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Beyond the Mysterious Beyond => The Arts => Visual Art => Topic started by: DarkHououmon on September 09, 2010, 10:14:22 PM

Title: Michelle Brown
Post by: DarkHououmon on September 09, 2010, 10:14:22 PM
Recently drew a picture of Michelle, a Dino Squad fancharacter of mine, entirely in Photoshop with the mouse (I have no tablet).

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u72/Inf...compdrawing.png (http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u72/Inferdramon/Michellecompdrawing.png)

I also recorded myself drawing the picture. I've been meaning to do at least one of these kinds of videos (ones that show the progress of a picture from start to finish), but never got around to it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye3AeSQ581g (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye3AeSQ581g)
Title: Michelle Brown
Post by: Pangaea on September 10, 2010, 03:52:48 AM
Wow. Liked the video. It was neat to see the process by which you draw. :yes Is this how you usually do your artwork?

Maybe I should try that technique of using circles to plot out joints before drawing limbs. (Actually, you might have even suggested that to me, but I forgot. :oops)

I’m amazed by how little you erase or redo lines. Mainly because I do it constantly while drawing. :p

The picture itself looks a little rougher than most of your artwork I’ve seen, but still impressive :yes (especially considering you did it all with a mouse). For some reason I find myself intrigued by the shading. The legs look a little short to me, however.
Title: Michelle Brown
Post by: DarkHououmon on September 10, 2010, 08:42:11 AM
I draw somewhat like this on paper. The main difference is that the sketch part is more..sketchy and more closely resembles the finished drawing. Oh and I don't always draw the sketch/outline in this order. Sometimes I start drawing out other parts of the body. Depends.

And yeah I noticed the legs were a tad short. It's difficult for me to draw with the mouse so I anticipated the picture wouldn't look as good as it would have on paper. I had actually redone the picture several times before I started getting the hang of drawing it.

Sometimes I do erase lines a lot on paper if I don't like the way they look. I don't like erasing too much too often though because it kinda ruins the paper I think.
Title: Michelle Brown
Post by: Jasper on September 10, 2010, 09:33:28 AM
I liked how you draw there the process was intresting.
Title: Michelle Brown
Post by: Pangaea on September 10, 2010, 11:19:41 PM
Quote from: DarkHououmon,Sep 10 2010 on  07:42 AM
Sometimes I do erase lines a lot on paper if I don't like the way they look. I don't like erasing too much too often though because it kinda ruins the paper I think.
That's the main reason I've started using Photoshop lately; I can use it to remove eraser marks and other unwanted lines on scanned pictures. :p One of these days, though, I'm going to get myself a drawing tablet, and try to learn to create pictures on Photoshop.