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Ok.. sooo I decided to mix a few things I have learnt since joing the forum and some of the things Scos has said in his previous post about lining things up etc.
To help me with this one I worked on the 'right brain principle' to start with drawing the image upside down until i was happy with the position of the shapes. I did find this helped me see lines more clearly and position on the page but I was unable to really put in detail while it was upside down. So yeah then I flipped it the right way, finished it off and then added a little more with the horizontals flipped just to get that third 'look' on what I was drawing. I am also trying to use as bigger brush as possible. This drawing took me maybe just over an hour.
I chose to do the werewolf off underworld for a few reasons, one is that the colour pallet isn't huge and I don't think i have the colours down and also it was a high contrast drawing which made it easier to see the shapes involved. Unlike the Pulp Fiction one I spent a bit more time laying out the drawing before even attempting detail
I think the results are pritty good but as usual I would love for criticism. I know I have a long way to go before I am good and I am using every push you guys give me to help me get there:) I appreciate you guys on this forum allot
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Here is the underworld poster I just drew. Took just over an hour again. Do you think its getting muddy again? I kind of found this brush that I like with low flow but it makes the edges a little umm rough.
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My drawing
lol lol lol I just noticed that I have made her fatter, lowered her knee on the right and stuff. Quick call Jenny Craig
I used a few different reference photos to try to get the perspective right. The forshortening is really hard and I know I dont have the hands right yet. I am going to find and do a study on hands I think because I have so much trouble. So.. I tried to keep the light source consistant for this drawing. Can I please get a critique.
Thanks
Dom
Right now, it seems like the girl's head is HUGE rather than coming towards us. You said you used several pictures for reference- that might be the problem if you started combining perspectives from one picture to the other.
Post your reference to make it easier to work this out.
ok silly question but how would you use perspective lines on this? im familier with like 2 point perspective drawings and one point with buildings and landscapes. Would i put the point like above the head and work as a triangle down ?
Ill give it my best shot hahha
*EDIT*
ok I made the legs smaller and changed the angle on them a little more then made them a little lighter to take the eyes off them.
mmm its on its way. I think ill come back to this one another day. I have to get cracking on my flash website so I can get a job haha
Still dont understand how to do perspective properly on a person. I think I am going to have to look this one up.
For example, you could imagine the whole torso to be a cylinder, then apply the proper perspective/foreshortening to the cylinder, and re apply the details of the musculature. Same applies with appendages.
Try finding a copy of Imagine FX magazine, there's a few places around Adelaide that stock it. The current issue has a pretty good tutorial on the arm that will give you a better idea of how to apply perspective to body parts. It's $20 an issue, but it's usually worth the money.
*things I've noticed I will fix*
Girl is missing her index finger. loll.. funny that no one has noticed that and the dragons wing seems to of ended up upside down sort of thing.. i was trying to move it out of the way of the baby but it has ended up bad so I am going to angle it down. I kind of like the dog look to the face of it but it has been sugested that maybe I make it look more evil and make the rattle i have put as its tail like a rattle snake more obvious, maybe even have the babies arm reaching out to it.
Here is my revision of this dragon drawing as well as colouring it and fixing a few things that I thought was wrong with it.
Critiques please. I think I'm improving in general and I wanted to try the use of colour in this one and hopefully get it in the most part right. I probably shouldnt of chosen a sunset as it made the colours harder but yahh.
mm thanks Ill find some tutes and do some studies. The baby and dragon are ment to be like on a ledge or an outcrop and everything else is spost to be in the far distance... mm the angle of the outcrop I think shows the background should be allot higher and less sky. I wont touch it I guess until I do some tutes
I would suggest using larger more opaque brushes
Using stamp brushes is fine, but the way youve used that grass brush isnt working. Think of the grass in terms of a big shape and then use the stamp to pop in a few details where necessary.
As ken mentioned, the grass brush is not working. Stay away from specialized fancy brushes like that until you know how to use them properly. You don't yet.
