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| Daily Sketch Thread; wanna become the great artist? | |
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| ElectricGnort | Aug 29 2005, 05:40 AM Post #2451 |
Sargeant Dubious
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 A sketch i did a few days ago. Hopefully i'll be posting here a bit more often now that im not as ashamed of my drawings as i used to be. :rolleyes: |
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| Espen | Aug 30 2005, 01:03 AM Post #2452 |
Never Disturb us!
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i've finnaly have Wacom intous3 a4 now :D, this is the first drawing i did with it
 
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| Master Rade | Aug 30 2005, 10:02 AM Post #2453 |
The Sexy Latino Supremeo
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Looks nice Espen. But his elbows look alittle miss form. Thats my only crit. Well iam working on a stily away from manga. Iam gona change my character up a bit. So I put my tablet to some good use.  could be better. Ill leave the crits up to you. |
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| Anghenfil | Aug 31 2005, 02:28 PM Post #2454 |
PELICAAAAAN
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Edit: ElectricGnort: Nice use of foreshortening on both the hands and ribbon (?). My major crit that you need to work on your anatomy and form; everything looks a bit skewed and flat (especially that front leg). His torso is VERY long. In that same vein, work on your shading too. Use a variety of shades from very dark to very light; everything in that picture is a medium/light grey and it's hard to distinguish a strong form. My recommendation to you is to get into an art class to draw some nudes. It'll be good for you. Espen: Pretty nice for your first wacom drawing. The elbows look anatomically okay, just a little uncomfortable. Good atempt with the 3/4 view. Biggest crits here would be a lack of depth with shading and a static pose. Try to get your character to do something next time; it's good practice for you and it will make your pictures more interesting. Nice touch with the blank eyes... they make him look rather creepy  Rade: Given the angle of the visible eye/chin/mouth/ear, the nose should be moved more to the left and the corner of the other eye should be visible. I'm still not digging the style for the eye. You need to get yourself enrolled in a good art class where you can sketch some nudes. The only way you're going to get better is by doing some life drawing. That said, I'm glad your branching out. This new style has potential and it's less fussy than just copying manga. The ear and the hair are well-rendered. For the hair, try variating the size and frequency on the spikes. -------------------------------- Okay, two things. Neither are finished pieces and both are unlikely to progress further:   First one is a design for a dragon-like flying steed in one of my longer stories. The second is based on a nightmare I had. In it I was a little girl (with huge-ass eyes, apparently) with a watch-device that could measure the spiritual content of certain space. Sort of like a geiger counter for karma. Anyway, that girl in the picture is about to get the business end of a monster. RUN, damn you! 
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| Master Rade | Aug 31 2005, 05:56 PM Post #2455 |
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The Sexy Latino Supremeo
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Thank you Anghenfil. I really want to stand out from the rest. You never know. I might some day Ill learn to stop using manga. Well I dont want to go cold turkey but in time. I cant wait for my up coming art lesson's at school. I have about one more week before school starts for me. Cant wait.
Anghenfil that second piece looks so life like. The eye's on that girl dont look that big, but what would I know. Iam not a eye expert.
:lol: Still it looks very life like. So life like that I just poke the screen to see if she would move. How did you made her eye's look so clear but wet like. I really cant explain it but maybe some one else will. Even if there not finish. I give it a over all rating of 10 out of 10. |
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| mr.nurbs | Aug 31 2005, 08:10 PM Post #2456 |
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Brackenwood greeter
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Really nice dream Drawing ther Ang...I love the candle setup you've got going...Hurry up and finish it so that i may use it as a wallpaper for my desktop... Espen congrats on your new Tablet...The addiction now starts.. 
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| Anghenfil | Aug 31 2005, 08:49 PM Post #2457 |
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 Mind you, the eyes aren't well developed, but a small pure white highlight does wonders to make them seem more lifelike. If I was going to do them proper, I'd develop the roundness with shading, put soft colored highlights were light is hitting the iris, and so forth. |
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| Rubberhead | Aug 31 2005, 11:44 PM Post #2458 |
Fatscat Kittycat
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Eyes! http://67.15.36.49/team/tutorials/2dstarfi...nder_eye_01.asp http://67.15.36.49/team/Tutorials/Lilith/lilith_pt1.asp http://div.dyndns.org/EK/tutorial/eye/ Check out the Illustration resources, some kickass painting techniques in there. |
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| Espen | Aug 31 2005, 11:50 PM Post #2459 |
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Never Disturb us!
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Thanks Rade,ang and "Nurbs ( for congrating
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| Rubberhead | Sep 1 2005, 12:35 AM Post #2460 |
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Fatscat Kittycat
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Hey Angenfill, I just noticed how awfully long that neck is. Maybe it'd look better if you cut of like a 3rd or a 4rth... |
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| Comlock | Sep 1 2005, 01:35 AM Post #2461 |
These are my leafs:
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And maby this is becasue it isnt finnished..But the arch or whatever with the candles behind looks, awfully flat. I realy liked the dragon-fly though. that was awesome 
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| Swashbuckler | Sep 1 2005, 02:13 AM Post #2462 |
WhImSiCaL
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| Colesif | Sep 1 2005, 02:36 AM Post #2463 |
Generally Uninterested.
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Very nice pictures Ang! the only things i noticed were already mentioned, the thing holding the candles i think it a little off angle and flat, and her neck seems a little to big for her head. I love both of the monsters you drew, it seems like you are best with drawing wierd/very cool quadropeds looks cool swashbuckler, do you have any drawings that might have a full body and maybe a bg tho? id like to see some different stuff from ya
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| Psybola | Sep 1 2005, 02:59 AM Post #2464 |
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Gone and never to return
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Hehehe, I like your style! The long necks distinguish your style from others, so don't snarl too much about 'em. |
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| Espen | Sep 1 2005, 03:29 AM Post #2465 |
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Never Disturb us!
