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i dont think that one is better than the other. infact i refuse to compare both, because they are equal media, its like trying to compare oils and pencils both have advantages and disadvantages.

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How different is a 6x8 table from a 9x12 tablet. And supposedly the 12x12 tablet is just a bad idea... Is the 6x8 table really restricting or does it not make much difference at all? I can "imagine" h ...

REFERENCE

I am in a peculiar situation in regard to the use of reference. Something I really want to be able to do well is to draw from real-life reference (particularly human faces) and achieve g ...

An example of a more finished pencil drawing

Hello, I have a couple of questions about this piece. In drawings like this, how do you create the highlights? Do you create them by not shading, or ...

While blind contour drawing without lifting the pencil from paper, how can you connect the two lines to form the closed shape when you can't look at the paper?

When drawing for real (not just as an ...

I pretty much agree with the gist of what Lunatique said.

It's true that the two mediums are judged differently, as Lunatique highlighted the fact that 3D artists can get really excited about good ...

Also does anyone have links to the more impressive galleries (both 2d and 3d)?

I've been looking through 3d and 2d art galleries..

It seems that 3d art generally looks cleaner and more photorealistic
and 2d art looks more .. uh... "stylistic??"

What are the pro / cons o ...

J-D, I suggest you to go and visit Jezebel's photography website. Look at her selfportraits. She can look totally different depending on the angle, the light, the make-up...
The only way to say a wom ...

Hey I thought the second picture Aboogwa was some kind of joke, But that picture was actually best.

Matthew

I actually want to draw some pictures using those photos as references but I don't wan ...

drawn with a mouse

Wow...

Can't reply to your questions atm, its 1:15 am here. just to clarify though, thats all I have written in my document, cos they are common questions. sorry, you'd hoped there'd be more? Smile

bye

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funny really. We had a similar assignment in my photography class. Find the ideal beauty. Anyway. The awnser to it all is. There is no perfect woman, or something like that. It is all as suggestive as ...

On a more serious note, I contribute the following images:

http://www.bjunkyard.com/pictures_gallery/pictures_japanese/Fukada_Kyoko/pic_fk_29.jpg
http://upload.ipaska.net/122002/Itoh_02c.jpg
http ...

Make sure the face is female. And let's have the ultimate body to go along.

This seems to be a pretty difficult task due to the subjectivity of prettiness

While drawing with a 2b pencil, there seems to be a penalty associated with each erase. Each time the eraser is applied, it seems to progressively work toward creating an irreversible gray smudge. (Er ...

There seems to be stages to a 2B pencil's state between sharpenings.
When it is freshly sharpened it's very hard to do light shading, but easier to draw outlines. As it becomes blunter it seems to be ...

When drawing from a reference, how important is the ability to draw while not looking at the paper for long periods of time?

Also how important is the ability to keep the reference in memory and dr ...

Also, is:

using multiple layers for background and foreground details (like using a layer for the eyes and lips, another for the face, another for the body, etc etc)

Using multiple layers to fac ...

To make clarifications, I wasn't talking about how to draw "canned" shapes like pentagons and octagons. Drawing clean, non-jittery curves is also an issue.

Hmm.. I think that the suggestion to star ...

I have an untested tip. I haven't tried it because I havent got an wacom yet... Smile

Put a pice of paper on the tablet and increace the preasure on the pen. Then it will feel more like painting on a ...

I have used a tablet before (a while ago) but it seemed very difficult to draw straight and clean edges with it. The pen always seemed a little unstable over the slippery tablet surface. So how do you ...