If it's more then just a quick sketch, then you should totally start to blend your strokes instead of just slapping them all around. And while using low opacity brushes is totally not something bad, at this very piece it just makes it look dirty.
[QUOTE=antianan;44157783]If it's more then just a quick sketch, then you should totally start to blend your strokes instead of just slapping them all around.[/QUOTE]
Oh this isn't much more than a fifteen minuter at the mo - if I take it further it'l probably get a lot cleaner
what you guys think?
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[QUOTE=Mandems;44158313]what you guys think?
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Composition is good and the colours are nice but that's about all i can say I'm afraid. The usual "You need to practice perspective and defining forms" speech fits here.
The earth is not flat, sadly :(.
i did the boat and whale in separate documents and then added them to the main one.
how would you have me paint the sand cause I did look on some beach pictures for reference
[QUOTE=Maya2008;44158464]The earth is not flat, sadly :(.[/QUOTE]
Try telling that to these guys.
[url]http://theflatearthsociety.org/forum/[/url]
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/archive/b/b2/20131224153928!FESlogo.gif[/img]
Has anybody heard of Norwich University of Arts? I just got accepted into the Game Art and Animation Department and I'm wondering if anybody has gone and enjoyed their time there.
Also a bearded man.
[img]http://s13.postimg.org/cpmlsu6d3/Screen_shot_2014_03_07_at_2_16_32_PM.png[/img]
[QUOTE=Mandems;44158562]how would you have me paint the sand cause I did look on some beach pictures for reference[/QUOTE]
look more closely? honestly it doesn't look like you used reference at all - most of the colours are really over-simplified and the piece has no texture. the sand, for example, is a completely flat hue with no variation. sand forms in wave shapes and changes colour due to wetness and has a graininess that, while indiscernible at this kind of distance, would still create some uneven texture
[QUOTE=omarfr;44158937]Has anybody heard of Norwich University of Arts? I just got accepted into the Game Art and Animation Department and I'm wondering if anybody has gone and enjoyed their time there[/QUOTE]
Just gotta say congrats since I'm in the progress of applying to an animation school (though I won't be doing the animation line).
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/81HpimP.png[/IMG]
Here's a value thinger. Pretty happy with the sense of distance.
[IMG]http://puu.sh/7mFxk.gif[/IMG]
Worked on this some more.
actually looking at it now the perspective on the sword in general is totally borked
I would have altered the pose so that the golden hilt didn't overlap the verticalish line of the gold on the scabbard too - initial read is a bit misleading in that area
[IMG]http://puu.sh/7mLFo.png[/IMG]
I drew Gecs' disembodied head with his father, Riard
So I've been reading through this thread and older versions.
Seems like most of you guys condemn those who start out with digital drawing.
Is it really true? I only do paper stuff from time to time and I already spent about 39e on a tablet. (Huion H610)
Am I an ass? Wouldn't it actually be harder to start out with digital stuff after you've spent a lot time on paper?
[QUOTE=Saturn V;44164011]So I've been reading through this thread and older versions.
Seems like most of you guys condemn those who start out with digital drawing.
Is it really true? I only do paper stuff from time to time and I already spent about 39e on a tablet. (Huion H610)
Am I an ass? Wouldn't it actually be harder to start out with digital stuff after you've spent a lot time on paper?[/QUOTE]
The key is to take it one thing at a time. Drawing on a tablet is hard, the disconnect between your hand and the screen is hard to get used to. With paper it is 1-1 mapping, there is nothing weird about it.
You can start digital, but the reason I would recommend starting with traditional is because you can focus on the important things like perspective, without throwing in that extra variable of being potentially incompetent at using a tablet.
It's just simpler and faster IMO.
[QUOTE=Jallen;44164485]The key is to take it one thing at a time. Drawing on a tablet is hard, the disconnect between your hand and the screen is hard to get used to. With paper it is 1-1 mapping, there is nothing weird about it.
You can start digital, but the reason I would recommend starting with traditional is because you can focus on the important things like perspective, without throwing in that extra variable of being potentially incompetent at using a tablet.
It's just simpler and faster IMO.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, that's what I'm thinking.
But wouldn't it also be a viable option to just get used to the tablet, using it exclusively while you use your computer. You know, just get used to it completely. Then you try drawing with it.
I'm extensively studying anatomy though, perspective though.
Though getting used to a tablet is entirely subjective. Some get used to it instantly and some may never get used to it. I don't wanna rush anything though, I'll take everything one step at a time and just chill, it's not like my life depends on this.
using the tablet exclusively with your computer is pointless since it doesn't really train your hand eye coordination and just wastes time better spent practicing drawing. the easiest way to make sure you can get used to it is by making your drawing area the same as your screen ratio so it's more or less a 1:1 connection
[QUOTE=lintz;44164761]using the tablet exclusively with your computer is pointless since it doesn't really train your hand eye coordination and just wastes time better spent practicing drawing. the easiest way to make sure you can get used to it is by making your drawing area the same as your screen ratio so it's more or less a 1:1 connection[/QUOTE]
So you're saying the sanest thing to do is just do basic shapes and writing and stuff on your tablet to get the feel?
The biggest advantage in starting off with pen and paper instead of tablet is that there are less distractions.
You can't control Z, zoom, use overlays, change to all colours you want, use brushes, etc etc.
It's you, your pen and the paper, maybe an eraser and some utility tools like rulers. Nothing too fancy. You can't do all sorts of other stuff that distracts you and stops you from simply drawing, you can't undo that one line and do it again without leaving a permanent mark on the paper one way or another. So you don't get tempted to make every stroke and line perfect.
Though honestly, I don't think avoiding digital drawing is necessary, but it can definitely be easier to focus with pen and paper.
