I like drawing...

I felt I needed to contribute to the Art Forum, but I only have two simple drawings scanned, and they aren't very good. But I'll show them nonetheless!



I'll be back.



Yeah, so this picture was influenced by a rather tasteless photograph from history. See if you can figure it out :biggrin:

s**t....yer pretty decent there Yak....im impressed....who knew thered be so many around here.... you have the same problem with hands and face that i do....and what the f**k that is i couldnt tell ya bud.... :wink: Gj...

Doc B... :dodgy:

the girl, is what i imagine bettte midler would look like if she had great looking boobs

i love the pic, but can't get past the boobs.

Is that first one the Terminator? it totaly reminds me of T2

Tracer Bullet said:
Is that first one the Terminator? it totaly reminds me of T2

slaps TB repeatedly

read caption underneath

Aww, he gave her a flower, thats just too cute sob

Edit: Not very good??? Ill probably never learn how to draw like that...

Those pics are COOL! :eek: I like the first one the most!

Kapten Ljusdal said:
Aww, he gave her a flower, thats just too cute sob

Yeah, but she's recoiling in horror, or at least that was the idea. It works better when you know what it's based on... :biggrin:

I think the face of the woman in the 2nd one is wither too long or too narrow. I'm not sure if you intended it to look like that, but I'd suggest lowering the eyes a tad and generally squishing the face.
How long have you been drawing?

Horrible.. I have a soft spot for that kind of pictures dude :sad:

Kapten Ljusdal said:
Horrible.. I have a soft spot for that kind of pictures dude :sad:

Sure it's horrible...

how you got the result, from the origin, is beyond me bud.

but it most definately resembles bette midler.

Sim said:
I think the face of the woman in the 2nd one is wither too long or too narrow. I'm not sure if you intended it to look like that, but I'd suggest lowering the eyes a tad and generally squishing the face.
How long have you been drawing?

You're absolutely correct. My drawings of figures tend to get distorted if I'm not actually looking at a photograph, which is why her shoulder and forearm are too big and her face is too long.

I've been drawing for a long time... for some reason I still have drawings that I did when I was 6.

And KJ, my inspiration on that picture is from my general ability to repulse girls. So here is this guy giving a flower with good intentions and the girl is recoiling like he just put a gun to her head.... uplifting, ain't it?

Orpheus said:

Tracer Bullet said:
Is that first one the Terminator? it totaly reminds me of T2

slaps TB repeatedly

read caption underneath

Ahh, yes. I should read more carefully.

Reminds me of myself, with the flower...

oh, the memories...its all coming back now

I like the proportioning in the torso, that's most peoples problem area.

To help you out on the face and hands, here's the "rules" for proportioning them:

Eyes: mid way between the top of the head and bottom of the chin, before the neck starts, space the eye line into 5 equal partitions accross the face, two of them are the width for the eyes.

Nose: The nose line is half way in between the eye line and teh chin line, before the neck. The nose can be about as long as you want really, but usually the nostrils are out the the inner corner of the eyes. (extend a line down from the inner corner and those are the outer edge of the noses nostrils).

Mouth: mouth line is less then 1/2 down from the remaining space, just a little less, not much. the corners of the mouth usually extend from to the center of the pupils. (draw a line from the center of the pupils down and that should be the end point of the mouth, while closed, smiling is different).

Ear: This might seem a bit large, but, it's true lol. The top of the ear starts at the top part of the eyebrow. The bottom of the ear is at the bottom of the nose (the part that is connected to the face, not the bridge). In other words, extend a line horizontially from the top of the eye brow and from the bottom of the nose, and that is the height of the ear. Obviously this is a little different if the brow is up, such as excitment or something.

Hair: You seem to have this part down, but, the hair line (where the hair meets the forehead, is about 1/3 rd down from the top of the head. so it's higher then 1/2 the distance between the eye line and the top of the head. Also, this isn't for Yak, but, remember hair SITS on top of the head, it ISN'T the head, unless the person is bald and it's cartoony so you want a shave effect.

Proportion:

Male: the head width should be the same as each shoulder width from the head, for a normally broad male. So, the entire width of the torso at the shoulders should be 3 of that figures head widths, this is of course approximate.

Female: The same as the male except it is about 1/2 to 3/4ths of the width, instead of one whole head width.

