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yes, the DD caused a little bit

of contraversy. yes indeed...

edit: anyway, I'm sure she practiced a lot to get to that level, so... back to the sketchpad :)

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tweaknik, Sat 17 Jul 2004, 6:17, archived)

hehehehe

i'm debating buying paint and trying that for the first time in a few years... might be fun

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lemony, Sat 17 Jul 2004, 6:23, archived)

i've been getting back to basics - graphite pencils on paper:

the results are worrying (ie not photorealistic, compared to the photoshop ones...!)

big

but i'm going to keep going becuase it should be good practice

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tweaknik, Sat 17 Jul 2004, 6:29, archived)

aye, i spotted a couple of those, you seem ace at texture but slightly behind on the actual makeup of the draeing

i can't drawto save my life, hence inormally do fractals and things which eliminate the need too

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lemony, Sat 17 Jul 2004, 6:33, archived)

yep, in my defence though,

this was the first drawing i'd done in years :) I've gotten a few tips now to do with proportion and layout so hopefully that'll help. You should give it a try, I think you'd do well. I'll email you some tutorials i found sometime if you like.

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tweaknik, Sat 17 Jul 2004, 6:36, archived)

that'd be really handy

i've only found ones designed for either preschoolers or the mentally challenged*

*people who keep drawing their dog

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lemony, Sat 17 Jul 2004, 6:38, archived)

this one springs to mind as being particularly useful...

www.portrait-artist.org/face/index.html

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tweaknik, Sat 17 Jul 2004, 6:41, archived)

*bookmarks*

i'll dig out a pencil later on and give them a crack

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lemony, Sat 17 Jul 2004, 6:45, archived)

nifty tutorial

i think i might get back into doing some freehand sketching in the near future too... either that or i will start scanning in my old stuff and retouching it and colouring it

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rawr isn't really here., Sat 17 Jul 2004, 6:50, archived)

i was really tempted to retouch

the above sketch - in fact I had done, I'd moved the features around to the correct positions and everything in photoshop... but it felt like cheating so i didn't save it
edit: i'm not saying theres anything wrong with retouching though, just avoiding it on my own stuff for a bit

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tweaknik, Sat 17 Jul 2004, 6:56, archived)

i don't consider retouching cheating

as long as i am the one who is doing all the work. I know that i can do it just as well in either traditional media or digital, i just prefer to do the retouching in digital because it's easier to undo errors if i screw up somewhere, whereas if i am working with pencil it tends to smudge if i erase or with ink it's damn near impossible to correct an error

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rawr isn't really here., Sat 17 Jul 2004, 6:58, archived)

i'm on a self improvement mission at the moment,

so hopefully keeping my mistakes visible will spur me on... :)

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tweaknik, Sat 17 Jul 2004, 7:01, archived)

here's one sketch i did in grade 10 art class

clearly i have been a comic book nut for a long time... hehe
This one's for MorpheusRiot =)

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rawr isn't really here., Sat 17 Jul 2004, 7:08, archived)

ooo

cool :)

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tweaknik, Sat 17 Jul 2004, 7:13, archived)

i think i might play around with this one and finish it up a bit

see what i can do with it

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rawr isn't really here., Sat 17 Jul 2004, 7:15, archived)

you rock

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MorpheusRiot Guambats or Guammibears?, Sat 17 Jul 2004, 7:15, archived)

thanks

the art teacher didn't think so...

i got a B on that one... but then again my art teacher was a crackhead. i can honestly say i learned nothing in art class.

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rawr isn't really here., Sat 17 Jul 2004, 7:17, archived)

most art teachers

have no clue what art is. i always despised being graded on what they thought was "good" or "bad". grr.

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MorpheusRiot Guambats or Guammibears?, Sat 17 Jul 2004, 7:18, archived)

yeah

i forget what stuff my teacher liked, but i was only there for the credit

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rawr isn't really here., Sat 17 Jul 2004, 7:20, archived)