Anybody Good at Drawing

[Dustin S.]

Anybody good with the pencil that dont mind helping out others? lol

Well Im getting back into it and I still cant draw people worth a damn. If im staring at a picture of someone, or looking at something I can draw it perfectly. Almost to the point of it looking like a tracing. That just doesnt feel right to me though.

So I go and try to draw my comic on my own. (note i have actual artists working on it, i just wanted to try something to show them an idea) However i fail miserbly. Obviously its entirely original so i have nothing to look at to base it on, no picture of batman or something to stare at and copy.

I do the whole stick figure, then circles and squares, then fill it in, then do the details and I cant do it properly. Its mainly the face...Given enough time ill get the muscles and other parts of the body done correctly to an extent, then the face looks like crap.

Another issue I have is proportions. I dont know how to get differnt views, how to make arms bigger smaller etc...I dont know how to give things depth correctly. Note I saw Stan Lee and Steve Ditko do the whole "draw lines of depth and field of vision" then you follow the lines and it gives it the right depth etc...But I want to know how you just do it on a given note.

Practice practice practice...I know. Ive been drawing for months now, and i cant get faces down lol, i need help in some way.

Just say this now because Ive gotten extremely interested in the game industry again and im thinking of switching from film to game design. Note ill still be a writer for either one on any given day, but i want to learn 3d really bad. and it starts by learning this.

[trediddy]

i have the same problem i really like drawing and i can look at something and draw it but i can draw without actually have something to look at

[Sauberbmw]

i can draw, without having to look at it, and i am a pretty good drwer but i cant draw people worth my life

[Dustin S.]

Do you have any tips on how to draw things? Ive been practicing and im getting better, I can at least draw people without them looking like complete crap now. I still look at things though...I really badly want to get away from that. I just want to be able to pull out a peice of paper, think of something, then draw it.

[trediddy]

yea me to like sometimes im at school and i got nothin to do in class so i get paper but i cant draw nothin in my mind lol

[Dustin S.]

Haha ive done that everyday this week

[Nick]

Yea, I'm not bad at drawing stuff, I can just think of nothing original to draw lol

[Dustin S.]

got anything in regards to tips? lol

[trediddy]

all i can say is practice makes perfect maybe u can check on deviantart but i dont know if they have forums but if they do there are some really good drawings there

[Dustin S.]

I read tutorials and such all the time, Im getting better at drawing but i cant draw on my own. For example to draw a person ill need to look up a pose that i need then draw it, change it into what i need etc...I couldnt even draw my own comic for a while haha.

[gaf]

i am more of a vehicle / environment sketcher....so can't really help you with people...maybe this dvd can help

http://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/store/product/321/Comic-Book-Pencilling-with-Stephen-Platt

here's a rough sketch i did when i was bored...using perspective lines...done in pen

http://forums.thegnomonworkshop.com/picture.php?albumid=172&pictureid=922

[trediddy]

nice!

[gaf]

i have a tip...maybe you could my an action figure, and the pose it in various poses and try to recreate any angles you are having difficulty with, then you will be able to see what it should look like....

also what you could to is take pictures of it from different perspectives and really study how it works...

for angled heads you should draw a cube and uild the head withing it....and place guidelines in areas of importance....and follow tem around the cube....eyeline, base of the nose and mouth line etc

[Dustin S.]

Now thats a really good tip, thank you! Im gonna try it here in a sec, ill post what I get out of it.

That drawing is brilliant, just wow haha. Are you gonna color it?

[gaf]

Nah, i tried colouring it once and it looked bad...so i just keep it plain...here's another...this is when i was testing out perspective drawings....(the one above was 2 point perspective).

this is 1-point perspective
http://forums.thegnomonworkshop.com/picture.php?albumid=172&pictureid=969

and this is 3-point perspective
http://forums.thegnomonworkshop.com/picture.php?albumid=172&pictureid=923

[Dustin S.]

Are you an architect? Those are really good.

[gaf]

not an architect...but i did learn car design in university....and got some tips from there....and using perspective lines make things better

[Dustin S.]

Do you use perspective lines for car design too? Ive been interested in that as well. I like watching guys like chip Foose do his drawings, its just awesome.

[xEN7xASSASSINx]

i used to love drawing! i always muck up on hands and sometimes feet though :( never get the finger placement right or the feet are never even lol

[trediddy]

anyone know of any art classes here in california

[Dustin S.]

If you have any comic shops around you, head there and see if they offer anything. My comic shops have saturday things where people can get together and help everyone out. They do writers work shops too, which i love.

Other than that there are a ton of classes like this during summer, but they cost money.

[Nick]

Gaf, I'm jealous haha! I can do figure drawing but I suck at drawing like backdrops and stuff.

