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 In Chuck Amok, my childhood hero Chuck Jones' autobiography, the legendary animator has this piece of memorable advice for pencil-dragging newcomers to the world of drawing: Charles M. Jones posted:"...it was no discouraging surprise to me that my first instructor at Chouinard Art Institute, like Nicolaides at the Art Students League, greeted his beginning classes with the following grim edict: 'All of you here have one hundred thousand bad drawings in you. The sooner you get rid of them, the better it will be for everyone.' It is, hands down, the best advice I ever got on drawing, and seeing as I've been selling drawings for years now it must have done me some good. The really important part to take from it is not the "one hundred thousand" bit, but rather the "bad" part. The key to doing anything well is practice, duh, but in the arts it's an especially nasty process because all of your mistakes are butting up right against your tastes and sensibilities, and the contrast is so painful. It's really, really, really, really, really frustrating being so much worse than your heroes for so long. But there's no other way to get better than to just get through it. In this thread we will all be practicing drawing together, based off of eachothers' suggestions. It's pretty simple: someone makes a suggestion for a drawing, then somebody else will reserve the suggestion and make a counter-suggestion. Then those two people draw, capture and post. Two more bad drawings out of the way, and that much closer to glory! To keep things from going bonkers we must have some  THREAD RULES I suppose:#1: No making GBS threads up the thread with pointless negativity. These are practice drawings, they are intentionally quick and crappy. Constructive criticism is still valuable but be kind, nobody should be expecting polished masterpieces. #2 Try to make suggestions reasonably simple, ie you can finish them in less than half an hour. Please keep in mind we're doodling here, not drafting epic crowd-scenes, and copyrighted characters are considerably harder to draw than generic suggestions so they should be used sparingly. #3: I won't kick anybody out for doing digital drawings- draw with whatever you want, graphite, ink, pixels, whatever. I personally think analog drawings on paper are better for the exercise because ease of editing is our enemy. If you make a mistake with a ball-point pen on the back of an envelope you don't get to Ctrl+Z out of it, you get to live with it, another notch on your bad drawings belt. But far be it from me to dissuade art of any kind. No matter how you do your drawing try to get the clearest image of it you can (we want to see your smudges and gently caress-ups, it's important to the process). #4: General hosting n' posting rules apply: size your images reasonably, use timg as needed and properly host your files, put  things behind a link etc. I use imgur for random stuff like this, I'm sure there are other services available, PM me if you're having trouble and we'll figure something out.#5 Please don't ask anybody to draw anything creepy. At least, not in here. STARTER SUGGESTIONS Sign up for one of these by claiming it in a post where you also make a counter-suggestion, I will draw your suggestion badly in return for your bad drawing of mine. A: Ghosts in a tricycle race. (RESERVED BY SUPER MARIO BATALI) B: Ants getting married. (RESERVED BY FLUFFIEDUCKIE) C: A wild-west birthday cake. (RESERVED BY SHINMAI) D: Dinosaur propaganda. (RESERVED BY LUVCOW) E: A drunken genie. (RESERVED BY DOCTOR DOGBALLS) BoldFrankensteinMir fucked around with this message at 15:53 on Jun 13, 2016 |
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Cool Drawing Resources 1: My personal favorite drawing instruction show, Commander Mark's 'The Secret City'. Between this and MST3K I was fairly convinced as a child that in the future we would all wear red jump-suits and draw cool space ships all day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgLeSe8pN3s 2: A neat article about Lynda Barry teaching creative drawing and writing (longhand even) to the people of the Goddard Space Flight Center. BoldFrankensteinMir fucked around with this message at 17:31 on Jun 20, 2016
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claiming D. Dinosaur Propoganda challenging with: very sleepy and happy pig
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Luvcow posted:very sleepy and happy pig 
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claiming ants getting married challenging with hitchhiking 18 wheeler edit:  had to add babies because they had children out of wedlock FluffieDuckie fucked around with this message at 21:56 on Jun 4, 2016
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I would like to snag C A wild-west birthday cake. It'll take me a moment to find my pencils, some patience please   communist bacon |
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FluffieDuckie posted:hitchhiking 18 wheeler  Fluffie Duckie, You immediately honed in on my weakness which is not being able to draw cars for shite. Nicely done. shinmai posted:communist bacon 
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yes well you see i could never draw a hitchhiking 18 wheeler so
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Yes but you captured the wide-eyed nervousness of newlywed invertebrates so perfectly.
