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[DM_Uselink]

Thanks guys. I did the drawing entirely on PS. It was a fun piece to do.
I just saw you made it! Congrats Raging, I really liked the energy in your piece.

 

[Raging Spaniard]

Thanks guys. I did the drawing entirely on PS. It was a fun piece to do.
I just saw you made it! Congrats Raging, I really liked the energy in your piece.

Thanks! Im pretty excited, a good number of people I know made it in so its a nice feeling to see my generation of artists crop up.

I was looking at my piece today and Im gonna make some edits before I send it over, just some polish things.

Oh btw, started using Manga Studio today. Holy shit! Definitely gonna have to look at some tutorials, that thing is its own beast.

I really like your life painting stuff, you need to work at getting that looseness and flow into your other pieces I think. For your cartoony work I would suggest trying a flat color style.

 

[Jhoan]

I've mentioned numerous times before that I draw but never had the pictures to back it up because I was too lazy. The time has come to show them to you all so I hope you all enjoy and I apologize for the camera pics as I don't have a scanner so this is my only way to "scan" them if you will:

I drew this one while I was on vacation (the location is on the drawing). I was inspired by my niece hid behind who hid her face behind a curtain when I went to go visit my half-sister:

I drew this one in 15 minutes using a pen from my imagination:

My former math tutor. I drew it off a picture of him. It looks remarkably similar to the original one:

Number one:

Playing the bongos (again, from my imagination)

Same thing again:

I was thinking about The Expendables when I drew this one:

Another friend of mine, based on a picture of him again:

I have a lot more drawings (including tons of doodles that I do in class when I'm bored), 2 paintings that I did for my painting class, graphic designs that I did for my old class, and stuff that I did with paints for another art class, so if you guys want to see more stuff, let me know. Unfortunately, I don't have an art page/online portfolio.

 

[Xristot]

Been working on this on and off for a while. Had to take a break due to a rush of work that came in. Finally found some time to finish her up.

Shes gonna be animated with a cute monster type when all is said and done but who knows when thats gonna happen.

Sorry if the size is a little big. Just what I've been putting up elsewhere. Let me know if it's a problem and I'll fix it.

 

[Salvor.Hardin]

A strip made for the economics journal at university.

 

[ExMachina]

Leeness: Thanks! Seems the majority of the stuff I draw these days are portraits...

Something looser for a change... Portal 2!

 

[Leeness]

Willy105: Thank you~

ExMachina: Another great picture! The angle on the Portal picture's background is great. I really enjoy your style.

 

[MrBig]

So here's the first of the pieces I'm doing over the break to help improve my skills.

I didn't want to add much detail, but I may not have added enough.

Please be harsh with crits, I'm doing these and posting them here so that I can learn.

 

[Xtyle]

So here's the first of the pieces I'm doing over the break to help improve my skills.

I didn't want to add much detail, but I may not have added enough.

Please be harsh with crits, I'm doing these and posting them here so that I can learn.

Hard to have a resting place for my eyes. A focal point, area of interest would help.

 

[ianp622]

Hard to have a resting place for my eyes. A focal point, area of interest would help.

Agreed. You should be able to do that and balance out the dark spot on the far right at the same time. Maybe make the water darker near the shore.

Also, have you done any non-digital painting before?

 

[Xtyle]

These are some drawings I did couple months ago

Was going to do a finish piece based on this sketch but we will see

And a Ryu since I love SF

Most of these are 1-character drawings. All are quick sketches and I made characters up as I drew (other than Batman and Ryu obivously. Just trying to learn to draw on Cintiq better + getting back into drawing and relearning it a bit. Also trying to learn some new ways to draw.

Eventually I want to draw more than just the characters and want to put them with backdrops etc.

As always, feedback's welcomed

 

[José Mourinho]

Threads like this annoy me due to my sever lack of talent in any field. Keep up the good work guys, some stuff in here is immense.

 

[ianp622]

Threads like this annoy me due to my sever lack of talent in any field. Keep up the good work guys, some stuff in here is immense.

We all started somewhere. If you practice, you can become proficient. Some people have natural talent, sure, but art can be learned.

 

[Xtyle]

So here's the first of the pieces I'm doing over the break to help improve my skills. Please be harsh with crits, I'm doing these and posting them here so that I can learn.

