At the moment, the poses look very unnatural - I don't think crossing your legs while standing is a common stance.  Also, the blue robot looks rather on the edge of action (leaned forward, arms raised, that foot put down behind).  I think you just need to work on their poses, the background seems great to me, everything lined up.  And at the moment I can't really tell that he's a vendor, but I'm sure that will come later.

The difference between the standing cross legged poses I'm finding on google images and what you've drawn here is that normally they're stood with both feet planted on the ground so that their center of gravity is between their legs - in your image she seems to be balancing on one leg.  It's a pose that implies assisted standing, like she's leaning on a wall or something.

And my apologies!  I did indeed misread the OP.

Struggling a bit with the shiny metal surfaces. Haven't found any good tutorials to do this style, so I'm just trying to copy old 1980's cartoons.

Edited by CELS - 16 January 2014 at 3:45am

I dunno, I see people doing that all the time, and not necessarily like that google image. This looks pretty awesome even at this stage, I can't wait for the end result!

This is pretty awesome and a big jump forward with the update :)

I can't really think of any critique currently however. I'm not the best at this stuff!

This doesn't really look like it at all but this reminded me of a 60's Tom and Jerry cartoon when they were both in space lol



Ok I edited to tell you it was from '67 and the name of it was O-Solar Meow if you are curious. I'm so off topic.

Edited by H|F - 17 January 2014 at 1:30am

Well, I think I should just come out and say, right off the bat, that I don't know what the hell I'm doing here. But I'm having a lot of fun. Hopefully at some point, someone who understands the technical side of lighting and reflection will send me crashing back to reality. But untill then..... weeeee!



Thanks for the comments, guys.

@H|F: I checked out O-Solar Meow, and I remember seeing that as a kid! Not quite what I'm going for, although I can always insert a small mouse hole on one of the walls, if you want :)

@Shadow64: Thanks, I will definitely keep working on the reflections on the floor from the chamber. In regards to the orb on the floor, it's definitely one of the worst things in this piece so far, so I need to go over it as well.

Thanks, Shadow64!

To be honest, I'm not sure how to do the window, really. I mean, the standard is to have two diagonal bands of light across windows. But I don't really understand the logic behind this way of drawing windows, so it feels a bit like drawings a nose as an 'L' because "That's how you draw a nose".

I wish I understood reflections better.

Here's the latest version. It was suggested that I remove the star, because it looked too busy before. I've also messed around with contrast.



I still don't have a good understanding of reflections, but I've picked up a thing or two now.

In regards to the controversial pose and the airhead-scientist, the idea was to portray the male and female scientists as incarnations of Yin and Yang. The male scientist as excessively animated, creative, forward, energetic (yang), the female as calm, passive, tolerant, patient (yin).
From Wikipedia: "Yin is characterized as slow, soft, yielding, diffuse, cold, wet, and passive; and is associated with water, earth, the moon, femininity and nighttime.
Yang, by contrast, is fast, hard, solid, focused, hot, dry, and aggressive; and is associated with fire, sky, the sun, masculinity and daytime."

They're both scientists, they're both on equal standing, they both have confidence and conviction. But they represent polar opposites in their approach. He is daring, she is cautious. He is perhaps too eager, she is perhaps too skeptical. But as two halves of a whole, they complete each other, as indeed scientists often take turns playing the roles as torch bearers and nay-sayers in order to put forward new theories and then put new theories to the test.

I suppose a better indication of yin and yang would have been to give her the container with fluid and give him something with an open flame of sorts.

At any rate, with the new background a new foreground is needed. I haven't yet decided how to draw the characters in this version.

Edited by CELS - 20 January 2014 at 3:26am