Stap's Art Thread

[Stapless]

Hello everyone :)

Im still pretty newbie at drawing and stuff, so I've decide to get a little more practice.

I've also been stalking the the art forum for afew weeks and was inspired to start my own thread.

I'll start off with this.

[justsomerandomdude]

At 9/12/13 04:15 PM, Stapless wrote: Hello everyone :)

Im still pretty newbie at drawing and stuff, so I've decide to get a little more practice.

I've also been stalking the the art forum for afew weeks and was inspired to start my own thread.

I'll start off with this.

Hey, good that you wanted to start drawing
I'll try to give some critique just know that it's to try help you advance

-Linework:
Okay I'll start with your linework because that's where it all begins, it looks very sketchy right now.
There's nothing wrong with that but if you want a more clean look you can still go for that sketchy way first to get the basic lines and curves and afterwards in a new layer have a somewhat thicker line (not too thick) and trace that what you drew in 1 line or try to minimise the overlapping of multiple lines.
That will give it a cleaner look

-Color/colour (however you spell it whether your from UK or US) and shading:
I'm just talking from my own experience but I find it easier to first start from a grayscale colorscheme and shade in there as well.
Also you can use clipping masks, that prevents you from going over lines so it's easier to use big soft brushes for toning to a darker or larger colour
A good tutorial for clipmasks is here
http://youtu.be/uGZGRw6xcyQ

As shown in the video with clipping masks you can isolate certain area's not having to worry to color in an area you don't want to

When in a clipmask I color it in with 100% opacity and midgray as color, then I use a darker gray to shade it and then lighter gray or white to show the lighter area
It doesn't have to be picture perfect at this step

After you feel fine with the grayscale

Create another layer and you can apply color, I usually start with a 100% opacity color that that I want and then go through the layer stiles to see which one suits best (usually it's overlay or color but it can vary, and again this is how I draw)

-The random lines you have in your drawing:
Now I don't know if that's ment for shading or not or to show curvature
Now I'm not saying you can't use it or it won't look good, because it can. But if you use lines, make them straight and go with the direction of the shape that you drew and use them for shading then, not just randomly

Now again, my drawing isn't perfect, far from I'm also still learning But I hope that what I said will aid you to progress in drawing. There are many different styles that use different techniques it's up to you to find out which you like or what suits you best.

Anyway hope my jibberjabber had any use to you

[Stapless]

cheers for advice randomdude :P

I had a go and couple hours later I done this..

I dont think I got the Line work that quite clean but i guess that comes with practice. haha

[justsomerandomdude]

At 9/14/13 11:34 AM, Stapless wrote: cheers for advice randomdude :P

I had a go and couple hours later I done this..

I dont think I got the Line work that quite clean but i guess that comes with practice. haha

The linework is cleaner already
But it does come with practice, this image you have shown now is more pleasant to look at in my opinion because it doesn't have the sketchy lines the other picture had. Those lines caused it to look chaotic.