Art Discussion

[Unwary]

So I thought I would try and settle down and learn to draw.
Not enhance my drawing skills, but gain some.
And then I thoguht that it would be better to have it be kind of a communal thing, so I thought I would kick this off with a few sketches.


Rules wise, everyone can join in, but the art should be sketchy and novice like, other wise it goes in the art musueum. Kay?
Also I grant permission for you guys to bug me if I start to forget about this.
To get you images to fit, make sure that the first bracket of the image code looks like this [img width=350]

[P__]

I approve of this!
my draws are not generally sketchy, but they're quite often awful (plus, very rare, so this is good incentive)

is this thread just for practice/progress-posting, or would it also be adequate for group-practice (like "hey, let's all draw *insert thing and/or technique* today" and then see how it goes)?

[Chizu]

I agree with posting a theme/technique and people drawing it. Would be a good practice.

[Unwary]

I am fine with a theme, if it start getting to big I mgiht want to move it to different thread, but let's try it.
Let's say the first one is...
Pirates!
they are delightfully asymetric and so might be a good way to warm up.

[urbicande]

I approve of EVERYONE doing art of some kind.

(My appearance may be  delayed -- I'm away on a work trip all next week)

[P__]

somebody said pirates? here's one

(no he's not standing askew, the sea's being rough)

edit: image's not working somehow. I'll upload it anew tomorrow and edit here
edit 2: so... image got back to working by itself... adjusted the size accordingly

[Sunflower]

Your image uploaded just fine -- only too big to see as a whole. 
I added "width=500" in the initial "[ img ]" tag and that fixed it.

somebody said pirates? here's one

(no he's not standing askew, the sea's being rough)

edit: image's not working somehow. I'll upload it anew tomorrow and edit here

[Unwary]

I know it isn't pirates but I had started it before themes were even brought up.

Nice Pirate P, I think that you suffer from the same problem as I. We both need to work on blocking out the entire pose, before we go into details.

[P__]

I know it isn't pirates but I had started it before themes were even brought up.

Nice Pirate P, I think that you suffer from the same problem as I. We both need to work on blocking out the entire pose, before we go into details.

nice! (small hands, and possibly thin arms too, but I see no other problems)
he can be a pirate-lord and have many ships under his command

[Unwary]

I cricked my neck trying to see the far side of my hands held in that pose. and they are annoyingly small, even after I expanded them. I think I need to start working with those sketchy stick figures in order to start getting poses and proportions right.

[Eich]

I don't have the time to draw anymore, but I do have all my practice logged in my DA scrapbook.
I mainly focused on human anatomy and poses.  Hopefully it's not too terrible. 

[Unwary]

Well, those are pretty good, I notice you moving onto having more of a surface to you drawings, something I haven't done.  Nice variety of poses too.

[Unwary]

Again not a pirate. Hopefully soon I will be able to direct my sketches instead of just going with what I see.

[P__]

I don't know what this is, but it looks neat! I guess you could still go a bit further with shadows and highlights, but they already suggest volume pretty well for the most part

I practiced values too on the plane last friday: I'll upload tomorrow or wednesday (there's some tiny faces on a page).
got a theme for me on the way back?

[Unwary]

Okay your theme is... Masks.
See if you can use light and shadow to drive home what it flesh and isn't. what goes above which.
I like making themes, I just can't follow them.
And as to what it is, I was seeing the spiral things as camera shutter eye, and the whole thing as some kind of robot.