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nice swash, those pictures inspired me to draw this
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| Swashbuckler | Sep 1 2005, 04:49 AM Post #2466 |
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WhImSiCaL
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Absolutely! I'm working on one right now. I might post it here in a little while.
Why, thank you! 
Really?  My drawings?  Woo-hoo! I've never inspired anyone before! At least I don't think I have.Is that a sorceress? |
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| Mathulus | Sep 1 2005, 07:27 AM Post #2467 |
Brackenwood Lightweight
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Its a birthdaypresent for my little brother. He is a big halflife fan.
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| Anghenfil | Sep 1 2005, 09:06 AM Post #2468 |
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Two of the many reasons I'm not really enthused with continuing the picture. Just too damn pissed off at it. Gah. It looks nowhere as cool as the sketch. Cole, I'm 99.9% sure the angles are right, I checked, but the reason it looks fucky is because it's flat like Comlock said. I was going to put in some stage edge carvings to increase the depth, but I reiterate, too pissed off.  Thanks Cole and Comlock. I enjoy my beasties too. :lol: |
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| humbleego | Sep 1 2005, 09:38 AM Post #2469 |
Adam's Illegitimate Son
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First off, I really dig that top sketch. It's got as nice "concept art" feel with that ghosted recessed limbs, etc. As for the second, I must step into my asshole shoes for this one. *ahem* This is really not nearly up to the quality of your other work, Ang. I think it mostly stems from your choices made in the composition. There's not much negative space articulated and used to guide our eyes. Also, the there's not much contrast, most values fall in the same range. That's not necessarily bad, but the choices made on what is what value confuses my eye. I don't know what to focus on. Further, the light sources don't agree with how you've shaded the two figures. As for Comlock's comment on the flattness of the bg; did you duplicate that circular niche shape and skew it to get it to wrap around that structure? If so, I think that might be part of the problem. Unless you've got a really abstracted style, that usually hurts in the area of creating depth. Anyway, I'll stop here, because I see that you've considered scrapping it. I think that's a wise choice. Again, I'm sure I sound like a complete dick, but it's only because I really respect and enjoy your work that I'm tearing down this particular piece. You're really so much better than this. 
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| Adrick | Sep 1 2005, 09:45 AM Post #2470 |
Brackenwood Lightweight
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Half life 2 rocks love having Dog (mechanical Robot) to Protect u in some parts and all aliens protecting u and sending them in to attack and rip appart things lol i'm working on a picture now i should have it up tomorrow with some more i reakon i am slowly getting better at drawing and i am proud of myself next thing to buy is a ipod shuffle then a Tablet to draw with
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| Anghenfil | Sep 1 2005, 09:55 AM Post #2471 |
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Nope, not an asshole at all, humble-poo. I would have said the same in your shoes based on what you can see. However, because I'm so fucking terrible at soft lighting, what I was doing was filling in both characters as close as I could to their normal-lighting skin tone, contrast, and form BEFORE starting to apply the dark shadows. In what I have envisioned, everything is much darker, and only the girl's outline, the monster's paw and part of the jaw are illuminated in candle light. Everything else is essentially a silohette. Eh, maybe I'll do a quick hash of the final shadows tonight. Anyway, here is my "awesome" initial sketch. It just doesn't seem as awkward as the in-progress piece right now. 
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| Colesif | Sep 1 2005, 12:05 PM Post #2472 |
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Generally Uninterested.
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heres something i decided to draw about 20 miin ago, i learned how to draw wings like that, so i figured if make a little doodle with em. tell me what you think. -edit- Aghen, i really like the sketch of the painting you dont like |
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| humbleego | Sep 1 2005, 02:21 PM Post #2473 |
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Adam's Illegitimate Son
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Hope you don't mind me meddling, Ang, but your painting got in my head so I decided to mess around a bit with it. First I was thinking about the problem of lighting this girl effectively. Then I thought, well if this amulet senses spirits, then it would be sensing the business end of that creature behind her. So, Then I thought if it glowed a color different from the candles, it mind help us frame her a bit. Then, I started thinking about composition. Depending on what you're trying to evoke from your audience (empathy for the girl, general overall creepiness, etc.), you could compose this numerous ways. The way I tried was sort of generic, but if you wished us to indentify with her more, you might bring her much closer to us. If you wished us to feel her solitude or her physical inferiority to the beast, you might show her entire body huddled near a corner, with her orb light isolating her from the warm candlelight. Anyway, I'm rambling. As for the previous flatness, something occured to me while doing this. Your candle structures are perfectly crisp. While the rest of the painting is soft. I think blurring the candles significantly will help break her away from them and create a bit more depth. Obviously, this was a quickie and it's light years from perfect (could stand to shift her left in frame and that orb color doesn't quite work), but I wanted to give it a quick go to see if I could help. It's a great concept, so I'd like to see you tackle it in true Ang fashion. Anyway, hope this triggers some ideas for ya.
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| Comlock | Sep 1 2005, 02:58 PM Post #2474 |
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 That quickie fantastic!!! Its a shame that you dont create much fully coloured digital paintings with backgrounds and all. Becasue I havent seen that many from you. I would love to see more stuff like this from you. 
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| humbleego | Sep 1 2005, 03:04 PM Post #2475 |
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Adam's Illegitimate Son
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I like doing it. I just don't have the time these days. I'm juggling school, job searching, and rather large (for me) animation, not to mention all the wife/family/etc stuff. If I do get any free time, it's spare and definately not enough to do a full painting. Seems like I've barely touched Painter in ages...
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