The Artists Chatroom

Changed. I do prefer your older one tho. ^_^ 1 q, how long did it take you to make this new one?

Also, after several months, I FINALLY MADE ME A VIEWFINDER! HELL YES!

[color=#006FFF]The older one was probably a little cuter in a way but I think this one better fits me; the old one might work better as a younger version of my genderswapped self lol.

That one took a little bit since I wasn't really set on "I'll draw a new genderswap doodle of myself" idea until I had the whole pose and body sketched out. Maybe an hour and fifteen from start to finish? Thinking of going back and cleaning it up some and maaaaaybe coloring it; 'could make for some practice if nothing else.

Do it. I'm looking forward to it!

Also, I found this a good read.

http://www.studentartguide.com/articles/line-drawings

These two were my favorites.

[color=#006FFF]Ohey, convenient timing.



[color=#006FFF]Also, more related, here's the cleaned up version of the earlier genderswap doodle.



[color=#006FFF]More related though, I always enjoy articles on drawing tips and skills. Whether they create any immediate "results" for me, they're always great for helping to acquiring a certain mindset when drawing. I always look for little tips and tricks in magazines like Imagine FX, where there's a ton of information on how to draw certain things or answers to some issues that people might be dealing with when drawing.

Fuck SolidShark


Also Live Journal is a good source of avatar pictures

[color=#006FFF]Bought a tiny personal sketchpad at Michael's last week for random sketches. As someone who works better sketching in the traditional medium, I've been having a lot of fun trying things. Here are some random doodles.







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By the by, I just made this up a few minutes ago and thought it might make a nice little banner if anyone's interested. Figured it'd be better than a dick-doodle thought bubble. Just a thought.



Bigger ver.

Middle one is best of three.

As of the third, I dunno shit about Hatcher, Yoh, or Blossom. Could you tell me more on it?

You seem to be a fan of them old model gals, when did you take a liking to them?

Also,




Each hand was 40 mins. Did the viewfinder lesson of Betty Edwards. This was my homework of Page 116/Lesson 3 of video.

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That's damn great. I'll take it! Thanks Hamlet!


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Wait- Wasn't it Artists Chatroom? ._.

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I get it, I get it.

[color=#006FFF]Thanks! While I do like models quite a bit, it really depends on their "character" of sorts--what kind of model they are. For instance, Audrey Hepburn is much more of that classic elegant type so she has a ton of fashionable pictures but also the kind that don't make her out to look so stuck up--she smiles a lot and I like that.

Peggy Moffitt I, admittedly, know much less about but even so, I love the kinds of pictures and modeling she's done. She's much more of a "modern art" kind of model in the sense that she has some strange outfits or potentially deeper meanings to her work. I just love the usual wide-eyed, artistic, quality that she seems to have.

This is the image I was looking at when doing that second sketch:


[color=#006FFF]And just one more random pic I like:


[color=#006FFF]To answer your question though, I only just recently started taking a liking to them I suppose; maybe 2 years ago? At the latest anyway. Ironically enough, it came from me getting an art book of Adam Hughes' (a comic cover artist that I love) and reading that he based his vision of Catwoman on Audrey Hepburn. So after reading that, I looked her up (since, at the time, I only knew her by name and that she's famous) and instantly became obsessed. Then I started looking up some other models/actresses (the more elegant or artistically inclined ones anyway) and came across some that stood out like Peggy Moffitt and Mia Farrow.

And Billy Hatcher is an old GameCube game from Sega (back when they had good ideas) that I played years ago and randomly thought of drawing the titular character. Yoh Yoshinari is an animator for Trigger (and ex-Gainax), so he's worked on Gurren Lagann, Panty & Stocking, Gunbuster/Diebuster, and Little Witch Academia. He's sort of known also as being a pretty big fan of western cartoons based on his side sketches and animations, from My Little Pony stuff to Powerpuff Girls (PPG), and this is the animation that I was referring to:


[color=#006FFF]Anyway, the hands look good--especially as someone who laments drawing them in detail, lol. I use a mechanical pencil to draw 100% of the time when I'm drawing digitally. Something about the lead I just find more comfortable and easier to work with, though I do know the benefits of using more traditional pencils. I'd say the best one is the last one (i.e. the top one in the second pic).



[color=#006FFF]I took a little bit of liberties there since I'm more partial to the word "Club" than "Chatroom", and since I figured "club" covers the general basis of a "chatroom" as well as a plce to share your art, I went with that. Plus, as a shorter word, it works to make the wording a little more symmetrical, lol. I can change it if you don't like it though.

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[color=#993300]I need to get this bastard of my chest, it's three months early, but I don't want to remember this for a while

[color=#006FFF]Probably alone around these parts in it, but there wouldn't happen to be any Steven Universe fans here, would there?

11/10. Would appreciate gallery.



Chatroom sounds better, at least in my head anyways. There are too many clubs already as well.



The fuck do the characters say?



Why does a kid have a jewel on his stomach!?

[color=#993300]Can't say just yet, it's for someone

[color=#006FFF]All of the Crystal Gems' gems are somewhere on their body. Forehead, Chest, Hand, Bellybutton. Steven is the last of those.



[color=#006FFF]Anyway, to quote my post in my thread:

Nice thread mate, need to learn how to draw my own hentai that'd be killer!

Why?



Added you to the list.

When you have a pic to be placed under your name, poast it here.

inb4 tears.

My sides~

11/10 Masterpiece, would buy.

[color=#ff69b4]I guess you could put me on the list for my waifu badges seeing how it's graphics art to a point. Not really going to post here a lot, but just saying.

Added anyways. Welcome 'board. Here's a complimentary survival kit to all who joined to far.