Nameofusers Sketchbook

[NAMEOFUSER]

well i figured i would make one of these since i got some new materials and some newfound skill(i hope) well the first one i just call hawk cause im so creative.

[NAMEOFUSER]

Here is my second one and all these are not echnicaly finished so help would be apreciated its called "angel of death"

[NAMEOFUSER]

here is number three. after this one i gotta make somthing bran new. so ideas would be awsome. guess ill just call this one owl.

[NAMEOFUSER]

At 12/13/07 06:16 PM, PrinceFlea wrote: Hey that is pretty damn cool, It's almost hard to believe that your skill was newfound since really there good. Did you use any referance from an picture or was it all from your mind?

the two birds are refreced from lee hamonds: lifelike drawing. the angel of death is just from previus interpretations i have seen of him/it.

[NAMEOFUSER]

come on guys i really need some help with this. i want to know how to improve the current book im using has me using advanced materials that i cant find so its hard for me to blend properly and get a polished look to my work.

[El-Presidente]

At 12/13/07 06:14 PM, NAMEOFUSER wrote: Here is my second one and all these are not echnicaly finished so help would be apreciated its called "angel of death"

Is that supposed to be that his only friend is no one? It's not that it's bad, its just not too obvious that there's no one there if I'm correct. I think that this picture is really good though. I think that there's little that I can tell you because I'm not great with sketch type stuff, but I'd definitely say that you should try and clear up the background and not have it be so striked up. I like it being plain. You also shouldn't try so hard to keep your threads alive. If they're good, they'll naturally stay alive. You just like octuple bumped your thread :). Just let people post what they think.

[NAMEOFUSER]

At 12/13/07 09:32 PM, El-Presidente wrote:

At 12/13/07 06:14 PM, NAMEOFUSER wrote: Here is my second one and all these are not echnicaly finished so help would be apreciated its called "angel of death"

Is that supposed to be that his only friend is no one? It's not that it's bad, its just not too obvious that there's no one there if I'm correct. I think that this picture is really good though. I think that there's little that I can tell you because I'm not great with sketch type stuff, but I'd definitely say that you should try and clear up the background and not have it be so striked up. I like it being plain. You also shouldn't try so hard to keep your threads alive. If they're good, they'll naturally stay alive. You just like octuple bumped your thread :). Just let people post what they think.

it acctually means his sword of death is his only friend(chessey i know). but thanks for the help. and i only bumped it once evefry thing else was a submission or a reply

[vonDark]

I really love the first one. Real solid use of light and dark pencil shades. The other ones, well they aren't so great.

[Perkele93]

those owls are pretty cool.

[squidium]

smudging is pretty basic shtuff, try to move into a clean-type shading and not wipeing your finger across your page

[J-D-S]

If you want to improve you could work on drawing with shading rather than lines. Its okay to sketch it out in lines first, but you don't neccesarily want to be able to see them when you're done. It depends what you want to do. Another things you could try is gettign some dark charcoal and a stomp for blending. Also to create more depth you need more contrast, going from super dark to super light.
nice work so far.

[NAMEOFUSER]

At 12/14/07 05:04 PM, J-D-S wrote: If you want to improve you could work on drawing with shading rather than lines. Its okay to sketch it out in lines first, but you don't neccesarily want to be able to see them when you're done. It depends what you want to do. Another things you could try is gettign some dark charcoal and a stomp for blending. Also to create more depth you need more contrast, going from super dark to super light.
nice work so far.

thanks for the help everyone. but you got any shading help the book i use says th secret is tortillions wich i cant find anywhere.

[NAMEOFUSER]

At 12/14/07 05:35 PM, Cabbster wrote:

At 12/14/07 05:20 PM, NAMEOFUSER wrote:

thanks for the help everyone. but you got any shading help the book i use says th secret is tortillions wich i cant find anywhere.

Come on now you really don't need books to tell you how to draw.

...draw from your heart, and do it until you're satisfied with it.

but it sure helps to have some lessons. of corrse i dont follow step by step im to impatient and i dont want to completlyy copy the artists style

[NAMEOFUSER]

i tried reshading with a rag to see if that would improve my quality at all

[NAMEOFUSER]

tried to improve the shading on this one also i erased the shading directly outside of it to try to make it pop

[cjw1313]

wow that is prett cool. id love to be able to draw lke that. peace man

[El-Presidente]

At 12/14/07 06:13 PM, NAMEOFUSER wrote: tried to improve the shading on this one also i erased the shading directly outside of it to try to make it pop

Ach, that's disgusting compared to the first one (it's good, I'm just exaggerating). I think that the first one was so much better because it was simple, a little bit skewed and not exactly GREAT looking, which made it look more like a sketch, which was cool. This one is just like taking a shit on that. It's a cross between the real good and the weird good which puts it at a disadvantage. The other one was closer to weird/sketched good, which made it more unique and less part good part bad. It's almost like if it's good, it's good, if it's bad, it's good, if it's okay, it's bad. I know that sounds like non-sense, but it makes sense to me :P.

[NAMEOFUSER]

Ach, that's disgusting compared to the first one (it's good, I'm just exaggerating). I think that the first one was so much better because it was simple, a little bit skewed and not exactly GREAT looking, which made it look more like a sketch, which was cool. This one is just like taking a shit on that. It's a cross between the real good and the weird good which puts it at a disadvantage. The other one was closer to weird/sketched good, which made it more unique and less part good part bad. It's almost like if it's good, it's good, if it's bad, it's good, if it's okay, it's bad. I know that sounds like non-sense, but it makes sense to me :P.

i think i get it your trying to say you like stuff raw. very kind of dirty and incomplete. somthing that shading with an untextured rag got rid of completly.

[NAMEOFUSER]

well i guesss ill ust keep bumping this thread with new drawings cause i dont wanna clog up the portal with alot of diffrent threads. here is a little practise shading a sphere i posted it mainly cause i need some help everthing else was added as an after thought so give me crap about the anatomy. ps it say "before holding ip the world for eternity you must go through a 20 year training process.

[Alcohol1]

Interesting...I never thought that someone on NG can come up with drawings like that. Is it just talent or did you get those art skills somewhere else?

[flopiebaby]

That's realy great!

[IDuDe]

Sorry dude, But i didn't really liked them...
Keep trying...

[Dookiemaister]

they look ok i guess, the sketches are good for future coloring, but by themselves they dont look too amazing.

[NAMEOFUSER]

At 12/27/07 11:18 AM, Alcohol1 wrote: Interesting...I never thought that someone on NG can come up with drawings like that. Is it just talent or did you get those art skills somewhere else?

most was self taught but some of it was from a drawing book.

[Grimworm]

Do a GrimWorm its so awesomely hard you might spontainiously combust :o !!

I probably made lots of misspellings <--- aswell as this ?

[NAMEOFUSER]

At 12/27/07 02:48 PM, Grimworm wrote: Do a GrimWorm its so awesomely hard you might spontainiously combust :o !!

I probably made lots of misspellings <--- aswell as this ?

umm a little off topic their buddy.

[Alcohol1]

At 12/27/07 02:38 PM, NAMEOFUSER wrote:

At 12/27/07 11:18 AM, Alcohol1 wrote: Interesting...I never thought that someone on NG can come up with drawings like that. Is it just talent or did you get those art skills somewhere else?

most was self taught but some of it was from a drawing book.

Well, I still can't get why some people don't like your stuff. For me it's great.

[iLott]

Very nice work.