It hangs in the spare bedroom. Thanks mate.
I'll sell it you.

Scout wrote:

No thanks! But I genuinely do like it.

lol I was kidding,

most of my stuff ends up with other people. I only have this one for me.

Get good paper. You can get canvas boards for nothing. Or get thick paper .
I use acrylics because you can water them down like watercolours or leave it thick like oils. You don't need to spend a large amount of money on brushes or equipment, most stuff is cheap to get. take reference photos for outdoors stuff. Just on my phone. Because painting outside is a pain.
Try painting anything. And mostly , do it for fun when you can. If you are doing it for profit make sure its simple to do. I'm happy to send you a copy of the bridge painting if you like. I keep things as simple as i can. You'll see that in my stuff.

So, we have a bunch of threads here where we pedal our skills; a writing one, a musician/producing one, a games one, a photography one, and one where Noxy can show of his talent of taking over Germany, one bedroom at a time, but we don't have one for drawing and painting, do we? (we might, I haven't looked)*

Anyway, I doodle all the time, because I decided I was happy enough with my particular grade of rubbishness with a pen, and I also quit art College, which I went to when I was 18. I've recently decided that I fancy giving the old drawing talent a bit of a workout, but I'm never happy with my style or quality level, so I thought I'd do a thread where we can all share, so that I can share too.

If you draw or paint, i'd love to see your stuff, as I like seeing what others get up to, it interests me.

Anywho, I sketched some faces tonight, because I am crap at faces and need practice. They are very loosely based on Jon Hamm and January Jones (primarily hair, pose and shading)





I also did Handsome Jack, because WOO Borderlands2



And now you.

*Turns out we do!

I did a semi-realistic version of Peter Griffin.

I like the second one tempy..

Heavy Voodoo wrote:

I did a semi-realistic version of Peter Griffin drew a picture of Gabe Newell.

Cheers Mr. Vaduu, I will take heed and practice a lot.

Voodoo makes good points.  I suggest a roll of butchers paper.  Because of the size you can free your arm up and work in a nice big arc, really get into it physically.  Drawing figures should be physical. Use charcoal and pastels.  Obviously I'm going beyond doodling here.

To add to Voodoo recs I suggest hunting down some Hogarth books.  Dynamic Hands and his general head and body ones are excellent, especially if you want to produce dynamic poses.  It's comic based (he worked the Tarzan strip) so heavy on the musculature, but the basic structure is very useful and is a useful guide on how to move beyond flat poses.

There's loads of stuff on facial proportion about and most of it useful.  I like Maughan on drawing the head, lovely tonal work.  Doesn't break it right down, more useful as a reference, but does guide you on using tone instead of line to depict volume.

Finally, if you really get into it, life drawing classes are a must.

This thread makes me sad that I haven't done anything in months, blub.

Edit: the Maughan book is probably a down the track sort of thing.

Wanna learn to draw awesome games stoof?
Buy this it is by my Dad's cousin, he has worked with a lot of studios doing concept art

This may or may not be a cheap plug to get people to buy a family members stuff. My Dad can draw like his cousin but sadly never pursued it as a career.

I am the worst person at drawing here.

I doubt that, I'm really pretty woeful.

equinox_code wrote:

I am the worst person at drawing here.

I dunno, I'm pretty awful.

We should have a whose worst draw off, what's the subject matter?

I'll suddenly get the bug something awful, the draw like madman for a year, get a brilliant job doing concept art and you'll never hear from me again.  Maybe.  I never did enjoy art and design for pay though, unless it was for friends.

Just had a rummage in my p-bucket account and found this.  I don't recall who or what it was for tbh.