Pandora: think I just found inspiration for my next piece! :) LOVE the idea.

XD Oh cool, thanks, if you can please PM me a link I love your work, (im a fan!)

@Pandora

I think that sketch alone is pretty fantastic!

I agree with what action said!



which is what has inspired this. I'm playing around with a slightly different style so that's why there are some wonky proportions. :p Its coming along good I would like to think. I hope. :p

NICE lines!
i really dig it so far, esp. the part around the neck

It looks awesome XD man I wanna try now, been programming so much I forgot how fun drawing is :P, I can't wait to see your completed copy :))))

UPDATE:



Nothing is finalized. :p

Comments? Critiques?

Hmm no Critiques from me :) looks good so far

i like how she's got two different eye colors
anyway what size are you intending on 'releasing'? some things obviously lack detail and depth at the moment, such as the ropeknot, and the crown (agreeably not the most important parts of the drawing). I really dig your color choices by the way

maybe the left sleeve (left for the viewer) could use some more shading and folding, to create less of a flat surface

The sleeve actually has folding but the texture is blocking it. :p But as for size I'm not entirely sure. Its 2200 x 2200 already. I'm probably going to crop it.

Yeah I haven't started on the crown exactly yet. I've been to busy trying to figure out how to color the wolf the way I want. I need to hurry and try to finish it though because I'm probably about to get to a phase where I don't like it and thus won't finish it. Like that Mass Effect drawing.

Go me for my laziness. :/

I recently got picked to create concepts for an IOS game someone is making.
And I was given permission to release the art I draw so here ya go!


I think these are going to be huge images so bear with me! :p

So I kind of suck at digital painting and I'm trying to get better. School is pretty crazy right now but I had some free time tonight and decided to start a portrait. Probably won't be finished for a while. I hope it doesn't suck.

Suck my ass! Great way to knock me down a peg. </3

It looks absolutely amazing. I've always wanted to know how to draw like that but I never could get it down.

Well. It's actually traced :x

I'm mostly doing it because I'm really terrible at form and colour. It's also in black and white so I can practice non-shitty blending. I'm certain that if it were in colour it would look like barf.

ive been drawing on paper of late
i took some pictures and they didnt turn out bad so here
its mostly generic bacon stuff but there is some redeeming stuff in it i promise~



anyways ive been drawing a bunch of different things and playing around with different styles as well
i have a bunch more but its in another notebook and its on line paper (oh no)

Makusa: Everything you draw is really cool c:
I really really really like the dragon girl you better finish that! Its a neat style

Poophead: Even though you traced it i think the girl looks pretty good and that eye is colored super well so yay for you
The only thing is that the pupil and stuff isnt circle-ly but idk ~

I recently realized that studying references only gets you so far as an artist, so I've got some art books and am trying to brush up on my understanding of how to properly construct drawings. I think it's actually helping a lot! Here's a quick doodle I did last night:



I just noticed the eyes are a bit too low, but oh well, whatever.

@ dev: That's cool! If possible, I would also recommend studying up on anatomy. I've found tracing helpful in the past, but I think it's more helpful to know what details and underlying shapes to pull out than to just try to replicate everything exactly as you see it.

@ Makasu: You're amazing as always, and I'm jealous! This is different from your usual style, but it's really neat. Please continue! Out of curiosity, what approach did you take to getting better at art? Did you do much besides lots of practice?

@ bacon: As always, your art style is distinctive and intriguing! I'm glad to see you're branching out more, and I would recommend you continue with that. Your art has a ton of character, but I think trying to draw in more styles and study up on your anatomy would help you shore up your bases. Have you tried getting an art book and really sitting down and learning portraits and figure drawing?

Ugh, that's awesome.... The only thing I see wrong is that I can't tell if it's a girl or a guy... Probably because of the rigid facial structure and defined lips...

Well I haven't drawn in about a month... any help with anatomy or clothing folds in this one?


Tyahand

Yeah Ive been trying to play around with different things and then apply them to bigger things. As for portrait drawing; I have some art books and i have done some basic blocking things (like how to do a skeleton and stuff like that) but i think i need to return to doing it. x:
Thanks miss peri. Everything you do is looking swell like always. One thing i notice about all of your portraits is that everyone tends to have a more masculine and blocked face with a squarer chin.

Bacon when I was taking Ambien, I would sometimes get up while on it, and draw incredibly strange, and often disturbing pictures on this whiteboard I had outside my bedroom. I'd wake up the next morning and find these pictures after walking out, and have NO memory of drawing them. Most were incoherently scribbled images of strange, bug-like creatures. But a few were of crazy/weird faces, sometimes eye-less, sometimes looking like they were melting or exploding somehow. And a couple of times I drew hell-like landscapes or stairways that went nowhere.

