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heavy liquid posted:Thanks! Looking forward to seeing your frog when you finish it. Thanks for the generator link! If you wanna have a bad time, horses. If not, I'd love to see some squid or cuttlefish! This is the most cartoonish I've seen you go, and I think your style suits it well! It's refreshing how many faces you're including in your poses, as well. Perspective is a hell fucker, this turned out real nice! Very natural-feeling. Sharpest Crayon fucked around with this message at 21:25 on May 4, 2019 |
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heavy liquid posted:I'll probably end up using it, unless anyone shouts out an animal request. cyclops goat
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Sharpest Crayon posted:Thanks for the generator link! Squid or cuttlefish... why not both? You DID mean the squid from Splatoon, right? Good suggestion for the horses! I'll have a bad time with them tomorrow or Monday. I don't know why they're so hard to draw, but they are. Some random thoughts while drawing: -The eyes of cuttlefish are just like Hypnotoad's eyes. Just... like... Hypno... toads... -It's pretty weird how sea creatures can develop the same style stripes as land animals like tigers. 125.  Al! posted:cyclops goat Cyclops goat will be on the way!
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for someone's avatar. winona and the great blue heron were painted from reference
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Jack B Nimble posted:I posted maybe a month or two ago about trying to learn to draw and while I haven't posted anything since it's not because I gave up. Rather, I found (from this Sub Forum) Marc Leone's lectures on youtube and I've been working through his videos more or less every day. I didn't see much point in posting the work before now, since it was all abstract exercises like forms, shape, perspective, etc, but now we've finally gotten around to making something "real", a city in three point perspective: You did well, it looks good. Please use [timg] instead of [img]. With regards to a random species finder, I went to search the web to find a comprehensive database of Life which of course exists here: https://www.catalogueoflife.org/ now to find out how to use that API to my benefits. edit: wrote them an email and found https://github.com/Sp2000 sp so let's see if this is easy or hard to create a PR for. Instead of coloring in that frog, I gently caress around on the internets, great. Keetron fucked around with this message at 14:45 on May 5, 2019 |
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May 5, 2019 11:22
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 I'm out of practice and never was very good at eyes in the first place. I should probably also try and practice drawing full faces because I am terrible at facial proportions (and proportions in general tbh).
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Keetron posted:c'est ci n'est pas une frog Nice! Is it watercolor and pen? Al! posted:cyclops goat 126. 
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Had this in my sketchbook a while and bought a tarot deck recently. Seemed to fit and I'm satisfied with how it turned out.
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heavy liquid posted:Nice! Is it watercolor and pen? Yep, Van Gogh tubes, Arches paper and Rembrandt Red Sable brushes. The pen I need to get some contrast in there, some day I will probably be better at this. Next animal will be a ladybug as per my wife's request. I like your animals more than your cars, am I allowed to say that?
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Keetron posted:Yep, Van Gogh tubes, Arches paper and Rembrandt Red Sable brushes. The pen I need to get some contrast in there, some day I will probably be better at this. Of course! I like the animals better than the cars, too. They're more fun for me to draw, and I think that shows. Cars are way out of my comfort zone and they took a lot of effort. It was becoming easier towards the end, so maybe I'll start having more fun with them with more practice. Hopefully.
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Okay, the Croquis Café recommendation was perfect. Haven't been to the promised real life croquis session yet, but I'm having a lot of fun just practicing from youtube. Here's one of my 2-minute sketches from today that turned out pretty well.  Not all of them turned out this well, but compare to this one from some time last week (also a 2-minute sketch, I believe).  Idk, if I can keep doing a bit of this every day (more or less), I think I'll learn a lot. And it's fun!
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You ever just get the urge to draw a bunch of pokemon?  
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i listened to an entire spooky halloween tape from the 90s https://archive.org/details/youtube-KGEWmHnyzEg and drew this 
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Oooh! I can do spooky! Acrylic IRL-painting spooky!
