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 You may have noticed that this thread now has a shiny new NWS tag in the title, which means you no longer need to link to NWS drawings here! Hooray! To celebrate, this month's theme is THE HUMAN FIGURE! Here's links to help you start out: Reference blogs http://helpyoudraw.tumblr.com/search/anatomy http://senshistock.tumblr.com/ http://art-tutorials.tumblr.com/tagged/anatomy http://learninganatomy.tumblr.com/ http://fyeaharttips.tumblr.com/ http://human-proportions.tumblr.com/ http://art-and-sterf.tumblr.com/ http://ibelievepracticemakesperfect.tumblr.com/search/anatomy http://anatomicalart.tumblr.com/ http://artistresources.tumblr.com/tagged/anatomy Online figure drawing tools http://www.quickposes.com/ http://artists.pixelovely.com/practice-tools/figure-drawing/ I'll post inspirational figure drawings and talk about theory later in the week, but for now here's a rude nude dude  (Caipora for @Sketch_Dailies, inspired by Brazilian street artist Rimon Guimarães) Humboldt Squid fucked around with this message at 09:33 on May 1, 2014 |
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 A hand. That's anatomy, right.
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May 1, 2014 16:37
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 I'll help kick the figure stuff off with a study I did a bit ago. I always want to get back into figure studies, but never get around to it. Maybe the new thread will help me get back into the swing.
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May 1, 2014 20:04
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Not figures but I finished a Series.   http://dude.cartyis.me/n64/ http://dude.cartyis.me/n64/ http://dude.cartyis.me/n64/
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May 1, 2014 22:14
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Quick sketch of the Lesser House Goon: Only very rough, but I was really happy with the, um, solidness (is that the right term?). e: Eastdrom posted:
That really reminds me of the iron man. petrol blue fucked around with this message at 23:00 on May 1, 2014 |
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May 1, 2014 22:54
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Did this one yesterday. Trying to go for a very kinetic, sludgy style.
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May 2, 2014 01:27
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May 2, 2014 05:49
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 Finding that just putting down random splotches of colour and making stuff is way more fun than planning what i'm going to do.
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May 2, 2014 06:40
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Baldbeard posted:
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May 2, 2014 06:49
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 It's been a crazy few days in my world. I'm determined to get back to daily practice tomorrow! (Or, well, today - it's 2am here.)
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May 2, 2014 16:57
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Cartyisme posted:Not figures but I finished a Series. do you realize that you're one of the dumbest faggots alive, a talentless autistic nineties kid andy warhol wh othinks if he puts his clumsy paintings of cartridges someone else designed on bright solid color backgrounds they become art (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
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May 2, 2014 22:31
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May 2, 2014 22:38
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I am so angry about art on the Internet!!!
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May 2, 2014 22:39
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Phylodox posted:I am so angry about art on the Internet!!! me too
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May 2, 2014 22:41
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e: gently caress it, can't be arsed. 
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May 2, 2014 23:24
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You sure are quite the fucker
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Phylodox posted:I am so angry about art on the Internet!!! Do you think art isn't worth getting angry about, Phylodox?
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May 2, 2014 23:42
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it's irrelevant because i'm not mad about art, i'm mad about those paintings cartyisme made
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May 2, 2014 23:50
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halleys comet posted:Do you think art isn't worth getting angry about, Phylodox I'm 100% sure there's a passionate, articulate discussion to be had about commercial objects as art, but I doubt that discussion involves weirdly vicious ad hominem attacks.
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May 3, 2014 00:19
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Phylodox posted:I'm 100% sure there's a passionate, articulate discussion to be had about commercial objects as art, but I doubt that discussion involves weirdly vicious ad hominem attacks. Dont
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May 3, 2014 01:09
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I'm struggling with blending smoothly. Anyone have some advice?
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May 3, 2014 02:39
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Hog Inspector posted:I'm struggling with blending smoothly. Anyone have some advice? For me, I almost never like using soft brushes (I can't tell if you have or not) and instead, I set pen pressure to adjust opacity/flow rate (photoshop here, but you should be able to apply the idea to almost any program) and then color pick like crazy (alt+click). Color pick from dark, paint a little lightly onto light, color pick from the color you made, paint a little lightly onto dark, repeat until it blends in the way you want it to. It also has the advantage of mixing colors for you naturally (though throwing in a little extra color before you start to blend can help make it pop). Edit: vvv That's if you're color picking from a photo. Yeah, that'd work, but then again maybe color picking from a photo isn't a great idea in the first place. Can be good to try and hone your color matching skills by just practicing trying to get the same color as a photo (and I can see now from the thumbnail of Hog's picture, but your version seems to be lighter highlights on the leg and lighter shadows). Jewel fucked around with this message at 02:50 on May 3, 2014 |
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May 3, 2014 02:42
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In terms of colour picking, a trick I learned somewhere was to use the Filter > Pixelate > Crystalize to get bigger areas to pick colours from so you don't end up having to pixel-hunt the shade you're looking for.
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May 3, 2014 02:47
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quite the fucker posted:i'm mad about those paintings cartyisme made Literally no one gives a poo poo about your dumb temper tantrums about video games.