(Also, unrelated to my point, but once I also wrote "I'M WATCHING Y-" in huge letters that looked nothing like my own handwriting :x :x :x ughghgh that was freaky)

It was all very situationally creepy at the time, but looking back, I wish I had taken pictures or something of them b/c they were just so strange and unlike anything I would draw coherently.
Feels like they were images of the thoughts buzzing through my dreams, or my deepest subconscious. Though probably my dreams b/c they never made much sense to me!

Anyway your drawings are far more coherent and easy to discern than my Ambiven scribblings, but they really remind me of them.

;x IDK if that is a compliment or criticism, but I'd like to think it's a compliment b/c it takes a special kind of artist that can soberly abstract-ize artist to the point that it seems like they're tripping on drugs, but are, in fact, not.

<3.

Some pictures I drew recently. :)

Peri: Yeah they wanted something more simplistic. As for getting better. I used to start off by studying my favorite artist. For a while there I was ripping off Hikaru No Go, Inuyasha, and Shaman King my freshman year of high school trying to create comics.
Eventually I broke away from anime and started doing portraits which I guess kinda helped me in learning things. I've never traced anything though. And now I'm back into more comic stuff. The best way I would say to improve is to draw what interests you. And be VERY jealous of other artists that are better than you. ;) [bad advice I know.] but it works! (sometimes) Somehow I always see other artist that are better than me and while it discourages me, it also motivates me to become better myself! It might not work for everyone but I'm self taught completely. I was never really good with taking directions from instructors and my senior year of high school me and the art teacher basically fought all the way until I graduated to get me to conform. Never did though.

Eventually though I think you just do it for the fun of if. Because I'm certainly not getting famous (I have no fame at all. :/) from the average person who's getting somewhere drawing random lines and 3 colors. Art is a very biased thing. Because I have some friends (not to put down another artist of course) who are making a living selling something that looks like my little sister can draw, while artist such as us are really struggling and not getting much of anything.

Its all about the love of the game I guess. If you go in expecting to get famous you're not going to be. But if you do it for the love of it then by all means go for it.

But I now study a bunch of art books. I'll have to take a picture of how many things I study nowadays (still can't draw elbows or knees to save my life.)

Since I've written my life story here: the moral is, just draw. Doodle here and there, and work from that. Don't be in a rush to create something because art takes time. Plus don't be afraid to erase something that's already been drawn! When I was younger I used to scrap a piece of paper the second I had to erase. And now I erase basically everything if need be.

I think everyone in here is incredibly talented because it takes balls to show off anything artistically related. So that just goes to show you that you're going to improve. Even though you're already pretty darn good if I say so myself!


ALSO: DO NOT BE AFRAID TO EXPERIMENT!!! that's the most important thing. You don't want to fall into a comfort zone of doing the same thing because while you'll notice things eventually you'll stop improving if you're just drawing the same thing over and over again. Its good for learning how things go but not for moving forward.

in reality I have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to art. I just start scribbling away and eventually something comes out.

there's some real merit in drawing simplistic things. and the merit is that, as "quality" declines, quantity can increase. means more money & exposure to produce 1,000 sort-of-okay widgets, instead of 1 masterpiece widget.

(and, even in simplistic drawings or cartoons, the more it is produced, the higher your skill will become at producing it, both with more quality, AND with more speed.
and then those simplistic things become an art form in and of themselves, which become difficult to duplicate by others, and hence, have "style".

for instance, take K.C. Green. No one would look at too many of his comics and go "holy SHIT look at how DETAILED and DIFFICULT that was to draw". And watch him draw it -- takes him literally seconds. But then try to sit down and duplicate it, especially in a similar amount of time.)

A male character I made up - Derryck Dartanian


Re-drawn pose with help - Eirirna Friel


Ramona Thayor.

Ven: Whilst I agree with what you're saying but lets look at me and a friends artwork.



vs



Where image 1 sold for $150 when its basically the exact same idea. And image 2 sold for nothing.
ignore me going crazy with that square brush I was young. :p

Anyways I think it has a lot in part to do with if I looked like this:


Instead of looking like this:



Then I probably wouldn't have to try so hard. Maybe I'm just a tad bit bitter because she broke my heart. ;)
Nonetheless though while I know I'm not the most advanced artist (Mc Esher) I've never been a fan of the more simplistic things. Such as painting where its just like three splashes of color and considered art. Or Andy Warhol for that matter.

But C'est La Vie.

O_O

*tries to go back to showing bad sketches*

Strawberry:
You have gotten so much better. Seriously you've improved so much you inspire me!
I think the last one you posted head is too big
and one thing you should work on is eye placement because in some of your drawing the eye is off
but like i said major improvements all around
would love to see you do things like landscapes or monsters or something
even if they arent good it will teach you a lot and then you can apply that back to people ~

Strawberry: The picture of the guy is really nice, but I can tell that there wasn't much predrawing to his body ( the confusing circles and lines) I stilll seem to do that a lot too >.> but you are getting a lot better!


Started playing metroid again... so I decided I might as well try at some more realistic stuff...

Tyahand