Comments on: inFamously living slightly larger (Part 1)

By: Dr. REWind

Dr. REWind — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:58:37 +0000

@Dr. Salvatron: Yeah, the piece does feel flat, which is what has been racking my brain as to what I want to do with what I came up with so far. So texturing and shading should probably expand on the way everything looks. Hopefully once I get down to coloring, it might give it that “oopmh” that seems to be missing.

My art for me isn’t what you feel doodling is. I don’t do it when I’m bored. When I’m bored, I play video games, watch a movie, go outside, or do something else provided I’m not at work. I can only generally draw when I’m truly inspired and normally at home. Which has been like pulling teeth for me lately. (Within the last few years.) I might not convey that sense of profound emotion through text on the internet as you would clearly prefer, but everything I do has meaning to me. If I didn’t feel that it had any level of meaning, I wouldn’t waste my time doing it in the first place. It takes me time to do what I do.

By: Dr. Salvatron

Dr. Salvatron — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:00:42 +0000

I like the style, although it feels a little flat.

Something seems off about his pose. I think his right leg needs to come to the foreground a little more and left leg back.

I’m interested to see what kind of textures you apply to it.

I’d still like to see something of a more personal nature from you. I get the impression Fan Art is like doodling to you. Something to do when you’re bored. Not something that has any value to you.

By: Dr. REWind

Dr. REWind — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 19:02:24 +0000

@ Dr. Conspicuous: Nah, it wasn’t a pose from the game, but it was one of a number of poses I was thinking about putting Cole in at the time. The actual sketch behind the line art gives the overall piece a great deal of weight even though you aren’t supposed to see it, which is why I began struggling with different ideas for coloring the art or even doing away with the hard illustrator lineart altogether. However, it would still require me redo the pencils since they’re so rough that a lot of detail is either obstructed, creating tangents or just messier than I’d prefer even for sketches. The original size of the image is so small I can’t really scan it in and do much with it as of yet.

@Dr. Novachord: Yeah, the sketch art does give it a lot of, “body.” I personally started liking it more BEFORE I started adding flat lines. I wanted to use that mouth before, but the issue was that as I was looking at it more and more, it started to remind me of the Ninja Turtle figures that had the grimmaces on the sides of their mouths that are pretty much impossible to make on a human head. So adding the contented but concerned look was pretty much an afterthought that I was still planning on changing anyway. I wasn’t planning on making him bald since this project isn’t done, I was going to add his shaved fade in post process via Photoshop. It’s pretty hard to add any sort of moderate stipple effects or dots enough to sort of resemble this particular hairstyle in Illustrator.

By: Dr. Novachord

Dr. Novachord — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 16:40:56 +0000

The shading done on the first drawing makes it look cooler I think. I also like his mouth more in the first one..he just looks more badass for some reason.

I kind of like the line art part too. It looks almost like a blueprint with the blue underneath it.

Also, on the cover of the game the guy has a shaved head. In your drawing he looks completely bald. Was that a stylistic decision?

By: Dr. Conspicuous

Dr. Conspicuous — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 07:38:54 +0000

Cool drawing. Was this a pose from the game? If not, what made you decide to put him in that pose?

I dig the original blue sketch for some reason. It’s got a lot of style to it. I’m even imagining some sort of flipbook animation from that. That’d be badass.