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May 3, 2014 07:03
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I haven't posted in one of these threads for ages. Here's a sketch from the 30-minute segment of an online figure drawing class. I really need to work on feet, and not outlining everything.
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May 3, 2014 07:05
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Phylodox posted:In terms of colour picking, a trick I learned somewhere was to use the Filter > Pixelate > Crystalize to get bigger areas to pick colours from so you don't end up having to pixel-hunt the shade you're looking for. Just change the sample size of the Eyedropper tool to average out the color
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May 3, 2014 17:01
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I had to take a few days off because things got wild IRL and then I got probated for posting toothy owls in the Touhou thread, but I'm back now! loving BABIES jesus christ. I'm going to be drawing a lot of babies because they're impossible and I want to understand them. I'll also be drawing a lot of skulls for the same reason.   I'm aiming at getting into storyboarding as a career, so I'm working on this pseudo-comicky style with heavy linework and flat colours that can be churned out quickly (I'm interning at an illustration studio and learning a whole lot of useful stuff about storyboarding at the moment!) but realistic digital painting is still my main priority because I'm awful at it. Speaking of which:  Also, I cannot express how much I appreciate all the feedback that people have given me so far!  I'm sorry for not responding individually to comments but I've been flat-out for time, but I read every one and it's all been incredibly useful. I apologise for progressing so slowly / not at all and making so many mistakes; I promise that I'm taking all your critique into account, I'm a very slow learner, but your time and effort isn't going to waste.  I love you, Creative Convention!
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May 4, 2014 04:18
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I'm trying to get into editorial illustration, here's a piece I did based on this NYT article talking about how rich people wish they were richer. Any feedback would be much appreciated, also, I wonder if there are any other illustrators here that would be into doing a thread where there's an article & people try to create a finished piece for it by the end of every week, and during the process they can get feedback to weed out the weaker ideas and such. 
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May 4, 2014 04:50
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Thank to goon advice, I've gone from "I hate this" to "it's getting there" with my character design. I finally have one my instructor actually likes: I'm gonna sculpt this summabitch. Evil little boys are the cutest things in the world.
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May 4, 2014 06:35
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Good theme timing, here's a bunch of figure studies I've done recently. Anatomy is hard, yo.  Crappy pics incoming:     
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May 4, 2014 07:46
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WHAT'S WRONG WITH HER EYES?   From this angle it's basically supposed to be a triangle, with the iris a part of a circle in most cases, because you have a straight profile. Unless you don't have a straight profile, in which case you've messed up in a different place, but I'm pretty sure it's a straight profile, because I used to make the same mistake with eyes, until I had it pointed out to me.
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May 4, 2014 08:21
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You would benefit greatly from studying the shape of a skull. The big flat cheeks make it look like her cheekbones are extending down to her jaw in a cylinder shape.
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May 4, 2014 11:17
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Another portrait. Acrylic on canvas.
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May 4, 2014 13:51
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I always have such a hard time drawing (and coloring!) hair, but after checking these entries by James Gurney I think I'm slooowly starting to get the hang of it.  Now if only there was also a tutorial for learning how to draw hairstyles that aren't solely for HUGE NERDS I still need to narrow the whole thing down to a point where I can also apply it to more cartoony, simpler drawings.
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I wanted to challenge myself so I picked a picture with weird lighting and posing. I also took Jewel's suggestions for blending (thanks for those).  I do have a more general question, though. I feel like I'm pretty good at reproducing photos or what's in front of me, but whenever I try to draw from imagination it turns out really bad. What's the best way to start drawing without reference? Is there any tutorial series or exercises that help or give some good basic principles? edit: uncanny how I notice a bunch of things wrong with the picture AFTER I post it Stexils fucked around with this message at 01:53 on May 5, 2014 |
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May 5, 2014 01:49
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Hog Inspector posted:I wanted to challenge myself so I picked a picture with weird lighting and posing. I also took Jewel's suggestions for blending (thanks for those). Loomis is great for that, and his books are available free on the net. Though if you draw from reference enough you'll eventually get a good knowledge of anatomy. If you mean drawing in general here's a nifty page (think it was linked in an earlier thread) with all kinds of tutorials for digital art http://www.floobynooby.com/ICG/artvalues.html
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May 5, 2014 03:01
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Update on the thing from last month's thread.
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May 5, 2014 04:37
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I'm currently working my way through 'Drawing the Head and Hands' by Loomis and it's been incredibly helpful. I can't recommend it enough to anyone learning how to draw.
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May 5, 2014 08:43
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Beelzebub posted:Update on the thing from last month's thread.  I.e. great light and shadow. Am I wearing stereoscopic goggles? The babe has become quite focusable. On the other hand, the fiery jizz monster is too trasparent, and the lines behind it are too well defined, but I guess you haven't gotten to it yet. That's all I have. Again,  for the contrast.
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Thanks supermikhail! Sorry, I should have mentioned that I don't have any "paint" laid down for the mist stuff yet. Right now all you see is the warm base that's under the entire image. The misty tendrils will be glowing green at some point.
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