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Snow_fox · Joined: 12 Dec 2005 Posts: 151 Location: Red Deer, Alberta

Welp, I'm am almost 18 years old now and I am getting ready for post secondary school... Crying

Scary~! But anywho, I finally figured out a career choice for myself and decided on 3D Modeling. I have never done it before (the 3D part) but the school I want to goto says I don't need past experience ^_^ (yay) so here I am making fast pictures of characters for my portfolio, they don't have to be stupendous I just need to prove I can draw and have a good sense of colouring. So... here are two I am sending in... both of them are made from a medium I just started using today (yes now I have become ultimate in my geekiness for HAVING TO HAVE THEM) They are Copic pens!

yes yes Manga Artist Pens... Anywho though... hope you like them both!

So... I liked the Viera from FFXII so I wanted to make one O_O This was done when I was in my Van going home from Vancouver (12 hours =_=; Hurl...) I pretty much just wanted to test out my new outliner pen

This... I was home sick today and drew it so I could use my Copic pens, I think it turned out rather well...[/img]
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RedNyteWulff · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 5:09 pm Post subject:

Viera, they're the Viera(originally from FFTA, not FF12).

Also, that scythe-wielding Viera is totally hot. I want to draw a picture of her.
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Blue Pixel · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 5:18 pm Post subject:

the amount of detail on the first one is amazing.
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Ronin Catholic · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 6:09 pm Post subject:

I agree with both of the above posters that the Viera scythe-wielder is good looking. I like the ammount of detail but...I have the same beef with her that I had with those in the game.

Too much exposed body. These Japanese should learn to put some clothes on! There's no way that armor like that would protect very well. She has several, shank-friendly areas exposed.
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Snow_fox · Joined: 12 Dec 2005 Posts: 151 Location: Red Deer, Alberta

Yeah... I agree she has alot of skin exposed but I tried to make it as if she was actually from the game so I tried to make them look like their clothes =_=;... And I fixed my Spelling mistakes

That was my bad!!
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Onlyoneinall · **Bug finder** Joined: 16 Jul 2005 Posts: 746

TwinHamster · Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 4:47 am Post subject:

Ysoft_Entertainment · Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 6:27 am Post subject:

These pictures are nice, especially the first one. However I seem to be the only one to notice that her scythe wielding hand looks like its either broken, or grows out of the scythe. I think you need to add more depth to it.

For those who have gripes with too much exposed skin, well, the armor is made for show rather then protection. If it was made for protection, she would look like metroid's Samus Aran, or one of those old knights. And that wouldn't be sexy. Cool

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Snow_fox · Joined: 12 Dec 2005 Posts: 151 Location: Red Deer, Alberta

REDROGUEXIII · **Lazy Game Developer** Joined: 12 Nov 2006 Posts: 23

Tutorials:
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Onlyoneinall · **Bug finder** Joined: 16 Jul 2005 Posts: 746

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Fortis · Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 1:18 pm Post subject:

I don't know if you submitted your portfolio or what already, but if this is an Art School they tend to want to see a wider range.

My school required one landscape, one interior, and one self-portrait. All from life. Life Drawing is the key, here. If you're not going for a cartoon-related major (which "3D Modeling" isn't necessarily), too many cartoons can really sour the reviewers on your portfolio.

I majored in Comic Art at the Minneapolis College of Art and design, and my portfolio submission was only about 1/3 comic art, the rest was from AP Fine Art and stuff like that in High School.

Anyway, keep it in mind. I'm not trying to poop on your parade here, I'm just speaking as an Art School Graduate to a prospective Art School Freshman.
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Lucier · Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 1:56 pm Post subject:

i agree with what Fortis said. you're obviously good at drawing cartoons but you might want to practice some with other styles and mediums for your portfolio. i would recommend trying out some acrylic paint and creating a self portrait because art schools LOVE self portraits. it shows versatility if you can do both cartoons and realistic pieces and that versatility is what will get you accepted over someone else.

as far as your drawings go, i would work on figure studies and drawings to perfect how you draw the human form. it's hard to tell on your drawings because of all the clothing and armor, but i think the form's bodies are not particularly real looking. a good idea of human forms is key when drawing humans and doing 3D rendering because if the body isn't correct then no matter how much fluff you add on top it still won't look quite right.

also, i don't know much about 3D rendering but i'm almost positive you'll be working with Maya for your school so it would be a good idea to go ahead and get it now and start tinkering around with it. a little bit of experience definitely can't hurt.
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Onlyoneinall · **Bug finder** Joined: 16 Jul 2005 Posts: 746

Not to delve off topic here, but as Fortis mentioned, life drawing is important when it comes to art. I took a beginning life drawing class and I was allowed to do a cartoonish style to my work, but the important thing was improving the ability to draw realistic forms. My first semester selection of students seemed pretty cool with doing this, but the second semester had a lot of students who were reluctant and not interested in doing life drawing. A couple were even pretty arrogant due in part to the fact they had good abilities and were confident of it.

My life drawing teacher even said to me how he feels that less and less people are willing to work with the subject of life drawing, and he also makes it clear how much he hates the generic anime style artwork (he seemed okay with mine possibly because I made effort to do realistic and worked with pen over pencil/charcoal).

So cartoons are fine, but as Lucier said, it's better to show you can do that as well as realistic work.
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