Guys, is this an improvement?
[img]http://i.imgur.com/d7ldwAZ.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i.imgur.com/UCAbIho.jpg[/img]
Taken a little more than two weeks apart, first one is my 'initial' skill when I started gestures for the first time in my life, second one is today. Been doing it every day for 20-90 minutes. 30-60 second each pose. I was surprised it's been only two weeks. Feels like a month. Should I start learning advanced anatomy or perfect my gestures to some acceptable point first? And when will I finally gid gud? :(
Anatomy and proportions first until they have become your natural habits while drawing.
[QUOTE=NanoSquid;41644609]more spy chameleon
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/pVysuAQ.jpg[/IMG]
please ignore the toad guard's foot[/QUOTE]
i liked the designs i kinda redrew up
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/fIZ4stf.png[/IMG]
I too also ended up fucking up the toad guard's feet :v:
[QUOTE=J. F. Christ;41645186]Guys, is this an improvement?
Taken a little more than two weeks apart, first one is my 'initial' skill when I started gestures for the first time in my life, second one is today. Been doing it every day for 20-90 minutes. 30-60 second each pose. I was surprised it's been only two weeks. Feels like a month. Should I start learning advanced anatomy or perfect my gestures to some acceptable point first? And when will I finally gid gud? :([/QUOTE]
Focus on proportion of the different bodyparts in relationship to eachother. Identify key landmarks in anatomy, like the knee, hipbone bump at thigh, pelvic crest etc etc. Do not focus on separate muscles, it's too early.
Learning proportion is key and a lot of time should be spent on that. Check out Loomis books if you haven't.
I just found the very first work I posted on creationism corner, many years ago.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/0OEv6HX.jpg[/IMG]
Props to anyone who gets all the references.
[QUOTE=MenteR;41640571]eh... tbqh cellusious the fact that you just painted it over on zbrush kinda takes away the awe i got when i first saw the sprite. it feels a bit like you traced it but whatevs. you should definitely move away from doing this a bit and get into doing studies.
your non-sprite stuff so far hasn't been interesting at all and some people here agree with me. it displays at most a basic composition understanding but if you started doing studies you'd be able to achieve a greater quality of artwork. look back at how complex pixel art looked like and eventhough you're heading for a simplistic style you should always refer to understanding everything before defining your own style.
i'm sure i'm not the first to tell you this but just move away from your comfort zone a bit and you'll see how it will positively affect your artwork.[/QUOTE]
many many 2D animations are rotoscoped over top of filmed footage so it's not like he's cheating
I think if you model something yourself and then paint over it, you don't have anything to feel bad about really
That being said I don't think anyone should compare one degree of "cheating" to another for justification, we all know there's no de facto cheating in art, it's not a game. You should just examine your own process and ask yourself if you really respect it, if that's what you're aspiring to or not.
So while there's no rule to be broken there, Menter's still right imo, Cell's process on that piece has a lot less integrity than doing it from scratch (though I still like it as an image and have no problem with the process, there's far less artistic achievement/prowess to appreciate there)
[editline]30th July 2013[/editline]
[QUOTE=J. F. Christ;41645186]Guys, is this an improvement?
[img]http://i.imgur.com/d7ldwAZ.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i.imgur.com/UCAbIho.jpg[/img]
Taken a little more than two weeks apart, first one is my 'initial' skill when I started gestures for the first time in my life, second one is today. Been doing it every day for 20-90 minutes. 30-60 second each pose. I was surprised it's been only two weeks. Feels like a month. Should I start learning advanced anatomy or perfect my gestures to some acceptable point first? And when will I finally gid gud? :([/QUOTE]
I think you should draw more lines that encompass/move through the entire figure, especially from top to bottom, maybe drop verticals where you estimate centre of gravity (which will give you reference for the rest of the figure and so on)
Also give yourself at least two or three minutes, 30-60sec drawings are best used as a warmup in my experience, not the meat of the exercise
It's that time of the six-month period where I suddenly feel a desire to learn drawing again then drop it a month later because I get depressed at my lack of progress (again).
Anyone have some decent resources for drawing fluid lines instead of a bunch of scribbles, perspective, adding depth, and anatomy drawing? I'd really prefer something to read than video tutorials, but I'll take whatever you guys think works best.
[QUOTE=latin_geek;41647044]
Anyone have some decent resources for drawing fluid lines instead of a bunch of scribbles, perspective, adding depth, and anatomy drawing? I'd really prefer something to read than video tutorials, but I'll take whatever you guys think works best.[/QUOTE]
Yup. Grabbing a pencil/pen and a piece of paper, and trying to draw long fluid lines using your elbow for many weeks while neurons in your brain slowly adjust themselves to better perform the action. There's no 'guide' that you will read and instantly get better.
[QUOTE=J. F. Christ;41647296]Yup. Grabbing a pencil/pen and a piece of paper, and trying to draw long fluid lines using your elbow for many weeks while neurons in your brain slowly adjust themselves to better perform the action. There's no 'guide' that you will read and instantly get better.[/QUOTE]
Exactly. Many different exercises will help. Draw papers full of circles, full of lines as straight and as close to eachother you can draw, etc etc.
