Random Doodle

[steammmpunk]

Just because I had this sudden urge to draw woobie!Rodney.






ETA: I posted this to the comm and I said in there criticisms are welcome, and I feel the need to elaborate. If you're not comfortable with giving me that openly, you can always e-mail me at steampunks at gmail dot com. If it's not from malice, you can always tell me "this sucks" variety. It will not make me stop drawing and posting at my own journal but it could make me more considerate about and possibly stop posting at the comm, I guess.

Comments

[lavvyan.livejournal.com]

I'd love to comment in a way that makes more sense, but just this: lovely! He looks just too cute. :D

[mmmchelle.livejournal.com]

Oh, Rodney.

He does look a little lost. It makes me want to hug him.

[geeklite.livejournal.com]

It's quite cute. I want to pet him :)

I think there's something a little 'off' about his jawline or lower face, but since I don't have an artistic bone in my body, my feedback is worth nothing.

[lamardeuse.livejournal.com]

Oh, adorable!

[lishel_fracrium.livejournal.com]

this is beautiful. just one thing maybe it's just me but his head seems a tad to small. other than that I can tell you have great talent.

[rike-tikki-tavi.livejournal.com]

Ok, I hope you don't mind commentary from random stranger person.

It's a very cute drawing and I adore the look on his face.

There's just 2 things, and please bear in mind that I know next to nothing about drawing and am most likely wildly off. I'm in awe of your prowess and couldn't produce something like this in a million years.
His body looks like either his jacket is a size or two too big for him or he's a couple of pounds heavier than on the show. And somehow he looks ten years younger and a lot more vulnerable. Might be that his face is a tad too round and maybe his eyes are a smidgen to big for the face.

[teaphile.livejournal.com]

This is interesting, because it's definitely Rodney, but a very young one. I can't pinpoint why, but there's something about the spacing of his facial features* that does it for me.

The reason it's interesting to me is that this is exactly how the young Rodney in my head looks. I can't imagine a young Rodney who looks anything like a young Hewlett, but this is him.

*On second thought, and comparing it to the icons here, I think his eyes are too far apart.

[mtranc3.livejournal.com]

I love the expression and the hands, OMG the hands!!! *g*

[cynicatlantis.livejournal.com]

Very nice! Love the shading, especially on his face :)

Some very minor crit: seconding rikki_tiki_tavi - the proportions of his head and body are slightly off. I'm pretty lousy with human proportions myself, but I think the issue is with his left shoulder (camera-right, his left - the one with the flag): it appears to be facing the camera, but his arm and torso are 3/4 view, making the shoulder look too wide and the upper arm appear too short. His torso also looks a bit wide.

His right hand is a bit off, too: the thumb looks too long given the position of the fingers - this could be solved by either shortening the thumb, or rotating the hand slightly inward toward his body (showing more of the back of the hand to the camera).

[andreanna.livejournal.com]

Awwwww, woobie!Rodney, so very very cute. It looks like he's tried to dial the gate but something's just not quite right (but at the beginning of that reaction, 'cause he gets progressively more wide-eyed as he worries more XD)

Did you do this with a reference? I love the emotion you've capture on his face, in his eyes in particular. Also love how his collar's flipped in and out and the streamlining of the folds along the arms. That said, you asked for some criticism, and mine are very very minute and stupid, more on the scale of personal preferences than actual critisicm X3

From the way you've done the shadowing and how the arm on the left is position, it's obvious that you've got his arms in front of him, leaning forward. His arm on the right, the cuff of his jacket seems truncated somehow. Its seems like it has to puff about a bit more before coming in at the wrist. I understand that if you have it so the back of his hand is perpendicular to the screen you wouldn't see the cuff because it's laying flat, but you would see the 'puff' around it, maybe coming in front of his side rather than the small distance there now. Uuuurrrmmmm, and I think his thumb on the left might be a tad long, but I can't say for certain. Hewlett might just have long thumbs XD But, uh, that's it. Really bad critisicm XD But I hope it's been helpful. Truly, you do wonderful art, even what you might consider a sketch :D

[sonadorita.livejournal.com]

Aw, this is simply adorable :)

[seratonation.livejournal.com]

I dunno why your worried, I like it :D

[hellpenguin.livejournal.com]

oh, the love.

crit: the hair bit below his left ear looked almost like an earring until I looked closer.