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Published: 2011-09-05 17:51:20 +0000 UTC; Views: 1367; Favourites: 65; Downloads: 31
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I originally just did this as a pen drawing and I really liked it as it was and I wasn't going to do anything else with it. But then I did and I think it turned out OK!I'm on facebook now and also have a facebook page for my art there. It is probably the best place to get hold of me these days if anybody wants me for anything. Let me know if you want to be friends or like me and have me like you back whatever.
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No problem! I don't mind critique and it wouldn't be something that I would consider rude anyway. But I look at stuff at consider what went well and what didn't, and that is one of the things that had occurred to me!
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Wicked hatchwork, it brings this bloke to life. He looks familiar.
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Thanks! He's a famous singer in Britain - I don't think he is well known overseas but that might where he is familiar from.
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love this man, LOVE this portrait!
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Thanks! I'm going to try and do more like it but it isn't often that I am feeling bold enough to throw my pens around in quite such an extravagant manner. Especially when I am trying to draw pretty girls (which I like doing). It ends up a lot meeker somehow. But I felt Morrissey deserved the effort.
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I just saw that I didn't comment yet and I'm kinda embarrassed actually, because I really like this piece Heaven! It's like a combo of pen and paint right? Just love the way you know how to handle that combination, as it doesn't seem to be easy!
Again, it looks really nice Heaven!
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It isn't exactly how I usually do it and I wasn't initially sure how I felt. But I do like it now...
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Well, I really think it looks great! You should certainly do other works like this!
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I actually have several pen drawings lying around now that I need to sort out. It doesn't actually take me long if I'm in the mood and feeling confident, so sooner or later I'll probably post 4/5 in one day.
Right now I'm kinda bogged down with a strange idea I had. I really wanted to do a picture of a 1930s-ish looking woman, as if from an old B+W movie, looking down from the observation deck of an art deco style spaceship towards an large brightly coloured gas-giant type planet. I don't know why.
I'm gradually working out how to do that, but it is kinda proving time consuming.
If you want to offer any constructive criticism then it would be appreciated and the picture so far is here;
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I'm going to be adding a ring to the planet (like Saturn) and filling in the rest of it. I'm going to try and get in some art deco style railings between the woman and the planet. I'm tidying up the shading and textures as I go along.
Thank you for your comments and kind words in any event. I look forward to seeing more of your own work as I'm sure that you will continue to improve.
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I love the texture in this piece. Really awesome work!
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When I shade or colourise my pen work I usually try to be as accurate as possible and create a realistic effect. I think that was my first attempt to deliberately deviate from the source material (Morrissey greatest hits album cover). The difference is probably quite subtle but I left as much of the picture as possible unshaded or lightly shaded to preserve the pen work. Then I went from light to very dark quite quickly so the overall picture didn't look pale.
I used different techniques to try and create textures. In some places I blended together the different sized pens quite carefully and in other places I contrasted that by doing the opposite. In some places the pen lines flow in the same direction and in other places they work against each other.
It probably looks like a lot of random scribble but there was actually quite a lot of thought went into it and I used lots of little things that I learned by experimenting. I was just curious what anyone else would think!
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Yes, I can tell that there was thought in each stroke. I've seen people who just use scribbles and whatnot to shade, and the final piece lacks... a lot. I've seen it ruin anatomy, completely overwhelm the picture, or just look completely awkward.
What I love here is that it just seems to blend seamlessly. Especially since you used such different tools and sizes. It could have turned out a bit awkward or overdone, but this one just seems to blend with such fluidity. It's so much more unique than just a basic portrait.
Really, it turned out fantastic!
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Cheers. That actually means a ridiculous amount to me. You see a lot of almost photorealistic pencil drawings and on here and I do what I do because I'm finding my way towards creating a specific effect but I don't know if other people think I'm being lazy or that I just suck.
