Drawing Characters! [Closed]

[Mae]

to new requests, bb.

My new tablet is arriving tommorrow and I'm SUPER excited to break it in <3 As such I'm celebrating by drawing a bunch o' stuff! Potentially your stuff! I'll be running this for a limited time so no slots, first come first serve, yada yada yada blah blah LET'S DRAW THINGS.

YOU WILL NEED:

• To provide some sort of description about your characters appearance and personality, at least. More detail = better. It's better if I can get an idea of pose/expression, so feel free to let me know what you like. Character Sheets appreciated.
• Any and all reference pictures, if you use one for the character, their clothes, literally anything... even their face shape, who cares. The more the better.
• To understand I am only drawing humanoids right now. This means: no animals, sorry, though I'll have a go at drawing monsters, supernaturals, anthros ect.
• To be courtious. I may decide to draw something as a sketch or bust or waist up instead of a fully rendered scene each time. This is kind of like a halloween pick and mix! Except you can't eat the art. Probably.

Finished Commissions:

Examples:

Sketches:

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Digital:

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Stupid Stuff:

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MAE'S SLOW AS MOLASSES:

Progress

The Mage - Hana: COMPLETE
Majora's End - Alice: COMPLETE
Shylarah - Shiara - COMPLETE
Light the Dark - Aerabella - COMPLETE

Working On:

Feyblue - Fragment -

Most Likely Tackling Next:
Cao the Exiled's commission || Pending...
GodofWar - Group Pic or Nefertari | Pending...

PORTRAITS NOBODY ASKED FOR:

An area I'm improving skillwise so I'm doing some portraits atm as well!
Majora's End - Alice - Playing around with colours
Shylahrah - Shiara - Colour & Overpainting

EDIT: 04/02/19 - My style has changed enough that I'll be redoing most things mentioned below. Updating ...%

<sub>GodOfWar - Nefertari - Lineart Base (will be tinkering this more to see if I can get it to where I want it, but considering moving to redrawing sketch otherwise)

Drache: Fire Mage - will be redoing sketches till I get it the way I want ;) This is a challenging one since it really tests some of my skills I'm hoping to improve.
GodOfWar - WhiteWedding: Just want to do a more interesting pose then current test sketch.
Duskshine749 - I'm going to reattempt this one soon.</sub>

Untouched so far:

GodOfWar Nefertari/White Wedding group shot (gonna try to make it look old-fashoiney, we'll see) :D
Shylarah Ziotea / Elian
Odin's two commissions

[Cao the Exiled]

Oooh, that's awesome! What do you normally charge for drawings?

[Drache]

I'm interested! I have references.

Edit:

Love the Halloween themeeee!

I would love to see her wearing a halloween sexy witch costume with black and white striped arm bands and a black dress and black hat. And a pumpkin somewhere.

References for my character (I commissioned these from other artists):

"Character"

Hat

Dress

Personality: Haughty/hotty, domineering, smug. What you would expect from a half-dragon firemage.

[Feyblue]

I'd also love to get in on this, although my options for repayment are limited.

[Majoraa]

Im currently working on a reference, but like the others asked, whats your price? Or way of payment?

[Mae]

@Cao the Exiled@Drache@Feyblue@Majoras End

I'm celebrating, it's free! I'll only be doing this for a limited time ♥

[Feyblue]

@Mae

Free, you say?!

Would you prefer us to PM you requests, or just submit them here?

[Mae]

@FeyblueI'm able to keep track of the thread better (real talk, I miss PM's sometimes because mine are horribly disorganised) but PMs are better for chatting over small details so... what I'd suggest is submitting the initial character description here and then talk in PMs over detail if needed. _{(e.g. I think I should make his chin 10% more pointy, what do you think?}

But honestly it doesn't matter too much which, so whatever is comfortable :D

[Feyblue]

Gotcha!

