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I did a horse (I think it was a horse) skull. Use some pastel paper, I think it turned out better again than the duck.
I especially like the left side, the right side is not that good, I think I took a pretty difficult angle , but never mind.

ps. feel free to post your own charcoal drawings/pictures, for comparison.

I'm currently using
vine charcoal
kneaded eraser
some toilet paper and a feather for blending.

I think I used normal drawing paper for those two, but I will try using a pastel-block I have lying around somewhere.

thanks for all the tips people,

At 2/10/09 10:36 AM, OPQC wrote: hey, it's nice! keep up on your work! :)

thanks, Here is a still-life (rubberduckie) I just did with a start-in-the-middle approach

At 2/10/09 09:31 AM, Fleshlight wrote: charcoal is a great tool. You can cover a lot of area in little time once you figured out what you can do with it. I think what you're doing is just using the charcoal as a thick tool for crosshatching. I, on the other hand, smudge my whole canvas so I can get a good tone going before I go into more detail.

I was actually considering this technique, since I had a lot of trouble getting the right tones/shades
I will try that

starting out with a face isn't a great idea. Do some still life to get used to this stuff

I was just halfway thorugh a portrait of ray charles; I already thought faces would be a bit difficult to start with. It's just that I always find still life pretty boring.

I'll give it a shot though, thanks.

So, I decided to take my drawing box my parents gave me for my birthday 10 years ago, and did some charcoal work.
I've never worked with charcoal before, so I decided to use a reference picture
This being my first charcoal thing, I'm not totally unsatisfied with it, but it obviously lacks in some respects.

I first thought I had messed up the mouth, but later figured out I just tilted the nose and eye (brow) too much, so that he isn't looking up anymore, but directly at you.

Does anybody have any helpfull tips, tools for a beginning charcoaler?

p.s. sorry for the rather bad quality, had to take a picture in absence of a scanner

At 2/6/09 12:01 AM, blazeram wrote: SOM 1 DRAW MINE LOL MY NAMES WEIRD SOMEETIN GOOD MIGHT COME OUT OF IT TELL WEN USE DO IT LOL

PEOPLE! stop asking everyone to draw your name; the thread is called "draw the person above you" not "ask people to draw you".
If you draw the person above you someone else will draw you.

(since I didn't add a picture to this, feel free to draw someone above me

but them...

So if I get it right this would be the one

At 2/4/09 09:09 AM, McJesus wrote: Guy who drew the octopus, if you're reading this send me the .fla again, it's not working. I emailed you as well, just making overall sure. Alot of you aren't sending me .flas, I only have a few. :( I don't want to have to use jpgs everywhere.. vectors allow for so much more.

.psd is fine right?

At 2/3/09 06:51 PM, Fatchaos wrote:

At 2/3/09 08:41 AM, J-qb wrote: Wow never guessed it, But I think my spacedude is so bad ass he actually closed off the thread...

I doubt he closed the thread, but my next pic might...

As for yours, I kinda like the spacesuit, but his face lacks details... And it's pretty amusing to see he's not wearing a jumpsuit below his suit...

The lack of detail on his face was actually intentional, kind of a style/thingy... But I guess, you can either like it or not. Lack of jumpsuit occured to me but I also found it quite amusing so I left it out.

As for your work (both of them). Pretty good, but those glows distract from the main focus, instead of seeing all the detail you put into them, you only see flashing lights (ooooh flashy).

Yea

At 2/4/09 03:10 AM, UMREE wrote: i always split an image in half when painting or drawing, i consider grids to be standard procedure. i think everyone will agree with this, no one's eyes are perfectly trained.

nice work btw.

The thing is that grids are only usefull if you want to redraw a painting/picture. I generally don't do this (because I don't like it). But it depends on whether you think repainting a excistent work of art is cheating

The cubist vampire bites a scalpel happily.

Wow never guessed it, But I think my spacedude is so bad ass he actually closed off the thread...

Hello?!

Anybody out there?!?

At 2/3/09 02:42 AM, CosmicDeath wrote:
Anyone up for drawing a goldfish with a tomahawk?

Here he is

I generally draw 'stick' figures (at 33%), than add the muscles (at 50%), and finally the clothes (at 100%). I find this a very rewarding strategy when drawing people and animals.

However I think the way we have been handling this topic is very rewarding, since it teaches you to really look at a picture and find the things that are wrong.

At 2/2/09 11:24 AM, BANN3D wrote: no 1 have drawed me yet D;

well, here it is
I inverted the first N lol

At 2/2/09 09:40 AM, roojames wrote: Yo Mr JQB

I just remembered I had done myself allready
it's a J-qube...

At 2/2/09 08:43 AM, roojames wrote: I know you probably meant the game Halo, but I can't be bothered to draw Tomasterchief today.

This is no drawing of mine, but I couldn't resist it

At 2/1/09 05:42 PM, falz3333 wrote:

In my opinion this is your best work in this thread. I feel that merely drawing a picture even a fool can do, and there will almost always be someone better than you (nothing personal). But the style of this picture is amazing, It really speaks, and tells a story, shows movement.
I like it. try to do more work like this.

I did this when I was in a particularly weird mood. You really think it's my best work? I always thought it was too sketchy. And what do mean by the first part of your comment? You should work on your phrasing. Are you saying my other drawings are uncreative?

the first part meant that, to draw a really great picture, you need to add something of yourself to it. If you can make a picture that is exactlly like in true life, why not take a photograph?
In the 'demons' drawing you really did something different.

p.s. This does not mean your other drawings are bad, that last self portrait was actually quite good too.

At 8/24/08 03:43 PM, falz3333 wrote: here is a terrible vision of three demons and their prey

In my opinion this is your best work in this thread. I feel that merely drawing a picture even a fool can do, and there will almost always be someone better than you (nothing personal). But the style of this picture is amazing, It really speaks, and tells a story, shows movement.
I like it. try to do more work like this.

At 2/1/09 02:16 AM, fluffkomix wrote: okay. changed the thickness of his right calf, cuz it looked a little thin. also, i took your advice andmade his thigh thicker towards the genital area.

im also questioning whether i really need that crease in the middle of his left thigh.

You don't need that crease, it is pointless. Also; good work on the 'upper' leg, but now the 'lower' leg seems a bit off. It should meet the other leg a little higher. see picture for details.
p.s. I suck at ms paint

This is one I also submitted to the metropolis disaster thread; I call it Metropolis Desmurftion

Well, here he is. Kind of a traditional spacefaring person I guess. Person was drawn with a tablet in photoshop, background was photoshopped by me.

N-JOI

At 1/30/09 02:39 PM, Bazark wrote: hahaha
J-QB

Dude... How did you know I have green hair?!?!

oh poeple, I give my turn to doberman7 above me, draw him

Would like to have done a background, but alas no time...

Im getting kinda sick after working on this for more than an hour...

At 1/30/09 07:45 AM, TheAutocrat wrote: To bump this thread, I give you this crap.

The Gorillizard.

The typical outcome of when man uses science to play God.

Haha, reminds me of that game, Impossible creatures

You could try putting the motion blurs on the right side of the planes (e.g. the plane in front is flying sideways?)

At 1/29/09 03:07 PM, FurryFox wrote: Hit me with your best shot!

Well, it might not be my best but certainly is my quickest (+-5 min)

I think noir (or at least frank miller's work) is about positioning... Study some of his work, it is not very detailed, but positioning and perspective is a main factor.
But above all in noir, Light is the most important thing (paradoxical isn't it) work with your lighting...

sorry I didn't have a picture, I know from experience that this is very difficult