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elmarko said:
I need to start using my tablet - spent a fortune on a wacom cintiq & now just use paper/pencils/paint.

To me it feels much harder than actual painting or drawing, but it should be easier (as you have CTRL+Z lol).
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You just brought back memories of an old clip I used to get fascinated on 4 years or so ago.


elmarko said:
So true,

The level of talent for digital art has sky-rocketed in the last 10 years during the time I've been dabbling in it.

Almost why I'm tempted to stick to traditional paintings/drawings (as the talent creep seems much slower!).

While I'd love to do it as a job art, I don't think I've got the time required to get good enough to do it for a living.

Some great artists on here, it makes posting work intimidating lol.

Haven't posted much on here for a bit, (mostly in my charity fundraising thread thing) - but here's my favourites of my last few.

All sketched in pencil, then shaded using promarker art pens.

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krisboats said:
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These are great!
 
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Thanks :), it's pretty basic really - just black & 4 greys - but as long as you take ages getting the darkest shades in the right place it looks right - the rest you can make up as you go along pretty much & nobody notices when it's all misplaced lol, only on eyes can you really mess it up easily.

The excellent ones above by Lance are considerably harder (by a factor of over 9000!)
 
You still make them really pop! They must look great in white frames. Like the Tiger.

elmarko said:
Two more recent drawings.

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Like that. That is classy. Looks like something you'd get out of an art shop. Very elegant.
 
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Thanks :), but they look better at a distance lol

Now I need to spend some hard time learning the basics to get better tbh (much I need to learn) if only I hadn't just purchased a nice new acoustic guitar... (going to be hard to find the time!)
 
elmarko said:
Thanks :), it's pretty basic really - just black & 4 greys - but as long as you take ages getting the darkest shades in the right place it looks right - the rest you can make up as you go along pretty much & nobody notices when it's all misplaced lol, only on eyes can you really mess it up easily.

The excellent ones above by Lance are considerably harder (by a factor of over 9000!)
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You make it sound easy :p started drawing/shading the rear of a Porsche the other night based on a picture in your style, no idea where to start, what to shade!
 
Just play around with the picture in photo-shop, I turn it black & white & whack up the contrast, bleed out most of the tones till it's basic to draw - takes a while but it makes it more obvious as to where to shade.

I find an online reference, prepare it in photoshop (whack up the contrast, brightness) bleed the tones/colours - size it to equal that of my paper (A3) so I know it will fit correctly - then I use the old "penicil & thumb in the air" method of measuring the key points (eyes, nose, top of hair, chin if i was doing a person) - quickly gesture draw the rough outlines, redraw it a little more accuratetly & block off the black - rub out the rest of the pencil marks then fill it in.

Takes a while to get used to the prepping method, but it helps a lot as it allows you to only see 1 tonal range at once - to get the black I only see the black in my reference picture when drawing it.
 
My private reference tiger photo (from my brother, he's pretty good!).

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Cropped to fit A3 say.

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Black & White to bleed colour.

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High contrast version to bleed most the tones

(this is what I'll aim to have the final bit look like & I'll use this as my shading reference).

I'll use this to do the very basic outline & use the one below to do the black layer detail.

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This is the one I'll use as my reference to get the black layer as it's hard to disinguish the darkest grey & black otherwise.

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Please keep images to 1280px wide or lower. You can also post in spoiler tags like I've done for you - Rilot
 
Cool cheers man, I'll see what I can do. If its good enough I'll post something up ;)

Edit: that second post helps a lot mate, I'll have a play now
 
Just do loose pencil sketches at each stage, gradually increasing the accuracy of the basic outline/positioning should do it & keep redoing it until it looks right on key parts - don't worry too much about say the fur for the example above - just get the eyes in the exact right position & work outwards :), but I'm an amateur myself so take it with a pinch of salt.

I just break things down to there component parts (colour wise) - I'm learning on how to do it with shapes too to make the drawing phase quicker as I spend a couple of hours getting the sketch just right - then usually 2 or 3 more doing the shading.
 
I used to really enjoy drawing as a child, stopped doing it though as I grew into my teens.

This thread has given me impotence to go out and start drawing again.

Here are two of our most iconic figures, Big Ben and the Queen.

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Do any of you guys have lap trays/portable easels you use? I just have a sketch book and one of those things you use to put on your lap for your dinner plate at the moment :p

Anyone recommend anything?
 
Something from myself , basically a copy of a photo.

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I absoloutely hate shading :( terrible at it. I need to also start drawing without looking at something.
 
I decimated the high poly to ~20%, imported parts of it into 3DCoat and 3DS Max to retopologise and make the low poly. I then used X-Normal to bake the detail from the decimated sculpt onto the new low poly geometry.
 
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