[tripclaw]

My first post here. Just got my wacom a little while ago, I've been reading this board every day since, I'm addicted. Comments appreciated!



I find that I "pet" my lines a lot, it's just hard for me to make confident long strokes, even on paper with a pencil. Does that just go away with practice? I'm somewhat of a newbie..

tripclaw

[This message has been edited by tripclaw (edited March 13, 2001).]

[Collosimo]

This is a cool picture. Nice idea.

As for petting the lines...

Andrew Loomis says:

"Do not 'pet' in your line, draw it cleanly with a long sweep. Do not shade with a multitude of 'pecky' strokes. Use the side of the lead with the pencil laid almost flat for your modeling and shadows."

Well, I can understand that, though it doesn't help me. I also have the same problem as you. I think It will disappear as confidence and skill grows. Despite what Loomis says I still dont know how to rectify the problem. I have to draw with pecky lines because I would stuff it up with large strokes.

Maybe it is just confidence, but in all honesty I think it is probabaly because I haven't 'seen the form all round' yet. Sure I know how to draw things 3d and in perspective, but I dont seem to have a confidence in my strokes or a practical understanding of 'seeing the form all round'.

I understand and know what form is...but when it comes down to drawing it...I get lost.

Practice... thats probably what it is. I would also suggest life drawing. Not the stuff from your imagination because you can invent the angles and poses, whereas in Life drawing you get to see a physical 3d form, and you have to draw it that way. It will help in understanding 'the form all round'.


hope that helps....



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[GreenPeach]

This drawing is bizzar and interesting. In a few weeks watching this forum you will undoubtedly become a super slick digital artist, as this happens I encurage you to keep thinking about concept.

[tripclaw]

thanks for the comments, i'm thinking of trying to color it tonight, although i have NO IDEA how to begin.. wish me luck!

[eric_morrell]

Petting the line... Thats a good way of putting it. I remember one day a long time ago I came home from school and I said to my brother I know how to draw a line better. And I showed him that I could pet the line. He said why is that better? I said I didn't know. He said that he thought it was better to just draw a line. So for many years since then I think I work for a good hour a day on my lines. I try to do scribbly lines where I don't worry about the smoothness. I work on circles, strait lines perfect curves etc. I'm not saying that you should set a side and hour to do this, because I don't it's just a habit of doing it on anything I get. If I have a any piece of paper I draw lines all over it. As for form. Form comes from being god. If you can predict what everylight is going to do to every object and how that reflection of light is going to affect others than you must be god. The thing that we can do as humans is try to think of how to translate a 3d form to paper. I remember an excercise I use to do where you would draw a self portrait and then look in a mirror and see whats wrong with it and then do it again and again. It took a long time but I think it really helped. Sorry I wrote so much.
Eric Morrell

[ReSistanZ]

eXistenZ!

[Ian]

The Intel Logo is a nice touch.

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