Key's Thread for Showing Off My Art Things

[Kosheh]

It's intentional. https://store.steampowered.com/app/38879..._702_7__13

The character's drawn in a chibi SD style. When you have that little real estate to work with, you can do that, and it just works. When you make the character normal proportions, though, it...doesn't quite work out the same.

Thing is though is that it doesn't work unless she shortens the torso to acommodate for how short the legs are.

/sighs

First of all, I humbly apologize to everyone - MJ, Key, Gors - for making such a halfassed reply.

I wasn't referring to the anatomy of the character at all. You two are both completely right about character proportions, and I'll give you that! Sorry I didn't choose the right words and my criticism came off harsher than it should have been. Maybe I shouldn't post when I have a splitting headache.

I...was actually referring to how Alte's hair is covering her eye, and repeating Quirby's point about how there's just no eye drawn.


Since the character's deformed in SD and there's little "real estate" as I was saying, drawing enough hair to cover the eye works. Also, most art gets away with it if a significant part of the eye is covered by hair falling on the face.

Since I assume you're not trying to draw her like she's presented in 100% Orange Juice (Super SD) and you're trying to draw her more....anime, here's another example. This character's eye is obscured mostly by her hair.

So yeah, when there's that little of the eye that would have to be drawn - to the point where it's a waste of time to bother sketching out the very edge of the character's anime eyelids and figuring out how exactly to properly color the sclera, then you can get away with it.

Key's referring to the fact that even in the game's official artwork, the character's eye is obscured by hair, so the eye "just isn't drawn" - but the eye is covered up by juuuust enough hair in this case. That's how the character is illustrated in the game DLC's title card.

What I'm arguing, however, is that she's when drawn not-SD like in 100% Orange Juice - like her appearance in SORA (the game in which she originates from), the artist obscures Alte's eye in such a way with her hair in that she still has an eye - it's just really covered by hair.

This is what I've been trying to say!!

Without beating around the bush here, because I have no other way to put it: if the character's artwork typically doesn't show the hair covering her eye, this doesn't mean she doesn't have an eye.
(I know that sounds really condescending and rude, but like...don't read it like that. That's not how I mean it at all)

Key's illustration, however, has the hair sitting on her face in such a way that the eye wouldn't be obscured (I'm confused, however by the way it's being phrased by Key - is the eye meant to be obscured or not here?)
I pointed this out and was trying to say that she may want to consider redrawing the character's hair to reflect this - or, looking at it now, you may want to draw the eye under the hair if you don't want to change the hair.

I'm sorry my criticism came off really terribly in the first place - looking back, I made it sound more like a nitpick, but really what Quirby and I were trying to point out was an issue with the character's face, and overall anatomy.
And I'm sorry if the thing I'm pointing out is still not making sense