MrBig, I hope you don't hate me for doing this. I like your composition a lot. I did a quick edit on your original. If this is inappropriate, I apologize in advance and would take it down if it isn't ok with you.

In this case, 1 simple thing to do is to darken some areas to help bring out other areas.

 

[highrider]

eh.

 

[MrBig]

Thanks, I'll continue the side of that mountain on the right instead of a the sudden crease and downward slope, and I may add a bit of a small city over on the shore for a focal point.

 

[Xtyle]

Thanks, I'll continue the side of that mountain on the right instead of a the sudden crease and downward slope, and I may add a bit of a small city over on the shore for a focal point.

Also, your artwork has a hidden animal in it. Is it intentional?

 

[RyanardoDaVinci]

I have no motivation or inspiration.

Somebody tell me what to draw and I'll see what I can do.

 

[Xtyle]

self portrait or your favorite character

 

[MrBig]

Also, your artwork has a hidden animal in it. Is it intentional?

No I didn't add anything like that, where do you see it?

 

[Xtyle]

No I didn't add anything like that, where do you see it?

The lying pig's head and its hand on the bottom right

 

[highrider]

No I didn't add anything like that, where do you see it?

i see it as well. the front hill looks like a bear laying flat. there is even a smaller hill that could be its paw.. at least that's what i see.

 

[chumps]

 

[RyanardoDaVinci]

self portrait or your favorite character

Ohhh, I read that as "of" lol. Was thinking, "Now, how am I going to do that?"

I'll do both! I might be leaving in a bit but I'll post them when I'm finished.

 

[Jhoan]

These are some drawings I did couple months ago

Your sketches are crazy good. I'm getting strong Mass Effect vibe from these 3. And in the Batman one, I think I see a face to the left of the cape, but that's just me. Other than that, great drawings.

 

[RyanardoDaVinci]

First up: Me drawing myself by looking at my mirror.

Now I just gotta figure if I'm going to draw Spider-Man or Solid Snake for my favorite character.... hmmm.

Someone decide for me!

P.S.
My eye isn't really that big, lol. I just noticed it now.

 

[Mik2121]

First up: Me drawing myself by looking at my mirror.
http://i.imgur.com/Zivx9.jpg[IMG]



Now I just gotta figure if I'm going to draw Spider-Man or Solid Snake for my favorite character.... hmmm.

Someone decide for me! :p

P.S.
My eye isn't really that big, lol. I just noticed it now. o_O[/QUOTE]
Go with Solid Snake, but don't imitate the Shinkawa style, just do it in your own.

Spiderman has been drawn way too many times in way too many styles.

 

[RyanardoDaVinci]

Go Go, Solid Snake:

 

[Leeness]

A few facial expressions of those kids I posted last time.

I need to work on pushing facial expressions more.

 

[NEOPARADIGM]

I propose some kind of an art OT with a reasonable title so that I don't have to look at the word farts every time this thread pops up. ffs

 

[SHAZOOM]

Page 41. Click Here for Larger version.

 

[chumps]

I've also put up a lores psd of the above piece: http://stevekim.com/post/4965553418/saltless-psd-lo-res

 

[SHAZOOM]

Head doodles in Manga Studio Ex 4, which was on sale for $99 last week.

 

[Raging Spaniard]

Hey dudes, I kind of want to make a new thread for this, but it seems kind of deuchey... anyways.

My wife Shelly is also an artist (heres her site) and currently shes trying to get her own merch going, shes already got some t-shirts and even a super mega cute Squid plushie made in China and all, look at that fucking squid!

Anyways, she made a Facebook page, if you could do me a huuuuge favor, please go there and become a follower, you would be in my awesome list!

 

[Zekes!]

I was inspired by old retro cartoons for these two. The Metroid one was apparently posted on Kotaku I found out today.

Also, the stuff in this thread is awesome. I need to step my game up.

 

[ExMachina]

Great stuff, Zekes! I remember the Link piece from the Zelda art thread, and I'm really digging the Samuses. Her curves are definitely spot on for classic animation.

Got a dA account that we can follow?

 

[Zekes!]

