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don't share the doodles! don't share the doodles! XD we'll be murdered!

and wtf you talking about DX your art is so much better. I was failing so hard on MSN D:<
*bites*
*pulls on Usagi-kun's cheeks* D:

sephiroth54321 (Apr 10, 2006)

lewl

SanzoGirl (Apr 11, 2006)

*Hugs Usagi-kun* Nope, I can't draw shit. <3

if you lived here you would be home now.

amagic2u (Apr 9, 2006)

from a photo, still having a hard time with the tools but I will keep trying

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Sweetcell (Apr 9, 2006)

Hey sweeting, lookind good. I left a memo for you I hope it helps with the layers. BFFL.

Blargh~

Jodylicious (Apr 9, 2006)

Crap I know, buh.. I havnt drawn anything lately and i'm having block up the creek T_T

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xiang (Apr 10, 2006)

Cool, but the eyes are a bit too close
looks like Gaara of the sand

Nightmare

Miss_DJ (Apr 7, 2006)

never tried that applet before...experimenting

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HunterKiller_ (Apr 13, 2006)

This is another great piece Donna.

Miss_DJ (Apr 14, 2006)

thank you!! I know it's a bit bizarre...but sometimes that's kinda fun, y'know? lol

Sweetcell (Apr 14, 2006)

Paint BBS is hard to master, but your doing well in your style.... and oh, my God, what is... no.... no don't come near me... stay away... STAY AWAYYYY...... KILLER....FLoosssssssssssssss.......... X(

Miss_DJ (Apr 15, 2006)

thanks sweetcell! makes me sure wanna stay away from floss though...haha

Harold and The Purple Crayon.

LisaAnne (Apr 9, 2006)

One of my favorite books of all time...2 or 20.

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Timer is a tad off...about 20 minutes.
I had forgotten how unique each artist's line quality/style is, until trying to draw Harold from the book. (matching the colors of the aged paper and the ink...haha.)

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Natsuna (Apr 9, 2006)

:0 I remeber that one ahaha where the things he made were real....I think o__o

DeadlyBlondeArcher (Apr 9, 2006)

Never saw this book, but this made me laugh. This reminded me of when my daughter was a "toddler" she used to color on the walls and the furniture, and then come to me with this really guilty look on her face and say "I "din't codor on de wall, Mommy." :)

fleeting_memory (Apr 9, 2006)

I remember this-good depiction

anatomy study - skull

comd (Apr 9, 2006)

Practicing skulls at various angles and trying to figure out how the muscles and skin wrap around them.

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xiang (Apr 9, 2006)

DX gawd, how do you draw so well? Which school do you go to?
P.S.: I saw a picture of your dog, Stinky. My dog looks exactly like him. :O

comd (edited Apr 9, 2006)

Thanks - I just copied the skull here though almost directly from my book at roughly the same angle. The main purpose of the exercise was to try to figure out how outer surface of the face forms around the skull (the red lines). I don't think I quite got that part right, as it looks kind of off to me.

As for my school, I'm out of school now. I was a computer science major, so I didn't get much in the way of art classes. The extent of my formal schooling comes mostly from my high school art class and a graphics design class I took in college that was geared towards business majors. Most of my learning comes from books. My favorite authors are Hogarth, Loomis, and Bridgman. Hogarth's books just make me feel like I know absolutely nothing about anatomy. Loomis is probably the most helpful, and I like how Bridgman simplifies the human form into very mechanical-looking parts. I also have this one from Barcsay which I've been looking at a lot lately which is probably the most helpful one when it comes to understanding the forms of individual bones and muscles.

I ultimately want to get comfortable drawing figures without references which is something I'm horrible at right now. I think it's because of the way I've used references traditionally in the past. I treated the process more as a hand-eye coordination exercise when copying what I saw rather than trying to learn the essential 3d forms through the experience. I'm trying to change that now.

Is your dog a Chihuahua as well? I love them - I have another one named Beauty (the black one).

LisaAnne (Apr 9, 2006)

Extremely well done.

Stalker Doodle

xiang (Apr 9, 2006)

(read from right to left)
Everybody seems to be drawing Wasil lately =__=;
Why not join them? :3
This is just a doodle.
Wasil belongs to Maiko, but I own Xiyo :D
EDIT: the timer lies like a sleeping moose. :P

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Natsuna (Apr 9, 2006)

AHAHAHA...So freakin true :D Good idea....
Y'know cause NEW people Just HAPPEN to draw her fpr there first picture.....Strange...

