The sketch thread!

[dadevvtsvre]

yeah the thread's not as active as it once was

anyway that looks p nice, zchin!

I for some reason can't ink it without it looking weird.. any idea on why?

well the charm of the piece, IMO anyway, stems from the messiness & thickness of the linework.

when you ink a thing, you lose some of that ... organic quality, that pencil gives off. You can't shade it the same way, and you can't make subtle lines with ink. Every line with inking is going to be SOLID BLACK, but with pencil, you have anything from SUPER LIGHT GREY ALMOST WHITE to GREY to PRETTY DARK GREY, and everything inbetween ...
the change of mediums often will make a piece have a TOTALLY different feel.

if you're intent on definitely inking a piece of work that you've pencilled, you'll have to draw in pencil with that consideration in mind. You'll have to try to maintain thin, clean lines, and avoid smudging or feinting or lightly shading. B/c your pen just will not be capable of any of that

This is exactly the reason anything I try to ink turns into trash. I do all of my doodles with a soft pencil because I love the look of smudged graphite and rough sketches on paper. When I open up Photoshop to try and replicate that feeling in ink, it ends up losing any sense of movement and action and becomes static and boring.

This is why I post only scans. Because that's as good as it gets, folks.

 

[StrawberrySmiles]

Multiple drawings:

Aelina's younger sister, Reina (from Ghost Shards).

Aelina flying (lols).

Kyran looking evil (lols - from Ghost Shards).

A drawing from the age of 13, redrawn at my current age.

 

[zchin]

Thanks Venetia for saying that... it makes a lot of sense I don't know how I couldn't have figured it out lol


Strawberry
I really like the first one, but it looks like her face is concentrating too hard, because the eyebrows are arched a bit, or the eyes and the eyebrows are at a weird angle... The last one made me read the description, and I can see a ton of improvement between the two, seeing as your probably a few years older than 13.

Tyahand

 

[StrawberrySmiles]

Yeah, I'm 23 now (almost 24). XD 10 years older, and I still suck - yay! :3

Aelina and Demi from my game. :3 They ain't doing nuttin in the first top picture (I don't draw that type of stuff), they just being romantic. <3

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Close up of Demi. ^^

 

[Makasu]

Hey would you look at that I live!

Got a job freelancing for some company so thats what I'm up to nowadays. This thread needs to come back to life!!!!

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I'd be willing to post the lines if anyone wants to color them or whatever. Let know!

 

[Daxis]

copied from my thread My thread (thread whoring)


so uh
massive amount of sketches. At least in size :F

one at the top are oldest, ones at the bot are newest. The first six are messing around, there's some anatomy study after that (proper or not), weird stuff, *lots* of hand practice, and some elegance later on as I mess around.


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I think I'll go critique the couple images above me sometime but I'm feelign very lazy right now.

 

[mawk]

Hey, I totally recognize some of those poses. Are you using the Pixelovely figure-drawing reference pose circulation thing? I love that thing.

These are about a week old, but with midterms I don't have anything newer to show. Weird-lookin self-portrait and doodles featuring the consummate Bro Crow.

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scratchy as hell, shading is a mess because midway through I decided to switch from black shadows to grey ones and just sort of erased them offa the top, but I think I'm managing to figure out how a head is composed. still kind of getting used to SAI, but it definitely feels a lot smoother than Photoshop.

wario, why

 

[action]

really cool stuff mawk :D i feel guilty posting a pic without adding constructive crit... but idk what to say :P

i drew something for the first time in a while...

 

[Daxis]

@makusu: there's a contrast between the heart in the background and the pic, namely in the fact that the heart is noticeably more computer generated (very sharp edges, no outlines, I can sorta see the pixellation at its edges) when compared to the picture (which has rather soft(?) lines and makes it seem more organic in contrast). I can note that, but whether that's good or not I can't really say. Other than that note, It's a very good image.

