Art Club discussion

I need advice on the shading for this: http://fav.me/d2xyrvj Especially on the skin since I haven't even started that yet.

I FINISHED THIS AWHILE AGO SO I NO LONGER NEED ADVICE.
xP

I need help with the background for a pic I'm drawing. In it is Catherine Morland (Northanger Abbey...Jane Austen...) dressed in the clothes of the time period. She's carrying a parasol and has a hat sort of draped on her back with the cord of the hat around her neck. Her dress is a maroon color that has a satiny effect achieved by 40 minutes of hand cramping.

What should I do for the background?! I AM TOTALLY CLUELESS. MAYBE NO BACKGROUND?!?!

What about a house, or a park, yah, a park! Maybe some trees too....

WALMART!!!!

I hate Walmart. >:(

Guys, I'm deleting your banana obsessed posts.

Laura -- Pictoperson Extraordinaire wrote: "I need help with the background for a pic I'm drawing. In it is Catherine Morland (Northanger Abbey...Jane Austen...) dressed in the clothes of the time period. She's carrying a parasol and has a h..."

I'd go with just shading it a random color that'd complement the picture... unless you really want to draw something in the background.

Ok. I don't mind if you delete them...

Sara Without An }{ wrote: "Guys, I'm deleting your banana obsessed posts."

Awwww...I never got to read them! D:

Okay. I'll just invent a funny conversation in my head, then...

I was reading an art book yesterday, and it said something interesting about symbols and art.

The book claims that as children, we give every thing a symbol: dad (draw a circle for the head, two lines for the arms, two lines for legs), mom (the same shape with slight variation, maybe a triangle for the dress), eye (a rough almond shape with a circle for the pupil), hand (circular shape with five lines for fingers). We keep drawing these symbols as we mature and it becomes more difficult to draw with complete accuracy and make drawings look 'real' as our brain keeps reverting back to drawing symbols, not what is actually there.


Just thought that was interesting. A rough summation of a couple pages from Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain.

I was readin that and thinking, "oh that sounds like what was said in Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain!" then I finished reading and was like "no duh" >.<

lol

I'm going to delete the banana posts. We really should keep this topic free of spam.

Since people seem to truly love bananas, I'm creating a banana topic, okay? If it gets out of hand it shall be deleted. Thanks.

need help with art!!! don't have a picture of it, but i drew and chibi of L from death note. i forget what color his clothes are.....

White shirt black pants? I think...

Sara Without An }{ wrote: "I need advice on the shading for this: http://fav.me/d2xyrvj Especially on the skin since I haven't even started that yet."

I suggest you look at a similar picture of a real person. It all depends on where the light's coming from, but there's going to be shading around the eyes (because they're future back in the head) and around the nose - the nose usually gets a shadow. And then there's that line between the lips and the chin.

Laura wrote: "I need help with the background for a pic I'm drawing. In it is Catherine Morland (Northanger Abbey...Jane Austen...) dressed in the clothes of the time period. She's carrying a parasol and has a h..."

I'm not an expert on that time period, but perhaps walking along a sidewalk/road by some shops?

Laura wrote: "I was reading an art book yesterday, and it said something interesting about symbols and art.

The book claims that as children, we give every thing a symbol: dad (draw a circle for the head, two ..."

that reminds me of what I've read about how you have to draw what's really there, not what you think it should look like. Don't make necks too long :)

For my birthday, my parents said they could possibly get me a tablet! :D SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!

I've looked through (most) of the Wacom website, and I can't decide which edition of Bamboo I'd like...any suggestions?

YAY FOR LAURA!!!! x)
Maybe you should ask Nightshade because I know she recently got one.

and Silver-
I finished it awhile ago. lol

*facepalm* i'm a stupid person. L wears a white shirt and jeans. >_>

@Sara: Okay...I'll ask her.

@ Sloane: Um.....yeah.

yeah.....

Sara Without An }{ wrote: "YAY FOR LAURA!!!! x)
Maybe you should ask Nightshade because I know she recently got one.

and Silver-
I finished it awhile ago. lol"

I wrote that in November - oh you wrote that in November... wow I'm getting to this topic late.

Sloane *random artist girl* wrote: "*facepalm* i'm a stupid person. L wears a white shirt and jeans. >_>"

well I'm wearing a purple shirt with too-short-too-wide blue sweatpants and it clashes and looks stupid.

KK i have a question!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
uhmmm i'm trying to draw a rose to frame and give to my grandma for christmas....but idk how to draw a rose!!!!!!
can somebody help me?
step by step???
please!!!!!???????
http://www.mce.k12tn.net/dogs/odie.jpg
*puppy face*

i'd like to help but i can't draw flowers :/ sorry

Same.

Thanks Barbara!

*random artist girl* wrote: "i'd like to help but i can't draw flowers :/ sorry"


its okay ^^

*random artist girl* wrote: "i'd like to help but i can't draw flowers :/ sorry"



♠Grey♠ wrote: "Same."
its okay ^^

Thanks~! I'm off to work on my album cover, be back in......a hour or so.

okay ^^

Sara Without An }{ wrote: "YAY FOR LAURA!!!! x)
Maybe you should ask Nightshade because I know she recently got one."

You shouldn't, because I don't have Wacom... I'm no help here. Sorry. o_o

NIGHTSHADE! YOU'VE SURFACED!!!!

~*~*~Annie~*~*~ Keep the CHRIST in CHRISTmas! wrote: "KK i have a question!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
uhmmm i'm trying to draw a rose to frame and give to my grandma for christmas....but idk how to draw a rose!!!!!!
can som..."

If you still need help, I can dig out some of my rose drawings for you to see....
Also, I'd recommend that you look into buying an actual rose. If you go to like a grocery store or something, you can get flowers for pretty cheap (or at least where I live lol). It helps so much to have a reference outside of a photo because you can turn it this way and that.

okay:) thanks Sara!

I have to work on an essay right now but I'll try to get them up by tonight.

okay^^
good luck on your essay!

I'm supposed to be writing one, too....

I'm supposed to be working on a 32 page scrapbook thing.
I only have 4 pages done.

mostly when i'm really bored i just draw awesome, crazy designs.
i'd love to post some for you guys to see..but i don't have my pictures on devainart or well anything..

like I make cards on my computer and have pictures I use on my cards (Close-ups of flowers and stuff) but they're not online... I should make that my next blog post!!

Holiday cards! Yay!

~*~*~Annie~*~*~ Keep the CHRIST in CHRISTmas! wrote: "KK i have a question!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
uhmmm i'm trying to draw a rose to frame and give to my grandma for christmas....but idk how to draw a rose!!!!!!
can som..."
i finished my rose for my Nana.
it looks wonderful.
i'll try to post it later...after christmas :P

Umm... why??
Thanks though

Lauren (Firestorm) wrote: "ugh I don't know I guess BC it is kinda like inappropriate
I mean since her look you know what I mean??
When I drew an angel when I was little and put lets just say chee chees then they made me er..."

. . . when I was younger my mother questioned me because I drew "the crack" of the breasts on some of my drawings. Now that I look back on it, my drawings were incorrect because they weren't really wearing corsets. .____.

Personally, I don't have a problem with appreciating art with, you know, as you termed them "chee chees" (lol that's fuuuuuunny), but I do have a problem with overly suggestive material. I mean, breasts are part of the female body, so naturally, you're going to draw them, but I don't like art where the artist goes completely overboard with skimpy clothing--or in the worst circumstances draws the character nude--because I feel as if the person in the drawing is secretly screaming to have their dignity back.

...her hands were in her hair. Oh snap. Inappropriateness. Bring out the censors.