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Drawings!

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Bella Swan

Charmander!
Ok, so I only have one picture at the moment. BUT I will upload more soon!

I usually use lead pencil for drawing and shading, I never use colour. (I suck at using colour pencils) So I tried something a little different this time.
EDIT: I copied this btw from http://tbn2.google.com/images?q=tbn...sitio/juegos/gba/mystery_dungeon/totodile.png
First, I drew and scanned the Pokemon...
http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/6002/todycropped3.jpg

Then I thought 'I didn't do any shading, whoops' so I coloured it in on the computer, using the Canon editing program that came with my scanner lol...
http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/2239/todycropped2.jpg

Then I thought 'Ah what the heck' and I shaded it using the 'darken' tool...
http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/542/todycropped.jpg

It's the first time I've tried editing a pencil drawing on the computer. Haha, the shading's a bit dodgy, but it's hard to keep a mouse steady!

What do you think of it?
 
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You Should maybe Add more on the shading and make a better lineart with (i thinjk you use photoshop) But the overall drawing looks pretty good :D
 
JeexCore said:
You Should maybe Add more on the shading and make a better lineart with (i thinjk you use photoshop) But the overall drawing looks pretty good :D
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I wish I had Photoshop! =D

Yeah I didn't know how to fix up the line, lol. Thanks for comment!
 
Well considering that the pose is exactly the same as http://s265.photobucket.com/albums/ii209/Michelle_Kayla/Pokemon/th_totodile.png

Outside of just a slightly reposed head, there's not much to say outside this feels heavily traced- or you failed to grasp using reference pictures to the full extent. You can 'copy' from photos, but copying a pose almost exactly from another picture just makes it feel copy and trace.

Which is exactly what your drawing made me think, which is why I used image search and well there you go.

In the pic I linked, Totodile has a 'natural pose feel' about it. With yours it feels like it's standing like a stiff board, the shading is a bit blah too- and there's no nostril on the Totodile you drew.

I suggest working a bit more on drawing and shading- and not just using a darkening tool or anything of the sort as it didn't work, and focus on having 'one light source' and shading as such.
 
Yami Ryu said:
Well considering that the pose is exactly the same as http://s265.photobucket.com/albums/ii209/Michelle_Kayla/Pokemon/th_totodile.png

Outside of just a slightly reposed head, there's not much to say outside this feels heavily traced- or you failed to grasp using reference pictures to the full extent. You can 'copy' from photos, but copying a pose almost exactly from another picture just makes it feel copy and trace.

Which is exactly what your drawing made me think, which is why I used image search and well there you go.

In the pic I linked, Totodile has a 'natural pose feel' about it. With yours it feels like it's standing like a stiff board, the shading is a bit blah too- and there's no nostril on the Totodile you drew.

I suggest working a bit more on drawing and shading- and not just using a darkening tool or anything of the sort as it didn't work, and focus on having 'one light source' and shading as such.
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Ok first off, copied? Definately. Traced? Never. I never do that.

I just realised that stupid mistake I've made, I didn't say I copied it. I always copy pictures cause my imagination went kaput some years ago, so I didn't think twice about it. That is exactly the picture I copied from. If I tried to make it different it would look all demented (ok, more demented lol) but I'll give it a go next time.

You're right about the 'stiffness' my one has, lol.

Also I've never used the computer for drawing at all, apart from sprites. The shading is pretty crap, but it's the best I could do with the limited capabilities of the program and the mouse.

Whoops I forgot about the nostril! Oh well he can breathe through his mouth.

Thanks for the comment.
 
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Ok let me get this straight- instead of trying to hone and practice your skills at drawing, you claim oh it'd look to crap if I tried without copying nearly directly! From someone elses picture! Because looking at the gallery I highly doubt that's an official Totodile- with half the pictures in there stolen from other artists/sites..

I think this is why your imagination went kaput and never came back- if you give yourself such a hindering crutch as this you will never become better and you will always be leeching off someone elses work.

That's not being an artist, that's being a plagurist.

And 'basic program' or not, my friend was able to make damn good art with MSPaint and her drawings, with and without a tablet.

