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Painting and Practicing- dancers 1/20
lyrium
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Now that it's summer I actually have time to draw, and I'm very excited! I made a thread so that hopefully I can get some helpful feedback as I keep putting drawings in here.
Here are a few things so far:
I like summer
Here are a few things so far:
Spoiler:
I like summer
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Also, I spy my present in the lower right hand corner of the last one.
Does anyone have any suggestions of some useful studies I should do? I'm kind of just going off of what seems like a good idea to practice, but I would love to hear any input you have.
Let me know what you think.
As for interesting ways to practice. If i'm not mistaken, there are some great links to tutorials and info in the OP of the questions thread here.
Sorry lyrium, I don't have any worthwhile critiques, everything looks nice.
I don't care who is who as long as I get to [strike]sleep with Edward Norton[/strike] blow up buildings.
+10 points to gryffindor!
also, i just noticed the EM. Gist link in the OP was dead, but it's one of my favourite tutorials (because it neatly introduces 4 classic ways to draw). you can find it here
Today I felt like drawing some crabs. I may color the girl in the crab suit.
I also went back and replaced the other images with scans. If I'm going to make a sketchbook thread I may as well do it correctly
I might color these guys after work so they look a little more interesting.
http://kvitella.carbonmade.com
http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=91454
but for now I have them here in fabric! This is the finished quilt for the niece I'll have soon. I had help putting this together.
Oh, and I colored these guys a bit ago. They were in the doodle thread.
The quilt kept me busy so I haven't had much time to do a lot of drawing lately
on the kids it seems like you have trouble with the hands, feet, faces, and shading. the right feet on both kids are at weird angles, they dont look like they sit flat. your faces are also at weird angles like you have trouble drawing them, i say this because you can only see half of both of their faces.
i was going to suggest this before i saw these, but if you can you should try to practice drawing in the park or in a public place so you can draw some people or scenery. its fun to draw outside and it can help with shadows
your work is really good so its hard to judge it without sounding like a jerk
As far as hands and feet and faces go, those are definitely on the list of things to study
My dad wants me to do the image for the cover of his CD. These are just some quick ideas I got down.
The pencil idea:
Thinking about how I might do the lines in ink:
And a few sketches in paint:
(without the ink):
I also did this in photoshop so I could show him what it could look like if I did it digitally:
I'm glad you guys think the quilt is cute! Then my goal is achieved, because this is probably what my neice's response will be, too
....how horrible is that for a critique? Just fix it, somehow.
I think what I'm trying to say, if I am trying to actually say anything of worth, is that with the pencil variant, the linework is far more deft in it's delicate lines and it's powerful ones, mainly on the tree. When you're just inking, you're losing it because you're using just a flat black. Where as the pencil has dark and light lines, as well as thick and thin lines.
Let's see, for example he was saying that he really liked the way that these doodles I did with paint looked, and so that was kind of my basis for what I've shown him so far.
I've never really tried to do a nice looking finished piece like that before, though.
i wish i owned a scanner cause i do alot of ink doodles, to give you an example
if i was going to illustrate a CD cover i would research the the music content and try to make my art
similar to the style of the music
look for hidden meanings and metaphors to base your work on. it will make the whole project seem to flow coherently. do the same with the colors you pick
art is not only paintings but it can also be interperated in music and illustrations
I feel like I understand my dad's music pretty well. There aren't any lyrics, but I've been listening to him play my whole life so that helps. I'd need to be fricken Degas to paint something as pretty as his music though, haha. Here is what I ended up with, which I'm happy with because he really really liked it
In other news, I really haven't updated the thread in a while. Here are some things I've been up to, some of which were in the doodle thread.
I've also been working on hands and such, as per the suggestions given (which I am thankful for). I will post those once they are scanned.
Turns out I suck at hands
Not only because just looking at Bridgman sketches is pretty awesome, but also because he goes really, really indepth with every bone, muscle and.. I can't remember what I wanted to write there. But hey! Hands!
Yours aren't look too bad, but I'd suggest thinking about the segments of a finger rather than just the outline. How does it connect? Are the shapes really straight or are they bumpy? Are they bumpier where they connect?
The beauty of Bridgman (or any drawn reference, be it Loomis, Hogarth, Da Vinci etc) rather than referencing from even real life is that it really distills down what you need in a drawing to have stuff portrayed accurately. The 3d renders on that site simplify it a bit too much, so that they don't individually convey space or form, they just have it because, well, they're 3d. I'm rambling now, though. I'm not even sure that made sense.
Referencing from life is important, too, though. And hands are hard! Real hard! But if you get that book, you'll have so many "Oh, snap - That's awesome" moments.
i agree with what visti said about your hands looking like outlines and im not trying to create enemies here but you dont need a book to draw hands you have two perfectly goods ones already(i hope, sorry). i mean just draw with one hand and use the other as reference, same with feet. thats what i do if i have trouble drawing hands in specific angles.
you can even set up a light source if your inside.
i really like the fish composition as well was that photoshop?
Haha, don't worry I do indeed have two hands. Funny- I've drawn my feet before but found the hands to be a little trickier. Either way I definitely need a better reference than a clump of gray polygons, that's for sure.
I'm glad you like the fish. I drew him in pencil and then colored him in photoshop with a tablet.
Today I got some ideas down for my brother's logo.
Some more practice
I'll throw in the tag I made for Adam in the graffiti thread.
Those logos are pretty cool, I think I prefer the top right one. I would just tighten it up a bit and make the tail thin out more gradually instead of being pretty much all thin.
Those lips are really nice looking, I tried kissing the second one down from the top left but she moved at the last second and pecked my cheek.
Tease!
:^:
These are way tight.
For the facial features I've been drawing from photos I find on shutterstock.com, but sometimes it kind of sucks because the watermark is right over what I'm trying to draw. Does anyone have any suggestions for better reference sites?
When you're doing those studies, spend a little more time building up solid values- some parts look a little spotty.
As for references, I find that bing turns up pretty good results.