[Tobias]

Finally got my Intuos2 A5 and I really like it. Here is my first drawing using the tablet and ps6.

Tell me what you think about it and if there is something I should change.


[ November 01, 2001: Message edited by: Tobias ]

[Lomi]

Well I can give you some facial anatomy tips:

1)Eyes are always approximately halfway down the head.
2)The bottom of the mouth is approximately half way down from the bottom of the nose.
3)The width of the mouth is usually about as wide as the pupils straight down on either side.

For an excellent tutorial on drawing anatomically correct faces check out: http://www.anticz.com/

[Tobias]

thnx that really helped!

[Lomi]

anytime

[Steven Stahlberg]

Here's some advice that has helped me:
(This is not just directed at you, this advice can help all artists at any level)

First practise drawing
Hold off with the coloring a while

Practise drawing FROM something, from life, from reality, not imaginary stuff - very boring I know, but the ONLY way to learn.
By all means try shading, but stick to graytones first. Take life drawing classes, or just drawing classes. The important thing is to keep drawing. It's like learning a musical instrument.

Practise drawing on real paper with a real pencil, the tablet only adds another layer of difficulty you don't need at first, unless you're very used to it already.

Practise without thinking about saving the drawings, in fact make up your mind to destroy the whole sketch book when it's full, that will free you up to experiment and make mistakes.

Think of it as programming your neural pathways, this is the only way to do that. Maybe you've heard the saying, "Hear something, forget it, see something, remember it a while, write it down, remember it forever", or something like that. Well the same thing goes for drawing - when the hand moves, copying a photo or another artists work, something weird happens in the brain, something 10 times more powerful than simply looking at that image. Frank Frazetta once copied a whole anatomy book in one day, every single image - perhaps that's one of the reasons he's so good at anatomy?

Go through about 10 thick sketchbooks that way, then, if you feel like it, you can start attacking the added difficulties of color.

[dARCKLOWN]

very well said and very true man

[The Brat]

quote:

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Originally posted by Steven Stahlberg:
...when the hand moves, copying a photo or another artists work, something weird happens in the brain, something 10 times more powerful than simply looking at that image.

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That's absolutely true. On a visit to the AGO a few years ago, I sat down in front of a bronze sculpture of Fred Varley's head and drew it, just for the heck of it. It was on a gallery comment card, though, which I really wanted to hand in... so I did, and lost that drawing.
A day or two later, I started to doodle and re-drew the statue from memory -- it was nearly identical to the original drawing I'd done. Kinda weird.


Those are some good tips, there... I'd use 'em. Yep.

[Tobias]

thnx for all the tips and advices. I am going to sketch more, thoug I can't let go of my tablet cause it so fun.

Here is the guy after a major surgery,the anatomy errors are fixed,so hopefuly he looks more realistic..(at least I think so) and he got him self a younger look to!

Please tell me what you think about it!

[dARCKLOWN]

dont slope the eyes down

[Tobias]

yeah you right..fixed it and add som glare in his eyes.

FACEfix2

[dARCKLOWN]

Hey man al i have to say is forget about the face stop trying to fix it up, just put it in a completed folder and forget about it since u have a pen just keep scetching dont spend 150 hrs on one peice that u think is OK if u r like me then u havent had that much practice using the pen and colors and such just practice man let it flow

[Tobias]

yeah that may be true, but I wanted to finish this one..

Posted it in the gallery/finished work now ..here is a linkFinished pic

[polarFONTey]

When drawing from your imagination you tend to rely on what you think something looks like. In the case of beginning artists, you resort to what I (and some of a lot of instructors) call symbols. first of all you need to understand what a symbol is.
go here to see a simple visual explanation.
Symbols Link

we use symbols simple because we don't know any better. the best way to stop doing this is to draw from life (as has already been said). You'll start noticing that things don't really look like the shapes that we've been using to represent them.

My animation instructor at school, rob gilbert said something once. "Anyone can learn to draw. All it takes is hard work and a whole lot of lead to draw with and paper to draw on." (ie. practice)

Set a goal as to how many pages you plan on drawing, say, for a week. and meet that goal. you set 10 pages you do 10 pages (these are pages filled with things that you have drawn from life.) after a month look back at your sketches at the beginning of the month and compare them to your sketches at the end of the month. over the next few months you'll notice that you are improving.

My current goal is 1 sketchbook (front to back, both sides of the paper)

Anyways. drawing alot and drawing from life is the best way to get better.

sorry for the long post.

[Tobias]

thanks the tips , sounds like a good ide.