I suggest practicing. Look at something, imagine- it's not that hard, how it might look in a different pose. Using reference pictures from different angles helps. Then sketch. Then sketch some more. And then what, sketch more, drawing takes time, it's not something you can instantly do. You'll never really get back in the saddle if you, as you said, just copy everything.

And Copying is just about the same as tracing- there is very little difference between that drawing and yours, quality aside.
 
Ok well I usually copy off photos - photos that belong to me...or pictures of celebrities, or of a real person sitting infront of me. When I was little I copied lots of Pokemon pictures, and now I've drawn this one today, and now I've learned from my ignorance. Now I realise there's a difference.
I won't copy a Pokemon again. Ok? Next drawing I do will be of my own imagination.

And it's pretty dang hard for me to draw on the computer, full stop, because I don't have great control over my hands. It's really hard to do things like this.

And also I found that picture from Google Images, and I'm pretty sure it's the Totodile pic from PMD.

EDIT:
Here are some I did a while ago

I copied this from a how to draw eyes tutorial
An eye
The eyeball looks 2d lol

I copied this from this photo
A jet

I drew this from my 'learn to draw really cool stuff' book
Sssssnake

This one I drew from a photo of Kristen Stewart that I doubt I could ever locate again
Kristen

This is unfinished but I didn't know how to finish it lol. I drew this today. I used Google Images for help on the details of some of the Pokemon and I used a reference picture for horsea (But I admit, I did not change it very much. I'm too used to copying all the time, so I'll work on this issue)
Horsea

What do you think?

EDIT2: Gah! This is really peeing me off. Those uploaders make the picture go all grainy...try zooming it out.
 
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Bella Swan said:
Ok well I usually copy off photos - photos that belong to me...or pictures of celebrities, or of a real person sitting infront of me. When I was little I copied lots of Pokemon pictures, and now I've drawn this one today, and now I've learned from my ignorance. Now I realise there's a difference.
I won't copy a Pokemon again. Ok? Next drawing I do will be of my own imagination.

And it's pretty dang hard for me to draw on the computer, full stop, because I don't have great control over my hands. It's really hard to do things like this.

And also I found that picture from Google Images, and I'm pretty sure it's the Totodile pic from PMD.

EDIT:
Here are some I did a while ago

I copied this from a how to draw eyes tutorial
An eye
The eyeball looks 2d lol

I copied this from this photo
A jet

I drew this from my 'learn to draw really cool stuff' book
Sssssnake

This one I drew from a photo of Kristen Stewart that I doubt I could ever locate again
Kristen

This is unfinished but I didn't know how to finish it lol. I drew this today. I used Google Images for help on the details of some of the Pokemon and I used a reference picture for horsea (But I admit, I did not change it very much. I'm too used to copying all the time, so I'll work on this issue)
Horsea

What do you think?

EDIT2: Gah! This is really peeing me off. Those uploaders make the picture go all grainy...try zooming it out.
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These are alot better :)

the eye looks so good, i you should post some more faces

the snake looks cool, i like how its winds around the post

kirsten looks life-like, as if shes upset about something

the horsea pic is cute, but not as great as the rest.
 
Babey_blue said:
These are alot better :)

the eye looks so good, i you should post some more faces

the snake looks cool, i like how its winds around the post

kirsten looks life-like, as if shes upset about something

the horsea pic is cute, but not as great as the rest.
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Thanks. I'll draw another face lol.

I didn't know how to make the Pokemon realistic, and I was shading in every direction.
Thanks for the comment!
 
I think your Totodile is pretty good, even if it's copied. It's still 10x better than what I can draw. My friend copies photos JUST like you do. I still say that's pretty good art.
 
I can't help but agree with the opinion of Yami Ryu - it does look very much like traced art.

This isn't necessarily a bad thing, though. It helps you build experience as you begin to find your own art style. I can't detect any distinction from version 2 and 3, however slight it may be, not to mention that Totodile is lacking a nostril. However, it isn't a terrible picture by a long shot. I'd like to see you draw a freehand Totodile, with nothing but a picture as a reference on the side. Good luck! ^^
 
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