Improvements in drawing...

Guessmyname · Post by **Guessmyname** » 13 Jan 2007, 22:49

Long story (the Japanese bit), and they're not supposed to be androdgynous

Argh · Post by **Argh** » 13 Jan 2007, 22:49

Better yet, why are they all flimsy-looking females? Do a hulking male with a bare, muscular torso as your next piece... if nothing else, it will force you sit down and study anatomy, which you dearly need to do if you're going to get past stereotypical drawings.

smoth · Post by **smoth** » 13 Jan 2007, 23:11

Burley man from when I was in highschool.... wow... 7 years ago... omg!

Guessmyname · Post by **Guessmyname** » 14 Jan 2007, 00:43

Argh wrote:Better yet, why are they all flimsy-looking females? Do a hulking male with a bare, muscular torso as your next piece... if nothing else, it will force you sit down and study anatomy, which you dearly need to do if you're going to get past stereotypical drawings.

As requested, and with the aid of both this tutorial and "The Fundamentals of Figure Drawing" by Barrington Barber (Which I only bought yesterday, and so haven't really had a chance to read...)

NOTE: I didn't ink this one, as you can probably tell

aGorm · Post by **aGorm** » 14 Jan 2007, 00:46

I agree with Argh.... it don't even need to be THAT acurate, just has to look dam cool at the same time...

Also you should learn to do hard shading mixed with soft shading... currently they look slightly flat due to lack of hard shadows. Ones like this crazy man has...

::::EDIT:::: there you go now line it and colour it with hard shadows...

I rekon you should ink it with a real pen by the way, Mice destroy work with there crapy fixed width lines...

::::END EDIT:::

aGorm

Guessmyname · Post by **Guessmyname** » 14 Jan 2007, 00:53

aGorm wrote:there you go now line it and colour it with hard shadows...

I rekon you should ink it with a real pen by the way, Mice destroy work with there crapy fixed width lines...

I do ink with a real pen. Doing that with a mouse takes freaking forever (I've tried)

EDIT: And I've just inked him with the wrong pen... go me...

aGorm · Post by **aGorm** » 14 Jan 2007, 00:58

Realy??? they look way like mice lines... have you thought of using a thiner pen? Look at smoths... his lines are a nice combanation of thin and thick. Even my quick dodel has different line weights (admitadly some in teh wrong place were I'm lazy but hay

)

I'll just shut up till you have inked that latest peice... or if your not gonna whatever else you do.

aGorm

Guessmyname · Post by **Guessmyname** » 14 Jan 2007, 01:04

Actually, the pen I use is a fineliner, whose weight doesn't vary much. You want to see what my thick pens look like, wait for the inked version of the anatomy study. I somehow managed to do that with the *wrong freakin pen* - which is considerably thicker, but only if you press hard (which I did, not expecting it to thicken)

EDIT: I probably made the mistake because it's 0:05 am, and half of me is asleep. G'night

smoth · Post by **smoth** » 14 Jan 2007, 06:30

I use a cheapo bic.. I can shaddow with it

Forgive the image color reduction, I lost all my drawings in a fire and any recent doodle is in pencil I could scan some of them but bah.

Anyway this was done in a notebook durring english my freshman year of college ~6 years ago.. I reduced it's size a while back because I stored it on a webpage... hey, if I had not the thing would be gone now.

As far as my linework, I am a huge fan of blizzards samwise. His style was amazing in the warcraft I and II books. I LOVE that mans black white art work. I personaly hope to meet him one day. I admire him.

Wolf-In-Exile · Post by **Wolf-In-Exile** » 14 Jan 2007, 08:43

Nice stuff Smoth.

Quanto042 · Post by **Quanto042** » 14 Jan 2007, 08:58

I hadn't drawn with a pencil in a long time(been using a tablet mostly) so i decided to give it a shot.

I have to say, i missed doing things the old fashioned way.

And since this seems to be a progression thread. Here's how i drew things 8 years ago :X

So yeah, everybody starts somewhere! :D

Strategia · Post by **Strategia** » 14 Jan 2007, 11:26

Guessmyname wrote:

Why does that thing remind me of Serenity in general and Mal in particular?

Quanto042 · Post by **Quanto042** » 14 Jan 2007, 11:28

Strategia wrote:
Guessmyname wrote:piccy
Why does that thing remind me of Serenity in general and Mal in particular?

Thing? U talkin bout the gun he's holding or what? >_>

Strategia · Post by **Strategia** » 14 Jan 2007, 11:33

Quanto042 wrote:
Strategia wrote:
Guessmyname wrote:piccy
Why does that thing remind me of Serenity in general and Mal in particular?
Thing? U talkin bout the gun he's holding or what? >_>

The drawing in general. I usually refer to stuff as "thing" when I'm not giving my full attention to it <_<

Guessmyname · Post by **Guessmyname** » 14 Jan 2007, 13:28

I dunno. I was following that polycarbon tutorial...

Zoombie · Post by **Zoombie** » 14 Jan 2007, 19:16

Hey, Stratagi, you're right...just add a brown coat.

aGorm · Post by **aGorm** » 15 Jan 2007, 14:52

I liek Cheap bics to... they give you loads of options when it comes to line weight, shading, ect... but for clean line art there no so good normaly. Or atleast not for me...

Fine liners are good for line art but its good to have two or 3 different ones, so you can draw certain lines thicker... for instance the outline should be thicker than the inner lines, and lines that would be in shadow should be to.

In saying taht its all down to personal preference so yu can actully do whatever you want... And I hardly ever pay atention to those rules either (though I normaly hate all my work so maybe thats why...)

aGorm

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