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for whom the bell tolls?
junipe
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it tolls for thee. that's right i have finally decided to post some of my art (using that term very loosely) and excepting all ridicule and criticism. i do not have my sketch book with me so im only going to post this one drawing tonight. i might draw something later on and post it though.
i know, what he's sitting on is supposed to be a chair but... um... were was i going with this?
i know, what he's sitting on is supposed to be a chair but... um... were was i going with this?
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but yeah mostly just draw your ass off.
woops forgot one
Nice style d00d.
and we were also messing around in english making jokes about captain morgin commercials. and he actually said i should drwa him like that so i did... also we said this other kid was just a deck swabber and kyle kept demanding him to "swab his deck"
in the comic there are also two other detectives named "ace dick"and "pickle inspector" i decided to draw them in a weird way and my friend sean liked how ace dick looked.
also the web comic gets really weird later on in the story and theres actually some surprisingly good art in it so i kind of incorporated two scenes from the story together but i had to reference to the originals allot.
sorry some show as links because something didnt save right...
yeah the hair is kind of messed up. i think i drew it like that because that's sort of how i do hair when im drawing by hand. and eah the eyes are way too big. i rally want to learn to draw from life and make it look good so most of my high school classes are going to be art related.
I dont have anything else to contribute.. just keep drawing.
i know the angle on the desks in the second one is way off and it messes up the entire sketch but i figured if i was going to pose one i should post the other.
Which I sketched real quick from a photo of a friend:
I tried to simplify the shading a bit, just to show how shadows have shape just like the outlines of the objects themselves, and they help our brains determine the form of the object, so when you're drawing something from real life, pay particular attention to the shapes of those shadows. It's a bit less explicit when you're dealing with soft shadows, but the face has an abundance of shapely shadows, so you have to pay attention. As a third example, I did a quick paintover (if you can call it that; I don't even have the luxury of a mouse, so I had to whack it out with the eraser nib on my laptop) of your portrait; I don't mean to posit that it's much improved, but do notice how the form of the face is a bit clearer.
god thats bad . o_O
You'll have to excuse my crappy hatching--pen isn't really a medium I'm used to, but it's a bit easier showing the shading with it. I think. Also, you'll have to excuse the proportions, too. Anyway, aside from what's written on the figure, also:
- The shading on the side of the face follows the cheekbone to the eye, and then the temporal...fossae? I can't remember the name, but it's the depression on the side of your head.
- Most people's noses are shaped like wedges with two "wings" on the side, where the nostrils are. Keep those wings in mind when you shad the nose; often times, they'll catch more light than the bulb of the nose.
- Something a lot of people neglect when they draw eyes is the fact that the whites of the eyes are also going to be in shadow, so they're almost never really white, at least as you draw them. Your eyebrows act like a visor over that entire area--eyeballs are shaded, too.
Now, these things don't always show up; if, for instance, you've got very flat lighting, you may have very little of these shadows. And they're really apparent when you have more dramatic dramatic spotlight-style lighting. Speaking of which, it may be a good exercise to take a desk lamp and a mirror, and draw yourself, paying attention to the shapes of the shadows, and thinking about the reason those shadows take those shapes--try to make a self-portrait using only three colors: black, medium grey, and white. Remember, also, that the face can be thought of as being made up of several simple shapes: the overall shape is a cylinder, with two depressions gouged out of the eyes, a cut-off wedge for a nose, a barrel for the lip area, and so forth.You need to stop "shading" and start lighting, which is to say that you need to think about your light model and where the light and dark spots on the form are going to fall rather than just putting some pencil marks down on the side and bottom of every shape.
Study light by studying a simple object at first, start with a sphere or an egg with a single lightsource. You need to draw from life a lot more in general. Working on your observation skills should be your primary focus right now if you want to get better. Your line quality also needs a lot of work. Your drawings are all very scratchy and you're "petting" the line. Think about where you want your line to begin and end and then do it in a single stroke if you can, moving from your elbow or your shoulder.
Try drawing one of your classmates as they actually appear sitting near you, rather than as a grotesque giraffe-necked twig cartoon person.