Greetings and salutations, forum people. I'm here to post things on the scary scary internet. I'm trying to get better at painting/drawing for fun. I started up again around last summer when I decided damn the values, I'm gonna color something. So I googled colorful fish and copied one.
I hope it's not too old to post, but no one has seen these images. They are my secret images. This one's a man with two eyes and only one mouth:
And a dolphin from google images:
And my dog:
I also started meds50heads but I think I'm hung up on wanting each to be better than the last so I'm always reluctant to start the next one. Here's the first:
And here's the eighth, which is also the latest. For some reason I think it's simultaneously 1) not very good and 2) also better than anything I could ever do, which is an nonsense thing to think but here we are:
I draw on post it notes so I can throw most of them away. This is the most recent one:
I'd like to get better at constructing things, and actually understand their 3d form instead of trying to copy the post-projection 2d shape. Cheeks/jaws, the outer silhouette of the face in non-profile-view is a complete mystery to me, I always feel like I'm just guessing at random. I spend more time rendering than actually setting any forms or proportions up right because the former is fun and new and the latter is very hard. I've also found painting on a tablet far less frustrating than drawing, probably because I don't have to get it exactly right on the first stroke and can sort of nudge things around.
Any and all feedback welcome. Even me just posting these is probably a good thing.
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Light passing through more water = darker?
Reference:
The rotation of the iris' ellipse seems real subtle and important. I've never really understood how to make an eye look in the direction I want it to look. I'm pretty sure look direction goes from the center of the eyeball sphere then out through the pupil, but I think once eyelids get involved I have trouble seeing the sphere.
reference:
You're further along than most beginners who swing through wanting to pick up and draw, so it would seem you already have some study habits and resources that are working for you. What have you been looking at other than challenges like meds50heads?
Mostly I've been watching a lot of youtube videos: sinix, proko, etc. Not really drawing along, just kind of putting it on and hoping I get something out of it via osmosis. Or I'll go to twitch's art category and leave something from there on off to the side.
Botched the perspective by trying to eyeball it. Screwed up the colors by forgetfully leaving the reference on a second, much yellower, monitor. I tried to fix it with color adjustment curves. Ran out of steam for the foreground and my bad perspective made it all screwy so I just cropped it out.
On the plus side I learned how to draw a pretzel, so overall a win.
ref:
Drew a lot of llamas from reference, then tried to paint one of them real quick
Reference
Then I tried to sculpt a llama, then a head, then a skull.
anthropomorphized mashed potatoes
I had a 3d scanned skull for reference for this one
Looked up some layered hair to put on that llama, came out real anime. Blue was a bad choice and I think leaned way too hard into the ribbon thing.
Copied this from gurney's color and light, unfortunately before I got to the section on water.
The section on peak chroma convinced me to switch from HSV to HSY' in my color selector, so now I can spin the hue wheel without the value changing out from underneath me, hopefully.
And these were the first 8 image results for 'haircut'.
Not a whole lot of variety there.
Sorry third bird but I'm calling it here. Edited for jpg quality
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Haven't posted because I feel like I can't really follow up on those macaws. Past me was unfairly motivated for a good two weeks.
I tried to paint a pile of rocks a month later, but the overcast lighting kicked my butt and I gave up.
Then I planned to do a bunch of street view things but only did half of one.
Wanted to learn how to draw like, an elbow, and fell into months of anatomy videos only to discover humans are incomprehensible meat fractals. It's also having a bizarre effect on my doodles. I swear I just wanted to doodle a cat.
Drew a kangaroo from reference on... paper? My left pinky involuntarily twitches every time I make a mistake, and I'm reluctant to go dark because then my eraser won't work.
Also I was (am?) really bad at drawing lines, especially on a tablet, so I've been trying to work on that by occasionally copying a drawing from something like a cartoon or logo. This is a tale of two ranmas.
My ~15 year old wacom graphire3 had been slowly dying. I started using the eraser end because the pen side just wouldn't register low pressure anymore. I finally replaced it with a huion h610 pro v2. It's nice! I hope it's anywhere near as durable.
Trying to get away from copying so much, so I'm amusing myself by trying to draw animals from imagination before looking up any references, and then trying again afterwards.
With a somewhat disturbingly humanoid back leg.
I hope I can find a reliable way to get myself to draw/paint more, because that seems to be the hardest part right now. It's certainly not a lack of time.
EDIT: Gonna sneak my battle with the pressure-controlled-size brush in here at the end
some foliage, some from ghibli references some not
trying lineart for something that's not a copy, and the lasso tool for shading, featuring that one generic face I draw without reference
the turtle's trying to eat her green hair, but at some point the shoulder got moved and now you can't tell
and a drawtober thing, not really a drawing(?) but shhh don't tell anyone
It's supposed to be the inside of a spooky jack-o-lantern cave appearing orange under torchlight, so I hope it doesn't read as a ginormous pumpkin full of stars.
some more drawtober things
apothecary
midnight feast
EDIT: grilled cheese
EDIT2:
EDIT3:
From a photo. Does my dog actually get slightly rainbowy in her sunbeam? The investigation continues, maybe she's a pixie.
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Today, one of my old nemesises: leaves.
feat. sky broccoli
I am painting Daniel of Vito from a photograph. I'm currently on the face because I saved it for last because faces are hard and bleh and I need to take a break.
WIP: and the photo reference
EDIT: I'm tapping out
Edited for clarification
Though when it came to perspective/construction I tried to just wing it so things wound up a little wonky as always.
the photo ref
Ref!
Torsos are hard. I tried to fix it, but then I stared at it so long that I can't see straight anymore.
bonus crabtaur doodle
https://youtu.be/xHmIDcDxXNo
The experimenting continues
I've just now realized the scale of the leaves is probably important. I'll get it next time edit: i have drawn a leaf
edit dos: and studied a ghibli
ref
more trees?
everywhere I look I see trees, lurking outside my window, plotting against me
I sort of panicked and just painted normally, but hopefully it starts to make up for my previous awful attempt:
Granted that one was all foliage and rocks, which I find absolutely impossible.
Love your work!