Ninja - Work in Progress
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Printed Date: 30 December 2025 at 11:37am
Topic: Ninja - Work in Progress
Posted By: xxmantisxx
Subject: Ninja - Work in Progress
Date Posted: 14 August 2012 at 5:45pm
Why do people always name their titles "work in progress"? What ELSE would you put into this section of the forum?
So, I've never really had to shade anything with so many folds and creases. Advice? |
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Posted By: H|F
Date Posted: 14 August 2012 at 7:06pm
| I believe the pants would look more ninja is they were tight after the knee. Also tight around the forearm like a gauntlets length. |
Posted By: xxmantisxx
Date Posted: 15 August 2012 at 5:09pm
Ah, thank you kindly.
Is this any better? |
Posted By: H|F
Date Posted: 16 August 2012 at 6:04am
| Maybe to make it more action looking, try to have the katana.... Or sword (know he isn't samurai) pointing more downward/straight rather then up. |
Posted By: Yuran
Date Posted: 16 August 2012 at 6:44am
| I can not understand where the light source |
Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 16 August 2012 at 6:49am
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Originally posted by xxmantisxx Why do people always name their titles "work in progress"? What ELSE would you put into this section of the forum? NPA  Originally posted by xxmantisxx
So, I've never really had to shade anything with so many folds and creases. Advice? I would go with strong contrast/lighting with a piece this small to convey the texture of folds and creases. ------------- |
Posted By: -
Date Posted: 16 August 2012 at 10:14am
Is that a flare on the top of the sword? Cause I think it needs to be longer with sharp edges like this one.
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Posted By: Yuran
Date Posted: 16 August 2012 at 12:36pm
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Posted By: H|F
Date Posted: 16 August 2012 at 3:09pm
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I agree with Jal about the contrast. I feel like his legs could use some length.... I just feel like he should be more spidery (is that a word?) and thin.
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Posted By: xxmantisxx
Date Posted: 16 August 2012 at 5:19pm
@Jalonso: Non-pixel art WORK IN PROGRESSES! HAH! @H|F: I'm actually following a reference, and the sword is at that very angle. However, I agree on the "spidery" point and gave my best to fix it. @Artwark: Yeah, it's supposed to be a flare. Though honestly, I'd only added that at the last minute. I've now removed it ;) @Jalonso again: I see what you mean! However, I'm still not sure about how to light them to seem like they're actually folds. I gave it a try Yuran: First note, before posting, you should probably finish your sentence. Secondly, I tried to correct that mistake. |
Posted By: Night
Date Posted: 17 August 2012 at 2:44am
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I would suggest working a bit more on his clothing, making them more like the traditional ninja clothing perhaps.
Another thing I think that you might want to move a little is his shoulder, the one visible to us, slightly more to the right. I also think that it wouldn't hurt if you would make his right hand visible, from the bottom. Here's an edit 
I added him also a shadow and made his sword somewhat curved(if it's a katana). Ah, and if you're going to keep this background colour, adding AA wouldn't hurt at all. :P edit* Oh, and as for the folds and creases, well, they wouldn't be very visible in this size, although, you can add some lines here and there to mark a fold or crease that you think would make it look better. |
Posted By: Yuran
Date Posted: 17 August 2012 at 3:12am
| Cool, but he was heavy, it is more appropriate to hand battle-ax |
Posted By: H|F
Date Posted: 17 August 2012 at 4:54pm
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I agree with Night, very good edit! Once you get everything down this will be a very cool ninja Mantis.
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Posted By: xxmantisxx
Date Posted: 22 August 2012 at 7:52pm
I tried not to make it a carbon copy 
After looking at a few references, I'd realized that there was no way to make the belt noticable unless it was a bright color (just as yours is). However, I'm highly curious as why the belt is shaded the way it is (with the two colors, placed so strangely) and why I couldn't seem to make it look nice any other way. The sword. My god, the sword. Thank you, you saved me with that one, Night. And, making the folds, I think I now understand it thanks to you guys. Also, Night, the right arm WAS visible. Apparently not enough, so I've now fixed that. I've no idea why I didn't use and Selective-Outlining. That's something that I've ALWAYS used, and in this one I had left it alone 
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Posted By: H|F
Date Posted: 22 August 2012 at 9:07pm
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Only thing is that night had the knee (left) turned in, and imo that looked nice. |
Posted By: xxmantisxx
Date Posted: 22 August 2012 at 10:15pm
| Indeed. Night DID have the left knee turned in. And it did look very nice. However, I don't really see a reason to flip it, do you? I'd sorta like for it to stay like this, with the knee outward. |
Posted By: Noburo
Date Posted: 23 August 2012 at 2:06pm
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Try standing crouched in the same position as the ninja. You'll find that your center of gravity doesn't allow you to hold as strong of a balance in that position. While you can technically stand in that pose without falling, it's a bit nonsensical for a Ninja to be intentionally standing in a weaker pose while fighting.
-Edited grammatical error. |
Posted By: xxmantisxx
Date Posted: 23 August 2012 at 4:07pm
Touche, Noburo...
You win this round... |
Posted By: Friend
Date Posted: 24 August 2012 at 6:39am
| the sword looks a bit too long so that it is goofy looking. |
Posted By: xxmantisxx
Date Posted: 25 August 2012 at 9:45am
Yeah, that was a good point. Better now? |
Posted By: Friend
Date Posted: 25 August 2012 at 11:23am
Yus, I think the last step is to just clean up the clusters, maybe add
more contrast and maybe work on separating certain sections with more
contrast or darker outlines like so
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Posted By: xxmantisxx
Date Posted: 02 September 2012 at 6:37pm
| I think that I'm going to post it now. Thanks everyone! |