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Aaaaah hello there rubbery friends! I need to play splatoon one of these days, it looks like fun. Fukken niiiiiiiice. This looks like it should be on an informational pamphlet. Radioactivity and you: will you be dead? (Yes) I've also been on a spooky bend, making these little sculpey skulls (and various other critters) 
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Messing around with facial expressions and planes and lighting and colour a bit: Wanted to try something really angular looking, but still expressive. I don't know why World of Warcraft races are my go-to whenever I want to try practicing stuff. They're just fun, I guess.
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I started getting into digital art and boy it is fun so far. I’ve been drawing nonstop. I’m sketching out bodies on break at work  And I spent basically a whole evening just scratching out rocks  And I did this drawing of a player character in the campaign we’re playing right now 
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Sixto Lezcano posted:And I spent basically a whole evening just scratching out rocks Those are some nice rocks! You could almost say, they ... rock.
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Sharpest Crayon posted:If you wanna have a bad time, horses. No room for the whole bodies, so I just drew two horse heads. Why are horse mouths so weird and hard to draw? I actually got pretty close, but it still looks weird. I guess because they are weird. 127. 
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Those are pretty good horses! I used to draw horses as a kid (I was kind of obsessed), but those were, well, kids drawings.
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I've had hell every time with horse nostrils, too. Horses are just so freaking alien. Comparing yourself to cats and dogs, it's not that hard to see and think "yes all these parts are where they should be, for an animal" but horses are like if god was trying to draw an anteater from memory while high and made it too much. "Make the skull long, no, longer, also this whole end is its nose. Yeah. But pull the eyes back and to the sides, perfect. Now which way did elbows work? do they bend..? you know what, let's just go opposite from the knees. Hold on, how many knees did I give it?" A couple of times I've drawn horses and thought they'd look better if I just adjust x, but you adjust x and it stops looking like a horse. They're weird and too different. I'm dissin' on horses. ..these are acceptable, though.
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Nice. Would learn Kung Fu at that temple/dojo I haven't drawn anything in probably a decade and haven't taken an art class since grade school some 20+ years ago (feelin' old  )But I've been suckered into watercolour painting because of a YouTuber named Shibasaki. To that end I've started sketching to try to give myself a base to put watercolours to. My first watercolour turned out as a mess but I enjoyed it anyway. My next picture is going to be a poison arrow frog so I sketched one from a picture I took of the internet. I mostly wanted to see if I could sketch well enough that I wouldn't have to try to trace/grid a frog onto watercolour paper and this was the result. I used a 2h pencil and 0.2 felt tip pen. Just as well I did use the pen or the scan would be invisible. You can barely see the leaf he's sitting on. I felt like I did well enough that I could sketch it on to watercolour paper so I'm feeling pretty chipper. I was expecting far worse since I have no formal training and haven't tried to draw anything properly in such a long time, and it's not like I was artsy as a kid either. 
