Lesson 2: Getting Started

[vrt]

Amazing improvement, RavingRabbid. Keep it up, you're heading exactly in the right direction!

[icecoldbro]

I tried giving it a shape, keeping what I gave him in both earlier sketches.

The horn is now made of a bone, and the fireball is casted there.
The mouth is somehow more detailed, and it should be more "menacing" and less "creepy"
The wings are now proper wings, and not a strange wing-like appendage. It sucks more, tho.
The legs are something I tried to drew, but I had no idea on how to draw a cockroach's legs.

Yup, it should be a cockroach.

Very quite interesting if i might say so myself, the legs look more scorpionish than anything but other than that it looks amazing

[SunnyGreens]

I started to do a Pegasus, but after some frustration tried a humanoid form. I wanted to make it more mythological than human and ended up making a mask-wearing gremlin of sorts. I think I need to layer the drawing more, I tend to just draw over the same section too many times trying to emphasize a feature, which ends up making everything look cramped (and small). Ill try again.


Sketch #1:
Sketch #2:

Also, on a side note: Could there perhaps be a thread dedicated to tutorials where people could post ones they found to be particularly useful? Maybe every so often the best of those could be collected and organized into the main post?

[RavingRabbid]

I tried drawing again the cockroach.

This time, I got him some better legs, a frontal view, open wings, a sting at the end of his body. Eyes are the same, but smaller.
I dropped the fireball thing.

I don't know why it is biting a branch. (Oh, right, I also changed his teeths.)

I can't tell if it better or worse, but I can tell I didn't spend as much time as the other one on this.

[SunnyGreens]

My attempt at a speedpaint. I guess its not quite done but my 15 minutes ran out. Ill try another.

Sketch #3:

[ratcharmer]

Alright, I tried my hand at speedpainting . . .

please forgive what's got to be some of the sloppiest brushwork anyone has ever tried to pass off as painting. I'd like to attribute it to the fact that I'm sick this week, but really my brushwork is kinda sloppy most of the time (though not quite this bad).

first here's my (very rough) skeleton etc.
(http://imageplay.net/view/m7Gbd115464/maiden_3_skeleton)
and now for the maiden
(http://imageplay.net/view/m7Gbd115465/maiden_3)

she looked skinny, so I thought she should have some food. The food took a lot longer to draw than I thought it would though, and the table still looks a little sparse compared to how I imagined it, but I was already way over 15 minutes.

I really struggled to get the hand holding the knife to look decent, my first attempts made it way to big. I think it's still a little out of proportion.

[Thalas]

Satyr 3 sketch
(http://imageplay.net/)

[Krahhl]

Ahh vacation is over and I can return to my sketches.. funny how I'm more busy during vacation, going places and all that.

Anyways, umm. Tiger. ..I'll get back to that. In the meantime, I did a dragon sketch.



I'll refine the sketchy lines and go into more detail later, but I wanted to allow people to point out any blatant anatomical flaws.

I think the head is either too big or just positioned weirdly. The claws seem off somehow, but I'm not sure how to fix them. Also, the front and back legs might be too close together and the front right shoulder should protrude forward more to lead better into the chest. And now that I look at it, the line running through the middle of the neck shouldn't curve up at the end, but connect to the bottom of the lower jaw. I missed that during one of my head-redrawings.

When I flipped the image, the far wing immediately made me go O_____O because the top-left flap of skin looks thin enough to be a spike thing and I was so used to seeing it curve the other direction. Hopefully it won't be a problem once I add some values and differentiate parts of the wing from the background.

The panda is just there. It looks very flat. Poor panda.

I feel like I spent too much time on this sketch, but I kept redoing parts that didn't look right. My original sketch looked like:



Ugly.

[icecoldbro]

Im not sure if its just me going crazy as always but id redesign the tail, making it end more systematically and making it longer

[ArtCrusade]

Maybe you should redo the head as well. The snout should be thinner than the rest of its head or it looks a bit weird.

[Krahhl]

Im not sure if its just me going crazy as always but id redesign the tail, making it end more systematically and making it longer

The dragon isn't perpendicular to your view, but off by about 30 degrees. Therefore, the tail is farther away and should be smaller. I didn't do a good job portraying this though.

Maybe you should redo the head as well. The snout should be thinner than the rest of its head or it looks a bit weird.

The snout is thinner than the rest of the head, or should be. It can kind of be seen in the lower jaw, but not so much in the top due to the point of view. Hmm..

[vrt]

SunnyGreens: That's what I wanted to see. Good use of skeletons, and proper application of detail. Very nice.


To the others; I'd strongly suggest moving on to the next lesson. I feel it'll only be harder to teach what we want to teach with this assignment; I suppose that's one of the falters of a beginning Art Class. The topic will be locked before Lesson 4 starts, most likely within the next few days.