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dream-_-
Profile Blog Joined April 2006
United States1857 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-11-15 05:16:22
November 15 2014 05:14 GMT
#1
Hey guys. I've seen some amazing artists posting on this site, and I was wondering if any of them could critique my work. I'm a fairly new artist who has no grasp of fundamentals, so any advice will most likely help. Here are the first two pieces I really tried to polish.



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pebble444
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Italy2503 Posts
November 15 2014 05:26 GMT
#2
hey that dragon is pretty awesome do you have more drawings of that?
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lichter
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
1001 YEARS KESPAJAIL22272 Posts
November 15 2014 05:34 GMT
#3
the dragon is great

the girl looks like she has a timtam on her head
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dream-_-
Profile Blog Joined April 2006
United States1857 Posts
November 15 2014 05:39 GMT
#4
Haha ya the girl was my first try, dragon was my second. Either luck or improvement, hoping for the second one.

Does anyone have recommendations for starting items to buy? Something that would be better than just just having a number 2 pencil, but not too spendy!
Mysticesper
Profile Joined January 2011
United States1183 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-11-15 09:46:42
November 15 2014 09:37 GMT
#5
Pencils are just that.. pencils, it's fairly straightforward. The only real thing that changes is whether or not you want to add mechanical pencils into the mix, or if you prefer to use solid leads + lead pointer instead of wooden pencils.

The primary pencil set is one with varying hardnesses, and depending on art style and so forth, you will favor one part of the spectrum more than the other. Technical drawing goes forther into the H zone, and you get the super smeary, smudgy pencil effect in the high B range:
http://www.amazon.com/Staedtler-Lumograph-Sketching-100G12-Attractive/dp/B0014E2S0Q/ref=pd_sbs_op_2?ie=UTF8&refRID=0GCJD01Z3N4ENQB23XZ6

lets you experiment with tones and lineweights and so forth, see what you like, and then you just buy individuals of each hardness that you use more of. For reference, a typical #2 pencil is HB, right in the middle of the scale.

Then you get some erasers and smudging things:
http://www.amazon.com/Sanford-SAN70531-Design-Kneaded-Eraser/dp/B00006IFAJ/ref=pd_sim_op_4?ie=UTF8&refRID=19QFH9VZ5576Z7GQWA6K

http://www.amazon.com/Art-Alternatives-Stumps-And-Tortillions/dp/B002ER8M0C/ref=pd_sim_op_2?ie=UTF8&refRID=17QDBV5WTJ4QNX0JAXY7
JieXian
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
Malaysia4677 Posts
November 15 2014 21:20 GMT
#6
Woman's proportions aren't nice (unless you didn't plan on drawing a natural beautiful woman), hair looks like mamee (http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/8006/880/1600/DSC01031.jpg), shoulders look thin

love the dragon. a lot.
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Zambrah
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United States7393 Posts
November 16 2014 01:05 GMT
#7
Do some live, observational drawings, and before you even so much as think about adding an ounce of tone or detail make sure you sort out the various relationships and proportions (such as the position of the eyes in relation to the nose in relation to the mouth in relation to the chin) and generally just draw a bunch from life and try to make it proportionally accurate, then when you've got that down move into tonal studies.
Incremental change is the Democrat version of Trickle Down economics.
dream-_-
Profile Blog Joined April 2006
United States1857 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-11-16 02:56:54
November 16 2014 02:56 GMT
#8
Some practice eyes! Any tips?

First practice eye:

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Two days later practice eye:


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Kazahk
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
United States385 Posts
November 16 2014 19:33 GMT
#9
First picture of the girl is literally perfect except for the horrendous hair and lips. Dragon and eye are fine.
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Zambrah
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United States7393 Posts
November 17 2014 07:58 GMT
#10
You're focusing too much on the detail, assuming you're going for photorealism you should spend more time nailing the eye in relation to

1. the eye socket (eye lids counted here)
2. the brow
3. the nose
4. the cheek
Incremental change is the Democrat version of Trickle Down economics.
Kazahk
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
United States385 Posts
November 17 2014 12:59 GMT
#11
On November 17 2014 16:58 Zambrah wrote:
You're focusing too much on the detail, assuming you're going for photorealism you should spend more time nailing the eye in relation to

1. the eye socket (eye lids counted here)
2. the brow
3. the nose
4. the cheek

Yea your right, it's just my preferred style; I'm so used to scrutinizing myself I do it to other on accident. :|
Rngesus blessed me with a tooth half, then shunned me with a spinach roll.
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