Remi-chan's Neato Arty thread thing!

[Remi-chan]

You do cool work and it is definitely good to stay active with it. Keep practicing your craft, there are a lot of people that can't do what you do.

I don't ever seem to see you draw males. Do you find drawing them difficult?

I used to have an excruciatingly hard time drawing female figures, they would always look dude-ish for some reason. They'd either have broad man shoulders or the face shading looked like 5 O'clock shadow or the hands were too big. Always something. On the flip side, I once had a girlfriend that would draw girlish looking muscle dudes. No matter how hard she tried to draw The Rock, he'd wind up looking like he's lacing up for a ballet. The Undertaker would look like a sad malnourished man (and maybe he was underneath his tough exterior). I wonder if most artists secretly have a tough time drawing the opposing gender. I don't think I do anymore, but I used to.

Either way, you're at a pretty good level right now, and a year from now you'll probably refine and improve upon your workflow and technique. As an artist myself, I'd have a hard time speed drawing all that.

Keep practicing, keep studying, keep doing what you do. Take care.

It's not so much that I struggle with male forms, I just find girls much more fun to draw.

Here's a few of the males I've drawn overtime as reference.
Kyoshi


And uh, here's...

Harold

From Junked

Speaking of that game, here's the young male kid.

Flannel

Standing up to Junko, the antaognist of the game.