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03-11-2005, 06:49 PM
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 | see, being happy with it, thats how you judge your own artwork. If you like it then others will also, even if your hailed as the best artist in the world, theres still gonna be people who dont like your work and people who want to tear you down. I was Self tought, no teachers anywhere and i learnt by copying from the likes of Jim Lee, eventually you begin to make up your own poses and if you try hard enough your own style emerges. Mike Mignola mostly works for DarkHoarse comics and draws/rites his own comic called HellBoy. At first glance i didnt like his work, but when you read it as well as look at it it takes on a cinimatic feel. Okay, first lesson (thwak goes the cain lol), it's impossible to copy someone elses style. You can try to draw the picture like they did, but your not them, so you carnt build the same skeleton that thier piccy was built on, you canrt erase the same details that they did that they werent happy with, little traits that are a part of their subconsouis you carnt do naturtally because your doing it form your head and not theirs. So no matter what you copy, it's still YOUR work thats developing, just like taking a knife to a peice of wood and whittling. You begin to whittle, making the same shape as them, and every so often you find things that are easier to draw a differnt way or you prefer the look of, thats a little bit of wood you trimmmed off untill eventually your drawing the whole picture in your own style. I didnt know what my style was going to be untill i got it, you only get a faint very faint clue from what things you enjoy drawing. (spawn sketchs), no, i only started with issue one and stopped at issue 81, if you go back to issue one onwards or the venom saga of spiderman turner draws Spidys face very very long and it doesnt look right, but it did to alot of people, thats why you carnt get art wrong, because it's all personal tastes, you can only get what you wanted to achive wrong. Thre you go, i hate seeing bones, for one thing i hate women so skinny you can see their bones, it's unatractive and i know from teaching and fighting women that skinny girls get tired faster, they dont have as much stamina or speed or grip etc. BUT you like seeing bones, so how could i tell you you were wrong, i couldnt and no one else could. I draw tons of detail when i think it's needed, but i became a master of only useing detail that WAS needed, loads of people love my style (across the net) because i do things sexy and slightly gothic, but that didnt stop two dorks with an agenda telling me im not that good because i dont put enough detail in...i knew they were wrong because i was already in my own style, but thats what will happen i too was once in fear of inking, it's a dangerous and scary tool, but once you tame it the world opens up to you and you never loose your ability with a pencil. It's an important move if you want to draw for anything similar to comic books and the fact your understanding shading early one will make it easier. Start by drawing a quick sketch, a simple picture, copy it if it's easier with not much shading, then take a everyday fineliner to it, try finding a very cheap, fibretip black pen, the smallest nib you can get (like an 0.4-0.6 is quite common) and just take the pen to it, drawing over all your lines, even shading in with it so you get blocks of deep black. It wont look like the blacks do on comics, you need to photocopy to get the blacks that smooth. Once youve inked leave the image for a quater hour and then come back to it with a rubber, the ink should be nice and dry and simply rub out all your sketch linesand you will have a clear crisp image. As long as you let your inks dry before you do any rubbing out you can erase all your pencil mistakes (just make sure you didnt ink them) |
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03-12-2005, 10:54 AM
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 | Allow me to correct myself: I was mimicking someone elses style. I was not drawing the way I normally would. I was simply trying to mimic an already existing picture. *faints* Ooooh. T_T Now I have to give this a try. By the way, do you have an online gallery? |
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03-12-2005, 10:14 PM
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| | Mimiking, copying is just as important because it makes your hands draw shapes your mind may not be ready to make them do, so by getting used to drawing them it teaches your motorfunctions how to control yourself doing what ever your doing. well many people are scared of inking because they think it means brush's, but i only use a brush and pot of ink for doing mass black, alternativly, you can leave all the blacks white and then scan your image and put the blacks on digitally. Actually im in the middle of creating a website, it's mostly done but i have to change some details now that i have had a creative idea, if you want to email me i will share some of my work with you. as well as loads of artist sites you may not know of |
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03-13-2005, 11:20 AM
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