Lekisceon: Alrighty, Experimenting with different hairstyle for Katia...
Leaving this here before I start color to remind myself that She used to look good before becoming the victim of my brush.
Lekisceon: @Geravind: I dont understand what you mean by backward. I use the work around the booru as ref, and most of the ears seem to be like that....
Tahrey: When I said "backwards" before, I meant that they give the impression of being turned around 180 degrees. Cat ears, when you look at real ones or how they're usually drawn, face sort of forwardsa and outwards at about 45 degrees, so when a character is looking towards you, you should be able to see "into" at least one of them. That is, when drawn in cartoonish distance-view Prequel style, there's a pink area and a suggestion of concavity.
Here and more particularly in your previous full colour image, it looked like they were either facing in the exact opposite direction to that - IE backwards and inwards - OR were closed-off cones of unknown purpose, but probably not meant for capturing and concentrating soundwaves in a directional fashion. Ears are functional things, not just decorative - although there are some anime artists who forget that in a rather weird way and give their cat-people both human AND animal ears o_O
That said, it's only a small thing and fairly easy to alter ... On this lineart it would need only one, maybe two extra brush strokes (one on her left ear, from tip to hair, in a curve vaguely matching but inside of and tighter than the existing upper left/more horizontal line; and maybe a second on her right ear, tracing a similar route but being even closer to, but still inside of and exaggerating the curve of the lower-left/more vertical line) ....
... and I'm still quite eager to see how it looks when finished and coloured in because I really like your style and skill even when it's just plain outlines like this.
((might also wanna lose the digital clock though, unless that's either a calendar or it's meant to be magically powered ;))
Tahrey: ...that said, I've gone back to the source, and normalsprite!Katia actually does just have solid-yellow-triangle ears in most scenes, so I guess I'm on the losing end of this argument :) ... in fact the only canon drawings of her I've found so far after a couple minutes of zipping through the archives is when she's drawn in nightmare-vision. So her anxiety-ridden self image is one of someone who looks like that, but otherwise what we see is different...
(otherwise I would otherwise have capitulated anyway that the other pic has her with someone what droopy, lowered ears, which would make the insides less visible - you should still be able to see them and get an idea that they're hollow half-cones, but it'd be far less marked and depending on exact breed/species it might only be marked by a tuft of maybe-or-maybe-not differently coloured fur)
Tahrey: In fact ... the only places I can reliably state Katia as having that look to her ears is in some of the bigger flashes (RPGs and mouse-driven action games), particularly Extrapolate which had some gorgeous art in it, and even then she only seemed to have pink insides rather than a tuft-outline in a single shot.
So, complaint withdrawn. It just looks a bit odd when combined with that nicely-shaded style of yours; in flat-shaded cartoonery it seems more natural as the details are reduced anyway (even if Kaz is reducing that one more than most people do ;)... but, you are after all following the vast majority of source material and I'm just mis-remembering... so, mea culpa, and my apologies. Derp.
Lekisceon: @Tahrey: Ahh I see, thanks for the input. I certainly could alter the coloring process to give Katia the feline ears. As for the background, It'll probably be something else (i havent decided yet) this sketch was temporary because I didnt want to just have a plain ol white BG. xD
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Here and more particularly in your previous full colour image, it looked like they were either facing in the exact opposite direction to that - IE backwards and inwards - OR were closed-off cones of unknown purpose, but probably not meant for capturing and concentrating soundwaves in a directional fashion. Ears are functional things, not just decorative - although there are some anime artists who forget that in a rather weird way and give their cat-people both human AND animal ears o_O
That said, it's only a small thing and fairly easy to alter ... On this lineart it would need only one, maybe two extra brush strokes (one on her left ear, from tip to hair, in a curve vaguely matching but inside of and tighter than the existing upper left/more horizontal line; and maybe a second on her right ear, tracing a similar route but being even closer to, but still inside of and exaggerating the curve of the lower-left/more vertical line) ....
... and I'm still quite eager to see how it looks when finished and coloured in because I really like your style and skill even when it's just plain outlines like this.
((might also wanna lose the digital clock though, unless that's either a calendar or it's meant to be magically powered ;))
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(otherwise I would otherwise have capitulated anyway that the other pic has her with someone what droopy, lowered ears, which would make the insides less visible - you should still be able to see them and get an idea that they're hollow half-cones, but it'd be far less marked and depending on exact breed/species it might only be marked by a tuft of maybe-or-maybe-not differently coloured fur)
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So, complaint withdrawn. It just looks a bit odd when combined with that nicely-shaded style of yours; in flat-shaded cartoonery it seems more natural as the details are reduced anyway (even if Kaz is reducing that one more than most people do ;)... but, you are after all following the vast majority of source material and I'm just mis-remembering... so, mea culpa, and my apologies. Derp.
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