dex's progressive art thread, daerht tra evissergorp s'xed

eye socket is too forward
and you have bags on the eye socket, it should be in the eye socket, on the round ball part of the eye, not the socket itself

but still pretty *****in bg

ah you're absolutely right, the eye socket is too far forward, my mistake.

and yeah i see what you mean, i really overlooked that part of the painting D:

but thanks for the advice and such, i really appreciate it. glad you like it =)

two more acrylic paintings, my phone camera is being gay so no drawings. it's making them blurred and such. i can't wait to get a real camera.

but anyways, yeah, i bought some good oil paints this weekend so i should try them out sooner or later ;D

i hate you all ;_;



update on this wip, but i'm really looking for comments on the paintings ;o

Those are some pretty awesome paintings. I can't paint for ****. ;_;

thanks!



drawing closer to a conclusion, still not complete tho

I like the bloom effect.

thanks bro.

i need to get a new camera, i have a lot of drawings i need to upload ;-;

but i'll be starting the initial sketch for a painting tonight, so i'll keep this topic updated

just some studies, some use painting/google references, others don't

will hopefully start a new painting tomorrow, not decided on the subject yet.

Great, it's nice to see someone doing traditional art sometimes. What kinds of materials do you use? (What grade pencil, kneaded eraser, paper blender?)

Great! You should do a representation in drawing of the Trojan War! That would be pretty awesome.

thanks =)

i used an HB pencil and a regular #2 pencil for those drawings. i use a kneaded eraser at some points, and i mainly use my finger to blend, which involves me washing it off a lot!!!

i used acrylics for the paintings up there, btw! thanks you two.

painting i did today. i forgot to paint a pumpkin for halloween tho :c

like always, acrylics, cell phone quality *which sucks*

That's pretty rad! I only wish I could see it clearer ;(

yup, i need a camera ;(

Nonetheless, a very interesting concept. I notice a lot of your recent art has been based around nudity. Anything you'd like to tell us?

This post has been edited by Ludwig22 on Oct 31 2009, 09:22 PM

well, i've been studying the old masters (da vinci, Michaelangelo, raphael, delacroix, rubens, etc.) and one of the key points in artwork (well, some forms at least) is appreciation and understanding of the human body. human anatomy comes into play when drawing any form of human, whether it be cartoony or realistic, so understanding such gives you a broader understanding.

learning the way the human body works and reacts gives you more knowledge as to how to put the human body in perspective and give it life. basically, i want to get fairly good at human anatomy (nude) to be able to draw people with clothes and be able to give the proper folds and creases as to where the body creates them.

so no, i'm definitely not gay. hope that clears the air.

Not bad at all, mon amis.

glad to see someone else here who actually thinks like this :V

I've been studying human anatomy for the past 7 or so months (thanks to fine folk like Glen Vilppu, Andrew Loomis, George Bridgman, etc.) and its really making an overall impact on my drawing ability and how I see various subjects. It's even helping me develop my cartoony artwork further to have a much more solid foundation than before.

I've seen quite a bit of folks who are convinced that human/animal anatomy and life drawing won't help them at all with things like cartoons since they aren't using "exact human proportions" or going for "ultra-realism". While in most cases you don't have to go for that, you still need a good understanding of structure, form/volume, movement, etc., if you want a style that stands out and is appealing to the eye, and studying the human figure is probably the best way to achieve this. Once you have a solid grasp of the figure and how it works, you can meld it into any way you see fit and make some solid designs.

If you don't want to study it and just want draw for fun, that's fine. But if you wanna take your art to the next level, knowledge human figure is practically a must in my book.

At any rate you got some pretty awesome paintings and pixel art here Dex. I still gotta hit up the pixels again mahself, but I've been too tied up trying to get my regular drawing up to snap with all of this studying.

This post has been edited by Rage on Nov 1 2009, 01:52 AM

this is a good post, we clearly have the same ideas ;D

thanks for the comment. i hope other people will read these two posts.

This post has been edited by Dex on Nov 1 2009, 04:13 PM