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Post by auraki on Oct 12, 2004 23:51:48 GMT -5
I am terrible at rendering fanart from my head. Instead, I tend to draw from existing pictures. Once in a while, I will add elements from other pictures, but I don't feel I am original. Am I the only one with this problem? Here is like my one good picture. Not much else has come out of me. These are pretty much all taken from the Escaflowne DVD covers, and done with color pencil and black ink.
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Post by Ancient Goddess on Oct 13, 2004 9:53:43 GMT -5
..I remember when you did that picture...and you practically yelled at me for giving you suggestions. "It has to be perfect, ST!"
Yeah, also have that problem. But usually I draw the same characters over and over again so I can learn their angles and what belongs on their face, what way their hair needs to be drawn, etc...so I can draw an original picture without looking a picture of them. I could draw Inuyasha without one of him. But it's been a long time since I've drawn him...I'd probably butcher it if I tried to make a picture of him now.
There is one picture I really want to make. Sesshoumaru vs. Sephiroth-- Have no clue why...but the abstract image formed in my head, and I'm having a hell of a time finding a picture that has Sephiroth's profile...
Anyway...all of the other stuff I made I'll need to scan and put up.
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Post by kraken on Oct 14, 2004 11:45:22 GMT -5
Copying is a very good way to learn new techniques or familiarise yourself with a style you have never tried before.It's a bit much to expect perfection or professional results when you don't have the training or experience necessary to create something of that level,even professionals make little slips here and there,thats why Photoshop has an undo function and History pallette. You should approach every piece with the intention of trying something new or getting better at something you want to hone.That is to say,it should be a learning experience,and copying is indeed a great tool for that.I would recommend you try something new.It's cheap and will help you learn a whole lot;it's called tracing paper.This will allow you to copy,correct,modify,etc.,to your liking.Then when you have it down,you can attempt it freehand or use the tracing as a template,whichever you prefer.Be sure to pick up an eraser made of white vinyl,so you can have smudge free correction and not scuff the vellum.A pad and an eraser would cost around five dollars,depending on brand names,so it's a small investment for a very good return. When I was doing Graphic Design in college,I did a few canvas pieces,and couldn't afford to make mistakes because I didn't have time to make any corrections.So I would source a pose,trace it on vellum,then refine it on sketch paper until I could draw the main line work effortlessly,then I could put a clean outline on the canvas ready to paint.The side effect was,that I learned alot about symmetry and proportion by doing it repeatedly over the months and different projects. I still use the same principle today,in Photoshop and Freehand.Here is a pen tool trace I did from a Love,Hina artbook,which I intend to CG when I have time.Have fun playing about !
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Post by GoGoCactusMan on Oct 14, 2004 19:12:25 GMT -5
While I usually don't copy stuff entirely, I usually like to look at pictures of people for character poses, I never seem to be able to come up with my own poses for my people!!! I usually look in manga or just at pictures to see how the body should look
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Kurdt Cobain
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if i dont believe in myself would that be blasphemy?
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Post by Kurdt Cobain on Mar 15, 2005 17:32:56 GMT -5
copying blows
i copied manga for one week of my life after that i had a collection of pictures that looked exactly the same as the originals i used and was able to draw several characters from dna2 video girl ai and shaman king
that was the most boring time i ever spent drawing
i then started to smoke weed and invented my own style through hallucinations that i got from spacecakes
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