The sketch thread!
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Yes, if I was slower and took my time, I might even better than I supposedly am right now. Right now it feels like, sketch sketch sketch sketch done!
I have this problem too. I can't finish an art piece for the life of me. My attention span simply isn't strong enoughRedScarf":wfxrtmo1 said:
.It seems to me that people who still really want to do art but have bad attention problems should try to switch to simpler, cartoonish styles. If you can knock out something (like a comic or single panel) before you get bored, a few times in a row, that might be the right "style" for you!
I remember that I used to draw these very "detailed" "stick figures" (with hair and clothes and other features), when I was in high school. I used to fill entire notebook pages with elaborate scenes of them, including cartoony backdrops and props and such. Mostly they were crude caricatures of my friends & I in retarded situations (mostly 'lol so randon xD' shit, which I'd probably find too silly to post if they still existed). But these page-filling comics were the most completed things I ever could do on a regular basis. I'd even color them sometimes.
Wish I could get back to doing shit like that, but between packed work weeks, wrangling my insane dog, and flat-out creative malaise, I can't.
Anyway, Straw, just an idea for you to perhaps consider attempting! Drawing simpler doesn't mean you're drawing shittier, it means you're spending your drawing time more wisely
Sometimes it can really take a while to settle on a style of cartoonary though.
That is one of the most advanced and artistically lovely drawings I've ever seen you do.RedScarf":wfxrtmo1 said:
The hair looks very strange and super-anime'd, but the body is absolutely lovely and the facial expression is VERY emotive and well-done.
Love that face. Left eye is doing the Anime Shuffle, but otherwise, VERY nice at doing the expression.RedScarf":wfxrtmo1 said:
wow, that's a huge improvement over the last pieces I saw from you.zchin":wfxrtmo1 said:
Definitely doesn't look like realism -- still looks VERY anime-ish, but a more thoughtful & detailed style of anime-ish. No actual person has eyes that big or irises that dilated :P
Also that's a chick, undeniably ... mouth is small, bridge is smooth, eyebrows are thin, jawline dainty, neck thin at jaw. No dude that's ever owned balls that regularly pump testosterone since age 11-14 would be able to pull off such dainty features!
HOWEVER, i feel like you mean for this to be a dude, when considering the slightly protruded neck toward the base, the very deep trapeziums, and the low, wide clavicles.
Which makes it a bit of a conundrum.
So.
If it's a girl, you need to raise the clavicles (only a little!!), reduce & widen the trapeziums (the triangular muscles on either side of the neck), and "bell" the neck (where it dips slightly inward instead of being slightly convex -- she is too dainty to be muscular enough for a convex neck as a female). Make the space between the clavicles more narrow (esp. since she is very thin/has small bone structure).
If it's a guy who may be VERY feminine/transgender: widen the neck somewhat at the jaw, "square" the jaw a tad more around the bases of the cheeks (not MUCH, but the slope is too deep as-is to indicate any masculinity), make the ears less round (in most drawings, the difference between a man or woman's ear depicts mens' ears being more angular and "boxy"--yes this actually affects it), make the mouth somewhat wider, and make the bridge of the nose somewhat straighter. The eyebrows should PROBABLY be a little thicker, but if you would rather them to be thin, I'd say either lengthen them (horizontally), or budge the upward curve of them to the outsides of the face.
It would not make the character overly masculine, it would establish the HINT of actual gender. These are just the things that testosterone will do to a person post-puberty, even if they have a tiny bone structure.
Just because right now it's totally a girly female with a SOOORTTT OF masculine set of shoulders.
Wish I had time to critique more pieces but I have to get back to work here ...
Also: Strawberry & every other person who has posted a good number of images here, you should make your own topic separate from this, call it a workshop, and keep updating it!
Even if you don't, when the site is revamped here soon, we will be splitting the more recent pages of this topic between repeat posters so we have more topics in the Artwork board
You will get your own topic regardless ~~~~
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I'm glad you liked my smexy Corinne!
Yeah, I'm thinking about changing her hair, as it's very difficult to draw. @_@
Do you have any idea what kind of cute hair I could give her? She's supposed to look very innocent and adorable. :D
Yeah, I'm thinking about changing her hair, as it's very difficult to draw. @_@
Do you have any idea what kind of cute hair I could give her? She's supposed to look very innocent and adorable. :D
Meh, I don't think I'll ever finish these pieces. They were just sudden images in my mind that I needed to lay down for future reference xD
Oh, thank you for the compliment! There have been people who thought otherwise though ._. and I just feel like I can improve but I'm stuck in some sort of limbo.
Oh, thank you for the compliment! There have been people who thought otherwise though ._. and I just feel like I can improve but I'm stuck in some sort of limbo.
http://www.behance.net/gallery/Chasing-Places/352368 !!Venetia":27sj64xt said:
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I forgot about this sentence. XDVenetia":s8jfigan said:
I have the attention span of a child/cat, so um... That's probably why I do everything so friggin' fast. I eat REALLY fast too. ._.
A more cartoonish style? Oooo, maybe I could do something cute, but I need some example probaby. D=
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I really love whiteboards. I have one in my room that I use for doodling/brainstorming. They are really fantastic tools!
I've saved a lot of doodles I've done over the past couple of months. I still draw sometimes (though they are rarely more than scribbles)
I've saved a lot of doodles I've done over the past couple of months. I still draw sometimes (though they are rarely more than scribbles)
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Just a random girl I drew several days go.
I wanted something dramatic and this is what I came up with. D=
Wip in progress for my art page. I'm going to try and go into business of selling art so feel free to help me stop slaving away for the man.
Anyways this image represents what its like inside of my head when I try to draw, basically a mess. But it also shows how things usually come out when I do draw. NSFW