[FreddyScribbles]

Various WIPS for a pin-up based on Andromeda

Lots of trouble with compositional/drafting stuff. Getting there though...


Part 1 - Initial sketch done in Painter


Part 2 - Lines part 1 - starting to clean up the lines and play around with different options


Part 3 - More experimentation with the face; hair changed and finalized; pose changed - still not satisfied with a lot of things. Clothing and jewelry blocked in temporarily


Part 4 - Went back to the original face

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Part 5 - Reverted to the original pose. Cleaned up the lines on the Kraken and clothing. Made a few alterations to the hair. Slimmed down the figure - 'de-muscled' her so that she looked less manly and more vulnerable. Next steps - add in WaterFX and rock background.

[FreddyScribbles]

Part 6 - Adding details to the hair and Kraken
Thoughts?

[Qitsune]

Take the pose and look at yourself in the mirror, I'm not sure the armpit is supposed to be wider than the boob. And also, it's hard to bring the arms that far back and lower the head. There is something wrong with the placement of the arms/head. I might bring the elbows out more and make the chin overlap the far arm.

Edit, now that I looked back, I think the first one had a better arms vs head balance.

[FreddyScribbles]

Part 7 - More detail work on the Kraken. Shortened the arms some via Qitsune's suggestion. Probably need to take a break from this soon and get some 'fresh eyes'.

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Part 8 - Starting to fiddle with 'little' things. Fixed some of the tentacle details so that they were moving more correctly. Swiveled her hips slightly so that there's a proper twist to match the legs. Figure moved up slightly

[FreddyScribbles]

Part 9 - Final update for tonight. Fiddling with the legs. Did some work on the Kraken too. Next will be BG and Water FX as well as a 'mirror image' check on everything. Feeling better and better about where this is going. Probably all go to hell when I start mucking with colors.

[kittymeow84]

Hey!
Sorry I disappeared off chat today - finished work and realised I'd left the window open.

I see you've lengthened the legs?? they're looking a lot better. Can't wait to see colour - do you know what feel you're going for? If you need a hand with the colour let me know - that seems to be my strong point

[FreddyScribbles]

Part 10 - Slimmed her down. Tweaked the torso/breasts


Part 10B - not really happy with the legs. First 'redraw'


Part 10C - still working on the legs...

[FreddyScribbles]

Here we go again...

Part 11 - Still tweaking torso/legs. They're better than they were. Have a few really rough anatomy sketches I did on top of everything which sort of helped.


Part 11B - moved background tentacles back and shrank them down some.

[FreddyScribbles]

Part - 12? Okay. Some 'major' changes. Had to alter the pose. Figured out why it wasn't working. the previous pose is almost impossible to hold. The foreground leg raised would twist the torso back to a more neutral position. By switching the raised/standing legs voila! torso twist suddenly works. Hurray. Of course...may have to tweak her dress some, but we'll see. At least she's twisting the right way now.

[kittymeow84]

Its looking a lot better! Were you able to find any reference for the pose?

[tmth]

Her face doesn't follow her head direction. It may be the ear, which is in a completely wrong place, and her lips are pretty much facing the picture plane, but they should be rotated outwards and to downwards, so we look at them from top and to the side.
Also her breasts are a little bit to high. And when the torso line overlaps the far boobie like it does here it means her breasts are really wide apart - is this what you're going for here?

[FreddyScribbles]

@Kitty - yeah...me O.o Which was not easy by the way! Self shooting reference seldom is. Cameras, poses, lighting...pain in the butt

Andromeda's temporarily on hold. Have a few more pressing projects to finish.

Also...may completely alter her pose anyway. Still not happy, and I don't know that rescuing the few bits I really like about what I've got so far are worth the aggravation of the current figure. But...we'll see.

More updates later. This will get done and hopefully done right.

[Raymond]

her one arm looks like it isnt attached to the shoulder but is part of the torso/back and wont be able to move from that position (looks like some sort of birth defiency) I doubt thats what you were going for ofcourse but you might wanna fix that.