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HunterKiller_ (May 24, 2005)
Ok, a little art history on myself. I grew up drawing, never took any professional art classes/courses, etc. Thus, i've never studied the basics in depth, like this stuff (which might be why i sux0rs so much =) ). So i was told to do more of this stuff and life drawings. Crits please. I know the shadow of the sphere's off.
HunterKiller_ (May 24, 2005)
drawn in 15 min
davincipoppalag (May 24, 2005)
Kudos on not using the line and circle tools HK...
HunterKiller_ (May 25, 2005)
lol thanks poppa, well that would certainly defeat the purpose of this excersise. More comments would sure have helped though...
Gigandas (edited May 25, 2005)
Well, if you're open to any critique, then I'd say here are a couple things to look at: First off, you might wanna smooth the lines out more just so it looks more professionally executed, second, you may want the outline (if you're gonna have an outline at all) to have gradation as the shadows come to light. Example: take a look at the top of that ball there, and make the outline that goes around there, baaaaarely visible/very light color (again, assuming you even want an outline. realism has no outlines.). Third, define a core shadow, the darkest dark area on the object (example: the bottom right region of the ball). Fourth, you want to define the reflective light (the light reflecting off the surface the object is on and back onto the object itself). It's a very thin light color line that goes outside and around the core shadow. Those pointers should help assuming I explained in a way it can be understood.

Here, look at this example:
http://www.anticz.com/drawing1.htm
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