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by salmon, January 25th 2024 © 2024 salmon
Tmxg

Amazing piece of work, great shading, proportions, everything.

If I can make a suggestion, it would be great to push the dynamic pose to have the ideal position of the archer like left arm more straight.

Thank you for sharing !

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salmon

Thank you! Will work on adding more dynamic-ness to poses. I see what you mean about pushing the arm especially :)

Polyvios Animations

Greatest work on your attitude.

If I could give you the most constructive critique, then I'm not getting enough of those organic spaces, shapes, and forms. How would you like to kindly go ahead with 48 minutes of 2 minute poses?

The reason is consequently, your lines and shapes and forms will become the least stiffest and therefore the most actiony, fluidest and funniest. For most info, please look into the Prestion Blair books on Animation Resources rrrright here???

Let's hope you've found these totally concrete.

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salmon

Thank you! Very interesting resource, and good tips :)

Saveremreve

You've captured the weight of this model nicely - especially in the chest. Take care with the placement of the legs. With heavy bodies the refined foreshortening on the lower legs. It looks like as you were refining the pose you left the rear leg (especially the ankle) get larger than the front leg.

Im enjoying the physicality of the arms. They look strong and I really believe they are under tension with the bow. The bow itself looks like it was challenging. It might have benefited from some construction lines with simple circles and lines to better understand that gnarly foreshortened curve.

Overall I really like it! On final look I'm noticing the hips have nice volume too. Happy sketching!

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salmon

Thank you so much! Definitely need to work on construction and scale on rear limbs, very helpful and encouraging :)

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