The New Artist's Thread (Warning: Large Image Size)
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Just downloaded a new App for my iPad and decided to try it out. Here is a drawing of my cat Acer. The App is pretty good, brand new in the App store called Paper by 53.
Nice cat, Tom Hendricks: now do more animals and characters with that water colour style.
Reposted some images that failed because ImageShack is a pile of poo:
This is stunning. Really, really lovely. It may be odd, but my favorite part is the beam coming from the headlamp.
Here is my latest offering...
Thanks.
I've not done any drawing or painting in a few months, but just a few hours ago I got that sudden urge. Unfortunately, I don't have enough supplies, and it's too late to go to the art store. 
Thanks.
Yeah, when it becomes a proper hobby you accumilate a terrifying amount of stuff.
What are your art qualifications? I've only got a GCSE qualification, but just retrained myself after many years of neglect.
If you made a print of this, I would buy it.
Here is my latest offering...I really should come into this thread more because there is some great talent here, especially TSQ.
Anyway it's my fathers belated christmas gift. He is a huge railroad fan, so I decided to paint a train going through his favorite train watching spot, the crest of a large hill in our home town. I did a little research on the area and found that in the 1930's, the train one would most likely see is a Boston and Albany freight train, since the mainline runs right into Boston. These were generally pulled by A-1a Berkshire locomotives, which were actually designed for pulling freight through western MA.
The painting was done in a acrylics for the most part, with some shading and weathering effects done in oil afterwards. Hope you all enjoy!
I never have thought of art as a hobby. My cello is a hobby. My guitar, my cycling, but art is too much a major part of who I am to be a hobby. I don't have any qualifications...never taken any art classes. I have just always been able to draw, I suppose.Thanks.
Yeah, when it becomes a proper hobby you accumilate a terrifying amount of stuff.
What are your art qualifications? I've only got a GCSE qualification, but just retrained myself after many years of neglect.
I started painting only about two years ago, though, and I can definitely see a huge learning curve from my first painting to my latest -- I think I've painted 17 pictures so far and my first few were pretty crap
:1st painting ever -- boy, did I have a lot to learn! (Spring of 2010):
Most recent (December 2011):
I probably could have learned a lot faster if I took some classes, but I don't really have the money for that, and I don't mind teaching myself. I know I still have a lot to learn too, and there's a lot of room for improvement, but I'm happy that I've found my style in painting and am comfortable in the medium. These are my favorites of the pictures I've made so far:
The dude with the eye flowers is great.
And can some mod please remove the blue T-Rex, isn't that too much to ask? ImageShit are pissing me off this weekend...
And can some mod please remove the blue T-Rex, isn't that too much to ask? ImageShit are pissing me off this weekend...
My most recent drawing. Melancholy Robot is melancholy.
^Very nice. I like the crimped hair. You know, I've never tried digital manipulation (of my art, that is, I certainly know how to create funny pictures in photoshop). Maybe I should learn.
I haven't worked in pencil for several years, but only in ink (ballpoint pen and marker).
I haven't worked in pencil for several years, but only in ink (ballpoint pen and marker).
The hat sells it.Pencil on paper, afterwards digitally painted with color.
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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.
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.
^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.
