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molagboop · 4 months

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I need to draw Samus more. The one obstacle is drawing faces. It's not just that I haven't exactly nailed human faces, it's that I consistently envision her in at least six different styles simultaneously every time I try to put her to the page (that's why she looks different every time I draw her).

It's a constant battle between big and blocky (my beloved), cartoony and malleable for comedic purposes, and some hybrid look with influences from all over the place. Between wrangling the shape of the face and remembering how her hair works (harder than it sounds when you have 30 different versions of one character in your head), it's hard to find a happy medium sometimes. I'll get there, I just need to separate the different entities within the fleshy mass in my head from each other and use them appropriately.

#txt #not art #i had the same problem when i was trying to nail down how Raven Beak looks. i can see them in my head it's just a matter of #training the muscles to execute the look #i'm also going through the same growing pains designing the side characters for Winging It: I see some of them very clearly #in my head: i just need to put them on the canvas and not forget what they look like while i'm doing it #the side characters that don't come from an existing Metroid title don't have the luxury of having existing reference material online #the one i keep describing as a 'seahorse bartender' in my head and my design docs never looks the same way twice #they have a snout though: that's the only consistent element. they're like if you combined a tapir and a seahorse and a regular horse #that's the vibe

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