Popping in to relay a sweet tip I've just been given. If you take an image you've been working on and flip it horizontally, it becomes MUCH easier to find the faults. For example:


I had just finished this earlier today and was pretty pleased with it. There were a few issues I'd taken notice of: the pant leg on our left is a bit too wide, the slit between the legs is too wide and dark (resembling a vagina.) Additionally, the flow of the excess belt doesn't match the implied wind direction the hair is giving off. Beyond that, I was pretty satisfied with it. However...


When you flip the image, the faults are, for whatever reason, easier to see. As you can tell, the shoulder on the left of the flipped image is significantly lower than its counter-part. The bicep is also just a little bigger than the arm on the right. Beyond a few minor hand differences, there's the problem of the neck not being symmetrical, the eyes implying a direction I wasn't going for, and the lowest hair stems not matching each other.

I'm going to look into why exactly flipping the image makes it easier to find the faults, but yeah, a really cool little tip I stumbled upon. Don't take it too seriously, though. I've been flipping a lot of professional animator's work and noticing some imperfections (not as drastic as mine, but still existent.)

Finally got a tablet. Haven't shaded yet but here's my first piece:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BdPr74ClA7C/

The Wolverine.

Nice, Instagram? I followed you.

Hey guys check out my OC pls don't steal okay

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Hey guys check out my OC pls don't steal okay

and to think it all started with this rinky dink sketch during my break

That's clearly Gonku

someone else thought it was gohan so i'll consider my work a success

the power of the tablet

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What tablet are you using? I want to get a new one, preferably a decent size and a screen on it so I can see what I'm doing. Mine's fucking tiny.

First personal work in a good while

I'm gonna try writing again, will need some characters to go along with it. I copped a decent looking tablet for £214 so lets see how this goes

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What episode is this from Snake?

69 hehe

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What episode is this from Snake?

69 hehe

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Man, I've gotta give you props you can now get yourself hired and work on Dragon Ball Super

Thanks for the kind words, but I'm nowhere near where I need to be. It's been really excellent to see myself progress so much these past few months, but I'd need like, another 10 years of this kind of improvement to be even a lowly in-betweener at Toei. Which is fine, and I'm determined to get there, but I've only been really drawing for a few months and don't have the background and expertise to do anything I really want to. I have all these cool cuts in my head but I just don't have the skill to bring them to life.

I am comfortable in saying that my shading game is top-tier, though.

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What episode is this from Snake?

69 hehe

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Man, I've gotta give you props you can now get yourself hired and work on Dragon Ball Super

Thanks for the kind words, but I'm nowhere near where I need to be. It's been really excellent to see myself progress so much these past few months, but I'd need like, another 10 years of this kind of improvement to be even a lowly in-betweener at Toei. Which is fine, and I'm determined to get there, but I've only been really drawing for a few months and don't have the background and expertise to do anything I really want to. I have all these cool cuts in my head but I just don't have the skill to bring them to life.

I am comfortable in saying that my shading game is top-tier, though.

One thing I will say is that you should try different angled and poses man, learn the human anatomy etc. etc.

Oh, I am don't worry. You guys only see the really polished stuff, but I'm 100% moving outside my comfort zone regularly, too.







I do the head-on and 3/4's angles because they're the most common in animation, and I want to master them more quickly than the others, but I realise that I should have some universal understanding of perspective. That's where my lack of experience comes in, though.

This is also without any references so I am building my personal judgment at the same time. I've pretty much left redraws in the past.