@Dustin, just keep looking at examples if you have to man. Eventually, you'll be able to do it from memory - or at least, that's how I learned.

Here's a picture of Wolverine I drew a while back:

http://photos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs108.snc1/4801_710279786542_9115883_41107377_7479445_n.jpg

[gaf]

Do you use perspective lines for car design too? Ive been interested in that as well. I like watching guys like chip Foose do his drawings, its just awesome.

yes, i do now...i found it keeps things looking accurate....and another good way to tell if a drawing looks correct in perspective it to draw on thin paper, then once the drawin is finished flip the page over and see if it looks right when its 'mirrored' ....because your eyes adjust to the way you draw, and flipping it give a whole 'new perspective'

you will notice that digital artist do it also, they will mirror the image they are working on to get a better overall view of it.

[Dustin S.]

Check out some practicing ive been doing, this is while looking at things lol.

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y204/s1s2s3s4s5/1102092332.jpg
Im proud of that one. If you cant make out what it is, go look at Metallica's ..and justice for all cover lol.

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y204/s1s2s3s4s5/1028092202.jpg
Was looking at a gun (note the lines are straight, the angle i took the picture made them curved)

[gaf]

your style has very simplistic lines, and cartoon / anime style....the gun lacks detail for me...and not a huge fan of the trigger section....could do with more detail and scale adjusting.

here's what i mean by detail....i know i skimp out on details in some areas, i can be quite lazy with stuff in the distance. Also i need to work on scale of things in distance etc....but i leave it for the next sketch etc.

Done with pencil and scanned in.
http://forums.thegnomonworkshop.com/picture.php?albumid=172&pictureid=929

i am working on another sketch with a desert / canyon scene vibe...just need to do a bit more details and scan it in.

[Dustin S.]

Yeah i try to do that but i fail lol. I didnt scan mine, i took a picture with an average camera, so your missing alot of details too. Like in the metallica one i have cracks on all the bones and stuff, but i know what you mean as its not as in depth.

[trediddy]

man thts better than anything i can do. ima see if i can find the pic of drew of michael jackson (looked at pic of course)

EDIT: how do i upload pics on here from my comp

[Dustin S.]

Go to photobucket or imageshack and upload them there. It will give you a " [IMG]" code for the picture, copy and paste that here.

[trediddy]

oh do i have to have an acoount on there

[Dustin S.]

One of them you dont, i forget which one

[X_Racer1]

Photobucket requires you to register for a free account but the basic free account is more than enough for almost anyone who needs such a service, from the looks of it Imageshack you can just straight upload to and they host your images for anyone to see where Photobucket allows you some control of your photos, allows you to get basic statistics of who views your photos and keep all your uploaded photos in one place where Imageshack doesn't.

[trediddy]

ok heres my drawing (2 pics)

http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/4199/014jj.th.jpg (http://img190.imageshack.us/i/014jj.jpg/)

http://img688.imageshack.us/img688/3020/015v.th.jpg (http://img688.imageshack.us/i/015v.jpg/)

im pretty proud of these

but they were taken with a camera so not great quality

EDIT: click on the pic to get a bigger view

[Dustin S.]

gotta say thats pretty damn good!

[Nick]

ok heres my drawing (2 pics)

http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/4199/014jj.th.jpg (http://img190.imageshack.us/i/014jj.jpg/)

http://img688.imageshack.us/img688/3020/015v.th.jpg (http://img688.imageshack.us/i/015v.jpg/)

im pretty proud of these

but they were taken with a camera so not great quality

EDIT: click on the pic to get a bigger view

RIP to the King of Pop :\

[Jordan]

RIP to the King of Pop :\

RIP creepy alleged child molester.

Just saying.

[trediddy]

gotta say thats pretty damn good!thanks, when i finished i was really surprised cause at the time i hadnt drawn in a while

[gaf]

finished my latest sketch and also found time to scan it in.

http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/7218/canyonsketch.jpg

[trediddy]

is it on the contest thread

[Nick]

Did a picture of Big Boss and Gene facing off from MGS Portable Ops. Tried to mimic Ashley Wood's style, but with mixed results.

http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/7953/snakegene.png

[trediddy]

thats pretty good it could use some touch ups but other than that its pretty nice

her is a work in progress of my drawing of ezio from ACII

http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/5365/picturep.th.jpg (http://img121.imageshack.us/i/picturep.jpg/)

[kiduka]

I can use my imagination but it takes me hours to make little progress. I draw a hawk in art class and I only managed to draw one wing lol

[tanu]

yes i am too good at drawing...no doubt ...

[jpg143ak]

Hai Iam an artist where i hava done huge no of paintings such as pencil and piantings.

If u an idea of learning paints and to know about the different ankles and focusing ideas u may contact me.

U can also hire me