Fragment

The character I had in mind is a bit of an odd one. I guess it'd be easiest to call her a nature spirit, but due to being created incomplete, she's missing parts of herself. As such, although one side of her body looks human, the other half is just kind of shriveled and ruined, covered in seemingly empty black "voids" crisscrossing it like cracks across her flesh. Think sort of like Hanako from Katawa Shoujo, but with weird "voids" instead of burn scars.

She usually wears rather concealing garments like robes and such, so they're not really very visible. Wherever they might be seen, she usually covers them with bandages, so since that'd probably be easier than portal-like holes in her skin, it might be easier to do that instead. The part of her face that's scarred is usually covered by a half-mask with only a tiny slit rather than a full-blown eye hole, with perhaps some kind of spooky glow or fog beneath in lieu of an eye. After all, that part of her face is missing.

Her hair is black, and her visible eye should be a pale blue - kinda like this color. She's also fairly pale and kinda tired-looking, so an overall sort of expression - or what you can see of it - that might be good for her would be something like this lady here. Stature-wise, she's probably of average height, maybe a little on the taller side.

For hairstyle, something like this would be nice, with short hair that's longer on the sides, and a long, thin ponytail in the back.

For her personality, she's very quiet and demure. She's an incredible perfectionist, as being incomplete herself has made her loathe leaving anything she attempts unfinished. It also doesn't help that she's obsessed with being of use to other people, as to vindicate herself despite her imperfect nature. As such, she's a bit of a doormat, taking any criticism very personally, and being unable to say no when someone asks her to do something. She's also very socially awkward and thus a bit of a shut-in, as she tends to avoid contact with other people if at all possible, largely due to her "scars" and her somewhat terrifying true appearance, which she tries her best to hide. She doesn't trust other people easily, largely because she's not used to receiving any kind of praise or assistance, and thus finds it unfathomably strange that anyone would willingly choose to be near her despite her monstrous deformity. In conclusion, she's a shy little precious cinnamon roll with a lot of problems, but who internalizes them and doesn't open up to anyone easily.

As a final reference for her general overall aesthetic, something like this would be good as an inspiration - albeit with more of a softer blue color palette than that harsher red. For accessories, either jewelry or a little more nature-y kinds of ornaments like feathers or such would be best, if you want to add any.

Sorry if this is a bit scatterbrained. ^^; I wish I could draw a picture to demonstrate how I envision her, but, well, if I could do that much, I wouldn't be here. XD

Thank you very much! If you have any questions, I'll do my best to clarify my intentions.

[Majoraa]

@Mae

Aaaargh! I was working on a better ref for my character, but i accidentaly copied over it..

So ill have to use my other one. You can do what you want with the hair, keep the color, but could you not include the bandage?
make the other eye blue, I mean.

Leedle, this art is old but its the next best thing.

[GodOfWar]

@Mae

This is fantastic, really. I have two characters for a 1x1 roleplay I'm in that I have not been able to find any fitting art for; just stuff that's sort of sub-par. I would love to have you illustrate my characters. And for free?

This is too good to be true.

Alright, here's the first one; It's my original character for the roleplay, her name's Nefertari.

Nefertari Asim

Here's the closest photo to my ideal thought of Nefertari's face that I could find. She is a masculine egyptian woman with unruly, flowing white hair. Think broad shoulders, a chiseled chin, but with the curves and disposition of a woman. She's currently in a England setting, so her attire would be an old-styled three-piece suit and tie; even her dress is going to be masculine. Color-scheme for her suit, however, is going to be electric blues on the outer coat, white on the inner shirt, and gold buttons/watch chains (her tan skin tone sort of compliments this color scheme). Here's a reference for the attire:



Also, don't be scared to still give her feminine traits, even though I really want Nefertari to be rather masculine; She should still be identifiable as a woman.

And second, her Stand,「White Wedding」!

White Wedding

I have both a CS, and a reference picture for this one!

