The 'Core Sketch Thread!?

[st0lve]

Ok, so we need a sketch thread here.

I try to draw\sketch as much as I can, but not every day.

I do it so that I might improve my Wacom skills, aswell as traditional drawing skills.

So like we pick a theme each day\week and make shitloads of sketches?

I kick off with a random sketch that I made today, my caps:

~10min PS and Graphire3.

[DaanO]

I'm actually scanning and photographing some of my work to put on my new website, so i'll post some stuff in a few days

[Pericolos0]

try to draw less with lines and more with shades stolve set the brush opacity to pen pressure and u can do some cool stuff

[von*ferret]

build with shading, not lines.

[ginsengavenger]

well, hashing is a perfectly good way to build tonality, but scribbling is not. it's really incredibly difficult to hash with a wacom.

in general i'd say it's more difficult to draw something from scratch using a wacom, to the point that it's usually really obvious. if you want to build drawing skills i'd stick with paper and pencil, and save the wacom for what it's better suited for---shading and retouching.

[Phlek]

Here's a sketch of a cap I made a while ago, it was one of my first drawings I ever really tried to "do" with shading and stuff.

I thought it was good for a first try.

[DaanO]

Sure is . I do think that it's too bad there's no shading on the cap itself, and that the upper outline of the cap is too strong

[hamst3r]

my favorite hat, quick sketch, didnt get to deep into the technicals. oh and unless i stop being a cheap bastard all of my sketches must be the size of a regular photo...my scanner sucks.

[DaanO]

Often, using less lines for the basic shape gives a much better result

[kleinluka]

hamst3r needs to sharpen his pencil more often

[hamst3r]

i do. i found the first penicl i could near my sketch book...im lazy :wink:

[mike-0]

stolve, dont listen to them, i think your shading style is cool

[st0lve]

stolve, dont listen to them, i think your shading style is cool

Haha. As for a black\white drawing I do it like that, but with colors, I always try to build the drawings by shades and lighting.

But I hate B\Ws with only shadow really

[ginsengavenger]

can i post something that's not a hat~

was just messing around while i was waiting for thrik's nintendo vid to load.. i find these birds so graceful, i might try to do some modeling or something. i'm sure it's very wrong anatomically, i was uh... "winging it"

[Minos]

I'd love to have a neck like that