I know what you are saying about how lazy scribbling can ruin anatomy but I actually think that by controlling direction and emphasising curves you can use it to build up 3D structure. The challenge in my opinion is finding ways to somehow represent the different textures of the various surfaces. If that makes any sense?
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No, no, no! It makes complete sense to me! I know, and watch, many pencil artists who do extremely detailed and realistic portraits. And while, yes, they are very well done and impressive, you see a lot of them, and they are slowly becoming less impactful to me. I greatly appreciate those who are willing to branch out, try something new, experiment, even if it may not be the most popular of most appreciated idea.
And I can't tell you how many times I've seen parallel and perpendicular crosshatching on realism pieces and they claim it's brilliant! Perfect! Better and more original than anything else! When to me, the basic crosshatching can look harsh and too severe. But using that idea of strokes that overlap to create shadows, but curving them or distorting them to give life to the shape, bring it out of that 2-D phase... that's where it becomes more interesting.
It amazes me the layers of textures you have here. Very intriguing.
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There are probably surprisingly few layers and each is fairly simple, it the way that they interact in very different ways in the different parts of the picture that probably creates an illusion of complexity and depth. I dunno, I'm drinking whiskey and watchings Sons of Anarchy now.
The thing I want to do is start using a lot more colour and frankly in an exaggerated manner rather than in a realistic manner if that makes any sense. I do procrastinate though (what with pokemon and so forth) and strangely the most progress I have made is in the last day or say after I promised a picture to a girl I got into a conversation with...
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It isn't finished yet but I feel like I have learned a surprising amount in a very short space of time. Which I do when I make an effort.
Anyway, I do intend doing your sketch homework. Just probably at the last minute as a result of procrastinating.
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What I find so interesting is how even though it's more of a sketch than say a painting, it feels like the drawing could stand on it's own to create this oddly ethereal work or even be continued to go towards a more realistic type drawing, like some of your other pieces but with a new edge, OR it could be used as a base to make something more stylized. Yikes that was a long ass sentence. xD Sorry about that. But looking at the wolf picture you're working on, I love how the lines you have are working onto the texture of the fur 'round the face, and if continued and 'softened' in a way, it would act as the perfect base to 'finish' the picture, so to speak, but still holding to that really unique and awesome way of capturing textures.
It's almost like it could act as a branching point to work off of. You could take it to a more surreal/stylized look, or work it into your already quite beautiful realism work to give it more of an edge.
I don't know. It's just a very intriguing way of thinking of things and seeing things.
As for the homework, haha, don't worry about it. As of yet, no one has submitted anything yet. xD
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My 'plan' with the art is to go in the two seperate directions at the same time. I'm intending creating pictures that combine a realistic core with quite colourful, stylized and abstract elements. The opaque acrylics that I was going to be using for the more fantastical stuff are proving trickier than I originally expected. I have previously used acrylics for painting wargaming minis;
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It is actually a surprisingly complex art if you have never tried it - delicate shading and powerful highlights are required to create a 'realistic' effect. I was hoping my experience would carry over but it appears that a different skillset is required.
As far as the wolves and the digital painting goes, my self-taught art style is probably highly unusual and my attempt to translate that into digital art is probably even more bizarre. I ended up with the 'eraser' end of the stylus thing set as a broad paint brush to splash colour around in varying intensities and the 'nib' end set up as the ink tool to allow me to get down to a fine point. I started off using them the way I would a pen and watercolours but with the ease that I could flip between the two and the way I could adjust the 'pen' colour to match or contrast against the paint I found myself starting to blend the two tools into each other and work them against each other the way I do with different sized pens (LOL, long ass sentence award).
I dunno, I ended up finishing the wolves quite quickly to get them done. They weren't ideal but I was pleased that it got done and it left me with a lot of interesting ideas.
This is the kit that I'm using by the way;
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I was initially bewildered and intimidated by the damn thing but now that I have done something that I kinda like I feel I will be much happier experimenting.
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