White Wedding CS

W H I T E W E D D I N G

_{Stand Name:}
「W H I T E W E D D I N G」

_{Stand User:}
「N E F E R T A R I A S I M」

_Appearance:
White Wedding manifests as a strong male body within a suit of white, black, and gold. The stand is adorned in a strait jacket constricting its arms to its body. This jacket is able to be unlocked at will. Blue and black accents make an aesthetic border around the white of the stand's appearance, hints of gold accompanying such. All and all, White Wedding can be summarized as a dangerously muscular man, bound by his own attire; most comparable to an asylum inmate.

_{Stand Battle-Stats:}

_{Range (From User):}
1 ~ 2 Meters; White Wedding is exclusively a melee stand, and follows Nefertari like a trained dog. Even better, a backpack.

_{Stand Ability:}

「S P A C I A L E L A S T I C I T Y」
This ability will require some explaining. White Wedding is able to sling-shot somebody, much like a rubber-band, from their current position to a space they have previously occupied with a touch of its fingertips. The stand literally makes something's concept of space elastic, and then slings them to a past space. This ability is applicable to both organic and inorganic items, as long they had occupied a space other than the one they currently hold. Spacial elasticity can also affect other stands, but not White Wedding nor its user. This ability is able to sling someone to a space they had previously occupied up to a minute ago. Thus, if a box was falling, and White Wedding touched it with its fingertips, the box would be transported to a space it had occupied up to a minute beforehand (lest that be still falling, or on the edge of a windowsill). Objects and people are only affected by White Wedding's ability if they touch the stand's fingertips; any other part of the stand does not trigger spacial elasticity (this includes the stand punching). Factors such as properties of matter and motion that had been effecting the object or person prior to spacial elasticity, are only relative to the position and space it is sent to occupy; a falling box sent back to a space where it was sitting steadily on a windowsill, will not fall because it was falling before.

As said, spacial elasticity will fling an object back to a previous space it occupied. However, to get to space, you must travel through an amount of space to get there. Thus, to fling an object from nearly any space it does occupy to nearly any space it did occupy, White Wedding changes the form of that object into a dazzling array of tiny shards of glass. These shards will then fly towards the space that spacial elasticity requires the object to be present in, and will reform into the object as it had been originally & physically at the moment of spacial elasticity's activation. It should be noted that organic items are not killed nor harmed by being shattered and reformed.
The shards will take the shortest route to the intended space, and will travel/reform at an almost instantaneous speed (It is like watching glitter flutter, and then disappear in the wake of something's relocation). They will avoid any physical items that could impede their motion, and thus not cause damage to other objects due to minuscule cuts, etc.

In summary, spacial elasticity is an ability that, when White Wedding touches something with its fingertips, will cause an object to relocate to a space it had been previously in a daze of glittering glass.

Other than following the CS's description, I would like you to make White Wedding a lot more chiseled and muscular; I would also like you to make the art a lot less suggestive and BDSM-ish than the reference, but instead have the strait jacket be the main center of constrainment. I really do like the hood and color-scheme part, so please keep that aspect in the final product.

And maybe...

I would be ecstatic if you could compose a group shot of both Nefetari and White Wedding in this sort of pose; both of them lounging in a set of chairs, maybe Nefertari playing the harp as Wedding just looks creepily into the distance. It would make me soooo happy.

I would like just a waist-up portrait of Nefertari, but a full-body for White Wedding. White Wedding is a stoic, deadly figure, while Nefertari has a confident, almost gaurd-dog like presence. The more realistic their illustration, the better.

I'm sorry for just throwing so much on your plate but, god, where else am I going to get this opportunity from such a great artist? Don't feel like you need to fill all if any of my requests; I'm fine with whatever you provide. The requests above are in the order of how much I want them, but don't do them if you don't want to. Thank you so much Mae; it's great just to see your artwork, let alone get to have it tailor-made <3.

[The Mage]

Thank you very much for offering your talents to a fine forum such as this. Some people can't really afford to pay for a commission all the time,and people like you can brighten someones day up quick!

Hider

Hana
Half-Elf

I find it hard to find any good references for the facial structure for her.