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shinmai posted:C A wild-west birthday cake.  I cocked up with the revolvers, but only have soft pencils and didn't want to smudge everything by erasing. |
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shinmai posted:
The gunbelt is loving genius.
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yeah as soon as i start erasing things go sideways
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I like how it's very minimalistic but immediately recognisable. Did you sketch in pencil and erase after inking, or do you just go at it in pen all fearless-like? |
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shinmai posted:Did you sketch in pencil and erase after inking, or do you just go at it in pen all fearless-like? I did a very light pencil sketch then inked over it. Erasers never enter the equation, this is like 5 minutes with a 2B gallery pencil and then a stinky fine-tip sharpie.
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good luck friends, maybe if i can scrounge up some kind of photo takin equipment i'll join you |
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Android Blues posted:good luck friends, maybe if i can scrounge up some kind of photo takin equipment i'll join you i took my picture with my iphone and emailed it to myself to get it on my computer. i know this is a violation of the code of conduct but i figured drawing and participating was more important that adherence to rules, which as i think of it now, may not be the best example to be setting
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Your photo looked fine, there's no rule against using your smartphone camera, so long as you do a nice job of it. EDIT- I have simplified the thread rules to be more inclusive. Still no takers for Tricycle Racing Ghosts, so here's some more seed-suggestions: -A snake dressed for a hot date (TAKEN BY CINDERFUL) -Abe Lincoln, bullfighter (TAKEN BY MACNULT) -Ducks wrecking a jigsaw puzzle (TAKEN BY TWIST FIST) BoldFrankensteinMir fucked around with this message at 16:39 on Jun 5, 2016
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BoldFrankensteinMir posted:-Ducks wrecking a jigsaw puzzle 
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Claiming:BoldFrankensteinMir posted:E: A drunken genie. (RESERVED BY NOBODY) Challenging with: a super-happy frankenstein eating a dessert ---------------- |
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I love it. Do you have a subject you'd like to see in return?
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Doctor Dogballs posted:Claiming: Cake good. Candles bad!
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i'd love to do this but i'm bleeding to death from a thousand cuts so i'll just watch and sometimes say things like its good
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BoldFrankensteinMir posted:I love it. Do you have a subject you'd like to see in return? spider protesters occupy stall street
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BoldFrankensteinMir posted:-Abe Lincoln, bullfighter  Rusty and rushed but here's a drawing. |
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Doctor Dogballs posted:a super-happy frankenstein eating a dessert  Macnult posted:
Very cool, the pose says it all. Want a drawing in return?
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that's an awesome Frankenstein. I'd like to see someone draw a hummingbird laughing at a cat trying to catch it. |
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Holy cow I thought these were supposed to be bad drawings guys wow I am just in awe at these |
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TWIST FIST posted:spider protesters occupy stall street 
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ClaimingBoldFrankensteinMir posted:-A snake dressed for a hot date  a feathered serpent, as it were. Challenging with - a childrens bicycle dressed as a wwf-style wrestler Cinderful fucked around with this message at 08:50 on Jun 5, 2016
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Cinderful posted:Claiming I love the flowers in his tail 
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Macnult posted:a hummingbird laughing at a cat trying to catch it.  Then in return for this awesome one... Cinderful posted:
...this: Cinderful posted:- a childrens bicycle dressed as a wwf-style wrestler  Here's some more challenges- I look forward to your counter-challenges! -A mummy visits the dentist -An underwater skyscraper -Steampunk pizza BoldFrankensteinMir fucked around with this message at 17:11 on Jun 5, 2016
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OOOOH YEAH! since childhood, I've thought the ultimate warrior looked like a little girls bike with his pink tassels and colourful mask. You went with the manliest angle possible, bravo! Cinderful fucked around with this message at 08:02 on Jun 6, 2016
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Here are some more challenges to keep things going. Remember if you draw one of these things, even terribly, you get to make me draw something back, and I take the task of making strangers on the internet laugh with my sketchbook deadly serious you know. -The president of the monkeys. -Two gnomes arguing. -Lovecraftian cactus. -A totem pole of goons. -A scarecrow ballerina. (CLAIMED BY POSTING SMILING) BoldFrankensteinMir fucked around with this message at 00:31 on Jun 13, 2016
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