Sometimes I feel like I didn't make any progress at all after giving myself a task of drawing something.
[editline]13th March 2013[/editline]
[QUOTE=Biscuit-Boy;39901265]Years and years of practice.[/QUOTE]
but what does practice improve?
I mean I just sit and go "yeah this looks wrong, nevermind", I don't see a mistake and fix it, I just stop drawing.
[QUOTE=Jericho_Rus;39901274]Sometimes I feel like I didn't make any progress at all after giving myself a task of drawing something.
[editline]13th March 2013[/editline]
but what does practice improve?
I mean I just sit and go "yeah this looks wrong, nevermind", I don't see a mistake and fix it, I just stop drawing.[/QUOTE]
I have the same problem. This applies to almost anything, you need to accept the fact that when you are starting something new you are going to suck for a long time and just try and push through it instead of giving up.
[QUOTE=Jericho_Rus;39901246]How do you people do it? I cannot draw anything from imagination, and I mean [B]anything[/B].
Copy stuff using reference? No big deal. But even after envisioning the thing I want to do, I just fail somehow, it feels and looks wrong right from the start.[/QUOTE]
Man to be honest with you. I don't fucking know how. I just start with weird scrabbles and all, and eventually I start seeing stuff in those scrabbles. I really never have an idea of what I want to draw when I start working on a design. I might have some keywords that I write down but that's it. (And I rarely write down keywords.) Seeing things (And imagining things) has to become second nature.
I tend to work with silhouettes first instead of actually doing the line-art. And mostly I don't even do the line art of it at all, I start working from a silhouette and add values and more complex forms to it. I suppose it's a technique and a way of thinking that changes your perspective on art entirely. Working with silhouettes makes things so undefined yet completely defined. But by using this way of thinking and technique to design, you have to practise a lot (but in a different way, observation is very important too.) and expand your visual library to see things in those brush strokes and blobs you make. Learn to see things in blobs and lines and start designing stuff out of that. You can always add in simple line art later to indicate what you want to add to the drawing.
If you want to get into design and improve your imaginative drawings I'd recommend looking at Sinix's Design lab on youtube, it's a good start.
I don't know if that makes any sense at all, but it does to me.
[QUOTE=Jericho_Rus;39901274]Sometimes I feel like I didn't make any progress at all after giving myself a task of drawing something.
[editline]13th March 2013[/editline]
but what does practice improve?
I mean I just sit and go "yeah this looks wrong, nevermind", I don't see a mistake and fix it, I just stop drawing.[/QUOTE]
If you keep on drawing and constantly look at what you are doing with a critical mind and fixing the errors then you will get better. Draw from mind after doing studies. Compare yourself with more skilled artists as well as real life, and you will find errors.
Most important is to not give up, give up and you fail at what you set out to accomplish.
[QUOTE=Rusty100;39899187]not necessarily. ur assuming the spout is straight
[img]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1482927/dargonpot.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
...I kind of wish that I had thought of that, or that it was workable. As D3TBS noted, you can't fill it [i]all[/i] the way up since the tube is more or less straight, but you can still fill it up farther than you might expect by looking at that, I think. Not by much, but still.
I have a feeling the tail's not as strong as I hope though, so I think this is going to be consigned to being a decorative piece.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/mMVIkoV.png[/img]
I love how the "kid" grows a mustache. Wonderful work! Keep it going!
[QUOTE=antianan;39904050][IMG]http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2013/072/2/0/recon_by_skoparov-d5xxqmm.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
^
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i'd trow money at you.
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Some 2bit stuff,
[IMG]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/34397004/Node/twobites.png[/IMG]
And something looks delicious, probably some of the art on this board.
[IMG]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/34397004/Node/nomm.png[/IMG]
//btw, this isn't me throwing stuff out of my archive, i do art to procrastinate, i make too much, but still delete 90%, :S
[QUOTE=Ganerumo;39899075][img]http://i.imgur.com/HBms5gZ.png[/img]
Paint tool SAI is great.[/QUOTE]
crank up the opacity on your lines
Did anyone sign up for the [url]http://www.redbullcollectiveart.com[/url] ? I signed up for tomorrow morning shit, I'm gonna try to do a painting or something
[img]http://www11.mediafire.com/convkey/ad7f/ccjbo9llsmsumk1fg.jpg[/img]
Robot design, going to try to make a 3d model of it later.
