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More Wizards!; A frenchman and a nameless man!
Topic Started: Sep 16 2007, 02:41 AM (130 Views)
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Well, here we go. Two more pictures of Harry Potter fan art. One features our favorite Serpent Charming French Wizard, the other is just a nameless sketch draw while trying out a different style.

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"Need a hand?"
(Man, Nicholas has a long ass name. It took me way too long to get the font size right so that it would fit into the text box... >.> )


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As you can see, this second one is drawn while trying to imitate a more Mary GrandPré style, who draws the chapter pictures for the scholastic US Harry Potter books.

I love how both of these turned out. The first one because I can usually never draw good, or even decent, front view faces, much less foreshortening. I think I did fairly good on both in the first one. I'm proud of the second mainly because it's the first time I've managed to pull off that kind of shading and that style of nose.

Again, constructive criticism is welcome.
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ooo I like them!! =D

Yes, Nicholas has a long ass name XD I love the reaching hand and the snake

I like the shading in the second one too. Great job Java ^_^
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I like it.It's not 100% accurate,but close enough.I'll draw a pic of what he actually looks like and post it here.Unfortunately It'll take like 2 weeks to put it on.

I see that your style ain't manga,but I'll give you any tips I can dig up.

Okay,lets see here.From a mangaka POV (because manga is my style)the face isn't proportionate to anything.It's too big for the body(hey,even in mangas theres a limit to the head:body ratio).It isn't proportionate to itself,albeit slightly.Theres a super technique to correct this,and I think it'll help just about amyone.

If you're drawing on a piece of white paper,flip it to the other side(the side without the drawing) and hold it up to a light.You will see your drawing through the paper,and this way any mistakes with the drawing;s face(e.g.,left side longer than the right side,chin too much to the left etc.) will show.You see,in manga,you draw the head with a sharp chin.Because of this,it is very easy to mess it up,because just a little mistake with the angle of the line and the two sides of the face(if the head is divided into two through a line in the middle) will not be symmetrical.
The head you drew is round chinned,definitely less likely to get the face wrong but I see a slight error.Maybe I'm wrong,since I don't have the actual paper in my hand,but I've seen enough of them to know one when I see one.Don't worry,it is immensely difficult to get the face perfect at once(even I need to correct it a few times).I just don't know how those pros get it so perfect @_@.But you should work on it sometimes.It makes a big difference.

Other than that,the pose,the body is great.Bravo.

Oh yea,and his nose is too high and he doesn't have enough hair!

I'll just show you the real Nicholas Pierre De La Salle (yes,I know it's a long a$$ name,but it's French,and it is Tres Bien) in a few weeks.Definitely by October.I'll even draw my version of Penniah,Nicomedes,Ashleigh,Cale,.....

As they say in Paris,Au Revoir














































The second pic is way cool.
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Yeah I did think his head was a bit too big. And I do in fact know of the turning the paper over to check how it looks. But I guess it didn't show that much. Ah well.

Yeah, manga's what inspired me to fraw (that and the crap load of webcomics I read) draw, but I'm sure I can pull it off. So, this is the style I've cultivated, as it were. But I'm starting to try that shading things more. It definitely makes it look better.

October 2, huh? I'll have to beat you to it then...
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