Illustrating a Cat & Kitten book WIP

1 Oct 2015, 21:28

@Thrace-Shirley-Mears Thank you, I'm very grateful for all the help that I'm getting. Truly thankful. Cheers.

Naroth Kean · 2 Oct 2015, 01:46

Good luck! I think the last one looks a lot better with the gestures and poses.

4 Oct 2015, 23:37

Good luck! I think the last one looks a lot better with the gestures and poses.

Thanks, I like the last one as well. I'm at the point where I have no idea how I'm going to do the gestures or poses, expressions. Boy, this is all new to me. Keeping a consistent character throughout this book is going to be a huge challenge.

Thrace · 4 Oct 2015, 23:41

@daiolupo you can type in just about any kind of expression or gesture you want into google and see pictures to use for reference. Also you can just type in facial expressions and you will get all you want.

5 Oct 2015, 00:10

@Thrace-Shirley-Mears Orh boy, I'm such an idiot. Why didn't i think of that. Thank you.

Thrace · 5 Oct 2015, 01:06

@daiolupo sure, good luck!

Naroth Kean · 5 Oct 2015, 01:17

I totally understand!!! haha keeping the likeness of a character has always been my struggle as well.

Ace Connell · 5 Oct 2015, 09:35

I like the cat. Reminds me of a book cover I illustrated earlier in the year.

The 3/4 view needs a little work though in my opinion, just that it feels like it's a front view shifted over to the right a bit rather than feeling like the features are wrapping around the face. The eyes, nose and mouth need to feel like they're a 3D object.

Keep up the great work,
Ace

5 Oct 2015, 21:35

@Ace-Connell I believe your right about the 3/4 view. I'll have to update it. I'm so glad to have this sort of feed back. Thank you.

5 Oct 2015, 23:27

@Ace-Connell Okay, I had a chance to do a little more work on the 3/4 view and I think it works. Boy, it was a hard work though, I almost gave up.

Ace Connell · 6 Oct 2015, 04:15

@daiolupo There we go Much better! Yeah, the 3/4 view can be a nightmare sometimes but it's totally worth all the hard work as it's much more believable.

Great work.
Ace

6 Oct 2015, 21:11

@Ace-Connell Great! It was a lot of fun too. It's so satisfying when you get it done. Thank you so much for your much needed feed back. I really appreciate it.