I felt i was taking up too much space in doodle thread. I am making this thread so i have some motivation to draw more often, also a friend stole my internets so i cant play vidjagames .
Been drawing for a year now and i dont know what else to say... a lot of this stuff can probably be found on the doodle thread but eh, ill put it in here.
EDIT, forgot to say, im learning to use colors with acrylic and such, but i'd like to know what brushes and stuff in corell painterX are good for coloring a little bit less funky than the drawings below
That last one, for some reason, really clicks with me. I think it's the color choice. But I like it.
On the others, your crosshatching is too uneven. You'll have fairly straight grids lining up in one spot, and hairy, scattery lines in others (the skull, for example). The hand - eh, you need to work on hands. I won't say more than that, because I hate hands myself.
But let me reiterate, I really like that last one. Except for the doodles on top. Just leave it at the body on a white page.
It's just jarring, because you have a pretty clear grid hatched in the skull's eyes and nose, but elsewhere the lines are all over the place. If they were all sketchy, it would be more tolerable. Or all hatching.
Your mad scribbling is really really working against you. Take a deep breath and think before you mark.
Line is a wonderful thing. A beautifully made pen and ink piece is absolutely incredible. But it takes practice and care and skill with mark making. Stipling, hatching, crosshatching, etc etc. One errant line or dot can ruin the piece... and right now nearly all your marks are errant lines.
Look at Bernie Wrightson below. Now this guy was a fucking master of pen, ink, and line.
I'm not a big fan of scratchy line styles, myself ( I like cartoon inking styles). That said, I can't decide if that last one is a mess or a masterpiece. The lines are providing form and going in the proper directions and the wild color choices still accurately convey where the light is hitting. I would just erase the lines surrounding the figure. If it was large size I can see it in a magazine surrounded by uncomfortable modern furniture.
kk new update, landscape that i hope has an ok composition and a lime/lemon that hopefully likes like one of those fruits. Finished the landscape with acrylic but need to take a photo, cant upload atm.
yeah that naked guy is giving me troubles, ill do it on canvas with real paint instead.
As for brushes in photoshop... i donno, any to make stuff look real or whatever... Been using painter instead of photoshop for the brushes though, its more user friendly.
update on naked chick, flesched her out some more, used a blender and then used burning brush. Is there anything with digital that would constitute as like... cheating at drawing or something? I know theres the filters in photoshop but any others?
ahhh i am creaming buckets with delight at this one. Still a wip i want a cool background and to fix stuff i dont know is broken so please feel free to make me cry
I think maybe you need to try drawing without....scribbling? It seems like you are unsure of where to place your lines, so its coming out like chicken scratch. Try drawing one line instead and see where that gets you.
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On the others, your crosshatching is too uneven. You'll have fairly straight grids lining up in one spot, and hairy, scattery lines in others (the skull, for example). The hand - eh, you need to work on hands. I won't say more than that, because I hate hands myself.
But let me reiterate, I really like that last one. Except for the doodles on top. Just leave it at the body on a white page.
I'll try to be more careful with my hatching.
...and what exactly is that fourth one?
Line is a wonderful thing. A beautifully made pen and ink piece is absolutely incredible. But it takes practice and care and skill with mark making. Stipling, hatching, crosshatching, etc etc. One errant line or dot can ruin the piece... and right now nearly all your marks are errant lines.
Look at Bernie Wrightson below. Now this guy was a fucking master of pen, ink, and line.
EVERY line serves the whole.
Or look at Charles Dana Gibson.
Or the hundreds of other pen and ink guys.
The last one i put heaps of effort into though haha.
I'll update tommorow hopefully since im making an abstract with my teacher, learning to paint with real paint!!
Yes wassermelone that first one you posted is my ultimate wetdream, or something like calvin and hobbes... such spectacular linework
By the way, what brushes to use in photoshoop?
As for brushes, what kind of PS brush-look are you shooting for?
As for brushes in photoshop... i donno, any to make stuff look real or whatever... Been using painter instead of photoshop for the brushes though, its more user friendly.
Was trying to learn to do mannikins from the andrew loomis books but got bored... Anyways when i get bridgman books ill upload my studies off that.
ahhh i am creaming buckets with delight at this one. Still a wip i want a cool background and to fix stuff i dont know is broken so please feel free to make me cry
CRITS ON FACES PLZ (if you bother looking lawl)