Shit man. Who needs references when you have your mad skills? My work is nothing close to yours, makes me feel really bad considering I'm the same age.
Everyone learns at a different rate, I was just blessed enough to have an artistic family whose talents passed into me. References are vital for creating proper technique, something I seriously lack on.
You should try charcoal drawing. And it would be nice to see some sort of line value implemented, instead of just shading, it makes your drawing lack depth. Anyways pro shit etc good job etc.
i would die for 1/256th of your talent
[QUOTE=BISCUIT_TINS;28387801]i would die for 1/256th of your talent[/QUOTE]
uh okay lol
What I have is talent, not skill. Talent is the natural inclination towards some ability, while skill is ability to do it properly with technique. Currently the way I draw is horribly inefficient and lacks any technique what so ever, and my hope is that once I get out of high school I can join some art school that will actually give me the skills I sorely need.
[QUOTE=1chains1;28441633]What I have is talent, not skill. Talent is the natural inclination towards some ability, while skill is ability to do it properly with technique. Currently the way I draw is horribly inefficient and lacks any technique what so ever, and my hope is that once I get out of high school I can join some art school that will actually give me the skills I sorely need.[/QUOTE]
What you need to learn is balance in details and cloth. You detail to the point where it stops losing form and visibility and just becomes one big detailed clusterfuck (which is awesome in it's own way, but clearly not as aesthetically pleasing or impactful). The details overrides the details making the details not become details at all since everything is details. You need larger areas that rather define the form and shape through lack of details rather than sketch shade it in like everything else.
And your clothes... Don't look like clothes at all. The soldier for example looks like he have a tree with giant veins when you look at it right.
[QUOTE=BISCUIT_TINS;28387801]i would die for 1/256th of your talent[/QUOTE]
Whats the point of having his skills when you are dead?
[QUOTE=1chains1;28441633]What I have is talent, not skill. Talent is the natural inclination towards some ability, while skill is ability to do it properly with technique. Currently the way I draw is horribly inefficient and lacks any technique what so ever, and my hope is that once I get out of high school I can join some art school that will actually give me the skills I sorely need.[/QUOTE]
You could get a Job as that guy at a Game Development Studio who gets paid buckets of money to do cool concept art.
[QUOTE=dgg;28441723]What you need to learn is balance in details and cloth. You detail to the point where it stops losing form and visibility and just becomes one big detailed clusterfuck (which is awesome in it's own way, but clearly not as aesthetically pleasing or impactful). The details overrides the details making the details not become details at all since everything is details. You need larger areas that rather define the form and shape through lack of details rather than sketch shade it in like everything else.
And your clothes... Don't look like clothes at all. The soldier for example looks like he have a tree with giant veins when you look at it right.[/QUOTE]
Yea I totally understand what you mean, I have some kind of weird thing where I hate blank spaces on my drawings. I shade it and it looks good then I think " well this can be better here" and I focus so much on it that I forget about the picture in whole. Also I can totally see the tree thing, you mean on his arm closest to the screen.
Use the schools scanner, I'm sure they have one SOMEWHERE.
[QUOTE=Chickens!;28441848]You could get a Job as that guy at a Game Development Studio who gets paid buckets of money to do cool concept art.[/QUOTE]
Buckets of money in the art dept of game studios usually go for art directors, not concept artists.
Buy a scanner.
Mods should update title to I have a scanner.
I'd pay you to teach me to draw so well.
Wooooow. Impressive stuff.. I can't even get straight anatomy with fucking cross paper, god damn. Thats talent. Respect dude.
I can't seem to find the tablet mega thread so I will just present the question here; what tablet should I get?
I want to get more into the digital medium as I love painting but I simply dont have the resources or money to paint. Therefore in the long run this tablet will save me a lot of money, something that we can all agree is a good thing.
I currently have been doing my digital works previously posted with a tablet that came in anime studio 5, which I got when I was like 13. The program is designed for youths interested in digital art, so needless to say drawing with this tablet has been like using a blunt rock to paint the mona lisa. There is no pressure sensitivity or any other features, so no form of work flow can be created, and things as simple as line weights take hours to do.
This is obviously cramping my ability to transfer the artistic skills I have with traditional mediums and putting a major handicap on what I could create.
So fellow artists, what are my options for a great performing tablet that is of a reasonable (not cheap, but not the most expensive thing out there) price?
[QUOTE=1chains1;20157168]Oh god I was high and had an hour of free time plus a mirror...:downs:
[img_thumb]http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn229/1chains1/100_6959-1.jpg[/img_thumb][/QUOTE]
What did you use to draw this?
Water color on printer paper
[QUOTE=1chains1;28693225]I can't seem to find the tablet mega thread so I will just present the question here; what tablet should I get?
I want to get more into the digital medium as I love painting but I simply dont have the resources or money to paint. Therefore in the long run this tablet will save me a lot of money, something that we can all agree is a good thing.
