[asmodie]

Hi!

I'm new here to the forum. So maby this will be my rookie mistake.

I don't realy got the gift of drawing, but I'm learning as I go. S� I have a cupple och questions f�r you talanted boys.
Is there any good methods to make the skill drawing easyer and get better effects, or is there technics that I can study to understand how too draw? (observ not digitaly)

And a question, from a webdesigners view: Why do you plan you grafics to your home pages? And re use the grafic that you stated whit? And have like a redthreed troughtout the hope homepage? *this is not for all of you, but someting to think about*

I hope you can excuse my english, coz it was a while sense I wrote in english.

/asmodie

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Don't diss all the information you get,
you'll never know what you miss out.

[mykscholze]

Rule #1: draw what you see, not what you think.

With this in mind try drawing normal household items like fruit, shoes, chair and focus on perspectives, and shadows.

Once you are comfortable with that graduate to drawing people or pets.

[Bizarde]

Yeap! da man have right !!!

~bizarde.

[Rinaldo]

Hey asmodie, Welcome
All I can recomend is you get "Drawing on the Right side of the Brain" By Betty Edwards. I don't know if it has that many translations but you should be able to get it. It will help with what mykscholze suggested. It is specificaly designed to bring people with limited drawing ability up to speed as fast as possible.

(I'm starting to sound like a broken record recomending this book )


L8r

[Spitfire]

When designing a webpage multiple things have to be considered. You have to display a prominent style and be consequent with it. Dont use arial bold on one page and helvetica cursive on another for example. Also when you go for a nifty graphical interface, make sure you can cut it up well enough and effectively reproduce it in HTML. Dont use Shockwave ("Flash") unless it cant be done otherwise. Make sure your pages dont exceed 50k in size unless you warn your visitors and they are willing to wait a bit longer. Dont use graphics from other pages without permission. Make sure your pages work well on every resolution from 800x600 to 1280x1024 and on both Netscape and IE browser platforms. Look at other sites and see how ingenious webdesigners tackled certain problems and most of all be as fucking creative as a hippie weasel on acid!

Hell Yeah! now im off for some huntin-a-possum with my cousin Louie.

[Matt Elder]

1) I found looking at other peoples work and trying to 'copy' it initially works well to fill in those gaps where you don't understand things or drawing them for the first time.

2) Look at the different ways that people represent things and try to understand why they work.

3) STRUCTURE is EVERYTHING! If you don't get the right proportions initially, no matter what style you use, it will be very difficult to come up with a believable image

4) If drawing people scares you at first, try drawing robots. This way, some times you don't have to worry about hands, facial features and hair as much (and still have a reasonable image at the end). This will enable you to figure out movement and perspective.

5) Be critical. Once you have finished an image, look at it and try to see where the 'mistakes' are and what doesn't work. Then try to avoid doing these again.

6) Pay attention to lighting and shadows. These will make the image seen believeable and a simple yet effective way to give your image depth.

7) If someone tells you they hate your work, don't get upset. Try to figure out why they don't like it and don't take it personally. You aren't going to be able to please everyone all the time, but there is alot to be learnt from critisim as somethings you are too close to the image and a fresh opinion can be really helpful.

I've never taken an artclass in my life and completely self taught. As such, I'm not sure whether I'm telling you the 'correct' stuff but found these things helped me learn how to draw, colour etc.

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See ya on da flip side
Matt
http://www.mattelder.com

[asmodie]

I see som ppl didn't understand some of my questions. But thanx for all the adivce how to learn to draw better...

I think an important thing i just to draw as much as I can...

Only time will tell...