Speaking of perspective, I'm doing some two-point perspective sketches for class. Gonna be turning two of these into complete drawings in the next couple weeks.
[t]http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/37624951/art/sketch-perspective-design1.jpg[/t][t]http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/37624951/art/sketch-perspective-design2.jpg[/t]
[t]http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/37624951/art/sketch-perspective-beardshear2.jpg[/t][t]http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/37624951/art/sketch-perspective-beardshear1.jpg[/t]
Bonus horse I drew for the same class (charcoal):
[t]http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/37624951/art/drawing-value-horse.jpg[/t]
(all of these drawings are from observation, nothing imagined)
Apologies for the bad picture quality, I took these with my phone's camera. I'm going to scan these proper later.
Rest in peace, my Bamboo Splash. You were a good tablet taken too soon
On a related note, what tablet brands/specific tablets do you guys suggest? I'm no professional but I'm certainly a determined hobbyist, and I mainly use Paint Tool SAI if that affects your decision. Something in the 100-200$ price range would be good
[QUOTE=Bynine;46646367]Out of morbid curiosity, how did you make that[/QUOTE]
Oh you know, a hammer, a knife, and a sewing kit.
[QUOTE=Cosine;46646736]Speaking of perspective, I'm doing some two-point perspective sketches [/QUOTE]
Make sure you actually use your horizon and vanishing point(s) when doing those, or they will tend to come out a bit queer. also I marked in your horizon but it's definitely too low :v:
[img]http://i.gyazo.com/5bfb1766155ecdcb2b0b38f6518ce574.png[/img]
Follow the lines back. If you're doing perspective from life using only measuring, you'll have a very boring and difficult time of it (and you won't actually learn perspective). Measure out some key things painstakingly, in the above scene probably measure and draw the two openings into the other rooms as basic planes in your bounding box to begin with, with the horizon cutting them in the right place. Make sure the receding lines hit your VP on these baby steps first, then you can build the rest of the room pretty easily by drawing from your VP combined with much more chilled out measuring than otherwise.
[QUOTE=Bynine;46647499]Rest in peace, my Bamboo Splash. You were a good tablet taken too soon
On a related note, what tablet brands/specific tablets do you guys suggest? I'm no professional but I'm certainly a determined hobbyist, and I mainly use Paint Tool SAI if that affects your decision. Something in the 100-200$ price range would be good[/QUOTE]
I use [URL="http://www.amazon.com/Wacom-Bamboo-Pen-and-Touch/dp/B002OOWC3S/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1417826617&sr=8-2&keywords=bamboo+pen+and+touch"]Wacom Bamboo Pen and Touch[/URL] and it served me well for 3 years now.
[T]http://i.imgur.com/e2gkuTB.jpg?1[/t]
Criticism is welcome.
I know, I have to draw at a bigger scale :/
the length of her lower arms/legs is about 1/2 the length of her upper arm/legs
also I've just realised I haven't had to say this in months, hurray, but here we go again: go realism before stylistic work like you're doing. If you want to get really good at stylised figures, study proper anatomy. To abbreviate or simply anything in art you need to know the complex equivilant, in process as well as results.
[QUOTE=MakoSkyDub;46651057]the length of her lower arms/legs is about 1/2 the length of her upper arm/legs
also I've just realised I haven't had to say this in months, hurray, but here we go again: go realism before stylistic work like you're doing. If you want to get really good at stylised figures, study proper anatomy. To abbreviate or simply anything in art you need to know the complex equivilant, in process as well as results.[/QUOTE]
I see, thank you. I will try to fix it and post results.
Aw man, studying realistic art is so boring. I tried studying it once on an art institute but got tired of it really fast. Maybe it could be more enjoyable if I just try to look for tutorials or something.
Well if you're not interested in attaining a high level/making a living from your art then you don't have to study particularly. If you are then you'll have to do lots of boring stuff along the way
[QUOTE=WorkingRobot;46646372]I'll just drop it here.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/Aha59Rp.jpg?1[/IMG][/QUOTE]
vaporwhat
Could someone give me CC on this?
[img]http://i.imgur.com/j2gIys5.jpg[/img]
[img]http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/38042000/jpg/_38042095_alistair_darling.jpg[/img]
[editline]6th December 2014[/editline]
On a serious note, I know bodies aren't symmetrical but the whole right side looks a little weird, the shoulder on the right is very flat compared to the left, the right eye is a bit too big, the eyebrow is off too. The paintjob is good but things are a bit wobbly. Other than what I've said it looks alright to me.
[QUOTE=GNJF;46652783]Could someone give me CC on this?
[img]http://i.imgur.com/j2gIys5.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
I can't tell where the light's supposed to be coming from
that was my first thought but i didn't want to say it
We're working on a game for Ludum Dare 31, which is going on right now
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/Tu428La.png[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/kh8VbAx.gif[/IMG]
[QUOTE=Bynine;46655366]I can't tell where the light's supposed to be coming from[/QUOTE]
I'd imagine he was looking at reference photos taken with a 3-point lighting setup.
