[IdiosyncrasyFG]

So I've been drawing for a while and today I decided I'd try to seriously draw something. I chose this picture of Sydney from the comic Danger Girl:




I drew the picture by eye from a picture displayed on my monitor. I first drew a "wire-person" which you can still kinda see in blue giving it the basic shap and from there I kinda just fleshed out the body as I saw in the picutre.

I finally went over the blue lead with 4H lead and adding shading etc.

You'll notice a few differences from the original drawing...some proportional things like her height and her raised arm, but overall I'm impressed with myself :



Thanks for your critism.

[SporQ]

i learned how to draw by starting out copying comic book drawings, and i cant recommend doing it. its one of the worst ways, and i really regret it. it's set me back in many ways. learn to draw from life and then you can learn how to exagerate like in comics.

[galen]

Yeah, learn the rules first, then break them...

[Davey Newfoundland]

hey cool drawing. Hey i dont think that learning from comics is such a bad idea, because thats how i did it, and i didnt really have a hard time doing a transition from comic to realistic art. the two have a lot in common. well at least i THINK im okay with realistic art.

[Luke_de_Sade]

Ok, a few crits. Her mouth is too separated from her nose, her arm and legs are too thick. Otherwise, it's good.

Also, as the guys said, try learning to draw from life, then you can go to comics and create your own style.

And please, if you're gonna start drawing (maybe for comics), please! don't copy Campbell's style. We have enough J. Scott Campbell clones out there. Nor Madureira, for that matter.

[R. Stephen Gracey]

On the topic of learning to draw, having recently done it myself via the "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" method, I think one could use comics to learn how to "see," if one copied the drawing UPSIDE DOWN. The important thing about learning to draw is that you learn to see without putting names to things--"eye," "hand," "chair," etc. When you turn a drawing upside down to copy it, you learn to "see" it without knowing exactly what you're "seeing."

But I agree--why copy comics? Copy some serious representational art--much, much better. ;-)

Stephen

[MoleculeMan]

heh i learned to draw a lot from comics when iwas little, and its seriously stunted me hehe. For a while i was slanting everything cuz of it.