Not posting this in my thread because it's another overworked doodle, and because it's a pretty blatant (and far inferior) copy of a picture on the interweb, but I suppose it's kind of sort of representative of my continuing struggle with the nib pen. Still not sure about hatching and technique and all that (and you notice how I forgot about line width on that back petal), but ultimately, I think that may be something I'll have to find a class on, since I'm not a very good (self-)teacher.
huh I was taking about copying a photo, it's something I never want to do even in the forumer's portraits I would alter the position of the face or remove some things and add additional things to it.
Edit: but I do avoid photo's I prefer using reference with either a Mirror if myself or real life reference. I look at photos when it's like I need to see what a moose looks like. Because I really need to start getting use to understanding depth more and photo's take that part away.
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Time for new doodle thread, Synthetic, you a winner. Now come up with a good name and remember, you are being judged.
reference can be useful but it's a bad idea to copy straight from photos - the lens flattens and distorts the face imperceptibly, so that if you just copy it, your drawing looks like a photograph with less detail, while if you interpret it artistically it'll pop.
Girl friend of mine asked if I could draw a cute little girl with a frog because I draw too many robots and creepy things. This is my best attempt at this "cute" business.
Concept for my class, still thumbnailing and doing comps on her hair, costume, and hat. The house style I chose was The Incredibles which I'm having a lot of fun doing. I rarely draw a lot of women so this is excellent practice.
I think people over analyse art. If you're going to do an illustration (for an editorial magazine) of Obama and Bush in a fist fight in the oval office, i'm pretty sure you;re going to need reference photos. you cant draw that shit from nothing. All the best illustrators use reference photos. They dont 'directly' copy them, but a lot of them spend so much time setting up lighting and composition of their photographs so that they can produce the best, realistic image possible.
So wait, if the hierarchy goes tracing < photos < life < memory < imagination, it seems the logical conclusion would be that the purest form of art would be concept art, wouldn't it?
MAN WHAT IS THIS NEW LAND THAT I HAVE DISCOVERED?! PAGE 51!!! I'VE ALWAYS HEAR TELL OF ITS EXISTENCE, BUT NEVER DID I TRUST THAT I WOULD OWN ITS GLORY IN MY PRESENCE. SURELY THE END DAYS ARE NIGH.
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BRO LET ME GET REAL WITH YOU AND SAY THAT MY FINGERS ARE PREPPED AND HOT LIKE THE SURFACE OF THE SUN TO BRING RADICAL BEATS SO SMOOTH THE SHIT WILL BE MEDICINAL-GRADE TRIPNASTY MAKING ALL BRAINWAVES ROLL ON THE SURFACE OF A BALLS-FEISTY NEURAL RAINBOW CRACKA-LACKIN' YOUR PERCEPTION OF THE HERE-NOW SPACE-TIME SITUATION THAT ALL OF LIFE BE JAMMED UP IN THROUGH THE UNIVERSAL FLOW BEATS
I was more thinking of the concept artists of the...80s? The abstract expressionists were still "tied down" to the notion of expressing concepts visually.
Well, some of them do...personally, I can respect the line of reasoning conceptual art philosophy takes, but it's not my favorite brand, either. I was mainly noting that a hierarchy of that sort places value on increased detachment from the world outside the artist's mind, and so by that model, the highest form of art would logically be one in which there's no reliance on visual cues of any kind.
Well, some of them do...personally, I can respect the line of reasoning conceptual art philosophy takes, but it's not my favorite brand, either. I was mainly noting that a hierarchy of that sort places value on increased detachment from the world outside the artist's mind, and so by that model, the highest form of art would logically be one in which there's no reliance on visual cues of any kind.
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Not posting this in my thread because it's another overworked doodle, and because it's a pretty blatant (and far inferior) copy of a picture on the interweb, but I suppose it's kind of sort of representative of my continuing struggle with the nib pen. Still not sure about hatching and technique and all that (and you notice how I forgot about line width on that back petal), but ultimately, I think that may be something I'll have to find a class on, since I'm not a very good (self-)teacher.
Edit: but I do avoid photo's I prefer using reference with either a Mirror if myself or real life reference. I look at photos when it's like I need to see what a moose looks like. Because I really need to start getting use to understanding depth more and photo's take that part away.
Professor said I have to finish it by Tuesday so they can photograph it to put in the college's magazine, so I'm pretty happy about that!
Especially if someone wants to pay you a bunch of money to do a painting of Little Walter and Little Walter has been dead for 41 years.
Edit: .... Wait
That man is doing some intense harmonicaing.
Girl friend of mine asked if I could draw a cute little girl with a frog because I draw too many robots and creepy things. This is my best attempt at this "cute" business.
Concept for my class, still thumbnailing and doing comps on her hair, costume, and hat. The house style I chose was The Incredibles which I'm having a lot of fun doing. I rarely draw a lot of women so this is excellent practice.
Just some doodle concepts i did
People draw from references because they want it to look RIGHT, and that doesn't make their art any less worthy of respect.
MAN WHAT IS THIS NEW LAND THAT I HAVE DISCOVERED?! PAGE 51!!! I'VE ALWAYS HEAR TELL OF ITS EXISTENCE, BUT NEVER DID I TRUST THAT I WOULD OWN ITS GLORY IN MY PRESENCE. SURELY THE END DAYS ARE NIGH.
....what?
EDIT: And I was also about a decade off; trusty never-wrong Wikipedia cites the "first wave" lasting from '67 to '78.
Edit: wait I think this entire argument was my fault
Edit again: well actually it started with a misunderstanding of what I said. WHATEVER that happens all the timeee
EDIT: Though I would prefer you didn't represent it visually, man; it's kind of a crutch...
Part of the same concept design. Pick your favorite barbie doll!
I like the second one.
original thread's original.