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Trance-R · Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2001 9:21 am

We're doing animal portraits for my drawing and painting class. I did a sea turtle sketch from Nation Geographics.
Please do what you have to do.

This is the final stage of my drawing. What do I have to change to make it better?

http://www.geocities.com/ray-kool/artwork/Mvc-011f.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/ray-kool/artwork/Mvc-013f.jpg

[This message has been edited by Trance-R (edited March 01, 2001).]

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v1510nAry · Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2001 11:01 am

damn thats really cool.
I'm not all that at art so i don't know,
what materials you have used :/ so could ya say ?

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Visionary · Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2001 6:27 pm

Thats beautiful!

Keep with it.

Question: Do you do art as a living, for a class, do you photograph art and pencil it or did you whip this out through studies of sea turtles?

I want to hear the story =)

-Visionary

dangermouse · Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2001 8:10 pm

i think you would get more out of it if you lightening some areas and darkened more like the sea turtlesleft front flipper.

Trance-R · Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2001 11:32 pm

Thank you thank you. =)
Visionary: I do art for a high school class. But I AM extremely interested in the field! The sea turtle was done from a color reference in Nation Graphics magazine; so I didn't take the photos. These images I posted are taken from a Sony Digital Mavica Camera. Ew. low rez.. I hate low rez, but that's the best I could get my hands on.

Dangermouse: Thanks for the crit, I agree with you. Now that I look at it a bit more, it does seem the joint of the right flipper and some other areas need more definition and darkening in. + white spots. Good good. I'll work on it, Then show you guys.

Visionary · Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2001 11:57 pm

So when you say you are interested in the field, what part of it are you into?

Personally I'm leaning towards concepting. I should be posting some stuff within the next couple weeks. Its going to be some conept drawings for a board game that I've been assigned to do. To sum it up I have to draw up 16 war units of different stature (blah blah blah) yeah so anyways, check for that.

Trance-R · Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2001 12:03 am

Ah. =)
I am glad someone likes it.
It's all done in Pencil.
HB pencil for initial sketching of the proportion and shapes. Then 3b to fill in major shapes. Then 6B and 8B for the dark area.
The paper isn't that great... just normal light illustration paper. It's got more than usual grain to hold the graphite.

Trance-R · Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2001 4:25 pm

Visionary, frankly I am into EVERYTHING and ANYTHING that has to do with art. I like sculpting, sketching, 3D modeling, painting, graphics, logos and web console designs. Heh heh.

Trance-R · Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2001 9:27 pm

GreenPeach, I just fixed the image problem thing.. now it should be working.
Plus this post is a bump. I don't think everyone has seen it yet.