Polycount's Sketch Thread!
polycounter lvl 14
We'll start by just drawing a piece everyday, and it can be digital or traditional. Then we'll start to work in some sweet themes to challenge ourselfs! ex. robots, chicks etc.
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Haven't done one of these for a while. This is WIP.
working on homework
Here's something recent. Channeled my inner 90s kid and came up with this.
Started up a small forum and we're having a fun design challenge making up a dark medieval world.
:P
TWERK TEAM ..."booty that devastates" lolz
initial sketch
Another knight
super early sketch of a new painting
heres a recent sketch; goblin baker
here's a study from this evening
Undead/tormented villager
Another on, found the smudge tool works best for making up rocks.
And another 80s poster, because..why not?
DAYUM!
This is how drawing is suppose to be, the lines they blend so perfectly.
:poly136::thumbup: love it
These 80's posters are pretty cool too
Moar
Ok today's challenge, try and put my skills to good use and make an actual story illustration instead of this uninspired bullshit.
Anywho, here's a 20 min sketch to inaugurate my return. Good to be back fellas.
(edit) @wasker-- I see someone bought the D3 special edition >_> Also you're killin it with those pencil studies.
@Muzz -- what so you're just awesome at faces now? I don't believe it เฒ _เฒ
@Allan-p -- you're killin it with those environment color studies. That flat style with just enough texture on top to still read but keep it reeeeaal interesting...
Dammit I've missed you guys.
I've been on a drawing binge and something just clicked in my mind.
Nice study man, You should use larger brushes for the flat blocks of colour, Don't be scared of soft brushes either, just as long as you straight away cut the hard shapes back into it.
I drew my dog...again :P
Great job on this.
And in process, sort of:
When I was in my painting classes there were three important things you need to learn about colour and to consider when laying things down. Value (How bright/dark) Saturation/Chroma (How intense the colour is) and Hue (What colour it is).
It is always dependent on the stylistic choice of course and rules are made to be broken after you understand them to generate interesting things, but you need the foundation to do that. Regardless..
In painting they always stressed colour modulation, that is to alter the colour you are laying down, as the same colour everywhere can flatten an image (This also makes the image interesting and more vibrant if you tweak the hue slightly every now and then within reason (you'll know through practice). Some basics I picked and or hot licks are the following.
When things fall back into perspective they go towards the background colour (usually works well in environments)
As well, colour tends to lose its chroma as it falls back in space, so most of the objects towards the foreground are saturated (you can manipulate this to create focal points of course)
Objects towards the camera have the darkest dark.
I love temperature in colour, if my object is has cool colours I use warm shadows and vice versa.
I also rarely work with a white background, throw down some really low saturated colours and see how it makes your colour pop or blend.
Here's a small paint over I did of your piece, mind you this is just my aesthetic and in no way am I trying to hint the direction the piece should go.
It showcases a few of those "rules" while I indeed have broken some.
I'll have to try out some of those on my next piece. I never had time to take an actual painting course in school so I'm trying to practice the basics from the "color and design" course I did take. I was attempting to emulate the style of purple keckleon to some degree. Her use of color is just crazy, but she did provide some tips for newbies.
I totally should've done the disheveled fur thing as that really adds to the tired mood. And I really should've remembered the saturation reduction too. I gotta get used to putting the things in my head into practice.
This is a tutorial I read a long long time ago when I was first got into digital art. It helps me even now.
http://androidarts.com/art_tut.htm
It`s a dragon.
That`s my story and I`m sticking to it.
Here is what I got today :