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 Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 2:19 am
For the love of god. Please be firm but gentle. I need to feel the pain of my first time, but I don't want to be scarred. I started drawing just a week or so ago, and I would like to get general feed back on my cute little drawings. Also, any advice or links to inking / coloring tutorials would be loved. Please excuse the piss poor photo quality of these images, I haven't gotten my friend to scan them yet. These are posted in the order they were drawn. Also, for anyone who is going to come in and say: LOL STUDY ANATOMY NOOB, please kindly stfu, I already am and it is helping me improve. biggrin Cutethulhu  Toasty Spite  Plague Doctor Construct  Elder God in the T.V. Wut? 
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Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 3:34 am
There are some good sensibilities and ideas there. My advice would be to stick to it, draw from life a bit... all of that sort of thing that you apparently already know to do.
You may want to get your hands on a good tutorial about perspective at this point. Learning perspective early on will probably be an advantage, and the toaster pic evidences that you haven't probably covered that yet.
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Dr. Valentine Vice Captain
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Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 4:51 am
Dr. Valentine There are some good sensibilities and ideas there. My advice would be to stick to it, draw from life a bit... all of that sort of thing that you apparently already know to do.
You may want to get your hands on a good tutorial about perspective at this point. Learning perspective early on will probably be an advantage, and the toaster pic evidences that you haven't probably covered that yet. Perspective has been a massively nasty problem for me. I will look up a tutorial on it. <3 Thank you for your input.
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Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:53 pm
you have really interesting ideas that will probably make for interesting art when your skills sharpen.
you just need more practice..with everything.
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Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 10:10 pm
Page Boy you have really interesting ideas that will probably make for interesting art when your skills sharpen. you just need more practice..with everything. :3 I do. I plan to keep it up. Thanks. <3
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Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 9:08 am
Surely you've wrangled a pencil prior to a week ago? surprised
But yeah, good start so far. Keep up with the anatomy study things. Also, there's the old chestnut about making sure you draw things rather than symbols for them - like Cthulhu's left eye there, which at the moment looks almost like it's just a sticker or something similarly flat. An eye's not just an ellipse with a circle in it, it has a three-dimensional structure all of its own, and getting a handle on that kind of thing and dropping reliance on visual shorthand for stuff (like a circle-in-an-ellipse for an eye, an L-shape instead of a nose, that sort of thing) will prove invaluable in the long run. Not saying you do all those sort of things, just that it's something that definitely needs paying attention to. 3nodding
Good luck with the ongoing studies. I'd recommend spending time just copying poses and plates from anatomy texts a lot first, as getting a sound working knowledge of the human machine is pretty much the best foundation you can get. If you're already making such sketches, post 'em. biggrin
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Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 12:30 am
listen to him. He says stuff that sounds smart.
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Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 3:46 am
Zahir Surely you've wrangled a pencil prior to a week ago? surprised But yeah, good start so far. Keep up with the anatomy study things. Also, there's the old chestnut about making sure you draw things rather than symbols for them - like Cthulhu's left eye there, which at the moment looks almost like it's just a sticker or something similarly flat. An eye's not just an ellipse with a circle in it, it has a three-dimensional structure all of its own, and getting a handle on that kind of thing and dropping reliance on visual shorthand for stuff (like a circle-in-an-ellipse for an eye, an L-shape instead of a nose, that sort of thing) will prove invaluable in the long run. Not saying you do all those sort of things, just that it's something that definitely needs paying attention to. 3nodding Good luck with the ongoing studies. I'd recommend spending time just copying poses and plates from anatomy texts a lot first, as getting a sound working knowledge of the human machine is pretty much the best foundation you can get. If you're already making such sketches, post 'em. biggrin Thank you so much for this advice. Oddly enough, Iconoclast has given me very similar advice about drawing things and not symbols for things. It is one of my very big problems, but I am working on it. Also, thank you Dr. Valentine! I've been working on perspective somewhat, and it is definitely helping!
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Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 4:08 am
Oh, I like the plague doctor.
They have life-sized models of those guys in this creepy underground street in Edinburgh and they scared the crap out of me. That's got to be the last thing you want to see when you're dying of the plague!
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Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 9:32 am
ficklefiend Oh, I like the plague doctor. They have life-sized models of those guys in this creepy underground street in Edinburgh and they scared the crap out of me. That's got to be the last thing you want to see when you're dying of the plague! O_O Are you serious? Can you snap a pic of one and send it to me? I am unhealthily obsessed with plague doctors.
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Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 5:14 am
armageddon smile ficklefiend Oh, I like the plague doctor. They have life-sized models of those guys in this creepy underground street in Edinburgh and they scared the crap out of me. That's got to be the last thing you want to see when you're dying of the plague! O_O Are you serious? Can you snap a pic of one and send it to me? I am unhealthily obsessed with plague doctors. I don't live in Edinburgh, it was just a day trip.. *goes off to see if they have an internet site*  The room there is lit up with the camera flash, when you walk in it's pitch black and I seriously thought the model was going to come to life and jump at us or something..."The Real Mary King’s Close consists of a number of closes which were originally narrow streets with houses on either side, stretching up to seven storeys high. In 1753, the Burgh Council decided to develop a new building on this site, the Royal Exchange (now the City Chambers). The houses at the top of the closes were knocked down and part of the lower sections were kept and used as the foundations for the Royal Exchange. The remnants of the closes were left beneath the building, dark and ancient dwellings steeped in mystery."
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Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 11:38 pm
ficklefiend armageddon smile ficklefiend Oh, I like the plague doctor. They have life-sized models of those guys in this creepy underground street in Edinburgh and they scared the crap out of me. That's got to be the last thing you want to see when you're dying of the plague! O_O Are you serious? Can you snap a pic of one and send it to me? I am unhealthily obsessed with plague doctors. I don't live in Edinburgh, it was just a day trip.. *goes off to see if they have an internet site* The room there is lit up with the camera flash, when you walk in it's pitch black and I seriously thought the model was going to come to life and jump at us or something..."The Real Mary King’s Close consists of a number of closes which were originally narrow streets with houses on either side, stretching up to seven storeys high. In 1753, the Burgh Council decided to develop a new building on this site, the Royal Exchange (now the City Chambers). The houses at the top of the closes were knocked down and part of the lower sections were kept and used as the foundations for the Royal Exchange. The remnants of the closes were left beneath the building, dark and ancient dwellings steeped in mystery."D: Awesome. Thanks! I've gotta see this stuff in real life someday!
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