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I did a sketch at work earlier, but I did Alps' cheekruff a little different to show that his winter coat is in, he's wearing a jacket, leaves are blowing about, it's beginning to get a little chilly! I share just because it's a pretty good example of what my practice-sketches look like.
Category Artwork (Traditional) / General Furry Art
Species Wolf
Size 812 x 606px
File Size 336.3 kB
Well, I mean that I have work even more rough than "sketch" called "hashing" that doesn't look this good, so there is still a "planing" stage that this does not represent. Your work looks not at all dissimilar to what mine looked like a few years ago. Obviously practice helps, but I have not looked at much in the way of your planning stage, however.
A tip I might give is that you do the art in three stages.. Planing, where it's all just circles and lines, guides to get the image aligned the way you want it, the next is the sketch stage (in this picture you can still see a few of my planning lines. I leave them intentionally on this kind of work, as other artists leaving these lines helped me a great deal. Look for that stuff when you are browsing!), and after you are done with the sketch stage (which you may or may not do shading) you can do inking for the finish, or inking and shading, or even inking and coloring.
The way you draw makes me think you are essentially doing it free-hand.. not using any guide-lines, polygons, etc to start with. This is impressive, but may stunt or slow your growth. It's what I did when I started drawing. My ability (and the fun I was having) accelerated quite a bit when I started using the guide stage before the sketch stage.
Don't be afraid to post some of the sketching and your planning work in your scraps. It's actually a pretty good way to go back and see where you have improved, and look at other things you might want to change, or try again. If you look way, way back in my scraps gallery, you will see how my earlier work (even just three year ago) looked.
Also, as you are learning positioning and foreshortening, do not be afraid to try a little rotoscoping (drawing your image on top of another image). This is not the same as tracing, as you are only "tracing" the position. The art is still your own, and it will help you learn how to draw the positions themselves, especially if you begin to make your planning stage by rotoscoping, and then do your sketch without the image underneath.
You might also benefit by picking up a couple of art books. Manga tutorial books are a good start, I would suggest books by Christopher Hart. He's got some that even deal with furry specifically. :3 I'm gonna watch ya. Feel free to note me on something you post if you want an opinion. I will happily try to help when time allows. ^^
A tip I might give is that you do the art in three stages.. Planing, where it's all just circles and lines, guides to get the image aligned the way you want it, the next is the sketch stage (in this picture you can still see a few of my planning lines. I leave them intentionally on this kind of work, as other artists leaving these lines helped me a great deal. Look for that stuff when you are browsing!), and after you are done with the sketch stage (which you may or may not do shading) you can do inking for the finish, or inking and shading, or even inking and coloring.
The way you draw makes me think you are essentially doing it free-hand.. not using any guide-lines, polygons, etc to start with. This is impressive, but may stunt or slow your growth. It's what I did when I started drawing. My ability (and the fun I was having) accelerated quite a bit when I started using the guide stage before the sketch stage.
Don't be afraid to post some of the sketching and your planning work in your scraps. It's actually a pretty good way to go back and see where you have improved, and look at other things you might want to change, or try again. If you look way, way back in my scraps gallery, you will see how my earlier work (even just three year ago) looked.
Also, as you are learning positioning and foreshortening, do not be afraid to try a little rotoscoping (drawing your image on top of another image). This is not the same as tracing, as you are only "tracing" the position. The art is still your own, and it will help you learn how to draw the positions themselves, especially if you begin to make your planning stage by rotoscoping, and then do your sketch without the image underneath.
You might also benefit by picking up a couple of art books. Manga tutorial books are a good start, I would suggest books by Christopher Hart. He's got some that even deal with furry specifically. :3 I'm gonna watch ya. Feel free to note me on something you post if you want an opinion. I will happily try to help when time allows. ^^
wow.
thank you very much Sarsis, your information looks like it will help me, and i cant wait to draw s'more! ^.,^
i feel lucky to have you watch me, and i shall do the same. perhaps i can come to you when i have some artsy questions that need answering~ thanks again for the help! i really appreciate it!!
thank you very much Sarsis, your information looks like it will help me, and i cant wait to draw s'more! ^.,^
i feel lucky to have you watch me, and i shall do the same. perhaps i can come to you when i have some artsy questions that need answering~ thanks again for the help! i really appreciate it!!
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