The Art Thread

while I don't know much about painting your style may lend itself better to oil painting. have you ever tried oil painting?

[Paedantic Basterd]

Originally Posted by Janszoon

^That looks great Ped! Beautiful lines and use of shadow.

Thanks! I'm going to finish it in charcoal, like so. (8 hours of work now)

[Alfred]

Originally Posted by Odyshape

while I don't know much about painting your style may lend itself better to oil painting. have you ever tried oil painting?

I have not. I think I was too specific, I'm new to painting in general.

I think I'm going to try watercolor next, but with very different subject matter.

[MagicallyDelicious]

Originally Posted by Alfred

I'm still pretty new to this acrylic painting thing, and this is the first painting I've done on stretch canvas (I've done a few others on canvas board). I decided to keep it simple, and somewhat generic... small steps and all. I'm hoping that future works will be more abstract or even creative, but this is an early attempt.

Sorry about the crappy quality, this is a cell phone photo.

it won't let me post the pic 'cause i'm too new i think, but i wanted to say i think the colors in that piece are lovely.

[Alfred]

Originally Posted by MagicallyDelicious

it won't let me post the pic 'cause i'm too new i think, but i wanted to say i think the colors in that piece are lovely.

Thank you very much!

Ive been falling in love with a different girl everyday for the past 2 weeks haha

[CanwllCorfe]

I'm in Drawing 1 right now. I have never drawn anything before, so it's ALL new to me. We've been working with charcoal for the last 2-3 classes, and today we had to copy a self portrait from some... guy as a class exercise. He has us do them upside down, so that we don't mess ourselves up. I thought that was a weird concept, but I definitely think it works.

[Janszoon]

Originally Posted by Odyshape

Ive been falling in love with a different girl everyday for the past 2 weeks haha

I love it! This has so much quirky character it just makes me smile.

Originally Posted by CanwllCorfe

I'm in Drawing 1 right now. I have never drawn anything before, so it's ALL new to me. We've been working with charcoal for the last 2-3 classes, and today we had to copy a self portrait from some... guy as a class exercise. He has us do them upside down, so that we don't mess ourselves up. I thought that was a weird concept, but I definitely think it works.

I dig it man. Excellent use of light and shadow. I'm amazed to hear a designer say they've never drawn anything before, but you did a great job.

[CanwllCorfe]

Originally Posted by Janszoon

I dig it man. Excellent use of light and shadow. I'm amazed to hear a designer say they've never drawn anything before, but you did a great job.

Thanks! And about the designer thing, well, I guess I technically have. But not in a fine arts kind of way. I've drawn boxes of content to get an idea of how I want to lay a website out, as well as some crude logo sketches, but have never sat down and drew something. I used to doodle in school too, but that was just to past the time. It was always just lines and shapes. I was always more into photography. Now I think I like both! I was immensely intimidated at first, but now I'm definitely more comfortable.

[Paedantic Basterd]

Never actually shared the completed product.

This is frankly, a bit crap, because I haven't taken the time to get a good copy of it in natural light. I feel like I ruined it somewhere along the line. I liked it better as lineart. Hm.