Drawing

[Caydr]

I used to be really, really good at drawing. I'm not saying that like, hey look at me I rule the universe, I just mean, I'm talented that way. I'd always be that bastard who'd get his stuff hung in the hall at school while all the people who were really trying to do a good job would get a bad mark and beat the smartass up.

But not so much anymore. It's been literally 8 years or more since I've tried to draw something. Are any of you interested in this kind of thing, and if so can you post some links to good places to learn how to draw better? I could just google it but you can bet I'd just get results from About.com and other such garbage.

The reason I'm getting into drawing again is because the short story I was writing has sprawled into a rather long thing and I've realized it would be a hundred times better as a visual novel.

(you can draw and write anywhere, but you can only mod at home)

[AF]

hmm deja vu.

I'm in a similar situation myself. I sidelined all ym arty work in order to do websites and all my computer stuff.

[ralphie]

Is this a split from another thread, or do you genuinely feel the need to start a thread telling us how good at drawing you are?

[SwiftSpear]

I'm in limbo with my art. I'm bored of penciling because after working digitally with line art and coloring, it's SOOOO much more powerful and easier to do well. But on the other hand, I LOATHE working with the mouse for anything line art or precision.

Basically... I just really really want to get a nice big drawing pad with tonnes of sensitivity settings so I can get back into line art and really back into art overall.

I haven't found to many good online art tutorials... I uses/used almost entirely books to learn. There is some basic stuff on line, but it's generally not great.

The guts of what must be done is pretty simple though. Look around you, view all objects as 3D shapes and THEN interpret their silhouettes to 2D. Watch how light interacts with things, how shadows apply. Work on anatomy of complex objects as the sum of the simple objects that compose them... smoothing lines can be added after, but if you draw one arm a foot longer than the other there's really no good way to correct that from looking wrong for example. Once you pick up the basics, get other people's art and reverse engineer their methods. A huge part of art is just figuring out what tricks different artists use. Most art isn't photo realistic, so realistic objects are only of marginal use artistically. For example, there's about 50 different techniques to draw anime eyes. For your own original stuff you'll probably never really ever need more than 1-2, but if you know the others, you have the ability to take the elements you like most and integrate them into your own work.

[KDR_11k]

All I draw is concept sketches for models.

[Neuralize]

Just some lulz I thought I would post.

[Caydr]

Is this a split from another thread, or do you genuinely feel the need to start a thread telling us how good at drawing you are?

I must be really ****ing good to be asking for help to learn how... and besides that thread is months old and rezzing is frowned upon.

That's an incredible drawing by the way Neuralize, how long did it take?