Facereference

think this one would work the best for facial features, but with the eyes smaller and her chin a tad bit narrower. She has a large scar across her left eye,and a joining one that crosses her face that forms an upside down 'V'. Her hair is slightly curly and extends halfway down her neck,covering just the tips of her ears.

Her attire isn't elegant,having been scavenged off of the bodies of bandits that are similar in size and stature to Hana's short and slender body.She has a worn pair of trousers along with her Gambeson,Greaves and leather gauntlets for wear and nothing else.

Clothesreference

and

The half-elfs personality is finicky at best; Her constant abuse at the hands of her elders and peers has left her fractured,her disobedient attitude and thinly veiled threats contrasts her inability to stand up and face her leaders when she is confronted. Despite this fragile mindset,she is quite ample at fighting, and is confident enough to stand up to any odds during one of her fanatical episodes.

[duskshine749]

I see you are drawing art. This is good, as I need an updated look for my character in my only active RP right now.

You said you would read it so you should have an idea :P but basically he should look a bit like Hellboy. Red skin, horns, tail, kinda muscly but not too much, with jeans and a cool leather jacket. You can respond to that PM I sent the other day if you need more details. I mostly just wanna see you art and how it comes out :P

[shylarah]

@Mae Yee, I'd love if you wanted to draw one of my chars. ^.^ This is so awesome that you're doing this! Any of those below would be lovely, though I've listed them in order from who I'm most wanting art of to least. ^.^ Adn thank you for considering!

Ziotea

official faceclaim || various images || fancy outfit
completed char sheet
Basically, Zt's a little ball of anger and far more dangerous than she appears. She's got explosive magic and that makes her pretty deadly. She's looking for meaning in her life.

Istara

album of references, including a close-up of her emblem in both color schemes
Istara has been around a while (she's a spirit, and long lifespan comes with that). She was only recently freed from a very long captivity, and before that she was a wartime general, and a fearsome warrior. But she's a bit tired of the fighting, and currently feeling out of place in a world that moved on without her. Any moderately composed standing sort of pose, a drawing sword pose, or an attacking sword pose, would suit her. She has dark eyes on the violet side of blue, strawberrish-blonde hair, and deeply bronzed skin.
She actually wears something more like a sleeveless duster than a scarf, for her casual wear, even though the pic my friend drew has her in a scarf. She's never without that leather upper armor and her gauntlets/vambraces, unless she's wearing a metal breastplate and vambraces instead. This includes for her casual attire. She also carries her sword most of the time, a gently curved blade with a simple hand guard in the shape of a D. She keeps her hair tied up, usually with beads woven into it, and nearly always has some sort of circlet. a bunch of poses (should be noted she's right handed, and that lady drawing the sword in the first set is left handed -- but that's the best idea of her sword I've seen in my files.)

Shiara (DRAWN! &lt;33)

several references, art someone did and she has a char sheet here. ^.^ Also some half-done doodles of my own: Shiara || Ainel || Ainel's head
She's young -- only fourteen at most, could be done a few years younger. Best done in some sort of active stance, like climbing or perching or running or balancing or leaping. The curtsey in her reference images would work, or I have a few other ideas. general ref 1 || general ref 2 || general ref 3 || general ref 3

Elian

sketch, pic, and fans concept
in-depth description
Any decently dancy pose works for her. If you look up Da Qiao and Xiao Qiao from Destiny Warriors, you can probably find some pose refs for her fans, though she's more of a caster than a fighter. Kitana from...uh...mortal combat? soul caliber? >.< might also work, though she shows a bit more skin than Elian generally likes to. Not that she won't show any, but I remember seeing Kitana in basically nothing and that's a bit /too/ much. She likes it to stay on, thanks. general ref 1

EDIT:
Most of these have new or moved references, so please ask me for the updated locations if anything's missing! I've tried to update the links.

