gray's artwork

[graystuff111]

Edit: If you are just looking at this for the first time, please look through the entire thread. I have gotten alot better, and my first works on this post are not good examples of my stuff.
Hey hive, I'm kinda new to art with a digitizer, but I made this and thought it looked ok. I'll give him a staff when I get more time. I'm still learning, so I wan't constructive critisizm. I know that shading is all messed up, and all that, but anyway, give me some feedback. I was going to draw a naga, but didn't feel like putting on the arm flappy thingys.


Edit: I know there is no background, I didn't feel like drawing one.

Edit 2: Pic 1: I tried to fix the naga thingy
Pic 2: I tried to add cloth or somthing
Pic 3: It's a dragon, and it'll eat your cookies!!! (so keep your cookies close)

 

[graystuff111]

<<Bump>>

Heres some examples of pencil sketches by me:
1st one: some random hero person on a hill
2nd one: a ghoul or somthing, done today during a humanities lecture
3rd one: a crossbowman who I never got around to putting a face on, that one is old. About 4 months or somthing.


Seriously, I want feedback.
PLEASE

Edit: I just finished another one: I call it Bird Thingy

As you can see, I actually made a background.

 

[TheBlooddancer]

If you want it or not, advertising is not allowed, do that in chat.
Anyways, you seem to be skilled in pencil drawings, keep add more one!

 

[Pyritie]

At the moment I suggest you learn some perspective. Once you get that good, then you can improve on other things. But perspective is very important.

If you need tutorials, deviantART: where ART meets application! has loads.

If you want it or not, advertising is not allowed, do that in chat.

Advertising isn't allowed in chat either.

 

[graystuff111]

Can you tell me what is wrong with my perspective?
And omg, I've heared there is tutorials at deviantArt, but I can't seem to find any.
Lol, I feel stupid.

 

[Pyritie]

Try this: Browsing Tutorials on deviantART

Also, it helps a lot if you do a quick skeleton of your characters first so you get their pose right.

 

[TheBlooddancer]

@Py

Not that kind of advertisement, just 'Hey somebody? Please take a look >Link<'

Anyhow, please add more stuff, and keep the step by step style. Its nice to see how people work

 

[graystuff111]

Also, it helps a lot if you do a quick skeleton of your characters first so you get their pose right.

Yah, I do that for all of my photoshop drawings, like the bird thingy. But it is really hard to get the shading right. I'll try to upload more art soon. And Pyrite, I love your dragons, but the red one you worked really hard on, I noticed that there was no orange glow from the fire on her clothes. I thought that was kinda weird.
Maby just me being picky.
And I still don't understand perspective all that well.

 

[Pyritie]

But it is really hard to get the shading right.

Try to get down perspective first before you move on to shading and stuff. Once you understand perspective then the rest will be easier.

And Pyrite, I love your dragons, but the red one you worked really hard on, I noticed that there was no orange glow from the fire on her clothes. I thought that was kinda weird.

Oh, there was. It looked more pale yellow than anything though.

 

[graystuff111]

Here's my latest WIP, I think it's coming along nicely. I'll study perspective later.


Edit: WIP 2

 

[graystuff111]

<Bump>
More Sketches

 

[Pyritie]

Tried any of the perspective stuff yet?

 

[graystuff111]

Is this better, it tis Cyclops


Also, I drew this thingy
I didnt really like it. Cyclops is better.


Edit: I made an album, it has all my sketches.

 

[graystuff111]

New photoshop art.
Just a WIP or whatever, trying to adopt a new style using lower opacity brushes and stuff.
And I figured out that photoshop was being an @$$-hole and not recognising my pen pressure so I had to fix that by looking for a new driver. Anyway, here it is- I'm going for a bit more TDR'y exept about 30,000 times less epic.

It's a torso right now.

 

[Pyritie]

It doesn't really look like a torso at all at the moment.

 

[Devine]

It doesn't really look like a torso at all at the moment.

it does ...

you should make the boobs smaller.

 

[graystuff111]

I'll put a head on it, then you'll see it's kinda torso ness.

Edit: Added a head to it. Now it should look more like a torso.


Edit 2: Finished. I know, the background sucks. What can I say, I'm lazy.


Edit 3: Just a speedpaint I shat out


Edit 4:
Speedpaint WIP 2: not a lot of improvment, I hate the face so I might do it better later.


Also, I would like to bring to the atention of my friends epic drawing skills: I give you, the ultamate sketch (massive amounts of sarcasm)

As you can see, this picture might deserve to be burned.

Maby not, because it made me lol

 

[Volvox]

You could try adding more details to your work, especially the colored ones.

 

[Pyritie]

Yeah, like I said, try drawing some basic skeletons first.

 

[graystuff111]

Ah, details are hard.
Using small brushes never come's out right.

