Hey guys, I like to draw. I actually don't do it that much but I have fun when I do do it and I'm pretty good at it too. Just last night I got super bored so I started to draw a picture of Kobe Bryant. He is my favorite Basketball player (you can probably tell by my Sig). I found a good picture on the internet that I liked. So I kept it on my moniter and just started to draw.
Here it is.
If anybody else here likes do draw. You can post a picture in this topic if you would like, but only put your best one. I don't want millions of pictures ending up in here.
And please, tell me what you think about my Kobe Bryant Picture.
Thats a good picture you drew, you have talent. Keep taking drawing classes. I didn't think I needed to but they help you grow so much as an artist and see things in ways you wouldn't before! Keep up the good work. [/img]
I took a lot of art classes in high school, practically every single one possible except painting. I was never fond of painting, like serious painting, just mixing colors. I took Drawing 1, 2, and 3, and let me tell you, you will get better and better.
Cool, I can't wait. Yeah, next year I'm taking Drawing 1. I will take all of those just like you said. Yeah, I don't like painting either. I suck at that, and just coloring too. lol. You should put a picture of one of your drawings in here.
Thats a good drawing. I know you said to put only one of your best, so sorry, I am going to post two. I use to have alot of drawings but I gave them away during the years. I just recently gotten back into drawing, so I am still alittle rusty.
Here is a picture of my wives friend that I am doing a potrait of. Still a work in progress.
And this one is the one picture that I decided to hold on to, and not give away. Its from 96.
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viperchick85 wrote:Very nice, faces are my favorite thing to draw.
Thank you viperchick.
They use to be extremly hard to draw for me until I learned the secret, or atleast drawing from a picture. Now, I have a very hard time drawing the body.
If it walks like socialist, quacks like socialist, smells like a socialist, .... it's a socialist. Hope, and change we can believe in.
^ Anytime. I've loved drawing faces ever since I was like 8. I've been drawing forever. I stopped doing it as much after I got out of school; I want to take it up again soon though.
Considering you're in 8th grade going on freshman year, that's pretty freakin' awesome dude. Work on not outlining and cleaning up your pencil marks. You will learn very fast that craftsmanship is half as important as the work itself. I don't really have good pictures of the drawings I've done, but I'll post one of the many dresses I've made in the series I did this year:
If you'd like to see the other nine, check out http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v158/hf_club/Melissa/AP/concentration/
I found a pic of a drawing I did in ink, but its not that good of a picture of it:
What you don't understand you can make mean anything.
Considering you're in 8th grade going on freshman year, that's pretty freakin' awesome dude. Work on not outlining and cleaning up your pencil marks.
It is great job. Here is a tip on how to blend your pencil lines. Take a piece of paper, and tear it long ways. Roll that strip as tight as you can get it, and tape it so it does not unroll on you. On the dark lines on your drawing, rub your roll of paper along the dark line. Either do it as think, or as thin as you like it. You will see that the once straight dark line now has blended in nicely with the rest of the drawing giving it shadows, and depth.
On my drawing if you look at the right eye, the curvature by the top of the nose was done using that technique. I scribbled a few dark lines, used my rolled up paper, rubbed , and blended the lines together.
If you don't feel like wrapping paper together, you can always go to an art store, and pick up, i beleive they are called drawing tortillas. Its basically the same thing.
If it walks like socialist, quacks like socialist, smells like a socialist, .... it's a socialist. Hope, and change we can believe in.
Wow!!! I never expected this to become a popular topic. I'm so glad. Thanks for all of the comments and advise guys. I agree with you yeti_cat, I do have way to many pencil marks. And I never thought about it but your right about the outlining. I shouldn't to it that much. And thanks RBull4life for the great advise on the pencil lines. I used to try and do something like that with the eraser but it wouln't really work.
And these drawings and art projects that you guys are showing are really fantastic. Good job.
They are definately not called drawing tortillas, haha, but they're kinda like that.
They are called blending sticks. I used 'em when I did alot of colored pencil work. I prefer to use my finger or an eraser to blend like that. If you do buy blending sticks be sure to get some sandpaper (they should have little blocks stocked right by the blending sticks). When the Blending stick gets too covered in pencil and starts to loose its point you can use the sandpaper to sharpen it and get the graphite or pencil off of it.
I'm a third generation artist, my grandmother teaches art, my mom does it, and I've just finished four years of art at my high school (which has an award winning art department).
If you have any art related questions, feel free to PM me.
What you don't understand you can make mean anything.
Keep up the good work. [/img]