@action: in the right pic, the man's arm/hand is noticeable unproportioned - the wrist is sorta nonexistent (I can see it, but in an overall image it's rather not there), with the cuff of the shirt/sleeve making the hand/arm/wrist area blend together. The arm/shoulder area is a little bit unnatural, but it's not a big deal, i think.
It took me looking at it for a good 30 seconds, but once I realized the moneybag was there, I loled.
The image of batman in his suit really is unproportioned at several points (leg size, head) while the way you've drawn his arms and the cape makes it look like he has wings, not a cape. Altogether it looks like a bat, a literal bat. Which can sorta be taken in a comedic viewpoint tbh, so there aren't that many *actual* issues in that.

@strawberry: his body still seems a little bit more feminine, but that's only if I nitpick. It's pretty fine otherwise (although I think you have a bit too much curvature in there). When I look at his right arm/should/body junction, and imagine it turning in 3d, it doesn't look particularly perfect. I like the small amount of muscle lines on his left arm, and although I was about to ask if his triceps (or was it bicep?) part of the arm (between shoulder and elbow) was a bit short, as I imagine his full body it didn't look too bad. Hmm.
Nice hair. I think the ear is located a bit too low. The eyes don't look finished. A small part of his hair at the temple/bangs area seem to reveal too much skin/scalp that high up the head. I think.
The wings are off, and those two... back muscle/bone lines? (can't think of the right word) may be located a bit low. Luckily it's not really an important issue since they're really not noticeable.



I DID IT A CONSTRUCTIVE POST

 

[Daxis]

....And so it would happen that I would miss mawk.
Anywyas, yeah, using pixel lovely, although not too much recently/last week or so. Think I'll get back on sometime


So umm

I'm not sure if that guy (bro crow?) is wearing a short sleaved shirt or not, seeing as the rest of his arm is white colored. Prolly cause you just never finished shading it in, but whatever.
Besides that there's not much particularly wrong that I can saw. I think a small part of *his* left jaw area is a bit too protruded, giving his head a sort of... roundish? squarish? look. doesn't fit badly with the so-so largish neck. Nice pic, the sketchiness gives it a very good organic look, which probably hides a small bit of flaws.

 

[zchin]

Mawk: I don't really know what to say but I really like the style for the portrait of yourself, although I can't really think of any way to get those sketchy lines around it...

Action: Your drawing looks really nice and I've seen major improvement from the last time I've viewed your work. Especially that guy, but I notice that the hand happens to be obscured ...

Tried out pixelovely figure drawing thing and came out with this...

The head position looks a bit funny, and the angle of the turned head also is at that weird angle... So after I finished the whole body frame I found out that the proportioning wasn't going to fit and I had to cut off the feet, which I should really draw more... But whatever... This is a drawing that I've used to pick up on how I used to draw since I haven't really drawn for a while...

Tyahand

 

[bacon]

okay so i havent really drawn in like 2-3 months i think and ive gotten really terrible so i did some sketches to songs and once the song was over I had to move on
and like
these are really terrible
:c

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[StrawberrySmiles]

95% of my female characters over the past... 15 years...? Yeah, all in one picture. XD

From left: Comette, Amarira, Aelina, Ery, Corinne, Mina, Illenia, and Lyn

 

[Venetia]

look at some of those poses!!! niice!!

 

[bacon]

bacon is trying to learn how to paint still and after all this time has gotten ever more terrible than ever before

(i did shoot for more realistic proportions [obviously its still skewed] and that nose is weird i just sketched a quick nose :c)
also its nothing ambitious still :c

 

[Venetia]

Very creepy! Mouth looks cool. You draw some nostrils on that nose and it will be a nose probably. it has all the makings of a nose.

 

[bacon]

progress
and thanks ven i gotta work on that nose ;c

 

[Toams]

that is some cool hair!
the shaing on the left jawline is a bit strange by the way

 

[MarioSuperStar]

First attempt at drawing and coloring using the mouse pad :P

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I would also like to know how I can make a hair texture effect.

 

[bacon]

okay WIP and Lineart
I want to color this but i dont know where to even start or how to really approach it oh dear