Art Gallery General Chat Thread

[Rainbow Cloud]

Yeah, the Woopers are really cute, Your Umbreon avatar looks amazing too, did you draw it?

When it comes to hair, I tend to just try to use the character I'm drawing as a reference but I've not been able to draw a realistic looking hairstyle from scratch when I've attempted it in the past. When I was making my pony version of rainbow cloud I wanted to give him an original mane/tail style but I was unable to create one that looked ok and ended up having to base it upon an official characters mane/tail style instead.

 

[noworry]

Ok I have to interrupt this discussion to say @noworry your sig is friggin adorable, never change it omg

Haaw, thank you?
I think Wooper is really cute

 

[Soki]

Hey y'all, I got a slight update to the Art Gallery rules for you:

Art Gallery Rules:

7. Don't offer your artwork for payment.
- It is allowed to draw free requests or do art trades.

Art Shops:

7. Don't ask payment for your services.

We totally forgot to add rules about this, but providing services in exchange for money and the like is not allowed on these forums, so neither are paid commissions. As noted, it is however fine to draw free requests or do art trades.

If you've got any questions about this, feel free to ask me or Rainbow Cloud

 

[noworry]

How is everyone?

Though I'd write something here, as a kickoff to my work in this section, I guess.

 

[canisaries]

well im fine, i think, for the time being

 

[Soki]

I'm great, my contract at the zoo was continued so I can stay there Missing my bf and cats a lot though, especially our new kitten, I only see them twice a month D: Working on finding a house here asap so they can come move here, and I will have more time for drawing too instead of traveling up and down a lot ^^;

 

[Rainbow Cloud]

I'm good, little tired but I'm more of less ready for my holiday now, everythings packed
Not really looking forward to flying as I've never really liked it but hoping to have a good time when I'm there.

 

[Max1996]

I'm good, little tired but I'm more of less ready for my holiday now, everythings packed
Not really looking forward to flying as I've never really liked it but hoping to have a good time when I'm there.

Let's hope you do.

 

[noworry]

@Rainbow Cloud
I hope you have a good trip!

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We've recently been doing abstract painting at school. It's really different from what I'm used to. Ended up just adding eyes wherever.
My teacher called it chaos, but I like it.

 

[TeaWest]

When your teacher calls your work chaos, is that a compliment or an insult? :O

 

[noworry]

I'm not sure, to be honest. She says a lot of weird things about my work, but still gives me good grades.

 

[Soki]

Then I assume it was a compliment I mean, a lot of painters do like to represent chaos in their works, so I definitely think it was meant in a good way haha

 

[noworry]

Does anyone else ever experience that the sketch looks good, but when you start inking everything just.. blarggh?
It really annoys me :/

 

[canisaries]

oh yeah that happens all the time

that's because sketches are more freeform and give off motion, lineart tends to be pretty static

 

[noworry]

It's so annoying though. I want to keep the sketch the way it is, but at the same time I want it all to look clean.

 

[Time Breaker]

All of my drawings are sketches, so I don't have that problem ;p Though I do like using colored pencils to mimic or give an idea of a color palette.

I haven't drawn that much for a while, but I'd like to get back into it at some point.

 

[Rainbow Cloud]

I do find that that sketches don't look the way I thought they would look after colours have been added. Most of my drawings don't look exactly how I'd like them to look or how I imagined though, I have lots of creative ideas but it's really hard trying to translate them into drawings.

 

[Soki]

Yeah I often hate how sketches look after I lineart them too, like canisaries said: sketches give off more motion. Once I lineart a thing it looks so... stationary

Now that I've learned a bit more how to do shading and lighting, they look a bit better, but still don't have the kind of life they looked they had in the sketch ^^;

 

[canisaries]

i've kind of circumvented the problem by just making rough lineart with a rough brush. or just by not doing lineart at all. at the point where i am, painting is actually easier and faster than trying to make clean smooth lines. what a strange twist of fate

 

[noworry]

I often drop the lineart if I don't want it to look stiff (especially if I'm doing backgrounds), but then it's kind of hard to show the details.