# New poster/character thingy **URL:** \ **Category:** design\ **Created:** [July 5, 2008, 3:20am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/new-poster-character-thingy/265164 "2008-07-05T03:20:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dravalanche](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8797f3/32.png) [@dravalanche](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/dravalanche)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2008, 3:20am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/new-poster-character-thingy/265164/1 "2008-07-05T03:20:54Z")
Hi, I’m working on a poster for this Joe Strummer Tribute show. I’ve only just started on the character art for the poster but I thought i’d put it up any how. The line work needs a bit of fixing though ![](http://img224.imageshack.us/img224/4347/joeimage02yn3.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![anon1712571](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@anon1712571](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/anon1712571)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2008, 6:00am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/new-poster-character-thingy/265164/2 "2008-07-05T06:00:54Z")
I think the inside of the lip needs definition- and the shade under the bottom lip should be closer to a dark flesh colour. ---
**Author:** ![nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@nobody](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/nobody)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2008, 8:34am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/new-poster-character-thingy/265164/3 "2008-07-05T08:34:44Z")
It looks horizontally squished. ---
**Author:** ![SlowChemical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@SlowChemical](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/SlowChemical)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2008, 10:28am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/new-poster-character-thingy/265164/4 "2008-07-05T10:28:52Z")
not bad… maybe you need to consider the outfit colors… ---
**Author:** ![TheCanadian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@TheCanadian](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/TheCanadian)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2008, 3:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/new-poster-character-thingy/265164/5 "2008-07-05T15:19:25Z")
His shirt doesn’t make sense either - it morphs into the collar of the jacket. ---
**Author:** ![sekasi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f8ce5/32.png) [@sekasi](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sekasi)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2008, 6:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/new-poster-character-thingy/265164/6 "2008-07-05T18:07:14Z")
Looks like it’s set to 85% xscale and 100% yscale. Really squashed. ---
**Author:** ![dravalanche](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8797f3/32.png) [@dravalanche](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/dravalanche)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2008, 1:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/new-poster-character-thingy/265164/7 "2008-07-06T13:38:45Z")
Some slight changes, I haven’t done anything to the shirt. Making the nose, mouth, eye brows is annoying ![](http://img398.imageshack.us/img398/8343/joeimage05nz5.jpg) ![](http://img356.imageshack.us/my.php?image=joeimage05cp0.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![anon1712571](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@anon1712571](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/anon1712571)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2008, 2:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/new-poster-character-thingy/265164/8 "2008-07-06T14:46:37Z")
Those features are looking a lot better. I think you still need to check out the proportions of the cranium to width. Something more like this would be more natural: ![](http://forum.kirupa.com/uploads/kirupa/7029/d8597921b7fec656.png) ---
**Author:** ![dravalanche](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8797f3/32.png) [@dravalanche](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/dravalanche)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2008, 3:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/new-poster-character-thingy/265164/9 "2008-07-06T15:11:23Z")
cheers for the critiques. Here’s the original image im basing it off. I’m gonna start from scratch and redo it as I really dont like what I’ve made and it looks nothing like the original ![](http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/2172/joes1os8.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Phenex](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/phenex/32/686_2.png) [@Phenex](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Phenex)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2008, 5:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/new-poster-character-thingy/265164/10 "2008-07-06T17:23:37Z")
True. Scratch. Redo. All ze best 😃 ---
**Author:** ![anon1712571](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@anon1712571](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/anon1712571)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2008, 7:41am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/new-poster-character-thingy/265164/11 "2008-07-07T07:41:31Z")
[QUOTE=dravalanche;2354221]cheers for the critiques. Here’s the original image im basing it off. I’m gonna start from scratch and redo it as I really dont like what I’ve made and it looks nothing like the original ![](http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/2172/joes1os8.jpg)[/QUOTE] That image is skewed on the y too by the look of it! shrink it down first before you do anything 🙂