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Trying to get good at drawing, so i can get good at inking, so i can get good at making making manga.
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3mo
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Here is mine and my attempt at overlaying it over the original
3mo
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Not quite exact. But, I like it.
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3mo
Great rendering but the point is to simplify not to realistically render.
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10mo
Are those censor bars just added in the previews or are they actually on all the images? I’m looking for high quality nude reference packs to properly practise anatomy drawing, I don’t want a censored pack as if there’s anything indecent in the human form.
4mo
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Felt like I should do another study, so here is one of Peter Han's work
4mo
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I really Like Gustave Dore's Illustrations, but I don't know if they are the best to study Line Art. I saw the variation he used to show light, but I believe that his shading and crosshatching are kind of distracting.
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5mo
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Master study of art done by Tite Kubo. This is definitely a challenge and there is a lot of room for improvement. Look forward to learning as much as I can from doing exercises like this. As far as doing the study though, I used a lot of searching lines.
4mo
One thing I noticed is that kubo made the eyes use heavier line weight and you did not capture that in yours. Keep it up and continue. You will only get better and better :)
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I tried to keep it as loose as I could but it looked too messy so i felt I had to come back and clean up the lines for the final picture. It was especially hard for me to think about the spikes and not make them feel 2d.
9mo
First of all, thanks a lot for helping me clear my mind and fix my mindset. This is a precious lesson to me even more than teaching skills.
(Those words below heavily relying on Google translation and broken manual correction. may have caused your dyslexia.)
For many years, I wanted to draw scenes from my dreams or from some inspiration, but I gave up at the draft stage. Perhaps it was too difficult for me because of my lack of relevant professional knowledge and experience. It always kills me, especially when I see some similar scenes in movies or somebody’s sketchbooks. As I worked on the basics of art, I dreamed that one day I would be able to start working on those ideas easily. But after all these years, it looks like a delay.
Share a funny story of mine. When I was a child, I drew from imagination more often than observation. After I indulged in comics, I also drew my own cartoons very poorly. No expectation, no pressure and any knowledge of drawing, but I just enjoyed and satisfied by every sketch of mine. All the way through college, I taught myself to draw, drawing a few short comic stories, even I struggled in drawing trains and cars and buildings and strange perspectives of people. But I always start with a blank sheet of paper to describe my ideas. It was not until later that I joined an art course on internet and began to learn a lot about drawing from observation. And then for many years, I only practiced in drawing from observation. Gradually I copied well, but I found that I could not spontaneously draw the things from imagination like I used to do. I forgot how to do that. Even though my job is character design, I can design again when I have a job assignment. Nothing could be weirder! Drawing become less interesting for me. It’s more like a job.
After this lesson, I’m aware of what kind of practice I most need, even the next step. Thank you Stan!
9mo
I relate to this as well. I feel like I used to be able to draw from imagination effortlessly. I too used to make very short comics. Now, after learning observation drawing techniques and practicing that, it feels like I can't just start drawing whatever; my mind feels blank now when I try.
Reading books on the brain, that way of thinking can come back if the mind believes it is possible. I'm convinced that if I start doing it regularly my brain will relearn it. The brain is adaptable and will be shaped by what thoughts it is fed.
I feel like my comment serves no purpose but I related hard to yours and I had a need to post it. I wish you luck. Believe that you can do it and the mind's ability of "placebo" will let you do it.
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My attempt at the level 1s
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Mixed the mushrooms in with my usual warmups. Also got some newsprint and china markers recently so I had a lot of fun with those.
10mo
I hadn't thought about doing some of my mushrooms from top down perspective thanks for giving me an idea. Also do I recognize some of those warmups from drawabox :D ?
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Messed around a lot trying to keep my pencil on the page and pressing more firmly on some, lifting it on others. Always tried ghosting the elipses beforehand. Had some time before I had to get ready for work, so I also decided to practice some filling in. I was impressed how good some of you can shade and I want to catch up.
10mo
Thanks for this, Stan. I’ve already learned so much and I’m only 15 mins in!
When it comes to shading, you mentioned shading with the “tip” of the pencil. I found that I ran into the same problem as the example you critiqued, where the texture was coming through. What I found when shading with the tip, the pencil dulls out so fast. I noticed, in your video, I was able to clearly see the lines where you shaded with the tip of the pencil - not sure if it was actually the pencil or if it was the paper quality or the technique of application.
Question - would I need to constantly sharpen my pencil to avoid getting that textured look / dullness with the pencil?
That is one of the things I am currently struggling with.
10mo
Hey Huda that is a good question. Maybe you can create two practice rectangles and see if sharpening the pencil every couple of strokes vs going a longer time makes a difference: testing it first hand.
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10mo
oops.. I did the outlining of values. Will avoid trying to cheat in the future.
10mo
Having heard how long it took you for the lay-in makes me feel much better about how long it took me to do. I think in all the level 2 took me 4 hours total.
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Pff. That is a lot harder than I expected. Simplify and using geometry. I have done many drawings and portraits and a lot of life drawing but never like this. I started with lines and tried to stick to 5 values using the overhand method... very interesting but with the overhand I should have used a larger paper so it quickly became a mix... Good news is, I am getting back in a flow because I did the two drawings in a bit less than one hour. And with regard the pear and apple... It is hard to focus on the true shade and not mix in the colour. Also the photo has a different angle than my eye.. sorry, even so, the pear is probably shorter and the apple a bit wider...
10mo
Hey loes. I think your drawings look good and have good proportions, but I think you may have missed the point of the assignment. One of the goals was to use straight lines for the shapes and make sure that the edges are sharp and distinguishable. A lot of your edges are messy and some of your values kind of blur together in some areas. These are my criticisms.
If you had time to try one of these exercises again; making clean edges and straight lines a higher priority; I think you would get a lot of value out of it.
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I had a much harder time with the level 2 deciding where the cutoff for each value would be.
11mo
Hi! I just draw this. I would appreciate some feedback
10mo
In my eyes, the middle section should be shaded darker. The top seems to be lighter in the refference photo than the middle while in the drawing they appear to have the same value.
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Ordered a pencil set so I'll see what other led hardnesses feel like later. Might go touch some paper later. For now just used a standard #2 (which I think is HB) and a big and small eraser on standard printer paper.
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