Wonder Woman inks

[Erick Cruz]

Decided to ink the drawing i did last month in hopes of coloring it someday, im no inker so bare with me, but i still want to hear your comments and suggestions.

http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/6279/wonderwomanrocksrefineddinkedcopy25pctjm6.jpg

[joshm]

Biggest thing I see is just create more line weight in areas where there needs to be depth. It's not bad, but line variation is a big plus on any piece.

Josh

[John Fields]

Nice!

[Thorcus]

okay, you no inker :)....play more with lineweights - the hatches in her hair seems to thin, but that is a personal taste i think....delete the shadow - it don't works. the rocks- thicker lines - the pic looks to flat. overall a good start :)

[Biofungus]

I personally, like what you did with the hair (with the right colorist, it will blend beautifully). The thing that bothers me the most (in conjunction with the lack of lineweights), is you are now stuck with that black background and the edge defining halo. What I mean is, to fix the line weights, you're either going to have to scale back the halo, and bump up the outlines (tedious and will probably not yield good results), or you're goint to have to fix the line weights going towards the inside of the lines. This, IMO, is going to hurt the image also.

I missed the pencils, but I notice here, she has really small feet...

Also, I agree about ditching the drop shadow.

[Erick Cruz]

Hey everyone, thnx for taking the time to post replies i'll get to each one

Biggest thing I see is just create more line weight in areas where there needs to be depth. It's not bad, but line variation is a big plus on any piece.

Josh

Hey Josh
Yeah i guess i do need to beef up the lines overall

Nice!
Thnx John, considering i dont ink much i'll take any praise i can get! ;)

okay, you no inker :)....play more with lineweights - the hatches in her hair seems to thin, but that is a personal taste i think....delete the shadow - it don't works. the rocks- thicker lines - the pic looks to flat. overall a good start :)

Hey Thorcus
Agree about the line weights, i've gotten a few thumbs down on the drop shadow, is it simply the way i did it or the idea of the shadow all together that doesnt work?

I personally, like what you did with the hair (with the right colorist, it will blend beautifully). The thing that bothers me the most (in conjunction with the lack of lineweights), is you are now stuck with that black background and the edge defining halo. What I mean is, to fix the line weights, you're either going to have to scale back the halo, and bump up the outlines (tedious and will probably not yield good results), or you're goint to have to fix the line weights going towards the inside of the lines. This, IMO, is going to hurt the image also.

I missed the pencils, but I notice here, she has really small feet...

Also, I agree about ditching the drop shadow.

What up Biofungus?
I also liked how the hair came out, it looks silky smooth, worthy of a shampoo commercial :cool:
You can see the original pencils in the gallery on my webpage, click the link on my sig. You're the first one to ever bring up the small feet, it must be a subconscious thing, i dont like big feet on women in real life, it's not an excuse you're probably right about them being small.
The shadow in the BG and the line weights i should be able to fix with Photoshop since this entire piece was inked digitally, could you guys tell? i didnt want to mention this at first since "Dinking" gets a bad rap from the traditionalists so I wanted the piece to stand on its own so to speak and not have it be labeled from the begining.

Thnx again guys for your comments, you all have given me things to thinks about next time a attempt to ink something and what to fix with this one. Please dont stop the comments from coming, i need all the feedback i can get.

Peace

[Erick Cruz]

OK, so here's an update on the piece, I hope you guys can notice the changes, I took note of the comments made here and the ones i've gotten elsewhere so hopefully those changes i made improved the piece.

http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/2894/wonderwomanrocksrefineddinkedcopy2gt1.jpg

again, i await your comments.

[joshm]

Nice improvement. Let's see what you can do on the next one now. Keep it up, you'll only get better.

Josh

[Biofungus]

Yes, Josh is right. There's a couple of things I could point out (minor things), but eventually, you need to stop tweaking and move onto the next thing (in case you were curious:

I like how you altered the black um... blob? in the background, give it more of a grid/crosshatch edge. Now, see how you have the line weight in the calves (especially her left one), how it tapers off at the knee, and gets wider near the boot? That's good stuff. You need to adjust the line on her thighs to vary a bit as well (it looks much better with the heavier line, but on her thighs, the line weight is still very uniform).