Hands: in general: the palm of the hand is about half the size of your face, not your head, but your face, so about from the chin to the nose, in a rather circular area is the size of a persons palm.

whew. work on that stuff and your proportioning problems should get better. also, try drawing models, like from magazines. . . I know that sounds wierd, but what it will do is allow you to work on normal proportioning. Drawing everyday people sometimes isn't that easy, because you'll meet a guy with dumbo ears or something like that, these rules are pretty loose, if you're looking at someone and they don't fit the rule then break the rule, they're mostly guidelines anyway.

I hope that helps :biggrin:

If there is any kind of personality that I truly despise, it's someone who is insecure, selfish, confused about their identity, petty, insincere, and manipulative.

Unfortunately, many people my age have plenty of these characteristics, and still more unfortunate, most of them happen to be women.

Thus, we have a generation of young lads, fully believing in the romantic notion that women spend their entire day fantasizing about the nature of true love and ponies, who get their balls/heart stomped when they find that it's not true.

WHAT - ME, BITTER?!

Cassius said:
If there is any kind of personality that I truly despise, it's someone who is insecure, selfish, confused about their identity, petty, insincere, and manipulative.

i take it, the modern teenager must drive you nutz, cause you basically described every damned one i ever knew, including your's truly.

in fact i retain a couple of those traits.

Ah, the American suburban teenager. Well off, given plenty of opportunity, and morally inept. A classic example of what happens when people begin to reject the notion that there can be any moral standard that people can be held to.

Sex? Why not? The fact that you could destroy entire lives in two minutes because you can't put on a condom without screwing up means nothing. And if you do end up impregnating some poor girl, she can just stroll into the nearest Planned Parenthood and crush an innocent life before it sees the light of day. Hooray!

Drugs? Sounds good! I could destroy my career, academic or otherwise - but it would be worth it, because marijuana is cool! Especially when you drive around when stoned. After all an innocent life mean nothing - except when it's yours.

Suicide? I'm up for it! Because it's everybody's individual right to screw over the lives of everyone who loves them - but your parents can't take away the keys to your Explorer when you step out of line; that's injustice!

Money? Yes please! Even if I have to manipulate and steal from the people who care about me, I have to get the new basketball shoes, or whateverthef**k it is as of this hour.

Note that my remarks on suicide and abortion do not apply to the entirety of either issue, but if you want me to explain myself, I will.

But that's a rant for another day - back to the drawing.

man, I wish I could get my scanner working so I could upload some of my more... depressing... works

Yak_Fighter said:
man, I wish I could get my scanner working so I could upload some of my more... depressing... works

mail them here, i'll scan them for'ya

you could always take a shot of'em with a digicam

Cassius said:
Note that my remarks on suicide and abortion do not apply to the entirety of either issue, but if you want me to explain myself, I will.

please don't, i have a notion that you and i feel about the same on the two topics, and i get into a lot of trouble in real life for my view on it, i really don't think SP is ready for them.

Well Yak, As soon as you solve your technical diffaculties, post that stuf up! I love synical depressing art :biggrin:

My uncle is a photographer who specializes in such things. he gave my a picture for christmass of a mousetrap, the bait for which is a few candy hearts

If a person is financially, physically, and socially (to an extent) able to put a child up for adoption, the arrogance in destroying a life that does not yet exist for the sake of the happiness of another cannot be justified.

As for victims of real* rape, or somebody who cannot possibly put a child up for adoption for whatever reason, only then should abortion be allowed.

*a disturbing trend in rape cases involve women who were in a relationship with men over 18 when they were not seriously under that age... the relationship ends on a sour note, and bam, the man is a rapist

"*a disturbing trend in rape cases involve women who were in a relationship with men over 18 when they were not seriously under that age... the relationship ends on a sour note, and bam, the man is a rapist "

solution: stay away from girls under 18...

Abusing the law for the sake of petty and unjust desires is one of the most horrendous things I've ever encountered.

I agree, but I make a point of not letting issues like that upset me.

Hmm... I didn't have time to read the other posts so I may be saying the same thing... But, the girls shoulders are much to broad. You could enter that chick in an arm wrestling contest (make her arms narrower at the base!). By sizing down her shoulders, you would need to make her upper body a little shorter and narrower, move her boobs down, angle her face more towards the artist (not the guy holding the flower), and take that mask off her face :smile:

I like the first one.

Ok, let's try this again. I just drew this one two days ago. I think the shading is crap, the foreshadowing of the arm is wrong, and the face is off kilter, but I can't help it. It's tough to draw from a color photo using only grays while not following the photo exactly and letting my supposed comic-book style penciling interfere. Oh well :razz:



Hey, soldiers are people too! (well, at least this British guy, dunno about the rest...)

