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Avshalom
Feb 14, 2012

by Lowtax
Daily portraits #2



Next month I'll do bodies, and then the month after I'll venture into colour.

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Al-Saqr
Nov 11, 2007

One Day I Will Return To Your Side.
A bunch of MSpaint sketches I did as quick warmups in the morning:-






bitmap
Aug 8, 2006

http://vimeo.com/92020010

To all who would desecrate tombs.

Beelzebub
Apr 17, 2002

In the event that you make sense, I will still send you to the 7th circle.

bitmap posted:

http://vimeo.com/92020010

To all who would desecrate tombs.

Great work bitmap!

SirJohanna
Nov 23, 2007

Drawing of golden beetle on branch in my moleskine. The beetle was painted over in PS, in the sketchbook it's coloured with pencils but it turned out kinda blah, I'm new at rendering shiny stuff. I'm not entirely sure if it's completely done yet, I might still work a little on the beetle.


Edit: Worked more on the bug.

SirJohanna fucked around with this message at 08:58 on Apr 16, 2014

Beelzebub
Apr 17, 2002

In the event that you make sense, I will still send you to the 7th circle.
Rough value/color study to help paint the final.

felat
Apr 27, 2008

Just a suggestion: I'd try darkening the values on the door and big chunk of flying debris to see if it gives the piece a bit more depth.

Beelzebub
Apr 17, 2002

In the event that you make sense, I will still send you to the 7th circle.
Thanks Felat, I'll work it in as I'm painting the final.

felat
Apr 27, 2008

Don't put too much faith in my critic tho, because this drawing clearly proves how much I suck at this stuff.



I just started drawing straight ahead without measuring anything and my study ended up hobbit proportioned.

Avshalom
Feb 14, 2012

by Lowtax


Daily portraits #3. This one sucks (I think because the nose is too short and the lower half of the face is warped to one side and the teeth are way too darkly outlined? Can anyone else see any glaring malformations?) but you're going to see it anyway. You're going to see them all! Every last one!

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost
Trying to work out some friendly neighborhood monsters (who will wear clothes).

Baldbeard
Mar 26, 2011

Avshalom posted:



Daily portraits #3. This one sucks (I think because the nose is too short and the lower half of the face is warped to one side and the teeth are way too darkly outlined? Can anyone else see any glaring malformations?) but you're going to see it anyway. You're going to see them all! Every last one!

Try thinning your lines out quite a bit and going for more precise shapes. Right now the teeth are the same thickness as the lips, which are the same as the cheek, nose, and eye lids. Needs some more variation in line thickness (or drop the lines altogether).

SirJohanna
Nov 23, 2007

Avshalom posted:



Daily portraits #3. This one sucks (I think because the nose is too short and the lower half of the face is warped to one side and the teeth are way too darkly outlined? Can anyone else see any glaring malformations?) but you're going to see it anyway. You're going to see them all! Every last one!

Maybe try moving up the entire mouth somewhat?

Lumpy
Apr 26, 2002

La! La! La! Laaaa!



College Slice
Trying to use color... drew it for last month's theme and painted it since it's an undersea landscape! I need to learn how to do color. Picked up 'Color and Light' by Gurney, so hopefully that and a million hours of practice will help.



Since I over-work / think everything, tried to do something fast with minimal fussing. Although it's not spectacular, I kind of like it, and am happy I resisted the urge to keep messing with it.

Beelzebub
Apr 17, 2002

In the event that you make sense, I will still send you to the 7th circle.
That's a really good book and should help you out a ton. I've found that half the battle with color is actually getting the values correct.

diddy kongs feet
Dec 11, 2012

wanna lick the dirt out between ur chimp toes
5am Shevlino study. Just under 45 mins.

neonnoodle
Mar 20, 2008

by exmarx

diddy kongs feet posted:

5am Shevlino study. Just under 45 mins.



Shevlino is the man, nice study.

Here are two things from today:


CloseFriend
Aug 21, 2002

Un malheur ne vient jamais seul.
One of the better "perks" of my job is having an office down the hall from the A&P prof (who is incredibly supportive of my interest in artistic anatomy, no less). She loaned me an anatomy book that's been awesome for studies.

BoneMonkey
Jul 25, 2008

I am happy for you.

trying to get back into drawing again.




and I've been working on this forever, might as well show some people.

petrol blue
Feb 9, 2013

sugar and spice
and
ethanol slammers

Guess what I've been watching while drinking?

ironcladfolly
May 22, 2007

Devil's Favorite Doggie
Been a while since I've posted in Daily Doodles. I've been distracted by watching a whole lot of wrestling. So I decided to start doing wrestling-inspired art. And because the hot new thing is Disney Princesses these days, I'm drawing Disney Princesses as classic wrestlers.


Wowporn
May 31, 2012

HarumphHarumphHarumph
Drew a tiny postcard sized thing as a 'leave behind' for my fancy class about how to be a professional art dude.


neonnoodle posted:

Here are two things from today:


Doooooooooooooope

Avshalom
Feb 14, 2012

by Lowtax

Baldbeard posted:

Try thinning your lines out quite a bit and going for more precise shapes. Right now the teeth are the same thickness as the lips, which are the same as the cheek, nose, and eye lids. Needs some more variation in line thickness (or drop the lines altogether).

SirJohanna posted:

Maybe try moving up the entire mouth somewhat?

