This stuff is quite good actually. I dont know about if its the style or anything but the anatomy on the characters could use improvements on the comic book art especially with The Pummler. His right thigh isnt properly aligned with his knee and lower leg[the latter looks higher up than the former]. His shoulder muscles are drawn incorrectly too, same thing with them pectorals. They seem to stretch all the way to his back.

Try practicing anatomy a bit more.
The other stuff looks great also. Dude post more of this stuff! It's real cool to look at!

(03-11-2015, 03:52 PM)Mighty Jetters Wrote: Holy dear mother of lordy among heavens.

I am genuinely blown away right now.

(03-11-2015, 04:06 PM)BlueBlur97 Wrote: This stuff is quite good actually. I dont know about if its the style or anything but the anatomy on the characters could use improvements on the comic book art especially with The Pummler. His right thigh isnt properly aligned with his knee and lower leg[the latter looks higher up than the former]. His shoulder muscles are drawn incorrectly too, same thing with them pectorals. They seem to stretch all the way to his back.

Try practicing anatomy a bit more.

Reference for muscles if ya want

All you gotta do is make em proportionally bigger!

The other stuff looks great also. Dude post more of this stuff! It's real cool to look at!

Thank you. Yes, I completely agree that Pummler is a mess. I could use the excuse that he is a mutant, but that wont hold much ground. I haven't messed around with muscle structure that much when it comes to bulky characters.

Skipped lunch today to color this.

The face's proportions work, it feels like a face. Her head's size in comparison to her shoulders and arms makes it look small?
Either way, you've visibly improved, keep at it!

so, uh, after sitting in a chair for about two hours, gripping my sketchbook, sweating bullets and then closing the sketchbook several times, I finally managed to sit down and start drawing. Holy shit.
I'm also embarassed to be posting this, really (I feel like I'm posting a picture of my cock on the internet right now) since I literally haven't drawn in ten years and it still looks like the shitty anime garbage I drew years ago. Nonetheless, I'm gathering up all my dragon balls and posting it, so I can look back a few months from now after I've been drawing again and think to myself how well I've improved.

I'm looking to get better - and I don't want to sound like a pompous dickhole, but I know my problems already (and I'll get to that later)

I'm not sure which direction I wanna head yet. Do I want to pursue life-art (like what Zadaben does) or cartooning (like Sketchasaurus)



So yeah, here's my problems, which I'm gonna try to fix TONIGHT:

• From being a lifelong doodler, I have a habit of using only a little bit of the page I'm drawing on. I have an intrinsic worry of drawing a character too large and going off the page, as I constantly used to do it as
  a child
  Therefore, many of the problems I run into are difficult to fix because I use too little real-estate when I draw. The eyes in my illustration look completely derpy because I drew them too small. Any time I tried to erase them, I'd end up taking the whole eye with it. As a result, I had to draw the eyes several times over. I'm gonna try to do the same illustration tonight but try to use HALF THE PAGE.
  
• I'm assuming this is so because I typically draw with my wrist. As a result, I'm gonna try drawing with my shoulder instead.

• I also have little to no patience when I'm drawing. I drew this face? Okay cool fuck it 'cause I've lost all the ambition to draw decent-looking hair.
  If I lose ambition drawing halfway, I'm just gonna stop working on the piece and come back to it when I'm ready to tackle the hair, body, etc. with as just as much ambition as I spent on the face.
  
• I have absolutely no concept of how to freehand draw hair or clothing from life examples. It's probably just something I'll have to pick up from drawing repeatedly.
  The problem here, however is that I'm too proud to use a picture reference. Dog I'm gonna draw that shit freehand.
  I need to come to terms with my pathetic ass and look at a photo/picture every once in a while.

• This is a personal problem, but I just need to get back into drawing so I'm not as shy about it. As silly as it sounds, I'm embarrassed to draw because I'm afraid my girlfriend will look over and ask me things like "WHAT'RE YA DRAWING?" "SHE'S CUTE". Whenever I drew around my parents, I'd get stupid comments like that and it really made me just end up hiding in my room and drawing instead. I live with my girlfriend now, and I don't think running away from her is going to help much.
  

