Author Topic: rAwRT! :UPDATED: 8 Feb '13 My new avatar! (Read 2825 times)

ImaLionRoarr · « **on:** January 20, 2013, 02:46:39 PM »

Decided to post all my new drawings here

Hope you guys enjoy!

Doing my first attempt at drawing a lion, all goes well until I realized I might've made the drawing a 'little' too big to fit on one sheet.. guess I'll go buy bigger sheets.
So anyway, here I present you.. lion legs

Decided to spice up the legs a little more by making the shadows more shadowy and the lines darker, personally, I like the result

Do you?

As most of you obviously know, the site was down for a couple of days, so here's what I made during those last few days

In glory we return, our destination ends, we slayed the Dragon, we're the chosen ones!

For the ladayss and some men

Quick! Get to the BATWING!

You.. have my permission to die.

Been a busy lion today

The annoyed lion who has to eat his veggies

Crossbreed of Bambi and Rambo - PG13

Commission I made for a friend, of her fursona - VentusFall
Design by: VentusFall

Failed attempt at drawing an eye

My fursona! Finally!

Practicing my shadowing work

A cute female liger cub I drew

Cool kittay

My new avatar

Quick sketch I drew from the movie "My Bloody Valentine"

Bayzan · « **Reply #1 on:** January 20, 2013, 03:52:35 PM »

Wow! Nice set of legs

Byracka · « **Reply #2 on:** January 20, 2013, 09:27:48 PM »

As a first drawing I must say, wow. Honestly that is a very good drawing for someone that just started. I would like to throw a little constructive help on you, I hope it's okay

I drew a little to help.

The first figure to the left is a human, notice how his feet lands in the line that goes through his body. That line we can call the gravity line. How you put things in relation with the gravity line makes the figure fall or stand. Your characters left leg looks like the leg in figure two. It is not in the same perspective but the core principle still applies. In other words, in your drawing he would probably have difficulties standing up. Because the anatomy isn't balanced.

The third figure shows how you would need to bend the leg to make it work. The dot in the middle of the leg is the knee. So basically, you would have to make sure that the part just below the knee is bend more back, so that the foot itself will land below the knee and not in front of it.

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You have the free will as an artist to change and work with your characters. A functional anatomy is however essential if you want to give a fantastic impression with future drawings. Also I should stop. I've given you enough thoughts

Keep on drawing.

ImaLionRoarr · « **Reply #3 on:** January 20, 2013, 09:53:42 PM »

Quote from: Byracka on January 20, 2013, 09:27:48 PM

As a first drawing I must say, wow. Honestly that is a very good drawing for someone that just started. I would like to throw a little constructive help on you, I hope it's okay

I drew a little to help.

The first figure to the left is a human, notice how his feet lands in the line that goes through his body. That line we can call the gravity line. How you put things in relation with the gravity line makes the figure fall or stand. Your characters left leg looks like the leg in figure two. It is not in the same perspective but the core principle still applies. In other words, in your drawing he would probably have difficulties standing up. Because the anatomy isn't balanced.

The third figure shows how you would need to bend the leg to make it work. The dot in the middle of the leg is the knee. So basically, you would have to make sure that the part just below the knee is bend more back, so that the foot itself will land below the knee and not in front of it.

..................

You have the free will as an artist to change and work with your characters. A functional anatomy is however essential if you want to give a fantastic impression with future drawings. Also I should stop. I've given you enough thoughts Keep on drawing.

That's some amazing advice there, point with me unfortunately is that I don't like to draw the basics first, sometimes I just have something in my head and try to draw that "out of the loose hand" as we would call it in Dutch rather than making the whole figure first and then slowly adding details, should try working on that anatomy though, like a lottt haha.

Anyways, really appreciated your advice and the drawing along made it quite a bit clearer!

Byracka · « **Reply #4 on:** January 21, 2013, 02:30:58 PM »

ImaLionRoarr ~ being able to draw good on loose hand is for many artists a highly sought after talent. You can get there in two ways. You can either draw alot, it's important that you draw frequently. Maybe just for ten minutes every day. Draw a little everyday rather than much once a week. Frequency and efficiency is key for improvment.

The other way is to learn the core structures like anatomy and perspective. The problem with this approach is that it will take a while before you can draw anything "fun and personal". It is also very easy to learn yourself wrongly, guidance is important. The benefits from this way is that when you master it you can draw any pose from any angle!

But the best thing would really be to mix both, or just do what gives you joy. Keep on drawing!

Sopherz ~ I call them controlled squiggles, thanks a bunch