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About Me Member Dark Artist LordDonovanMale/United States Recent Activity Deviant for 2 Years
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27,013 Pageviews! WHOO!

Sun Jun 7, 2009, 5:03 AM
  • Mood: Neutral
  • Watching: Code Geass
  • Playing: Team Fortress 2
Assuming you've read the title first, before you accuse me of being OMG LOL SO RANDUM XD, I did choose that number ahead of time and not for the sake of randomness. Rather, I chose that particular number because I think, in general, people love zeros too much. Sure, they may be far cooler than Mega Man X ever was, or stand up against Brittania, but eventually they get redesigned into much less cool looking robot midgets or get you all killed in an elaborate plot twist.

For that reason that is only tangenially related to what I'm actually talking about, I make a point to not always chose numbers that are nice, neat, multiples of ten, or half or a quarter of the way to a number that is almost all zeros. I say no, 25,000, I reject you, and am standing up for my principles of being non-numerically biased! I'm choosing an odd, prime number! ...wait, it isn't prime, it's divisible by 7. I should have checked my math before writing this journal. Or at least before those last two sentences. There goes my Optimus Prime comparison, and that was going to such a good side-topic... probably. I never really think these things completely through before I type them anyway, not my style. I just come up with a general idea and go straight from beginning to end, be it 18-page college term papers or dA journals. Highly detailed complex plans, after all, are for Zeros.

See, that wasn't a bad ending there, with continuing the previous pun between the number and the Code Geass character. And I didn't even think of it until the last line, but it works... Sorta. Except that I do like and admire Zero's planning, I just don't care to plan stuff out like that myself. So I have to end journals with lines that are almost clever except I contradict myself, and in discussing my contradictions I have to contradict myself some more. Because I'm so deep like that! So full of conflicting trains of thought at all time! ...Seriously though, to some extent I am. Which is why if I intentionally write all stream of conscious style like this things tend to derail, a lot. And even this is all somewhat edited for consistency anyway. You have no idea what I first typed, just what I kept! Ah the glorious lie of sanitized text. And besides, if you did see what I first typed, you'd have trouble reading it because I tend to make so many typos.

Well, it seems I'm getting into wall o' text mode again, which I find somewhat funny. Initially I wondered what I'd go on to say in this pageview number celebration extravaganza, and here I've made it more than long enough. The main point is, thanks for the views, everybody. Now I just need to know exactly how they work. What exactly counts, or doesn't count, as a pageview anyway?

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  • Current Residence: A small town I want to get out of
  • Interests: Anime art, Games, Getting an anime-friendly game art job, Anime, Darkness
  • Favourite band or musician: Not sure about my absolute favorite, but that Michiru Yamane does good work.
  • Favourite genre of music: Game and Anime Sountracks
  • Favourite artist: Takehito Harada, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Tetsuya Nomura
  • Favourite poet or writer: Offhand, C.S. Lewis for his book "Till We Have Faces." It's good!
  • Favourite style of art: Anime is the culmination of all art, but the Baroque period is a close second.
  • MP3 player of choice: Winamp
  • Wallpaper of choice: Whatever is the most recent picture that adequately impressed me
  • Favourite game: So hard to choose...
  • Favourite gaming platform: Nintendo DS
  • Favourite cartoon character: I can't decide!
  • Personal Quote: I really need to find something that sounds deep but is vague too. That's quote gold!
  • Tools of the Trade: Pencil, Paper, and my Trusty Wacom. My Brushes are sad and neglected these days...

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Hi again, LordDonovan, tahnks for the reply on my portraite pic.
I have taken in what yo said and have decided to do some more work on basic shapes before doing any more work from photos and stuff so I get the basic elements down before I try again. My DA freind, ~Amosa, suggested I do some study of the human skull to see how everything on the face fits together, it's worth a try I gues. Eyes are hard to draw so I think I will attempy to get them down as well before attempting any more photo based work and plus I'm gonna have to draw eyes whatever I do so learning no is really the best thing I can do right. I'm gonna upload all the exercise work I'm doing on Heads for you to see and I will leave the construction lines as you said so if there's anything a bit off you can tell me where I'm going wrong, if you want that is.

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Pteter
Sounds good. But you have found a tutorial or book or something on basic shapes, right? I haven't explained the concept in depth, so you really should get more information on that drawing method before diving right in. Starting with a good understanding will help you progress faster.
I found a few things but they aren't what I'd call the ideal tutorials but they will have to do. I have books that incorporate the practice of anatomy into them but unfortunately they are about comic books or manga.
I've sent you some exercises I did this morning and there will be more to come that follow on from what I sent you ok.

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Pteter
There's nothing wrong with using manga as reference to practice your skills in drawing that style. Just make sure to practice drawing from real life at least occasionally. And ideally work on drawing things other than characters too, like objects or backgrounds. You don't want to end up good at characters and absolutely nothing else.
Yea I should probably do some more real life stuff to test myself as an artist you know. Backgrounds are hard for me but I do draw them as I realise they are a neccessary skill to being able work in this industry. What kind of backgrounds are best tostudy first? I mean like nature or buildings and stuff.

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Pteter
I'd recommend starting with practicing your perspective skills. Though they most obviously apply to drawing square buildings and such, perspective comes in handy for any type of scene. And conversely, lack of perspective skills can mess up most any type of scene. So, unless you're already awesome with perspective, focus on things that show off perspective well, like the geometric shapes of buildings.
What about rocks and trees? I see them every day obviously but have no idea on how to go about drawing them cus, well, there's just so many leaves and bark markings. Should I just try simplyfying it or something? I've got into drawing drapery which is quite fun, I usually draw things like my jumper when I'm looking at it on me in the mirror and the folds on my douvet and stuff like that, what do you think? Is it the right way to go about drawing still life? I do draw things like cups and vases as well but nothing over complicated, I really just draw them to get the shading technique down you know.
One thing that has been nagging me for a while now has been how to preform advanced shading techniques of photoshop elements, is it just using loads of slightly daker colours in succession in a small space or what? I did just that thing on my latest Mew picture, which is now on my gallery. Can you check it out and tell me what you think of the shading please cus I'm not overly confident about it.

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Pteter
I commented on you Mew pic. Don't take it the wrong way, but you need a lot of practice and not just with using Photoshop, but overall shading, regardless of being digital or whatever, and basic drawing too. So on that note, practicing rocks and trees is definitely not a bad idea. There's really no bad practice. It's just, people typically tackle perspective early on because even if you can draw rocks and trees right, messing up the perspective ruins the picture overall, and it's wasted effort. Plus, not every picture has rocks and trees, but perspective pretty much always comes into play.

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