pic i just did. Im trying to learn how to colour properly in photoshop. ATM im doing waaaay too many greyscale studies, and just applying colour filters over the top. I think this is becoming too much of a bad habbit. So im going to do loads of my own colour mixing in photoshop from now on. Heres a quick 20 minute doodle, trying to mix colours right. I grabbed a basic colour palette off the net and mixed the colours from there.
pic i just did. Im trying to learn how to colour properly in photoshop. ATM im doing waaaay too many greyscale studies, and just applying colour filters over the top. I think this is becoming too much of a bad habbit. So im going to do loads of my own colour mixing in photoshop from now on. Heres a quick 20 minute doodle, trying to mix colours right. I grabbed a basic colour palette off the net and mixed the colours from there.
Yes and yes again. Doing that can really make your colors off.
As for your study....try "blurring" your eyes out of focus - it helps you see the overall color much more accurately.
The colors in your studies have seemed too saturated, overall. You'd be surprised how much low-saturation stuff pops when a piece is composed in proper saturations. A lot of it is very subtle.
Meh, 1:30 hr speedpaint. I'm not sure if I won or lost on this.
is he scratching his arse, or pulling out his gun?
I think it can work well if you spend a bit more time on it (contradicting the point of a speed paint i know;)). Cant really expect a great piece in just over an hour. I think its good that you've used full 100% opacity brush. It shows a lot of confidence in where you're placing your marks.
Ooh, I like her facial structure. Seems like a tough chick.
I'm not sure if I want to make a thread for these, since I seem to get more responses in the doodle threads, but they aren't doodles... anyway.
Does this make sense, anatomically speaking? I used photo references, however it was two different ones, and I'm not entirely sure if I connected the top and bottom halves of her body together correctly.
Now this one is for a friend, a commission. The sketch came out great but I took it easy on being anatomically correct, as you can see. However this sketch is only about 2 inches long so I had to fix it digitally - but no matter how many times i redraw it I can't get that pose right. Any help there?
Dee, I really like the transparencies, but it seems like the bottom is warped on the last one. But I guess that's not really the point of the practice, so whatevs.
Changed some stuff on the bear:
I think the bear's right paw is flattening out the image, having it come out of the page a little bit might help. The water is really nice though.
That is a very sad looking rabbit But I like it
And I don't know what you are going for with the still life WCK. You have the colors alright, but the form is all off. If the colors are the point then it's going well, but if you are also focusing on the shapes then you need to take a second look. The base of the lamp is curved, you're losing some of the spikes in (goku?)'s hair, and the angle of the glasses is off. Also, the shadows are not quite landing in the right direction.
Are you just drawing the outline of the bear? It never hurts to get in there and draw some shapes/forms and then just erase whatever it is you don't need later (assuming you're not doing that already). A series of about 20 little five-second sketches might help, too.
Edit: That said, he's looking pretty good. That phenomenal water splash is my favorite part, though.
This is kinda old, but I'm new and I don't do them too often so I'm posting it anyway:
WIP landscape for my digital painting final, crits wanted!!!!
Maybe add a bit more detail in for foreground? You've got more of the detail in the background, on the right side of the image, so that's where my eye is being drawn. By comparison, it seems a bit odd that there's this massive, dominating mountain in front of me, and little attention is being paid to it in terms of detail. It just feels like the mountain, or some part of the mountain, should be the focal point, and not that bit of background.
Good changes, Obilex! Good to see you lowered the contrast in the background part, too. This time when looking at it, I was more drawn to the mountain. That darker "blob" stroke you'd put on the lightest part of the mountain was also bugging the hell out of me, and I'm glad to see you've painted over that, too.
holy crap leggs. Your sketches are pretty good. you should post more of them, along with your digit stuff
I really hate my sketches. I see so many faults in them mostly related to them being lop sided. and chins and stuff becoming to large. Like Because of the angle of the piece of paper and the angle I look down at it my images always seem stretched out. I draw really well when I am able to flip stuff upside down and horizontally. I think my eyes have a parallax error or something. Another portrait I just did of a mate. Another 5 minutes used up in my working day lol
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Yup, your eyes are too big, that's a habit that takes a while to break. Also try not to over-define everything, hinting at a shape can also be effective.