SanzoGirl (Apr 9, 2006)

This reminds me of http://cellosoft.com/2draw/view/67578/
^_^;
But, I've known Mai since I joined.

xiang (Apr 10, 2006)

That's why I said that everybody's drawing Wasil lately, because a lot of people are. ^^;

Maiko (Apr 10, 2006)

aww man, I feel so unworthy of fanart :\

but it's so cute 8D *hugglewugs your character*

Anatomy study - bones of the forearm

comd (Apr 9, 2006)

Recording my personal observations about the forearm. Note that these are just my personal notes based on things I've observed by looking at multiple pictures from my anatomy book, and I'm not sure they are 100% correct, though they appear to hold true for all the cases I've seen. I'm using my anatomy book as reference for the anatomy. I couldn't find these exact poses of the arm and hand, but found some pictures that were close enough.

The ulna and radius seem to remain fairly stationary as the forearm rotates around the area where they connect to the humerus. The axis of rotation appears to pass through the individual centers of these two bones around these areas, and thus the bones simply rotate in place around the elbow without shifting position. At the wrist, however, the two pivot axises of these bones appear to converge around the center of the wrist, and so the position of the bones change primarily around the wrist where the pivot is no longer centered inside the bones, but outside the bones at the center of the wrist.

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comd (Apr 9, 2006)

Oh thanks - you all are too nice. :) I'm not sure I got the exact shape of those bones right. I was looking at references but the slight curves of these bones are very complex to me: I think I might have simplified and straightened them too much.

Basically the notes here are regarding the pivot axises of the two forearm bones. When I grab hold of my elbow and rotate my wrist, I can feel that the bones remain stationary around the elbow area because they're rotating in place there. However, they very obviously don't remain stationary at the wrist since they're not rotating in place there, but rather around the center of the wrist. I think it makes sense when drawing these bones to first start drawing around the wrist area, and then extend the bones to connect at the fixed positions around the elbow joint.

mazi (Apr 9, 2006)

close, but the radius is bigger towards the wrist :) you can feel that one sticking out by your thumb (that parts called the "styloid process" which the french kids remember because it sticks out like like the tip of a pen, or "stylo" in french) we got to play with real ones in labs all the time. it was so interesting.

comd (edited Apr 10, 2006)

Ah - I'm pretty sure the proportions are off in other areas as well. :( I think the scapula is a bit small too, and maybe the humerus as well. I wasn't quite sure how the humerus connected to the scapula also, so I also kind of winged it, but mainly I wanted to record how things rotate here in the forearm since I just figured out the basic pivot axises for the two bones today after looking at a bunch of drawings and feeling my own arm as I rotated it. Hopefully that part is semi-accurate.

mazi (Apr 10, 2006)

http://www.jointreplacement.com/bin/images/shoulder/other/shoulderanatomy2.jpg

the head of the humerus is kinda laid in the glenoid cavity (that little concave bit on the side) and laced on with lots of tendons and muscles :)

anatomy study

comd (Apr 9, 2006)

Studying skeletal structure with 'Anatomy for the Artist' by Barcsay. The pose is not inside the book: I'm just using it to try to set up a proper skeletal structure by using multiple pictures from that book as reference. I had a particularly hard time with the forearm and pelvis because I couldn't find a drawing in the book that had the angles I needed to understand the particular forms in 3d space, so I also looked through some references on the internet a bit and felt my own forearm to try to get an idea of how those bones curve around each other. I'm still not quite sure about those areas. It'd be nice if I could figure out how to simplify them somehow.

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DoOp (Apr 9, 2006)

**eat j00* This is really good o_O even for practice and such *tear tear* i'm dirven to try this sometime >_<

can't help you on anything x.x wish i could, but i'm kinda.. learning off you :3

comd (edited Apr 9, 2006)

Oh thanks. :) I don't know how much I learned doing this study, but I did find out something exciting about the forearm. I'll try to draw another picture to show what I mean. It's probably common sense for most people, but I never really thought about it.

The proportions are probably a bit off in this one, but I wasn't concerned about proportions - I just wanted to get the basic idea of the shapes of the bones at the angles provided. Also the bones look a bit thin to me for the amount of flesh I put around them. That's probably something I'm going to have to develop intuitively.

LisaAnne (Apr 9, 2006)

Its a very good study...when I had my life drawing class in the summer for college I remember my teacher having us draw each bone individually before she even let us draw full bodies...it helped alot, just knowing exactly how each bone connected to the next, and how weight effected them. The pelvis can be difficult, because of the curves, but honestly I like drawing it. (I'm talking about drawing in pencil/charcoal though, because haha I really lack skill with the mouse.)
I'm very impressed.