The New Artist's Thread (Warning: Large Image Size)

[CorporalClegg]

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Oh right ... And who's the hottie?

Thanks, TSQ. A compliment from you is a compliment indeed. I really admire how you can draw with ink that well, without an eraser of any kind, every stroke so precisely measured. I could never do that and get as awesome results as you do. What I do is the exact opposite, pencil and a rubber, and the computer has an undo button, fancy blurs, smudges, noises and what not. So, thanks.

The undo button does sound nice.

I have thought about giving a tablet a go. There was a day where I could actually draw a little (darn little), but I eventually gave it up. I used to fuss and obsess over the littlest things sometimes to the point I'd completely abandon the drawing all together. A quick undo might fix that problem.

I even tried the sketch and scan approach years ago, but even then I'd still have to get the sketch done.

BTW TSQ I just noticed the photo of your first painting and how, on the bookshelf behind, you have the Holmes on one side and the Maison Ikkoku manga on the other. I got a chuckle out of the visual juxtaposition.

 

[thestrangequark]

^ And two books over from the Holmes are a bunch of physics books; my tastes are nothing if not eclectic!

 

[smiki]

^You ought to try ink, just for the heck of it. I used to draw only in pencil and relied heavily on my erasers -- to the point of damaging paper sometimes! When I started drawing only in ink, though, instead of limiting me I found it to be very freeing. It's weirdly counterintuitive, but that was the case for me.

Yeah, I know what you mean. I've seen given and gave myself similar advice when learning foreign languages. When you don't worry too much about every detail being perfect and making mistakes, but just let it flow, they way it is, you end up being more fluent and eloquent in the language, or in this case, skilled at drawing. Weird as it is, it can be true.

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Oh right ... And who's the hottie?

She is, isn't she? Well... somebody special... that would actually be my ex, or quite more accurately my "it's complicated". Living proof pretty girls actually do fall for geeks.

Thanks, TSQ. A compliment from you is a compliment indeed. I really admire how you can draw with ink that well, without an eraser of any kind, every stroke so precisely measured. I could never do that and get as awesome results as you do. What I do is the exact opposite, pencil and a rubber, and the computer has an undo button, fancy blurs, smudges, noises and what not. So, thanks.

The undo button does sound nice.

I have thought about giving a tablet a go. There was a day where I could actually draw a little (darn little), but I eventually gave it up. I used to fuss and obsess over the littlest things sometimes to the point I'd completely abandon the drawing all together. A quick undo might fix that problem.

I even tried the sketch and scan approach years ago, but even then I'd still have to get the sketch done.

Well, as far as the undo thing, you can do the following, that's what I do anyway, in my book it's a decent technique for your problem. If using a pencil, start your drawing with very very light strokes, barely visible, so that even if you make a mistake, just continue drawing a new light line in the right place. Eventually you'll get things right and then just bold up the right lines. The wrong light ones will practically look like shading now, and there won't be any ugly marks left from partially erased pencil lines.

And anyway, see what TSQ said, it doesn't have to be perfect, that can actually be useful for learning drawing.

 

[TedShatner10]

 

[TedShatner10]

And also here's Bianca Beauchamp fully nude (NSFW).

Does anybody else think my drawing of people has greatly improved in the last 18 months? I recently also bought a copy of Mastering Manga With Mark Crilley.

 

[sojourner]

Figures? yes. Faces? not so much.

 

[thestrangequark]

And also here's Bianca Beauchamp fully nude (NSFW).

Does anybody else think my drawing of people has greatly improved in the last 18 months? I recently also bought a copy of Mastering Manga With Mark Crilley.

I see clear improvement in many aspects of your drawing; your use of shading, your detailing, and your ability to draw discrete features have all greatly improved. The area where I think you need work is in aspects of proportion: relative size, placement, and symmetry. You tend to have well-drawn eyes that are too big or too small, too close together or uneven, for example.
It might be a good exercise for you to work on generic faces looking straight on, just to get a better feel for proportions.

 

[TedShatner10]

Reposted this, because of ImageShit playing up yet again:


New stuff:

 

[TedShatner10]

 

[TedShatner10]

Another full female nude (NSFW).

It seems that I'm drawing my people in a more solid and less lifeless fashion.

 

[Roshi]

I'm not very good at drawing but here's something I scribbled for a female friend of mine:

For the French impaired, it should read: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday...

 

[TedShatner10]

Ah-ha, I see what you did there.

 

[Roshi]

Thanks

 

[TedShatner10]