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At 11/15/07 04:26 PM, SirSeraphdeFallen wrote: that looks pretty good. If you get another chance you should do another one in the same manor.

thanks, i already have plans for another painting, i just need to find something to paint on and the time to do it

The first thing you posted is the best, everythings else is cool but i think you should do more of that dark kind of sketchy cartoon stuff, you did a nice job

Your shading and anatomy/proportion is pretty ridiculous, i would love to see you do work in color, your detail and shading is so amazing i think if you start adding color it would blow it away

all in all i am jealous of your anatomy, mine isn't so great, but if you've seen any of my work everythings so distorted to hell anatomy isn't a major factor

But you should seriously consider using colored pencils or try using paint, i just posted a painting earlier today, its my first in a few years and i think it turned out well, check it out and let me know what you think for me

yeah awesome work

Your shading is top-notch, and you have that comic book style all but mastered, I'd have to agree with most that the anatomy seems a little off, it's not bad, but like theres always just something off about the pictures, but thats only with bodies, i'd have to say your faces are pretty amazing. Nice work

i'm usually very supportive but i'm gonna have to agree with trinidex, try spending more time on things, and i think since you have such a simple art style (lack of detail) i would do more things like those doodles, but spend more time on them, make them not just random doodles but like a bunch of characters and objects interacting, haivng lots going on makes it much more interesting and should make up for the fact you lack a little in the detail and quality department. You have potential, just make things a little busier and more interesting

At 11/15/07 10:25 AM, Trinidex wrote: It looks a lot nicer with them all together :) well done, I for one quite like it.

Hang them on your wall with small gaps between the panels.

yeah i'm hanging them a quarter inch apart, the sides are painted neon orange so it adds a cool depth to them that you can only see when they are spread out

Shamelessly posting to bump my topic up to the top! Guess i shouldn't have initially posted this at like 3 in the morning, well i'm still looking for some help i genuinely would like to improve so if anyone could give me suggstions i would be most grateful

The big picture! I'm happy with how this turned out seeing how this is the first time i've actually painted something like this in a few years, so i'm glad with the results and with practice i'm sure i'll get better

The piece itself is hanging with all the panels like a quarter inch apart (all the sides are neon orange so it looks good as a side detail and contrasts well with the pink)

Thanks for the compliments and criticism, like i said i'm failry new to painting, i mainly use colored pencil and ink, but i'm trying to stray into higher quality material

Probably my least favorite one standing alone but it looks good with the group

Thanks, yeah i don't have any great lighitng so like i said quality is a little raped, the pink stands out alot more in real life

and about shading, i've recently been learning how to use an airbrush, which you can get much nicer shading effects that i've been experimenting with, i just need to save up and by one, so hopefully in the future you'll see some cool airbrush work from me :)

so yeah i'm pretty new at painting and i have plenty of room for improvement so if anyone here knows and techniques i could use that would look good please let me know

this one is one of my favorite ones standing alone but also one of the least as part of the whole picture

unfortunately i don't have a working scanner, even if i did i don't think i can scan pieces of wood, so the qualities getting a little raped, the lines are a little cleaner than what some of them look like, because they were all done in pen and ink so it's not fuzzy at all

i like the woodgrain but it was hard to paint on, all of them had different finishes on them

I just finished this painting, it's acrylic and pen and ink, i painted on 6 peices of wood (they were floor samples) each peice of wood is about 8x5 inches

I like how it turned out, and this is the first time i've painted in a long time so please be gentle, but please any compliments or suggestions on better ways to do things please let me know, it's always nice to get feedback

I'll post all 6 of the panels first then the big picture

your shadings really good, i wish i was able to do drawings using a computer, color always comes off so much cleaner and looks more polished, i stick to pen paper and colored pencils so everything i post the colors a little muted because it's a photograph of it

Her name is Ziggy, did you really think rain came from clouds? Ziggy floats around from cloud to cloud soaking the land below with her tears

I really like your stuff, the pen drawings are amazing i really like them. I keep meaning to make my own art thread but i think i'm just to lazy, i'll get around to it eventually

At 11/11/07 01:03 PM, HahaBears wrote: sorry b-boy scrizzle but neither of them are legible, particulaily the first one

why is there a random L in the middle of it?

sorry legibility is not what i strive for ;) Heres a translation for the first one to,
and it's not an L i was trying to tie in the N and the E, but i made the bottom thing stand out to much, i'm still working on a way to make Ns in a way i like (i just started writing BANE thats why i want the suggestions/critisism)

At 11/11/07 12:53 PM, Blain-The-Pain wrote: I guess I'm graffiti illiterate, I never would have been able to guess that the second one said "Bane" if you hadn't told us.

haha, sorry all my organic ones i intentionally make really obscure letters, maybe this will help you out, and yes i know the N isn't the greatest

hey daniel, how old are you? I'm just curious

but anyway, don't get angry or quit or anything because people are flaming you, everyone great artist has to start somewhere, i'm willing to bet 90% of all artists (including myself) have looked at one of their sketchbooks or something they drew a year ago and go "Holy Crap what was i thinking!?"
Becoming a good artist takes time and practice, you like to draw anime? Take some drawing classes, learn to do figure drawing and practice proportion and anatomy, pick up a how to book from a store, and just keep drawing over and over until you start to get better. You also might want to look at what you draw in comparison to proffessionally done anime, see how they differ and look at what they do and try to mimic that style, once you get good at it then throw in your own style. I'm going to assume your a younger patron of the art forum and tell you that you have plenty of time to get better, i'm 17 and i personally think after many years of drawing i've only started to get good within the past 2 years, so it takes time but i have faith you can become one of the better artistts here :)

and one thats more organic:

I'm a big fan of urban art and i dabble in graffiti every now and then, i want to see if the unique styles that some of you might have, and i'm trying to get better so any critisism or suggestions would be helpful.

i myself use two different styles. I tag the word BANE, now I don't think newgrounds supports illegal activities so lets keep it to sketchbook art, nothing off a wall

one thats industrial/metallic:

not bad, you definately have potential, not saying that your not good, i like your style, just remember a little detail can go a long way, spend more time on things and think of the little details you could add that might make something look more realistic (realism in cartoons no matter how outlandish they are alwyas looks good) but a good start i'm excited to see work from you down the line

So yeah just to get a better idea on color, my god i suck at photoshop, doesn't help i'm using a mouse

For bits you can't see on the drawing, the bottoms of feet and hand arm things will be white with "HERPES" written repeatedly on them, and that mess on the top of his head is drips, can't draw that to well, but after i paint the head i want to just drip paint down on the top of it, I hand-drew it because i have no photoshop skills whatso-ever, So since it's a picture i'll post one gone over in photoshop just to get a better idea of what colors i'll be using, so judge this one for design not the other one

At 10/14/07 09:37 AM, McJesus wrote:

At 10/13/07 10:34 PM, Captain-Ben wrote: I dunno about you guys and your realistic eyes, but this is how i draw eyes

Skipped mine, did you?

Sorry McJesus, aside from you everyones elses were somewhat realistic

haha thanks UMREE, if you like my stuff go check out ALEX PARDEE
he's stuff is very similiar to mine and 100x higher quality, i look up to him.
his website is eyesuckink.com

I dunno about you guys and your realistic eyes, but this is how i draw eyes

haha i dunno if being like david firths stuff is a compliment or not, thanks guys good to know people other than my friends like the stuff i draw

haha i dunno if being like david firths stuff is a compliment or not, thanks guys good to know people other than my friends like the stuff i draw