First of all, let me preface this that I'm twenty one years old and haven't ever, until last week, picked up a pencil and used it to draw anything beyond bored-in-school doodles. I know I'm not good and I don't know if I will be in the near or even distant future. No need to remind me of that. But I think the things I decide to reveal here are at least passable, which I think is an accomplishment given that I've been at this about a week now. Some might have seen some of the first things I've ever really drawn in my other thread about the Trek project I'm a part of. For example: http://mythicisle.com/Images/adelefull.jpg or http://mythicisle.com/Images/preggo.jpg and http://mythicisle.com/Images/castfull.jpg But as I did those pics and a few others, I decided to try and do more. Mostly from other shows/movies/music videos/etc. http://mythicisle.com/Images/josh/starfire.jpg http://mythicisle.com/Images/josh/hellboy.jpg http://mythicisle.com/Images/josh/goth.jpg
Day 9 into drawing, I've used some cash from mah burfday to increase my resources. I'm pretty sure this is much better than the above very clumsy attempts.
Still practicing, I'm trying to work on anatomy and different poses. Yeah, this picture does contain yet another Avalon inspired moment, but I'll preface it with a little warning that it does contain an emaciated twelve year old girl beaten up and bleeding from her arms. But dammit, I NAILED that bottom hand. http://mythicisle.com/Images/tentacles.jpg
You do pretty well with perspective and proportion. That's something that took me years to get good at, and you've only really been at it for a week. That's pretty good stuff, you just have to work on how smooth the art is. Granted, scanning things tends to make them much less smooth, especially when drawn with pencil.
I know I shoulda responded sooner, Nocturne, but I couldn't think of anything to say. But thanks for the comments! And to be honest, I'm in constant fear my perspective and portion is just a streak of beginner's luck and I'll soon spiral into a downward pitfall of awful mediocrity from which I'll never recover. But aside from that, today I did this.
Man, I hate drawing people. All I have to go on is what a friend of mine taught me on anime perspectives, and so I always end up with weird looking faces. Anything unrealistic or machinery, however, I'm pretty boss at.
Y'know, I kinda think I have the opposite problem. I know I really can't draw people all that great, but all my attempts to place them in even rudimentary backgrounds or just a simple sketch of a fanciful space ship usually turns out pretty damn bad, even compared to the stuff I'm willing to show the internet. In fact, the only thing I'm remotely proud of doing that's not a person/character is this: (compare it to the 3D renders done by a friend of mine in the "How I would do Trek" thread) And it's still pretty gross.
