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November 20th, 2006 |
All drawings up until now were done with cheap BiC mechanicals, 0.7mm. This drawing was done with Mars Lumograph, HB. It's a bit of a relief to be using real pencils again. This picture scanned in lighter than the previous ones, but I'm not going to touch the scanner settings. I'll learn to use a heavier pencil for the final pass next time.
Hands still annoy me to no end. I'm not quite confident on this pose... it looks like he's about to sit on his haunches or something.
I really don't like side view conceptual drawings as much as angled action scenes, but at least these show off more detail. |
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November 21st, 2006 |
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You're awful good at these dragons things. This Solar and the other Vidken [url] look very much different than the two that were flying [url] . It's like you took my advice! Except I hadn't said it before you drew this one.
A couple things come to mind when I'm looking at this, which may or may not be in any way related to it.
First, a couple of our art professors don't believe that the mechanical pencil has a place in our art set. A couple others say (quietly and behind closed doors) that it's a tool like any other and has a place. Just don't misuse it. The reason it's a doomed tools is becaused it's cursed. When you're making art, it's all about the type of mark you make. If you have a real pencil you can draw with the side of it, or the front of it, or you can sharpen it and get a really fine mark -- but with a mechanical pencil you can only squeeze one kind of mark out of it. It was made to write text with, not to draw with. So take that advice as you will, but since you're planning on going to DigiPen, don't use a mechanical pencil on your summer assignment. They don't like them.
To make the figure stand out against the background, especially since there's a lot of overlap of the figure elements, you can crosshatch the negative space. It would look more like this: [url] I think the reason this feels like an issue is that there's low contrast between the background and the lines. By making the background darker it makes the figure stand out because it's not just the lines defining it, it's a value contrast. |
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