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Well today is a rainy day and there's nothing going on. I'm watching the clouds roll in over the mountains and turn black as I type. With nothing to do and a whole lot of rain, all there is left to do is DRAW! So I have been watching all of these tutorials and taking note from other artist's work. THE QUESTION STILL REMAINS "HOW DO I FIND MY OWN STYLE". I've been told that I'm stuck on Michael Turners style (which btw it didn't start with him it started with Rob Liefeld, look him up) but every time I draw I always end up back at the same. Any suggestions on what I can do to lean away from the style. I do like his basics, but to start my own style?
Becoming A Better Artist: Learning to Not Copy
Well it's been a while since i have done a journal. In fact usually, I disappear from DA during the year because of my work and how much time that it takes away. So I finally decided after years of not watching my work go anywhere because I wasn't spending much time getting better because I was never getting the chance to practice that I had to make time if I really enjoyed this as a hobby.
I began with the idea of well maybe if I only get on here once a week that I would be doing better than I normal did in the past and I could use this time to look on here and to also do a little bit of artwork myself while doing so. This quickly turned
Learning To Color Can Be A Real .........HHhmm...!
So it has been a lengthy long drawn out process that throughout the year I have been studying. Due to my work and how extensive it can be I can not get the practice for drawing or learning to color in. So throughout the year I have just been compiling, reading , learning (I don't have a full Photoshop, just elements). So whatever I would learn about through Photoshop I would then have to go and learn about it on my own on Elements. Finally I started finding places online that would explain Elements which made my life so much easier.
I swear it felt like learning a anew language all over again and learning how things work. Sometimes it w
SKETCHING CLEANER LINES HELP!!!!
So it's been a while since I was on here because I had some problems with my right hand and have been wearing an arm brace to see if that would help to fix things for me. Luckily it has worked and since then I was suppose to ease back into using my right hand again so that I don't put too much stress on it.
I have found that a little break really has helped out a lot. I have recently started sketching again and believe it or not my sketches have turned out better than my previous ones. I have had to take it slower with the pics so that means I could spend more time making sure that I clean up a lot of the things that I usually never clean
LEARNING TO COLOR HELP ME PLEASE!!!!
Well so I have finally lost my mind and for some reason decided to learn how to ink color. Because I am broke as a joke I downloaded Paint.net ::w00t:: and have been trying to learn of of that.
First I want to say that this is some hard crap and really am confused. In most of the tutorials that I find here and on youtube people tend to think that others can read at the speed of light and they take off doing rather than explaining. I guess everyone wasn't meant to be teachers. Anywho, I bought a Bamboo Pen and Touch Tablet hoping that that would make things a bit easier but so far not seeing the advantages of it yet.
Coloring is the hard
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I think a technique that a lot of artists overlook is doing copies/studies. Find pics by several different artists that you like and literally try to duplicate them. Pick artists like, say, Frank Miller or Mike Mignola, who draw nothing like Turner. Pay special attention to the similarities and differences in the way that they draw things. That way, instead of taking from an exclusive source, your drawing will become a nice amalgamation of everyone you like. After all, an artist's "style" is just the sum of his influences, right?
Other than that, I can only echo what everyone else has been saying. Draw from life. Get a solid grasp on anatomy. Use reference photos. Ignore style, and work on those fundamentals. Solid draftsmanship is so much more important than whatever stylistic flourishes you decide to add to a drawing.
Other than that, I can only echo what everyone else has been saying. Draw from life. Get a solid grasp on anatomy. Use reference photos. Ignore style, and work on those fundamentals. Solid draftsmanship is so much more important than whatever stylistic flourishes you decide to add to a drawing.