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And in this comic I'm like a 4 year old with a new set of crayons
http://www.spikescomic.com/

Well I preffer Conte simply because of its range, the fact that it doesnt smear away as easily and the blacks it gets are a lot more black than the grey black charcoal sticks have . Now there's a rebuttal on each of these points i'm sure, but having used primarily conte on the last few years and charcoal before it i simply feel for my purposes of life drawing, planar analysis, model drawing(as in building up the tones slowly like a 3d object) and for the sake off not using spray afterwords conte is wayyyy better than charcoal ever has been. It's only down side is that Black Conte is a lot more expensive, Conte Pencils are amazing as well but again they're super expensive so i rarely use them these days.
Charcoal is a light, easily breakable, less fun to play with material. FOR ME. I may not have as much practise with it, i only used it for 2 years during life drawing, but it's pretty boring for me and i got really annoyed that it could get proper black black tones. That said Conte gets boring too, using ink , goach(e?), pastel etc for life drawing is also really fun and i love experimenting with more mediums. Ok i rambled on way too long about this.
At the end of the day, personal choice.

At 4/22/12 11:31 PM, J-Rex wrote: I think if I'm drawing someone's eye I'll use mechanical but if I have no charcoal and it's b/w and I need to shade the face I'll use a wooden pencil.

charcoal's rubbish most of the time , i prefer Conte. It doesnt get ruined as easily and makes blacker blacks

Also I love the pentel mechanical pencils, mine does a line as soft as a 4b and under a good angle also does 2h linework. It really does depend on the person though

At 4/20/12 09:20 PM, big-jonny-13 wrote:

At 4/20/12 09:17 PM, Lucky wrote: Thankeees :3

Birthday!

The original Shuffle!

At 4/20/12 09:05 PM, Spags wrote: Happy birthday Lucky!

Thankeees :3

At 4/20/12 06:26 PM, Asperchu wrote:

At 4/20/12 06:11 PM, Asperchu wrote:

At 3/17/12 03:59 PM, Asperchu wrote: update also ref

I was on /soc/ drawing cam whores.

Sorry they look like shit, I had to hurry it up since things 404 really fast on there.

half his hat's missing D: Really nice tones, really like the color schemes you pick, though im wondering if you can put up sketches more you seem to be a lot better at the painting aspect than at the solidity of the original drawing. Keep posting the paintings too though, love the first pic on the page's detail!

At 4/18/12 08:42 PM, kubaa785 wrote:

At 4/18/12 08:05 PM, big-jonny-13 wrote:

At 4/18/12 07:43 PM, test-object wrote: I'll explain... later.

That's what you said last time

Haha - love Mr. Bean

you forgot a picture

At 4/16/12 08:38 PM, Aigis wrote: New page of TARTAKA up.

www.tartaka.com

Love the detail on the panels! Though that door handle looked a bit like 3 cabinets

At 4/18/12 07:52 AM, ZaneZansorrow wrote: Calling it done

niceeeeeeeee!

Spikes 8 out!
http://spikescomic.com
in the desert anything can happen

At 4/17/12 06:34 PM, M-Maher wrote: how about Rowan Atkinson in general

Rowan who? Anyway guys this is totally my biggest art inspirational person guy, just look at that deep thinker

number 13

At 4/15/12 02:54 AM, ChaseCraft11 wrote:

At 4/15/12 02:51 AM, ChaseCraft11 wrote: Hello, my name is Chase Craft, just your typical 17 year old artist, who's looking to spread his artwork and name, and really hoping to be sponsored on here. I've been creating art for a long time, and the past year have reached the point to where I believe people might enjoy my work. I'm not looking to do any commission at this moment, I'm currently working on a project, and will be busy with it for a couple of months.

Here is a link to my DeviantArt page; http://chasecraft11.deviantart.com/

. symmetry versus asymmetry. Objects or characters depicted in perfect symmetrical poses often look boring, stiff and lacking life. In real life not all your body parts match each other's actions when moving unless you specially try to do a symmetrical pose.
tldr having a mirrored looking image makes it boring

muscle placement, the biceps are placed in the the wrong place slightly which makes the entire upper chest area really off, the hands are also slightly shorter than usual which also makes it kind of off-putting
those knife things look completely flat and like paper cutouts, nothing within them indicates dimention
turn them , put them in perspective more and dont have them perfectly symetrical

But I do hope you follow my future work

I also agree with everything Kinsei said and that music was the most annoying thing i've ever heard, the character designs looked pretty rubbish too. And with that obnoxious video i will unfortunately not be following anything you ever make unless you scrap the whole thing and work on art fundamentals.

preview didnt upload

At 4/5/12 09:54 AM, ngman7 wrote:

At 7/7/11 08:16 AM, Lucky wrote: This too!

