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DanielSan
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I made this for my art class...He's teaching us how to shade so i made a bunch of circles some arms and a top hat...
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Why wouldn't it go well. Theres no reason for this not to go well, unless everyone is going to be a jackass for no reason.
This is the AC, correct?
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My first bit of suggestion is to work on your line-quality. Your circles are not quite circles, and there are lines breaking every which way off of your figure, messing up the whole form.
Practice drawing circles with one stroke. Don't try and 'sketch' them. Try drawing apples, oranges. Draw more. Draw more and post it here. Look at what you're trying to draw. Actually look at it. Use references. Draw from life. Draw a plane, draw some pipes. Draw what you hate, and what you like. Hell, even draw a bike.
Just draw. Quickly. And look at what you have done, and see what you could do better.
Draw from life. Draw from life. Draw from life. Draw from life. Draw from life. Draw from life. Draw from life. Draw from life. Draw from life. Draw from life. Draw from life. Draw from life. Draw from life. Draw from life. Draw from life. Draw from life. Draw from life. Draw from life. Draw from life. Draw from life. Draw from life. Draw from life. Draw from life. Draw from life. Draw from life. Draw from life. Draw from life. Draw from life.
With a simple character like this, a few of those polystyrene balls from craft shops and some pipe cleaners can make you a pretty simple mock up of your character, then you can help yourself with some turn arounds etc, help you learn how he would move and help you pose him.
I'm not against the character at all, it's alright, but it doens't catch my attention in any way shape or form. It's alright, it would look a lot better with smoother lines, and some line weight variance... I know everyone always says that, but this kind of drawing would look great with a darker outer line in my opinion.
Keep working the character, i'm sure you could pack a ton of character into him if you wanted to. maybe taper the arms so they go smaller at the body to bigger at the hands or something, just to make him a bit more stylish.s
As for your general abilities... it seems fairly obvious you're at a very early stage. Please please please don't allow yourself to become content with drawing things like this, whatever your age... in just a couple of months/years/whatever you could be drawing amazing things. Draw things around the house, anything at all, pegs, tv remotes, piles of cds, monitors, whatever, don't worry about the materials, just use any pencil in your cupboard, keep it sharp and use normal printer paper, draw at a decent size, and don't worry about making mistakes, just fucking go for it
and as for a crit for what you actually came here for... the shading.
The character you've created is made of spheres... if you can find a ball in your house, have a look at it... the light does not hit one half of it equally, there will be a bright circle of light in one area, and the shadow is a cresent shape... there are some decent examples of this if you do a GIS for "sphere shading" My explanation is of course a gross simplifications... I'm pretty sure everyone else can explain it better.
Again, draw from life with this, pay attention to how light affects objects, not everything is shaded equally as you have done, but really, from the look of this drawing, my estimate of what kind of level art class you're taking.. this is really just a pencil control exercise to get you pushing harder and softer... in which case, try and keep your strokes closer together and following the contour of the object you're creating..
that's all i got! keep drawing!