Beginners' Lounge

#1221

Hi Obo,

there is an awesome shading tutorial by Rebecca in the tutorials forum.
It’s about shading a skull … Check it out!

#1222

Spent the summer drawing some master copies after I read a bit in this thread. It’s the first time I’m doing anything else than cartoons i think. I love manga, but read here that I should learn anatomy, so I borrowed som books.

This my three master copies. I somewhat drew them all a bit too wide and the Nude from rear got pretty small arms…

A Combat of Nude Men Raphael Sanzio

Nude on Horseback Leonardo da Vinci

Nude Man from Rear Luca Signorelli

I would love to get som comments and critiques on these. And som hints on what I should focus more on. I’ll hopefully be active here now, since I’m going to have art at school. And hopefully I’ll get lots of help from others here :smiley:

#1223

Hi. I’m Luka, and this is my first post on CGTALK…i just got my wacom tablet so i’m pretty bad at stuff but anyway I LOVE IT! It’s amazing! er…right…here are some of my beginner work all done in photoshop.

so here goes…
First one with my lovely tablet :smiley:

a few more

#1224

hi Eraclea I think they’re awesome. Keep practicing and you’ll soon be one of the masters :wink:

take care

p.s.:I’m so sorry for double post…don’t know why i did this so…it won’t happen again

I don’t know if ANYONE is watching beginners at all…but here goes some of my gesture practise. Please say something. Need advices! Thanks







#1225

anyone? please:sad:

#1226

Hey all, I think this’ll be my first post if I’m not mistaken, just a couple sketches for ya.

First is that pic in the above post of the gymnast statue, 5 min.

Second you’ll probably know where it’s from, old classic sketch, 10 min.

#1227

Hey Lukarh,

your gesture pics are pretty cool. How much practice did it take to get this lvl?
I didnt draw for some weeks now and restarted my practice plan a few days ago.
I should do “the structure of man” dvds, but at the moment i just want to draw mangas (to get master it is my primary target). :smiley:

Here my pics:

This are just copies, no drawings from my mind (at the moment i’m not able to draw these things from my mind :frowning: )

btw: The date on my pics is wrong because i didnt set it up it after changing the batteries. :smiley:

#1228

Hey Milchschaumschluerfer

thank you. well to be honest I must say I never really practice that much at all. Ehm…you know here and there sometime. But now that i got my tablet…I’m all into learning and stuff. Infact I’m reading the book “The Key to Capturing Life Through Drawing” right now and I like it. I should start learning anatomy too but don’t know where to start:sad: so anyway i don’t really know how long did it take.

Now you have some fine pieces yourself. I think copying isn’t bad at all as long as you don’t put transperent paper over the comic book and copy the drawing lol. I think it can help a lot to gain what you want. And yes from mind…it’s hard to draw. Perhaps because of all the things we should know and we don’t know them YET. Anyway keep up the good work.

hey EvanWSmith,

well i know where the first one is from lol. I did a sketch of it right above your post lol. Anyway Cool sketches. Keep posting them.

#1229

I have really only worked with Photoshop before, and then only by using filters and premade textures. This was done in Corell Painter X, the light and darker colors where done using a airspray brush and then blended.

Recently I started getting interested in digital art, so I started looking around to if I could figure out how you draw a well proportioned human being. This is my first attempt at a female drawn from the side. I have borrowed a few art books from the local library to get me started.

No pictures were used for this picture. This drawing was meant to be an exercise on shading and the main body proportions, which is why the head, hands, lower part of the legs  and muscle details are missing.

There are some parts of it that turned out a bit weird, like the gravity defying breasts and the slight oversized upper buttocks/lower back but I am quite satisfied with it as a whole considering it is the first body I have ever done. :)

The next steps is to make a few sketches with a bit more correct proportions.

The first shape layout.

About 8 different layers of refining later, the final result.

