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This will be my personal art dump and the aim is to create at least one drawing per day.
I will treat this as my posting space because I didn't want to clutter up my blog space.
I don't expect many replies but whichever of you creative individuals look here, feel free to recommend brilliant tutorials that can help me. Currently I use Photoshop and the 1 pixel black brush. I do this with my trusty Bamboo Fun tablet. Whilst it's not the greatest, it suits my amateur needs.
They will go from bad to okay
:12th April 2012
Anatomy is not my strongest suit, especial a male's anatomy. Not sure why I drew this but it has made me realise I should practice anatomy a whole lot more. I'm used to drawing females (a majority of my life drawing classes from my teen years consisted of women) so the left arm of the model came out a little feminine which led me to make the right arm chunkier. If you can see under my furious scribbles, I cocked up. I moved onto the head which I couldn't draw either and was subjected to my anger. I was ready to sketch out the rest of the drawing except I didn't fully know what this armor looked like. I rock the rune platebody and dragon platelegs in the actual game but nobody draws those because bandos is much cooler.
(It is officially 13/04/2012 here but I wanted to leave the day tomorrow free to create another sketch.)
13th April 2012
Original:
Darker Lines:
So after messing on MS Paint for the 'Largest Contributer Wins' thread, I drew a head shot of a male that heavily resembles my Papa (Grandfather). I watched a video clip of my cousin's wedding that took place in India today and my Papa was on my mind. Whilst he wears a turban, two gold earrings and has one discoloured eye, this sketch does not really look like him lol. Maybe if I finish of his unshaven face and drew in his lack of teeth then it would resemble him a bit more but I kind of drew this guy a lot more 'fatter' than my grandfather really is.
It was a sketch that turned out nicely, shame I don't have the time to finish it today! I save all my Photoshop files so I will one day return to this. (And the crappy Bandos one).
14th April 2012
Unfortunately today I had a busy schedule and when I finally had time to sit and draw, the tablet wouldn't work! So today I present to you something I drew a few years back:
An incomplete sketch of a woman in a kimono. I had to create these paper dolls for my Art class and I scanned one in and started to make it into a character. For some reason I did not finish it, I probably got side tracked... I can see a problem with the shoulder/chest part but it's not very noticable. Her legs are crossed at the bottom, as if she is taking a step. I actually have the base image of her feet so you can see what I was going to do:
25th June 2012
Please bear with Gyazo until imgur decides it wants to co-operate.
Did le casual man who is walking in a random direction fearlessly:
http://gyazo.com/6b4...a0cbd3fa46c609c
I found that sketch in a old sketchbook and re-did it on photoshop.
I heard duel weilding is coming to RuneScape:
http://gyazo.com/d5b...fb90b30e3b7aa4a
Yes, those are badly drawn Saradomin godswords.
I actually went with the new Bandos graphical rework. I never noticed it before and it is actually much better to draw than the older Bandos armour. I tried to not make it look so flat and stuck onto the body which failed at some places. A definite improvement I'd say.
Whilst I haven't actually drawn her naked, I probably can't post her whole base image because it still looks a little revealing.
15th April 2012
Only had about I worked for 30 minutes to work on this sketch:
It is a gentleman sipping on some tea as he sits in his invisible chair. There's nothing significant in the concept. I was trying out sketching from a stick man base:
That looked fine proportionally at the time. Little did I know, as soon as I added in the muscle it would go a bit pear shaped:
Feet are hard! I remember I struggled so much with them in the past. Here's an idea of how much the image changes I progress from stick man to muscle to actual person stage:
I understand where I went wrong here. The perspective is off on the legs. We're looking straight ahead at the body whilst we're also looking down on the legs. We should be looking straight ahead at the legs, i.e. the right crossed knee must be higher. I'll have to redo the whole of that. I think the right arm needs to be brought in a bit more too. I think tomorrow I will correct this instead of creating something new. Also, look at that sterling tophat! That was my first ever try too.
16th April 2012
Much thanks to Iglw for posting Cedarseed's tutorials. I followed it for this piece.
First, my stick figure man in his ultimate fighting pose:
There are some markings here and there, I was thinking about proportions and making sure everything measured up. On top of that came the muscles and flesh:
The arms aren't perfect but thanks to that guide, they're pretty damn better than what I did yesterday. As you can see on the man's right arm, I had to redo the position because it was a little unrealistic in its previous position. Next I added the Bandos armour:
I haven't the time to finish the weapons, hands, boots and face but I'm definitely going to work on this in the future. The right shoulder is a little weird I can see but overall I am pleased
The piece without the visual aids:
17th April 2012
Today I have just a small update but at least I did draw
I revisited the gentlemen sat down with a tea in hand. I didn't get to finish it off and add the clothing:
As you can see, I redid the legs as I drew the body in because I thought they were too big but now they look a little small. They look like a pretzel. But really, that guide is coming in handy. I now know where to draw muscles and where not to and I think I will perfect it soon!