[Mae]

>Order within the next X hours and receive tommorrow
>Nothing arrives, check the order

>ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff

That being said I've been working through the commissions on paper which should speed up the sketch/lineart stage when my tablet arrives on Monday anyway :D

Although @Drache I'm not sure if I'll have your commission finished by halloween now, is that alright? I'll work on yours first as soon as the tablet arrives but I don't know if I'll have it to the quality level I like for halloween. Would you like it simplified hopefully in time for halloween or to a higher standard but potentially a little late?
Also been drawing her in pinup style, think that'll turn out pretty fun :3

@Majoras End
This is the very, very rough sketch I've got for Leedle so far. It'll be cleared up once I get access to the magical powers of copy-paste. In the meantime I was wondering if the hair was okay or if you'd like me to redo it in a different style? I've been getting pretty strong Wednesday vibes from her so I could either do her more anime or more gothic.

Let me know if you want her pose or clothing style changed as well. Again this is a first attempt at getting her right ;3

@Feyblue been cracking out a few rough sketches but nothing I'm 100% happy with yet :D To confirm which side of her face has more of the portal-like cracks in her skin?

@GodofWar ahh I've been having alot of fun with this xD Posing muscley-muscley man man White Wedding has been challenging but in a fun way. So far I've been attempting the group picture, I think I would like to have a go at all three if all goes well with the other commissions. I don't expect too much trouble with the static waist shot/full pose (although sometimes I have trouble with the legs, so it might end up as two waist ups) I'm most worried about getting the feminine but chiselled nature of Nefertari across with her personality effectively.

@The Mage So for the scar, does that cross at the foreheard or the chin? Where does the second scar go to/from?

@Duskshine749 but dusk, how much of a big daddy is Morthos? ;p
Seriously though, I haven't got through the rp properly yet, do you have any reference pictures? I am currently just imagining hellboy <3 (frickin love hellboy) so it might be more of a case of telling me how he looks different in facial structure/hairstyle/facial features so I don't just draw... hellboy.

_{hellboyhellboyhellboyhellboy totally had a teenage crush on Nauda hellboyhellboyhellboy}

Kind of unrelated but I heard rumour they might be rebooting it fresh (*citation needed, totally inaccurate source). Not sure how I feel about that though :o

@shylarah holy smokes the dollmaker versions actually make it super easy for me to imagine your characters :o I haven't got around to starting on the sketches for these yet, but I'm looking foreward to it.

thanks for the great level of detail guys! I'm finding it pretty easy so far to picture the characters, been feeling really inspired to crack on with alot of these :D sorry for the mixup with my tablet (grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr) but I should still have some time monday to work on them.

Off to doodle while watching Stranger Thingsssss

[POOHEAD189]

Just popping in to say I love and support this thread.

[The Mage]

@Mae thee two scars would join just above her nose, with the smaller one going across her left eye and ending just above her cheek,and the other one going over the right eye and down to her jaw. I hope this clears it up for you and thank you very much for offering this again!

[shylarah]

@Mae yesss, I find that faceclaims and stuff are very rarely precisely what I want, and while dollmakers suck at facial structure and body structure and stuff, they ROCK for clothing. It's the one on [url=subeta.net], and while the items themselves, particularly custom wearables, can cost a lot of in-game or even irl monies, there's a thing in the wardrobe that lets you make avatars with EVERY ITEM ON SITE and it's glorious. I use it a lot, especially since I like making avatars of my characters, and then I'll use it as a drawing reference, and *flailing* It's particularly nice when I can't get the char onto paper myself. <3

Honestly if I get a pencil sketch I do not mind this -- all arts are good arts! -- but you are 1000% correct, copypaste (and undo!) are lifesavers. I cry when I put something in the wrong spot on paper.

[Feyblue]

@MaeHmm... Well, I had originally envisioned her being kinda two-faced, where one side of her body is covered in the portal-cracks and the other is pretty much completely normal, but I never really hammered out which side was which. Both images I linked for her aesthetic and for the rough layout of her scars had them on the right, though, so I guess that's fine.

[Drache]

@Mae Take your time. I don't need it done by Halloween.