i reckon in a few years time ill *almost* be able to draw at the level of a pre-schooler... *sigh*... i dont get it. how do you do it. i tried drawing... it was totally useless all through art in school all i could do was try.. and it turned out 10000 x crappier than everybody elses
and yet i see these artists page with this astonishing picture that i just marvel over, and they''re there saying how its "not as good as it could be" or "its pretty bad"
i tried drawing... it was totally useless all through art in school all i could do was try.. and it turned out 10000 x crappier than everybody elses
Although I''m no artist,a lot of people that I''ve talked to have told me that the key to sketching is breaking complex objects down into simple shapes. This has always been a problem for me since I always try to draw an object in its entirety, not in seperate parts.
I really should pick up a book on character drawing one of these days. Any recommendations from the artists here on general art books (not necessarilly computer related) that are good? How is it that you guys have refined your skills so well?
Mmmh, I didn''t make it specially for this, so I apologise, I''ll do soething nicer as soon as I get my hands back on Photoshop ... and don''t bother lookin at the rest of the site, I haven''t put up anything really interesting yet.
I did that ... uh, three years ago or something, in class, took half an hour I think. It''s just paper pencil... why that one ? it''s the smallest picture I had
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I once did one semi-decent* piece of art in MSPaint. It took me 5 hours. It was 50x60 pixels. I kept on having to rub the whole thing out and start over. At the end though, it looked quite good, although it featured no shading, highlights etc. I just can''t DO shading, it always turns out wrong. Still, I''ll keep trying. If I ever had to animate that I would be in HELL!
*(now this is not being modest like all you amazing artists seem to be. It contained only three shades of grey. It was based on bezier lines. I just have real difficulty drawing stuff, I can''t even draw perspective properly.)
Actually, I have a few simple sketches from my boring classes in high school and I might post a couple (forget the rules) of them in here. I was just doing some random sketching and at the end I got some strange things. I also tried to sketch a friend of mine like 3 mins before class ended. I''ll post that too, once I get home.
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come on, fantasy edge. you''re good, and have the potential to get better. that''s pretty good for 4 years.
Steve P3000, i''ve been thinking of doing an art article for gamedev, but never thought the programmers would be interested, since the artists are already here. also, there are myriads of books on character drawing, so i thought, maybe it''d be a useless article then. what do you guys think? (and if weirdo''s reading this, he can grab my "possible" article and put it up on his site.) actually, you know what? ALL the artists should start putting up art articles for gamedev since there''s only like ONE.
that means you, fantasy edge, and everyone else. whaddaya think?
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