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micke
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Hi there, my first post and everything. I thought it might be time for me to show a few things I've drawn. Most of my friends don't draw at all and are all very impressed, while it's nice to be praised it isn't very helpful. So with no further due, please rip me a new one and explain how I can avoid it in the future :P
fist some pencil portraits of friends and family:
and now some CG also friends and family, OMG the SHOCKZORZ who could have inspired me?
enjoy, hopfully you like/hate them do comment.
When I read my own post I used the the really slow and softly talking guy in family guy 
fist some pencil portraits of friends and family:
and now some CG also friends and family, OMG the SHOCKZORZ who could have inspired me?
enjoy, hopfully you like/hate them do comment.
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Some anatomy hiccups here and there, but still good stuff. Keep on practicing.
Check out these, they will help
http://www.placidchaos.com/Loomis/Andrew%20Loomis.rar
Bombardier: Hm, true.
MagicToaster: Thanks, true.
Bread of wonder: You are on to something about the eyes, I do need to practice eyes more - haven’t gripped their glossy surface yet. In all but the last pencil I hade chosen blurry references, so that they would lack detail and I there fore would focus more on getting the proportions and positions of said details right. (Thank you AoB). But okay it is true that even with better references like the last one I still tend to use outlines.
Kewop Decam: thank you for the really nice books and the comment about how I draw hair; it has been bugging the hell out of me.
NibCrom: Funny you should mention the cartoony problem. I been drawing mostly cartoon style things lately and when I went back to pencil portraits, my damn brain wanted to flatten and stylize the first pencils.
also I innclude the reference for the bald guy for a question:
that the face is unproportional to the cranium isn't that had to see, what I am wondering about is his forehead. Clearly this guy is packin' quite the... what ever the bonepiece under the brow is called. But In my pencil it look even more exaggurated, could this be becasue his face is slightly leaned to the camera and i drew it in almost exact profile? and not shading the dent between the two brows thus makin him look like a cromagnon?
Also, I'll post again as soon as I have some improvement to show, this was very instructive
i realize that his head is tilted, but the eyes still seem smaller than they should be.
this website is great, it helped me out immensely: http://www.portrait-artist.org/face/index.html
i dropped this in ps and took like 10 min..its not great, but you can see how much the darker darks pump up the image.
Everything else you're doing looks good! I'm not a fan of the CG stuff, but your pencil work looks nice when you spend some time on it. NakedZergling is right about using greater contrast for your darks, the deeper the blacks the more dynamic range you'll have for drawing.
Step away from the window and go
Back to sleep
Safe from pain, and truth, and choice
and other poison devils
No they don't give a fuck about you
Like I do
It's a duck! Or is it a bunny?
Or is it Homestar Runner eating a banana?!
and how does she know where shes shooting?
Im guessing the character doesnt want to be shooting whatever its shooting but is doing it anyways...is that the explanation of the looking away?
And yeah, the coat covers many of the feminine lines, although I find the face kina feminine. The hair doesn’t help much to clarify the gender though.
Thanks for the comments.
I like that you tried to show the light from the blast reflecting off the figure. In the other sketch the female figure in the lower corner has a nice natural pose and good proportions. Keep it up.
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Also, try and explain the form by breaking it up into planes. For example, with the light source coming from the left as you have it, there should be clear shadows on the right half of all of the legs. Try and break up all of the shapes into light and shadow, so that it explains to the veiwer the three demensional shape of each.
Also, clean up your edges. Its hard to tell where some things start, and other things end. The candlestick and the bear start to bland into the chair a bit in some places. And the outside egde of the chair is just sloppy.
Hope that helps, and good luck with your portfolio!
The perspective of the legs looks a little funny. Im not sure why, but at the very least, mind you ellipses on the bottom of them. They dont look right. Having those ellipses drawn with more accuracy will help ground the chair better.
I'm not quite sure what's going on under the wiimote. it looks like its somehow being reflected in the chair. is there any reason for that light area bordering it on the left?
Your teddy is also looking very flat.
Well, I got in to art school, these ones plus a stileben an an interview at the shool made me pass!
And I would love to get some CnC on this one, I'm satisfied with most of it except her lips and my hand. As usual the hair could use some tuning aswell.
and the refference pic:
And the little tetrispiece is saying "Why do you hate me?"
Your paintings are looking fairly flat. Up those values!
I know it's cliche but you need to study more anatomy so you will really understand what is going on in the human form. There are quite a few anatomical mistakes.
I like the leaf hat guy.
Keep practicing!