Drawing a little... again!

[Tykinruoka]

Are you an art student?

Nah, I'm self taught. I've been drawing actively since I was 6. Most people say my drawings are the best they've seen, but I know better. There's still so much stuff I'm bad at, perspective, landscapes, buildings, vegetation, coloring.

I've always drawn mainly with pencils, but changed to pens & ink about 2 years ago because I feel confident enough with my skill with pencils.

I think everyone can drawn, even if they say they suck at it. It just takes a lot of work and time. I've been studying animation for 1,5 years now and when I started, couple of my classmates weren't very good at drawing. They've gotten better amazingly fast since they are drawing everyday.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

I can't draw at all.

 

[Tykinruoka]

Even though I want to draw manga style characters. All my people come out looking like crap or stick figures.

Best way to learn more about manga style is to check these books(not the cheapest way though):
How to draw anime and game characters vol 1-5
How to draw manga:
You can find most of the books from Here.

I own Htdm: anime & game characters vol 2 and How to draw manga: Animals. They are a big help even if you're not into manga. Lots of good pointers.

I can't draw at all.

Well, I don't know what to say about it, since I don't know your case.

 

[Kyriakos]

I never could draw good, but i have a firm sense of space in my imagination, which i put to use in my stories

So here a small painting i made, titled "beast making shadows with its hand"

 

[mrtn]

I cant even draw a person. I can only do technical drawings of vehicles and machinery. .

Even though I want to draw manga style characters. All my people come out looking like crap or stick figures.

Just like Hitler then. Though I doubt he was interested in manga.

And to everyone who says they can't draw; you won't improve unless you practice.
My painting is much better than it was a year ago, I'm sure you can improve too.

 

[Tykinruoka]

I never could draw good, but i have a firm sense of space in my imagination, which i put to use in my stories

If you have a good imagination it can take you far

I'm sorry.

You don't have to apologize. I still would like to see some of your drawings if possible(didn't find any on this thread?).

 

[Chukchi Husky]

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=4568647&postcount=53

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=4618274&postcount=55

 

[Tykinruoka]

The paintings are good and it looks to be the thing you're best at. The wolwes you've made with pencil have some minor glitches, but they're not bad. You have a good grasp on shading, so the next step would be adding darker tones and bolder pencils strokes for more depth. Your anthromorphic characters aren't that bad either, but the major problem is the anatomy. When something is wrong with your characters, it's almost always the basic anatomy. It's normal, I sucked at the anatomy for years, but I've improved a lot since I bought a anatomy book that covers every bone & muscle of the human body.

This is just a quick feedback at your work and I'm not the greatest artist out there to give pointers. If you want more feedback, just PM me. My opinion is that you shouldn't give up on drawing, unless you have a very good reason.

 

[Tykinruoka]

Ok, here's a pic to keep this alive.

Forest demon

 

[Kan' Sharuminar]

That's fantastic work

@Chukchi: Some great stuff, I adore the paintings in the first link.

 

[Kyriakos]

I like your style Scullcrusher; it is very stabilised and one can see that the same person made it (always positive if you want to be an artist that you have a defined style of your own)

Overall i find this, again, very charming, and if there is one thing i can note which (IMO) could be improved is that you do not seem to have an obvious center of attention in your drawings. In this way one tends to focus on the overall image, which still can create a feeling, but the painting works instantly on that level whereas if there was a center of attention and peripheral images as well then it would get more of a feel of multiple layers

 

[Abaddon]

Skull, dont suppose you do requests?

 

[Yuri2356]

Something new, but not really Quibble related.

Got some rare things on Sale, Stranger...

I've made more use of layers in this one that Almost anything else I've ever done.

 

[Tykinruoka]

Overall i find this, again, very charming, and if there is one thing i can note which (IMO) could be improved is that you do not seem to have an obvious center of attention in your drawings. In this way one tends to focus on the overall image, which still can create a feeling, but the painting works instantly on that level whereas if there was a center of attention and peripheral images as well then it would get more of a feel of multiple layers

Yes, this is very true, I'm not very good at it. Also it depends on the type of drawing I'm making. I separate my drawings in two categories: Character sheets & complete art. I enjoy designing new characters. I hardly ever place the character in a meaninful pose or draw a backround in the character sheets. They're not intended to work as a whole, complete piece of art. The "forest demon" is a perfect example of my character sheets.

Thanks for the comments

Abaddon: Yes, I do if I have enough free time.

Yuri2356: Heh, that is a fun guy in the game.

 

[Abaddon]

Well if you could ever throw your pencil at this guy i would be very grateful:

Introducing Abaddon, Fallen Angel/Daemon.

 

[Tykinruoka]

Well if you could ever throw your pencil at this guy i would be very grateful:

Introducing Abaddon, Fallen Angel/Daemon.

Ok, I'll see what can be done.

Nooooo, don't let this thread sink. One big guy to wake this up.

Behemoth

 

[Kyriakos]

I like his hands and feet, but he seems (to me of course, i cannot say how others will view it) to be a bit too non-contextual. Whereas this was to a degree also true of the forest demon, the demon due to his body stance could be seen as something rising to a distance (the bird also helped with that, being in the pinnacle of the demon's body, providing another clue that the observer is in a different position in relation to the demon)

Although this too (the behemoth) is a character sketch, i think that they are benifited by such small details which give them more depth, even if they are presented as something to look at without any other context.

I think that my first impression of drawings which only served as character sketches came from the endless series of japanimation where machines fought beasts (voltus 5, voltron etc) where the beast was being first introduced in a drawing In illustrated books it is not the same since one expects to see the character in an environment, by turning a few pages (infact i think that it always seemed strange if i did not see all of the characters in the indtriductory drawings, in the story itself later on)

 

[Tykinruoka]

Although this too (the behemoth) is a character sketch, i think that they are benifited by such small details which give them more depth, even if they are presented as something to look at without any other context.

Yeah, true. It is quite flat, even for a character sheet. I also could add depth by shading the character realistically.

 

[Yuri2356]

I think all it really needs is a bit of a simple background, so that it's 'somewhere', rather than just floating in whitespace.


On the topic of shading, with the Merchant I used layers to separate shading which was due to shape, and shading from shadows and lighting.


Further examples of my drawing can now be seen in DYOS. The comics there should help me get used to working with objects, leaving room for text, and portraying movement in characters. My first contribution is at the start of Page 2, my second is near the end of Page 3. (At 20 Posts per Page)

 

[Tykinruoka]

I'm currently working on a very detailed pic, so far I've spent 10 hours drawing it and it's about 20% ready(Urgh, my hand). I've gotta check the DYOS.

Here's one of the rare color drawings I've made:

Fear