nabeshin's Art Gallery, I think.

Maybe you guys will like art better than those other guys.rrr:

I might move my art thread over.

Well, here is the start of my new art thread.

I drew my 1/18th scale toy MINI. I'm finding that I like this rough sketch style better that more detailed drawings. I guess it's from my MS Paint roots. I like how it looks to be moving. The toy had x-lites, but I drew it with steel rims.

Drawn in Corel Painter Essentials 4 with the HB pencil tool.

 

Thanks. The wheels and headlights were the hardest part.

I'll try to draw more diagrams or picture answers, but there aren't that many opportunities. Maybe I should resort to drawing diagrams out of the Bentley manual, or draw diagrams based on images from someone's how-to.

 

I'm using a Wacom Bamboo Fun (pen tablet), uh, the larger of the two.

Thanks, Blimey and Ron.

The drawing is supposed to be rough, that's the style. I like it better than more detailed drawings because it's more fun to do. Detailed drawings end up becoming tedious for me, having to zoom in to clean up and move lines - not as fun. That was how I accomplished my other more detailed works, the likes of which probably won't be seen for a while.

I guess drawing is more learning to see correctly. Like, analyzing angles and dimensions of the subject and how these angles and lines relate to the others. I try to look for the open shapes made by the lines of something and think of that shape, then I draw that shape with the angles I see.

I have not progressed far enough to use rough shape or skeleton sketch layers - I have no art training at all. The last art class I took was photography in college.

 

That was actually broken off the model so I kind of improvised it. I need to glue it back on.

 

So this used digital SLR kind of fell off the truck near my house...

Art photography is much easier with digital.


What do you think?

The camera is an Olympus E-30. It only came with a 40-150mm lens, but a 14-52mm (I think) is coming.

 

Swords are cool. You have experience with samurai swords? You a highlander or something? Seriously though, if you are, we must meet and do battle. There can be only one.

:lol:

In this light, black and white does that to EB. I was trying to emulate some of those car photos I've seen were most of the car is obscured by darkness. I think I'd need the proper studio setup for that though.

 

Cool stuff there, Jason.

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I did some drawing today.

I drew these in Corel Painter with the HB pencil (my favorite tool) and colored them in photoshop. This drawing represents a new direction for me. I had no direct model to draw, just ideas & images which I combined. I really enjoyed drawing like this and may draw more like it in the future.

The art style is something between anime and manga, with a slant towards chibi - exaggerated proportions. I gave her *Mutsumi's face, but the hair is decidedly not Mutsumi. The side profile is reminiscent of what Ken Akamatsu does with his characters' faces. The pose was my idea, as was her expression. To get the side and back perfect, I had a layer with horizontal lines to help get everything to match. Each perspective was another layer group, and different elements such as her hair and bunny outfit were also separate layers.

Bunny girl outfit; of the tight fitting, bare leg variety.:ihih:


Since I had the thing drawn, I easily made another version. It could be a swimsuit... but honestly, it's underwear.:cornut:



Sure there are slight errors, but I tried hard to make her body react to her pose and slightly leaning posture.


*Mutsumi:

This is Mutsumi from the manga/anime Love Hina, by Ken Akamatsu. I looked off of an image from one of my manga for this. I drew it in early 2009 in Corel Painter Essentials 4 with a fine marker tool then used the charcoal tool to finish the legs.