Before I [rooster] up with the hands, I want to dedicate a day to them and practice so expect some hands and feet tomorrow.
6th June 2012
I decided to try a cartoon style today however it went horribly wrong. I present to thee, a vertically stunted man:
I should not have tried to go for the realist look unless I want to create midgets.
It's unfinished you say? I would have finished the sketch too and probably make more but this happened
And I gave up for the rest of the day because I did not save it.
Note: Don't expect anime-esque sketches in here. Trying not to do that.
7th June 2012
Decided to try the cartoon style once again. Then this happened:
And I gave up for the rest of the day because I did not save it.
That was an attempt at dragon armour + dragonfire shield. I only know the armours before the graphical update so it's looking a little off. I think I will stop with the cartoon style because Photoshop does not like it
8th June 2012
I couldn't let go of the cartoon style because I got an idea of what I want it to look like. But then this happened:
And I gave up for the rest of the day because I did not save it.
Nothing for 09/05/2012 or 10/05/2012 as I shall be busy.
12th June 2012
Seen as though the tablet does not want to enable pressure sensitivity, I dabbled a bit in MS Paint for 5 mins. Made an okay base for a man:
And did the usual Bandos gig:
There was a bit of the lag when using the pen which made it hard to do any smaller bits.
Also, I seem to only do RuneScape stuff so tomorrow when Photoshop and the tablet is cooperating with me I shall do something different! (Hopefully).
15th June 2012
Decided to draw a woman today because everything has been dominated by males so far. I think my inexperience with drawing them shone a little with this piece though it also felt like every little thing that looks wrong just makes them look masculine. Gotta be careful when drawing them.
This is the base:
More hips and less shoulders is obvious. But I left it as it is because I was adding some shoulder armour things later.
Finished (somewhat):
I went with my own interpretation of a skill cape. It's hard to make armour look like armour right of the bat but I reckon as colour comes into play sometime in the future I will be able to solve that one problem. I really wanted to colour this so I could make the cape a bit more obvious but I have no idea how to do that in Photoshop.
Tutorials I need to look at:
Hands
Feet
Colouring
I would add 'how to make clothing look natural' up there but I think I should practice that by drawing irl.
25th June 2012
Please bear with Gyazo until imgur decides it wants to co-operate.
Did le casual man who is walking in a random direction fearlessly:
http://gyazo.com/6b4...a0cbd3fa46c609c
I found that sketch in a old sketchbook and re-did it on photoshop.
I heard duel weilding is coming to RuneScape:
http://gyazo.com/d5b...fb90b30e3b7aa4a
Yes, those are badly drawn Saradomin godswords.
I actually went with the new Bandos graphical rework. I never noticed it before and it is actually much better to draw than the older Bandos armour. I tried to not make it look so flat and stuck onto the body which failed at some places. A definite improvement I'd say.
3rd July
Have to use Gyazo to host images again.
Decided to stray away from the RuneScape thing today. Taaadaaaa, le mama holding her bébé:
http://gyazo.com/f87...596a11a11f7bc31
The legs were a [bleep]. But I dealt with it:
http://gyazo.com/9e3...1039031daa63272
And because I had time, used the pen tool in Photoshop to make clearer lineart:
http://gyazo.com/5b6...b6d404ee90bd102
Lol, the knees a bit further down than anticipated now that I've really looked at it.
I would rather use Illustrator but unfortunately I haven't got it on this laptop.
EDIT:
Just moved the knee up.
http://gyazo.com/734...dc73ed3c80b45ce
10th July
Boy do I have an update today.
10th July 2012
On 16th April I drew this thing which I never finished:
Photoshop is a pain in the arse so today I download something called Paint SAI which produces the most fantastic lineart I've seen ever. I opened up the previously drawn image and decided to revamp it.
The images are quite large so I'll use a hide tag and minimal narration.
The base:
The sketch:
The lineart:
The colour:
The shade:
Creating lineart in Paint SAI is epic. I have to show this again:
It's a shame the colouring isn't up to par though! If it wasn't 2:40am I'd look up some tutorial. His facial expression makes him look mad.
11th July
I can't draw today for some reason.
I came up with this:
Which turned to:
But I couldn't complete the lineart without royally cocking it up so I just moved onto other endeavors. Made a rather cute little Beemo avatar:
And I think I will continue playing with the shading on this program. I haven't quite got it down yet:
Or I'll make more sketches to colour tomorrow
12th July
Just ended up sketching some more today rather than colouring. Trying to explore angles and perspective because full on frontals are boring and not very production.
Quite a couple of pics so hide tags are necessary.
