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is mostly being uploaded as a kind of practice thing. The challenge that I kind of issued to myself after talking to a few friends is,\r\n\r\n\"Try to draw all Starmaninjians with more realistic anatomy.\"\r\n\r\nnow what I'm getting at is not the fact that my \"Style\" is going to change at all, but instead improve. DO keep in mind, that does not meant I'm going to carbon copy how animals really look. That's not the point of this exercise as it doesn't help me at all if I don't apply a bit of imagination. It does mean I'm going to use realistic animal photos as a guide however. \r\n\r\nThe thing that has been on my mind is that while I LOVE how the Starmaninjians look at the moment, I feel that there are a lot of things I could and should try to improve on. These things include: Muscle tonnage, more varied shapes and sizes, etc. and especially more attention to detail as currently, most of my Starmaninjians look the same, when in my mind, they're not supposed to be exactly the same. \r\n\r\nSo this challenge is mostly to help me try to draw a more realistic animal, but still keep Starmaninjian details apparent. I'm going to use a lot of stock photos of animals to try to get more poses and interesting anatomy and hopefully, this will get me up to the level that Pokemon or Lion King sits, instead of sitting on at best, what's on CN or Anime quality. \r\n\r\nAs an artist, my goal is to try to produce the best quality art that I can, and as a creator, I want my Starmaninjians to look as appealing as possible while still keeping to their true design. After all, it's just like the question that was asked to me a long time ago states:\r\n\r\n\"If you really care about your Starmaninjians, wouldn't you want them to look as accurate and beautiful as possible instead of just relying on the same old whatever works?\"\r\n\r\nand since I've started, I've been drawing based on memory, which isn't working out very well. So I'm going to strive for more interesting art from now on. Don't worry, like I said, my \"Style\" is not going to change. I'm still pretty much a cartoonist at heart so I'm still going to go for that Disney/Looney tunes type of cartoony (or even Neopets...dare I say it). BUT I'm going to try to get better results in how I draw things so that you can see more accurate tonnage and all that stuff. Make my Starmaninjians look ALIVE (which in turn will make 3D modeling easier).\r\n\r\nSo anyway, Zodia Zenokoya/Tigerion is copyright to Kao Ninjaratzu.\r\n\r\nI'm also trying to work on the logic of my naming scheme. At the moment, the current one doesn't seem to work as it is, and the safest sign seems to be \"alternate Earth\" kind of approach. While I initially wanted Starmaninja to have nothing to do with Earth, it's pretty much near impossible for me to create an entirely new system that's completely irrevalent (which wouldn't make sense anyway), so I'm simply going to go with that for now until I come up with something more compelling. This will not change any stories though, but at least make the world seem more realistic and easier to understand and HOPEFULLY without making me look like an idiot in the process (the case of knowing what I'm talking about when I clearly don't).","description_bbcode_parsed":"This is mostly being uploaded as a kind of practice thing. The challenge that I kind of issued to myself after talking to a few friends is,
"Try to draw all Starmaninjians with more realistic anatomy."
now what I'm getting at is not the fact that my "Style" is going to change at all, but instead improve. DO keep in mind, that does not meant I'm going to carbon copy how animals really look. That's not the point of this exercise as it doesn't help me at all if I don't apply a bit of imagination. It does mean I'm going to use realistic animal photos as a guide however.
The thing that has been on my mind is that while I LOVE how the Starmaninjians look at the moment, I feel that there are a lot of things I could and should try to improve on. These things include: Muscle tonnage, more varied shapes and sizes, etc. and especially more attention to detail as currently, most of my Starmaninjians look the same, when in my mind, they're not supposed to be exactly the same.
So this challenge is mostly to help me try to draw a more realistic animal, but still keep Starmaninjian details apparent. I'm going to use a lot of stock photos of animals to try to get more poses and interesting anatomy and hopefully, this will get me up to the level that Pokemon or Lion King sits, instead of sitting on at best, what's on CN or Anime quality.
As an artist, my goal is to try to produce the best quality art that I can, and as a creator, I want my Starmaninjians to look as appealing as possible while still keeping to their true design. After all, it's just like the question that was asked to me a long time ago states:
"If you really care about your Starmaninjians, wouldn't you want them to look as accurate and beautiful as possible instead of just relying on the same old whatever works?"
and since I've started, I've been drawing based on memory, which isn't working out very well. So I'm going to strive for more interesting art from now on. Don't worry, like I said, my "Style" is not going to change. I'm still pretty much a cartoonist at heart so I'm still going to go for that Disney/Looney tunes type of cartoony (or even Neopets...dare I say it). BUT I'm going to try to get better results in how I draw things so that you can see more accurate tonnage and all that stuff. Make my Starmaninjians look ALIVE (which in turn will make 3D modeling easier).
So anyway, Zodia Zenokoya/Tigerion is copyright to Kao Ninjaratzu.
I'm also trying to work on the logic of my naming scheme. At the moment, the current one doesn't seem to work as it is, and the safest sign seems to be "alternate Earth" kind of approach. While I initially wanted Starmaninja to have nothing to do with Earth, it's pretty much near impossible for me to create an entirely new system that's completely irrevalent (which wouldn't make sense anyway), so I'm simply going to go with that for now until I come up with something more compelling. This will not change any stories though, but at least make the world seem more realistic and easier to understand and HOPEFULLY without making me look like an idiot in the process (the case of knowing what I'm talking about when I clearly don't).","writing":"","writing_bbcode_parsed":"","pools_count":0,"title":"Princess Zodia Zenokoya - Base Sketch","deleted":"f","public":"t","mimetype":"image/jpeg","pagecount":"1","rating_id":"0","rating_name":"General","ratings":[],"submission_type_id":"1","type_name":"Picture/Pinup","guest_block":"f","friends_only":"f","comments_count":"0","views":"3","sales_description":null,"forsale":"f","digitalsales":"f","printsales":"f","digital_price":""}