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[Agony]x90
United States853 Posts
On November 27 2011 13:29 hazelynut wrote: YAY this put a big smile on my face when i saw it Lol mona hi. Sry if i was being a dick about the pencil >.<. I was super annoyed cause my other had just broken on the way to my aunts and I really wanted to draw at that exact moment when i got back. | ||
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diverzee
Sweden992 Posts
I liked this post, and how it shows your dedication. I never drew much myself, thinking it was kind of boring (when there are interests like video games which bombard all your senses with information). When I read what you write it makes me think that one needs something to motivate one to draw, and that it could be ponies. Now I feel like perhaps I too could start drawing more often for fun. Anyway, nice posts, and keep us updated. | ||
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[Agony]x90
United States853 Posts
I've been holding my pencil wrong this whole time T.T. Time to learn correctly! 10 steps back, 100 steps forward. Patience and concentration. Here we go! | ||
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megapants
United States1314 Posts
the first thing i notice in your sketches is how they are clearly done very fast but with very short strokes. i suggest trying to slow down and focus on longer, broader, lighter strokes. this is a very, very important technique that people don't catch on to in the early stages when learning how to draw. slowing down your sketches helps you focus on improving both your speed and the cleanliness of your sketches. i have to give you props on how frequently you're drawing though! i challenge you to double your production in the next coming week. your average output in the first three weeks seems to be about 2 a day. if you really want to get serious though, you have to produce more sketches, designs, as well as environments, props, etc. at a much faster rate. so in the coming week, i challenge you to do a minimum of 4 pages worth of sketches daily. see how that feels for you. then, track your progress. how long does it take me to do 4 pages? can i do it faster? am i implementing new techniques that i'm learned the day before? these are all questions you should ask yourself every day. hope that was helpful. i wish you the best of luck and i'll be keeping track of your progress, for sure.  | ||
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FuDDx
United States5010 Posts
I enjoyed reading this and watching your art improve. Many well wishes for you and your studies!! | ||
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hazelynut
United States2196 Posts
On November 28 2011 12:55 megapants wrote: hello there, i like what i'm seeing. i always love it when i see people taking the plunge into drawing. to preface, i don't watch my little pony, but i have seen the designs around the net quite a bit these days. the first thing i notice in your sketches is how they are clearly done very fast but with very short strokes. i suggest trying to slow down and focus on longer, broader, lighter strokes. this is a very, very important technique that people don't catch on to in the early stages when learning how to draw. slowing down your sketches helps you focus on improving both your speed and the cleanliness of your sketches. i have to give you props on how frequently you're drawing though! i challenge you to double your production in the next coming week. your average output in the first three weeks seems to be about 2 a day. if you really want to get serious though, you have to produce more sketches, designs, as well as environments, props, etc. at a much faster rate. so in the coming week, i challenge you to do a minimum of 4 pages worth of sketches daily. see how that feels for you. then, track your progress. how long does it take me to do 4 pages? can i do it faster? am i implementing new techniques that i'm learned the day before? these are all questions you should ask yourself every day. hope that was helpful. i wish you the best of luck and i'll be keeping track of your progress, for sure. I never really realized that you can grind art o.o | ||
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[Agony]x90
United States853 Posts
On November 28 2011 14:38 hazelynut wrote: I never really realized that you can grind art o.o I TOLD YOU. and you didn't believe me! Otherwise, i actually produced about 3 a day on average. A bit skewed due to the start having considerably less. You are very right about slowing down. Towards the mid and end I started taking much more time on my sketches (more so at the end). At the moment though, i'm working almost exclusively with fundamentals again. Which means i'm just filling pages with nothing but lines, boxes, curves and other simples (I've drawn something like 11 pages with nothing but graphite of squares and lines in the past two days). Once I'm feeling brave, i'm going to pick up on the characters again and more importantly, more objects and environments. When it comes to fundaments, it also means better strokes. This has been the source of much frustration in the past couple of days. I hope that by sheer mass drawing it will improve, but this will not stop me from looking around for other videos and documents that'll push me towards better drawing techniques and styles (for the basics). Basically what i'm saying in response to megapants (and not hazelynut), is that everything you have pointed out is exactly the same lesson i've been hearing and reading upon in the past couple of days :-p. And I'm glad to hear it again, as it'll just solidify the fact in my head. Especially when it comes to expanding out to different subjects and objects, as currently this is my big fear. Thanks for the feed back and i'll try to keep you guys posted . | ||
