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DreadedNodroG
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Oh, hey, Dread here. I have a deviantART profile, and I thought it would be cool to share this with you guys. As you can see, I make HL fan art, and the occasional TF2 art. I'm not a bad artist, but I can improve. Be warned though, I'm a female, and sometimes my art can be a little....uh...too cutesy. ;-)
Well, anyway, here's my art.
http://dreadednodrog.deviantart.com/
Well, anyway, here's my art.
http://dreadednodrog.deviantart.com/
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Hmm, what do you mean? O_o
Ooh, I just got Sam & Max 4! Still like "Hit the Road" more though. I have considered to go an art college after my final year, and then I could really perfect my skills!
Oh, be careful, my friend Tom aka Boopop likes me so do be careful!
P.S. I can do a really good GLaDOS impersonation.
My aggressive and coarse love tendril forces its way into your dry, stalagtite-filled flesh cavern as I recite Nathaniel Hawthorne to you. Does this excite you? y/n
What is your favorite Nathaniel Hawthorne work? This is crucial for us. I was considering The Marble Faun as a precursor. Do you have a leather mask?
Additionally:
Is your flesh:
a) supple
b) rough
c) oily
??
:shock:
3ds friend code: 2981-6032-4118
Ne ways, about your art, dread, although I never was a fan of using colored pencils, I have seen some great work by talented artist who have manage to create a vast color palate by mixing just red, green, and yellow colored pencils. So if your gonna stick with that medium, I'd suggest you study how such artist can generate such color, and how to mix them to creating proper levels of contrast, hues, etc. They'll teach how to work with pencil's in art school, so now you have another incentive to go.
So yeah, as for my own creatique, while making some similar jugdements on your artwork as a whole, I'll focus primarily on your Gordon/Crow piece.
First off, I'll start with the obviouse, in that the drawing appears flat with its lack of shading or highlights. This can be achieved using colored pencils, by taking a particular color (I'm unfamiliar with this medium so i'll refrain from suggest what color to use) and lightly sketching over areas designed for shadows and highlights.
Second, I'm looking at his torso and I can't decide if that's his torso or armor that was horribly mixed up in the wrong set. I'd like to think its the latter, judging by those three vertical lines you've placed. I honestly have no idea what those are, and I pray that is not your sense of anatomy.
Third, speaking of anatomy, you really need to study it because overall its pretty bad. I mean - yeah, anime and cartoons do have disproportioned characters, but those figures are still derived from a standard foundation of anatomy concepts, by which the artist then shifts/aters certain elements and parts of the figure in a certain manner to fit the given art style, while still holding true to certain proper principles. [wow, that's a long ass sentence] How much figures in anime are altered comes from the degree of desired realism. Once again, I'm not a pro on this subject, but there are those in this forum who have a strong grasp on this and I'm hoping some of them try to clarify or elaborate the concept I'm trying to give here.
But back to yours. After carefully looking at his head, I can confidently say that is almost the size of his torso, and that does not include his neck. I mean, if your gonna desecrate Gordon, than at least don't shape him like a disfigured five year old. Also his legs are so short/misshaped that they are heading to the point of being a distraction. While his arms appear relaxed to his sides, the angle of the sword's anle manages to overlap his pelvis and it doesn't look right. In addition, his fisted grip should not allow that sword to fall to that angle and in the first place unless their is a twist in the arm, which is currently not indicated. Actually, there are so many things wrong with that sword that I would just suggest an entire redo.
Another thing, if you find your self having to sketch in a large portion of the picture, than please try to have all your sketch lines aligned if your not doing crossached (screw spelling). Otherwise it difering lines creates an unwanted distraction, and looks too amateurish. Frankly though, that's the least of your problems (and I tend to do that too sometimes) but that's just a quick point i want to make.
Also, look at your piece as a whole and try to see what general elements need to be corrected. I'll tell one thing I've spotted. His cape. Yeah its stylish and cool to have it float in the wind like that, but I'm looking at that and thinking, 'hmm, must take alot of wind to do that to a thick fabric, yet his hair bangs are angled in the totally oposite direction!.'
Anyways, that's just a few, rough general critisms i can come up with at the moment. I would suggest you go to those classes you mentioned in ur op, study anatomy and proper coloring techniques.
Edit: for now on, never mention your a female when you join a forum
Edit: (Delayed) wait the F***ing second...your a girl!?
"I was born; six gun in my hand; behind the gun; I make my final stand"~Bad Company
uuh, why are you trying so hard to show people you're a girl. You don't act like a girl or anything especially the way you draw. And like videogames?/ Your kidding me. Every1 knows girls don't liek videogames. You draw a lot of guys. I think you are a boy or perhaps a gay man
I think you're dead on accurate! Did you see this image right here? He has tremendous aggression towards women! Kitto okama desu yo.
We also don't like threads without art in them.
We also don't like Deviant Art.
You have combined three things that we don't like into one marvelous post, and this thread is the result.
Please, lurk more, Read the rules thread, and enjoy your stay.
Change your god awful subject matter. Your free to draw to whatever the hell you want, sure, but if your gonna post something in a forum, especially one as this, then it better not be an anime Gordon Freeman look-a-like (because I refuse to acknowledge that's GF) dressed up for some S&M. Lurk, gain a sense of community flow before starting threads. Otherwise, you would would have figured out how different this is from DA - where the only people who would even bother to leave a positive comment for you would be those who felt obligated after you've made a favorite of one of their works.
Speaking of favorites...I saw this atrocity while browsing someone's profile and suddenly I have the urge to want to cut myself.
"I was born; six gun in my hand; behind the gun; I make my final stand"~Bad Company
And the subject matter is not really the problem. You need to figure out whether you really do want to get better or just hop around the internet and get empty praise from anime fanboys/girls. If you want to get better, you'd best start studying from life. This means drawing people from life, whether just sitting around at the park or school or taking life drawing classes with a live model, or getting friends to pose for you. Even studying from photographs if you don't have access to other people in the worst cases. Doing this will help you immensely, because right now your stuff looks like stick figures with stereotypical anime features and clothes pasted over top.
If life gives you lemons, go find a new fucking god!!
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edit: More on-topic, you need to take a serious look at your subject matter. Pic after pic of TF2 slashfic is not going to make any friends. You need to improve your drawing yes, but I can't entirely comment on that besides yes, more shading, more depth, try to break the generic anime conventions (the same face with different hair is not art). Of equal importance is, as I said, the subject matter. You cannot call yourself an artist when your page is doodle after doodle of you romancing the TF2 Scout. That is disgusting.
I've noticed that myself. Infact, I was about to tell the op to pm you for some long term guidance in my first post, as an act of spiteful retribution. But then I thought, nah, not even ching deserves that :P
"I was born; six gun in my hand; behind the gun; I make my final stand"~Bad Company
Sorry.
Anyway, please try to steer away from anime. It's cool and all but it's better to learn how to draw people from life before symplifying them. Also, don't take us seriously, except for our advice. It might be harsh but if you listen to it you'll definitely improve.
Also, please, please don't ever do fan art of anything and post it here or in that matter anywhere else unless it's super good.
At this point I am vigorously beating the egg white from my cannoli into your chocolate-filled dutch oven.
1. To continue beating the egg white into your chocolate turn to page 56.
2. To stop and make a creamy soufflé all over your face turn to page 169.