Surprise for Minque! Options

[MerGirl]

Here, I have attempted to draw....

Serene! Happy birthday to your son, Minque, and belated birthday to you! Thank you for your words of kindness and encouragement. You're awesome, Minque! :goodjob:

Now, I hope I have drawn Serene as you have envisioned her to be, a kind and strong woman, so I hope you like it. :embarrassed2:

(Please excuse the lightness on the hair and other parts. For some reason, my scanner made the picture look much, much lighter, despite my efforts to darken the lines. :shocked: )

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y203/DigG...rden/Serene.jpg

[Dantrag]

quite good. better than my stick-figure-serene....


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HAHA...wow. I am way too obsessed with stick figures...

Still an awesome drawing...don't know if it looks how Minque invisioned Serene, but in any case, a great drawing!



you get a :cake: :cake: :cake: :cake: :cake:

EDIT : NOOOO stick figure showed up when I typed it...oh well.

[Red]

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Yay for good drawings! Cake'd! :cake::cake::cake::cake::cake::cake::cake::cake::cake:

[Fuzzy Knight]

Great drawing MerGirl..! :goodjob:

[Konji]

wow like lit! Where did you get that drawing style from?

[minque]

Oh MerGirl......you added a mini-Serene..as well how cute,,,,well it would be her daughter the one I mention in the prologue of my story..yay it´s awesome really it is....

I´ll show my son tomorrow as he´s asleep just now....

thank you sweetie!

[MerGirl]

[quote=Konradude]wow like lit! Where did you get that drawing style from?[/quote]

It's an anime art style. It's what I usually draw. Sometimes, I look at game magazines or anime magazines to get some ideas for different eyes/hairstyles/poses/etc. However, for Serene, I used the reference picture in the Introduction thread, as well as my usual anime-style to draw as close to the reference piccy as I can.

The hardest thing to do is to make an older person with my kind of cutesy-anime-artstyle.

EDIT: Thank you, Minque! You're sweet, too!

[Konji]

try drawing this:http://www.ai.mit.edu/~hammond/comic/angry...y_old_woman.jpg

[MerGirl]

[quote=Konradude]try drawing this:http://www.ai.mit.edu/~hammond/comic/angry...y_old_woman.jpg[/quote]

If I drew her, she would still look a bit younger than she is in the piccy. I'm bad at drawing wrinkles. My older characters just look like 26 or older, but tired looking (bags under their eyes).

[Konji]

It's not so much wrinkles as face drooping. If you look at old people you can't really see their jawline anymore.

[Ambberfox]

I'd suggest several books by the author Burne Hogarth: "Drawing the human head", "Dynamic Anatomy", "Dynamic Figure Drawing", "Drawing Dynamic Hands" and "Dynamic Light and Shade". Those are really helpful because you get to know a lot about anatomy and hints on how to draw people. That's what I usually look up when I want to know what a certain part of the body looks (or in this case:what the difference between the face of an older and a younger person is)

[Aki]

Heh. Nice.

And i'll out stick-figure you all!

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[Soulseeker3.0]

good job mergirl!

[Red]

It's much better than my picture of serene...


[img]http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/images/femhag1.jpg[/img]

*Credits go to maddox at http://www.maddox.xmission.com/

[Konji]

... :shocked: :shocked: :shocked: :eek: :eek: :eek: :goodjob: :paperbag:

[MerGirl]

[quote=Ambberfox]I'd suggest several books by the author Burne Hogarth: "Drawing the human head", "Dynamic Anatomy", "Dynamic Figure Drawing", "Drawing Dynamic Hands" and "Dynamic Light and Shade". Those are really helpful because you get to know a lot about anatomy and hints on how to draw people. That's what I usually look up when I want to know what a certain part of the body looks (or in this case:what the difference between the face of an older and a younger person is)[/quote]

Thank ya for the book titles. Interesting. I really should look up some books about anatomy and stuff. Darn my disproportional and ultra young-looking peoples!

[Andric]

[quote=Red]It's much better than my picture of serene...


[img]http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/images/femhag1.jpg[/img]

*Credits go to maddox at http://www.maddox.xmission.com/[/quote] :shocked:

[Fuzzy Knight]

[quote=MerGirl][quote=Ambberfox]I'd suggest several books by the author Burne Hogarth: "Drawing the human head", "Dynamic Anatomy", "Dynamic Figure Drawing", "Drawing Dynamic Hands" and "Dynamic Light and Shade". Those are really helpful because you get to know a lot about anatomy and hints on how to draw people. That's what I usually look up when I want to know what a certain part of the body looks (or in this case:what the difference between the face of an older and a younger person is)[/quote]

Thank ya for the book titles. Interesting. I really should look up some books about anatomy and stuff. Darn my disproportional and ultra young-looking peoples! [/quote]
All I usually need when I draw is my 'How to draw Manga' book, thought it is for Manga, it has much Anatomy about the bodies etc, and how to draw that and that + muscles etc.. :goodjob:

[Wurlon]

Wow that's good, you should use the mini serene as an avatar or something...

[Neela]

Great drawing MerGirl! I wish I could draw like that. I am running out of inspiration lately on what to make into pictures myself. I hope you don't mind, but I stole your idea to make a pictures of Serene. I based it on the screenshot of her in another thread.

I hope you like it Minque... and if you want me to make any changes just ask.. I can make pretty much any kind of change to it. (ie more muscular.. different colors or clothes or pretty much anything.

Serene in the Ayleid Ruins

Edit: oops... forgot to render it with Shadows on... will repost it when its done rendering.

Here is the one with Shadows on

This post has been edited by Neela: Dec 22 2005, 07:44 PM