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Published: 2017-10-09 13:11:07 +0000 UTC; Views: 8943; Favourites: 116; Downloads: 0
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Even though Celine isn't Ally, they have similar character designs, and it's interesting to use them as a point of comparison between my skills in November 2003 and my skills in October 2017.I was pretty proud of Ally when I first drew her. I had to use a few photo references to get her pose right, and I spent huge amounts of time trying to get all that shading so it looked okay. Ehheh, the things I didn't know I didn't know.
So what's changed in the almost exactly 14 years between these? Quite a lot, obviously! Some of the more notable differences:
- I'm way better with proportions now: Instead of looking like a girl attached to a hooved mastiff, Celine looks like a girl on an actual full-size horse. Even Celine's human torso looks like it's better-sized for her.
- The "anime influences" are pretty toned-down, at least to the point where I don't accidentally draw characters that are 8000% chibi-fied anymore. Interestingly, when I first really started drawing again in the early 2000s, it was a screen capture of an anime eye (Téa from Yu-Gi-Oh, if you must ask) that really got me inspired to do so; now the eyes are scaled back almost to "realistic."
- The shading is much better: The highlights are softer, the shadows are sturdier, the lines are softer, and I do a lot more with a lot less.
- For all their failings, those hands on the right had no references. I was still using references for every hand in 2003.
- Also, backgrounds! I'm starting to paint those now. And while the farm behind Celine is far from perfect, it's a long way from the simple "pink wash" behind Ally.
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Ha!
I remember that one thinking, 'this artist (you) deserves keeping an eye on'.
Toldya. *sniff*
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Glad you think I'm worthy of at least one eye. Maybe in another 14 years I'll earn the second one
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o_o
And now you can draw hands.
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It took awhile to learn it, and I don't always get it right (Celine's left hand, out beside her, is pretty iffy still, I think), but yes, I can now draw hands, more-or-less.
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You've become a unique and talented artist.
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Do you prefer the (as I understand them) Roman opinion of a human-sized upright on a horse-sized horizontal (what I call trunk and barrel, respectively) or the Greek opinion of scaling one or both so the hips/shoulder mid-joints are size-matched?
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I generally go for something similar to the Roman design: A normal size human torso on the body of a smallish (but still realistically-sized) horse. I used to prefer slightly smaller for the horse, but never "small," and as I look at that old drawing of Ally I wonder what I was thinking for her proportions. I drew Allya second time for the New Year's Eve picture in 2014, and by then, her proportions were much closer to those of Celine here. But a number of my earlier works have odd, much smaller equine halves like you see here.
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It's very nice seeing a person improve and this looks super nice. Although maybe its just me and my love for strong centaurettes but I think the human torso actually looks a little (not a lot) too small for her horse body. like her hips need to connect a little lower? Or that her shoulders need to be a little wider? Maybe its just me but typically due to how tough centaurs are depicted I don't think centaurettes would be on the skin and bones side of bodytypes.
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I adjusted the position of her torso several times before I colored it; the proportions and position both look right to me. She's not intended to be bulky, or muscly, nor is she skin-and-bones: She's a well-proportioned female of her species.
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It is always cool to see how much an artist like yourself improves over the years. Great job, you should be proud!
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