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Two pencil drawings and a loose ballpoint pen sketch for a cover I will soon start to work out.
New drawings will be uploaded next monday. Have a great weekend!
- Dave
More loose ballpoint pen sketches. I will use them as a base for digital drawings.
I used the gestural drawing method and then continued to draw rough detail.
Have a nice day!
- Dave
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Gestural drawings.
All in all, when you work digital (which is the most used method nowadays), it is not always good to start digital. Why not grabbing the pencil and some paper to draw a relaxing, gestural drawing? For these I used a black ballpoint pen.
You can scan it and bring it into any digital graphic software and start working them out. Often, for me, a loose traditional drawing inspires me more for digital images than starting digital from scratch. Combining both, digital and traditional, will give you the ultimate freedom in art.
More coming tomorrow.
- Dave
A kind of battle-machine and a pencil drawing, combined with slight ballpointpen-hatches.
Have a good day - and never forget: A free, loose pencildrawing into a traditional sketchbook will always be the best tools to get ideas down. At least, this is my point of view.
- Dave
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A row of three moodpaintings and underneath a portfolio-work I completed recently. From today, there will be more daily posts showing sketches and drawings. I thought it would be nice to start with something very detailed and colorful.
As for the moodpaintings: Basically those moodpaintings are there to extract ideas out of what you can see. If you want to do art but there is no real idea, try to do moodpaintings first - that will help you to get ideas for your final illustrations, or for stories (there is no limit for what you can use this method, I guess) .
Have a good day, thanks for following my blog.
- Dave
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Those of you, who started following my blog, might have noticed that yet there was no new post with drawings or sketches. Basically it is very time consuming right now to do my client’s work.
But I have new drawings and sketches ready to be posted regularly the next days. This time I also want to post moodpaintings, as well as to provide some (hopefully) helpful thoughts when it comes to drawing.
Have a nice day!
- Dave
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Welcome to the first edition of the Weekly Deconstruction.
If anyone can think of a better name, for the love of god please tell me because I suck at naming things. This week Dave and I are covering the ‘Photoshop brush myth’ and why the various answers to this question never seem to be…
The promised discussion about the well known question: “Which brushes do you use?”
Two drawings, a kind of elf’ish characters with darker skin colors. I try some different ear-forms as well.
Tools: Pencils
Stay tuned for more drawings.
The same female warrior from yesterday, and underneath, a waranian woman.
These drawings are done with pencils and carbon pencils.
Stay tuned for more drawings out of my sketchbook.
An injured warrior and a female warrior. Both are characters who will meet each other in my story “Forlorn Knights”. She will find an aeon-crystal, which is that weird thing she throws up to catch it (a little cheeky gesture I guess).
Both drawings are done with pencils (4H and 3B) and carbon pencils.
Stay tuned for more drawings.
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Well first I have to say: It is not only about Photoshop, it is about any graphic software.
The question people ask the most, a question artists know very good because they are getting asked so often: “Which brushes do you use?”
Well, for those who ask this kind of question it is surely, very often, the answer: “It doesn’t matter which brushes you use, just practice a lot and work hard.”
It is not very satisfying at all, because there is no real solution. Soon, in a kind of art-discussion in this blog,
http://photoshopfornoobs.tumblr.com/
I will try to get deeper into the subject matter. I’ll try to explain why this question is indeed a good one, and why so many artists give the same answer. An answer, explaining that brushes won’t improve ones work and that brushes don’t matter, which doesn’t provide a solution.
I hope I will be able to give you a real solution, if you are one of those who try to solve the mystery of any graphics software’s tools.
Be sure to follow this blog, it has many great tutorials: http://photoshopfornoobs.tumblr.com/
Stay tuned, I will reblog this kind of “discussion” as soon as it is uploaded, so you can read it in my blog too.
As for more drawings: There will be heaps of new drawings the next days. At least I will have a lot of these done, I try to upload them in a regular timespan.
Thanks for following my blog, thanks for the “likes” and I hope you have a great week.
- Dave
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More sketches and drawings. I used pencils and carbon pencils. Carbons are really good for creating smooth blending-effects.
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Refined digital sketches from earlier posts.
Tools: Photoshop CS5.1.1 + Wacom Intuos3 A3
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First image is an early sketch. That is how it looks like during my drawing process. I have a female character in mind, as well as a dragon holding a sword while wrapping it’s tail around the character’s arm. He helps her up, as she just finished a kind of ritual and lost her strength.
Second one is a kind of demonic figure I drew while warming up for client’s work.
I used regular pencils for these images.
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Some silhouettes. Done with markers and ink. I might take some of these and work them out digital via Photoshop or Sketchbook Pro 6.
Stay tuned for more drawings and sketches.
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