Dek wrote:Yup that's the one, this is a backup of my old old site, from 2003.. it's got some of my crap from school, no where near professional enough and not a good portfolio either..
I like those cartoony pics you have there, the colouring is especially good. Maybe that's what I should do with my webspace, make a portfolio out of it. I did pay 90 dollars for it after all.
Those cartoons are so basic it's funny but they were all done within a couple hours..
they are actual animations, so you had to keep them basic if you wanted to scan them, clean them, and film them all in a couple hours of class.. they just wanted us to get the idea down and work on detail later after the fact, the average animation I had there was about 45 seperate frames...
raw wrote:I wouldn't worry too much about Mr.Magnetichead's opinion. At one point he changed his name to RedQUEEN or something like that and when he posted his pic, we all questioned his sex and his sexual orientation.
Yes because there have NEVER been any gay artists. Never ever EVER.
Art schools are weird, y'know, they're all diffferent. You don't necessarily get the technical advice you want.
If you're looking for rules you're more likely to get that in a book I reckon.
Sometimes it seems like certain people can just draw, and others can't.
I do agree that the one everyone says looks bad, does look bad, and that you need to start shaking off that teenage quality.
I don't think it's all down to proportion or perspective or anything. You can make likeable work without that.
While alll that stuff about drawing hands can be important I think the character of your work is very important in determining if people like it.
You just have to decide what you're trying to do, I mean is your work shamelessly sexual? Do you wanna be the artist as horndog, drawing gloriously over-the-top pin-ups? Cos your work begs the question, maybe more than you realise, but right now it's just creeping around the issue.
And your style, are you trying to convey virtuoso slickness or naive charm?
You're into comics right? Not something I know much about but some are drawn in a loose, knockabout, vulgar way, that lends itself to gross or non-PC humour. Others are beautiful and carefully composed, which I suggest more serious pretentions.
I'm not really getting a sense of any particular style or character being conveyed successfully.
BowelFish wrote:Art schools are weird, y'know, they're all diffferent. You don't necessarily get the technical advice you want.
If you're looking for rules you're more likely to get that in a book I reckon.
Sometimes it seems like certain people can just draw, and others can't.
I do agree that the one everyone says looks bad, does look bad, and that you need to start shaking off that teenage quality.
I don't think it's all down to proportion or perspective or anything. You can make likeable work without that.
While alll that stuff about drawing hands can be important I think the character of your work is very important in determining if people like it.
You just have to decide what you're trying to do, I mean is your work shamelessly sexual? Do you wanna be the artist as horndog, drawing gloriously over-the-top pin-ups? Cos your work begs the question, maybe more than you realise, but right now it's just creeping around the issue.
And your style, are you trying to convey virtuoso slickness or naive charm?
You're into comics right? Not something I know much about but some are drawn in a loose, knockabout, vulgar way, that lends itself to gross or non-PC humour. Others are beautiful and carefully composed, which I suggest more serious pretentions.
I'm not really getting a sense of any particular style or character being conveyed successfully.
Well I've had this idea for a comic for a while now. I haven't done anything with it yet, because I'm trying hard to hone my skills. The idea is a destroyed America, 2 people fighting against the big 'evil'. I guess from what I've drawn so far it looks to be a little sexual, but I don't think, when I actually start to do this, that it will be that sexually orientated. The book I'm reading now seems to be exactly what I was looking for, and I'm sure I'll be better when I reach the end of this book.