[QUOTE=GNJF;46652783]Could someone give me CC on this?
[img]http://i.imgur.com/j2gIys5.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
Do more construction practice, more reading, photostudies using existing head methods to help you understand the application and so on. You're doing what I have done in the past, working from imagination too soon and coming out with wonky as fuck results (I snooped your DA)
It's frustrating and painfully difficult but you gotta do a lot of that stuff, your knowledge/ability is too weak atm to support doing unreferenced people successfully
[QUOTE=GNJF;46652783]Could someone give me CC on this?
[img]http://i.imgur.com/j2gIys5.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
Her breasts look like pectoral muscles; they look flat and they part pretty suddenly, making it look like less like boobs and more like ovals.
I see, so I should do more real life drawings of faces to better understand the forms?
Are there any particular anatomical issues that I should work on first?
I mean, the lighting on everything below her forehead suggests her face is almost entirely flat, and that her chin is about a millimeter forward from her neck. You've probably seen suggestions about the breasts which look like they're in a ''can'' crusher (sorry).
I'd also suggest you work on your brushwork, mostly on how to define hair as more of a volume and form than as weird individual strand-chunks. I am bad at hair so don't ask me how, but there are plenty of good tutorials on depicting hair available.
Well for one thing you shouldn't be worrying about painting and color if your underlying drawing skills are not good enough yet. Draw portraits yes, and draw other stuff from observation. Find good reference if you can't do it from life. If you just google portrait references you'll find tons of stuff, and then set the size to large so you get a good quality one. Since male faces are also more angular it will be easier for you to see the major planes and understand the volume of the face better by drawing a guy. You can also draw [URL="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-71_V45k7-0o/U_wHcywJwWI/AAAAAAAAAbM/KDpPeR1xKZg/s1600/Marble%2Bhead%2Bfrom%2Ba%2Bstatue%2Bof%2Bthe%2Bphilosopher%2BChrysippos%2B%2B%2BThe%2BTrustees%2Bof%2Bthe%2BBritish%2BMuseum.jpg"]statues[/URL], [URL="http://www.naturalpigments.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/6/3/635-GES147_lg.jpg"]sculptures[/URL], and [URL="http://i.imgur.com/vsr2IOr.jpg"]3D facial plane models[/URL]. The [URL="http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2012/334/4/2/asaro_head_sculpt___model_download_by_adam_fisher-d5mlsit.jpg"]Asaro Head[/URL] is especially good at learning this. Left side shows major planes and right side the smaller planes. Studying other people's work who do a good job at portraying volume is good too. [URL="http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1709426&d=1360309144"]Leyendecker[/URL] is a good person to study. Try to follow the major angles and not the curvature of the soft overlaying tissue.
I've had this one for a while, it's just someone doing a skull makeup on top of someone's face, but it's so helpful to see the underlying structure under the soft tissue.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/E0MWGCi.jpg[/t]
Finally got a chance to take a drawing course here at my University, only took me until my senior year haha. Anyway, our final project is a self portrait in front of a building while holding any old object that might convey a message. It's still in progress, but the value scale is pretty much the way it will stay. Gonna try and work on bring the background down a bit more and focusing on the figure. I hate not being able to smudge shade, but the point is diligent work I suppose:
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/CAkOKWe.jpg[/IMG]
and for your final project, a photo study
with a grid
I'd like a word with your teacher
[QUOTE=MakoSkyDub;46659055]and for your final project, a photo study
with a grid
I'd like a word with your teacher[/QUOTE]
I dont think its a full time course.
[QUOTE=Mr cake fingers;46659126]I dont think its a full time course.[/QUOTE]
It's not, it's an intro course because that's all my schedule had room for. Being a Bio major has made it hard to get into any sort of art course. This was the only one that didn't require studio hours when I would normally have a lab group. Nothing too advanced at all, it's turned into dedicated time for me to practice really, but I still have to meet project guidelines.
The purpose of grids is to make you realize that you can correlate certain things within the reference image with each other, as well as understand negative space. This is actually how you start working in your head without a grid. Notice for example when you draw a straight line the right edge of the door just about touches your chest, so your chest in relationship to the door is pretty much directly bellow it. That's how people draw when they do it directly from life, you just start comparing where one thing is in position to another by trying to flatten what you're seeing in your mind to place it on the paper. It becomes very instinctive.
Da Vinci used grids, and projectors.
Why would discredit a very well used technique?
I made a logo for my new music group...
[url]http://imgur.com/kGXh4qI[/url] <- NSFW
It's an abbreviation of "2 Lubed Up Schizophrenics"
Guess the genre!
Edit: on the other hand I should probably not post NSFW content in a thread that isnt tagged that. So have the link instead!
[img]http://i.imgur.com/kn2qLK1.png[/img]
Yes, I'm sorry, I drew this thread's least favorite man-faced girl again, but hey, now she has a rival to compensate. I had fun making their clothings "match"
EDIT: fixed tiny heads
i guess all her bones went into her fists because her head is tiny
as is the other girl's
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