RocketRoach: deannambrigman redraw I
RocketRoach submitted:
I felt this sentiment before, during all those Darkchylde “wake up” redraws, but not strongly enough to actually express it: sometimes (often) these bad comic book poses are simply un-salvageable.
I don’t need to explain on this blog how, a successful illustration should be able to communicate with the viewer even without words; and that posing, both in real life and (to a lesser degree) in art, is dictated by physics, anatomy and gesture/intent, right?
Well then, what the heck is Spider-woman (whom I know next to nothing about) supposed to be doing?
Is she flying/gliding? (figure 1): both her hair torso and head disagree.
Is she leaping off a building? (like Spider-man would, figure 2): the motion blurred leg suggests that, but the her upper body and flame trail rule that out.
Is she dropping down on purpose? (figure 3): this is the only interpretation in which both her “wings” and hair make sense, but suicidal pose aside (trying to land or your feet is just not sexy, I guess), the motion blur is going in the wrong direction.
Trying to “fix” this train-wreck is like trying to make the Guernica anatomically correct without changing the composition: a waste of time.
Even for the sake of self improvement, (something I’m struggling with as well), I think that, sometimes, coming up with a completely new pose that actually makes sense would be much more useful, IMHO.
Sorry for the awkward English.
I think in the original she was meant to be diving during flight. My original caption was that she was killed and fell out of a plane. I still can’t see that picture as anything else. xD
I really like your breakdowns though, and how each possibility is confused by the contradictory motion blurring and hair/wing effects. Having a solid idea of the context and how that affects what you plan to draw is really important.