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UltimateHurl
Ireland591 Posts
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Chaosvuistje
Netherlands2581 Posts
You have to go through a lot of shitty start up before you end up getting something amazing, reminds me of my humble beginnings as a pixel artist. Started off with this: + Show Spoiler + ![[image loading]](http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/4712/chaossigx6fb.png) God it's so hideous T_T. Then, one year and 30 works later, I ended up with this: + Show Spoiler + ![[image loading]](http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/8900/reaper6zr7.png) That's more like it .The only thing I can advise you is, whatever you it is that you are doing art wise, if you are patient enough and get proud of your little advances, you will eventually become awesome. Just don't burn yourself out along the way. | ||
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Aylear
Norway3988 Posts
On November 28 2011 22:38 Chaosvuistje wrote: Keep at it man! You have to go through a lot of shitty start up before you end up getting something amazing, reminds me of my humble beginnings as a pixel artist. Started off with this: + Show Spoiler + God it's so hideous T_T. Then, one year and 30 works later, I ended up with this: + Show Spoiler + That's more like it .The only thing I can advise you is, whatever you it is that you are doing art wise, if you are patient enough and get proud of your little advances, you will eventually become awesome. Just don't burn yourself out along the way. This is exactly what I'm talking about. Progression of art is really cool to watch. Props Chaos, I'd consider that marked improvement.  That second picture is really great. Vibrant colors. | ||
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Saurabhinator
Australia347 Posts
On November 28 2011 14:38 hazelynut wrote: I never really realized that you can grind art o.o Well you kind of have to if you want to improve. It takes a damn lot of drawing to get good. Regarding megapants post I generally agree except about the part about enviros, props and designs. I don't think now is the time for Agony to worry about deisgn and enviro composition, and he should only really do it if he wants to. Since these are very early stages for him I think he needs to grind out boxes and perspective exercises until he feels confident with drawing straight lines, curved lines and basic geometrical shapes in perspective. I would suggest Focusing on one aspect of drawing at a time and trying to get it correct before moving on as opposed to a doing a combination of different drawing studies, unless you can devote enough time into studying every aspect of drawing. | ||
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[Agony]x90
United States853 Posts
On November 28 2011 22:38 Chaosvuistje wrote: Keep at it man! You have to go through a lot of shitty start up before you end up getting something amazing, reminds me of my humble beginnings as a pixel artist. Started off with this: + Show Spoiler + God it's so hideous T_T. Then, one year and 30 works later, I ended up with this: + Show Spoiler + That's more like it .The only thing I can advise you is, whatever you it is that you are doing art wise, if you are patient enough and get proud of your little advances, you will eventually become awesome. Just don't burn yourself out along the way. It's always nice to see progress indeed! but at the same time, you kinda ask yourself why you haven't destroyed your original works out of disgust at the same time. It's a love-hate relationship! I just can't wait to see where i'll be in a year! | ||
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Aranarth
United States48 Posts
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Lynda
649 Posts
And of course it's always awesome to see how ponies and the brony community inspire people to start drawing, writing fanfiction, etc. even if they never tried to before. Speaking of which, I think this blog might've just inspired me to finally start drawing ponies as well once I'll have some more free time. | ||
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[Agony]x90
United States853 Posts
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Gary Oak
Canada2381 Posts
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Saurabhinator
Australia347 Posts
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