Sketches

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hey guys i'm 'fresh off the assembly line' new here. the name's ravi and i'm 18 from trinidad in the south caribbean. never taken my sketching very seriously until about 2 months ago. decided to start putting a little more effort into my pieces and also to begin collecting them.

heard this was a pretty cool place to get concrete critiques and advice for, well... art related things so i decided i would join.

here's two of my recent sketches in order of completion.

http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s113/trini-archer/04-01-2007102836PM.jpg

http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s113/trini-archer/04-16-2007065052PM.jpg

galen

Not bad, but kind of sloppy. Don't scribble as much, and I think your stuff would be a lot stronger.

Godfather

The second one.


That mouth is funky, almost like it's two sizes too big for the girl. Also, those fingers are looking flat because the outline shows up too much.

Scosglen

Protip: embed your images in your post with

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hey guys, thanks alot for the input.

galen: yeah i see what you're talkin about, the first one does look scratchy. i'll try to clean that up.

godfather: yeah i think i drew her face a bit narrow-ish :S and for sure i knew, even when i was doing it, that i'd rushed the hands.

scosglen: i actually thought she looked asian in the photo i'd done it from so that kinda played itself out though her eyes. just drawing what i felt. and yeah i guess i do draw out (maybe not every single) individual hair strands. but i try to do it with a soft lead so it spreads itself out and fills up the gaps. in the first drawing i only had an HB so it didn't come out as clean as i would've wanted it to.

these are the referances:

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some hands:

http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s113/trini-archer/04-12-2007085252PM.jpg

the image was huge so i linked it instead.

NeoRedXIII

You should still resize it.

Corgi

Photobucket does have a resizing option.

mr0range

yeah, you can't get any idea as to proportion or composition or pretty much anything when you can only look at 16% of the image at any one time.

Corgi

touche.

mr0range

I ... I think I was agreeing with resizing ... but I can see that being read differently.

Corgi

Eh, I probably just confused myself. :rotate:

The LittleMan In The Boat

I think it's kewl that you are getting back into art, any reason why the sudden interest?

I want to see what you can do with color. That's what I can never really get myself into. Black & White always feels save and easy.

<<< Just a loser I guess :P

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It's really just because I've never has the time in the past. Either that or I would dedicate it to something else [like counter-strike for instance ]