AlastairSnowpaw Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 So recently I made myself an art blog thing to motivate me to draw more frequently. I Also want to learn how to do tablet and digital drawing better. So i'm sort of posting everyday some sort of sketch or drawing I did. Though not all are ones i did that day. http://artsandgoodies.tumblr.com/ I don't know how much of that stuff i will post here, but I'll at least post the two things I did today here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlastairSnowpaw Posted January 12, 2016 Author Share Posted January 12, 2016 4 hours ago, Saxon said: Taking photos of artwork in traditional media. If you cannot scan them, place them flat against a hard, white surface, preferably illuminated evenly by sun light. Stand directly over the image, keeping your camera as far from the page as possible, so as to reduce lens distortion. Take care to make sure the image is in-focus. Once you have taken the photo, use a free image processing software, such as GNU to adjust the white balance, so that the whites appear white, rather than grey. With your tablet, make sure you have the correct driver software installed. Make sure that you have set your brush settings to 'pressure sensitive' and 'smooth' dynamics. At the moment it looks like you are using basic simple dynamics with the pressure sensitivity switched off. Yea i don't really have much of a scanner. also yea i was thinking about the white balance, i just need to remeber how to do that on photoshop X3. also how do i turn the sensitivity thing on? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlastairSnowpaw Posted January 12, 2016 Author Share Posted January 12, 2016 okay also i'm getting this weird glitch occasionally where when i select a tool it says "Could not complete your request because of a program error" However the tool still works and I am able to use the one i switch over to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlastairSnowpaw Posted January 22, 2016 Author Share Posted January 22, 2016 So i didn't really realize it was fine-ish to double post here so I will post some of the complete stuff i do, while i do post sketches daily there I feel a bit lazy and will only post some complete stuff here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlastairSnowpaw Posted January 25, 2016 Author Share Posted January 25, 2016 Here's another complete piece i did a bit ago. It was done with acrylic paint. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlastairSnowpaw Posted February 3, 2016 Author Share Posted February 3, 2016 I don't wanna really put most of my sketch progress things that I upload on my blog but since it's a sketch of a full anthro i feel it's fitting to put here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bakari Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 A sketch blog is a grand idea and posting a thread here helps with accountability - knowing that others are paying attention to what you're doing helps motivate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlastairSnowpaw Posted February 3, 2016 Author Share Posted February 3, 2016 2 minutes ago, Bakari said: A sketch blog is a grand idea and posting a thread here helps with accountability - knowing that others are paying attention to what you're doing helps motivate. Yea and it definitely has been helping with that. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlastairSnowpaw Posted February 20, 2016 Author Share Posted February 20, 2016 may as well post here one of the drawings from the life drawing sessions i have been going to. this was from a 20 minute pose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlastairSnowpaw Posted February 22, 2016 Author Share Posted February 22, 2016 On 2/20/2016 at 6:51 AM, Saxon said: @AlastairSnowpaw I think that it's good you've decided to take up life drawing, because this is a good way to learn. I think you would benefit from thinking about proportions. There are a few means of doing this; some artists hold their pencil at an arm's length and line it up with the model, to measure how many pencil-lengths a body part is, compared to another, for example. You might also try thinking about the shapes made between different parts of the model, such as the gaps between their limbs. If you try to make these shapes accurate, then you will constrain your drawing further, which makes the final result more realistic. I also think your drawing is A4? I think life drawing should be done on great big sheets of sugar paper, with big soft pencils and an easel. You should stand up while you're drawing, so that you may practice using your arm to draw, instead of your wrist. thanks for the advice and yea i have trouble with proportions, how would you recommend starting the proportions out? i tend to make 4 marks on the page to indicate where the farthest parts of the body are, this method doesn't seem to work well and need another method to start, do you have any recommendations? also i tend to use drawing paper 9x12 is the specific pad i use for the drawing session, though they prolly have big paper to use there as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlastairSnowpaw Posted March 6, 2016 Author Share Posted March 6, 2016 Here's a back side of a antrho cat i did recently that I enjoy quite a lot. Digitigrade legs are fun to draw. . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlastairSnowpaw Posted March 13, 2016 Author Share Posted March 13, 2016 Here's an ink image I did a while ago that I may as well post here since it's not a sketch like a lot of the stuff i post but more complete. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlastairSnowpaw Posted March 21, 2016 Author Share Posted March 21, 2016 Here's a sketch thing i did recently, i already notice that the head needs to be changed but it was a fun pose thing to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saxon Posted March 24, 2016 Share Posted March 24, 2016 Camera shake, camera shake, camera shake. These sketches do represent veritable improvement on your earlier sketches. At the moment you seem to be drawing abdomens slightly too thick and limbs slightly too thin. I'm having difficulty interpreting the black stripes. I presume they are shadows? Maybe a touch softer next time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlastairSnowpaw Posted March 25, 2016 Author Share Posted March 25, 2016 7 hours ago, Saxon said: Camera shake, camera shake, camera shake. These sketches do represent veritable improvement on your earlier sketches. At the moment you seem to be drawing abdomens slightly too thick and limbs slightly too thin. I'm having difficulty interpreting the black stripes. I presume they are shadows? Maybe a touch softer next time. yea they are, i sort of only half shadowed that picture without really putting grays in it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlastairSnowpaw Posted May 4, 2016 Author Share Posted May 4, 2016 So i haven't really been completing much stuff recently because I have been working on a big picture thing for a community art thing with a theme of cats. Here's my most recent progress on the picture, I still have a bit to go to finish it but most of the pieces are in place. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlastairSnowpaw Posted May 11, 2016 Author Share Posted May 11, 2016 So here is a picture of the finished version of the painting, there was a lot of changes and stuff but I like the finished version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlastairSnowpaw Posted June 14, 2016 Author Share Posted June 14, 2016 So i have recently been working on a pointalist painting and i'm nearly complete with it. just gotta up the contrast more and it's pretty much done. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlastairSnowpaw Posted June 15, 2016 Author Share Posted June 15, 2016 On 3/24/2016 at 3:19 PM, Saxon said: Camera shake, camera shake, camera shake. I finally got myself a scanner, well got it as a birthday gift. I got an epson perfection v600. here's the first thing I scanned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlastairSnowpaw Posted June 18, 2016 Author Share Posted June 18, 2016 So this is one of my first attempts at drawing the same character multiple times. I also had to come up with a weird tie thing for her hair but I may just move the twist more to the right and not have the right side hair be implied as long. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlastairSnowpaw Posted June 23, 2016 Author Share Posted June 23, 2016 I don't quite get color in digital but at least now with my scanner I can go from pencil to digital and edit that way which is nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlastairSnowpaw Posted August 2, 2016 Author Share Posted August 2, 2016 it's been a while since i posted anything here so here's my first attempt at drawing a Lucario 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlastairSnowpaw Posted August 9, 2016 Author Share Posted August 9, 2016 Here a series of character expressions i did a while ago that I should have posted here since it's a cat but o wells. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlastairSnowpaw Posted August 27, 2016 Author Share Posted August 27, 2016 heres a cat pictuere where i totally fucked the perspective but managed to mostly fix it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlastairSnowpaw Posted September 7, 2016 Author Share Posted September 7, 2016 Here's some lucario's I drew 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlastairSnowpaw Posted September 11, 2016 Author Share Posted September 11, 2016 I have been drawing some boats recently for a background thing and eh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlastairSnowpaw Posted September 23, 2016 Author Share Posted September 23, 2016 I kind of like this land thing i'm working on right now. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#00Buck Posted September 25, 2016 Share Posted September 25, 2016 Good stuff. Keep drawing. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlastairSnowpaw Posted October 3, 2016 Author Share Posted October 3, 2016 So I started Inktober yesterday which the prompt was noise so i did josuke from jojo's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlastairSnowpaw Posted October 4, 2016 Author Share Posted October 4, 2016 Here's inktober day 2 "collect" I also need to practice the comic format more and after inktober play around with text bubbles and fonts in photoshop. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#00Buck Posted October 4, 2016 Share Posted October 4, 2016 Good stuff. Keep drawing. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlastairSnowpaw Posted October 13, 2016 Author Share Posted October 13, 2016 Been doing Inktober has been really good for me completing things. here's one i did of kirby. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlastairSnowpaw Posted October 30, 2016 Author Share Posted October 30, 2016 So i'm planning a sci-fi comic and here's a sketch page of one of the main characters in it. His name is Diego. Also the other two main characters are human-y and not relay anthros, though my sci-fi setting has way more anthros and less space creatures than most. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moogle Posted October 31, 2016 Share Posted October 31, 2016 That Kirby picture is pretty cutesy, great job on keeping the consistency of the rock's shape - nailed it! Good luck with your comic Alastair, hope you decide to post some progress shots of it here. <3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlastairSnowpaw Posted November 30, 2016 Author Share Posted November 30, 2016 I'm very inactive on this site so don't expect much posts here but here's a drawing i did recently that I quite enjoy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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