Take some time out to study some of Tam's sketches, even try copying a few, it'll help you see/notice things you haven't noticed before.
yeah I get ya mustang. I tend to outline the image and then shade it in and the outlines are always to dark. I find it hard to build up an image using shading and avoid the outlines when I do it on paper. I end up drawing to dark and my lines dont erase well. As for the eyes.. indeed.. alien eye syndrome lolss... Just need to do more and more studies. I dont have the problem drawing on the screen because I can see it as a 'flat' image I guess. Needs to be worked on fo'sure
got lazy on this one and decided to fuck off the big rock all together, it was doing my nut in, if it wasn't for something I would have persevered and tried to complete my original composition idea, I may revisit it though. I did learn a lot from this one.
Trying something new and simple for work. I didn't wanna get too overboard with the anime, but having said that would doing something like this be pass or fail?
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"I was born; six gun in my hand; behind the gun; I make my final stand"~Bad Company
opinions on how it's coming? not very far along I know, but I've been working on it for around 2 hours so I figured I'd get some comments. people are haaaaaaaard
Myk, I like the large black havoc-like shape of her shirt. however if you were to have her straighten her right leg, it would be like 8" longer than her left.
and you're doing that thing with the face again that you're repeatedly told not to do.
well i gotta define her hips a bit more, but according to the references things seem to check out. I think if I shorten the distance her knee sticks out it could work. Whats wrong with the face though? I sketched everything out and color blocked, I'm just sorta working my way top to bottom with the color and values.
edit: k I see what I did wrong with the legs...fixing as we speak
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"I was born; six gun in my hand; behind the gun; I make my final stand"~Bad Company
Trying something new and simple for work. I didn't wanna get too overboard with the anime, but having said that would doing something like this be pass or fail?
It's weird, i actually dont mind the faces on these. Tonally they're a little flat, but if this is still for that fashion stuff, its kinda the right idea. Also, if this where fine-art, then there would be loads of mistakes, but since its more towards illustrations, im thinking its looking pretty good.
Working on this (like that other piece with the fairy) for school project. I'm doing a comic, which is fun, but I hope I haven't made it too hard for myself. Anyway, this is pretty much done, but I have a lot of time to refine it, so let me know what you think. Also, it's just two colors and black and white, so, I know I could use more colors in the water or for shading, but it's a stylistic choice not to here.
k worked up the porportions a bit, rendered the face a bit more, and worked on the legs some....hopefully its getting closer to where it needs to be. I need to get started on the hands though...and i definetel need to stop procrastinating on that
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"I was born; six gun in my hand; behind the gun; I make my final stand"~Bad Company
I believe the "thing with the face" is not referring to any errors in the face, but rather to the fact that it appears finished already, where as the rest of the body clearly is not. So we have a rendered face and no hands (if there are supposed to be hands in this one.. maybe not). That said, I do like this piece, I just think everyone would like to see the rest of it more fleshed out before the face is so refined. Also, the leg is still not quite right. I think you have the right idea, but the lower leg still seems a bit too long. It could be that her legs in general are slightly out of proportion.
EDIT: Yeah, I compared it to a photo of another "model" type woman, and it looks like her legs are overall too long. My comparison is a little sloppy, and i think one on the left is shifted a little too high, throwing off the measurements, but its close enough that you can see the legs are a bit too long.
Second edit: I took some measurements directly off the image, and the chick on the left, the ratio of the distance between her shoulders and her hips to the distance between her hips and her heel is roughly .58, where as the ratio of the drawing's shoulder to hip divided by hip to heel is .47 or so.
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Yes and yes again. Doing that can really make your colors off.
As for your study....try "blurring" your eyes out of focus - it helps you see the overall color much more accurately.
The colors in your studies have seemed too saturated, overall. You'd be surprised how much low-saturation stuff pops when a piece is composed in proper saturations. A lot of it is very subtle.
is he scratching his arse, or pulling out his gun?
