Back to the Original Design

I did a little action shot for fun. Here he's riding out a shockwave on his shield, where the shockwave is causing an upheaval. It came out better than I expected on a first try of drawing.... moving earth. It lacks a bit of dynamic motion feeling, though. Basically I just wanted him to be doing something other than standing up straight for a model sheet type of stance, so I was like... OK... big villain makes earthquake! Go Go Go!

He looks generic here, too. I'll come back to it some time in the future. Some time...


Anyways I came back and looked at the revised characters after redoing them, and I decided to myself that I still liked the original design better, enough that I wanted to give it a real shot. My problem being that I didn't know how to replicated my own style, I went and read some books and studied figure drawing.

The Hulk is chilling on the left when I gave my first test figure extra broad shoulders. But after that I was pretty happy with my progress. I took the basic figure and filled it into an approximation of my earlier drawing. That helped me a lot in figuring out how exactly the character aligned with the normal 8 heads high male figure or diverged from it.

The upper right guy is a bit of an exaggeration, but essentially it highlights the differences. The shoulders are a bit slanted and concave, and his upper body quickly converges to a thinner ribcage. And his legs are preeetty long.



So on the rightmost is the new Mao. You can see the progression, starting with generic female figures on the left to understand the form itself a bit before adapting it to the character herself. Like I had said earlier, I had a lot more trouble thinking of the female form in the original style, so this was a lot of progress.

I like how she turned out in the end (looks kind of funny all small like that), so maybe now I'll start drawing them in together and see if they visually fit or clash.

Oooh... I ordered a new Tablet. My old Wacom Intuous (1) 6x8 died some time back, but I found a $100 4x5 Intuous3! Cheap! I modify these scans only slightly since I have just a mouse, but maybe now I'll start cleaning it up to look like real line art once I get it.