My Futurama Fanart

[Robots_Best_Friend]

Here is some of my Futurama fanart. Please comment (don't be nice just to be nice, be truthful please. I appreciate it ):


Here is some of my Futurama fanart:

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Sorry if this post is to big. If it is you can tell me and I'll just post the links.

[Stretch_Dude]

If those are in chronological order, I can definitely see the improvement over time. In the first pic, the girls seem to have been stretched sideways with shrunken arms (and a very large belly button in Amy's case), but the last two are downright on-model.

(And I'd scale down the image in your sig, at least.)

[AssistantCrone]

Hullo there!

It looks like you have a good handle on that 'roundness' in Groening-style art. Are the pencil pics drawn from observation? The only problems obvious to me at the moment are that Leela's nose should be less delicate (more of a U shape), and in the colour image at the top, I'm guessing that the method used for outlines distorted the sketch (but then, that one was a collab).

New art is very welcome round here, as are artists who ask for constructive criticism upfront. Keep 'em coming!

[Robots_Best_Friend]

If those are in chronological order, I can definitely see the improvement over time. In the first pic, the girls seem to have been stretched sideways with shrunken arms (and a very large belly button in Amy's case), but the last two are downright on-model.

(And I'd scale down the image in your sig, at least.)

Thanks for your opinion. I have noticed that I drew Amys belly button too large, and I will improve that in future drawings. And no, it isn't in order of oldest to newest, The top one is actually the newest. The reason why Amy isn't perfect because that was my second time drawing her, I wasn't used to it, while I've drawn Leela dozens of times.

Hullo there!

It looks like you have a good handle on that 'roundness' in Groening-style art. Are the pencil pics drawn from observation? The only problems obvious to me at the moment are that Leela's nose should be less delicate (more of a U shape), and in the colour image at the top, I'm guessing that the method used for outlines distorted the sketch (but then, that one was a collab).

New art is very welcome round here, as are artists who ask for constructive criticism upfront. Keep 'em coming!

Yeah, I'm still getting used to drawing Leelas nose. Maybe the outline/colouring did disort the image because I didn't colour or outline it (you can see that at the top right corner of it). I've drawn Fry and Leela so many times, so that's why I'm guessing why there a lot better than some other characters that I've drawn.

Thanks for the constructive criticism guys, it really helps.

[kaspired]

I like these, in particular the last two drawings of Fry and Leela.  Just keep drawing, these will get better with practice.

Do you have the DVD sets?  There is a really good how to section which covers the main characters.

[Stretch_Dude]

Do you have the DVD sets?  There is a really good how to section which covers the main characters.

Most of them, anyway.

[Quazie89]

Cool stuff! I love your drawing of Seymour and the last two pics of Fry and Leela. They are pretty much on model. Nibbler looks pretty good, too. But in the first picture Amy's head and body look a bit off. You did a great job on Leela, though.

[Robots_Best_Friend]

Thanks. I've only drew Amy a couple times so it's not even close to perfect. But I believe my Leela is getting there.

Anyway, here is a drawing of a parellel Leela and Bender for one of my friends. (there are lines in my image due to my printer, it kinda sucks :/)

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[Archonix]

Sounds like there's a story behind this one.

[Robots_Best_Friend]

Yeah, there kinda is...anyway, here's another one that I drew today.

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[kaspired]

If I may,

I like where this is going.  But, the one detail that bothers me is Leelas' hand holding the gun.

So I whipped out this sketch, all of maybe ten minutes.  When you're trying to draw something this complicated, hold onto something and look at your own hand.  Well okay, a three fingered version of your hand.  The most common problem I've seen is fingers drawn with no knuckles, followed by weird lengths.  Knuckles seperate fingers from sausages, and the middle finger is the longest. 

Hands are tough, period, end of statement.  From a personal experience the most bitter bit of advice I ever recieved was that my hands need "work."

Look at the hands drawn by the old masters, from DiVinc to Picasso.  They had it down, light years better than anything I could ever do.   

[AssistantCrone]

Your Leelas are indeed looking pretty good, though her nose still looks a bit dainty. On the coloured pic, her right ear doesn't need to be shown ( I think that in 3D it'd be back round the side of her head, behind where her nose is). Bender's going pretty well too -- my only nitpick is that, in the second pic, his fingers couldn't wrap around his hands at that angle. They should be coming out of the top of his hand-pieces, like his thumb.

Oddly enough, I like the low-ink-printer colour effect. It looks a bit like you've put a texture under it.

About hands: yes, they do have knuckles and yes, knowing where the knuckles are is essential if you're drawing a real hand. I completely agree with using your own hands or someone else's as reference/learning objects. However, Groening-style hands rarely show joints. The fingers are smooth, plump sausages, and it's the way they move that makes them convincingly handlike. Kaspired's example is good for realistic hands, but makes Groeningy hands look too frail and knobbly for most characters. I guess the trick is to know where the knuckles would be but not draw them, if that makes sense. There's a useful sheet of Simpson hands here, which is pretty adaptable.

[Robots_Best_Friend]

Yeah, I know I messed up on the hand, that's why I put the gun trigger in a different place, it's an odd looking gun. xD

I'm still working on the hands and nose and practicing more, so hopefully it will improve. Thanks for the input.

[Gulliver63]

I'd like to add that a good place to find good practice material are the comic books...the artwork in them is really great. They're especially good for getting the characters at odd angles...