If you're an artist, I suppose.

Are you a traditional artist, a painter, any type? How you setup your characters? Do you use guidelines for your characters or do a loose sketch?

I have also been wondering on what is better, using a tablet for drawing stuff on the computer instead of doing it on the paper and scanning it

Or

Draw on paper, scan it, and "ink" it on the computer, instead. Which one is easier basically.

What is your style like? Is it like wolfy-nail's? Miles-df? Or any other artist?

What stuff do you wish to improve on? The anatomy? Backgrounds? Characters? Anything?

Man I got so many questions, lol.

So your question is basically "how to art?"
hoooo boy... erm. Well, I took a small uni course specializing in fine (ie. traditional) art. I wish I was more competent at digital but nothing quite beats the feedback and flexibility of pencil on paper. That said, I'm pretty out of practice.
"How" is sort of a big question. There's a ton of ways to go about it. generally though the best way to get better is from real life observation. you look up, look down, draw a tiny bit and repeat fifty million times. it's super boring unless you really like what you're looking at, but do that every day for an hour for a month and I grantee you'll have noticeably improved.

elad said:
So your question is basically "how to art?"

Not really, just wondering what do you guys do on drawing, personally. Share your connections and such. :3

English is rather not my favorite subject, anyways. :0

Anyhow, I usually like to do details and such on objects I like to observe. Like for a lemon for instance, I look upon how well the small craters formed into it, how the lemons shapes, etc.

Observing is my thing upon increasing my skill level on art in exquisite detail. And yeah, detailing is my thing. But I do get bored with my style, so I started to merge into different styles instead.

Experimental art(?), I guess, I am more interested in using some people's styles like tsampikos's. I copied his style just for the fun of it, lol.

But right now, I am just a rookie. :x

Style is a pretty organic thing that comes without trying. I guess there's an artist on FA called birds who I really like and his drawings kinda look like mine. (his are way better :V)
Every once in a while, it's a good idea to try and do something in a totally different style! one tends to learn new tricks and your own style evolves a little bit more!
Try not to worry about it though, especially at first. Just keep it fun. when you have things looking the way you want them to, THEN you start thinking about how you want to mess with it! Elongate faces or make the eyes super small. I think really exaggerated perspective always looks cool.
Or do something even weirder like use rainbow colored outlines for everything. yes, EVERYTHING.

Yes, style can be easily manipulated, but yeah that's the fun part. Trying out new shades and such. You may even challenge yourself on doing the most difficult stuff in art, like *cough*mirrors and anatomy.*cough*

Coloring is usually not my thing on doing my characters. I rather keep the colors simple and clean, I just like simple.

Warm colors seem to bring out the best feeling, IMO. Bloom also, it gives that dreamy feeling.

careful with bloom. can be awesome, can utterly overpower the image. less is more!

Which reminds me.

What do your prefer?

Guidelines?
Or loose sketches.

For most artists I've seen do loose sketches, seems that it's easier to do, and less work. :I

Honestly, I prefer a good sketch. If you keep things loose you can end up with accidents that go really right. Controlled formulas are fine for photorealism or duplication.

I suppose.

Loose sketches are more like shortcuts to me, for some reason, every time I attempt to do a loose sketch, the anatomy of a man doing a pose is unbelievably accurate.

I rather have things in the right place with guidelines, loose sketches is more like misplacing things. :V

(This is nice conversation we are having, but right now I am tired, lol)

Keats said:
I am more interested in using some people's styles like tsampikos's. I copied his style just for the fun of it, lol.

Don't take this the wrong way, but that attitude right there is what keeps so many aspiring artists down. Not just those practicing art proper but everyone doing something creative. From sculpting to movie-making to music, even to corporations who want to come up with the next big product for consumers, they all get so caught up trying to imitate someone who's had success in their field that they forget to build upon that person's designs as well. The best you will ever produce trying to copy someone else is something that's already been done.

This is not to say that you should discard the works of others entirely, but that you should always be trying to build upon the styles of others to create something that's even better and more closely meets your audience's demands.

