I really love the one of Harry after the defeat of Voldemort, in pose #1. I especially love the way you drew his eyes, nose, and mouth. It doesn't hurt that it closely matches the image I have of Harry in my head. ;)
Looking at it again this morning, it looks very, very rough to me. Last night I really liked the way I rendered it because it got all of the emotions down. And I'm glad this Harry matches the one you have in your head, I think we think alike :D When Dan Radcliffe was selected to play Harry, I saw a picture of him and immediately was astounded by the choice. He looked *exactly* like Harry to me, even though I had never read the books. The books were such a major cultural phenomenon that I acquired a "picture" of Harry in my head without ever reading more than a little bit of the books.
your sketches are nice! i've actually had a wacom tablet for years but i've never properly experimented with it >__< but then again i'm not very experienced with working digitally in any way and i'm not that good a drawer in real life either. but i should totally experiment some with it and get some practice! i'm trying to sketch more regularly in real life too, because i haven't done that for years (being the idiot i am! because regular practice totally helps your drawing skills a lot!).
Wow, you have a Wacom tablet that you haven't experimented with? Go play with it! It is really very awesome. Well, I have never played with a Wacom tablet, so I have no idea whether it is awesome, but I'm pretty sure it is, given that it is the instrument of choice for professional graphic designers, cartoonists, artists, etc.
Sketching and drawing is just a lot of skill and practice. I don't believe it takes a lot of talent to draw something by looking at it. So in that sense, anyone can become a well-developed, technically good artist through practice. So sketch away! I'd love to see some of your work!
Well I doubt my Wacom tablet is one of the really fancy ones, 'cause it's pretty small and quite old now. I think it's from the Graphire series? But I have no clue what that means basically :P
Yeah, when I had arts & crafts lessons at school (I guess like the Norwegian equivalent of high school), I had to sketch regularly and I was quite surprised how fast my drawings improved just from sketching a little every day, but once I didn't have to do it anymore, I kind of lost the habit *facepalm* You can see some of my drawings on my DeviantART page, but as you can tell my style is pretty simple (; It's at miakoda.deviantart.com.
There's something about the freedom of finding a line,
Ahhh...that captures it perfectly! I never really finalize sketches. Sketches is just for exercising the wrist, the freedom of finding a line...it's just a good exercise in itself, and it doesn't have to be completed.
I'm so glad you like the sketches! Expect me to post a TON of them in the future. Because I generally make a ton of sketches :D
I'm planning on doing some myself, but just on paper, to find the hand/pencil/paper feel (tablets are SO VERY close, but not the same)(not better or worse, just different), and since I'm am scanner-less atm, there won't be posting, LOL.
I suppose I'll do some digital ones too, in the end. Posting is p[art of the fun :D
I'm working on a painting right now in Corel Painter, and it's,...very interesting! It's an interesting experience, and it closely resembles actually working on an oil painting except without the mess and without worrying about where your hands are, what clothes you are wearing, etc., or worrying about getting the carpet stained...and no smell! BUT...the brushes do not quite work the way I want them to sometimes, and I can't figure out how to simulate 'cleaning' the brush, i.e. dipping it in water, although they do have "watery brush" options
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Hahahaaa, I don't think I can be compared with Leonardo da Vinci, but then again, I really enjoy looking at da Vinci's studies and cartoons. The cartoon (it's not really a cartoon in the modern sense...it looks like a very well-defined sketch to me) of Madonna and Child is hanging at the London National Gallery when I went, and I spent a glorious long half hour just staring at it. It is so beautiful, so voluminous, and the sketch lines so bold and grand. Nah, I can't compare :D
Thanks! I'll be posting tons more sketches in the future since I sketch a lot, now that I have a tablet. Before, I would sketch on paper, and that has always made me feel bad because I feel like I'm wasting good sketching paper on partially-developed forms. But since digital papers are "free" (well, they can cost a lot in terms of harddrive space), then I feel better about sketching a lot :D
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Sketching and drawing is just a lot of skill and practice. I don't believe it takes a lot of talent to draw something by looking at it. So in that sense, anyone can become a well-developed, technically good artist through practice. So sketch away! I'd love to see some of your work!
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Yeah, when I had arts & crafts lessons at school (I guess like the Norwegian equivalent of high school), I had to sketch regularly and I was quite surprised how fast my drawings improved just from sketching a little every day, but once I didn't have to do it anymore, I kind of lost the habit *facepalm*
You can see some of my drawings on my DeviantART page, but as you can tell my style is pretty simple (; It's at miakoda.deviantart.com.
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There's something about the freedom of finding a line, the one you were looking for, that's unique :)
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There's something about the freedom of finding a line,
Ahhh...that captures it perfectly! I never really finalize sketches. Sketches is just for exercising the wrist, the freedom of finding a line...it's just a good exercise in itself, and it doesn't have to be completed.
I'm so glad you like the sketches! Expect me to post a TON of them in the future. Because I generally make a ton of sketches :D
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I suppose I'll do some digital ones too, in the end. Posting is p[art of the fun :D
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