[QUOTE=DOG-GY;40557206][img]http://24.media.tumblr.com/bfa899c287dc283c7e221898e44104bc/tumblr_mmfb6x3RV01qk6eteo1_1280.png[/img]
im still trying. here's two more i just started
fuck the one on the left is a pain. i can see that it's fucked up but even flipping the canvas isn't helping. kill me[/QUOTE]
I feel like the mouth is too wide.
[QUOTE=Eric95;40557410]I feel like the mouth is too wide.[/QUOTE]
I don't know if I'm remembering this right but I think the mouth ends directly below the pupils.
[QUOTE=Eric95;40557410]I feel like the mouth is too wide.[/QUOTE]
Nah it's fine
[IMG]http://puu.sh/2OAcQ.png/ss%20(2013-05-07%20at%2006.07.48).png[/IMG]
[editline]7th May 2013[/editline]
Fuck Krinkels beat me to it
[QUOTE=Maloof?;40557394]what is this creationism corner open mic night[/QUOTE]
no its morning
[QUOTE=DOG-GY;40557542]no its morning[/QUOTE]
east coast represent
New Zealand bitches
[QUOTE=Biscuit-Boy;40556188]I'll be blunt. I think you should stop working on that and paint from reference for a long while before attempting to do your own work. It looks better than when you started but not by much. Painting from reference isn't just about knowing what to paint where, it helps you learn how to render things out properly as well.[/QUOTE]
:( as much as it's painful for me to hear that, I'm gonna have to follow your advice.
It's just that... whenever I'm this subforum, and I see all these good drawings I get so envy because they're so good that makes me also want to draw something digitally, and then I end up with things like this. I'm so jealous of your skills guys.
I meant for you to do them digitally, so you'll learn how to blend better digital with a tablet. Obviously study anatomy and value etc in real media as well, but it's still important to practice from reference digitally as well.
[QUOTE=johnsten;40557672]east coast represent[/QUOTE]
Who ARE you?
[QUOTE=MakoSkyDub;40558599]Who ARE you?[/QUOTE]
who ARE you?
I was drawing stuff, ended up with this.
[IMG]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/85825490/garry.png[/IMG]
Well, it's not [I]that[/I] far from how Garry looks.
I made this for fun yesterday.
[IMG]http://i1095.photobucket.com/albums/i469/sarge997/TheLoneTree_zpse77a5c43.png[/IMG]
I normally don't just make pictures, but I felt like it.
Was actually quite fun to make.
[QUOTE=sarge997;40559683]I made this for fun yesterday.
[IMG]http://i1095.photobucket.com/albums/i469/sarge997/TheLoneTree_zpse77a5c43.png[/IMG]
I normally don't just make pictures, but I felt like it.
Was actually quite fun to make.[/QUOTE]
You got something there.
something's really off with the shading there, with this angle of things, the shadow of the tree would be barely visible and much more elongated than it is now, the hill would be barely lit as well. The way you did the shading, the sun'd be 5cm higher or so
[QUOTE=sarge997;40559683]I made this for fun yesterday.
[IMG]http://i1095.photobucket.com/albums/i469/sarge997/TheLoneTree_zpse77a5c43.png[/IMG]
I normally don't just make pictures, but I felt like it.
Was actually quite fun to make.[/QUOTE]
make the upper left hill much more lighter and slowly descend to shadows as you go down towards the right.
just expressing unprofessional opinion
[QUOTE=Rhenae;40555130]Sai is pretty nice and widely available free (although thats not completely legit) a real license costs 60 bucks if I remember right, but it is basically abandonware at this point. Sai has a stabilizer to smooth your lines, but other than that I can't think how it makes drawing "too easy" as if that were a thing. It has very nice default brush settings and its easy to jump in and get started with.
Corel is really nice in finished product but an ass to get used to using, it emulates real materials very nicely. It has a steep learning curve but a few people here use it who could help you, and I'm sure there are some online tutorials for it. It isn't free either it costs quiet a bit for the full painter, essentials is probably pretty fine though. It comes with a fair number of tablets (or at least did a few years back when I got it)
Gimp is a widely used program that is actually free, its functionally very similar to photoshop. Although I haven't used it myself judging by it's popularity I would say it works pretty well.