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Carth Dookie posted:Nice. Hey, I am 41 and been drawing on and off over the last decade, putting materials away for years at a time because I did not like my progress. This time however I got over myself and just enjoy the progress. Learning to draw at a later age will help you give fewer gently caress about what people think. It is also harder to find time but you have the funds to purchase any materials you fancy. Yay! Down the youtube watercolor rabbithole you go! Shibasaki only showed up on my screen yesterday and my, is he a treasure. He stands out because he is an old guy with a pleasant voice and amazing skills, most other watercolor tubers are women in their 20s and 30s it seems. As I am only a few weeks ahead of you in watercolor learning (well, it feels like a few weeks), there is a few very important things that I discovered. 1. paper matters way more than it should. Splurge on an Arches 100% cotton cold press A3 pad and cut those up to A5 or A6 to get the most bang for your buck: https://www.amazon.com/Arches-Watercolor-Paper-x16-53-1795094/dp/B01FBYI7M2 If money is less of an issue, just buy the A4 or A5 pads. There is a few vids on the why, but this one has some nice arguments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEC0-PRmw10 2. brushes matter a ton in enjoyment but surprisingly also in result. Get a set of natural hair (red sable) watercolor brushes consisting of a 4, an 8 and a 12 or again, dive into the youtube brushes rabbithole and spend $10 a piece for the silver black velvet set: https://www.amazon.com/Silver-Brush-SLM-Basic-Painting-Watercolor/dp/B008BRYGEK/ 3. very weird, but paints come only third. Try to get some student grade tubes from either Van Gogh or Winsor&Newton, depending on your location some other brands might be better priced but I am in Europe so I go with these. 4. mix your paints in porcelain, not in plastic. Yes, some very skilled people use plastic just fine. You and I are not skilled, porcelain is so much nicer! 5. If you tape down your paper is up to you, I use a piece of hardboard to tape it on so I can move it aside while drying and I want to use my desk for something else. I would recommend it, warping and buckling is super annoying and not many people are able to avoid that. 6. Final tip: do not put hurdles in your way for putting paint to paper (such as you did now). The skill of how to move the pigment around when it is on the paper, how to lift it, blend it, mix it, reactivate it and all the other cool things you can do is NOT depending on your drawing skill. You can practise these separately. While it might not hold you back as much as it did me, I was always afraid to gently caress up a perfectly nice lined drawing with watercolors and the simple reason was that I did not have enough practise with the watercolors because I was afraid to gently caress up a perfectly good drawing. End of ramble, I hope it helps you enjoy watercolors as they are the most fun I had in a long time drawing.
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I'm using Strathmore 400 cold press 300gsm paper in a book. I will try Archer in the not too distant future. I am using sable hair brushes and Windsor and Newton paints. I hadn't given a thought to palette material at this point. The drawing is in addition to painting. I don't intend to hold back on painting "until I'm ready" because as you said, there's plenty to learn in paints.
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lofi posted:Palette material hadn't occurred to me either. What difference does it make? Plastic is hydrophobic, porcelain is hydrophilic. So on plastic it forms beads where on porcelain it smears. This all makes paint easier to mix, dilute and pick up on porcelain.
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Oh ! That's really helpful, I'd been struggling with mixing colours, particularly mixing large amounts. Might be down to the metal pan I'm using then. I'll give porcelain a try, I have a proper palette but hadn't bothered with it. Thankyou!
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Hadn't thought of that, I assumed the beading was as a result of my local water. Interesting
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Wow, thanks for all the watercolor info, Keetron! I've only played around with it a bit, but have been meaning to experiment more with it. There's a guy at my figuredrawing studies that does amazing watercolors, and I was always in awe of his colors and how he was able to so quickly get the figures on paper. I've also subscribed to Shibasaki, and will have to watch some of his videos later.Sharpest Crayon posted:I've had hell every time with horse nostrils, too. Horses are just so freaking alien. Comparing yourself to cats and dogs, it's not that hard to see and think "yes all these parts are where they should be, for an animal" but horses are like if god was trying to draw an anteater from memory while high and made it too much. "Make the skull long, no, longer, also this whole end is its nose. Yeah. But pull the eyes back and to the sides, perfect. Now which way did elbows work? do they bend..? you know what, let's just go opposite from the knees. Hold on, how many knees did I give it?" That's so funny what you mentioned about the nose, because I literally had to erase the nose on the top drawing to make it longer. I drew a horse a few years ago which was a travesty, and thankfully these turned out a bit better. I'll take acceptable! More practice might be in order. Random animal generator gave me American buffalo. Which are also very weird animals now that I've drawn a couple. Like, why do they mostly have hair just on the front half of their bodies? 128. 
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Found this video that explains it well. edit kjdhgfkhd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDsfmrIP1jM The beading, not the hair! Keetron fucked around with this message at 13:44 on May 8, 2019 |
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I love weird poo poo like that, stuff that no-one but an artist or a specialist in the field would know. Allegedy it helps when you draw from imagination because your stuff will look more real.
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Quick cards for an improvised RPG about controlling body parts. My favourite is obvious.
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I think your favourite is my favourite too. Now do a hands + butt = goatse combo.
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