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It looks more like Roger if you rotate 180 degrees though.. like an ambigram kinda thing..
Butterfly, I think your paper is too toothy, try Bristol board to bring out the subtle tones
Thanks for the advice, I'll give that a try. Have also bought some books to help improve my drawing 🙂
Mediums - Biro and water colour pencil on the back of an envelope 😉
Just started the sketch before dinner.
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A Koala....
He's a little scared and hiding behind a branch...
I like Geda's Woodlouse.
Not strictly (in any sense of the term) a drawing, but it is a work of art...
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An Owl
now THAT is inspiring
My son did a pic especially for the STW Art Club 🙂
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I've emailed my 'wild' animal to redthunder, I'm away from home for a few days and too thick to upload off my phone.
for Catflees
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I done a tweak in Picasa ... lightened it a bit.
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The Owl is Fantastic piece of installation art 🙂
Lydon's Lion is EPIC!... 🙂
Bloody heel redthunder!
Thanks Redthunder! That was taken on my iPhone and nabbed off my Facebook so he looks a bit washed out.
That owl was so good it could be on display in the Loovre. Sorry.
I should make it clear the lab is by Catflees not me.
Mrs RT young'un decided to contribute and draw a Tiger Tank as well 🙂
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posted on behalf of Butterfly2346. I really like this drawing of a meerkat 🙂
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Not quite up to the standard of some, but this is Derek the rhino.
Bloody hell [s]redthunder! [/s] Catflees.
I love art club! Best regular thread on STW.
do we know what next weeks topic will be yet?
There are some great pictures on here, thanks to everyone for posting on here.
I've not had time to produce anything new, so here are some older pictures.
A Black Stork
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Vampire Bat Blue Mouse Cheese
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Here's a Toucan I did the other day. It's biro rendered with Copic markers.
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Roper, that's fantastic. Is it pencil point?
Quick vote: Say an hour or two from now.
1. Draw a Car or Vehicle of some kind ? mayby a transport theme ?
2 .Draw a character from one your favourite films as a kid.
3. Draw a Dargon /or your Chinese Star sign - Chinese new year and it's the year of the dragon!
+dragon
I'm gonna go with dragon. Dragons are COOL.
I'll vote dragon.. cos I want to be on the winning side.. if one of the other options gets the majority vote I'll go with that instead..
I vote option 2
Another for the Dragon
catflees- the Black Stork is pencil. Not the best photo to show the drawing but they can be a pain to photo. The other picture is pen and watercolour.
I don't think I will have time to join the quick drawing but my vote would be 2 or 3.
i vote option 1, but that could be because i used to be a transportation designer 😆
I don't think I will have time to join the quick drawing but my vote would be 2 or 3.
If it's close I suppose I'll make the deciding vote 🙂
If it does go dragons this week. We'll go characters next then vehicle/transport.
I like the simple lines on the koala 🙂
Roper, I love your stalk. I like the highlights on the White feathers on top of the legs against the water. I have been trying to get the 'perfect' photo of one of my drawings. I started a thread on here last year and got some good advice, also been talking to a few photographers about it. Starting to get better results now but they still look washed out. Wish I had access to a few older drawings still I would love better photos of them. By pencil point I ment is it blended? You can't really see once it's on the forum. It's s lively drawing.
I like the highlights on the White feathers on top of the legs against the water
Thanks for noticing. 🙂
I decided to blur out the water and hoped it would become more of a contrasting background, as the bird gets darker the water gets lighter and the other way round. No one else has ever mentioned it so I presumed I had blended it too much.
Thanks for clearing up pencil point, I used a range from 6H to 8B including F.
Photographing pencil is a nightmare. I use a Nikon D5000 which has an auto "High" setting. It lightens the paper and not quite as much from the dark. Nowhere near right though, The stork's neck is almost black in real life.
Great stork and I like the puffin too.
Dragon for me.
I gather that a scanner is the best bet for getting pencil drawings in.
i'm still taking pictures myself. I generally have to up the exposure and contrast to get them right though.
I'm not sure about catflees, but my drawings tend to be too big for my home scanner. I have tried to scan them on a more basic scanner but the pencil quality was lost. It looked more like a digital drawing. That could be due to my lack of patience with scanners.
catflees-what size if you dog drawing?
Hi, that dog is on A3 paper but the drawing is a little over A4.
Scanners wash out pencil work and make them look really flat. I've been using a Canon EOS 350d on a sunny day with natural lighting. I've used a tripod and a grey scale card. Once an image is put through imaheshack or Facebook though the quality is dropped so it's never a good representation when presented in that way.
Why would anybody want to do a drawing from a photo? All you are doing is drawing a photo. Get the tracing paper out as it will be quicker. Even better get a filter in photo shop and it can be done in seconds. I am being harsh but my recommendation would be to copy somebody who can draw. Copy their pictures then use their techniques to better your pictures. I would start with some of the greats. Say Rembrandt, or Durer. I can't really see the point of photo realist drawings or paintings myself.
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[i]Get the tracing paper out as it will be quicker.[/i]
[i]I would start with some of the greats. Say Rembrandt,[/i]
not that Rembrandt never ever ever used a camera obscura.
Why would anybody want to do a drawing from a photo?
Because your paid to draw someone who is busy and can't sit?