Zen's Art Stuff

[Zentron]

Though I couldn't draw if my life depended on it, but from what I can see, you are pretty good at it. Nice and clean lines and designs. I hope you will post some more anime/manga inspired next time. And uhh... I'm no racist but the blue colour also kind of puts me off... The backgrounds look far more hurried and less impressive than the girl, though.

Blue's the colour Disney *petoowie* gave her, so I can't really change it much. As for the backgrounds, they look hurried... mostly as they were. I was not really too fussed at the time, so I just put something what looked reasonable.

Anyway, glad you like them, faults aside

good job with the contours of the human body. The face looks a little scrambled in the second one, but that's fine. As you try different characters with different noses, lips, facial structures etc., you'll be able to do a standard face like hers in no time.

The texture of the sand and sky is good enough, though the water in the second one is way too choppy. Not much to say on backgrounds. Be good to see other stuff, sketches, whatever. Also, Deadfire started a new site revolving around art, photoshop (making untalented fools like me look semi-decent) or hand-drawn or whatever. www.AshiftingPerspective.com I encourage you to join.

Keep it up; like Kraco said, you've got talent and the only way to develop is practice, practice, practice

Well, those were done just over 2 and a half years ago, so they should look a little rough(I was not fully up to scratch with Photoshop at that time), plus I finished colouring around 5am, so tiredness might have made my quality slip just a tad.

I'm actually up at DeviantArt, but I'll give that link a good looking at

Right then, more art:

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/7602712/ - Raven (Teen Titans)
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/7578021/ - Original character design
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/7961298/ - Background design (quickly coloured in Photoshop)
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/11665674/ - animation storyboard frame
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/12061635/ - as above, but painted (water-colour)
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/23035811/ - D&Dc fanart *CAUTION* Hot body
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/26399501/ - Evangelion fan-art (Rei)
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/53167641/ - Frame from D&Dc fan Manga

Hope you like

[Kraco]

Nice hydra! The Rei pic is also very good, as is your original design.

The Hot body D&D piece has a wrong link though...

[Zentron]

Nice hydra! The Rei pic is also very good, as is your original design.

The Hot body D&D piece has a wrong link though...

Oh dash..... sorted! Browser crashed, so I decided 'sack it' and turned on my TV

[darkshadow]

I don't really like the style you got going there, but you do know how to draw that's for sure, also you seem to color using very "sharp" coloring, try some more subtleness, softer colors.
Kinda like the girl in your sig, or the girl in kraco's sig.

[Zentron]

Mmmyes, I guess I could do... just I have nothing to colour at the moment

[masamuneehs]

I don't really like the style you got going there, but you do know how to draw that's for sure, also you seem to color using very "sharp" coloring, try some more subtleness, softer colors.
Kinda like the girl in your sig, or the girl in kraco's sig.

I suppose it has something to do with American style cartoon influences? I personally don't prefer it, but I don't think his style is that repugnant. My 2cents.

Zentron, the "Castle Scenery" image is awesome. I'm not sure what you did there, but it'd be interesting to see you try a character in that same style. You have a pretty big scope, trying to create your own manga and/or anime, ambition i like, and it's always cool to see how people progress on big projects like that. Also, a question: you mostly use pen and paper and sketch these yourself, or some other composition method?

[Zentron]

I suppose it has something to do with American style cartoon influences? I personally don't prefer it, but I don't think his style is that repugnant. My 2cents.

Zentron, the "Castle Scenery" image is awesome. I'm not sure what you did there, but it'd be interesting to see you try a character in that same style. You have a pretty big scope, trying to create your own manga and/or anime, ambition i like, and it's always cool to see how people progress on big projects like that. Also, a question: you mostly use pen and paper and sketch these yourself, or some other composition method?

If I was to do the non-Anime characters in the full Anime style, you'd see a difference in colour style as well, but here I'm just keeping them somewhere in the middle.

As for the castle scene, I was just colouring it quickly, as my examiners wanted some of my work in colour, so I gave it some. It's originally a storyboard frame (9:3 ratio), but like I said, I had to add some colour, so that was the result.

Here's another in the same context: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/11665822/
I didn't like the colouring of the character, but that's being changed in the final version, so just excuse it here!(remember, I was just colouring as quick as could)

Z
Oh yeh, your question... I sketch pencil to paper, then if I colour it on my computer, I go over the lines with the line tool in my P6 program.

[Zentron]

Now I just did this one for a bit of a laugh, so it's rather crude and short, but a tad amusing: http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/7...amgif01st4.gif

A better one will be forthcoming.