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Raelcun
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States3747 Posts
May 14 2008 18:44 GMT
#1
Okay okay the limericks were a joke heres a serious blog, I draw on the side and normally do portrait type things like so: (lots of images below)

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But every so often I find myself really unable to draw much of anything and my fallback when that happens is drawing more in the anime/manga style and giving it a stylized ink like so: (even more images)

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Inuyasha request for a friend (who didnt like it cuz hes not using his sword)
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Magic Knight Rayearth
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Rurouni Kenshin first was a gift art for a friend
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Ranma 1/2
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So why the hell am I posting this? I'm currently in an art blocked state and looking for some cool characters to draw and ink until I can pick up the normal stuff again. So throw some suggestions at me thanks.

ieatkids5
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
United States4628 Posts
May 14 2008 18:53 GMT
#2
Could you try experimenting with other things to draw besides characters/portraits/people?
Abstract things. Cool shit like dragons and war machines. Biomechanical infestations.

Oh, this just came to mind. Can you draw Beksinski-like pics? That would be so sick.
kidd
Profile Blog Joined November 2002
United States2848 Posts
May 14 2008 18:54 GMT
#3
I used to always love drawing dragon ball z characters, try that! I would be interested to see how you do because you are a good artist.
Hi
HighTimes
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Taiwan342 Posts
May 14 2008 19:18 GMT
#4
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1587648768/ch0029314
Keanu Reeves ^_^
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gvD9G5uDfo
MarklarMarklar
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
Fiji1823 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-05-14 19:44:04
May 14 2008 19:40 GMT
#5
I would say dont copy much manga characters, cause youll never live up to a original work(not satisfying is it?) And i dont think there is enough healthy technical information to be absorbed thru mangas.

If you really feel like studying a manga characters, skip the drawing and just stare at the character for 10 minutes and force yourself to learn something, like why they choose to exagerate this and that, but frankly, you could very likely lack sufficient real anatomical knowledge to really learn enough from copying artists, i say start improving your fundamentals in terms of realistic human anatomy, perspective and composition etc etc. Study some more classical art perhaps...

And just drawing people from life is a bad thing, widening your knowledge is more important for a beginner than specializing as you seem to do. Go draw something like a regular glass on a simple flat surface, that is a really good challange as the glass is transparent and forces you to figure out rather complex rendering techniques with pencil. (can unlock alot of good in your brain)

you should be capable of rendering ANYTHING right? Why not?

And man, challange yourself, i personally dont believe artist blocks exist anymore after figuring out what caused them for me personally.

and experiment with another medium, preferably with colour, watercolour, acrylics... photoshop with a drawing tablet?

sorry for the ramble but i always do it when i speak of these kinds of things.
hello there
Raelcun
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States3747 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-05-14 19:49:56
May 14 2008 19:48 GMT
#6
I think you misunderstand, I'm not drawing the manga characters in the false belief it's somehow improving me I'm drawing them just so that I'm drawing something. It's not artist block in the traditional sense but that I can't start the drawings. I sit down with what I'm going to draw I start and just doesn't feel right I cant get it started or expand upon if I do get it started. I found that drawing the anime/manga is such a different style and uses such a different skillset that it creates a decent break in the routine and when I come back to my usual work then I'm able to keep doing it and usually have a bit more patience and wind up with better works than before.

I'm not a beginner to tell the truth I took 3 years of art in high school and 3 years in college added upon drawing as an untrained amateur for years before that. So far I like drawing portraits, yes I don't blend and draw in the typical style that you see most portraits but thats because I've develloped a rougher style over the years. I do experiment but usually don't like my experiments enough to post them. I've done all the drawing excercises I've worked with more mediums than I care to express at the moment but I -like- using pencil and inking pens. It suits me if you will.
Raithed
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
China7078 Posts
May 14 2008 19:59 GMT
#7
draw monsters.
buildings.
etc.

i tend to do that with ease when i have a "character" block.
MarklarMarklar
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
Fiji1823 Posts
May 14 2008 20:14 GMT
#8
but whats your goal with the portraits anyway, thats what i'm curious about, maybe the goal or the compleition of a portrait aint satisfying enough, which might trigger an artist block? (even tho artist blocks when it comes from painting thing sfrom life doesnt make much sense, i mean, it has little to do with imagination, its more of a technical routine.)
hello there
Raelcun
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States3747 Posts
May 14 2008 20:29 GMT
#9
My goal with the portraits is to improve, I do get a good sense of satisfaction when I finish a good one and even when I don't finish a "good one" I try to study it and figure out what I need to improve on. Each one I'm trying something a little different with my pencil style trying to constantly improve. I mean other people can be portrait artists in paint and charcoal I fail to see why I cannot be one in Pencil.
SayaSP
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
Laos5494 Posts
May 14 2008 20:31 GMT
#10
Obviously you draw Street Fighter characters
[iHs]SSP | I-NO-KI BOM-BA-YE | のヮの http://tinyurl.com/MLIStheCV , MLIS.
XCetron
Profile Joined November 2006
5226 Posts
May 14 2008 20:34 GMT
#11
draw a zealot yo, the one at the Protoss Victory page.
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