Thank you both! I'm trying to gradually wean myself off lines altogether, but I've really neglected learning to show form with tone in the past so it's a slow process. I'll pay more attention to line widths (and nose-mouth placement, which has been a thorn in my side for years and years for some reason.)

meataidstheft
Jul 31, 2005

Yous a lady Skwisgaar!
In terms of feature placement on faces, I always get psyched out because the plane of the face, and the cranium itself, are pretty large. When you place the face on there, it looks deceptively tiny so you want to fill up the space.

At least that always seems to be my problem. When I consciously make an effort to reduce the size of my features and tighten up their placement, my drawings are more successful.

When you look at other animals, mostly their 'face' takes up most of the front of their head. We got big ole cheeks and foreheads and temples.

Lumpy
Apr 26, 2002

La! La! La! Laaaa!



College Slice

Beelzebub posted:

That's a really good book and should help you out a ton. I've found that half the battle with color is actually getting the values correct.

Yeah, I seem to invariably push values to the middle the moment color is involved. Practice practice practice! I have been doing those quick tiny studies from Ctrl-Paint and they seem to be helping.

BoneMonkey
Jul 25, 2008

I am happy for you.

paint paint paint, I think Im at the stage where I really don't like this painting, just gotta work through it I suppose.

dupersaurus
Aug 1, 2012

Futurism was an art movement where dudes were all 'CARS ARE COOL AND THE PAST IS FOR CHUMPS. LET'S DRAW SOME CARS.'

BoneMonkey posted:

and I've been working on this forever, might as well show some people.



Words I'd never think I'd say, but if you're going to have one giant dick, you should really push it and maybe have more. I'm talking going full Aubrey Beardsley.

pixelbaron
Mar 18, 2009

~ Notice me, Shempai! ~
Does that giant dick have its own legs

Bubbacub
Apr 17, 2001

Here's a sketch, next to zero effort into the drawing or coloring. I've never really drawn a multi-panel cartoon before, so it's mostly an exercise in layout and composition.

BoneMonkey
Jul 25, 2008

I am happy for you.

pixelbaron posted:

Does that giant dick have its own legs

Yes. There was a thread called land between rivers. It was a cyoa so of course goons gave some guy a artillery penis.

HottiePippen
Nov 5, 2013

Doodlin'. I need to start using this thread, it's fun to see people's daily stuff.


petrol blue
Feb 9, 2013

sugar and spice
and
ethanol slammers
Yesterday was Ygrit, today is whitehawtgirljesus!

Avshalom
Feb 14, 2012

by Lowtax


This one looks like poo poo too but I can't even tell why. I don't think it's the teeth this time. I guess I just have to keep loving up over and over until I've made every mistake that can possibly be made.

Phylodox
Mar 30, 2006



College Slice
Well, just at first glance it looks like her face takes up too much of her head. The face only really occupies the bottom half of it. She could stand to have more cranium, I think.

typ0ninja
Jan 9, 2005

Avshalom posted:



This one looks like poo poo too but I can't even tell why. I don't think it's the teeth this time. I guess I just have to keep loving up over and over until I've made every mistake that can possibly be made.

Looking pretty good, the main thing I see is the eyes don't completely match the perspective of the rest of her face. IE her left(the right side of pic) eye is larger than her right even though its farther away.





Study from last night... blah

Typical
Mar 19, 2007

I've been drawing i swear, I just cant post a lot of it :(




But here are cut outs of me and my friends!

Wait. edit. I can probably show you this. I took a test for the show I work on, It was for prop design. A prop is like a thing that a character interacts with, like a spoon, a space ship, a car. or what have you. Also they test you on you ability to draw an object from various angles.















So yeah, if your not already watching Rick and Morty, you should. Because I will be designing props for season 2. Also it is a good show.

Typical fucked around with this message at 08:59 on Apr 18, 2014

diddy kongs feet
Dec 11, 2012

wanna lick the dirt out between ur chimp toes
more Shevlinos. Actively forcing myself not to draw from imagination right now, I feel like sketching whatever comes to me organically has really held me back.

Humboldt Squid
Jan 21, 2006

Avshalom posted:



This one looks like poo poo too but I can't even tell why. I don't think it's the teeth this time. I guess I just have to keep loving up over and over until I've made every mistake that can possibly be made.

V.quick paintover to highlight some of the problems here.

Duuk
Sep 4, 2006

Victorious, he returned to us, claiming that he had slain the drought where even Orlanth could not. The god-talkers were not sure what to make of this.
More stuff from my book.

I've been growing increasingly uncomfortable with the cover image I used.

It didn't sit quite right from the beginning, I suppose, but I could not identify what it was that bugged me.

Anyway, decided to rework it:


I do like it better. Would appreciate a heads up if anyone notices something I should pay attention to before publishing.

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Shuffle
Feb 3, 2011

DEA Sloth!
No Fast Movements!

Duuk posted:

More stuff from my book.

I've been growing increasingly uncomfortable with the cover image I used.

It didn't sit quite right from the beginning, I suppose, but I could not identify what it was that bugged me.

Anyway, decided to rework it:


I do like it better. Would appreciate a heads up if anyone notices something I should pay attention to before publishing.

The two title lines on the bottom aren't centered the left side is 5/16th from the edge right side is 3/16th. Unless this was intended.

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