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Glasses almost always has a part sticking out of the sides that connects the part that goes over the ear, and most glasses have pads for the nose as well. I think adding those could help create a sense of the glasses resting on his nose rather than being slapped to his face, as I think it looks like now.

Additionally the glasses are very in contrast to the rest of the drawing, for instance it's the only thing with straight, black outlines. The perfectly parallel circles and straight lines going to the back is also making it look flat. You could probably get away with removing the lines, and rely on shading to suggest form

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At 6/24/14 04:30 PM, AliceN7 wrote: About the biggest face - where the hell did you find picture of me? :D ( just kidding ;)
nah but seriously, she looks similar...

I use this site for these exercises, so unless you've modeled for them it's just a coincidence!

Today today

At 6/25/14 05:04 AM, ThaFallenOne wrote: Does my Art suck?
It seems that way since i haven't been scouted yet but people like THIS have.

Do you think GraphicZomgs art sucks that bad?

All I can say is be more efficient and concentrated with your studies, and you'll get visible results over time. It looks like your main subjects are humans, so I'll recommend what I'm doing myself to get better at drawing humans: gesture drawings!

The idea is to get as accurate as you can in the little time you have. The class mode eases from 30 second sketches, to longer intervals, allowing more refined drawings. Grab some paper and a pencil and fill a page every day. If you prefer drawing on a tablet that's okay too, just keep it grayscale. Keep focus and concentrate during the sessions. I'm confident you'll see improvement if you keep at it every day for a week or two!

I'm gonna start posting these everyday I do them too, because I've found it gives more encouragement and commitment to start drawing everyday.

Someplace I've been

Carryplaster

At 6/21/14 03:52 PM, Makakaov wrote: Weed is bad for you like all other drugs. Unfortunately we're living in times where arguments mean nothing. We're slowly going back to the times, where only valuable arguments were weapons and strength. And guess who's going to win the confrontations; junkie with poor lungs and melted brain, or brainless ripped jock?

Would you mind sharing the bad aspects of marijuana? In the recent years there's been published so many articles highlighting how weed "isn't really that bad" and pointing out the errors of war on drugs, it's easy to be convinced that's the full story.

Need to flip canvas more often

I'm very thankful for the opportunities I've been handed after being drafted. I'm well aware the chair force is as laid-back as you can get in the military so my input is probably not very helpful, but the first two months of boot camp were quite manageable, and went by so fast when I think back at it. The daily service after boot camp depends heavily on what job you're taking of course, but it's overall much more easy-going.

You'll get some discipline, friends for life, and experiences you could never have as a civilian. Despite unfair officers and archaic rules, I would still recommend it - at least for anyone living in Norway, I don't know the workings of the army in the states.

At 6/23/14 12:06 PM, Havegum wrote: asdf

What the hell am I doing

Nose fix, contrast, saturation economy

At 6/23/14 12:29 PM, Mabelma wrote: Thanks man! I haven't seen your work in a while, but from this images your posting I envy how good you've gotten cause damn!!!

I see, what do you think makes "rocks" like how did you break it down? It looks way better like that, I'm just having a bit of trouble understanding how the break down should happen.

Thanks! It's not until recently I've actually picked drawing back up, but I'm much more serious about studies now than before.

As for the rocks, if you can't get it right by experimenting, try looking up pictures of collections of rocks that resemble the texture you want. Here's a picture of a rock slide that might be suitable. Try greyscaling it and see how the light, shapes and surfaces interact with eachother!

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your swirls, colours and overall playfulness is all kinds of awesome! Keep at it!

Shops choose transparent glass quite deliberately because it allows them to put up displays and showcase their products. Office buildings and apartments opt for reflective glass because of privacy.

You can still make transparent glass and keep the detail low though, just draw the basic silhouettes!

At 6/22/14 11:27 PM, Mabelma wrote: Shit!!! It's Gummy!! Haven't talked to you in forever! Thanks so much for the feedback, I see what you mean I'll fix that ASAP! And I'm really happy you like it! Btw: did you fix anything on the background or just crop it?

And as a side note why did you add the rocks on the bottom side? To further depth or to balance things?

Haha yeah long time no see - I see you've come such a long way since you started!

I added the extra rocks because I felt the silhouette of the floating island wouldn't read as easily. I imagine floating rocks would sort of "build up" around the center, so I tried to balance that out.

Another thing is I notice it looks like it's built up by "panels" of rocks, I'd try breaking the shapes down to more resemble a rocky surface

At 6/22/14 09:46 AM, Mabelma wrote: Trying to learn how to do backgrounds and such, while also learning to render things so here's some of that, still not done because I want to a bunch more things but I'm liking it so far.

The bottom rocks will probably be covered by shadow since they're centered under the island, so I'd shade those and perhaps fade the furthermost rocks out to increase that illusion of depth.

Otherwise I think it looks wonderful!

The way we generally do it around here is we have our own personal art threads where we post our own projects, sketches, processes, thoughts and ideas. You're encouraged to include your images in your posts so that it's easier for everyone to see your images as they're viewing the thread.

I took a peek through your gallery, and I hope you'll be staying and posting more!

To include images in your posts, look for the "Include Image?" section when replying:

Wear thinner clothes inside and get a warmer jacket. Your body acclimates to surrounding temperature so make sure you take off your jacket when you're entering some place warmer.

Other than that, you can buy some wool longs to help, but I imagine that would be too warm indoors.

At 6/21/14 08:45 AM, Little-Kinky wrote: Anyone else graduating recently? Taking that "FIRST BIG STEP IN YOUR CAREER ASDHAJFHA"?

Today a party's being held for all the conscripts at the camp I'm stationed at dismissing the coming week, imagine it will be similar in many ways.

If you're planning on continuing with this I suggest you try drawing a nude drawing from scratch now and once again after some time in order to map progress over time.

I think you'd be better off doing more traditional studies and that you're only limiting your own progress by using a crutch.

At 6/4/14 05:56 AM, Aliveoncamera wrote: Thew other image I painted today. I'm more 'meh' on this one.

I like this, I think it has potential on its own, and I think it highlights a general area to improve on; composition.

Humidity, pollution and particles in the air makes objects further away fade into gray, while closer objects aren't affected so much by this. You can use this to build up your compositions in such a way that it's easier to tell the distance between objects. Adding a human element can be of great help both to make it easier to understand the scale of things, as well as to include a sense of live story in your composition.

Be sure to take advantage of the whole scale of brightness values, push up your light colours lighter and dark colours darker! Despite that, be careful of using 100% whites and blacks though, very few things are naturally that bright or dark respectively.

Also keep in mind the perspective you're viewing things from. The viewing point is below the edge of the faraway cliffs here, so we shouldn't be able to see the top side of the cliff.

I want to make beautiful, delicious, colourful, impressive, elaborate, and amazing things.

Janove from Kaizers

Rofarince

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8tracks has some cool things

Go coarse or go home!

At 6/9/14 07:41 PM, 24901miles wrote:

At 6/9/14 07:08 PM, Combatboots wrote:

military personnel forget to follow official procedures and use USB drives they found in the parking lot, high school dropouts get hired as security contractors and steal 1.7 million documents, old hardware goes missing instead of being destroyed!

All of this is 100% true

It's dangerous exterminating things on the bottom of the food chain. Something else has to fill the gap, and if not, the whole system might collapse.

Some birds, insects and reptiles eat flies. What would they prey on instead of flies, and what impact would that have on the new prey.