Author Topic: jus' a couple of questions! (Read 5729 times)

Rikimaru · « **on:** October 04, 2003, 05:56:29 pm »

hey

err i was jus wanderin weather people use the 'stick person' method to start their drawings, ya no wen ya draw a stick man in a pose and work around that? ive tried doin it but im hopeless!

o yea and im tryin to do a comic strip, but i aint sure how to do the real cartoony faces, anyone know any sites with tutorials for that sorta thing. i would search but that takes too long!

thanx 4 any help given
Rik

Cesarin · « **Reply #1 on:** October 04, 2003, 08:02:00 pm »

Well i usually do a very quick sketch, just quick lines with circles. Always start with the head ( huge ballon) and then reduce for the desired size, then i start drawing blocks or circles to build the body.
Cartoonist faces are more easily than realistic, because they lack of detail .
cartoonist can be simply or complex, like some very simply eyes nose and mouth with a classic oval shape head.

im afraid i cant draw myself comics because imused to draw a body in a entire page size ( not used to draw my chars in small spaces )
But i guess you can ask Jeff Kun ( closet con's creator ) or Seraph ( another comic creator )

« **Reply #2 on:** October 05, 2003, 02:39:24 pm »

Sometimes and get bigger paper then.

Kada-Ru · « **Reply #3 on:** October 05, 2003, 11:23:35 pm »

Some times I just sketch out what is in my head but if I am having troubles with a particular character or stance, then I will do the stick figure thing to get the figure where I want it and then fill around it.

I have an erased piece I did a couple years ago with stick figures. It is a group of horses

running. I still have that hanging on our wall. Plus the other 5 pics I did like this for the first time.

beyond the darkness · « **Reply #4 on:** October 07, 2003, 05:37:19 am »

I'm not a great drawer or anything but I normally start with the eyes cus if you mess them up the whole thing just doesn't look right, after that I sketch in the head and work my way down adding detail as I go. Hope it helps

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Benjamin · « **Reply #5 on:** October 07, 2003, 11:39:26 am »

If the pose and posture of the character in question is what truly matters about the work, then by all means, start with a stick figure, or what is called a "gesture sketch" by some. It'll help you lay out the proportions of the character so that you're not making huge mistakes down the road after having already invested time and work into the drawing that may end up needing to get entirely redone.

Benjamin

sniffswind · « **Reply #6 on:** October 08, 2003, 07:41:45 am »

I do occasionally draw stick skeletons, but it doesn't work too well for me. I'm better with construction ovals.

Chaz_wolf · « **Reply #7 on:** October 08, 2003, 10:00:08 am »

I tend to just draw the outline for what I am drawing.
I have been starting to use ovels to get placment right when there is more than one charature in the picture..

As for comics talk to SonOfEarth on this group.. He is working on comics right now and he can help you there.

Your folfy
Chaz

Rikimaru · « **Reply #8 on:** October 08, 2003, 01:06:45 pm »

thanx a lot all! really appreciate it! *hugs for all*

beyond the darkness · « **Reply #9 on:** October 09, 2003, 09:22:56 am »

I drew this picture starting with the eyes and working my way down. (If this doesn't work, I aplogise)

beyond the darkness · « **Reply #10 on:** October 09, 2003, 09:24:56 am »

I didn't realise that the picture was so big, sorry about that.

Kada-Ru · « **Reply #11 on:** October 09, 2003, 12:42:13 pm »

Nice pic, Beyond! Yes, the eyes are the best part as WS has told me "The eyes make the picture." So I have been working hard on creating nice eyes.

Benjamin can give you some suggestions on how to resize for here. I think he has some where the size to be used.

Rikimaru · « **Reply #12 on:** October 09, 2003, 12:47:42 pm »

wow! kool pic there thats really gud!

thanx again for the help!!

