Hieros Gamos, Fakemon and More

[megaMasquerain]

I might try the 3d thing, just to see if it works better.

Anyways, my last post - what I was trying to say could be expressed like this comic.

In the above piece of art, I think "arms are cylinders... so I will shade an arm like a cylinder". Which isn't totally wrong, but the way I go about it is fundamentally flawed. I can only see the arm (or other part of the sprite) from the angle it's been drawn in because my mind isn't able to think in 3d very well. So, I can't exactly imagine where the light would be falling on the other parts of the arm/sprite that aren't in view on the post the sprite is in.

(This is also why my anatomy is so terrible).

I'm not trying to be one of those assholes who blames all their problems on things that are out of their control. I'm probably just talking to myself here, anyways, but I'm also wondering if anyone has some kind of practice exercise that would help me think and shade in 3d. (And I don't want to rotate an apple in my head that's just boring and tedious)

If you still didn't understand what I meant, my communication skills are borked and I should probably just get on with trying to shade Danubine. I have her with the shading on her body removed sitting in front of me on Graphicsgale, so...