[milan jaram]

welp, had to make a new account.. forgot my PW to the old one, and the old email i registered with is long since gone.

it's been ages since i posted, but i live here everday, the talent here is amazing. i get so much inspiration looking at your guys' stuff.

finally got my wacom, but this WIP was done in mouse out of sheer lazyness, i will decide to do the details and background with the pen most likely.

whipped this sketch up when i was visiting my grandma, sitting on her couch watching a parade go by - scanned it when i got home to mess with it.



any crits as to where i should go with this? aside from the perspective kind of being on an angle, although he's not. i tend to draw diagnally, shoot me!

btw, can't express enough of you artists here - and the work you guys do. bloody amazing.

[Ian Jones]

Hi, welcome back.

When I saw 'horny.jpg' downloading I started to get a bit worried!

Eil looking dude, nice drawing... not much to comment on with the rendering. You seem to be going along very cautiously, while this is fine it doesn'thurt to throw yourself in at the deep end sometimes and render with big bold brushstrokes.

I'm not sure what you could do with it, maybe just leave the background as fairly simple and make it a portrait. The angle doesn'treally lend itself to any kind of scene you could place him in.

If you find some words I've written are connected, it's becasue this damn thing seems to be doing the overwrite. Similar to when you work in Word and it just keeps typing over your text... *sigh*

Hope that helps.

[milan jaram]

Thanks Ian, I see your point.

I was advised, and read on this board that using hard brushes is ideal over soft brushes. It's hard for me, working with no lightsource. I like to fill in all the nooks and crannies with details, totally ignoring the lightsources.

Here is another pic I've done, with using relatively soft brushes. I still did not get exactly what I wanted.



What I need is a good tutorial. In-depth step by step from sketch to colored, to completion.

Every tutorial I find gives me something like this.. "Pic1 - sketch; Yes, so then I added some colors, Pic2 - colors; Yes, so then I added some highlights."

I want to know HOW you added colors, highlights.. and what METHODS you used. I don't want to know the step by step, I want to know the in depth METHODS you used!

Hehe =) Thanks for the reply, take care.