[GALLERY] a la bapsi

[Futzy]

Is it your brother and his marijuana seedling? idgi
e:

Pooloogooloo: that is aloe
Pooloogooloo: i have a tiny aloe plant on my desk
The™: why
Pooloogooloo: y not
The™: who the fuck is that behind u
The™: all sweaty
Pooloogooloo: that is my dog
The™: Oh

[bapsi]

pretty much

[ExAm]

Did you do that in paint?

edit: Stupid question, of course you did it in paint.

[bapsi]

i'm beginning to like paint. *__*

some photoshop from this week.

i feel like sketching and painting are on two different parts of my brain.
trying to get them to work together in one process.

[ExAm]

I wish I could sketch people properly. My process needs some major revision and a whopping injection of actual art classes. When I sketch, I will obsess over every line as if I'm inking already, resulting in poor forms until I spend an hour fixing it. It's a curse ):

[bapsi]

yeah. being shy with your lines can be bad when doing figure drawings.
something as quick as a sweeping gestural line can do wonders to the flow and believability of your figures.

a good example I can show you is by one of my concept artist idols, Robogabo.



There are loads of ways to express form in a drawing, but I think one very effective way is to hatch across the form like Bjorn Hurri shows here.

Another useful way to go about it is to use lighting. Drop shadows can do a good job of showing depth if used right too.

[Rob Oplawar]

Damn, I wish I could do that. Years of mechanical drafting classes taught me to draw very precise, straight lines. I've been trying some figure drawing, but it's really hard to unlearn my desire to be exact. It's ironic how trying to be exact tends to make things look worse, not better.

[bapsi]

i went to the tank museum a few days ago for a class. :V
i have a fuckload more pics that i can share somewhere if y'all are interested

[rossmum]

i am

[bapsi]

i am

give me an e-mail and i'll send 25MB of throbbing tank love your way.