A Few Drawings

[Illiad86]

A sparrow? Hmm, I could do that. I've been wanting to learn to draw animals more. I never really did them when I did pencil and paper. Be fun, I love watching sparrows...they come to my window sill because I put seed out for them. It's more for the cat than the birds though, he loves watching them :P

 

Here's my newest one, just finished her up a few mins ago :)

 

http://i683.photobucket.com/albums/vv200/Illiana86/animegirl2.jpg

 

I might add some stars or something to the black background, I'm not sure yet

Edited January 3, 2013 by Illiad86

[Keanumoreira]

Awesome! I've never been much of a patron of the arts before. :sweat:

 

And pretty nice. You dish these out quite quickly. :thumbsup:

[Iv000]

Oh wow without practice too >.> and on a wacom tablet.

 

As someone who has a wacom tablet, and who was drawing with a lot of effort for months but just couldn't bring something nice out of it, I have to say you have natural talent. Drawing was something I always wanted to do but apparently I am not meant to do it. Keep it up you're doing amazing work ^^

 

I recommend you get Paint Tool SAI if you want to focus on drawing or painting, that program is absolutely amazing in every possible way. I have to say I'm jelly :D

[Illiad86]

I dunno, it didn't seem that hard to switch over. Just took a bit of messing around in the preferences to get the pressure sensitivity and speed down right :) I honestly thought it was going to be a lot harder. I've also know some basic Photoshop stuff (mostly from messing around in GIMP editing our astrophotography pics), but I just learned how to shade and use layers like that just recently.

 

I just looked at that program. It looks pretty nice. People say it's a good alternative to Photoshop because it's not such a hog. Dunno, I got a full version of Elements for free with the tablet and it runs pretty well. I also use this little thinger called LazyNazumi to help smooth out the curved lines. I can already draw a curve on the tablet pretty nicely, but LazyNazumi cleans it up a bit for me :)

 

Haha, I'm quite surprised myself. I never really worked in colour..but it's so fun on this :D I might try doing a black and white "pencil sketch" after I finish Keanu's sparrow :)

[Iv000]

I'm not saying it's hard to switch over from paper to tablet, it's hard to draw something nice in general :P

 

In fact due to my shaky hands I draw far better on tablet than I do on paper. SAI has this amazing smooth lines option, and a lineart option. It's like the pen tool in photoshop, but it's so much easier to use you could just melt away at it's user-friendlyness. That is basically the main selling point of SAI, the lineart options.

 

Anyway I'm glad to hear you have fun, I got frustrated soon because I am too perfectionist and OCD for drawing. :tongue:

[Keanumoreira]

Oh, I can't wait to see it. :happy:

[Maharg67]

Continues to be excellent! :thumbsup:

[Illiad86]

I'm not saying it's hard to switch over from paper to tablet, it's hard to draw something nice in general :P

 

In fact due to my shaky hands I draw far better on tablet than I do on paper. SAI has this amazing smooth lines option, and a lineart option. It's like the pen tool in photoshop, but it's so much easier to use you could just melt away at it's user-friendlyness. That is basically the main selling point of SAI, the lineart options.

 

Anyway I'm glad to hear you have fun, I got frustrated soon because I am too perfectionist and OCD for drawing. :tongue:

 

Yeah, I was looking at that particular part of the program. As ya see, I do a lot of anime/manga style stuff :D LazyNezumi is like the smooth lines option in SAI. It's a pretty cool little program, works with about every type of art software. Works with your mouse too:

 

http://people.happycoders.org/kamih/lazynezumi

 

SAI looks like a nice program and all...but it's $60 lol. For that price, I was expecting it to look less like something from Windows 95 :laugh:

 

Elements doesn't have the Pen Tool. I consider that "cheating" lol...as long as you have a steady hand you can draw very smooth curves on the tablet. I use LazyNezumi to smooth them out just slightly. I just think it looks too well "Photoshopped" when the lines are perfect :P

 

Which tablet do you have?

Edited January 4, 2013 by Illiad86

[Illiad86]

Here's your sparrow Keanu :) Was quite different to draw...like I said, I never drew many animals:

 

http://i683.photobucket.com/albums/vv200/Illiana86/keanusparrow.jpg

 

Hope you like :)

[jhondidfool]

I'm going to be a bit of a douchebag, sorry.

 

The only one I "liked" was this last one of the bird, yet it's mediocre at best. I'm not telling you to stop drawing, quite the opposite, but my father is, among other things, a drawer, and I've been looking at the pictures of El Prado several weekends every year for my whole life. My standards may be a bit high.

 

I "liked" the bird because the proportions are correct and the brush is correctly applied.

 

 

Now I'll talk about the dog and the girls. Please, take this as constructive criticism, I don't know how much of a technical background you've got on drawing, so I'm assuming you are hailing from the complete lack of it.

 

- The dog. Nice touch with the hair, the rest is shaky, as if you had drawn it looking through a distorting glass. This happens a lot if you're not looking your drawing from a cenital perspective.

 

-The girls. You lack anatomic correctness. Find a book on anatomy and prectice hands and properly drawn eyes and mouths: they're far more expressive than any anime counterpart.

 

Finally, a word of advice: create your own style. It'll be much easier for you to make expressive drawings with it and it will make them yours and only yours.

Again, please, take this all as constructive criticism from someone who thinks of himself a bit more cultured on drawing than you based on your work. Don't falther and keep drawing and getting better :)

 

[Douchebaggery off]

 

PS: Take a lot of photos of people and places to see how light interects with objects and colours. Observe it yourself directly. Summer is great for observing light. A great painter that might give you an inisght of how light works is Monet, another may be Goya, for the shadows and dark areas. Soroya is a good one to practice textures and light.

Edited January 9, 2013 by jhondidfool