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NeoGAF Drawing-a-Day Thread
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Manabanana
Member
Did this today. Maybe 45 min? I'll be posting more now that I know of this thread.
DarkLegion
Member
nicccee, love it.
Twilight Gap
Member
2 hours. This time in Photoshop.
triplestation
Member
This gave me feels....2 hours. This time in Photoshop.
Really nice line
Psychological Intellect
Banned
trying painting with different color lighting i think.
ehhh, 40 minutes.
brando2021
Neo Member
I just joined GAF and fell in love with this thread. You guys have some amazing art and have motivated me to break out of my shell and step my game up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Xc_LGfM9M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Xc_LGfM9M
Really love your style man, the way you draw hair looks so slick too!
I stopped drawing again, I had a few sketches I did on a plane trip but I dislike them pretty much. Will retry again, soon.
MoonLightWave
Member
Day 42, ~30min.
Thanks! Lots of erasing and redrawing on that one.
That looks kind of awesome btw.
Man, I really love the landscapes you've posted in this thread. I especially like the method you use, no line work, just do it as you go. I have no experience doing landscape type stuff, and don't really even know where to start. I've looked at a bunch of "beginning drawing" threads here on GAF but so far I haven't found anything helpful as far as landscape goes. Is the best way to just start painting really shitty landscapes and learn as I go? There are a bunch of tutorials on youtube and such but they all seem to get very difficult way too fast.
If this is inappropriate for this thread i'll take it elsewhere, but the thread is slow enough that I thought i'd ask.
triplestation
Member
i dont like to use lines because i don't really like the look it feels too stiff to me...
thats not to say that linework isn't beautiful, there are lots of examples in this thread that linework can be real elegant looking
but i really prefer a painted look for artwork where there are blotches of shit yet there is an indication on that blotch of shit that takes form and is in context with the rest of what's going on and when the human eye catches that sort of thing that shit is just beautiful
i know when i paint it looks like vomit but its still pretty monitored carefully, everything i lay down is a temporary marker until it is molded and shaped to my will, but of course i also keep in mind stuff like perspective, value and composition,, things you really need to get down before starting any painting
and when everything is in place and all the fundamentals are correct refining happens and shit comes 2 life
where is the light coming from where does it bounce where is it dark and why, also you gotta think about the who what when where and why, you gotta think about weather and how it affects shit etc
i am still a beginner and i am still learning but def study perspective, value and composition
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
Well starting this today finally with a quick sketch that took about 20 minutes.
Twilight Gap
Member
Expression has changed completely. Looks more natural.
Twilight Gap
Member
I second this. I'd commission a few people ITT for a sketch or two.
Whitebison
Member
Uhm it's ok to post my t-shirt designs here?
Dabookerman
Member
So I have been drawing everyday, and a lot of it is random sketches and following the lessons on ctrlpaint.com (starting from the beginning).
I do need to purchase some better pencils and erasers, and a couple more sketchbooks as an A5 doesn't cut it.
Anyhoo, in the meantime a sketch I did just now - 25mins..
It's the cover of the Heads and Hands book by Andrew Loomis. It's not great.
This is a link to some of the previous stuff I've done.. and shows the basic quality I'm at (or lack of in this case
)
I do need to purchase some better pencils and erasers, and a couple more sketchbooks as an A5 doesn't cut it.
Anyhoo, in the meantime a sketch I did just now - 25mins..
It's the cover of the Heads and Hands book by Andrew Loomis. It's not great.
This is a link to some of the previous stuff I've done.. and shows the basic quality I'm at (or lack of in this case
)
Psychological Intellect
Banned
Another failed sketch.
ughhh
ughhh
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
I should probably do these at not 4AM.
Black Door
Banned
Life interferes too much in my pursuit of making shitty daily sketches! Being told I may lose my job in a month doesn't help either, but I press on.
Cleric. I was playing some awful Android game that had a character design that looked similar and I doodled this in five minutes to see if I could make the design snazzier.
Cleric. I was playing some awful Android game that had a character design that looked similar and I doodled this in five minutes to see if I could make the design snazzier.
Day 44, ~1h45m.
Don't have much of a portfolio - closest I've got is a sparsely populated deviant art page. But yeah, if you're interested, send me a pm. I'd be happy to draw whatever, time permitting.
Love this one.
Head/neck placement seems off to me. Flip the canvas or tilt your head to the right and then check the size and placement of his neck and head. Looks like you could also pull his left shoulder in a little bit (the clavicle should be about the same length as the distance from the pit of your neck to the bottom of your sternum.)
TangerineCloud
Banned
Gah, missed two days because I was exhausted from work. So much for "drawing-a-day."
Tried something a little different today. Instead of trying to draw a rigid skeleton and working around it (and getting hung up on all the details in the process), I just decided to start casually drawing a pose from scratch to see where I would get. It's far from perfect, but I'm really happy with the result. Bodies/poses have been so hard for me to learn and this is the most fun I've had drawing one. Gonna keep on working at it!
Took around 30 minutes. Any comments and criticisms are welcome.
Tried something a little different today. Instead of trying to draw a rigid skeleton and working around it (and getting hung up on all the details in the process), I just decided to start casually drawing a pose from scratch to see where I would get. It's far from perfect, but I'm really happy with the result. Bodies/poses have been so hard for me to learn and this is the most fun I've had drawing one. Gonna keep on working at it!
Took around 30 minutes. Any comments and criticisms are welcome.
Yupyup, I see it. Thanks for the input man, much appreciated!
Hope to have as clean lines as you do one of these days.
highrider
Banned
Thanks man. I'm always looking at your work and cb's and it's like watching brain surgery for me. I really admire that level of skill drawing humans.
