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Thread: Thanqol Learns To Draw!
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2012-04-24, 11:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Thanqol Learns To Draw!
Silviya is right, line/contour based sketching helps you define the flow and shape of the form rather than the rigid structure of sphere and cilinder type sketches. Flow is very important at making a dynamic piece. Here's an example of how I do my sketches.
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Yes, this is a brilliant way to sketch, HOWEVER to do this right you gotta to understand how form works first, ie anatomy and structure and all that. If you don't have the basics, your sketch will still turn out wonky. This is a more advanced stage of sketching after all.
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2012-04-25, 12:50 AM (ISO 8601)
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Give Eisenhorn a try, if you haven't already. The series is on my favourite books of all time.
I appreciate your incoherent notes.
*Nod nod* I'll start exploring it even amidst my practise of the basics.
Day 343: Fee Fie Foe Fum
Applied this sketching methodology to a quick drawing of an NPC from my Changeling game, Robert Cludge, a maneating ogre with a shotgun.
And ohhhh, this is a technique that could take me places.
Didn't use a reference for this, entire original composition, and I can see how it works. I can see how I can start using it. No longer is this an incomprehensible method but now a very interesting sketching technique that I'll need to explore more of.
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Time: 30 mins
Music: Wings
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2012-04-25, 01:06 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Thanqol Learns To Draw!
Still very linear, but it has that something...
It looks like you fought yourself though. Standard drawing is one tool, these sketchy flow lines are another. But they seem mutually exclusive; using both (I'm guessing the sketching for the base layer and your usual for the line work) isn't as effective as one or the other alone.
Bear in mind I'm literally falling asleep as I type this. I've been hallucinating bejewels for the last twenty minutes.
Also y u never on AIM?
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2012-04-25, 01:11 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-04-25, 07:33 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Thanqol Learns To Draw!
Recent Homebrew: The Socialite | The Crystalline: Memory Altering Construct Race | Sanguine Hand, a ToB Discipline of blood and cruelty
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Thanks to all my avatar artists, especially to Paisley for my avatar of Vivian, cowardly cryophoenix.
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2012-04-25, 08:55 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-04-26, 04:21 AM (ISO 8601)
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Glad that made sense. I broke up with lucidity and have been rebounding with Substituted Reality. She's easy on the eyes but I get the feeling she is an enabler.
I'm on AIM right... *checks settings* ... huh. That explains... huh. Whoops.
So yeah. Art. Woo! *faints*Last edited by SiuiS; 2012-04-26 at 04:30 AM.
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2012-04-26, 05:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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Day 344: Adopt A Pony
This pony is up for adoption. I don't know her name, backstory, talent, or anything about her. To a good home, preferably one without too many OC ponies already. In order to claim, tell me a story about her.
Completely ultrafailed at the eyes twice over so I wound up closing them. Mane design was a total accident.
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Time: 2.5 hoursLast edited by Thanqol; 2012-04-26 at 05:46 AM.
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2012-04-26, 06:05 AM (ISO 8601)
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Not too bad overall, but I see some places desperately in need of shady work to define them. I.e. where the stage-left foreleg meets the body. The "shoulder" on the stage-right foreleg is either missing or poorly defined (I can almost see where it was supposed to be), making the position of the leg look a little odd. The stage left hind leg... can probably be positioned like that, but the curve of the fore side of the haunch seems wrong, as if the leg is attached to the underside of the body rather than the flank.
Also, it's an old and overused phrase, but I really like her mane. :P
Can't give a name or a story though. The only OC idea (other than Delta-Pi) I have is Southern Sky, and she's a pegasus.Bearer of the Psionic Flame
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2012-04-26, 06:17 AM (ISO 8601)
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It was there, I must have painted over it.
The stage left hind leg... can probably be positioned like that, but the curve of the fore side of the haunch seems wrong, as if the leg is attached to the underside of the body rather than the flank.
Also, it's an old and overused phrase, but I really like her mane. :P
This picture could have been better in general but I spent too much time sweating the small stuff.Last edited by Thanqol; 2012-04-26 at 06:17 AM.
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2012-04-27, 04:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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Day 345: Kill-kill!
Drew a Skaven. This wasn't intended to be a serious picture, just an experiment with some random things to see what would happen. Not too plussed with the results but what the hay.
My new short term objective is to find a way of doing hair that I like. I've got a few tutorials on the topic stashed away but I could use more if anyone's got them.
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Music: Winterglade
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2012-04-27, 07:59 AM (ISO 8601)
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He looks so... brave.
Let me guess: He's fighting a housecat.
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2012-04-27, 03:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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Recent Homebrew: The Socialite | The Crystalline: Memory Altering Construct Race | Sanguine Hand, a ToB Discipline of blood and cruelty
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Thanks to all my avatar artists, especially to Paisley for my avatar of Vivian, cowardly cryophoenix.
