Welcome to Gaia! ::

Just a drawing featuring Fanny from Guilty Gear series.

I used a sucky ball point pen and an HB2 pencil for the sketching.

Estimated time: around 30-40 minutes



Feel free to color it and post here your result =D!

And don't forget to critique and comment!

oh wow! you're really good!

That's one skinny neck. Shoulders can't curve upward like that, and the head should be smaller to fit the ribcage proportions.

Your line quality is is good and the face is pretty nice, actually. Just be sure you aren't trying to fit other body parts to the page.

Ah, I see the dress sleeves now. Difficult to tell because the hair locks make that area somewhat ambiguous. Which leads to...

...her neck. Basing my judgment on just the width-wise proportions, the head, neck, and torso don't fit well. Look at the armpit area; it's barely as wide as the head. A neck half that width can't support such a head, physically or visually, even if you cover it with hair. You can start to tell anatomy errors after a while.

I daresay how you draw the face will determine if she looks like a man. Necks don't have as much to do with it if you take the realism-to-stylized approach.

Honestly, that's worse. The head is almost as big and wide as the shoulders. It's just too big to be plausible. Heads need to be about half the width of the shoulders.

I'm being rough on you because I want you to get better. I know you can be a better artist. You've improved a lot since you first posted in this guild and I don't want you to get comfortable with where you are right now. You get a lot of dazzling comments, but you don't get as much critique.

IMO I really don't see a problem with anything ('cept the boobs). Everything looks relatively proportional to me. :I (Also, I just noticed the ear is angular, shouldn't it be round?)

Redlined it for you. Simple skeleton in red, rest of it in blue.

In relation to the torso, the shoulders are way too long. However, in relation to the head, the head is too large. As stated earlier, there are a lot of proportional problems here. If you are choosing aesthetics over realistic proportions, then you need to address the rest of the body as well. If she has a thin, slender neck, her arms and torso need to match accordingly, while still taking in account of the size of the head. Death T-2 is correct; the head starts becoming too humongous if the neck doesn't look like it can support.

In addition, breasts are NOT a proper way to figure out proportions. Work with the ribcage first, not the breasts. You can tack on watermelons later.

You have great design elements here, however, they aren't properly fitted over this character. Think in 3D. The head is a three-dimensional shape. Think of her neck as a cylinder, her torso as an upside down egg, etc. Draw AROUND each shape as if it were made of glass, and then start fitting in the details later. The belt on her head makes her feel like her skull is flat and rectangular at the end.

I'm being harsh on you, I know, but mainly because I feel that your art's improvement has stagnated as of late. Any sort of critique is trying to help you, don't take it as an insult on your skill.

Glad to see you're taking it all well. C:

If I may make a suggestion, get a bigger drawing pad. Even a 9x12" sketchbook makes a world of difference. I personally would go for 11x14", big enough to see what's going on, small enough where it won't be a hassle. Remember, draw with your arm, not your wrist. You will draw looser, more intuitive lines that way, and drawing with your arm will preserve your wrist.

Carpal tunnel syndrome is a b***h.