*BIG MEGA HUGE HUGS FOR ALL!!!*

Kattywampus · « **Reply #13 on:** October 09, 2003, 01:05:12 pm »

STick figures and shape additions are definitely the way to start. ONce it clicks in your head how itworks, you won't ever give it up. I was trained in school that way.. it was very difficult to switch from my old ways of drawing.
Practice drawing stick/shape drawings off of things that are true to life. A live model...animal..human...plant..or purrhaps a photo. It's even great to try reproducing cartoon drawings in the same manner. Also, what i like to do is make big honkin' pages of nothing but...say..hooves. If I feel like my hoof-drawing skills are crappy,that's what I'll do.
That's how I learned to draw birds,actually..
I created a bird character for use in a character design class,justbecause I knew I sucked at birds, and I knew I'd haveto be drawing one for 50,000 times a day. needless to say, my beek drawing improved greatly.

..but yeah.. anyway..I'm at work and I forgot what else I was gonna say.

hehe,type you later.

beyond the darkness · « **Reply #14 on:** October 11, 2003, 07:53:46 am »

I tell you what, once I manage to clear a path through my swamp pf collage work I'll see if I can post the finished article,ok. Glad you liked it Rik, thanx as well Kada. Again i hope it helped.

beyond the darkness · « **Reply #15 on:** October 13, 2003, 06:54:32 am »

Finnaly finished it! Hope you like it!

beyond the darkness · « **Reply #16 on:** October 13, 2003, 06:55:58 am »

Oh yeah almost forgot, I also managed to draw this, it's a kinda "self portrait"

Rikimaru · « **Reply #17 on:** October 13, 2003, 12:35:22 pm »

all i can say is WOW im completely gobsmacked! and ur furry is cool as anything. you did the shading really well!!

*hugs* well done hugs 4 ya!

Kada-Ru · « **Reply #18 on:** October 13, 2003, 05:39:37 pm »

Wonderful coloring job, Beyond! The shading looks great and as you progress with your work you will get better and better and oh did I say better?

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Your sketch of your "self portrait" is great! Are you planning on coloring it?

beyond the darkness · « **Reply #19 on:** October 14, 2003, 06:02:14 am »

Not really no, I feel that if I don't do it perfectly it'll mess it up, but what the Hell I'll give it go!

Kada-Ru · « **Reply #20 on:** October 14, 2003, 12:59:46 pm »

You could do like I do, I keep the original sketch and resketch it for coloring, but that is soooooo time consuming I beginning to rethink that idea. (giggles)

Make a light render of it in your photo program and print it out. Make it real light so that you can just barely see the lines and then color it. All the print will be hidden and that way you don't mess up your original piece which looks great the way it is!

beyond the darkness · « **Reply #21 on:** October 16, 2003, 07:38:04 am »

Good idea Kada, I never thought of that Thanx! *Hugs Kada*

Kada-Ru · « **Reply #22 on:** October 17, 2003, 02:55:19 am »

You are quite welcome, Beyond. (hugs in return)

Benjamin · « **Reply #23 on:** October 17, 2003, 06:17:02 pm »

As for the image sizes... If you're using Photoshop (or most any image editor out there) you can set the image size to whatever you need. I'd recommend maybe 500 or 600 pixels width for most stuff to be posted here, so it doesn't go off the right side of the screen for people that have lower (800x600) resolution monitors.

The drawings look good. I like the pencil sketch, self-portrait one. With a bit more work and attention to detail, you can probably work in some more of the range of shades in the composition. It takes a fair bit of work to perfect something like that, so your drawing there comes off more on the level of a "quick sketch" though it's still coming along good. I've done drawings (well-detailed) where I've spent 30 or so hours of working on it in order to get the effect I wanted. It paid off in the end, at least.

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Keep at it.

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Benjamin

beyond the darkness · « **Reply #24 on:** October 18, 2003, 07:51:55 am »

Well here's the coloured version. Your advice was really good Kada! I would have spent longer on it this one as well but I don't have the time at the moment what with collage and all, but I've still got the original so when I get the time I'll go back and really finish it off (Oh by the way the sketch took about 40 minutes so it was a QUICK sketch!

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