The drawing thread

Tomorrow's Dawn · Jul 17, 2012

Yes, it's digital.

But I scanned it from a pencil drawing (see above pictures of the guy and the two girls wearing different expressions) and then painted on top of it in Photoshop.

I'll apply some filters and make some Adjustments on it after I feel sufficiently satisfied with my composition.

Meteor Man · Jul 17, 2012

Ah I see. Well, I meant completely digital, as in you were drawing it using a tablet and photoshop like I do.

Edit: you said painting in photoshop, so I suppose this tricks could help anyways.

Try overlaying a layer filled with a light tan or gray and setting the opacity to 70-80%. Then redraw the outline and features and re-buff the colors.
This is of course only if you don't mind drawing on the computer. If you don't have a tablet, though, it can be a little tricky.

This cleans the drawing and allows you to dilute the colors a little bit if they're too strong. Makes it look more realistic.

Tomorrow's Dawn · Jul 17, 2012

Ah, alas. I don't have a tablet.
When I had the opportunity, I chose to upgrade to a better laptop instead.
Which was well worth it because my school offers the full Adobe Master Collection Suite for free to all its' students.

Thank you for the advice by the way.
I'm actually trying to go for a halfway between Bruce Timm's style
and Gil Elvgren's, two artists I'm highly influenced by.

Tani Coyote · Jul 18, 2012

Takhisis said:
I promised fonts, here's most of the special letters. I'll be doing the rest, signs, moar numbers, etc. later.
<snip>

Looking cool, Takh. Gonna try and license it I'd assume?

Tomorrow's Dawn said:
^Princess Elise.

No. Just no.

Anyways, Day 2 of my WIP painting:

<snip>

Background Info if you're too lazy to read the deviantART description:

A daughter of Njörðr.

Looking good, TD! That varying thickness of lines really shows your original point; it helps the picture look even more interesting than it already is. =]

Spoiler :

3-3. The Governor's identity is probably more obvious by now than I had wanted, but ah well. Though I'm dropping all sorts of yummy misleading hints too. Have fun!

Not even 3 issues in and we're already playing "The Game." (The Game being the term Archie Eggman uses to describe his tendency to employ treachorous subordinates. He knows each one of them plots against him, but will serve him faithfully so that there's more for them to take when they overthrow him... if they succeed, anyway.)

One of my best comments was "Geez Robotnik got thin! O.O" I'll clarify accordingly - that is NOT Robotnik. xD

Next panel, back to trees.

Chukchi Husky · Jul 18, 2012

I attempted to paint the picture I did, but like with using the tablet I was doing it wrong. I couldn't find a way to blend or mix colours like with real paints and so I ended up having to do it pixel by pixel. After about an hour all I managed to do was an iris.

Takhisis · Jul 18, 2012

SonicTH said:
Looking cool, Takh. Gonna try and license it I'd assume?

Eventually, yes, I need to do the rest of the signs and a lot of Unicode characters. Greek and Cyrillic might be fun, but I'm not good at drawing them by hand so it'll be a problem, I'll first have to try them by hand. Then, yes, I might put it on Sourceforge or somewhere like that.

SonicTH said:
No. Just no.

Hey, you're learning Tropese already.

Chukchi Husky said:
I attempted to paint the picture I did, but like with using the tablet I was doing it wrong. I couldn't find a way to blend or mix colours like with real paints and so I ended up having to do it pixel by pixel. After about an hour all I managed to do was an iris.

Try GIMP's feature for degradés and similar stuff. Might just work, but I've never used it on hand-and-pencil stuff, only on digital ones.

Tomorrow's Dawn · Jul 18, 2012

@Chukchi: Are you painting on separate layers? If not, that's what you need to do.
Make lots of layers and name all of them, paint separate things on separate layers.

@SonicTH: How about Cosmo or Cream then?

Meteor Man · Jul 18, 2012

Chukchi Husky said:
I attempted to paint the picture I did, but like with using the tablet I was doing it wrong. I couldn't find a way to blend or mix colours like with real paints and so I ended up having to do it pixel by pixel. After about an hour all I managed to do was an iris.

Best thing to do is to use multiple layers. And I mean a LOT.

Every time you add something new to the portrait it has to be a new layer.

If it doesn't look quite right, try adjusting the opacity of the layer.

If the picture is becoming messy, add a new layer with a light color at about 60% opacity and continue drawing.

If you need to accentuate shadows, add a dark layer with about 60% opacity, erasing some of the layer to provide the highlights.

^Just some tricks I use.

cardgame · Jul 21, 2012

Chalk tool looks nice. Is it meant to be so blurry though?

Takhisis · Jul 23, 2012

I like those drawings even if I don't like the series. :thumbsup:

Meteor Man · Jul 23, 2012

Takhisis said:
I like those drawings even if I don't like the series.

I concur! Beautiful drawings.

useless · Jul 23, 2012

Some more of my crap:

Meteor Man · Jul 25, 2012

useless said:
Some more of my crap:

Your "crap" is very nice.

Some of my own. Zooey! :love:

Spoiler :

About 5 hours with a 2 hour break in the middle. Maybe it was 6 hours. Whatever, it was done today between 3:00 and 11:00 pm.

Takhisis · Jul 25, 2012

Almost babe-thread worthy.

And I agree, it ain't no crap, useless.

cardgame · Jul 25, 2012

flyingchicken said:
ponies? PONIES

Spoiler :

Drawfriend worthy, easily.

Tee Kay · Jul 25, 2012

Pony

Spoiler :

Meteor Man · Jul 25, 2012

taillesskangaru said:
Pony

Spoiler :

Looks like Malta. :lol:

Thorvald of Lym · Jul 25, 2012

The colours. By GOD, I love the colours.

Takhisis · Jul 25, 2012

flyingchicken said:
Thanks, though I wish I could think my drawrings as nice at least as much as you guys seem to :0

It happens to me as well, whenever people start saying 'Oh look, he draws!' and I'm the one whoc an spot all the flaws and could've beens, and I always think less of my drawings.

Thorvald of Lym said:
The colours. By GOD, I love the colours.

Indeed.

Meteor Man · Jul 27, 2012

I attempted to draw my sister.

We were at an Angels game.

It's very rough, but I'm anticipating that she'll like it.

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