I love that latest picture, and I would have it as my background right now if it wasn't for the cat's tail which scares me. It's too long and knobbly.

Otherwise, very good work! :kitty:

Me likey except for the guy's face... doesn't match the realism in the rest of the image. He looks like he's about 60.

Yup, fix the mouth and eyebrows- body looks perfect though!

Yak:
Look at the proportioning stuff I posted on the previous page, it'll solve all your problems. It seems you just wanna scrunch up the face and hands. The left hand there is good, but if you notice it's only because it's on the gun and you proportioned it to the gun, the right hand is another story. The stuff I posted should help you, if it doesn't I'll draw up what the 'scematics' of the face look like if you like.

But as I said before, your torso and legs are awesome, the face is a bit easier to proportion then the body, so you're 90% there. However hands are still the most difficult thing to draw, unless you force your self to draw them over and over and over again.

The shadowing isn't that bad. granted the light probably isn't that hard, but it's good overall. You should see some of the crap I've seen oogled by art teachers, bleh.

You have a very good technique there yak, you just need to work on a little proportioning.

I hope that helps in some way.

The gun barrel looks uber long to me, that looks more like some mad ass old tripod-fixed machine gun in terms of length as opposed to whatever rifle it is meant to be (not knocking your representation of the gun, my knowledge on rifles just isn't that great!).

Otherwise, the comments of the others are certainly true but its an excellent drawing. Do you do mostly character art, or do you also do other stuff?

Yeah, the gun is too big. It's an M-16, and they have long barrels, but not that long :biggrin: but at least it's a very accurate portrayal of the gun minus the proportion against the guy.

I mostly don't do character art, which is why they look so poor. I took about six years of after-school art training working mostly with pastels and acryllics doing still-life and landscapes. Most of all that sucks ass, but of course my parents have it all framed and hung around the house...I've just recently got back into doing serious art after a four year hiatus, so it's not very good, but I still managed to dominate my elementary drawing class last semester. Course that's mainly because most of my fellow students shouldn't have been allowed within a foot of pencil and paper.

I liked your drawings yak. you seem to struggle with the proportion problems that plague most people, including me. A little more attention to faces, and taking some of the good advice already posted here, and your anatomy will jump to new levels quickly. Your shading skills seem very solid...which is what I am most interested in personally. Good lineart is very impressive..something I have never achieved, but a good understanding of light, tone, and values, is what gets me off... keep it up.

Some of you may remember previous pieces I have posted here. Wish I could say I have been drawing alot, lately, but my time is more focused on 3d modeling and texturing nowdays. Maybe I will have something to post soon. Great forum btw.

no affence or nuthin but the girl look ...... well not like a girl

Pegs said:
no affence or nuthin but the girl look ...... well not like a girl

LOL, she isn't supposed to

Pegs said:
no affence or nuthin but the girl look ...... well not like a girl

Whatever man. She has breasts, that's all you need to know. :razz:

i meen the face THE FACE. it lloks sort of like a bloke. anywho i would show you my pics but i cant be boferd to scan them then upload them + i am not the one with the scanner in the family (or the web space) :sad:

Yak_Fighter said:

Pegs said:
no affence or nuthin but the girl look ...... well not like a girl

Whatever man. She has breasts, that's all you need to know. :razz:

lol :biggrin:

Yak_Fighter said:
Yeah, so this picture was influenced by a rather tasteless photograph from history. See if you can figure it out

I saw the relationship right away. In fact, I had to look twice to see the flower in the picture. I think you did a great job referencing the earlier photograph in that piece.

As to making the woman less man-ish, I think maybe if you went a little easier on the nose and jawline it'd be there.

sde said:
I love that latest picture, and I would have it as my background right now if it wasn't for the cat's tail which scares me. It's too long and knobbly.

Otherwise, very good work! :kitty:

Have to agree there. Fantastic picture, its just that it look slike the reason the cat is there is that it's just had its tail plastered along the ground, and therefore cannot move!

I think the cat's tail looks fine - they don't always have them upright, you know.

Hey, the face of the guy may be way off, but quit knocking the kitty:

Cassius said:
Me likey except for the guy's face... doesn't match the realism in the rest of the image. He looks like he's about 60

ill tell ya what there skippy, i think the guys face just about sums it up as combat goes....ever meet a combat vet who didnt look older than they were?

Doc B... :dodgy: