julie Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 Wow, you guys have done such beautiful work . What talent, to be able to draw so well. I can't draw a straight line . I don't know how I missed this thread for so long . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vodkafan Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 Thanks for suggesting Van Gogh's paintings, I will try and look at some. Not his paintings, his drawings. You can google it and some will come up. His early ones are quite poor but you can see him really striving and they have a lot of charm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karen.d Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 Not his paintings, his drawings. You can google it and some will come up. His early ones are quite poor but you can see him really striving and they have a lot of charm. Ok thanks I will search out his drawings Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pickle Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 Karen I love the cat looks very realistic and I am glad you are enjoying your art classes, I always think drawing painting like music and literature are essentials to life. Have spent a few days in the studio this week as I have been on leave so I managed to get my latest picture finished. Its called the gate in the woods, although I have done a bit more to it on the top since I took this picture. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vodkafan Posted January 2, 2012 Share Posted January 2, 2012 I like that pickle that would be an enchanted place if ever there was one! Reminds me a lot of the stories in The Bloody Chamber I just read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppy Posted January 2, 2012 Share Posted January 2, 2012 Pickle, I just love your drawings! You would make such a wonderful illustrator of stories. Do you copy these or do they come out of your imagination? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BookGeek20 Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 I love these drawings as I havent read this thread in a while, I really need to get back into art and stuff, but I'm just so busy that I want to teach myself how to draw better so badly I also am eager to start selling my handmade bracelets on etsy and this year I aim to at least knit and finish one thing! Also to lose weight, save money, pass my driving test, sort out my OU application stuff.... The list goes on and I never get all the stuff I want to get done, done. Sorry going off topic heres a picture I drew when I first started teaching myself to draw: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
no-1-book-fan Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 I'm rubbish at drawing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weave Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 Everyone's drawings are so great, you are a talented bunch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nollaig Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 This is the last thing I drew, a Lion King styled lion I recently designed: This is Ahadi, father of Mufasa and Scar in Disney's The Lion King. He's a semi-canon character never mentioned in the main films - he makes a few appearances in some Lion King storybooks Disney released, and there are no officially accurate depictions of him, so beyond 'long dark mane, golden fur, green eyes', designing him is a free for all, which really is so much fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karen.d Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 This is the last thing I drew, a Lion King styled lion I recently designed: This is Ahadi, father of Mufasa and Scar in Disney's The Lion King. He's a semi-canon character never mentioned in the main films - he makes a few appearances in some Lion King storybooks Disney released, and there are no officially accurate depictions of him, so beyond 'long dark mane, golden fur, green eyes', designing him is a free for all, which really is so much fun. You drew this? It's amazing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nollaig Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karen.d Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 Thanks! How long did it take you to complete? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nollaig Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 How long did it take you to complete? That's a good question! I do it in bits and pieces, and I'm also chatting/browsing while drawing, so I don't have an exact figure but probably about 7 hours? I'm a very very slow artist and my methods are archaic. Most digital artists could do it in 1-3 hours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karen.d Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 So you have done this on computer? Very impressive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nollaig Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 Oh yeah the whole thing is digital. It looks a lot more impressive than it is, probably because most people don't know anything about how digital art is done, and a lot of things look impressive until you see the simplistic methods behind them! But thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenny Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 I'll definately have to post some of my stuff that I've done on here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inver Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 Pickle, I just love your drawings! You would make such a wonderful illustrator of stories. Do you copy these or do they come out of your imagination? Ditto. And yes Kenny you will have to put some on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pickle Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 Thanks for all you nice comments. Poppy they are mostly out of my imagination but I sometimes draw inspiration from other works I like and adapt them for my own. This is the one I am working on at the moment its not quite finished and has taken me ages I keep getting interupted by cups of tea Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrissy Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 Just the one word I can use here pickle.....WOW! That is beyond good....Like I said......WOW! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karen.d Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 Thanks for all you nice comments. Poppy they are mostly out of my imagination but I sometimes draw inspiration from other works I like and adapt them for my own. This is the one I am working on at the moment its not quite finished and has taken me ages I keep getting interupted by cups of tea I love this! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nollaig Posted February 8, 2012 Share Posted February 8, 2012 Pickle HOW do you draw like that? Where do you get your ideas, and how do you work out the warped perspectives? They always look amazing, and there's so much going on in every picture. Here's a pretty big piece I just finished the other day - first full piece with a background and all that I've done in recent times. The characters are, as per usual with me, semi-canon Lion King characters from LK storybooks. The designs are my own, I tend to take a lot of liberties with the designs because the pictures in the books aren't great/consistent. This is Mohatu, and baby Uru. For anyone who cares, which is probably nobody lol, the cub in this grows up to be the mate of the black-maned lion I posted about halfway up this page, Ahadi, and Ahadi and Uru are the parents of Mufasa and Scar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karen.d Posted February 8, 2012 Share Posted February 8, 2012 Pickle HOW do you draw like that? Where do you get your ideas, and how do you work out the warped perspectives? They always look amazing, and there's so much going on in every picture. Here's a pretty big piece I just finished the other day - first full piece with a background and all that I've done in recent times. The characters are, as per usual with me, semi-canon Lion King characters from LK storybooks. The designs are my own, I tend to take a lot of liberties with the designs because the pictures in the books aren't great/consistent. This is Mohatu, and baby Uru. For anyone who cares, which is probably nobody lol, the cub in this grows up to be the mate of the black-maned lion I posted about halfway up this page, Ahadi, and Ahadi and Uru are the parents of Mufasa and Scar This is beautiful. I really love the rich colours of the sky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pickle Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 (edited) Pickle HOW do you draw like that? Where do you get your ideas, and how do you work out the warped perspectives? They always look amazing, and there's so much going on in every picture. Here's a pretty big piece I just finished the other day - first full piece with a background and all that I've done in recent times. The characters are, as per usual with me, semi-canon Lion King characters from LK storybooks. The designs are my own, I tend to take a lot of liberties with the designs because the pictures in the books aren't great/consistent. This is Mohatu, and baby Uru. For anyone who cares, which is probably nobody lol, the cub in this grows up to be the mate of the black-maned lion I posted about halfway up this page, Ahadi, and Ahadi and Uru are the parents of Mufasa and Scar I love it Noll, looks amazing I am terrible at doing things to look like the things they are supposed to, if that makes any sense, and if it does it answers your question. the reason I draw at such skew wiff angles is because it makes sense to me, I love distorting the perspective and playing around trying to make things appear subtly wrong. The idea for this one and a couple of my others have come from the Ilustrations of fairytale books, the round one from Sleeping Beauty. In the original its beautifully coloured and there is a figure at the top of the stairs, because I was doing it in black and white I didn't have the luxury of adding dimensions thorugh colour so instead of that I created pictures within the panels sometimes they are motifs and other times they are details of fairytales which I have taken from other books and pictures. The one I started last weekend is more straightforward and is a copy again no colour so I have to Individualise them to make them mine and add in detail which doesn't necessarily appear in the original. However a lot of the time I work straight from my own imagination and create whole scences not using any references at all. Edited February 10, 2012 by pickle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppy Posted February 11, 2012 Share Posted February 11, 2012 Just the one word I can use here pickle.....WOW! That is beyond good....Like I said......WOW! You are so incredibly talented pickle. And Nollaig, you too, that is so exactly like the original!! You could both be book illustrators, I have no doubt! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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