#1230

LukArh

Welcome. Great gestures. Watch the size of the head, it seems to turn out a tad too small in most of the gesture sketches. Your linework looks a bit “nervous”. Try not to rush (even if you want the gesture down in 30 seconds or 1 min) but draw at a steady pace, you will have a lot more control over your pencil/stylus that way. I highly recommend Glenn Vilppu’s gesture dvd. Seeing him drawing gestures was a revelation to me.
My best advise is to draw lots of them, 1000’s if you can :slight_smile:

EvanWSmith
Welcome too :slight_smile:
You’ve got a good sense of proportion, seeing that 5min sketch
In the 2nd sketch I kinda lost his right arm… took me a while to notice it’s not there.
Try using a wider range of values (even when drawing quickly) to define form.

Milchschaumschluerfer
good work. I’d like to see you pushing yourself out of your comfort zone and leave the manga style for a while… it’s where one learns the most.
Check out the 100 heads workshop in the tutorials forum, it’s a great place to get inspiration and there is a lot to learn there concerning the human head.

Rasit
I would strongly advise you to get a pencil and some paper and start sketching away :slight_smile:
It’s cheap, practical (you can take it everywhere with you) and it’s still the best way to learn drawing techniques imho. Once the techniques are known (or even along the way) one can start experimenting with other media. There is an awesome Torso workshop thread in the tutorials forum. Check it out!

Also, if you haven’t already, I recommend starting a sketchbook thread in the sketchbook forum, if you are serious about improving your drawing skills. There are threads available to help you out creating a sb. Check out these forums… there are a zillion interesting things going on here :slight_smile:

Great work all! (and apologies if I have forgotten anyone)

#1231

Any one mind tossing on some guidlines for the structure of my figure? nothing fancy just accurate. Just to show how anatomically correct it could be.

#1232

Hey Reb
Thank you for your help, I’ve always been interested in getting a firm grasp of drawing. I had art as a subject at school and I went into design after school. I got a degree in Brand communications and I’m running my own company now. For the last year and abit I’ve been upskilling myself in programming languages so I can put websites together but I’m really keen to get back into the art side of things since this programming is really killing my creativity hehe. so I recently got a Wacom Intuos 3 9 x 12 inch which is all beautiful and stunning but I’m finding it hard to get to grips with basic drawing and shading. I noticed someone in the dicussion here had a similar background as me. I’m busy following your instructions on shading simple objects and getting the hang of my wacom.

Hopefully I’ll have something to upload by tomorrow for further advice :stuck_out_tongue:

Thank you

#1233

ok well here are some figure drawings I did

Crits please :stuck_out_tongue:

#1234

Ops worng post. Many good drawings here though. :slight_smile:

#1235

Nice drawings Nicksta, I especially like the bottom row with their shading :slight_smile: But maybe you should review the proportions between torso and extremities - the arms and legs look a bit thin and the head is sometimes (even if he’s just implied) a bit too small in relation to the body :wink: But nice starting anyway… :thumbsup:

Keep drawing! (As I should… :rolleyes: )

Greetings, Floriam

#1236

Hi Floriam, I just relooked at them now and I realized that the arms and legs do look abit thin and the heads are definitely a tad too small. When I make acouple more together I’ll keep the proportional crits in mind.

Thank you for you crits :slight_smile:

#1237

I once read in a post Dr Mentler had written that a complete dark outline flattens a drawing and destroys the sense of volume that has been created by shading.

I think this shows in your drawings… the ones where the outline is less thick and not completely around the forms (bottom row, left) look much better!

#1238

Thank you NR43, I can see what you mean! I’ll make sure the outlines aren’t visible in future :slight_smile:

I don’t want to clutter this thread with all my drawings, is it a good idea to start a sketchbook thread in the sketchbook section?

#1239

Actually it’s a great way to accentuate some area’s… create some contrast and lead the viewers eye to the interesting points… but like all visual tricks they work best when used moderately…

Keep doing these gesture sketches… they are invaluable!

#1240

Hi there! I’m new to both cgtalk and art in general; i’ve only been drawing for about 3 months.

I have also just acquired a tablet, and the this is the first pic i’ve done so far:

Left: Current state (superimposed over left)
Right: Quick anatomy sketch

Its a wip as I had to pack up and leave quickly, but id like some feedback on my art basics if possible (being recently self-taught, they are quite quite poor, and almost non-existant)

thanks in advance