I think it can work well if you spend a bit more time on it (contradicting the point of a speed paint i know;)). Cant really expect a great piece in just over an hour. I think its good that you've used full 100% opacity brush. It shows a lot of confidence in where you're placing your marks.
I'm not sure if I want to make a thread for these, since I seem to get more responses in the doodle threads, but they aren't doodles... anyway.
Does this make sense, anatomically speaking? I used photo references, however it was two different ones, and I'm not entirely sure if I connected the top and bottom halves of her body together correctly.
Now this one is for a friend, a commission. The sketch came out great but I took it easy on being anatomically correct, as you can see. However this sketch is only about 2 inches long so I had to fix it digitally - but no matter how many times i redraw it I can't get that pose right. Any help there?
comments would be most welcome, never tried this before
That is a very sad looking rabbit
And I don't know what you are going for with the still life WCK. You have the colors alright, but the form is all off. If the colors are the point then it's going well, but if you are also focusing on the shapes then you need to take a second look. The base of the lamp is curved, you're losing some of the spikes in (goku?)'s hair, and the angle of the glasses is off. Also, the shadows are not quite landing in the right direction.
Edit: That said, he's looking pretty good. That phenomenal water splash is my favorite part, though.
This is kinda old, but I'm new and I don't do them too often so I'm posting it anyway:
WIP landscape for my digital painting final, crits wanted!!!!
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"I was born; six gun in my hand; behind the gun; I make my final stand"~Bad Company
Maybe add a bit more detail in for foreground? You've got more of the detail in the background, on the right side of the image, so that's where my eye is being drawn. By comparison, it seems a bit odd that there's this massive, dominating mountain in front of me, and little attention is being paid to it in terms of detail. It just feels like the mountain, or some part of the mountain, should be the focal point, and not that bit of background.
Nice textures and color, though.
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Just to clarify, he's scratching his arse with his gun.
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Its looking good. The distance area is looking great. Just need to refine the area closest to the viewer.
and a few Logo designs for 2 DJ mates of mine
I really hate my sketches. I see so many faults in them mostly related to them being lop sided. and chins and stuff becoming to large. Like Because of the angle of the piece of paper and the angle I look down at it my images always seem stretched out. I draw really well when I am able to flip stuff upside down and horizontally. I think my eyes have a parallax error or something. Another portrait I just did of a mate. Another 5 minutes used up in my working day lol
Take some time out to study some of Tam's sketches, even try copying a few, it'll help you see/notice things you haven't noticed before.
got lazy on this one and decided to fuck off the big rock all together, it was doing my nut in, if it wasn't for something I would have persevered and tried to complete my original composition idea, I may revisit it though. I did learn a lot from this one.
"I was born; six gun in my hand; behind the gun; I make my final stand"~Bad Company
opinions on how it's coming? not very far along I know, but I've been working on it for around 2 hours so I figured I'd get some comments. people are haaaaaaaard
and you're doing that thing with the face again that you're repeatedly told not to do.
Vann- draw hair as a mass, not as strands.
edit: k I see what I did wrong with the legs...fixing as we speak
"I was born; six gun in my hand; behind the gun; I make my final stand"~Bad Company
It's weird, i actually dont mind the faces on these. Tonally they're a little flat, but if this is still for that fashion stuff, its kinda the right idea. Also, if this where fine-art, then there would be loads of mistakes, but since its more towards illustrations, im thinking its looking pretty good.
Hiking Essentials
"I was born; six gun in my hand; behind the gun; I make my final stand"~Bad Company
EDIT: Yeah, I compared it to a photo of another "model" type woman, and it looks like her legs are overall too long. My comparison is a little sloppy, and i think one on the left is shifted a little too high, throwing off the measurements, but its close enough that you can see the legs are a bit too long.
Second edit: I took some measurements directly off the image, and the chick on the left, the ratio of the distance between her shoulders and her hips to the distance between her hips and her heel is roughly .58, where as the ratio of the drawing's shoulder to hip divided by hip to heel is .47 or so.