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well..this is the first sketch i came up with. i'll probably do at least one more so that my partner and i can have more than one choice to work with. since we don't really have a theme i had a tough time thinking of what to do. so i used a winter theme, january being in winter and all, and came up with a winter guard army type deal. for the other i'll probably do something happy..and i don't want to scare bidelle away if this drawing is too daunting or not liked. so here it is:



i couldn't decide what to do with the hand holding the gun. originally on my quick sketch she was holding a chain leash to a salivating guard dog but it wasn't going to fit in the image right.

OKAY also a few hours later I started laying down colors and started to see a few more things I didn't initially.

I found her head to be a little on the small side (along with her hand and visible arm) but her neck is exxxxxxxtra long. Also there was a slight something bothering me about her pose that I couldn't quite figure out. So I did a crappy redline to show you what I mean.


You can see her hat is sitting at 3/4 turned, her face is fully turned to the side, her chest is 3/4ths again, but her lower torso and legs are straight forward. In order to get all the parts to agree with each other, in the example I turned the lower torso and neck to 3/4ths (but left the legs ambiguous because I honestly couldn't get them looking correct since I'm terrible with legs!) and you can see how that effected the rest of the pose. Her arm should be a little longer, as before it was just barely under the crotch line.
Ugh, and I can see I made a mistake with the collar bone in relation to the chest, sorry. But you get the idea. The entire neck area is kind of vague.
And lastly, the eye seems to be a little off. The lid of the eye will be pushed out if the eye is looking in that direction (2nd example I drew) instead of being a flat line to the side like that.

I can see how much work you already put into it (and on paper it seems) so I can understand if you don't want to adjust anything, just my 2c. Hope it helps even a little.

You guys are awesome, seriously. I hope to see more WIPs! The beginning already looks great biggrin

okay..so it's not quite done. i've been running into some drawing blocks..lol. so sorry if there's some messy areas. i tried to fix the facing issue and placement stuffs. as you can see i'm trying to work the falcon in too. hopefully will finish this soon..been doing a lot of OT at work lately too..been trying to make time to do this.

lol..don't worry..i'm trying to use all this to help me better work on anatomy and stuffs. I know about the falcon...that was mostly just a placer i started doing, but i have some ref pics i was using of a paragrin falcon. the eye can be easily fixed, so no prob there. the torso length is partially an illusion because of the way/style i drew the corset. so now i moved down where the flare comes out to make the torso look longer.

Fantastic!

The picture is turning out great so far.

I'm not really sure if a large bird like that can balance correctly on a person's fist. A smaller bird wouldn't be a problem though.

This picture reference may help a bit:

Yes, I like this design. smile And I'm okay with the bird being that large, just because he stands out a bit more.