I’m going to miss Leia and her ever-changing hairstyle. For some reason, I am reticent to do the full-scale drawing of her for my poster, probably because I’m afraid of not doing her justice.
The sketch and the post from October has been updated.
You probably don’t recognize me because of the red arm.
Episode 9 Rewrite, The Starlight Project (Released!) and ANH Technicolor Project (Released!)
I’m going to miss Leia and her ever-changing hairstyle. For some reason, I am reticent to do the full-scale drawing of her for my poster, probably because I’m afraid of not doing her justice.
Oh, I know that pain. I haven’t done any serious drawing in a long while because of it.
This is great. Love the Leia hologram and that it’s from Chewie’s POV.
This is a depiction of Trance Gemini from the TV series Andromeda. This is how I imagine the character might’ve evolved if Robert Hewitt Wolfe had been kept on as showrunner – essentially the same character seen in the first season-and-a-half of Andromeda, just more mature and physically assertive.
I’m particularly proud of this drawing. I have a really hard time capturing likenesses properly; even when I resort to tracing, they often don’t come out looking right. Here, though, I feel I did an excellent job. She really looks like Laura Bertram, not some haphazard caricature.
I drew this back in June. It’s my last serious drawing, and will remain my last. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. I have the imagination of Dali and Escher, but not their skill; without proper instruction, I never will. So I’m putting down the pencil and calling it a day. I’ll be sticking exclusively to collages and photomanipulations from now own.
After being really blown away by ^ that drawing, then reading what you wrote… I want to grab you by the shoulders, shake you side to side like a maniac and yell “you can’t quit now!!!”.
I mean, Your gonna do what your gonna do, but I hope you don’t quit drawing, you can totally draw!
Apologies if any of this below is already known to you, or that you’ve already tried it ect. :
I know the feeling with capturing likeness’. Pain in the ass, biggest thing for me was being able to draw really lightly and using a stubby pencil held kinda sorta like this:
I sometimes draw with a grid if I’m a wuss, or my other wuss technique is I will sketch the face out as best I can then scan it and overlay the scan over the photo in gimp and shuffle between the layers to see where the drawing is wrong and the photo is right and take the sketch out of the scanner and correct it accordingly and then repeat until I’m satisfied.
I also stopped drawing on printing paper with pencil crayons. For me, the supplies DO matter. I like watercolors and inks and watercolor markers, moleskine paper for inked drawings because its smooth, erases well and is off white so it scans more accurately as long as the drawing has a good amount of contrast. And it just feels good to draw on that paper. Haven’t found the right watercolor paper yet. I’m single, so my moneys go to the art supplies. My skills are not yet where I wan’t them to be just yet but it gets better year by year, I just want to make good art so I keep at it, who knows how much time I have in the world…
To me it looks like you can draw no prob, but need to try some different rendering techniques for color, and maybe try your own interpretations for some characters so you don’t always have to worry about likeness if it stresses you out. Maybe you could color them digitally? I’ve scanned some of my drawings before then on another piece of paper painted abstract watercolors and scanned those then used the watercolors underneath the pencil lines of the drawing in different ways to ‘color’ it in gimp.
Never give up, never surrender.
OT-DAWT-COM nieghbour and sometime poster (Remember, Tuesday is Soylent Green day!)
I guess I shouldn’t give up. Honestly, my biggest problem isn’t really with drawing figures; it can be a pain in the ass lots of times, but not that big of a deal. But I totally suck when it comes to backgrounds. My sense of perspective is totally shot. I should work on correcting that, but then again, there’s that issue with personal drive.
Yeah I don’t know much about artwork but that was really nice man.
I love it!
I love it!
Thanks. 😄
An ongoing series of Tuesdays
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I stayed up all night working on this piece of shit. I must be fucking insane.
^ Haha, wtf!
OT-DAWT-COM nieghbour and sometime poster (Remember, Tuesday is Soylent Green day!)
Superman work in progress sketch. I fucked up the hands, and the face, and the perspective, and… everything else really, but dare I say this is my best drawing ever, and I’m rather proud of it. I plan to draw other League members around him soon, but methinks I’ll take a break right now.
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I didn’t know the falling Dick Jones model played Superman. 😉
But really keep practicing, I’m sure you’ll figure all the shapes out with experience.
Army of Darkness: The Medieval Deadit | The Terminator - Color Regrade | The Wrong Trousers - Audio Preservation
SONIC RACES THROUGH THE GREEN FIELDS.
THE SUN RACES THROUGH A BLUE SKY FILLED WITH WHITE CLOUDS.
THE WAYS OF HIS HEART ARE MUCH LIKE THE SUN. SONIC RUNS AND RESTS; THE SUN RISES AND SETS.
DON’T GIVE UP ON THE SUN. DON’T MAKE THE SUN LAUGH AT YOU.
I added a Bat, though his pose might be too Spidey-ish.
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I added a Bat, though his pose might be too Spidey-ish.
The classic yellow oval bat emblem? I approve.
I added a Bat, though his pose might be too Spidey-ish.
The classic yellow oval bat emblem? I approve.
Who says it’s yellow? It’s just a pencil sketch right now, it has no color. Maybe I was going to make it mauve.
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I added a Bat, though his pose might be too Spidey-ish.
I like that he’s flying a kite.
The blue elephant in the room.
I added a Bat, though his pose might be too Spidey-ish.
The classic yellow oval bat emblem? I approve.
Who says it’s yellow? It’s just a pencil sketch right now, it has no color. Maybe I was going to make it mauve.
my god that’s adorable
^Agreed. Best character in that highly overrated movie.
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^Agreed. Best character in that highly tainted for some by weird memes movie.
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Army of Darkness: The Medieval Deadit | The Terminator - Color Regrade | The Wrong Trousers - Audio Preservation
SONIC RACES THROUGH THE GREEN FIELDS.
THE SUN RACES THROUGH A BLUE SKY FILLED WITH WHITE CLOUDS.
THE WAYS OF HIS HEART ARE MUCH LIKE THE SUN. SONIC RUNS AND RESTS; THE SUN RISES AND SETS.
DON’T GIVE UP ON THE SUN. DON’T MAKE THE SUN LAUGH AT YOU.
