First drawings added
by m64 on Jan.22, 2009, under Drawing for the Programmers
I’ve scanned some drawings that I’ve managed to do so far. There are two “benchmark” drawings that I’ve made a little more then a month ago that document my drawing abilities at the begining of my learning process. Please don’t laugh to much. Then there are three drawings I’ve made more recently. The drawings can be viewed at “drawings” page also accessible from the links at the top of the page. All drawings have been made in pencil and scanned – no further retouch besides tweaking the scanner parameters, so I’m sorry about the poor quality, especially of the benchmark pictures.
I would like to express my gratitude towards everyone who has visited this blog so far. Frankly I was expecting that I will be posting into a void for a few months before the blog catches on. I have been surprised and honored to see so many FGD regulars commenting on my first articles. Thank you, you are keeping me very motivated.
January 22nd, 2009 on 12:57 am
hey, made quite some progress there i see =)
i’m a noob at drawing but meddled a bit with it too an eternity ago. hands are damn hard. one thing you might want to try :
if the thumb is on the left, its base influences the largest entire left half of the inner hand, making it unsymetrical. you can see it best when holding your hand naturally, and not stretching or holding something. Your thumb looks a bit like it’s just attached to the rest of the hand, maybe try starting the hand with the thumb part and adding the rest.
January 22nd, 2009 on 1:15 am
I would recommend when it comes to shading not to take the shortcut of smearing the graphite to create depth but rather to render it by layering very light pencil strokes.
January 22nd, 2009 on 7:58 am
Thanks for the tips. I have not really started working on my shadows yet, so they do look quite poor.
January 25th, 2009 on 5:44 pm
I once trained to draw realistically. I should upload them some time.
Lately, I scribble non-realistic stuff
January 28th, 2009 on 1:53 am
Good work! Thank you!
I always wanted to write in my site something like that. Can I take part of your post to my blog?
Of course, I will add backlink?
Sincerely, Reader
January 28th, 2009 on 10:06 am
Certainly. Generally everything I post at this blog should be considered to be covered by Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike license. I just have to put up a proper copyright info.