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right that'll do me for a few days, I'm aw draw'd oot!
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Rough sketch for this Head Lopper character. Might try to do it properly.
looking good.
Thanks. Will make him more squat, and make it darker.
I’m now watching YouTube videos on drawing trying to recall from 30 years ago, some of the basics I still recall. I could never work out the seeing shapes in a object I want to draw though.
Far as i can make out it's picking out the rough shapes and building up the basic structures firstly then you can carve your drawing around those, lets you sense the shadows and volume and perspective of an object etc before you get too detailed.
Yeah I just can’t seem to be able to think that way, use to drive the teachers mad at school.
Drac - ModeratorYeah I just can’t seem to be able to think that way, use to drive the teachers mad at school.
Try a different method then. Try to draw something in under 30 seconds. Don't let your pencil touch the page for more than one second at a time. No ponderous lines, no contrived attempts to render.
Keep trying the same thing over and over. Start a new drawing each time.
Try something easy first. And you must post the results. Those are the rules.
Funny whenever I doodle that’s kind of what I do Jimjam, it probably shows in my video. Cheers for the tips.
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Try quick slashing broad strokes. Far broader strokes. Try an organic shape like a skull or a leaf or something. Try and convey the shape with as few strokes as possible.
Let the line start and end before and after the shape you are trying to express....if that makes sense.
Cheers. Leaves I can kind of do, now a skull might take some practice.
I broke the gif above trying to upload a better quality one. 😳
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Going to have to abandon this for a few hours. taking the camera for a walk.
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thing is there as well drac, you're just drawing completely freehand, which is incredibly difficult, you need to use guidelines and stuff to get more accurate. (aye I appreciate this is still wonky, just posting it so drac can see the guides 😆 )
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Yes I recall guides and can cheat with the iPad but just playing at the moment.
Cheers for the tips and encouragement, practice lots of is what I need.
I tried to draw a skull earlier, tis murder. I actually drew a decent one when I was at college years ago, long since lost that skill. 😆
Don't worry about guidlines, and use a reference. Try to draw this skull using less that 20 marks.
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The aim is to free up your movements and get fluid.
getting there with that, jim!
This is the original character...so cool.
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Don't worry about guidlines, and use a reference. Try to draw this skull using less that 20 marks.
Haha!
Well it’s pretty embarrassing.
It doesn't have to look like that.
As I was uploading it my daughter walked passed.
“Hahahaha! what’s that?” 😳
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Getting there. Might have been a bit too hard, try and draw a leaf in 4 strokes. If you're not going to use pen or paper that app mentioned on page one is very good. Zen brush.
I use adobe sketch it’s pretty good but will look at Zen.
Cheers again.
Thought I should post some of my efforts.
Thing that I've realised pretty quickly, that I don't have the same skills now that I used to have when I was drawing everyday (around 15 years ago. Also my hand gets tired now, no stamina.
Now though being older and wiser I just enjoy it.
Looks good everyone, keep going!
Here are some of mine first one:
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One for division, took ages:
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This evenings effort whilst STC is On:
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yes, i do like the creepy wave one
Fantastic!
Not going to get a chance to post tomorrow or draw.. so I went New Zealand time and completed 8/31 today.
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yes, i do like the creepy wave one
superb, one of the most famous prints in the world, is "the creepy wave" yin! 😆
great stuff holmes!
edit: love that car, red, brilliant!
decent program on bbc1 just not about jean michel basquiat the now.
No 6. I might actually make this target of 31 scribbles for the month, only 2 off the pace at the moment! 😆
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loving this thread. i could take part, could do 31 stick men in a different pose
Go for it, lets see them! Stick men are cool.
Think it should be re-stated that the whole point of this inktober thing is simply self improvement, and the repeated process of doing it day after day is the only way to improve.
I reckon all you that say you can't draw, should challenge yourselves.
Put pen to paper, don't think about it and put self criticism to the side, just keep drawing, don't look back. Then post up your stuff, at the end of the month have a look back and see how much you've improved. I bet you'll be surprised at your ability/improvement!
https://www.youtube.com/user/jakeparker44/videos
jake parker videos are worth a watch as well btw, that's the guy that started this inktober thing.
Here's him talking about starting it, and showing you his inktober stuff over the years.
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Yeah, my free flowing minimal marks skull looked pretty similar! Did some leaves and a flower trying to flow, then did the skull again.
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leaves are looking good, as is the (left) skull. Telt ye, improvements will come, keep at it! 🙂
I was thinking about this when on the bike today. I suppose ultimately what I was trying to say was ....swing your hands around like you are pretending to be an artist 😉
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I got pretty bored with Head Lopper surprisingly quickly. Wish I'd gone for more of an action scene. Hey ho. Couldn't even be arsed taking another photograph when I realised that one was out of focus.
No. 7
Man, anything beyond even surfaces I'm utterly useless at, shading uneven surfaces is hard!
Think I'm gonny buy some brush pens and a range of tones see how I get on with those. The cross hatching patter I have no patience for, I think I'm done with that! Time to try and learn another style i think. f'd this right up. Shame as I thought the basic sketch was alright before I rubbed it out too, if a bit long in the vertical, I've always preferred pencils..
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Head Lopper has some impressive quads, he'd probably be quite handy on a bike!
Looking good people. Keep it up, great to see people having a go who've never done it before, or trying new things.
I've moved away from my trusty dip pen and grabbed a brush.
The result being this:
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Quickly underdrawn with pencil, then attacked with india ink and water. I forgot to begin with that india ink is waterproof so blending is a bit tricky (compared to water colour).
Enjoyed it though, also realised that pros use shorter brushes!
Looking good.
Great skulls, interesting setting different versions. Head lopper looks awesome, bit like I imagined druss but wrong weapon!
No 6. I might actually make this target of 31 scribbles for the month, only 2 off the pace at the moment!
That Enterprise is superb.
It reminds me, the only vague art skills I ever had, I used to be into ASCII art. I once drew the NX-01 Enterprise from the prequel show, totally off-topic but I could post that if anyone cares?
