New Art Thread

[my_other_life]

I had good results from hand drawing, scanning, then using MS Paint/Paint 3D to edit and apply color. Working lines clean up easily if you want to remove the scars of a life lived ;-). However, the scans were huge, sometimes over 10 MB.

I tried a few tools including GIMP to reduce the size and do the editing. I finally gave up on GIMP, it's just too hard for me. I'm trying Paint.Net now. It's a little more sophisticated than MS Paint 3D and does a good job reducing drawings. I cut one scanned and colorized PNG file down from almost 8 MB to a 550 KB JPEG file while retaining good clarity.

I liked Paint 3D as a starter if you're interested in digitally modifying your hand drawings, and adding color. The easiest way for me to learn the software was by modifying other people's drawings - strictly for practice, never for posting. It gave me a place to start, and inspiration to try the different tools to get better results. The most common modification I started with was breast reduction - I just don't like the look of breasts that are larger than the character's head...

 

[ElectricBlue]

Thanks for your encouragements on use of eraser and have working lines visible- like scars telling us of a life lived?

Do you use some professional lighting as well? I ask myself how to illuminate A1 - as it is huge - without having gradients, indoors?

Working lines? Yes, that's it exactly. It's fascinating studying the masters, to see what they were doing. Modigliani, for example, couldn't really draw feet, so many of his paintings solve the problem by cropping. I find Matisse astonishing too - I don't think he was very good at drawing at all - a lot of his work strikes me as quite naive. Yet, collected in his day.

Professional lighting? No. The camera about fifteen feet away with zoom. Flash - with a neon in the room. The distance bounces the flash. It's not colour accurate, but since at the moment I don't use colour much, that doesn't fuss me. If I started selling content for gyclee print, I'd invest in better lights and tighter control.

 

[Lily Peg]

charcoal

I sometimes use charcoal but more in pencil and pen


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[29wordsforsnow]

I sometimes use charcoal but more in pencil and pen


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Pretty well done nude acts.

Very nice examples of how to use light (including paper?) and dark colors - not just grey shades in the first, but also not the common skin tones - to create the impression of three-dimensional shapes, especially nice captured curves. I like the slight non-realism, tiptoeing into abstraction of the first.


Thanks for sharing, keep up the good work.

 

[my_other_life]

I never could figure out how to use charcoal, so I'm especially impressed by artists who can make art like yours. Several of the digital software tools have charcoal tool options. These appear to reproduce the results, but I'm not sure how well that translates from the natural feel of the charcoal both in your hands and as it moves over the paper.

I'm drawing more of a cartoon. It's pretty crude by comparison to the art showing up in this forum.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I sometimes use charcoal but more in pencil and pen


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I like Nude1 a lot - great curves!

 

[Enchantment_of_Nyx]

I sometimes use charcoal but more in pencil and pen


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That is really good! I especially like Nude1. There's something special about that one.

 

[Lily Peg]

More nudes

That is really good! I especially like Nude1. There's something special about that one.

Thanks I enjoy drawing nudes using different media this one is in indian ink and bleach

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[Enchantment_of_Nyx]

Thanks I enjoy drawing nudes using different media this one is in indian ink and bleach

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I had no idea you could do that. Is it hard to control the bleeding?

 

[Lily Peg]

You ink the paper first leave to dry then pour bleach neat in a cup etc and use with a small brush etc to draw lines. Dilute the bleach if wanting tones.

 

[29wordsforsnow]

You ink the paper first leave to dry then pour bleach neat in a cup etc and use with a small brush etc to draw lines. Dilute the bleach if wanting tones.

Cool thing! Always a good day when you learn something new.

 

[Lily Peg]

new techniques

Cool thing! Always a good day when you learn something new.

yes it's good to learn new methods in art making

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[my_other_life]

The works posted here are impressive. This is definitely a higher level of art than the cartoons I'm working on. I'm going to see if there's a thread in the Visual Arts forum that's more at my level of skill. Keep up the good work!