Le girl body:
Le girl sketch:
Woman running:
Shepherd-commander:
Dude standing:
James Vega!:
Woman shooting:
Woman shooting sketch:
Guy sitting:
Guy sitting sketch:
Not great but I'm learning. I don't really remember what the armors from Mass Effect look like but it was something like that. It goes a little iffy when it comes to sketching mainly because I'm thinking 'What the hell should I draw that's not Runescape?!'. I run out of imagination at that stage. Then I think to myself, 'let's draw Runescape stuff that is not Bandos armor' and that's a huge fail because just what is going on with the new armor? But now that I'm writing about it with my tablet packed away, I have tons of ideas hitting me in the face. Why Brain, why??? I guess I'll write down what I'm thinking of now and open up the list tomorrow.
Hint: Prepare for the sailing of the moons.
13th July
So kids, today we're experimenting with extreme angles!
The body:
The sketch:
The lineart:
The colour:
What is lamus maximus is that I forgot to colour his eyes, colours his eyebrows, do his other arm and his nails. I can't really get my tablet out now so I'll have to finish it off later (famous last words). I'm not really getting the hang of face shading buh-buh-buh-but practice will make perfect. I am sort of getting the hang of it. Hopefully I can draw the sailing of the moons tomorrow but I did just check out a pretty good book from the library.
Oh yeah... Circles are really hard to draw!
17th July
Super-duper humongous post! I feel like I'm finally making some progress. I know how to rid of black lines now and let me say, it makes quite a difference.
Hidetags because I have a bunch of images.
The body:
The sketch:
The lineart:
The colour:
To round this image dump up nicely.
The shading with lines visible:
The shading without lines visible:
Yeah she's supposed to be doing that bow-legged pose all teenage girls do when they cutely pose for a picture. I ended doing the lineart very thick by accident, I was zoomed in and didn't realise how it looked by the time I zoomed back out. That's what prompted me to remove it. It does make a nice difference and I think I'll be doing this in the future, eventhough I took out too much time of my life.
If anyone can tell, I've been practicing hands like I said I would. Only I don't have the evidence to back that up...
21st July
This... killed my hand. The scale of it got too big and I became too impatient to draw a background or surroundings. I also kept the time because I knew I worked on these for many hours but wasn't sure of the exact amount. This one took considerably longer due to having more than one character in it.
The Body
Yep, warrior, mage and ranger. I usually draw the warrior so I decided to branch out a little.
The Sketch
I moved the mager a bit to the right. They're all wearing the newer armours (which I'm still not used to!) This, along with the body pre-sketch took a total of 1 hour 30 mins. Blimey!! The mager is wearing ahrims, the ranger is wearing dragonhide and the warrior is wearing bandos.
The Lineart
This took... 2 hours and 10 mins. I forgot to take a screenshot pre-colouring of the lines so they aren't black.
The Colour
I didn't time the colouring and shading individually. I pretty much pulled the colours out of actual RuneScape images. It's best to use the originals. Doing the ranger's dragonhide was a bit tricky because this was my first time ever drawing that. The mage's clothes were just layers of clothes which was easy but a bit hard to represent from that angle.
The Shade
...8 hours 50 minutes to colour and shade! And then 1 hour to colour the black lineart. At the end I got sloppy because I wanted it to be over and done with. That's a total of 13 hours 30 minutes. I did not realise this was so time consuming.
The scales were rather hard to draw individually so I drew one line and copy-pasted it continuously. It's not perfect:
There's a wee bit of touching up to be done which will take another hour or two. If I link to the full sized image, you'd be able to zoom in at the edges where the colouring is not complete.
From afar it looks alright:
But zoomed in:
However that's a task for a rainy day.
I'm pleased with the outcome and instead of taking up big projects like this again, I'd much rather focus on improving problem areas. My hands are good now, the feet need a tiny bit of work and faces definitely need a lot of work.
Oh, one more thing. I was experimenting with easier ways to shade at some point. At certain sections of the image you can see areas where I've airbrushed instead of colouring, then using the water tool to merge colours. Airbrushing is certainly easier but it gave it the 'embossed' feel (see mager's staff).
I can finally take a break now.
25th July
Just did a quick cartoon piece today because ich bin tired.
I was actually going to draw him handing money to a buddy with a monster laying dead in the background but it was too much effort.
6th January 2013
There are no progression pictures for this piece seen as though it has been complete for a few days now. I've had a little sketchbook hanging around for a few years now and I've decided to finally use it.
I first drew this in pencil then traced over using a 0.1 fine drawing pen:
Bigger image here:
Quite obviously this is meant to depict two different lives. I used reference pictures for the birds I think, I've never draw one before. I didn't know what to fill the white space up with though but I'm sure I will one day revisit this and add more as inspiration comes.
10th January
Another pen drawing in my little book. This quite accurately shows how I feel when drawing sometimes, you have many thoughts in your head and are influenced by many things but you just can't draw it.
I would never have gotten those hands right had I not drawn with a pencil first. Looking at this now there are many things I wished to have done differently such as added more things in that thought bubble and fill up the white space more.
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! of course if was painfully disguised as being artistic, but the plain fact was they weren't there because she was afraid to draw them. 
