The discussion revolves around alternative tools and methods for drawing and adding color to artwork. Participants share their experiences and creative ideas regarding materials beyond traditional pens and crayons, exploring various mediums and techniques.
Participants express a variety of opinions on drawing tools and techniques, with no clear consensus on the best methods or materials. Multiple competing views remain regarding the use of unconventional materials and personal preferences in artistic expression.
Some participants express uncertainty about their skills and the effectiveness of different techniques, indicating a range of experiences and comfort levels with drawing.
Artists, hobbyists, and individuals interested in creative expression may find this discussion useful for exploring alternative drawing methods and materials.
That's pretty good, Moonie. I don't know why you were worried about your handling of perspective. It looks spot-on to me. It's also quite neat to have those bits of colour in an otherwise B&W image.Moonbear said:
Well, what's really funny is that it's not what I was intending to draw. I was sitting on my deck drawing that, but it appears to be more the way I imagine you'd see it as viewed from the roof! I had to fill in stuff that I couldn't see because the perspective got skewed.Danger said:
Now you're really giving me more credit than I deserve. It's a color sketch. The flower pot thing is white (in reality too), the rest is all in color. It just doesn't show up too well in a photo of a light drawing. But, pretty much everything I was drawing there uses straight lines, so it's a lot easier than when I get to drawing landscape and stuff like that. Then it starts to look like a child drew it (and even worse if I try to draw in any animals or people). Um, so, yeah, in retrospect, you're right, that would have been really cool to do as a B&W sketch and then just draw in the pink flowers. Maybe I can try that variation another day. It was kind of nice to just sit out on the deck this afternoon with all my colored pencils drawing.It's also quite neat to have those bits of colour in an otherwise B&W image.
Wait until I try adding a tree in. Maybe if I try drawing it to look like a brain, it might look like a tree.Evo said:MB, that's very pretty! But you know, it looks like a brain.
Those are the flowers I planted last weekend.Sorry, I couldn't resist. It is very pretty!
My drawing doesn't do them justice.That's pretty cool, in a squirrelly sort of way. Doesn't fit on my monitor, though, so I have to scroll around it.Gale17 said:
I notice it's on notebook paper...just how boring was the class you were drawing that one in?!Gale17 said:
It would have been even better if this wasn't a med school class and this future physician wasn't paying a damned bit of attention to the lecture on reproductive physiology!Moonbear said:I notice it's on notebook paper...just how boring was the class you were drawing that one in?!
That's a lot more like what I would consider abstract art. My eyes were really drawn to that road in a star for some reason. Pretty nifty.
That seems more like surrealism than abstract. It struck me as very Dali-esque!Gale17 said:
The stick figures in the glass of water made me laugh (especially the two fighting at the bottom
). The rest is quite good.Pretty elaborate doodle there! Inspired by Mushroom, mushroom!?
Hey, that guy in that doodle has the same top hat as you had in the other drawing! You must like drawing top hats.Moonbear said:That seems more like surrealism than abstract. It struck me as very Dali-esque!
The stick figures in the glass of water made me laugh (especially the two fighting at the bottom
Pretty elaborate doodle there! Inspired by Mushroom, mushroom!?
TheStatutoryApe said:
I really like Dali myself.Gale17 said:
It probably depends on what you draw often. Those things in your list seem pretty normal.
Yep, you're good at drawing those things, or they have shapes you enjoy drawing.
Actually, only you can answer that.Very good. You make the rest of us look like kindergarteners!TheStatutoryApe said:These are a bit small but at full size they are really big.
I haven't worked on any art in quite some time. It's rather depressing.
I really like those, especially the 2nd one with the flying baby. Sort of reminds me of Terry Gilliam's drawings for Monty Python. And that's a really good drawing of the dude in the doodle (is that why the call it that?). I notice that he has feet like Moonbear, though.Gale17 said:
Thank you Moonbear.Moonbear said:Very good. You make the rest of us look like kindergarteners!
Hey, maybe we can fix up enigma with that winged woman!
Sorry Danger. They seem to kinda come and go. Until Moonbear commented I wasn't sure tehy were showing up properly or not. I think you'd like the winged lady she was referring to though. ;-)Danger said:
You stashed them, perhaps, as bitmaps? Normally those work okay, but I couldn't see some here until Evo converted them to jpegs. Doesn't make sense why I can access them on some sites and not on others.TheStatutoryApe said:
At first they showed up as broken links, then I clicked "quote" and copied the URLs to view them, and they showed up okay after that. I thought you fixed something between when I first viewed them and when I clicked "quote."TheStatutoryApe said:
They're both jpegs. I think it's an issue with the image tags linking to the server they're on. Here, I've copied them as direct links instead of with the image tags. See if this helps:Danger said:
Thanks for the effort on my behalf, but both flagged me with "FORBIDDEN You don't have permission to access"... etc.. I'll just have to wait until he's famous and buy the prints.Moonbear said:
This is the kind of "abstract" art I like. Lots of energy and detail, and which displays actual drawing skill.Gale17 said:
Thanks, but no go. I tried it and still got the same message.yomamma said:
This is an actual, realistic sketch. Not bad at all for the time you spent on it. I assume if you worked on it longer it would become bolder and easier to see (It's on the faint side as is).Moonbear said:
zoobyshoe said:
Hmm...odd. Try opening another window for some other site, like google, and then paste in the address from there. Sometimes sites get funny about direct links from here, though you'd think we'd all have that problem if that was the issue. It's a shame, because his drawings are really very good. One is of an alien sitting in front of a pyramid and the other is of a nude, winged woman.Danger said:
I agree. You've got some talent there Gale. So do you have any artistic aspirations or are you really mostly just interested in math?zoobyshoe said: