topic, but it kind of fizzled out, and, as a budding artist, I'm very interested in this.

Also, beyond workflow, what are some time saving tips?  My art comes painfully slow right now and I'd like to improve the speed of it.

That's a gorgeous edit Reo.  Thanks a bunch.  The toes are what I was trying for, but failed.

ndchristie, I appreciate your comments, and it's not that I'm emotionally attached to what I have already.  The problem is that I'm still painfully slow at this, and I need to finish a bunch of these.  I honestly don't have the time to redo the pose.  I hope you understand.  I do understand your critique and will keep it in mind with future swashbucklers I attempt to draw.

You all will probably be shocked to know I've put 12hrs into this piece.  And yeah, it probably would be cheaper just to hire an already skilled artist, but I want to learn it myself, and I am getting faster.

Well, I have to move on.  I put the notes from Reo's edit in as further polish.  I hope I can come back and add them in.

I'll be posting another char in a little while.