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a secret-boss
Banned
doodle for the day
Thanks. I want to eventually make a career out of this but I feel like I'm so far behind. All I've ever wanted to do was work as either a professional artist or game designer, but I never thought I was capable of either until I started studying game design at college. But I still didn't think I was "gifted" enough to become a professional artist until a few months ago after following the Arts & Farts thread and talking to artists elsewhere and realizing that skill is really just a lot of hard work, and that everyone starts out rough.
Day 6 - 1hr 3m.
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
Getting started up again after being exhausted from moving the past few days!
Did this as a request from a friend for The Wonderful 101 thread.
Did this as a request from a friend for The Wonderful 101 thread.
User 73706
Banned
I think I'm starting to get the hang of making armor not look totally Halo-y. Dude's a parody of Metal Gear Rising-style characters. His spirit animal is Pichu.
Is that Art Rage? I think it is really difficult software if you don`t have intuos tablet. Pen rotation and tilt seem really needed for the best results.
I just want to say I really enjoy this piece, and maybe I could help you out.
When a painting is challenging me, the first thing I typically do is think of the simplest problem and the most common issue with a painting: composition. Specifically, in terms of value. As you know value is how light or dark any given color is.
Thankfully, in this day and age, you can easily take your painting and look at it in black and white in a matter of seconds to determine how your paintings are suffering compositionally, like so:
This is a very crude example, but it illustrates the following point. I typically (not always) follow a simple rule when it comes to composing scenes like this:
The foreground should have more contrast, especially if it contains the focal point of the work. The background should have little value contrast.
I don't mean to insult your intelligence, it's apparent that you understand this concept! But if you look at your image in black and white, it becomes clear in which areas you need to push your value contrasts or pull contrast back to make your image more organized.
Also, if you want to paint in color, it's best to start out by limiting your palette very strictly so you don't get your values confused, even when you do studies of photographs.
Hope this helps!
AFollowerNotALeader
Member
I really am starting to get behind.
Time: 1 hour
Medium: GIMP + Wacom
Notes: This came out a bit washed out.
Time: 1 hour
Medium: GIMP + Wacom
Notes: This came out a bit washed out.
Yep, ArtRage 3.5, it came bundled with my tablet (Wacom Splash), it is the cheapest model afaik.
Since I've been drawing just for 7 months, I think I´m more limited by my current skills than the features of the tablet/program, I wish I could move to Photoshop though.
I just want to say I really enjoy this piece, and maybe I could help you out.
When a painting is challenging me, the first thing I typically do is think of the simplest problem and the most common issue with a painting: composition. Specifically, in terms of value. As you know value is how light or dark any given color is.
Thankfully, in this day and age, you can easily take your painting and look at it in black and white in a matter of seconds to determine how your paintings are suffering compositionally, like so:
This is a very crude example, but it illustrates the following point. I typically (not always) follow a simple rule when it comes to composing scenes like this:
The foreground should have more contrast, especially if it contains the focal point of the work. The background should have little value contrast.
I don't mean to insult your intelligence, it's apparent that you understand this concept! But if you look at your image in black and white, it becomes clear in which areas you need to push your value contrasts or pull contrast back to make your image more organized.
Also, if you want to paint in color, it's best to start out by limiting your palette very strictly so you don't get your values confused, even when you do studies of photographs.
Hope this helps!
Thanks so much for this, I will try to increase the contrast on the foreground. I also use too much values but this is because I don´t like to pick colors from references
I'm around 3 hours now, I've been drawing without the reference after the 1st hour.
User 73706
Banned
Tried doing some legitimate drawing for once. That and I was making sure everyone looked visually distinct enough. Isulven's still in helmet because he's grossly simple unmasked.
Took about two and a half hours, Photoshop CS5, Wacom Bamboo tablet.
Took about two and a half hours, Photoshop CS5, Wacom Bamboo tablet.
Psychological Intellect
Banned
2 hours for the first one
25 mins for the second
I feel kind of cheap posting the same thing in artsnfarts and in this thread, but, i managed to kind of finish something in a day
about 2/3 hours on the glass, and I'm kind of genuinely happy with it...for now. The rest of the actual image is kind of slacking atm to be honest haha. Curse my slow burner attitude and lack of studying properly.
about 2/3 hours on the glass, and I'm kind of genuinely happy with it...for now. The rest of the actual image is kind of slacking atm to be honest haha. Curse my slow burner attitude and lack of studying properly.
I feel kind of cheap posting the same thing in artsnfarts and in this thread, but, i managed to kind of finish something in a day
about 2/3 hours on the glass, and I'm kind of genuinely happy with it...for now. The rest of the actual image is kind of slacking atm to be honest haha. Curse my slow burner attitude and lack of studying properly.
Looks nice so far. One small thing, the fingers are pretty much same length.
Good shading, especially on the hand. Can`t wait to see rest.
Thanks! Perhaps it could be the incredibly flat feather in front of the hand, but measuring the fingers out, they're not the same length. Also, when curling your fingers, the appearance of length difference is lost (when the view is facing the palm), as most of it comes from the knuckles, and these tend to protrude more when doing a sort of cupping motion. The only finger that maintains it's difference is the pinky, and usually only by a finger nail or less. But I will certainly take a look at it again, because if it looks weird, then I've done something wrong.
And the shading was pretty fun, but I realised I've done it in the wrong direction after reassesing my lighting; so I have to change all that now haha :C
Psychological Intellect
Banned
messin' around.
JordanN
Banned
Tried to draw this character from Facebreaker so it's not my design. I mostly focused on getting the negative space right so the position of the arms took a hit.
Here are some older drafts of the same character I drew earlier.
Yep, ArtRage 3.5, it came bundled with my tablet (Wacom Splash), it is the cheapest model afaik.
Since I've been drawing just for 7 months, I think I´m more limited by my current skills than the features of the tablet/program, I wish I could move to Photoshop though.
Thanks so much for this, I will try to increase the contrast on the foreground. I also use too much values but this is because I don´t like to pick colors from references
I'm around 3 hours now, I've been drawing without the reference after the 1st hour.
You should maybe consider using this.
http://mypaint.intilinux.com/?page_id=6
It is really fast, has good painting tools and it is free. I am really impressed with it.
lastplayed
Member
Hey guys, I'd quite like to contribute to this thread but don't currently have any way to scan my drawings. Any recommendations for a good affordable scanner?
User 73706
Banned
If you have a modern smartphone and a steady hand it'll likely work just as well. If you want to do formal inking digitally and stuff that's a different story, but I've been using my Samsung Galaxy S4 to upload a lot of my doodles.
EDIT: Adding an example. This is just with the basic cropping and lighting functions available on the phone.
Yeah I've had varying success trying out all three. I started out drawing out from the head but I had trouble keeping the rest of the body balanced and in proportion. After a while I decided to start from the torso and it made keeping balance and proportion much easier. I've since gotten better at starting from the head so I usually flip between the two. Now I'm trying to draw feet first to see if it'll help me ground the figure since they always seem to float around.
Really like your sketches. Wish i had so much discipline and practice as you do.
Manabanana
Member
Working on rendering some new materials, I'm doing some more today
VanillaCakeIsBurning
Member
I swear I'm going to post something today.
If not a mod can ban me.
If not a mod can ban me.
User 73706
Banned
Gonna bite the bullet and double post so nobody else's work gets lost on this page as the last post.