I'm surprised you don't already have a copy of elements though, it comes with most wacom tablets except the very cheapest one.[/QUOTE]
Thanks for taking the time to reply!
I own a Wacom Bamboo tablet, and have no idea where the box is (owned it for awhile) so I doubt I'll be able to get Elements now.
I already use Gimp but it's rather buggy (For me anyway, if I change colors with the mouse and go back to the tablet it reverts back to the old settings [Unless that's a feature, in which case it's awful because it's U.I. is not made for tablet usage]). Even then although Gimp is very functional it can be a bit unwieldy in some aspects and doesn't feel "quite right" to me, although It'll definitely always be an option.
I'll try out SAI to see if I like it, I hear good things about it. What I meant about the "Too Easy" thing is that I hear it's really easy to just turn on the Line Smoothing Filter to a high setting and let it do all the work, which would damage the quality of your art. Obviously not an issue if I chose not to use it but that's what I meant.
[QUOTE=NateDude;40561558]Thanks for taking the time to reply!
I own a Wacom Bamboo tablet, and have no idea where the box is (owned it for awhile) so I doubt I'll be able to get Elements now.
I already use Gimp but it's rather buggy (For me anyway, if I change colors with the mouse and go back to the tablet it reverts back to the old settings [Unless that's a feature, in which case it's awful because it's U.I. is not made for tablet usage]). Even then although Gimp is very functional it can be a bit unwieldy in some aspects and doesn't feel "quite right" to me, although It'll definitely always be an option.
I'll try out SAI to see if I like it, I hear good things about it. What I meant about the "Too Easy" thing is that I hear it's really easy to just turn on the Line Smoothing Filter to a high setting and let it do all the work, which would damage the quality of your art. Obviously not an issue if I chose not to use it but that's what I meant.[/QUOTE]
Using a tool to streamline your work isn't "too easy". Tablets tend to make woobly lines since you don't have the same resistance as paper and especially with small tablets a small shake in your hand is a pretty large thing on your work. I personally turn up the stabilizer when I am making lineart, I usually have to make a couple tries at the line but it does result in much nicer looks. Its a tool that still takes a bit of learning like anything else. If your doing painting work and the likes it won't make a difference at all really, you wouldn't be using it for things like that and it would actually be inconvenient for it. You can always turn it all the way off and work without it.
I just remembered though, do you use mac or windows? Sai is only available for Windows PC, I'm not sure if a version for Window 8 is out yet. It hasn't been officially updated since XP, it's user updates that make it work on newer systems.
[QUOTE=NateDude;40561558]I'll try out SAI to see if I like it, I hear good things about it. What I meant about the "Too Easy" thing is that I hear it's really easy to just turn on the Line Smoothing Filter to a high setting and let it do all the work, which would damage the quality of your art. Obviously not an issue if I chose not to use it but that's what I meant.[/QUOTE]
There is nothing wrong with using whatever tools you have at your disposal to get the results you desire.
A program can't draw for you, you have to draw and make the drawing or painting yourself, finding a technique to get the line weight and smoothnes you want in your work is not cheating.
There is no such thing as cheating in art to begin with, it's all about expressing yourself and getting the results you're after. The only reason we draw things "wrong" is because we don't get the results we imagined in our heads.
Filters are the closest you get to cheating, but filters are only deemed terrible because they are used in the post processing just to "try them out and see what's cool" instead of making a piece that is intended to have that filter applied to it to give a certain look or feeiling.
mypaint is pretty cool too and free
[QUOTE=Rhenae;40561643]Using a tool to streamline your work isn't "too easy". Tablets tend to make woobly lines since you don't have the same resistance as paper and especially with small tablets a small shake in your hand is a pretty large thing on your work. I personally turn up the stabilizer when I am making lineart, I usually have to make a couple tries at the line but it does result in much nicer looks. Its a tool that still takes a bit of learning like anything else. If your doing painting work and the likes it won't make a difference at all really, you wouldn't be using it for things like that and it would actually be inconvenient for it. You can always turn it all the way off and work without it.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=dgg;40561650]There is nothing wrong with using whatever tools you have at your disposal to get the results you desire.
