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Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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Love the effect you gave the wings,with the back being simply gray instead of a watered down version of the base colur.the inks and arm-gauntlet work really well i think actually.Its simple enough yet there is a certain grace to the simplicity of it,which is hard to do sometimes.
Another small detail i really like is how you dont fill-in some lines,namely on her left thigh and heel sharing only the skin tone and not a full line
I've drawn a Valkyrie in a very similar pose a few days ago for my diploma work,how hard was it for you to get the pose right?I know something is wrong with mine,which is probably why i havent inked it yet,but i was just wondering if you had any simple tricks onto how to pose a character in a less-than-usual way?
As for your inquiry... I really don't know how to put into words what goes in my head when I'm coming up with a piece, especially regarding anatomy and composition. Being self-taught, I sort of did all the math 'outside the box' and I'm not very handy when it comes to explanations or thouhts on how to do something the way I do it.
What I have used over the years, however, is a model of what I called 'The Animated Series frame'; that is, I use the 'Animated Series' (Batman, Superman, anything designed by Bruce Timm) body types as geometrical reference for posing. They're very useful, mostly because they're big, blocky shapes and with anatomy, the simpler you work, the better. That way you can spot anything wrong right away.
After you have that 'skeleton', you can then add muscle or anything else as you like.
But having that basic reference is what works best for me not to make a bad mistake regarding a pose and anatomy. Simple shapes.
Nic.-