The color is still all off. I again recommend you hold back on color until you have a better grasp of values. Even astute colors choices laid atop bad values will look off, bad colors on bad values just ends up being indecipherable.
The anatomy on that creature is a mess, further aggravated by you not fully understanding how the light is hitting it, and I think you yourself probably are not totally clear on the creature design. It looks sort of silly anyway, like some kind of cobra with smokey the fire-prevention bear's face. I don't know if it's your intention, but all your dragons look a little goofy, one on the last page being decidedly pig-like.
The baby isn't convincing either, it looks like a doll, and actually is pretty creepy.
Have you been doing any life drawing lately?
I think I agree with both you and Kendeathwalker on the stamp brush situation. I tried to add it in to add the detail of the grass and save time but it was always going to be a shortcut. Ill try for a more straight look with maybe a few toughs of grass.
I agree with this comment but I have trouble getting the true values out with just black and white. Everything doesn't stand out and look like it belongs to each other. Like the tail in the black and white didn't look like it belonged to the dragon in the first place. The colour kind of allowed the viewer to realise it was part of the dragon. But maybe it shouldn't need that which is the anatomy point you were making.
Light- I kind of agree- I tried to make it simple and make it come from one direction and I think in most part the lighting is corrrect. I know the colours make it hard but could you give me more info on where lighting looks wrong?.
As for the 'silly' dragons - yes i do that on purpose. I dont try for a Jurassic park scary look. I want my own sort of style and I did add a goofy sort of nose to this dragon on purpose just to see what would happen. How it would look and if something with a silly nose could still be made to have a sort of evil character. Its in the nose mostly as I make them round rather than more reptile, I get that but as i said that is a choice I make. I am intent on trying for a more realistic look now though. By realistic i mean more Jurrasic park dinosaur look rather than something with a lion/dogs sort of nose. There are lots of myths with dragons such as eagle claws, snakes eyes, lions mouth etc and I like to have fun with that in drawing my dragons.
No - I haven't done 'any' true life drawing and I am still looking for classes in Adelaide, night courses preferably if anyone knows of any? I have to say I really want this as my profession, I'm not ready to give up yet and I am willing to wait a few years as I really only just started to draw about 6 months ago but I am getting to the point that I think I need to do something else until I get a job in this. Trouble is I am an all-rounder and have never specialized in anything really and it makes it hard...
If any of you have any information for me that may help, I understand that feedback is help but I mean in terms of career goals, steps and progressions I should be taking all would be really good. Even just a chat to someone about it all could answer some questions.
Thanks again for the feedback guys. It can hit deep sometimes but it is all positive and helping me get better and I need allot of improvement to cut the mustard...
I've never really done a cityscape before and I wanted to give it a shot
Some really good stuff. Nice tonal studies overall. That latest one is looking good so far. I think you should change the composition of the image to be a little more wider. The pic seems to enclosed. Its like watching old VHS movies. Compared to DVD widescreen films, going back to VHS seems so tight.
E.g.
Also, check out DesperateRobots thread. He knows how to set up good, interesting compositions. really inspiring i think. (BTW, i'm not trying to kiss ass here)
In the mean time I've been practicing drawing female legs lol.. one body part at a time
Kinda NSFW but there isnt any anatomy parts
Here is an old drawing of mine that I am currently fixing, making less blury and hopefully allot better. Sugestions, critiques all good at this point. Im thinking maybe a wider canvas might be in call... ?
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Thanks mate, Yeah The image is based on an original manga sort of drawing so I guess the body shape is based more off a cartoon. I couldnt get my head around the body as I started off doing a sort of cartoon look and then I reverted back to more realistic for the face so I started going back over the body... bah.. I can see she doesnt have ribs now haha and i agree. breasts are wayyy to round and big really :S
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Given her some ribs as well as fixed some proportion issues. Still not quite there