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At 5/25/14 10:45 AM, TheScarredSide wrote: Yeah, I struggle with hands at times, it's nothing that cant be fixed through looking at your own!

Exactly, I've been looking at my hands all the time while drawing them. It's sometimes a bit frustrating though when you can't hold your paper and it slips away because of your furious and active drawing, but looking at your own hands really is handy :).

At 5/26/14 12:54 PM, ShizzleCreature wrote: nice to see old school pen artist. you need to put some work on your drawings.
work on your lines, they're not solid and straight enough.
read about prespective. learn how you build object in your drawing trough it, because you dont use it.and you should.

Thanks for the comment! The straightness of lines is indeed bit of a problem, I can't seem to steady my hands when they're not resting on something.. But it's not something I can't fix, I think.
Perspective is indeed important, yes, I agree I should work on that.

and for the art part, be creative. open your mind, work it out, make your own special and uniqe ideas - don't use the cheesy ones.(a girl holding her chopped head.. open gates.meh..)
good luck.

Haha, yes, those are quite cheesy. Although the drawing with the open gates is a drawing from a picture, so it wasn't really creative to begin with, but I know what you mean and I can't deny that I've heard it more often. I'm certainly working on that part, because if there is one thing I don't wanna be, it's non-creative :P.

At 5/25/14 01:04 AM, FaisalOrb wrote:

At 5/8/14 01:41 PM, SamZee wrote: ""

I would say
Work on symmetry

Thanks for the reply :).

Mhm, symmetry needs to be worked on yes. I'm actually working on some sort of angel-painting right now which requires a lot of symmetry (damn wings), so I'll upload that here when I'm done to see if it got better. The other comment about using mirrors appears to be a great help.

And whenever you get to a tough spot don't avoid it or try to hide it, work through it.

Failure is not an option, got it :P, I agree.

Also take a second to look back from a fresh perspective every once in a while and be your own critic while you draw.

When it comes to my own drawings I'm a very very nitpicking critic, so that will be alright, but that's indeed a good thing to do.

Thank you for your comment!

At 5/24/14 06:07 PM, TheScarredSide wrote: I like your style, but I feel that the first one, with the lamps could use a bit more light. Like certain areas could have highlights because of the lames. Also, shadows are important as well in showing light.

Yes, you're right on that. It does have a lack of shadow- and lighting-work, I think I should be able to fix that.. Unless I've suddenly found a new weakness, but as far as I know I'm not that bad at finding spots where there should be lighting or not.

At 5/24/14 06:07 PM, TheScarredSide wrote: In your character sketches, the hands and feet could use some work, but you seem to be working on that and have made great progress both correctly and Stylistically.

I'm glad you see progress in the hands! I do think I got better at drawing them, and I don't really dislike to draw them anymore,which is an interesting development.

I'll surely keep practicing and drawing :).

At 5/21/14 08:07 PM, Galejro wrote:

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I'll start over with an upgrade and see, but I don't expect much else, save further assaults and preaching on me.

I like your idea for this topic, so if you're gonna start a new one: I'll probably be in, if I don't forget to look at the forum. It would also be interesting to ask the questions using drawings.. Ah well, just an idea.

At 5/21/14 09:32 AM, TurkeyOnAStick wrote:

At 5/21/14 09:00 AM, Galejro wrote: ""

Jamie Hyneman responds:

Why is his butt blushing? Or has.. stuff happened with that part of his body?

Alright, I've been practicing a bit on hands because honestly, the hands I've drawn till now looked like nothing. So here are some sketches. I've left one of them unlined and unshadowed because somehow people seemed to prefer that style over the style of the other hands.

At 5/14/14 11:45 PM, sorenare7 wrote:

At 5/8/14 01:34 PM, SamZee wrote: ""

Not sure if you already know but one really useful way to determine if you got the symmetry right is if you invert the image. You can do this in real life too. Just hold it up to a mirror.

No no, I didn't know this. It sounds very interesting and helpful, thank you! I'll be sure to try it, it would help a lot :).

At 5/8/14 02:37 PM, Seriousle wrote:

At 5/8/14 02:20 PM, SamZee wrote: A bit older this one.

and you're 3rd picture, i think @Cairos will be the best to break down where you need to work on anatomy wise, obviously the hands and feet here need work and the face is a bit of a cop out :P but the piece as a whole i quiet like, its dark.. but it conveys the dark message well and i like it

Yes, the hands and feet indeed need some work.. Although I have to tell you that this kind of worked out really well, in comparison to other hands I've drawn :P, I need so much practice on the human body. And that sounded so wrong.
I'm glad you like it.

At 5/8/14 02:28 PM, Seriousle wrote:

At 5/8/14 01:34 PM, SamZee wrote: ""

ok your 1st image i can appreciate, having done a few building sketches in my day :P but a few issues that arise especially when drawing symmetrical buildings like that, is if 1 side is even slightly off from the other, you will draw the attention away from the center of the image and it will just look wrong, both to look at and just the feel of the piece, and thats what its doing to me, the symmetry is broken and as a result it just doesnt sit well with me, otherwise it would have been a decent sketch, i would say from appearence try not to use the eraser as much as you have or if you do, try and get straight lines, again the building you've tried to do is symmetrical yet with the windows especially your lines look 'erased' in instead of how it should be done as individual shading of each pane which would have given a more natural feel to the image

I see what you mean with the symmetrical thing, it is indeed a bit lopsided at some places. I understand the feeling off of the picture, having experienced it with some asymmetrical faces both drawn by me and by others, I hate the symmetricalness of eyes. It is indeed really something I should work on, I think.
Yes! The erased lines were what bothered me as wel, but erasing straight lines is kind of a pain in the ass with charcoal. If you touch the drawing you have ugly spots everywhere, and I still don't know how to steady my hand. I don't think putting a paper beneath my hand is gonna be of much use, is it?

your 2nd image (and i want to state here i never have got abstract art, so take this with a grain of salt) in my eyes is nothing more than a doodle :P what we tend to do when we're bored sitting on hold on the phone waiting for someone of a telecom company to listen to our complaint how their service is crap, the reason i say this, is other than the rough shape of a person in my eyes it serves no purpose with its scratchings around it, now there have been a couple artists who do the 'line' style art and do it really damn well that i see pop up on the portal from time to time, their name escapes me now but im sure someone will know, but its worth looking at their work to get inspiration or ideas on how to try it next time :D

Hmm, I see what you mean. It is quite empty apart from the person in the middle, I'm always anxious to add more stuff to the background, fearing it might become too much. It does indeed look doodlish and kind of unfinished. Maybe a background would fix it? Or I should turn it into a painting.. Hmm..
Yeah, I hope I'll find someone who makes similar work like this! Or not, it might make me jealous of how much better it is. But inspiration is good :P.

otherwise, best of luck and keep drawing!

Thanks, and many thanks for the comment :)!

A bit older this one.

Maybe a new style with lots of lines, I think it's interesting.

Hellow,

I'm in the last years of my secondary school-time and I'm working on building up a portfolio, getting better and finding my own style. However, it's difficult to get any better without good criticism, so I'd like to take some of you good people's time if you please to show you some of my drawings. If you have anything on your mind concerning posted drawings, please share them. I might also be hoping for a sudden scout, but I'd rather have good criticism than a scout :P.

~Sam