Though I have an Art Block for some strange personal reason from creating certain art, I try to force something out of me to at least chip way at that Art Block. But every once in a while things come to a screeching halt because of one tiny thing: positioning. It is usually positioning of something small like a hand on a wall of a 3/4 face view with a tilted head to show innocent ignorance. Or even how feet are laid out on the floor or other object. It just cannot be figured out somehow and it brings things to a screeching halt!
Current dilemma: If you are about 6ft tall, you are a few feet away from the bed which is 3f 6in tall, 6ft long and about 3ft wide (size of a Twin Bed). You are looking down at it at a slight angle and thus you can see its rectangular prism shape in its entirety. There is Depth perception, so the ends of the bed are slightly skewed in to show where it lies in space compared to the vanishing point. That part is fine.
Adding details, the head of the bed is to the screen’s right and the foot of the bed is towards the left of the screen, and like most images, it a mirror of your perspective: the character within facing you, it’s right is your left, it’s right is your left. All things up to this point are fine.
The Problem: there is a girl lying on the bed, her head at the head of the bed, her feet towards the foot of the bed. That makes her side closest to you as her left side. Everything from head to her waist in position to the bed is fine. Her legs are open to show her groin, crotch and genitalia. Right Leg it not done, rough a rough sketch of it is in pace but it needs work and clean up. It is her left leg, the leg closest to you that is the problem, particularly the upper thigh and its connection to the body. The waist, hip, and side of the body is already in place and it seems to look good. But when placing the leg on the body, things do not line up. It’s driving me crazy.
I moved the thigh around, stretched it, shrunk it, rotated it, and skewed it. I even redrew it twice. It does not seem to fit... naturally.
Funny thing is, I done characters in this position before and the parts went in and fit cleanly. But this one character. I do not know. In the end, I might have to redraw her entirely. I do not want to do that as she looks fine as is up this point. But if the problem is with her and not the leg, I have no other choice.
For me, I tend to draw my characters in sections and position the sections as needed. I have seen any artists do similar as I do so many will understand what I’m talking about.
What do you guys think: try to fit the leg or redraw the girl?
Many thanks on what advice you can give.
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6 months, 2 weeks ago
24 Aug 2024 07:01 CEST
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