#ambidexedition

Hi there, mods! I’ve been practicing perspective lately and would like a redline on these two characters - it’s one of my better attempts so far, but I’m sure I’ve got more to work on! The point of view is supposed to be below them, and I’d especially appreciate comments on the faces and arms/hands, since those were the trickiest bits. If that’s not too much, I’d also really appreciate any advice you have about the lighting - I tried to give it a sort of “lightning” feel, coming from behind them. Thank you so much!!

submitted by  ambidexedition

Redlined by Mod Future

Alright, these two look like fun characters! I will be focusing on the perspective and the lighting for this redline. 

I would recommend using boxes and cylinders to construct the figure in order to place them in perspective. As we’re looking up at these two, we can see the bottom of the box I used to construct their rib cages. For the hands, it depends on if the hand is closer or farther from the camera. If it is up near the character’s head, like I did on the left, it will not be as foreshortened and closer to actual size. If the hand is being extended down towards us, like I did on the right, then it will be a bit larger because it’s closer. Perspective! 

This is a perspective exercise you can think about doing. Constructing the figure using boxes and cylinders, imagine the figure standing in a box, and then rotate that box around. Now draw the figure within that rotated box. This helps build your perspective skills and ability to see the simple mannequin figure from all angles. 

Now onto the lighting. 

Reference, reference, reference! 

I searched up some backlit portraits as well as a reference for the stormy sky.

You can see that only the edges of the form are exposed to that super bright light, meanwhile the majority of the body is in shadow. So, that’s what I did. Use any layer mode you want, but for this I used a Hard Light layer on top of my base colors and a dark grey color to make the shadows. Then, an overlay layer for the rim of light around the figures. 

The added contrast of the clouds behind them enhances the contrast of the overall picture :3 

Thank you for submitting your work! I hope this was helpful.

me, dropping the stream announcement in the server every single week 

TY!!

Sexuality Headcanon: gay man

Gender Headcanon: my url used to be transm3rcutio for a reason

A ship I have with said character: ik this is basic but i think mercutio/benvolio is simply so so sweet. like. they balance each other out but they are also dumb idiot bros

A BROTP I have with said character: ALSO mercutio/benvolio, but i love mercutio/romeo too! i think mercutio is just like. that slightly older and wilder friend who teases you but as a love language and romeo is the baby of the group who is a little oblivious to everything and mercutio mocks him but is also internally like “god damn if i don’t protect him he’ll just stumble forward into misfortune”

A NOTP I have with said character: ...i get the appeal of enemies to lovers but i will admit that i don’t see the appeal of mercutio/tybalt. like. i think tybalt in particular has some stuff to work through regarding relationships and The Feud hdfkshdfsdfdsbfsbfjsdbfjb dude is not in the correct mental state for a relationship and especially not with someone he fights to the death

A random headcanon:

he came out as trans as a very young age, young enough that his family was sort of like.... okay, just put him in boys’ clothes and send him around the city to get in messes with the other boys and it’ll be fine. (it was fine. he rose hell.)

the fact that he apparently? has a sibling? valentine? but like? a character that’s mentioned in the plot and never brought up again? but we never see them interact; we never see the prince or paris interact with mercutio, either. i think he’s somewhat estranged from his family; he’s definitely the wild card of the escalus line

not to turn everything into angst but like. the way he alludes to love being fake. the rampant pessimism. the amount of pent-up anger he’s able to unleash in his death scene. hell even just the line “a visor for a visor,” where he straight-up says that his face is a mask... want to peel off his wise-cracking chaotic neutral mask and see the seething unhappiness underneath because i think this man is deeply unhappy and unfulfilled in his life

modern mercutio rick-rolls romeo three times before romeo catches on and stops opening the links he sends

spoilers, i guess, LMAO.

Never Shut obviously comes from the idea of Shirakumo & Aizawa role-swap. 

once i was developing the fic, i knew that the scene i was going to be building up to was the reveal that the villain was Aizawa... and that his eyes never closed. 

But the villain— Shouta hadn’t blinked, eyes trained on Oboro. 

Always open. Never shut. 

ah me 

this is Percy! he likes to wear his raincoat inside and bark at every bird he sees through the window :)