My stuff

[evil^milk]

Hi! :cheese: from now on I think I'll be doing drawings and stuff, so to keep it organized this shall now be my own thread :E Crits and comments are welcome

This is my first attempt at digital painting using a tutorial:

 

[ktimekiller]

looks decent

 

[theotherguy]

awesome. hair looks nice, but her back is kind of squareish.

 

[nofx]

what res you working at? work atleast 2000 x 2000 with 300 DPi or 250 dpi and just zoom in and plan out unless you are speed sketching

 

[evil^milk]

Thanks for the comments Hehe, I was using 500 x 500 But I shall be using 2000 x 2000 from now on.

 

[Finger]

In all honesty, working at such high resolutions as a beginner is possibly not the best approach.

I found that working at smaller 1000x1000 or even 500x500 pixel images both keeps you from flying off into the details right away, and is easier to manage in photoshop (runs much faster and cleaner, smaller file size..etc).

My main reason for this comment is to try and dissuade any new digital artist from doing exactly what I did - missing the forest for the trees. It's easy to go straight for the icing and try to produce highly polished, painstakingly detailed works. The main thing you want to do when you first begin digital painting, is to bang out a ton of quick works as studies.... learn your toolset and basics without worrying about creating these monsterous detailed paintings. Work big and fast at first, use the biggest brush you can to get the shapes and volumes you want and don't be afraid to keep things loose and unpolished. There's plenty of time in the future for detailing every pore of your magnificent female orc goddess, once you've wrapped your head around the basics. At that point, you can take your small works, blow up the resolution, and go in for all the glorious details.

my 2 cents

 

[nofx]

In all honesty, working at such high resolutions as a beginner is possibly not the best approach.

I found that working at smaller 1000x1000 or even 500x500 pixel images both keeps you from flying off into the details right away, and is easier to manage in photoshop (runs much faster and cleaner, smaller file size..etc).

My main reason for this comment is to try and dissuade any new digital artist from doing exactly what I did - missing the forest for the trees. It's easy to go straight for the icing and try to produce highly polished, painstakingly detailed works. The main thing you want to do when you first begin digital painting, is to bang out a ton of quick works as studies.... learn your toolset and basics without worrying about creating these monsterous detailed paintings. Work big and fast at first, use the biggest brush you can to get the shapes and volumes you want and don't be afraid to keep things loose and unpolished. There's plenty of time in the future for detailing every pore of your magnificent female orc goddess, once you've wrapped your head around the basics. At that point, you can take your small works, blow up the resolution, and go in for all the glorious details.

my 2 cents

true; listen just play around and whatever works best digital painting really has no right way its like a big deathmatch anything goes except cheats and plagarism of course.

 

[evil^milk]

new stuff

Thanks Finger

I'm gonna redo this drawing... I don't like really like how it came out.

This is someone from that laguna beach show, saw her on the cover of Seventeen magazine. I didn't do the hair cuz my sister took the magazine and I couldn't finish it

I did this one while listening to Your Hand In Mine from Explosions in the Sky (brilliant song) I think it's the best out of the three. The veins are intentionally popped out.

as usual crits and comments are welcome

 

[evil^milk]

Mostly portraits

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As far as my drawings go, I think this is one of the best I've done in a while

 

[evil^milk]

^ LOL



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[BabyHeadCrab]

I really like the one you just posted.

So eerie

 

[Ennui]

Pan's Labyrinth is so good. That's an awesome sketch.

 

[evil^milk]

thanks guys :E

babyhc - it's from the film Pan's Labyrinth. Watch it, it's an amazing movie.

 

[watermonster]

You're doing great, love Pan's Labyrinth.