I currently have been doing my digital works previously posted with a tablet that came in anime studio 5, which I got when I was like 13. The program is designed for youths interested in digital art, so needless to say drawing with this tablet has been like using a blunt rock to paint the mona lisa. There is no pressure sensitivity or any other features, so no form of work flow can be created, and things as simple as line weights take hours to do.
This is obviously cramping my ability to transfer the artistic skills I have with traditional mediums and putting a major handicap on what I could create.
So fellow artists, what are my options for a great performing tablet that is of a reasonable (not cheap, but not the most expensive thing out there) price?[/QUOTE]
If you're really serious about digital painting I'd reccomend an Intuos4.
Not too cheap but it's worth it.
[editline]20th March 2011[/editline]
probably the proest tablet there is
[editline]20th March 2011[/editline]
If you don't count the cintiq
Thanks, there is no problem with the tablet being a bit pricey as my birthday is coming up, so I plan to use that as a means to an end. (Rich lawyer uncle who has no kids; score.)
I'd say go for the I3, I'm sure you could still find some cheap ones out there, and having two touch strips imo works better than switching in between one constantly. Also the fact that with a ring you have to slide your finger around to get a response, while with the strips you can just tap if you want and you don't have to actually slide your finger.. Dunno, just these small things which save milliseconds I feel make me not want to upgrade to an I4 and keep my I3.
I know exactly what you mean, I still work with photoshop cs3 just because I enjoy the layout better and I dont want to be uprooted for some unneeded extra features.
I can't live without CS5
the upgraded stuff is the shit I was annoyed at in CS3.
Welp, everyone seems to be starting sketchbooks so I will revive mine and see how well it does.
Digital stuff:
[img]http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn229/1chains1/coffeee-6-1.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn229/1chains1/schematic2-1.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn229/1chains1/schematic1-1.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn229/1chains1/prototype1render-1.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn229/1chains1/prototype1render-2-1.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn229/1chains1/prototype2-1.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn229/1chains1/talk_sketch-3.png[/img]
[img]http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn229/1chains1/posterplan-2.png[/img]
[img]http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn229/1chains1/cowwithexplanation.png[/img]
Pencil:
[img]http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn229/1chains1/Img_0465-1.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn229/1chains1/Img_0464-1.jpg[/img]
Watercolor:
[img]http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn229/1chains1/Img_0209.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn229/1chains1/Img_0214.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn229/1chains1/IMG_0652.jpg[/img]
Acrylic:
[img]http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn229/1chains1/Img_0462.jpg[/img]
Process of how I do acrylic:
First I sketch out the painting using a regular #2 pencil, this part to me is the most important as I set up the composition, lighting and pretty much the entire mood of the painting before even a drop is applied. I work in two values, gray and white to set up lighting, I pretty much use very loose hatching to make the shading and then apply line weights to define things closer and further from the canvas.
At this point I take a small bit of black acrylic paint and begin to color over the gray areas, blocking in my shadows. As I use the black on my brush, it becomes thinner and thinner giving me lighter and lighter shades allowing me to create some basic blending into the white of the canvas.
[img]http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn229/1chains1/Picture090.jpg[/img]
At this point I begin to mix my black and white acrylic to get varying shades of gray to smooth out the transition from shadow to light. In shadow details and lines are more blurred and to create this softness I will often drip my brush in some water to make my acrylic extremely thin so it acts as a glaze and creates a soft transition. Do not use this often though as while it creates some nice blending it also makes the areas muddy and less defined. I begin adding in light grays and white paint where canvas had previously been, always cover your canvas even if the white looks good and pure from it not being painted, replicate that with the white paint.
[img]http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn229/1chains1/Picture093-1.jpg[/img]
Now I continue to block in the background, making sure the things in the foreground contrast with things further back to make them move forward in the piece. (For example the antler near the bottom of the canvas has an almost pure white value to make it pop from the black background and look further forward then the actual skull) Continue to refine edges and smooth out transitions and overall focus on rendering. I used a medium size square brush for the entire painting, to get sharp edges barely dip your brush into the paint (white or a varying shade of gray depending on what edge youre defining) and use one of the corners of the brush to lightly push the paint along the outline.
This is not 100% done but it still gets across what I did (I just have to finish up defining the flowers).
[img]http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn229/1chains1/Picture096-1.jpg[/img]
Welp, teacher tells me today that I need another acrylic painting of the same standard as the one I posted above by thursday.
Challenge accepted, hour and a half of work today, decided to focus on brush economy and block it out.
Wooo more shitty webcam shots, you even get my finger in there!
[img]http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn229/1chains1/Picture106.jpg[/img]
really love the pen and watercolour things
Blocking in shapes for the fruit, working a bit on rendering the skull more, the webcam keeps whiting out my light grey values though.
[img]http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn229/1chains1/Picture119.jpg[/img]
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