So before you ask how the successful person does what he does, ask why people like what he produces in the first place. Once you know that, you can set your target on what people really want, something often above and beyond anything that's ever been done before.

MaShCr,

I guess I should have said, is that when I do get bored of my style, so instead I rather do experiments; doing something different of course. I don't completely copy people's style, no, I don't. I rather take their shading mechanism, how they setup their characters, but not all, only one, just only one. I may even tweak my style without taking other people's stuff, too. :x

I am also not even curious on how people or why people get the success or produce in the first place as what you said.

Style is flexible, it can be easily be manipulated, but it can never be original, that is what my belief is, on art.

Pencil, paper, sketch, outline, scan, color, finish, attempt to post, wimp out, repeat. That's how I do my art.

To paraphrase one writer, "I stare at a sheet of paper until my forehead starts sweating blood."

Clawstripe said:
To paraphrase one writer, "I stare at a sheet of paper until my forehead starts sweating blood."

Well lulz. Drawing is not that hard. :o

Just practice and such, nothing else. Usually, I don't get people when they say can't draw but they can, just need practice you know. :x

Keats said:
Well lulz. Drawing is not that hard. :o

Just practice and such, nothing else. Usually, I don't get people when they say can't draw but they can, just need practice you know. :x

well lulz, being skinny isn't that hard.
just exercise and such, nothing else.
usually I don't get when people say they can't lose weight but they can, just need to exercise you know?

this is true for me, not for everyone.
I have friends who draw all the time but aren't that good and I just so happens to be talented and would outshine them if I wanted to.

It's not fair to generalise one's good fortune on everyone and expect them to perform. (I'm being overly harsh, I know)

just wanted to open some eyes and hopefully prevent things from turning into ignorance. (look who's generalising! xD)

It's like what Vince Lombardi (considered one of the greatest American football coaches in history) used to say: "Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect."

If you're just doing the same thing over and over again, you're not going to improve much. You have to keep a conscious and consistent drive for perfection in your mind at all times. You must be constantly analyzing why what you just did wasn't perfect and coming up with what you can do differently now to fix that.

Practice should not be a passive process.

Now, do anyone of you guys paint? Painting in detail on a canvas is hard for me. I wonder if there's any shortcuts to paint, and remain with exquisite detail. :o

Is graffiti art is art, or rather something called as vandalism?

Keats said:

Out of the topic

People seem to confuse the word, "Perfect." Or rather I am missing something.

Too bad not much people are conscious.

Like me.

Is graffiti art is art, or rather something called as vandalism?

If people are prepared to go to jail for the sake of painting a wall, I call that the most sincere art that can be made. All great art is called vandalism at first.

Well, lets see, i do many forms of Art Painting, Cellshade (what youd refer to as anime styled) Calligraphy, Writing and music is considered art as well and i do both. I used to do pencil and paper media then i did that and scanned it, nowadays i just do digital, set up right a pressure/brush angle sensitive program can mimic real life media.

Oil with silver graphite Highlights on a rough texture canvas setting.

Cellshade
post #20226

Oil, Pastel, and Watercolor on a smooth texture canvas setting.

elad said:
All great art is called vandalism at first.

But not all vandalism is called great art later on! ( ಠ ヮರೃ)

Just stick an axe-wound between a reasonable-looking animals legs and call it a day...

I do all my art traditionally, and almost none of it is furry, which is why I don't post it on this website. I typically use Google Image Search for references. I sketch with a Dixon Ticonderoga #2 pencil, starting loose and then adding definition. I ink with a Uniball Vision fine-point black pen in varying line thicknesses. Then I erase all the pencil lines with a Pink Pearl eraser. I don't typically color my art.

No, I will not post examples.

null0010 said:
No, I will not post examples.

Awww

TheHuskyK9 said:
Awww

I like to keep furry things and my real life things very separate.

