I drew a bunch of tribal designs while in high school, often as gifts for friends. I was proud enough to show them to a tattoo artist friend of mine in college. She said the lines were icky. Fast forward 2 years and I realized that she was right—They WERE icky. I said I’d clean them up someday. That someday never came because I too was busy.
Add 2 more years-ish. Decided to play with the pen tool and experiment with a Photoshop tutorial I found.
Y'all want a challenge? For the next week or so, spend at least 2 hours a day on a single piece of work. Spend it how you will. Concentrate on shading, lines, proportions, colors, composition, technique...
Challenge accepted.
I'm gonna improve on an already-existing piece of work.
banana mang, thats a rough challenge D:. I wish I could join ya, but I will wish ya luck! I look forward to the results.
Kenny if you don't mind my input, I would like to give you a suggestion dude. your hand sketches are all very solid and have great form. you followed that same form for your first key frame in your hand animation, but then ignored it for your final keyframe. so the solidity isnt there anymore. If you follow through and continue drawing the cylinders of the fingers, as well as the base paddle shape of the hand, for all the keyframes, you will have some dynamite results dude.
Hnil, I like the loose gesture and contours of your hand drawings.
Maybe a simpler challenge for those that cant devote that much time, would be moving from hands, to feet? bare feet can be tough to draw.
Kenny if you don't mind my input, I would like to give you a suggestion dude. your hand sketches are all very solid and have great form. you followed that same form for your first key frame in your hand animation, but then ignored it for your final keyframe. so the solidity isnt there anymore. If you follow through and continue drawing the cylinders of the fingers, as well as the base paddle shape of the hand, for all the keyframes, you will have some dynamite results dude.
Thanks for the input, I really appreciate it. Truth be told, the animation was just a test to see if the sketches would translate well into animation, but I guess I shouldn't excuse myself for being lazy. I'll make some more and then post them here when I can.
Kenny if you don't mind my input, I would like to give you a suggestion dude. your hand sketches are all very solid and have great form. you followed that same form for your first key frame in your hand animation, but then ignored it for your final keyframe. so the solidity isnt there anymore. If you follow through and continue drawing the cylinders of the fingers, as well as the base paddle shape of the hand, for all the keyframes, you will have some dynamite results dude.
Thanks for the input, I really appreciate it. Truth be told, the animation was just a test to see if the sketches would translate well into animation, but I guess I shouldn't excuse myself for being lazy. I'll make some more and then post them here when I can.
I'm thinking about doing a series of animations for further practice, but I just remembered how much of a pain drawing and inking in Flash was. I whipped this up to get a better understanding of both.
But first, I just had to remake my last drawing. Looking at it again after being away from the computer for several hours, there's just so much that looks... wrong. I dunno.