JenBroomall [2009-03-13 20:57:58 +0000 UTC]

Oh the daily rituals of getting ready in the morning or evening. (sigh)
I like this picture, it's candid which is a nice breather from the conventional "posed" pictures. I like the fact that you chose to draw OC's doing something simple and so human--you gave them a breath of reality which gives them a connetion to the viewer.
Their mannerisms are shown here in subtle ways, like the gent w/ the black eye trying to button his shirt to the sweetly tired girl I can easily understand as I look like that in the morningg! This is a good example of creating & portraying characters in a manner where the viewer can relate & form a bond.
Now to the nit picking: Something that jumped out at me was the anatomy, you''ve got a really good idea of the body & movement but they are "flat" in a sense meaning they still look a shade 2D rather than 3D. I know it's hard to try & force something to look 3D what I try to do is break down the body into curves, cones, cirlces, & tubes--BASIC stuff 101 that isn't entirely wonderful but it is helping me in understanding how to create that feeling of a 3D person before me rather than a 2D on paper. If that makes sense? Something that might help, I see you go right to the edge w/ your shading which most shadows don't usually hang on the edge of something--they linger more to the side or n the middle of a curved object. This tut [link] REALLY helped me a lot. It's about skin--I know but her description of shading & examples helped me in understanding shading.
Overall, I think you have an ability to really capture interest, I know many don't like B&W picture of the mundane tasks but if I were reading a story I would relate to characters like your OC's here b/c you've made them "real". Keep it up!! i want to see more!

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