Art Discussion

[AquaAurion]

It's not a full 3/4, but aaaah you're right.
*looks up some more references of that angle*
*Tries to fix things according to advice*.
*Flips the picture horizontally, notices the whole eye placement mess*
Eye placement is my weakest point, I put so much more effort there than anywhere else, and also try to pay attention to every piece of advice and ref lines I have to get them where they belong, but still this happens when I construct faces instead of drawing from pictures. AAAA, that is unfixable for now, but thank you for the advice!


Rhynerd, lots of nice shading and attention to detail (and work!) on the sink. The only tip I can think of right now is that the shading near the left side of the sink makes the perspective look a bit inconsistent, as if the edge got narrower in front. The shining tap comes out especially well, I think.

I think the facial structur and the neck area looks better now Taking a break and looking at it with fresh eyes often helps you to see things you missed before ^_^

[Jureeya]

Another one! Here is a tutorial for how I color, and I used the last Reynir drawing from the art thread

http://jureeya.tumblr.com/post/148571222913/heyo-would-you-ever-do-a-tutorial-on-how-you

[Guardian G.I.]

Not sure if art resources fit into this thread, but this thing is too specific for Picture Thread.

Free reference picture packs for landscapes: trees, clouds, mountains.
Warning, these are very large files, and by large I mean "374 MB 9568x9731 .tif file" kind of large. The tree pack's archive is about 10 gigabytes, for example.

[Guardian G.I.]

Guardian G.I. requests your help yet again!

Spoiler: early WIP, general idea is supposed to be Lalli imagined as a shaman from Shadowrun • show

w/o preliminary clothes overlay:


His overcoat is probably something like this plus a fur collar. At this point, he also has knee-high boots (like his SSSS design).
I'm really not sure about his legs. I'm going to work on the head and the face when I start (over)detailing this guy.

How did I screw up anatomy this time?

[Rhynerd]

Well, I'm no anatomy expert in terms of art, but the lower body seems a bit too small to me, or maybe too skinny.

[Rhynerd]

Pardon my double-post, but sometime last week I finished this attempt at drawing a colored version of Morlin from Spiral Knights. I would happy to hear the two cents of the SSSS community on it.

Spoiler: show

[John Candlebury]

Pardon my double-post, but sometime last week I finished this attempt at drawing a colored version of Morlin from Spiral Knights. I would happy to hear the two cents of the SSSS community on it.

Spoiler: show

It looks rather dirty.

You should try to do hatching and coloring with uniform lines.

[Unlos]

This is part of a pretty ambitious project I suddenly wanted to try, sort of Language-tree-inspired interspersed with these things. (The actual tree is not depicted as I don't know all the branches it will have, yet). I have no idea if I'll manage, but as these took me the whole evening I wanted to show them to someone.

Spoiler: explanatory rambles • show

They are supposed to show the basis of what radiologists see in some lung diseases, because I feel I need a better grip on structured High-Resolution CT imaging. They represent a very important entity in the lung called the secondary lung lobule, that looks different depending on what disease you have. So here they are, in lots of different conditions where the yellow represents bits that don't belong on a ct scan of the lung, and that the radiologist (me) will look for.  And some of the things overlap and I might not need all of them.

For those interested, here are depicted the normal secondary lobule in the middle, and then following the clock more or less: centriacinar pattern, centrilobular emphysema, panlobular emphysema, ground-glass opacities, perilymphatic micronodules, smooth interlobular wall thickening, nodular interlobular wall thickening, centrilobular micronodules, thickened intralobular walls that sadly ended up looking just like the centrilobular micronodules and I'll need to fix that, and obstructed airways whith tree-in-bud formation. Hopefully I will learn something from this.

[PickleChip]

So,  I've been practicing with Galaxy and nebulas. It doesn't look right to me, though. Any critique?

[Gwenno]

So,  I've been practicing with Galaxy and nebulas. It doesn't look right to me, though. Any critique?

Oooh, those are some pretty colours you have there 
This tutorial may help you with that ^_^ I know I certainly found it very useful in understanding the shapes of the night sky
http://www.minnasundberg.fi/stars_tutorial.htm

From looking immediately I'd say your biggest problem is that the stars are all mostly the same size and brightness, as well as distributed fairly evenly. Have a good look up at the sky on a clear night and you'll notice that this is quite different from the speckled, clustered, random weirdness that is nature! The shapes of nebulas are also a little different in reality, as are the nature of their edges. It's a little difficult to describe, but there's a lot of different textures at work, in the same way as your regular earth clouds. Search google for pictures of Nebulas and you'll soon see what I mean. Here's a picture of the Carina nebula because why not

[Ana Nymus]

Unlos, I don't really have any critiques, those just look pretty. I couldn't say how much they resemble real CT images, so I'll just leave it at that 

PickleChip, there are a few things I can think of that would make your artwork look more nebulous. First, the colors are really pretty, but they're too bright and the edges are too clear, I think. Blending out the edges more so that they fade into the darkness of the background will make your nebulas more... well, nebulous! Think of them like clouds with blurry edges. Secondly, your stars are too uniform-looking. If you look at the night sky, the stars aren't all identical. They're different sizes and colors, and they're not sprinkled evenly across the sky. That's what make constellations stand out! It'll add some interest to your drawing when one section looks different from the other.

[Edit: looks like Gwenno beat me to the punch!]

[Jureeya]

@picklechip yoo it looks like we use similar brushes! raddd

This is just how I do thing but when I do space drawings like this one

I take a lot of time to blend out the colors and make sure that the colors are really transparent, so it looks like you're looking through gases in space instead of having the colors block your view. The more things are blended, the better they look, and you can go back over it a few times and add more color to areas you want to be more opaque instead of doing it all at once. For me it takes like two or three hours to get the sky looking right most of the time, and most of that is blending and reapplying to give it more depth.

Also for stars, I think the best thing you can do is go in with a pen or maker tool and put in some main stars in pure white, then go back on a very slightly off-white or gray color and add smaller, dimmer stars. This way they have a bit of character to them, and they look more natural.

Playing with layer settings is also really fun, I think color burn sometimes produces interesting results with this kind of style.

[MR_PLINKETT]

Dunno if this helps you guys out, but here is a pair of articles I found a long time ago that I have really started to look at. I've been working my way through it and so far I have made progress from drawing stick figures to being able to copy drawings fairly decently.(I.E. upside down drawings)

http://hubpages.com/art/how-to-draw-learn
http://hubpages.com/art/drawing-FAQ

Here have a look, I dunno about you lads but this has really been a treasure for me.

[Silent]

Just wondering, but is there a specific board were I can get feedback on character designs or would I be able to do that here? I'm trying to start a comic and would like some second opinions on some of the art for the characters.

[Jureeya]

i'm not a mod or anything but i'm guessing here is the best place