Great stuff, Zekes! I remember the Link piece from the Zelda art thread, and I'm really digging the Samuses. Her curves are definitely spot on for classic animation.

Got a dA account that we can follow?

Hey, thanks a lot! I've always loved classic animation, and that love has only grown as I've gotten older. Same goes with Japanese anime; I can easily say Osamu Tezaku is my favourite Japanese artist for sure.

My DA is: http://villainzekes.deviantart.com/

I'm slowly working on putting up some actual finished pieces, haha.

 

[Mik2121]

Some mechanical sub-d modelling practice I did earlier during the lunch break. Took me two tries to get it to look alright-ish. It's a screw, anyway...

 

[Xtyle]

I saw thinking of D-Pad when I first saw it haha
good stuff

 

[Mik2121]

Hahah, yeah it does resemble that indeed

Anyway, I fixed it and made another. I gotta do something more productive during my lunch breaks...

(and the fixed Phillips screw: http://i.imgur.com/4sEb2.png)

 

[~Devil Trigger~]

Me and my friend recently got this gig with NBC Dateline

they wanted to animate part of the story. I designed the characters and did the storyboards.

Here's a Short behind the scenes


some of the art

 

[~Devil Trigger~]

My avatar

 

[Nocturnowl]

Kudos to all of you who post art in this thread, I've been trying to improve my drawing skills over the last few years but I always end up doing it in spurts so I never really get anywhere.
I get demotivated too easily when I get an idea but fail to put it on paper successfully or I just can't think of anything to draw at all, any small tips to help me out here? I guess persistence is the key but any other advice would be appreciated.

 

[Burli]

Thought it was about time to put some stuff up!

Some recent fan-art pieces:

Loads more stuff on my Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/burlisaurus/

 

[Satch]

Kudos to all of you who post art in this thread, I've been trying to improve my drawing skills over the last few years but I always end up doing it in spurts so I never really get anywhere.
I get demotivated too easily when I get an idea but fail to put it on paper successfully or I just can't think of anything to draw at all, any small tips to help me out here? I guess persistence is the key but any other advice would be appreciated.

I'm trying to get some things set up for a drawing challenge thread much like the writing challenges we have floating around on GAF. It's taking some time but it'll get done :lol

In the meantime, you would do well to get a tumblr, blogger or dA page (I suggest all three) and start following artists that inspire you most!

www.tumblr.com
www.blogger.com
www.deviantart.com

What kind of art do you like? Maybe GAF can suggest some artists to you that will fall in line with your tastes.

 

[GrotesqueBeauty]

From a recent show.

GrotesqueBeauty, that's pretty trippy, I like that structure in the foreground with the figures coming from inside it.

I really like this by RotesqueBeauty

http://i53.tinypic.com/9h8f83.jpg

Thanks dudes!

 

[Nocturnowl]

I'm trying to get some things set up for a drawing challenge thread much like the writing challenges we have floating around on GAF. It's taking some time but it'll get done :lol

In the meantime, you would do well to get a tumblr, blogger or dA page (I suggest all three) and start following artists that inspire you most!

www.tumblr.com
www.blogger.com
www.deviantart.com

What kind of art do you like? Maybe GAF can suggest some artists to you that will fall in line with your tastes.

Thanks for the links.
As for art style I'm definitely geared more towards the cartooning side of art myself, that said i've spent the past few months trying to get human anatomy down, I swear shading is my enemy.
And the drawing challenge thread idea sounds great! it would be great to see peoples various takes on a chosen topic, I may dare to try my hand at it if it comes to pass.

 

[SHAZOOM]

Thanks for the links.
As for art style I'm definitely geared more towards the cartooning side of art myself, that said i've spent the past few months trying to get human anatomy down, I swear shading is my enemy.
And the drawing challenge thread idea sounds great! it would be great to see peoples various takes on a chosen topic, I may dare to try my hand at it if it comes to pass.

I'm the same with human anatomy/shading. I prefer to sort of caricature the models in clean lines/marker shadows instead of pencil shading.

 

[The Lamp]

Do you guys have any recommended methods/brush sets/etc. on how to draw and sketch and paint in Photoshop? Specific things you do or settings or brushes that you use?

 

[Chao]

Wow Burli, love your stuff.