Esme_Belles said:
Well, lets see, i do many forms of Art Painting, Cellshade (what youd refer to as anime styled) Calligraphy, Writing and music is considered art as well and i do both. I used to do pencil and paper media then i did that and scanned it, nowadays i just do digital, set up right a pressure/brush angle sensitive program can mimic real life media.

Oil with silver graphite Highlights on a rough texture canvas setting.

Cellshade
post #20226

Oil, Pastel, and Watercolor on a smooth texture canvas setting.

Well, I thought cel shading is more like this.

But I guess, it's rather different than 3D. I mean like do strokes are better than simply scrubbing the canvas with a damn brush?

Also, you should try Corel Draw (or Painter), it's cool. :o
I think it provides the most realistic painting elements when it comes to painting, I haven't tried it yet but it sounds promising if you don't a drawing application doing any "flaws" with your art, if you know what I mean. :x

Keats said:
Well lulz. Drawing is not that hard. :o

Just practice and such, nothing else. Usually, I don't get people when they say can't draw but they can, just need practice you know. :x

I know. I was being funny and apparently not succeeding. How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice, practice, practice.

I draw quite well, actually, perhaps not Heather Bruton or Moody Ferret level (primarily when it comes to inking and coloring), but well enough for people to wonder why I don't try to market my abilities. Also, I'm a good writer, dabble a little in CGI, and can do needlepoint on plastic canvas.

Poorly, that's how.

I sketch a rough draft on paper, then trace it in Inkscape where I add the details and correct things.

I just eat some charcoal, grab some paper and throw up on it; somehow it always urns out okay

Actually I seriously just study and memorize every line of an image I'm drawing, then when it comes to shading, I use those really thin and kinda oily paper towels you find in classrooms to blend the values, works pretty well. I draw mostly portraits and perspective drawings

Keats said:

Experimental art(?), I guess, I am more interested in using some people's styles like tsampikos's. I copied his style just for the fun of it, lol.

I'd love to learn ss2sonic/sssonic2's style, once I figure out my own.

Rainbow_Dash said:
I just eat some charcoal, grab some paper and throw up on it

Literally?

Is it that everybody on this site can draw? I can't even do a straight curve, or draw something understandable, just diagrams...

Xch3l said:

elad said:
I took a small uni course specializing in fine (ie. traditional) art.

Keats said:
I usually like to do details and such on objects I like to observe.

TheHuskyK9 said:
Pencil, paper, sketch, outline, scan, color, finish, attempt to post, wimp out, repeat. That's how I do my art.

Esme_Belles said:
I do many forms of Art Painting, Cellshade (what youd refer to as anime styled) Calligraphy, Writing and music is considered art as well and i do both.

null0010 said:
I do all my art traditionally, and almost none of it is furry, which is why I don't post it on this website.

RenaKunisaki said:
I sketch a rough draft on paper, then trace it in Inkscape where I add the details and correct things.

Is it that everybody on this site can draw? I can't even do a straight curve, or draw something understandable, just diagrams...

Believe it or not, I actually sorta "sight-learned" from looking at images on this site.

Xch3l said:

elad said:
I took a small uni course specializing in fine (ie. traditional) art.

Keats said:
I usually like to do details and such on objects I like to observe.
TheHuskyK9 said:
Pencil, paper, sketch, outline, scan, color, finish, attempt to post, wimp out, repeat. That's how I do my art.

Esme_Belles said:
I do many forms of Art Painting, Cellshade (what youd refer to as anime styled) Calligraphy, Writing and music is considered art as well and i do both.

null0010 said:
I do all my art traditionally, and almost none of it is furry, which is why I don't post it on this website.

RenaKunisaki said:
I sketch a rough draft on paper, then trace it in Inkscape where I add the details and correct things.

Is it that everybody on this site can draw? I can't even do a straight curve, or draw something understandable, just diagrams...

You're not alone.

itsapainfulworld said:
I'd love to learn ss2sonic/sssonic2's style, once I figure out my own.

I hope you know that there are multiple ways to make shading. :x
And colors are pretty much straightforward, I think.