Those are nice Hirschfeld-inspired pieces.

thanks, well spotted
short Spikes this week, in this strip things get hot http://www.spikescomic.com/

Draw Will Smith on a unicycle

At 4/9/12 11:40 PM, M-Maher wrote:

At 4/9/12 11:22 PM, Lucky wrote: she wasnt asking where to get one, but what we recommend.

and in general most of the wacom devices are sufficient tablet devices. I wasn't linking her there with the intent of showing her a place where she can buy something If i'd intended that i'd had simply just linked her to amazon, no theirs is a great brand I'd recommend any and all of their products to any and all artists.

I dont think anyone on the planet thinks of anything else but wacom when they think of tablets, weather here or overseas they supply 95% of drawing tablets in any electronics shop i've walked into. So anyone with common sence would get one, but not everyone wants or can afford most of their tablets and would like a average user review hence her original question you didn't answer.

At 4/9/12 11:17 PM, M-Maher wrote:

At 4/9/12 10:58 PM, Kinsei01 wrote: I'm real fond of this model but its a bit older. The undo function associated with it sucks though.

loving that there trolling.

go look at the wacom ones they have a pretty swell selection

http://www.wacom.com/globalsites.aspx

she wasnt asking where to get one, but what we recommend.
It's basicly whatever you can afford right now thats what you should use. There's nothing wrong with small tablets. I wouldnt reccoment bamboo though. However some people like them, i hate the pressure sensitivity (or lack of it) on them. The intious 4 , 9 by 12 is the best one i think unless you wanna get a cintique

At 4/9/12 08:31 AM, Kuoke wrote: I would say the same thing to people who pay for an education. At least with this one [assuming they're a legitimate thing] you're getting actual work experience.

Holy shit Kuoke, i didn't realise you watched Jessie Cocks and TB's stuff :D Awesome fan comic on DA!

At 4/9/12 02:54 AM, NDHutchison wrote: How about starting an art thread here, putting art and if people like it enough then they'll commission you instead of a big banner thread for yourself with a cut out section of an image hoping that everyone will flock due to your claimed street cred. Sound good?

Lmao, sensitive angry internet types.

not really, its just pointless starting a thread like this since its not an advertising board. It's full of artists, you'd put your work on here more for improvement help. Your thread is more what you'd see in a classifieds , which doesn't fly here because you dont have customers browsing here, you have other 'art providers' if you will.

At 4/9/12 12:29 AM, NDHutchison wrote: Hi,

I am a freelance illustrator/cartoonist, a colourist for a web comic and currently working with a award winning filmmaker/writer on a horror comic series.

I am open for commissions. Please visit my Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/NeilDrysdaleHutchison

Message me if you are interested.

Thank you

Neil Drysdale Hutchison

How about starting an art thread here, putting art and if people like it enough then they'll commission you instead of a big banner thread for yourself with a cut out section of an image hoping that everyone will flock due to your claimed street cred. Sound good?

At 4/8/12 08:47 PM, dvg88 wrote: A simple chibi-style drawing

make an art thread like the rest of us is what i suggest

At 4/7/12 10:41 PM, Enthrall-Dev wrote: Also, feel free to ask any questions here, although I can not answer design/story related questions.

I love working on platformers! Sent an email out, should be there within 10 mins(attached files are taking a bit of time) :)
Thanks
Lucky

Just wanted to say thanks to Orn for closing that anatomy thread as it encouraged bad snobby behavior and made the forum a less encouraging place to be in. That's all!

At 4/4/12 09:37 PM, Lintire wrote:

At 4/4/12 09:26 PM, Lucky wrote: and in this week's spikes she's... not gonna spoil the plot http://www.spikescomic.com/

Definitely my favourite Spikes strip so far! The hashing you used on the previous strips made looking at them a total headache. Plus this one has like, plot. Nice work.

lulz storylne whats that? Thanks Lint :P

and in this week's spikes she's... not gonna spoil the plot http://www.spikescomic.com/

If you are going to participate please for the love of god read what I say and don't just look at all the pretty pictures and copy them.

thought you didn't actually teach anything apart from just saying to practice drawing in general when he had specific questions which actually have answers apart from practice without thinking about what you're doing hoping you'll learn them along the way. so good job on that

At 3/31/12 08:47 AM, donatrax97 wrote: Hey guys, i'm creating some Comedy genre shorts of "PLUNG"
If you wan't to join me - create some random short with this character:
(The animation must be in good quality, with 0:30 seconds Length)

wrong forum mate, also i doubt most animators would work for free for you in exchange for... nothing. Which is what I'm extracting you're offering from your post. you may also want to consider studying drawing more before animating.

and