So uh yeah. I feel like I've got a good idea of what I need to fix. Any and all C&C is appreciated; I'm harsh with your drawings, so feel free to get harsh over mine.


EDIT: I actually have like zero-to-no issue drawing not-human characters (like, I could probably draw half of your refs)
I don't want to draw fanart all my life though but I suppose I could give it a shot if you guys are curious how my sanics look

I decided to get out a bunch of my old prismacolor art markers yesterday and drew a few things with them for the first time in 6 years. I still prefer the precision of digital art, but it was really fun to use them again after all this time.

yeah so i have this art class and this is a project i did
i spent a long ass time on this shit



(it was based on Crivelli's Annonciation as per project rules

Kosheh Wrote:<Insert wall of text here>

To be honest, that is a decent drawing but when you draw, you gotta be sure where you wanna be headed. I personally found it best for me to stick with the anime style of drawing because I dislike drawing stuff super-real and dont like the derformity that the typical cartoon style has. I found that anime/manga style art is right in the middle. Dont be afraid to use references, use them to actually study how it was drawn the way it was and why. It'll help with anatomy and drawing is an aquired skilled anyway (if you saw how badly i used to suck and compare it to how I draw now, you'd just be stunned). One key thing I learned is that DO NOT BE AFRAID TO SUCK. IT IS BY SUCKING THAT YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU SUCK AT AND CAN MAKE THE SUCKY PARTS NOT SUCK.

quit being afraid of doodling random stuff and just scribble. Oh yeah, looking at some cool art or a photo can help with your creativity/imagination. Just look at the art and "draw" it your mind.

No c+c atm though so sorry.

I took a little hiatus from drawing yesterday. I need like, more hours in a day or something to get Real Serious about drawing. Geez laweez.
I'm starting to think I actually draw just fine as-is (the picture from before is me trying to force myself to draw a style I'm not really used to drawing) I tend to doodle more and use single lines - and the results come out pretty decent. I'm partly inclined to focus less on drawing and actually improving FOR NOW and instead opt on learning how to ink, color and shade decently in Photoshop 'cos that seems like REALLY what brings a piece together.

(03-16-2015, 12:45 PM)BlueBlur97 Wrote: I found that anime/manga style art is right in the middle

I could draw anime until I'm dead, with big Disney eyes and triangle mouths, but the whole thing is I'm trying to get away from the animes, and I'm trying to get into cartooning a little more. Or do I want to draw people?

Thus comes my internal struggle I'm facing here. ): I'm leaning more towards cartooning-ish, though honestly




I feel like to get remotely decent I've got to like, become completely antisocial, board myself up in a room and draw until a revelation comes to me
"Kosheh, you're not shit, you need to just chaaange your perceptionnnnnn on this shitty eaaaaaaaaarttttth... OoOoo I'm a ghostie" etc.

if you want to draw a little more cartoon-ish, then simplify your style a bit more. cartoons are generally simple and easy to draw, so if you put too much work on a drawing, (like, drawing certain shapes and stuff) then youre doing it incorrectly

(03-18-2015, 10:21 AM)Kosheh Wrote: I feel like to get remotely decent I've got to like, become completely antisocial, board myself up in a room and draw until a revelation comes to me

That sounds about right at least in my case.

Though a huge portion of it is learning how to be confident in what you're drawing. I've started to take on a mantra of sorts to the effect of "1000 crap drawings go into making 1 good drawing" It's pretty unrealistic for anyone to expect everything they scribble down to turn out golden; Perfectionism paralyzes, pretty much.

While good inking and coloring do often bump a piece up to the next level, a good foundation on which to ink and color is pretty important, because if you don't have a good drawing to ink and color, you end up with stuff like this. 

i wanted to dabble on ms paint after a long time.

looks like i still got it with this mouse

Your style reminds me of Mit's, honestly...

...You sorta look like Mit, too, wat

are you two related and didn't tell us, recolorme.

(03-18-2015, 10:57 PM)Mighty Jetters Wrote: Your style reminds me of Mit's, honestly...

...You sorta look like Mit, too, wat

are you two related and didn't tell us, recolorme.

Its RECMIT MJ how do you not know that?

Full size: http://i.imgur.com/PUr4Jdy.png