I decided to make my own art thread.
As you probably know I'm not very good at drawing... yet. I'll post what I draw here and I would appreciated all feedback I can get. Perhaps I should even make my own deviantArt account? I dunno.
Anyway prepare yourself for some newbie art.
Being new to art sure is hard! But you have a good start, a lot of artists shy away from architecture and settings (myself included) but you're practicing it, which is very good! The best advice I received when I was just starting to be serious about art, was to gesture sketch. It was hard to get used to but helped me immensely down the line!
The idea of a gesture sketch is to quickly get the form of whatever you're drawing, using shapes and quick lines. Most gestures are done in about 30 seconds, though giving yourself a longer limit and slowly shortening the time you have is a good idea too.
Here is an example of an artists gesture sketches from a trip to a dog park: [x]
And here is a more in depth explanation and tutorial: [x]
Most professional artists use shapes to "build" forms, so it's never to late to learn this technique!
I hope you find this helpful. =) That said I would say just keep on practicing, and I'm looking forward to seeing more art! =3
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Thank you for the links. I'll take a look into them.
Ok... I want to make a drawing of my Matello character... but it's not going my way. I'm glancing at using Sims instead but dang it I've to draw! :/ Need the practice.
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Well... at least I tried. :/
I didn't know that... Sokka is from Avatar: the Last Airbender, right? Have seen one or two episodes of it.
I wasn't aiming for it to look like Sokka though. The picture was my atempt at conveying Matello, my clumpsy thief.
Yupper, the last airbender is right.
And I know you weren't aiming for him. But most characters do share a resemblence to previously created works - with or without your knowledge. I created twins named Sprike and Yukimura (http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs18/i/20..._by_Wavikz.jpg <-- Yuki) and then ended up looking like Kakashi from Naruto. We never mean for it to happen, but, odds are, someone else out there had a similar idea.
Though, if I were you, I might look at some Sokka artwork. Just sketching around with him, you can morph his generic look into Matello. It's how I draw Sprike now. I look at Kakashi pictures. I sketch him off to the side. Edit him up when I've finished the sketch. Then, I go into the full blown drawing. Though, as of late, I haven't done any Sprike drawings. :\
Last edited by Brook V; 11-13-2011 at 04:33 PM.