[QUOTE=J. F. Christ;41647296]Yup. Grabbing a pencil/pen and a piece of paper, and trying to draw long fluid lines using your elbow for many weeks while neurons in your brain slowly adjust themselves to better perform the action. There's no 'guide' that you will read and instantly get better.[/QUOTE]
I figured it'd be something like that but I'm more inclined to do it now that someone else's told me to. thanks
Just finished my first sketch with my new tablet in photoshop, decided to start learning more about anatomy, any tips?
[IMG]http://i40.tinypic.com/2djw1hu.png[/IMG]
(also the guy in the tutorial i'm following said to spend about 5 minutes on a base sketch, this took me about an hour so i could really do with the practice)
[QUOTE=vladnag;41653084]Just finished my first sketch with my new tablet in photoshop, decided to start learning more about anatomy, any tips?
[IMG]http://i40.tinypic.com/2djw1hu.png[/IMG]
(also the guy in the tutorial i'm following said to spend about 5 minutes on a base sketch, this took me about an hour so i could really do with the practice)[/QUOTE]
dun pet yet lines
[QUOTE=MenteR;41653267]dun pet yet lines[/QUOTE]
Okay, would a single long line be preferable?
Dream based thing. Got to do something about the left eye(our pov), otherwise i dont really know what to do with it.
[IMG_thumb]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/65357207/20130731_020436.jpg[/IMG_thumb]
[QUOTE=EmRA;41653600]Dream based thing. Got to do something about the left eye(our pov), otherwise i dont really know what to do with it.
[IMG_thumb]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/65357207/20130731_020436.jpg[/IMG_thumb][/QUOTE]
Ooo I wanna hear some story on this... are you turning into a tree or something?
Nah lol it's just what your fingers tend to look like if you try counting them in your dreams
[QUOTE=dgg;41643420]Please dress her up properly. A heart in the cleavage, pointy boobs with no details on them to attract attention, dress that skimps down to her vagina pronouncing it's placement and making her pants into pantyhoses is just tasteless in my opinion. And for whatever reason she decided wearing makeup would be a good idea, despite having grown up with war and has always worked as a mercenary.
Her clothing, (well, everything) does not tell a single story about her, the only thing it says is "Hey, I'm hot, come and fuck me".[/QUOTE]
i stopped reading this after the first sentence
[IMG]http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2013/211/5/f/revolvers_by_bynineb-d6fy3p1.png[/IMG]
Quick little mockup of the Spy's (from Team Fortress 2) revolvers in 16-bit style. Complete with artificial statistics!
[QUOTE=vladnag;41653084]Just finished my first sketch with my new tablet in photoshop, decided to start learning more about anatomy, any tips?
[IMG]http://i40.tinypic.com/2djw1hu.png[/IMG]
(also the guy in the tutorial i'm following said to spend about 5 minutes on a base sketch, this took me about an hour so i could really do with the practice)[/QUOTE]
Did you actually do any construction drawings or did you go straight for the outline.
If it's the latter...
[img]http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc81/BASquires/shame-on-you-fingers.gif[/img]
[QUOTE=The Vman;41656590]Did you actually do any construction drawings or did you go straight for the outline.
If it's the latter...
[img]http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc81/BASquires/shame-on-you-fingers.gif[/img][/QUOTE]
Is this like flipping someone off?
[QUOTE=~ZOMG;41658766]Is this like flipping someone off?[/QUOTE]
shame-on-you-fingers.gif
Just a quick study
[IMG]http://puu.sh/3QcLo.jpg[/IMG]
first time doing something like this. i had fun
[img]http://31.media.tumblr.com/56d65a4e0402bd5dedf13ee3405cf3df/tumblr_mqsx6txURi1s32mjoo1_1280.jpg[/img]
Made this thing out of boredom :
[img]http://uppix.net/KiXq2W.png[/img]
it's too long and a bit forced and has no punchline
[img]http://i.imgur.com/TF2riMJ.png[/img]
The boss with the new texture in-game, there's no behavior yet but took the feedback and improved from [url=http://i.imgur.com/YybDRB7.png]this[/url] ( the old texture).
And various concepts:
[img]http://i.imgur.com/WZu1ELf.jpg?1[/img]
Apparently these don't deserve their own thread /boo hoo So I'll post them here instead:
[img]http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/6536/oijq.jpg[/img]
[img]http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/2256/en1s.jpg[/img]
Please check out my website for more Design/Illustration/Photography:
[url]http://theability.co.uk/[/url]
[QUOTE=ChestyMcGee;41659276]first time doing something like this. i had fun
[img]http://31.media.tumblr.com/56d65a4e0402bd5dedf13ee3405cf3df/tumblr_mqsx6txURi1s32mjoo1_1280.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
The graphic design portion is awesome looking, but the creases need a bit of decoloration/white along the edges.
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