Carlye Luft
Montana
I broke my leg a few months back and began to learn to draw to pass the time.
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Carlye Luft
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1mo
added comment inCritique - Collecting Masters
Master the basics. Got it!
Carlye Luft
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2mo
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What an amazing skill to have to capture the perspective of all creatures big and small! From a tiny snail staring into the eyes of a fish with the underwater world surrounding. To the elaborate background of a city block that has so much in it the viewer will spend minutes scanning all the intricate details. Trippy psychedelic realism to bubbly cartoons!
PROBLEMS I'D LIKE TO SOLVE:
- Drawing simple scenes but creating dynamism by having the viewer looking at absurd angles. I always loved Bill Watterson's skill to do this in Calvin and Hobbes. For example, looking from above a Calvin drops a waterballoon on Suzie's head.
-Creating worlds and backgrounds in such detail that the viewer will take time to explore the happenings. Such as with Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein. Again Bill Patterson creating vast space worlds.
- Drawing dynamic characters in several perspectives including dynamic postures such as with Kim Jung Gi.
I'm very excited to see everyone's improvements of perspective over the next year!
@goobish
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2mo
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My submission for the organising line weight lesson would appreciate any advice on what I could practice/do better thanks.
go bolder with the lines. really make them thick where they should be thick. I don't really see much of a difference in your line weight. Otherwise, good start!
Carlye Luft
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2yr
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This was after Bernie Wrightson who is an absolute master and I am very humbled through this process. I was thinking I was going to pick up drawing where I left off 20 years ago! Haha! This was the best I could do. I worked really hard on this. At first I made so many searching lines that were dark and just didn't show any dynamics in the drawing. Then I took Stan's approach and instead of making it perfect first past I used lighter lines to start and went over them and also used the gum eraser to lighten things up. I don't know if I truly learned to do lines like Bernie. I tried to do a cross hatching of Frankenstein and it was a disaster. I am no where near that level yet. I did this with pencil and I think he used ink with a brush.
I like how you picked out a certain spot to learn from instead of trying the whole thing.
Carlye Luft
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2yr
After watching this I am realizing I have not explored the pencil enough in terms of the grips and different lines it can make by adjusting accordingly.
@shortayjorday
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2yr
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Tried again post demo. I only re-did the light and shadow one b/c I felt like it was the more difficult one to achieve. I feel like I don't quite understand when the line needs to be thicker vs. darker, but I think I'm getting there
I think when we learn about value the thickness vs darkness and light will make more sense. Nice lines!
Carlye Luft
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2yr
How do you make the lines of the original line photo lighter for printing purposes?
Also, how do you take the original photo and turn it into just lines? I wan't to do more of this to practice with other photos and with photos I've taken. Do I need a certain app?
Carlye, I had to download the picture, open it in Photos on my PC laptop (that's the default when opening a picture), copying the image, and pasting it into a Word document. Once it's in Word, click on it and choose Picture Tools, which will appear once you click on the picture. You'll see Transparency as an option on the left on the toolbar. I'm running Windows 11 and whatever version of Word came with it. Things might be arranged differently in other versions. If you're using a Mac, I hope someone else can help you with it!
@teolindroos
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2yr
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Good day! I noticed the vid just yesterday, i guess i had notifications off... But this is something I am constantly working on. I used to be a fulltime tattooartist, so this is something I have tried to push from day 1. 🙈 At the moment, I am trying to work as parttime tattooer in the "new-school" style which has huuge amount of different lineweights, some colored lines, some huge black ones. Here's some I have been working on lately and studied +photos of the aquarium reference (drew with pencil at the location, added colors and lights at home):
But still, I try to get time and do the rhino ASAP. Thanks for looking, happy spring to ya'll! ☀️☀️☀️
These are rad. I want to be a tattoo artist. Wish I had 9 lives! haha. Keep up the good work.
Carlye Luft
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2yr
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#1 Hierarchy of importance. #2 Light
They both look the same to me lol.
