His head is creepy. The smile and "nose" aren't really helping. His eyes look weird. He is also missing ears. The hands are too blocky. And it looks like he has a ":<" face on his chest lol.

The shading is not consistent. The chest appears to be shaded from above, the arms from the right, the left leg from the right, and the right leg from above and slightly in front.

The "shading" on the shoulders doesn't look good either.

No. Your anatomy is off, too. For example, the triceps end a bit higher than that. I don't like the really dark pixels on the inside of the elbows. Also while you are going for the muscular look, define the lower abdominal muscles a bit better. Mainly around the pelvis.

Sers000 wrote:

P.S: The color palette is not mine, its A2J2TWIARI'S so bro i hope u dont mind using urs, and if that bothers u i would change it :D

Lol! I wouldn't mind. Why would I? Also, that palette was rather boring and weird, so feel free to use it.

Also, I think you've improved a lot as this piece is a lot better than your previous ones. But as others said this needs to improved as there are many weird things in it.

P.S. - Even if you don't follow others' advice, do try to fix what Pandora said; he's pro!

I think your maybe trying a little bit to hard, maybe start off with something more simple? That way you can practice the techniques used for shading and defining a light source without having to worry about the complicated contours of the human body.

MademanOne wrote:

.....did this edit to the leftside of the body using my phone and crappy pixle app.....the colors suck....but I stuck with em since the app sucks.

http://img571.imageshack.us/img571/2434/image1uyo.png
Basicly defining the male anatomy bit better.Maybe lengthen the arms and legs abit...and please change the pallet use 4-5 colors....

thanks bro now i know what my mistakes were...

buff = not pretty

Ripped = sexy

would of did more but >< im busy like a boss.

The pecks and abs aren't attached to eachother....there's a coupple inches between them and because the flexible chest piece that holds the ribs together is there....so anatomicly incorrect to have them that close.

http://th09.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/i/2011/180/6/2/ anatomy_practice____by_moni158-d3kfwa9.png

@Sers000 - i dont do pillow shading maybe you should look up pillow shading you'll see every pixel of my edit is far from pillow shaded.

@MademanOne - Pecks and Abs are that close it actually depends on style and preference so... anatomicly i am correct. i go about different styles when making skinny, ripped and buff characters. i find that part of the ribs look better on a buff shaped character and thats the only time i actually use it.

@GreatFisher - style and preference, also not everyone has 8packs o_O 6packs are better fit my style.

MademanOne wrote:

My mistake.....I haven't drawn people or anything in a while guess I'm getting rusty...

No, you're right, the body is pillow shaded except some parts of the abdomen. The head uses a light source while the body does not.

Also, everyone is right about the pecks being too close together as well as the abdomen being shoved up into the pecks.

Honestly Sers, I think your base needs a lot more contrast in colors. You have the black outline and then like three colors of orange. A lot of the time you can use color to give a better representation of depth than you would with an outline.



I did a really quick remake of what I'm trying to point out.

1. Drawing a light source can sometimes help you convey the light hitting the body.

2. The body was extremely large so I cut it down to about 5 heads tall.

3. Everything on the body was large. Pecks were huge, Abdomen was huge, and legs were a lot further from the crotch than they should have been comparatively to torso and up.

A lot of your definition of the muscles and everything else was lost with all of those oranges. You don't need extreme contrast in colors to define parts of the body. Sometimes a lot of contrast is unappealing to the eye. I kept it relatively simple in terms of color.

I tried getting closest to what you were looking for, I hope this helps.

(You can see where I stopped giving a fuck about the edit in the arms and legs lol)