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Thank you, everyone! :D And happy birthday, sweetcell
This was actually gonna be something different, but I decided to "give up" on it and just make it my own personal birthday gift.

Public Boards/Beginner

Time to Rest

Miss_DJ (Apr 5, 2006)

goodnight

7 comments – latest 4:

DeadlyBlondeArcher (Apr 6, 2006)

I don't know what tool that is, but it looks like you're having fun with it. :D

Miss_DJ (Apr 6, 2006)

it's the difference tool...it's a blast...lol

Shoebox (Apr 6, 2006)

Whee. Trippy.
Looks like a snowboarder trying to balance in mid-air.

Miss_DJ (Apr 8, 2006)

thanks shoebox!!

Sogi: Jungle Cat

Miss_DJ (Apr 3, 2006)

room divider

5 comments – latest 4:

Miss_DJ (Apr 3, 2006)

what a nice thing to say..thank you. I like being free. You inspire me to be better, though. :o)

Sweetcell (Apr 3, 2006)

I thought this was a fan. What DBA said Miss D. I knew it when I saw your stuff on youdraw and it goes here. Oh, gushy gushy. XD

davincipoppalag (Apr 3, 2006)

I like your freeform tiger on there Donna. Fun colors and stuff.

Miss_DJ (Apr 7, 2006)

thank you Sweetcell and poppa. Free is fun!

Main Forums/Drawing Discussion

HELP

Sweetcell (Apr 7, 2006)

I'm working on a piece right now and I tried to use the magic wand/move tool, which didn't seem to work and I pressed undo till it said no more undo's, fine, so I've been trying to just normally paint but now none of my brush strokes seems to appear. There are no masks, I've tried on both layers, I put opacity and flow to max and there's nothing, no brush strokes. I don't want to upl;oad this till I'm done. Someone please... HELP! I'm on Lascaux.

5 comments

Public Boards/Beginner

Crazy Fruitbat

DinoFlorist (May 15, 2004)

ooeeehi im the crazy fruitbat, hyuk!

7 comments – latest 4:

davincipoppalag (May 16, 2004)

Cute one Dino... what a coincidence Cindy! I go to the ballpark and toss baseballs in the air to feed the bats there!

DinoFlorist (May 16, 2004)

Davinci, your comments are great. I mean, they're usually funny, sometimes they make my eyes roll, but this time I was eating cereal and when I read that it gave me a really fast reflex laugh and I spewed it all over my keyboard. Thanks a lot.

Aubrey (May 16, 2004)

*hands Dino a towel*

(your comments really are great Poppa :)

staci (Apr 7, 2006)

lol *tear*

Public Boards/Intermediate

Giant Fire Shrimp (Folkner University)

DinoFlorist (Feb 6, 2004)

Thanks for winning the Heisman twice! The Folkner University Dinos will never forget you!

Edit: Although I like this picture, I did not intend to post it on the advanced board. I tried to change it to intermediate manually, but it appears that I cannot?

3 comments – latest 4:

DinoFlorist (Feb 6, 2004)
drawn in 31 min

Hey there. Although I do like this picture, I did not intend for it to be posted to the advanced board. I tried to move it manually, but it seems like that's not something I can do myself?

DeadlyBlondeArcher (Feb 6, 2004)

Nope, you gotta be a moderator-god person thingy around here to get that done lol. It'll be great having it here. Cool pic. :D

davincipoppalag (Feb 24, 2004)

It looks like it belongs on this board to me.. I think its a great job.. I have seen illustrations in sports magazines that arent as good..

staci (Apr 7, 2006)

ahahahahh haha hahah his helmut says 'f.u.'

Inner Child

Kloxboy (Apr 2, 2006)

A school picture only a mother could love.

9 comments – latest 4:

HunterKiller_ (Apr 2, 2006)

Sweet wicked face, man.

woah_pockster (Apr 3, 2006)

mmmh <3
I love the way you do cheeks <3

gerbear (Apr 5, 2006)

Wonderful. Whats not to love? The transluscent quaility is great. I remember from YouDraw a while back, but you might have used another name?

Kloxboy (Apr 7, 2006)

Nope, I was Cloxboy there too.

Public Boards/Advanced

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comd (Apr 2, 2006)

Trying a bit more than a head this time since I have all this canvas space in the advanced section. I'm just going to try to copy the photo directly this time as closely as possible.
http://www.kristiaknowles.net/images/gallery/fitness/fit2.jpg

I'm not sure I'll get anywhere. Thanks all for the encouragement.

[Edit] This is the opposite of what I'm striving to do artistically as my goal is to draw more loosely from references (using information from the reference to make a completely different picture, not drawing the reference) and ultimately without needing references at all, but I wanted to try a shot at being unpainterly and more photorealistic: the antethesis of what I've been trying to do. To get the line drawing and major landmarks as accurately as possible, I initially started with a grid for the line drawing. This allowed me to shade and color more loosely without worrying about correcting inaccuracies from the previous stages. I don't think I quite got there as I still got lazy on the shading and didn't quite interpret the values correctly. It looks correct sized down, but not up close.

28 comments – latest 4:

Zack (Apr 5, 2006)

You might find it an interesting exercise to take a ref and try drawing it at a different angle. As soon as I have more free time I intend to make a number of drawings that are loosely referenced like that; maybe they have the same angle but different lighting, or they have different shading styles, etc. Personally, I see loose references as training wheels and strict references as crutches, but that's in terms of my own artistic goals and not a criticism of other artists here. In light of your goals, I'd say dropping the grid system is probably a good idea.

comd (edited Apr 5, 2006)

Modifying angles, lighting, or the original 3D form of the reference is the kind of stuff I'd like to ultimately do when using references. Just anything that demands the 3D form is understood so that it could be used to produce other 3D forms is what would benefit me most. I tend to be more 2D-oriented when copying photos regardless of whether I'm using measuring devices or just freehanding, and that's useful for copying 2D images, but not for inventing 3D ones. I tend to ask questions like, "what's the 2D shape of this highlight? How does it relate vertically and horizontally to this other mark?" Rather than, "what's the 3D form of this figure"? If I understood the 3D form, then I could invent my own highlights without using the precise shapes in the photograph.

I pretty much knew this picture wasn't what I should have been doing when I started on it based on my goals, regardless of the grid (though the grid made it that much worse). I set out only to draw the reference as accurately as possible and nothing more. In that sense, it's one of my biggest failures since that's the last thing I want to be doing in the future as I progress. I didn't even try to experiment with painterly techniques - I was trying to be as unpainterly as possible in this one so that it would look just like a photo. Generally I get the most comments about the painterly aspects of my works when working from photos, but this time I really wanted to try not being painterly (I tend to be painterly for economical purposes, not intentionally). I didn't even really achieve the photorealism I intended to achieve despite the use of the grid for the line drawing, so I didn't even succeed in that respect. While it's completely against my personal goals, I still admire the artists on here who can make their paintings look just like a photograph. I was hoping to achieve it here, but I think I deviated too much in the shading and still relied too much on lines which gave that sort of cartoony effect in places.

frootcake (Apr 6, 2006)

omg biggest posts ever. great pic and i've been a victim of the grid in the past. when the masters of the past were working on frescoes - they couldn't draw straight from life, so they did their preliminary drawing and they would grid that whole wall up before doing some of the greatest paintings ever made, theres no shame :):)

HunterKiller_ (Apr 7, 2006)

Mmm... (damn you essay writters.)