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Yzabel — Amarande Contest - Axelle
Published: 2011-08-22 20:15:33 +0000 UTC; Views: 877; Favourites: 16; Downloads: 15
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My entry for 's Worlds of Amarande (1-character category).I chose to draw her villain, Axelle, the Class A ESPar serving the Melisi family on planet Mirapole.
I should've worked more on the background, but right now, SAI is killing me as far as this picture is concerned, and I'm afraid it won't be able to handle it any longer if I go on adding layers. I just hope this doesn't suck too much. I've never been great at backgrounds, much to my dismay.
As for the pose, at first I wanted to draw some kind of light around her left hand, to symbolize her power, but it just didn't look right. After all, she's an ESP... and for me, such power is not supposed to make sparkles or whatever when used, since it's all mental. So I removed that thing afterwards.
EDIT 24/08: Corrected a couple of anatomical mistakes. Thanks for the advice, =ebonrouge .
Axelle and the Worlds of Amarande are ©Myriam Morand.
Reference used: [link] by ~geoectomy-stock
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Just came to see if you updated it, and I must say, perfect. Good job.
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Well thank you for your advice, it was really useful.
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Joli travail 
J'aime beaucoup le costume, très sexy et très classe.
Chuis d'accord avec Astarayel - le sol fait un peu bizarre par rapport au ciel, mais je ne sais pas ce que j'aurais fait à ta place, d'autant plus que je n'ai jamais utilisé SAI.
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Non, elle n'est pas facile, en effet. Dommage que j'ai encore besoin de refs pour ce genre de poses. M'enfin je suppose que c'est comme ça que ça vient...
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Again, I really love your coloring style. It's so unique and so beautiful! You seem to have a great handle on anatomy, and how to use posing to really convey a story/character.
One thing, with the way the background is so detailed (the sky part), I think that the ground is a bit plain. Perhaps some texturing there would be a nice balance for the whole piece? I think it would really help pull it all together. Granted, I know very little about SAI, so I'm not sure how hard it is to use, etc.
Thank you for sharing, your style is so lovely and elegant! Great work!!
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I use references for the moment, which helps a lot to learn how the human body has to be positioned, etc (which is something I had never properly grasped when I 'only' found examples in anime/manga, alas).
There was some brush texturing on the ground, but it got kind of squashed when I downsized the picture for web display. SAI is not hard to use in itself, but I have way less brushes than in Photoshop, so for the moment I'm not sure how to do things differently. I suppose I'll learn later. ^^
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That's a great idea--I somehow always forget that there are literally thousands of stock references here, if only I would get off my lazy butt and look through them for inspiration!
Good luck with SAI! I'm not particularly familiar with it, but it looks like a neat program
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SAI is pretty nifty for linearts, which are done on special layers with vector-like tools, so you can easily touch them up even if you're almost finished with the rest of the picture. I find it more limited, on the other hand, when my drawings include geometrical shapes (or maybe it is that I haven't found the right tools/functions yet for those...).
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I see. Is it on par with Adobe Illustrator? I've heard things about that, too...
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Hm, I'd say the uses you'd put them to are different. Illustrator is really for working in vectors, with a few raster options (filters...); it's also much more flexible when you need to draw geometric shapes, duplicate them along a defined angle, etc. SAI would be more like a raster software with a specific kind of vector layer allowing you to create and touch up your lineart with a Pen tool. In the end, what you get with SAI is still a raster image, while Illustrator produces real vector files.
It really depends on what you want to do with the software ("colouring" in Illustrator has to be done way differently), if you have a tablet or not (no need for tablet in Illustrator, you can work easily with the mouse), etc.
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Wow, that's a really excellent breakdown. Thanks a lot!
I think I'll have to play around with both these programs sometime and break out of the Photoshop bubble...
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Yeah, each software has its strong and weak points. I find SAI better to blend colours, but on the other hand, there are way less brushes to toy with (well I guess custom brushes do exist, I just don't have them?).
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No problem, but I would still get rid of the collar bone because it looks like she has only one massive boob now. That's why in my suggested revision I sloped out the chest and lined it up with her out-stretched arm.
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Ohh, have I forgotten to remove something? Uhuh. ^^
*goes back to killing SAI*
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I'm sorry! I really am only trying to help. It is possible I may be nit-picking, but if you can get that last little part everything will fall into place. I promise. ^_^
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No no, it's perfectly OK! This way I become more observant to such mistakes, which is clearly not a bad thing. And now that you've pointed it, indeed it seems evident and very logical (and is very likely a mistake I won't make again in another drawing like this one).
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Well I'm glad I was able to help. Mostly it's just paying attention to the spine-line in proportion to the subject. I would post some examples but it seems deviantart's search engine is not functioning at this time, I might post some tutorials on my account. But basically you want to draw a line from the head following down to their hips in conjunction with the desired pose and making a cross section at the top where their shoulders reside. That always helped me keep things in proportion.
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I'll definitely keep that in mind. Thanks for this piece of advice.
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yeahhh, Axelle bien classe
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Mille mercis, Yzabel, de participer, ça me fait très plaisir, vraiment, et c toujours un plaisir aussi de découvrir une illustration de la "reine" des ESPars 
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Oui, donc heureusement que j'ai enlevé le schpoutz qui devait le symboliser, alors.
Pour le costume, j'ai plutôt regardé tes illustration pour me faire une idée de ce qu'elle aime porter. Ca tombait bien, moi aussi je porterais bien ça, donc je connais. XD
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Tout à fait
Hé hé, oui, j'avoue que je me suis régalée à designer cet OC et son costume ^^ Merci bcp d'apprécier !!
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Ben de rien.
Rouge et sexy, que demande le peuple...
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Viiii, c ce qui fait son succès ^^'
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Here it really does go a little beyond what I am trying to point out, I made some rough alterations in photoshop: [link] When I altered the boobs I had to fix the arm, when I fixed the arm I had to fix her back and the clothing top, and then I decided she needed an ass job and decided best to stop there. LOL.
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Hahaha, yeah OK I see better XD Well thank you for pointing this out. Now that it's made even clearer, I must really try to fix it, at least a little.
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There is something really wonky about the anatomy in the pose, it almost looks like illusion of some kind and I think I know what part of the problem might be. With the hip tilted as it is and posture of the spine with her arm up in the air looking back at you should not be able to see both breasts. I think a side boob shot would take the mystery out of the pose, basically remove the crack(s) of the cleavage and form one side boob.
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Hmm I think I see what you mean, yes. Possibly I'll try to rework the boob part, and see what I can do with it.
Even working from real people references isn't easy, I see that now. ^^ (Aaaah, so many years spent drawing from anime/manga... Now I realize that my knowledge of human anatomy is more than imperfect once I'm out of the traditional "standing, seen from front or side" T_T)
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Don't worry I'm in the same boat, but I've been trying to deviate away from anime and I know a thing or two about dynamic poses and anatomy.
Damn really need to post my new stuff.
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I may very well go back to a more anime/manga-ish style later on, who knows... But first I definitely want to learn proper anatomy and (as you said) dynamic poses. You can draw nice 'anime' style if you know that, but the contrary is often not true...
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