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2012-04-27, 10:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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And he's got two minions between him and it. Leadership from the rear!
Day 346: What's It Worth?
Another random experimenty piece, this time using the airbrush for shading. Interesting notes, nice grungy texturedy feel, will keep that noted.
WHY DID I SPEND SO MUCH TIME ON THOSE HANDS IF I WAS JUST GOING TO COVER THEM UP
Otherwise, mediocre, but experimental. Decent fire effect on one of the hands.
Oh yes, and I learned that I can't draw while shivering.
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Music: For What It's WorthLast edited by Thanqol; 2012-04-27 at 10:52 PM.
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2012-04-28, 04:19 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-04-28, 04:55 AM (ISO 8601)
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Day 346a: The Full Ass
I feel
Pretty good
about this
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2012-04-28, 06:18 PM (ISO 8601)
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Recent Homebrew: The Socialite | The Crystalline: Memory Altering Construct Race | Sanguine Hand, a ToB Discipline of blood and cruelty
Homebrew Signature | NEW Homebrew Collection
Thanks to all my avatar artists, especially to Paisley for my avatar of Vivian, cowardly cryophoenix.
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2012-04-29, 04:51 AM (ISO 8601)
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Thank you ^^
Day 347: The Hero
I got called Superman today.
I like Superman. I feel like the reason people don't like him is because it's hard to understand him. But he's mythic; he's a modern legend. I think the world would be a much, much darker place if there never had been a Superman.
Sometimes I feel like Superman. Sometimes I feel like I'm maintaining a level of output and wisdom and advice and perspective that is outright unsustainable and I'm going to crash under the weight of my own bullcrap any day now. But it hasn't happened in the past 347 days.
Anyway, quick B&W sketch because I did a billion hours of stuff yesterday. Surprised with how fast and effective it was, and how much I like this style. I might do more like this.
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Time: 20 minutes
Music: Yangchen
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2012-04-29, 05:27 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-04-29, 05:31 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-04-30, 04:00 AM (ISO 8601)
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Good-o.
Call it a gift.
Day 348: Didn't I?
I love Iron Man!
I think his choice of mask design is imbecilic.
Expect to see a redesign of it sometime this week when I have time. Also going to read up on Project Rooftop, it looks really interesting from what I've seen. Right now, tired.
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Music: Let The Monster Rise
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2012-04-30, 08:32 AM (ISO 8601)
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Originally Posted by TheAmishPirateSpoiler: Previous Avatars!
Kitty Lacuna by Kymme
Spoiler: Characters
Avatar made by Lightning Bliss.
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2012-05-01, 05:14 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-05-01, 05:28 AM (ISO 8601)
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Bearer of the Psionic Flame
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2012-05-01, 06:51 AM (ISO 8601)
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One of Thanqol's more dynamic pieces. This is nice, though pointing out the lack of cohesive proportions in the different anatomical points...would be kind of redundant.
It's good. It's just not super, like usual. The artist is allowed a prerogative.
Surgery? Are you okay?
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2012-05-01, 12:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-05-01, 06:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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Holly labcoat batman wanabes ! Except for the slightly messed up torso/arm length ratio, that one is very good ! The pose is dynamic (and quite fitting) and it looks definitively awesome.
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I'm sig'ing in the rain, just sig'ing in the rain....
Somme old avatars, by meSpoiler
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2012-05-02, 02:03 AM (ISO 8601)
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One of these days I'll get that right.
Doing fine. Information here if you're morbidly curious.
Thanks
Thanks muchly
Day 350: Iron Mage
First off, a completely dud design that changed what it wanted to be three times but was scrap in the sketch layer. Went ahead to partially paint it out of a kind of unfocused boredom. Minor skill gain, nothing particularly notable. Links
Second was a few random sketches of a redesign for Iron Man - rather than having him as a genius in a superpowered suit, my idea was to make him a wizard with a superpowered cloak. I think this idea could be extremely cool with some more experimentation.
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Music: Suicidal Bird
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Rewind by iamnotacleverpony
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2012-05-02, 08:27 AM (ISO 8601)
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The first one is very...flat. With reverse-shadows? ??????
The second is concept sketches...and I still don't feel comfortable speaking critically of those.
Um...about the surgery... I'm glad you're okay.
I also suppose that some of me wonders if we will ever see more of Stephanie again.
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2012-05-02, 08:33 AM (ISO 8601)
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The first one is incomplete, didn't get past the flats part of it. I almost didn't upload it because it was basically random meandering without any real plan to it. It's less than 15% complete as far as paints pictures go.
The second is concept sketches...and I still don't feel comfortable speaking critically of those.
Um...about the surgery... I'm glad you're okay.
I also suppose that some of me wonders if we will ever see more of Stephanie again.
EDIT: I've got a character sheet/array of background/personality/design notes I could share if anyone was interested?Last edited by Thanqol; 2012-05-02 at 08:35 AM.