Comments | ballooned: Art! EDIT: Meme, too.

ballooned

Art! EDIT: Meme, too.

Nov 29, 2009 22:49

【 THE TIME CAPSULE MEME】

I don't try to spam you dudes with my art stuffs, but. Uh. I attempted realism on my tegaki e today, and I feel the need to share. It's worksafe, brohahs. Nothing to fear, except for my general lack of intelligence.

( This is why Clare's a nerd. )

matthew morrison has his own goddamn tag, what are you doing, get the fuck out of here clare, what, wut, wat, men over 30

Comments 4

childings November 30 2009, 05:40:02 UTC

I think it looks pretty good. I can't do realism very well because I always focus too hard on one aspect of the face and miss the overall gestalt of it. The only thing that bothers me about it (besides the fact that a bunch of black stuff is covering the top of his head) is that the linework is really fuzzy; there's no strength to your lines, but maybe that's a stylistic choice. Also, I feel like from that angle that the right side of his nose (his right) should be defined a little more. Overall it looks good to me!

ballooned November 30 2009, 05:50:05 UTC

I guess I was trying too hard to be ~*ArTiStIc*~ with the background that I totally half-assed, ahaha. I guess I always have really sketchy lines, too, even in my work just drawing on paper. I should probably work on that, but having clean lines in Tegaki will like, eat all of my time. And my soul. ;_;

The picture I based this off of has really awesome lighting, it kind of had this artistic quality to it already.

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childings November 30 2009, 06:16:18 UTC

Hrm, well it doesn't look too much like the reference pic, but still pretty good. One tip I do have is to work in layers if you can do that, since this looks like it was done digitally (though I don't know what program you used). Painter and Photoshop and most other similar programs have layers, so you can sketch out your drawing on one layer, then put a new one on top of it and refine your lines. A lot of it has to do with confidence, though. It's a lot easier to know for sure where you want your lines after you've sketched it out first. Sorry if that doesn't make sense orz

ballooned December 1 2009, 03:47:35 UTC

No, it makes sense. This was drawn with Tegaki E, an online Oekaki-esque website, which has no layers whatsoever. It's kind of a pain in the ass, hah. Currently I don't have Photoshop, since we wiped the hard drive I've needed the key adn I don't have it anymore. :C