 

[Volvox]

Try combining hand-made lineart with photoshop coloring then(assuming you have a scanner). That gives you the opportunity to add detail outlines and just make them look better on screen.

 

[graystuff111]

NOOOOOOO!!!!!!
I really don't like paint overs.
I leave that to my uncle. He like to do that. I tried that with the ghoul sketch and it basicly just masked the sketches ausome factor.

 

[Pyritie]

It's not exactly a paint-over if you drew the sketch yourself.

Also I find it helps if you use layers and put the sketch layer on top with a Multiply filter. Then add color on the layers underneath it.

 

[graystuff111]

I'm going to post this really fast before I go to bed. I know the perspective is horrible and everything and it's a terrible picture but the details are better, I think.

 

[Shiroaisu]

I dont like your work dude
(sory if i hurt your feelings but im being honest)

 

[graystuff111]

Um.... can you be more specific? That's kindof, vauge. Instead of just sayiong "I dont like your work," give me some critique. Tell me what I can improve.

 

[Shiroaisu]

Well if i tell u what i think you should do i would only be repeating the other ppl, But i think you should stop saying that the things are too hard to make...

 

[graystuff111]

Well why don't you try and make some stuff.
I'd like to see your art

Edit: Looked through the post, only said details are hard. And the things are hard to make (not saying my stuff, I'm not very good compared to lot's of people out there). You could ask anyone.

Edit 2: Wip that may or may not ever be finished

 

[Shiroaisu]

Well why don't you try and make some stuff.
I'd like to see your art

:s i dont have a scanner and i suck at drawing on pc, But i will draw a few things since and post then en i do

BTW my reply was unfinished But i just wanna say that you could spend more time wwith your drawings, and try to add shadows too (they look too "plane" if u know what i mean (thst would be a great improvement (at least at my eyes)))

GL

 

[graystuff111]

My latest masterpiece, I was thinking about making it an icon.

 

[Volvox]

Maybe you should try using reference pictures when drawing existing objects? It helps a lot.

 

[graystuff111]

I wasn't going for realism, I wanted to make it "cartoony"

 

[Volvox]

Less shading then. There are cartoony reference pictures too

 

[Pyritie]

Just because you want to make it cartoony doesn't mean basics like perspective etc don't apply.

 

[Devine]

... Hi man. Meet sharpening tool. Some of your shadings are just really messy D:.

 

[graystuff111]

Sharpen tool doesn't help at all. But I have been practicing, and I present my latest work:

I'm actually pretty happy with the result.
Edit: It's the happy Peon

Edit2: Just A WIP

Edit 3: Finished

 

[mato2]

i think you should focus on perception and position, 'cause all ur pieces seem kinda flat/stiff

 

[iristle]

IMO, I still think you need some practise, study other pictures first, and try not to use too soft/large brushes when you are painting.

As Pyritie said, I highly recommend you study perspective, as your drawings will look odd/flat otherwise.

 

[graystuff111]

More Stuff, the gargoil isn't finished, I stopped working on the pink thing, but I think I might work on the red thing more. I like the alien though.

 

[Volvox]

You're not changing your technique. It is vital that you evolve your technique if you want your drawings to look better.

 

[graystuff111]

I know, but 3/4 of these are old.
And your saying I'm not getting better?

 

[Volvox]

I'm not saying you're not getting better, what i'm saying is, last ones have more-less repeated mistakes.

 

[graystuff111]

Yah, well. I have been feeling really down with all this homework I have to do , so I needed to paint somthing pink. Trying to correct some of my anatomy on this one.

Well. Here it is.

 

[LiOneSS]

Filters>sharpen>smart sharpen

try it.

 

[graystuff111]

Don't have that feature. I have photoshop cs1

 

[graystuff111]

Well, I was trying to give myself a less blurry final product, so I found the brush hardness setting and put it to 72%. I liked the experement, but found it much harder to get smooth color transitions. I don't know, In the future I'll probably have it around 40% mabe. But I don't think I'll ever have it set to as low as 0% anymore. That's just rediculouse.

Well here it is, I tried giving a metal look to the mask thing, but I didn't spend enough time on it.

Edit: Heres some more stuff.

Resembles the Skurble sketch.

 

[Volvox]

An improvement indeed. Also, don't worry too much about smooth color transitions as it is not the imperative. Now you can focus more on perspective.

 

[LiOneSS]

Have your hardness setting on 100%, always, or else your stuff will look like crap. Use lower opacity instead, works much better.

 

[graystuff111]

2 new ones
First is ostridge man, done on a request by one of my friends


Next is a really crappy swordsman, an atempt to paint armor. I hope to get better as I go along.


Edit: After looking at the armor on the crappy swordsman and deciding it looked like crap, I decided to start again.


Edit: I think I'm going to practice making armor right now. Later faces. Here's a guantlet or somthing.

 

[graystuff111]

Just scratching around a bit right now. Tell me what you think.