coyotecraft
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I can't really stick a pin in any one thing. Watch your head shapes. Mindful of angles. Don't over simplify the shoulders. Practice expressions - it's mostly to do with the eyes.
The sketch thread!
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Affirmative. With such limited skills and so little time, I doubt I could do what you just did.
I have like 48 gigabytes of E books on how to draw manga (all of them). Nothing helps me.
My A.D.D. is severely halting progress. Yet I can write huge ass stories for hours. Funny how that works. Thanks Anyway! It's appreciated. :heart:
Edit: auto correct really needs to stop assisting me -_-
I have like 48 gigabytes of E books on how to draw manga (all of them). Nothing helps me.
My A.D.D. is severely halting progress. Yet I can write huge ass stories for hours. Funny how that works. Thanks Anyway! It's appreciated. :heart:
Edit: auto correct really needs to stop assisting me -_-
My brother does a lot of drawing, but even he gets proportions wrong and expressions off.
I took one of his pieces and used gimp to chop it up, stretch, blur, skew, etc to "improve".
http://imgur.com/a/ttl8P
Should be obvious which one is before and which one is after. My brother would kill me if he knew I posted this here, but I think it's good for educational reasons (my edits are by no means perfect, it was a quick touch-up rather than a repaint and there's errors all over).
Most often I see drawings with freakishly long necks, heads that are very far forward, eyes that are very wide apart, tall head-shapes and hair partings that do not follow the scalp lines but end up flat-on the image. Low-down ears seems to be a thing I see every now and then.
The trick I use is to mirror my image every now and then and see if it looks weird mirrored. How you see your image mirrored is how others see your image with fresh eyes.
EDIT: The only books I have on drawing are for animals and landscapes. For drawing people, I do an iteration process and slowly refine the shapes I want. I haven't seen a book that describes this method. Primary tool involved is the eraser, you can't be afraid of erasing something.
I took one of his pieces and used gimp to chop it up, stretch, blur, skew, etc to "improve".
http://imgur.com/a/ttl8P
Most often I see drawings with freakishly long necks, heads that are very far forward, eyes that are very wide apart, tall head-shapes and hair partings that do not follow the scalp lines but end up flat-on the image. Low-down ears seems to be a thing I see every now and then.
The trick I use is to mirror my image every now and then and see if it looks weird mirrored. How you see your image mirrored is how others see your image with fresh eyes.
EDIT: The only books I have on drawing are for animals and landscapes. For drawing people, I do an iteration process and slowly refine the shapes I want. I haven't seen a book that describes this method. Primary tool involved is the eraser, you can't be afraid of erasing something.
StrawberrySmiles
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Here's some latest, totally unfinished from me.
BizarreMonkey
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I love your work starberri! I guess I'm not the only one who likes to draw girls. :D
@Hybrida: Don't rely on those tutorial books on 'how to draw Manga', they're commonly more destructive than they are helpful. The main issue I see is you make your heads way too tall, a head is closer to the dminensions of an upside-down egg, not an upright football. But don't worry too much, this sort of drawing, the drawing the east are known for, even I still struggle with it, and I've been trying to work it for YEARS now, like at least four years.
Here's a very insightful video about art and how might be best to approach it.
I did some new things, I uh... well basically I drew girls.
Click those for full resolution uncropped versions.
@Hybrida: Don't rely on those tutorial books on 'how to draw Manga', they're commonly more destructive than they are helpful. The main issue I see is you make your heads way too tall, a head is closer to the dminensions of an upside-down egg, not an upright football. But don't worry too much, this sort of drawing, the drawing the east are known for, even I still struggle with it, and I've been trying to work it for YEARS now, like at least four years.
Here's a very insightful video about art and how might be best to approach it.
I did some new things, I uh... well basically I drew girls.
Click those for full resolution uncropped versions.
coyotecraft
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Doing a MV battler request on RpgmWeb. Going to be my first original battler for MV. I wanted it to be a human, but this was pretty easy to do.
According to my search history, between looking up images of boars and this file's save time, it was a little under an hour.
I could do more with the shoulder and middle bit, but I'm waiting to hear back from the requester before I do anything more with it.
According to my search history, between looking up images of boars and this file's save time, it was a little under an hour.
I could do more with the shoulder and middle bit, but I'm waiting to hear back from the requester before I do anything more with it.
coyotecraft
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I use GIMP. I think MV's style requires a solid opacity bush for most things (although I started out with an opacity-pressure pen setting) Only varying in size. And using the blur tool when I need a shape to have a hard edge on one side, but soft on the other.
The battler is scaled down from the original drawing. I set the scaling interpolation to cubic, that keeps edges kinda soft. I think photoshop has a different name for that, "nearest neighbor" I think.
Matching XP's battlers was much more difficult, took me years to figure out what scale to draw at, and what pen size to use, and how to scale it down and index the colors in just the right way to match the RTP.
I kinda did it all on the same layer, except for some last minute shadows. I can't show what my under drawing looked like. And I did use a warp tool at the end to make it more porky (the bottom one)
The battler is scaled down from the original drawing. I set the scaling interpolation to cubic, that keeps edges kinda soft. I think photoshop has a different name for that, "nearest neighbor" I think.
Matching XP's battlers was much more difficult, took me years to figure out what scale to draw at, and what pen size to use, and how to scale it down and index the colors in just the right way to match the RTP.
I kinda did it all on the same layer, except for some last minute shadows. I can't show what my under drawing looked like. And I did use a warp tool at the end to make it more porky (the bottom one)
BizarreMonkey
Member
I use sai for most of my drawings. So do most of my artists, who can actually draw, unlike me, who is bad at the draw.
I like to do pencil sketching sometimes, too.
http://i.imgur.com/keXzkZm.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/MLipUS5.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/VTFXuDh.jpg
Even if I'm not terribly good at it.
http://i.imgur.com/IR1iiCq.png
UPDATE:
OH SHIT I DID COLORWORK IM ACTUALLY REALLY PROUD OF AAAAAAAAAAAAA.
http://bizarresheep.deviantart.com/art/ ... -625068298 <= NSFW (It's just artistic nudity but gotta be on the safe side.)
http://bizarresheep.deviantart.com/art/ ... -625092782 <= TW: Skimpy attire.
I like to do pencil sketching sometimes, too.
http://i.imgur.com/keXzkZm.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/MLipUS5.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/VTFXuDh.jpg
Even if I'm not terribly good at it.
http://i.imgur.com/IR1iiCq.png
UPDATE:
OH SHIT I DID COLORWORK IM ACTUALLY REALLY PROUD OF AAAAAAAAAAAAA.
http://bizarresheep.deviantart.com/art/ ... -625068298 <= NSFW (It's just artistic nudity but gotta be on the safe side.)
http://bizarresheep.deviantart.com/art/ ... -625092782 <= TW: Skimpy attire.
StrawberrySmiles
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I'm not sure why I tried to color a sketch.
BizarreMonkey
Member
I never thought this day would come, but I've switched out my DeviantART for a Tumblr, thanks to some bullshit clause in DeviantART's terms of service I feel no longer safe putting my artwork there.
So Today I spent 8 hours copying almost 200 different entries, then deleting even more on my deviantART account, it is now mostly barren, sans the exception of a 'farewell' post and some of my old JournalLogs.
That all aside, please enjoy these new arts, finally a colored render of Kara Marx!
Khao Manee drifting amidst Ocular Lunacy
You can't... ESCAPE-- the cool kid craze!
Fyori the Cheeky Chibi
wow time to be a SHAMELESS ART FAD and get undeserving attention for shit that takes little to no effort!
Jokes and snide witticisms aside, this was actually my very first delve into chibi unless you count shit like Toddler of Terror or One True Love but I guess I don’t, for me chibi means that from most angles it’s hard to define which is longer, the distance from head to toe, or the different from hand to hand x2.
Took fifty minutes at the most.
We just need to make ourselves… PRESENT-able.
Gosh golly goodness, Limbo is great.
So Today I spent 8 hours copying almost 200 different entries, then deleting even more on my deviantART account, it is now mostly barren, sans the exception of a 'farewell' post and some of my old JournalLogs.
That all aside, please enjoy these new arts, finally a colored render of Kara Marx!
Khao Manee drifting amidst Ocular Lunacy
You can't... ESCAPE-- the cool kid craze!
Fyori the Cheeky Chibi
wow time to be a SHAMELESS ART FAD and get undeserving attention for shit that takes little to no effort!
Jokes and snide witticisms aside, this was actually my very first delve into chibi unless you count shit like Toddler of Terror or One True Love but I guess I don’t, for me chibi means that from most angles it’s hard to define which is longer, the distance from head to toe, or the different from hand to hand x2.
Took fifty minutes at the most.
We just need to make ourselves… PRESENT-able.
Gosh golly goodness, Limbo is great.
coyotecraft
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I cleared out my DA gallery sometime 6 years ago. I got 1 thing in it right now for a rpgm club.
I dunno, maybe if I stayed with an art community I'd have formed the habit of drawing on a regular basis.
I dunno, maybe if I stayed with an art community I'd have formed the habit of drawing on a regular basis.
StrawberrySmiles
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DA is probably not a good art community.
I want a close-knit creative group of people I know (RL, forums, etc.) where we try to motivate each other and even give out daily themes to try and make something. It would be cool. :D
I want a close-knit creative group of people I know (RL, forums, etc.) where we try to motivate each other and even give out daily themes to try and make something. It would be cool. :D
BizarreMonkey
Member
That's what I used these threads for, I mean we're all creatives here, right?
I'll agree that DeviantART ain't a great arting community, it, alike my now Tumblr, are simply used as an archive to show my gradual improvement over the years.
Most of my recent art has been SUPER LEWD so I can't show it, but I have been doing pencil sketching pretty often. See I have an hour+ of train sitting each school day, so I tend to draw during this time.
Couple others.
http://i.imgur.com/hVZgNe7.png
http://i.imgur.com/2fbFuYo.jpg
I'll agree that DeviantART ain't a great arting community, it, alike my now Tumblr, are simply used as an archive to show my gradual improvement over the years.
Most of my recent art has been SUPER LEWD so I can't show it, but I have been doing pencil sketching pretty often. See I have an hour+ of train sitting each school day, so I tend to draw during this time.
Couple others.
http://i.imgur.com/hVZgNe7.png
http://i.imgur.com/2fbFuYo.jpg
coyotecraft
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Drew this little sucker last weekend, almost forgot about it.
BizarreMonkey
Member
My composer keeps making me music for these characters and I keep being inspired by said music.
So another Tiramisa is drawn.
Another drawing I just did of Ex-Gemini. Unlike my previous quick sketch of her, this one emits a bad aura in my room. Killing women, children, and babies is her thing. Puppies, kittens, or anything cute, she'll kill them nice and slow...
I almost regret designing such a controversial character.