[QUOTE=dgg;44164841]The biggest advantage in starting off with pen and paper instead of tablet is that there are less distractions.
You can't control Z, zoom, use overlays, change to all colours you want, use brushes, etc etc.
It's you, your pen and the paper, maybe an eraser and some utility tools like rulers. Nothing too fancy. You can't do all sorts of other stuff that distracts you and stops you from simply drawing, you can't undo that one line and do it again without leaving a permanent mark on the paper one way or another. So you don't get tempted to make every stroke and line perfect.
Though honestly, I don't think avoiding digital drawing is necessary, but it can definitely be easier to focus with pen and paper.[/QUOTE]
I think it really comes down to discipline, being able to just focus on what's important.
I'm not really that easy to be distracted, so I doubt that'll be a problem.
Though that being able to ctrl+z may get you too motivated to fix this one specific part of the thing you're making while ignoring the rest, and after like 12 hours of spending time on that one part, the rest of the stuff looks like shit
[QUOTE]—— PROLOGUE: A CITY BY THE DEEP
Along the northern coastlines of the great lake Heston’s Deep, a thick mist ran for miles upon miles. Obscuring the dying sun of the Earth, its light tinted the mist a fierce red at rise and set, and a sickly orange during the midst of day. Were one to sail the lake northwards towards these shores, one would, upon approach, come to behold a most intimidating sight rising up from the mist. A mass of brick, stone and steel, a city-state of pain no one recalls the name of, for it has stood longer than most remember, and many old signs and other records of its once glorious identity have been lost.
To the population of approximately five million, it went by the title of “the Gutter”, a name befitting its claustrophobic, disease-ridden streets, impoverished crowds stumbling from alley to alley as they went about their dreary days. Once a place of prosperity and progress, the Gutter was twisted into a polluted, corrupt and lethal shadow of itself by the very industrial revolution that was to ascend it and bring forth a golden age.
As discovery, research and development led to the construction of perpetuum mobiles - machines which ran virtually forever on the flow of goriphon, a new biofuel - the vast majority of the worker caste was rendered obsolete. For the immense machinery, the pumps and arms and pipework which now filled the halls of many a factory, required barely a refilling of the energized goriphon, only yearly maintenance, and no manual operation.
Despite the excellent technologies that spawned from the widespread application of this fuel, society in the Gutter began to deteriorate, as famine swept across the city, taking the lives of all who were unable to support their families.
The machines carved, welded and built now, day and night, leaving millions without purpose, without income, without sustenance. And with the great famine came the rise of crime, as the desperate and dying gathered into gangs which infested the city, particularly the Fringe Districts along the outer borders.
Despite public unrest and cries from the enraged population, the enigmatic governing body of the Gutter, Voynic Circle, paid the death throes of the people no mind. They enjoyed the luxuries of goriphon innovation in the restricted Overseer District and the manors of Arena Plaza, at the heart of the Gutter.
Those who did not die of hunger were sure to choke on the fumes of the facilities, the byproducts of goriphon processing, for the great mist on the shores of Heston’s Deep was a foul smog, born from unrestrained human industry.
Any and all attempts at protest and uprise, in the initial decade of the city’s rotten state, were quelled by the Voynic Order Front, a military police force of conscripts. And yet, the Front turned a blind eye to the thugs, the murderers, the rapists, in the Fringes. These dark streets were a world apart. Naught but anarchy.
Such is the life of young Daniqq Ramtey Nethermere, the girl from Stream Street in the Northwestern Fringe. The year is 1844 AA.
This is her tale of conspiracy and escape.[/QUOTE]
Exposition shit from a science fiction gang war story or whatever, about a woman who is framed for the murders on rival gang leaders.
Paint more stuff from reference, there are a lot of issues you would resolve by practising real pictures.
Why are there no leaves on this side of the tree but there are on the other? Why are the branches under the leaves the same brightness as the trunk, which would get more ambient light? What perspective are we even looking at the tree from? Why do the branches fade into the leaves?
Paint real stuff, resolve this stuff intrinsically.
[QUOTE=Jallen;44170287]Paint more stuff from reference, there are a lot of issues you would resolve by practising real pictures.
Why are there no leaves on this side of the tree but there are on the other? Why are the branches under the leaves the same brightness as the trunk, which would get more ambient light? What perspective are we even looking at the tree from? Why do the branches fade into the leaves?
Paint real stuff, resolve this stuff intrinsically.[/QUOTE]
i was looking at this tree
[img]http://www.bristol-tree-surgeon.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/bristol-tree-surgeon-two.png[/img]
but ok I didn't know how to draw the leaves so i tried a brush which gave me the effect as you can see above
[QUOTE=Mandems;44170397]i was looking at this tree
[img]http://www.bristol-tree-surgeon.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/bristol-tree-surgeon-two.png[/img]
but ok I didn't know how to draw the leaves so i tried a brush which gave me the effect as you can see above[/QUOTE]
Generally brushes are good for textures but not drawing whole things.
What he means by draw from a reference though is draw the reference, not change it up. So you would try to reproduce your photo as closely as possible. At least until you get a full grasp of how to draw trees and leaves then you can mess around with it some for a piece
I feel so discouraged when ever I post anything, cause I always get told to paint with references when I actually always do, which is kind sad to know that even with references my drawings are shit
[editline]8th March 2014[/editline]
[QUOTE=Rhenae;44170477]Generally brushes are good for textures but not drawing whole things.
What he means by draw from a reference though is draw the reference, not change it up. So you would try to reproduce your photo as closely as possible. At least until you get a full grasp of how to draw trees and leaves then you can mess around with it some for a piece[/QUOTE]
I thought you are meant to use a reference to understand how the object is formed and try to create one on your own to resemble it but still remain unique
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