[QUOTE=Bynine;46663683][img]http://i.imgur.com/aBLedcE.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"[/QUOTE]
there's something really masculine about the way you draw girls, even the more feminine one still feels masculine. maybe it's the huge hands?
[QUOTE=lintz;46663897]i guess all her bones went into her fists because her head is tiny
as is the other girl's[/QUOTE]
Thanks for the heads-up (ohoho), I rescaled them properly
[QUOTE=MenteR;46664468]there's something really masculine about the way you draw girls, even the more feminine one still feels masculine. maybe it's the huge hands?[/QUOTE]
I couldn't for the life of me tell you, although I'm sure someone here probably knows very well. All through my life I've had people calling my girl characters guys, and I don't know if it's for want of artistic ability or something deeper set. Regardless, I'll keep working on it
I think it's the shoulders. just blocking off bits of the image and putting my thumb over the "hot spots." I'm convinced it's the shoulders that throw it off.
[QUOTE=Wickerman123;46661435]Da Vinci used grids, and projectors.
Why would discredit a very well used technique?[/QUOTE]
Only because he didn't give a shit about bothering with drawing since he was already a master at it...
Sold this Jimi Hendrix commission piece the other day. Acrylic paint markers on 15x45 sized canvas.
[URL=http://s1181.photobucket.com/user/Zelchacha/media/Jimi_zps4784cd9f.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1181.photobucket.com/albums/x424/Zelchacha/Jimi_zps4784cd9f.jpg[/IMG][/URL]
[QUOTE=Lilyo;46660929]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.[/QUOTE]
That's what measuring is for, plumb lines and horizontals that you make yourself to correlate elements which you gradually internalise
using a grid discourages this kind of learning imo, since you're just referencing where elements intersect the gridlines themselves, removing the necessity of considering and keeping track of the big relationships, the ones you actually need to be able to handle when drawing without any training wheels. There are so many gridlines that it takes no observational skill whatsoever, it's just a slow and detached way of tracing a load of little frames piece by piece to make your image. It makes beginners start with details and precise outlines, the reverse of what they should be learning, giving them an inflated sense of what they can do and fucking them over for when they have to draw something themselves
[QUOTE=MakoSkyDub;46666358]That's what measuring is for, plumb lines and horizontals that you make yourself to correlate elements which you gradually internalise
using a grid discourages this kind of learning imo, since you're just referencing where elements intersect the gridlines themselves, removing the necessity of considering and keeping track of the big relationships, the ones you actually need to be able to handle when drawing without any training wheels. There are so many gridlines that it takes no observational skill whatsoever, it's just a slow and detached way of tracing a load of little frames piece by piece to make your image. It makes beginners start with details and precise outlines, the reverse of what they should be learning, giving them an inflated sense of what they can do and fucking them over for when they have to draw something themselves[/QUOTE]
We've done non-gridded observational work of human figures for prints, relying on observation to get proportions (along with classic head count techniques and plumb lines.) This was just the way the professor required us to do this one project. It's not biggie, just an intro course after-all. From what I've heard from friends in the program it gets way more skilled within the next course alone. Sadly I won't have a chance to take it.
So this is my first artwork I've made so I'd really like some opinions on it
[t]http://i.imgur.com/MG9v7xz.jpg[/t]
Your visualisation of Jamie Hyneman is a little too smudgy.
[QUOTE=NeverGoWest;46663541]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![/QUOTE]
Grindcore? Inspired by the glorious A.C I guess?
Italian Opera redefined in Country music.
[QUOTE=zelchacha;46665479]Sold this Jimi Hendrix commission piece the other day. Acrylic paint markers on 15x45 sized canvas.
[URL=http://s1181.photobucket.com/user/Zelchacha/media/Jimi_zps4784cd9f.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1181.photobucket.com/albums/x424/Zelchacha/Jimi_zps4784cd9f.jpg[/IMG][/URL][/QUOTE]
So much improvement! This is an amazing piece; clear and defined focal point, balance in your positive and negative spaces, and a kick ass Hendrix. Great job, man! Keep it up
absolutely wrong thread
It's a fox!
