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2/2/2014 10:32:07 PM
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Even though the scanner washed a lot of this out (I know how irritating scanners can be, and you can try to turn the brightness down on it to help), I can see the texture well enough to say you're doing amazingly well. On the neck I can see your mixed stippling style convey the rough almost scaley texture of the skin.
Did you work from a screenshot or your imagination?
I would really suggest not using lined paper however and perhaps draw out your entire concept before you begin texture and shading. It will be much easier to accomplish what you desire in the future.
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Currently everything I do needs a base picture for me to rely on. I'm not at the stage where I can pull stuff up outta my head. If I was, hell, you'd need a big ass book for it all. I need to learn more about stuff like that for it to work. As it stands, I figure if in the meantime I practice on images, I can hone copying images while simultaneously learning about various forms of shading and all that. That way, when the time comes that I finally find a way to not only practice and learn how to do entire pictures, especially those centered around anatomy of things and perspective, I will have honed my skills at taking an image and putting it onto paper. And as for my only grey, black, and white works, I figure if I can learn my way around all the various shadings and workings of black and white, when I finally step into the world of colour, it will be that much less of a hard step. As for paper, believe me, I know I need to ditch the lined paper. But as it stands it's all I really have. There's one store in town that sells paper of any kind, and it being such a backwater place like hell they'd ever get art supplies. They don't even have blank printer paper. Even that would be a step up. But there's more to it than just that. I'm sure if I looked hard enough, I could find some blank paper. But these notebooks are more than that. They're a stepping stone. When every last page is filled with whatever I chose to fill them with, and I feel that I can create something worthy of going onto a piece of paper meant for such things, without wasting the material, then I'll move on. In the meantime, washed out pieces of practice work and oddly glaring blue lines it is.
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That's a good way to look at it. People tend to chastise others for copying photos and labeling them as "unoriginal". But it's how we learn. We use reference photos forever even after we've moved away from replicating an image line for line. Being able to see your skills as finely as you do is an incredible one up you have. You're aware and willing to face the challenges that have presented themselves to you. I wish you luck and hope to see a lot more from you in the future.
