Iron man! Iron man! Does whatever an...you know what, it doesn't work.

[small_hen]

Art time! I promised Iron Man art, so damn it, I'm gonna deliver. Nothing slashy this time, just a practice sketch and a more detailed pencil drawing that took way longer than it should have.



First, my practice sketch (click to enlarge):


And a more realistic drawing (same):


Is it weird that I like the first drawing more? It's a kinda graceful little sketch. The second drawing, while more detailed, pretty much emphasizes everything I suck at when it comes to art. The background sucks, the line of sight is off, the character's position is awkward. It's an image cobbled together from several pictures, and it looks like it.

Still, it also looks like Robert Downey Jr, so not all bad.

Oh, and both of these were hand drawn in pencil, with a little charchol thrown in to darken areas of the second. Photoshop was used for resizing, brief clean up, and to compensate for my horrible scanner.

Comments

[sky-star.livejournal.com]

Hey!

You really shouldn't knock the second drawing. :3 The background may be a little lacking, but the rest of it looks in place. :3 All the shortcomings you list, in fact become the art's strength as it now has a stylised look.
Even the lack of background is nothing since you've included sufficient attention to detail in the foreground. If you'd gone ahead and finished the back off, it would have detracted from the foreground elements.

Very nice work, keep on at it! :D

~Yel.

[ennui-blue-lite.livejournal.com]

Aww, thank you! Honestly, I do like it. I think all artists feel frustrated when what happens on the page isn't what's happening in their head, that's all. I do sort of wish I could take another art class and really cement consepts like unity and harmony and stuff. I always did suck at those. Alas, no time.

Anyhoo, thank you so much for commenting. I am a comment crack whore, and without them, I'll go into severe withdrawl.