Oh Mass Effect 3…
Why are you not going to be mine at mdnight?
I’ve saved my money, pre-ordered and waited
but since I’m in Britain my release date’s belated.
I wont be fighting “Reapers”
or killing the husks.
I’ll be weeping and moaning.
There will be no alien boning.
Whether I choose…
I’d feel for you if I wasn’t going to be FOREVER ALONE on SWTOR for the following week.
Damn yooou, Mass Effect…
Tried to draw Setsuna, my Jedi from SWTOR! Really enjoyed working on this one, he looks a thousand times older and more masculine ingame though…
Tried a new colouring tech! I don’t think it turned out half bad.
Hi tumblr it’s time for inane art rambling!
Lately I’m finding it impairing to artistic development how much the tutorials and tips on drawing on the internet focus on character head. Now this is understandable, humanoid is the common topic in art, and head is the common interest in a humanoid, so naturally we pay a lot of attention to it. But I think our generation is the first one with so globally widespread availability to learning schemes from eachothers, via big media sites like Deviantart or tumblr, on the form of tutorials or just people we look up to, - but I guess in particular I’m nattering about the tutorial culture and the attention of those who are young and in a receptive age, reading these tutorials, and learning that drawing always begins as a circle that becomes a head that is jutted on a pair of shoulders, and so on..
Now wait, I’m not hating on bust art or portraits here, because those have their place. I’m just saying we are getting a huge feedback on our subconscious about it being the main “thing”. For many years now I’ve tried to pin point what it is about the sketching stage that is so stiff for me, dead end compositions and people looking like their body language is just a random mess, until only very recently I realised to stop beginning with the holy sketching rule of “head placement here with some lines then curve down to bust.. then .. umm .. wonder what to do with these pesky shoulders and arms.. ugh whatever I’ll put them here” etc. Building downwards from the face creates weird world of separate accurately drawn details sewn together to a humanoid puppet.
Now, I’m not saying this is an issue every artist should start to tackle in their work, for sure this working technique might be working magic for many other artists in bigger non-bust pieces as well and I’m just being a bit special again, but I’m finding myself at my wit’s end on getting better in drawing unless I ditch(??) this habit.
Currently I’m trying to approach the sketching progress from a different angle, I try to imagine the movement and draw fast guidelines for the movement of the body rather than starting to instantly make love to the details of the head. People who have been to animating classes probably find this cookie cutter by now, but I feel the internet art generation is learning a whole different way of seeing and creating. I know I have anyway. 9_6
Was this worth blarting to tumblr I don’t know but have a 20 second drawing of Sharky in the usual bust format where head is king and whatever else is penned in is a second thought. Weee.
Agree. So much. I’m not much better as i draw from the head downwards but after reading this, i will draw something from THE FEET UPWARDS or… Something along those lines.
/approve
And Alvia! A Jedi Knight. I’m proud of this one’s hair! I did admittedly end up using a pose reference for the lower body - Check out the 100/150 poses on DeviantArt - But overall I think it turned out well, considering it was such a tiny reference to work from. x)
Merla, a Miraluka! Also a friend’s Jedi Consular. I’ll probably re-draw this again - Just getting into the swing of…not drawing hair…*blink*
I’m moping so he’s moping too.
8D
Slacking again, but backgrounds make me feel like i’ve done something half-decent. I just like how the pose turned out! Also his lack of tiny, TINY hands!
Why are you so confused, mister agent ;_;
I will finish this meme before the new year. 8(
http://napalmnacey.deviantart.com/art/25-Essential-Expressions-55523083 if you want to…try it. >_>
