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I haven't posted here in god knows how long, regressed to lurking for a good bit of time.
just wanted to dump some stuff for viewing and critique.
1) some photomanipulation
2) some anime, lol
3) hairy arms?
4) environment
5) character concepts
6) iono, a priest?
7) its a...monster...2headed...thing
these were all done a varying times, but its all i've got on hand at the moment so, sorry for the lack of consistancy. anyways, crit away, there are a vast number of issues in each peice that begs to be pointed to and laughed at.
just wanted to dump some stuff for viewing and critique.
1) some photomanipulation
2) some anime, lol
3) hairy arms?
4) environment
5) character concepts
6) iono, a priest?
7) its a...monster...2headed...thing
these were all done a varying times, but its all i've got on hand at the moment so, sorry for the lack of consistancy. anyways, crit away, there are a vast number of issues in each peice that begs to be pointed to and laughed at.
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As to your anime drawings...I like them. A lot. I think they work pretty well because you seem to have developed a pretty solid basic understanding of human anatomy and figure drawing before you started trying to draw "anime" (unlike a lot of people who post anime style stuff here, who try to do it the other way around). I'm honestly looking at those drawings trying to find something about them to pick on...and I'm not coming up with anything. Maybe something will jump out at someone else on here. Really nice work, keep it up!
I think it's perfectly fine to post them...I just think it's pretty difficult to critique them, since it isn't really supposed to look like anything specific. I suppose someone could make a critique based on whether they find it aesthetically pleasing or not...but that's completely subjective. Personally, I think it looks kind of cool. But there's absolutely no suggestion I could make in terms of how to improve it at all.
The thing I have to say you may already know and practice (I can see at least the beginnings of it in some of the posted work). There is one problem with anime and that is that it tends to stiffen up the characters. There's nothing really there to crit about your work so I would say take it to the next level. Put them in different poses. I don't mean the common and cheesy brooding or prepared for action poses either. I mean simple things like standing, walking, hailing a cab, regular every day poses. These would go alongside your concept drawings. Really break down the construction of your characters. Front, back, 3/4, every angle and every detail. It's the ability to do that that transforms your work from drawings into actual believable characters that can be moved around in space.
Of course none of that is really necessary. Something like that is more aimed at animation or a comic/series where you have to move the characters around. If it's just a drawing then theres no need to go into such detail. I just bring it up because I saw you labled some of them as concept drawings so I figured that maybe you would want to take some of your work and develope it more.
Sometimes your hatching gets a little distracting on the pencil stuff. Maybe try to smooth it out a little bit with the flat side of the pencil?
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but i should probably invest in some...or get real pencils.
oh who am i kidding, im not buying real pencils.
carmofin - dont do that, he wouldn't appreciate it. :P
You have to hold a mechanical pencil in a writing grip though, since trying to shade with the 'side' of a 0.5 mm lead is kinda rough, and that means you're drawing with little flicks of your wrist instead of your hole arm.
So there's that and also putting little indents into your page since the pressure from a mechanical lead is so much more focused than that of a wooden pencil. It gets in the way if you're trying to ink/scan, if you get too carried away with it it'll also disrupt and solid pencil shading around it.
must find some real pencils...somewhere
anyone know some korean? i'm stuck in ktown for another month for an internship and i don't know the word for "pencil"
They do make mechanical pencils with lead sizes other than just .5mm. A 2mm mechanical pencil gives you pretty much the same effect as a wooden pencil. But frankly, I've never really had a problem shading even with a .5mm lead. In fact, typically when I draw with a .5, I usually always have one side of the lead nice and flattened out (I actually do that to keep the point of the pencil nice and razor sharp...but it has the nice side effect of giving me a flat side to shade with too, if I so choose). I haven't found much of a problem with the lead indenting the page either...maybe I just have a light touch (I'm guessing that's the case, since I also don't have a problem with the .5 leads breaking on me, whereas some people simply can't use a .5 lead because they break it constantly).
I think it really depends on the type of drawing you're doing. If it's kind of a cartoony or comic book style, then I think the thin mechanical leads work well. You wouldn't do a lot real "shading" with that kind of work (since, if it's going to be inked, all those different values you can achieve with a pencil will be lost in the inking anyway)...you'd be more likely to use some sort of cross-hatching or stippling technique for shading...which a mechanical pencil is fine for.
But if you were trying to do a more photo-realistic life drawing, then a wooden pencil or 2mm mechanical would probably be a better choice.
Lol, sorry. The bottom line is you should probably experiment with a variety of different tools and find out what works best for you. That's the great thing about art; there isn't necessarily one "right" way of doing anything. Don't think that you have to use a certain type of pen or pencil, or a certain shading technique, or whatever, just because that's what some other artist uses.
Heh, absolutely. Draw what makes you happy. It's very important to enjoy what you're doing when it comes to art. 8-)
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