God this took way longer than expected
[IMG]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/4565878/sealpaw/16.png[/IMG]
quick sketchbook paintings
my friend at the beach, 45 minutes
limited palette: Ultramarine blue, burnt sienna, white
[img]http://i.imgur.com/k67kIk9.jpg?1[/img]
warm up paintings, 5 minutes for the faces, 20 for the still life.
limited palettes: UB, BS, TW, and Zorn Palette for still life
[img]http://i.imgur.com/RrpTRez.jpg?1[/img]
and a cowboy scene still in progress from wyeth, Idk if i've posted so here goes oh well.
ivory black and titanium white
[img]http://i.imgur.com/9tUcpIn.jpg?1[/img]
[QUOTE=antianan;39904050][IMG]http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2013/072/2/0/recon_by_skoparov-d5xxqmm.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
His legs are very strange but the gun looks amazing
That hue is great too
Missing Nemo – An Elegy for a recently lost friend.
In recent memory, the most poignant pain I know
Is the loss of a dog which loved me so.
Nemo was his name; he wasn't too bright.
But what wasn't trite was his love for all
Of everyone willing to put up with his plight.
Though he was avoided by most of my family,
He pined for each of us and loved all equally.
He bounded around our feet happily,
Showering us with his love in ways most salivary.
A speeding white bullet, rocketing in circles around your legs
- Though it might seem an annoyance;
It is for anybody’s love that he begs.
My family began to take on patterns of avoidance,
Citing his unending affection and his loving flamboyance.
He was a friend to this stranded, suburban young man;
A dog with never ending hope for when I lost sight of the plan.
Once rejected from the home across the street, his story with us began
And wound through my life, draining it of strife; my emotional handyman.
Now, my backyard is empty and barren
Jude, my other dog, is still there but she is aging
No longer does a small white dog with a fiery passion
Fight for my love as if he is fighting a dragon.
My lap is empty when I go out on to the patio to smoke
The lack of his warmth turns a refreshing puff into a strangled choke
My family can hardly understand, all they do is gawk
Their platitudes fall on my ears as a toneless squawk.
My family can hardly comfort me, they have nothing to say.
All they want to do is move on, with not a single fret given that day.
I took a few long walks, calling his name and whistling to no avail
And when I returned home my sister said I looked awfully pale.
They assure me he was taken in, that he is in loving arms
But where they see a world of likely safety I see him out of chances,
Starving, and bewildered at his circumstances.
An animal I have come to identify as a friend,
Just wandering until he comes to his untimely end.
He exited our family the same way he entered,
And the time we shared shall be cherished and remembered.
[IMG]http://filesmelt.com/dl/Photo05912.jpg[/IMG]
[QUOTE=Lilyo;39906804]Did anyone sign up for the [url]http://www.redbullcollectiveart.com[/url] ? I signed up for tomorrow morning shit, I'm gonna try to do a painting or something[/QUOTE]
Mines this sunday. Still dont know what Im gonna do, dont really have a scanner or printer around, so Id have to do it digitally or take pictures as a scanner
[QUOTE=MakoSkyDub;39909214]His legs are very strange but the gun looks amazing
That hue is great too[/QUOTE]
Thanks. Yeah, they are too thin, I can see it now. I'm going to paint this guy, so I think I'll fix his legs and a few more things I don't like.
[QUOTE=D3TBS;39910062]Mines this sunday. Still dont know what Im gonna do, dont really have a scanner or printer around, so Id have to do it digitally or take pictures as a scanner[/QUOTE]
Well I wasn't able to log in at first cause facebook is blocked at school and then when I managed to do it it didn't let my download the template for some reason so I made a new account and I'm doing it at the same time next week I guess... we have 4 hours apparently. I don't really understand how it works though, are there judges that determine which person gets the spot or what?
[IMG]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/34397004/Node/TheCloud.png[/IMG]
The Cloud.
[IMG]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/49828537/paints/pathwaysee.jpg[/IMG]
I dont know...
[QUOTE=cepink;39906265][IMG]http://i564.photobucket.com/albums/ss81/cepink_photo/desertPB_zpsbfbd9d34.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
Holy shit man, i cant look at this picture and sit still!
It's just so much VROOM! WOOSH!
[QUOTE=kepper;39895006]Hnnng. So much green.
[img]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/30622781/wayklind%20home_2.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
I like your grass but the speculars on the tree are too white somehow.
Got very bored of doing simple compositions with a big, high-contrast primary object in a pretty bland scene - decided to go for a really complex backdrop to get over this fear of clutter.
[IMG]http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2013/073/4/1/composition_practice_by_zacharyhogan-d5y1vao.jpg[/IMG]
Perspective is a bit wonky in places - originally it had a really extreme three point perspective with the vertical vanishing point way too close, and I was really confused as to why the buildings joined the floor at a really weird angle. Reworked it and hopefully it doesn't throw the image off too much now
your most impressive work so far.
I'm also realising that because I don't work at standard zoom levels, when I resize to 900 wide the image looks way sharper than I'd anticipated - areas that looked as though I'd rendered them quite softly just look sharp as hell
[editline]15th March 2013[/editline]
[QUOTE=MenteR;39916670]your most impressive work so far.[/QUOTE]
thanks!
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