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Published: 2006-07-26 00:35:50 +0000 UTC; Views: 959; Favourites: 22; Downloads: 39
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i've never drawn Cap before, so i thought i'd give it a go. using indian ink and a brush.Related content
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Awesome!!! I love Cap and you've made him look better than ever
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Yeah, I guess I can see what you mean with the glove there... might have been clearer with a bit of a contour line where it ends at the elbow. I still have small issues with the bicep being lit that far around compared to the shoulder, but I can live with it
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just my two cents, I reckon comparing the original version with the slightly tweaked version that ~drpetter has done, that the original is more acurate. In the tweaked version the extra shading seems to detach the arm a bit, pushes the shoulder back but yet the hand is still towards the foreground. So between the two, the original works better.
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Yeah... most of it is good. I like the head and legs in particular. His right arm (to our left) probably needs a bit more shading or something though, it looks too large/wide/flat. I like how the painted decals on the suit are impervious to shadow.
Having said that, I can't help but think that something about the image makes him look a bit... pudgy. Not extremely so, it's just like a slight case of Adam West. Maybe it's the arm, maybe it's the stomach. Some strategic blackness might be able to fix it up.
I've tried a bit of true inking myself recently and it's indeed hard to get the right shapes across using only binary light.
Keep at it.
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i just don't see it. i'm not sure what you mean about the arm, the whole body is proportionate. i think it might be his glove giving you the wrong impression. as for pudgy, i'm not sure how you got there either.i havn't drawn him in lycra, or old school superhero style. i've drawn him as a man in a suit. i like his build, it's not ripped or skinny as i don't think the character looks good like that. much like the alex ross version of superman isn't ripped or in lycra but has a sence of power and strength. so i guess we just don't agree on this one.
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Well, my point was mostly with the inked version and the use of black. I'm sure the lineart looks great and proportionate. The "pudgyness" was mostly due to leaving too many areas in light... sort of. I tried a quick photoshop tweak to illustrate: [link] (right one is modified - bright arm slightly more in shadow which makes it look thinner, and abs are also partially shadowed).
I can be a bit of a nitpicker when it comes to critiscism... I usually don't want to leave a comment with only positive feedback, so I go hunting for details to point out. I hope there are no hard feelings
As I said before, the piece is great overall. You're welcome to tear my attempts apart once I get around to drawing and posting some
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no hard feeling man. i took a look at your edit, and as i thought, its the glove. i've drawn cap's gloves going up to his elbow. the strait line is a middle ridge of the glove. his gloves are big, as are his boots. but the gloves are lit like that because they are big and not tight like batmans. it doesn't represent his forearm, its his glove. just the way i draw it i guess.
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