Silhouette Practice (With some Shading)

[Gil]

Your poses are getting stronger! I can tell you're working on it. Right now I think her point of gravity is not above her feet (she'd fall over basically), so you need to fix that. Your upper body lean is a lot less than the reference, the lower body is the same. So make her upper body lean more to the right, so the center of mass is above the feet.

[Rosier]

http://41.media.tumblr.com/5fdce7c8b595f589ddf78b963ef35a30/tumblr_nxli0yB8aO1uo4yrqo1_500.jpg


Increased the lean amount, and added a new one with the source. 

While the first one is meant to feel loose and cheery, the second is meant to be determined and formal.  I've been meaning to make the specific pose for this one, but I couldn't figure out how to do it before the reference.

[Rosier]

I'm happier with the first because I feel like the arm is a bit off on the second, but I wound up with these.

[PixelPiledriver]

[Gil]

I really don't think anyone advocates using selout these days and especially not inside of a sprite.

[Rosier]

Is selout all the darker shades at the edge?  I (and you guys according to Google finds) still have a half understanding of that...

I also want to keep the girl's pose as is; I have a few animations I intend to make at some point with it or a variation of it as a base.  Otherwise I tried analyzing the shading and stray bits.

[Gil]

Yeah, you fixed it mostly now. Dark edge pixels like that tend to do more harm than good

[Rosier]

I had a reference for this, but there's no recognizable part of it by this point...  Ah well, I wanted more custom stuff anyway.

I fell into the trap of having one arm in front of the body, though.  I made a version with it in a different position, but then I lose the pose I was going for.

Edit:

Also made this.  It's the primary Jeet Kune Do stance.

[Rosier]

First guy is incomplete, but w/e.

Really happy with how the second one turned out.  First one is good, but I like how the second feels.




Also, what was up with the site?  Is there something going on with that?