Hi folks! Let me share a project I've been working on all of last year: Tapacron is an epic pixel art chronicle where everyone can participate. The project is ad-free and non-commercial, purely for art. The goal is to create a pixel art chronicle over decades, capturing popular events, persons and memes. How it works: 🔹…
I used to ride the train to work and my goal was to draw on the train everyday. After doing that a while I realized I wasn't getting much better and was just drawing similarly weird creatures. I decided to download some Sargent drawings to my phone and try and copy how he drew. It helped me a ton. I was no longer just…
Being once ok at drawing at school I neglected my skills when things like work, a job and adult life got in the way so I decided a few months back to try and sharpen my skills again as drawing skills often complement 3d skills. Basically I was wondering what people's opinions are on drawing from books or images on the…
Yes indeed, Plein Air painting/drawing: "Leaving the four walls of your studio behind and experiencing painting and drawing in the landscape. The practice goes back for centuries but was truly made into an art form by the French Impressionists." or Figurative Life Drawing: "Drawing of the human form in any of its various…
I can draw but when I do 3d I don't feel like I'm drawing at all. The skills of being able to draw hardly transfer as much as people say, I don't run into the same issues as when I draw. What transfers is your attention to detail. Other than that drawing just made movements on a tablet to sculpt much easier. With that said…
I'm not sure that's true. One material with 2 textures is 1 draw call. Two materials with 1 texture each is 2 draw calls. And in forward rendering, that's also an extra draw call per material per per-pixel light (so for 2 per-pixel lights, we're now at 2 draw calls and 4 draw calls, respectively). And, depending on the…
A photo has already processed the 3d to 2d which is what drawing generally is, it has already done the interesting part of the process. When you draw from a photo you are not exploring the shapes in the same way as drawing from life so the drawing is generally less dynamic. Some artists like Alex Ross use the frozen in…