A program can't draw for you, you have to draw and make the drawing or painting yourself, finding a technique to get the line weight and smoothnes you want in your work is not cheating.
There is no such thing as cheating in art to begin with, it's all about expressing yourself and getting the results you're after. The only reason we draw things "wrong" is because we don't get the results we imagined in our heads.
Filters are the closest you get to cheating, but filters are only deemed terrible because they are used in the post processing just to "try them out and see what's cool" instead of making a piece that is intended to have that filter applied to it to give a certain look or feeiling.[/QUOTE]
You both make valid points. I do suppose that it's not cheating, but I was moreso referring to upping the ante until there was practically no drawing to begin with (I mean, making a vague curve, undo, make a curve, undo, make a curve, "yeah that'll work" kinda thing.) Again, not cheating, but also not great for someone who's just getting into art, no? You're both right though, and I'll take that into consideration.
[QUOTE=Rhenae;40561643]I just remembered though, do you use mac or windows? Sai is only available for Windows PC, I'm not sure if a version for Window 8 is out yet. It hasn't been officially updated since XP, it's user updates that make it work on newer systems.[/QUOTE]
Windows 8, but that shouldn't be an issue. Windows 8 can load all Windows 7 programs with no issues (IIRC), and I just launched the Windows 7 version of SAI with no problem on Windows 8. We'll see how it goes.
[editline]7th May 2013[/editline]
[QUOTE=Eltro102;40561696]mypaint is pretty cool too and free[/QUOTE]
I'll keep that in mind.
[QUOTE=NateDude;40561757]You both make valid points. I do suppose that it's not cheating, but I was moreso referring to upping the ante until there was practically no drawing to begin with (I mean, making a vague curve, undo, make a curve, undo, make a curve, "yeah that'll work" kinda thing.) Again, not cheating, but also not great for someone who's just getting into art, no? You're both right though, and I'll take that into consideration.[/QUOTE]
Re-doing lines over and over again until it ends up as you want it is completely normal for anyone doing art of any kind. That's why we have erasers, thin pencils, cells (for animation) and inking.
You re-do your shit until it's right, in the digital work that means undoing your lines instead of scribbling away your lines or taking up a new paper, it's still the same shit, just easier.
It is better to get as much control your hand movement to get the perfect line straight away, yes, but you'll also learn that by re-doing your stuff over and over again, just not as efficiently as if you're forcing yourself to do everything at one go.
But then we're talking excercises to better your drawing skills, not just drawing in general.
You've definitely changed my opinion on the matter. I suppose I just was worried too much about somehow poisoning my skill as an artist (of which I don't really consider myself, as all I do is doodle), but that's a rather silly frame of mind for me to have.
The good news is that I can draw dicks in the program just fine
[url=http://puu.sh/2OPA5.png]Penis[/url]
This was done as a joke/test
Hey, you guys remember that Mesoamerican-themed teapot I made? I glazed it.
I'm pretty pleased with how it came out:
[t]http://i.imgur.com/x3IhCtI.jpg[/t]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/UzcAVO6.jpg[/t]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/kBBCgcP.jpg[/t]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/6tSYOUU.jpg[/t]
The lid looks kind of pale-blue, but I think that's just the light; it's actually grey.
that's amazing, wish i could make something like that!
[QUOTE=Eltro102;40563204]that's amazing, wish i could make something like that![/QUOTE]
who says you can't?
This is a work in progress I'm doing with my girlfriend for her university:
[url=https://www.dropbox.com/s/icacm7fhyv1p6ud/Instagrammed.mpeg]It's a video[/url]
[sp]Missing scenes are a dress up scene where he ends up taking a self pic, right after the breakfast scene, a scene where he encounters someone on the street but is too consumed by trying to take a picture of something to even take notice of the other person and a screencapture of the picture he has taking on instagram.[/sp]
[sp]The idea is for it to be a lighthearted criticism of instagram and social media in general, that makes the viewer think about how they use instagram or other social media in general.[/sp]
Since I'm in no way an experienced moviemaker, any feedback so far?
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