offtopic Gallery Thread

[Con]

Looking great, Tweek!

[Leiukemia]

Good stuff Tweek

[fatso784]

This is something I did for an art show in the summer, copied from a screenshot on Bungie.net and redone in pencil. My scanner sucks, this was the best quality I could make it without cropping the original.

[Tweek]

that's really cool!
i'm curious, did you learn anything from it?
did it somehow help you draw better?

i really need to improve on my drawing.
amybe something like this is decent practice.

[fatso784]

Thanks, I learned a lot from it. I learned:

1. Proportions are everything when you lay out the drawing (in my last chief pic his head was waaay too big).

2. Drawing from real life, or in this case from a picture, can improve you as an artist and help develop your style. Copying from other's artwork, however good, can't because it forces you to use that artist's particular style.

3. Some places aren't meant to be filled in. (His visor)

4. ALWAYS use a good combo of dark and light in your shading to make the picture stand out. Never just sketch an image with no shading and call it done.

[DaneO'Roo]

Nice one, though the proportions are a bit out on the helmet


*edit* beat me :P


How long did it take you? An hour, 2?

[fatso784]

3 weeks of art classes, 2 hours each day, so...if I got my math right... that's 6 hours. Not too bad. The first 2 hours were all outlining, and then the other 4 was all shading.

EDIT: Wow I'm the 666 post. Bad luck.

[Roostervier]

Actually, you are post 667, DANO is 666.

Anyway, looks nice, but some parts on the helmet are out of proportion, as previously stated. The right hand looks a little weird too, but it is still nice.

[Agamemnon]

This is something I did for an art show in the summer, copied from a screenshot on Bungie.net and redone in pencil. My scanner sucks, this was the best quality I could make it without cropping the original.

Aside from the head (which you've pointed out), what's with the shading at the end of his weapon? Looks almost like a cross section of an oak. Other then that, it looks great. Shading in other areas is pretty well done(at least where you put the effort into it).

[fatso784]

The shading on the assault rifle in the actual drawing is not as pronounced as it is on here. My scanner, for some reason, made the lower half of the chief a higher contrast than the upper part.

Also, I recognize the lower left of the helmet is off. The head size is perfect in proportion to the real human body, but I forgot this isn't a normal human head, its a guy with a hugeass helmet on.