05-03-2020, 05:16 AM
Thanks to you all for the replies.
darktiste: You're probably right about the composition. I've definitely over-used hallways for backgrounds so far; I will enforce a strict "no-vanishing-point-on-canvas" policy for a while. The floor and side-wall are indeed practically the same value, but since I had the moonlight hitting them at similar angles, I didn't try to force a value difference.
JosephCow: Man, I think you have a better imagination than I do. Can I borrow your brain for a minute?
Osmium: Composition and backgrounds are definitely weak points of mine. For now, I'm just shooting for marginal improvement with every piece. Composition seems to be a real "learn by doing" sort of thing.
Rotohail: Good point about the perspective of the legs; they were bothering me a little. Sometimes an untrue perspective is best for the purpose of the picture. I don't have specific ambitions with art at the moment; I just enjoy doing it and try to make pictures that look cool to my juvenile mind. My imagination is really quite dull though, which is probably why you've noticed a combination of horror tropes with strangely placid scenarios.
Sketch for the purpose of practicing short hair. Based on a photo from a fashion magazine.
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I temporarily became bored of drawing humans, so I mostly reverted to drawing silly dragon pictures with excessive spiky fins.
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This would likely benefit from more polishing, but I don't feel like I can improve it much more. I either reached the limits of my attention span or of my painting abilites (now that's a startling thought). Any and all comments are welcome. Also, I still haven't figured out how a dragon could have front legs AND wings, but the Rule of Cool prevails.
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darktiste: You're probably right about the composition. I've definitely over-used hallways for backgrounds so far; I will enforce a strict "no-vanishing-point-on-canvas" policy for a while. The floor and side-wall are indeed practically the same value, but since I had the moonlight hitting them at similar angles, I didn't try to force a value difference.
JosephCow: Man, I think you have a better imagination than I do. Can I borrow your brain for a minute?
Osmium: Composition and backgrounds are definitely weak points of mine. For now, I'm just shooting for marginal improvement with every piece. Composition seems to be a real "learn by doing" sort of thing.
Rotohail: Good point about the perspective of the legs; they were bothering me a little. Sometimes an untrue perspective is best for the purpose of the picture. I don't have specific ambitions with art at the moment; I just enjoy doing it and try to make pictures that look cool to my juvenile mind. My imagination is really quite dull though, which is probably why you've noticed a combination of horror tropes with strangely placid scenarios.
Sketch for the purpose of practicing short hair. Based on a photo from a fashion magazine.
[attachment=116057]
I temporarily became bored of drawing humans, so I mostly reverted to drawing silly dragon pictures with excessive spiky fins.
[attachment=116058]
This would likely benefit from more polishing, but I don't feel like I can improve it much more. I either reached the limits of my attention span or of my painting abilites (now that's a startling thought). Any and all comments are welcome. Also, I still haven't figured out how a dragon could have front legs AND wings, but the Rule of Cool prevails.
[attachment=116059]