[thumb]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/49828537/paints/gfhfg.png[/thumb]
It's a death-bringing Ram!
[thumb]http://i.imgur.com/EcxPdtE.jpg[/thumb]
Or something!
Something different. Work from a sound design class.
[video=youtube;DXypGg26MVM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXypGg26MVM[/video]
Did a Bloodborne fan art. I don't own a PS4 but I'm still excited for it
[IMG_thumb]http://th09.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/i/2014/342/d/2/fuzzy_bloodborne_by_imtth-d896cvf.png[/IMG_thumb]
[t]https://33.media.tumblr.com/ca14091e9e4921191d0c90df3f3f52aa/tumblr_ngasn8A8xx1rlxhxao1_1280.jpg[/t]
sup guys I'm trying to compose a painting themed like majora's mask as a christmas gift for my girlfriend (never played it but she loves it, i'll add the ugly face and everything), this is a really rough draft of how i want the layout
I'm trying to give this a lot of diagonal movement but it just feels wrong, it's mostly the moon that's bothering me.
I'm thinking of either making it smaller and fill the corner of the 3x3 grid up top right
or, making it even bigger, to make it more dramatic at the risk of interrupting the flow
any suggestions? sorry the sketch looks so crummy I didn't wanna get too invested without first deciding how this was gonna go
[img]http://th08.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/f/2014/342/4/a/sad_lady_monster_no_arm_by_fuzguy433-d897phn.png[/img]
I took out the arm. I like this one more. thoughts?
Final for my class, we had to take something that already exists and put a different spin on it.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/gLFx93z.jpg[/img]
I'm feeling a lot more confident in my work thanks to this class, especially considering my first assignment looked like this:
[t]http://i.imgur.com/KNCF5cm.jpg[/t]
vman you're the sex
What is it you're re-spinning? what fish are like? or is it really obviously referencing something and I've missed it
[QUOTE=Chaplin;46673265][t]https://33.media.tumblr.com/ca14091e9e4921191d0c90df3f3f52aa/tumblr_ngasn8A8xx1rlxhxao1_1280.jpg[/t]
I'm trying to give this a lot of diagonal movement but it just feels wrong, it's mostly the moon that's bothering me. [/QUOTE]
lol I would hope so, the moon is the only thing in the picture.
there isn't any movement, it's just a rectangle with a bite out of the corner. composition wise there's simply nothing happening.
oh wait, is that part of a landscape in the other corner? I thought it was just grading to black initially :v:
throw some moonlight onto the trees if that's what they are.
by the way I have a copy of insurgency that nobody wants so if any of you fancy it - [url]https://www.humblebundle.com/?gift=TkkBpEKAHbhyZe2X[/url]
[QUOTE=MakoSkyDub;46675343]What is it you're re-spinning? what fish are like? or is it really obviously referencing something and I've missed it[/QUOTE]
i think it's majoras mask
[editline]9th December 2014[/editline]
thats the zelda with the cool moon right
Making Christmas Cards in my spare time at work. Idea blatantly stolen from Nychos The Weird. The slicing stuff...
[t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/32719274/merry-christmas.png[/t]
[editline]yeah[/editline]
Yeah. Empty Space. Get a load of that
also WIP! WOOP WOOP!
[IMG]http://i.imgbox.com/LQMb4Cp7.jpg[/IMG]
a ~15 minute doodle made during class
[IMG]http://i.cubeupload.com/AG6Xxh.png[/IMG]
So over the past few days at work, I've been working on a little scale model of a shop front in my free time. It's about 20cms tall. Orinally I used to make thse quite a lot at college as I took a course in technical theatre arts, so it was a nice change to get back into modelmaking.
It's made from 1250GSM card, MDF base, 3mm acrylic (for the window) and I the floorboards are just wooden glue sticks I found kicking around the workshop. I'm not too happy about the overal finish as I was clearly over-generous with the button polish. You can see where it's starting to melt the paint at the top, but oh well...
[thumb]http://i.imgur.com/5kcyXwz.jpg[/thumb]
How do I learn drawing stuff with an actual meaning?
