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altuixde's learning to draw thread
Amazing_Grace:
--- Quote from: altuixde on March 19, 2015, 04:46:30 pm ---I agree that her face looks a little off. When I compare my drawing to frames from the anime, it's apparent that I actually drew her eyes too big, or at least bigger than what the anime viewers are used to seeing. However, if I change her face, I think that I'm much more likely to redraw it worse than it is now than to redraw it with improvement, so I think I'll leave her face the way it is. I'll keep your suggestions in mind for future reference, though!
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Oh, I can totally agree with that. I re-draw stuff all the time that comes out way worse than it was. You just can't win sometimes. XD
I still commend your anatomy, though. It's so perfect.
altuixde:
It's been a while since I've drawn anything so I figured I should try something easy. I decided to copy this image:
I was a little hesitant to do this, though, because there's no way my copy would look as good as the original (since the original is so good). However, if you're going to learn from an example, you might as well choose a good example. I tried to reverse engineer this drawing, starting with the basic body construction. Here's the drawing in various stages of completion:
No tools other than paper, pencil and eraser were used this time.
Finally, I'll also reveal that the mystery girl from before is... Defoko.
Edit: I modified her arm slightly in the last image.
Amazing_Grace:
That's very well-done! Even if you did have to copy something, it actually looks very close to the original.
When I first glanced at it, I thought the arms looked particularly skinny...but looking at the original image, they were small there as well, which means you did it right. Nice job!
altuixde:
Thanks, Grace! But now that you mention it, I can see that the arm she's holding the sword with is noticeably skinnier than in the original. I think I'll try to fix that. Once I'm done making changes to this one I'm gonna try to draw something original. Hopefully I'll get an idea for something to draw soon. I actually started a drawing of Ritsuko before this Youmu copy but I abandoned it because I have difficulty figuring out on my own where the folds in clothing go. Maybe I'll get back to work on that.
In other news, I've been thinking of getting a Wacom tablet but I'm kinda on the fence about it. Art that's finished digitally looks more professional, in my opinion, but I'm not sure if I could get used to drawing on the tablet but looking at my monitor (instead of the tablet) to see the results. Learning to do this sounds like an interesting challenge, though. Also, I've looked at the profile pages of my favorite artists on Pixiv and, of the ones that mention what software they use, they almost all use SAI... which isn't available for Mac. Any Mac users out there know of software for Mac that makes a drawing tablet enjoyable to use?
animagic4u:
I think your drawing came out excellent! Good work!
Have you tried using SAI with Wine? I'm also primarily a mac user, but when I drew I used a Windows machine with SAI.. :<
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