Last two days I have drawn these two sketches while sitting at school
This at Probability, Statistics and Theory of Information lecture
[t]http://sinus.cz/~milan/windy_place.jpg[/t]
And this at Business Economy exercise
[t]http://sinus.cz/~milan/the_capitalist_nightmare.jpg[/t]
Like, in the second case, the class I was on was actually relevant to what I drew because, I honestly hate the class and hate the exercise lead and he gave me 0.5 point score on 20 point test (I admit I wasn't really well prepared but STILL, it's annoying), and even besides that, economy irks me in general so whatever the fuck.
The issue is that both of these happened more or less spontaneously and what's worst, they weren't really anything specific until later on while I was drawing them. This was more of the case with the first - I was actually thinking about drawing a lighthouse at first, started with shape of the column, then thought that the faux atomic oribts are neat as shit so I added these, and it wasn't going to be a person at all until I decided to add the wings as very last thing.
The second, I went into "lets do something easy, lets draw a piggy bank". I laid down the general shape, the oval legs, and when I started putting down the line for the leg (while fuming about my abysmal economy class performance), I told myself AH FUCK IT and you see the result of that.
I am just completely horrible at drawing something with clear aim from the start. The only times I am capable of drawing something that's remotely aesthetically passable (are these? I honestly don't know), it has to be random mess like these.
[editline]10th December 2014[/editline]
tl:dr/rephrasing: I love to draw and want to draw but I have next to no control over what am I actually going to draw
i painted a thing and i didn't rape it with chromatic abberation
[t]http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2014/344/b/2/tf2_sniper_by_jerichorus-d89dv8q.png[/t]
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;46685047]
tl:dr/rephrasing: I love to draw and want to draw but I have next to no control over what am I actually going to draw[/QUOTE]
Well you need to improve your visual memory and your strength of imagination to get to a point where you can plan something to draw and then draw it to reasonable accuracy according to what's in your head. if you study a whole fucking lot and draw constantly and continually test your comfort zone these things gradually start to happen. Your knowledge growing means your imagination will fill things out for you more easily, you'll be able to glean more from scenes and characters that you're just picturing, and you can take note of shapes in the things you're picturing better. you really rely on remembering the shapes and general proportions of what's in your head, because the mind's eye is as much a sense memory/sense building tool as it is a visual one (in fact it's a really inefficient tool in a purely visual sense, because you can't hold a clean picture for more than a fraction of a second). besides which it's not going to be clean - you can probably imagine let's say mickey mouse in a walk cycle or bugs bunny chewing a carrot and it seems absolutely perfect from what you can see in flashes, but your mind's eye fills in and approximates all of the details that you don't actually know to make a complete picture for you. Although you can see bugs bunny no problem, you probably couldn't draw him to any sort of degree of accuracy to the real design because you don't actually know the proper size of his feet, the shape of his eyes, how his chest is drawn, perhaps how many fingers he has etc.
the picture in your head seems clearly defined but it's your sense of the character that accounts for most of what you see - we don't all have total visual recall even for things we're familiar with. Even if you selectively imagine just his face close-up because you want to know what his eyes are like - it won't work (unless you study a picture beforehand and recall from that). if you took a photograph from something in your mind's eye it would likely be an incomprehensibly blurred, coloured and fractured image. as I said you can improve this picture by studying your subject, but if it's an original landscape or character or object or what have you, you can't do that. So you rely on taking from your mind picture the overall shapes, the negative shapes, silhouettes, the proportions of all of these things to each other. if you can get down a shakily accurate sketch of the shapes, the zones of your artwork that you want to make, your imagination will then have something more to build on when you stare at what you've got. you can fill in linework with your mind's eye instead of just freeform imagining so to speak.
so from where you are, getting closer to doing planned pieces from your head is a case of doing boring stuff to just improve your overall art level. Gaining strong observational drawing skills should be your priority so you're accustomed to [I]seeing[/I] well. if you look at complex things in life and you break them down into simpler areas and take in relativity and proportion without having to think about it because you've drilled observational drawing practice into your skull so thoroughly, you can start to do the same with complex things from your head. then obv. you'll have to start studying the rest of what's missing from your arsenal, perspective, light, colour, design, blah blah.
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