I've just gone out and bought a printer/scanner/copier for my laptop this lunch break. :heart: Drawings are the only sort of art I can do. (I'm useless with image programs.) I'm going to be very late back to school, though. Can't post much now - I shouldn't even still be here now. :gssweatdrop:

Oh, neat. Show us some more, okay? B)

That's a very interesting drawing. I sort of reminds me of mine because of the pencilish feel to it. I'd like to see more, Rozzy-chan.

Ooh, you have drawings here, Sui-kun? Where?

Ahh... Thanks, both of you. I just had barely any time yesterday - and even as it was, I ended up missing a third of my chemistry lesson. :gssweatdrop: I didn't get into trouble, though, seeing how I arrived panting, sweating, coughing, and babbling about being out of painkillers.

Anyway, I don't actually have on me much of the stuff I've done in the past few years; I did most of it at skating, surrounded by a gaggle of sweet little kids watching me draw, so I'd usually let one of them take the finished picture home with them. I need to do some more drawing (as well as the million or so other leisure activities on my to-do list). Now that I've a scanner, I might even try my hand at some proper GS fanart. Well, this is some of what I can currently show you:


A pale girl, standing in the snow. Hence the abundance of white. Slightly Dragonlance-inspired, plus the obvious GS influence.


An attempt at sketching a Laliveran kid. Rather messy.

While I prefer pencil, I do a lot of scribbling with biros while I'm writing notes. Plus, I tried out the crayons my little cousins got with their goodie bags at a pizza place for a few things, and I've been experimenting with felt pens recently. They're not such good mediums as pencil... unsurprisingly.


(Eheh... Goes all square-y unless you look at it full size.)

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(For the swordswoman, I had limited skin tones available; bright pink or bright yellow. I figured everyone's used to the Simpsons. )

Plus, I just have to add the back cover of my student planner from last year. I didn't get much of a collage going, but I love these cuttings. :heart:

Your notebook is funny. :biglaugh: I like the one about the doctor.

Your art reminds me of mine, a couple years ago. I'm sorry to say mine are just a tad bit better. :gssweatdrop: Can you show us what you think is the best drawing you've drawn, ever?

Hey, pretty good pictures. Wish you the best at your current passion. I used to draw a lot back when I was younger. I should try to start drawing again. Plus, I've been practicin' a lot with Photoshop and hopefully I can get a decent CG someday.


I've found this on my computer. I can't believe I still have it.



This might be a little big for posting. I think Marlin has already seen this with color, (I THINK Marlin did?). But, yeah, I drew this 2 years ago. I should finish this someday, huh? If I do, I'll show it to ya. Keep up at what you're doing, cool?

Rozz, you've got some alright pics there. :happy: Kinda messy, and they're kinda missing something.... but they're alright. :sweatdrop: Practice makes perfect, eh? They remind me of any original pictures I try to draw...

I like your pic, ninja, but the eyes kinda wierd me out. :bigblink:


PS. ninja, I merged your two posts, because they were double posted. Use the edit button next time, no need for a new post, thanks.

Uh... thanks for wishing me the best with my writing, then. :gssweatdrop: Drawing isn't a passion, it's something that I've done on and off at times when I can't do anything else - between lessons, between dances, between periods of typing - though usually I just talk or something instead. Since my last post in this thread, I've spent hours and hours more typing, I've written a few more pages of notes on paper for various stories, and I've managed about half an hour of drawing; this thread exists partly to motivate me to start trying to do some fanart, now that there's more of a point. (I've been too lazy to do anything but fanfics until now, but long fanfics can be a bit inaccessible compared to pictures. :sad: )

That picture of yours is interesting, ninja. The style's quite accomplished. :heart: The eyes look a bit big. I'd like to see it finished. Can you show me the coloured version too?

Actually, that sounds like quite a compliment - though I suppose it depends on how long you'd been drawing at that point. I've only been trying out this style since I started watching anime. That was certainly less that two years ago! My best drawing ever wouldn't be anything done in this style; I haven't developed it enough. Before that, I only really drew during Art GCSE, as when I finished that course, I was kinda worn out. I went off art for a while. The best of the pieces I produced were sculptures, canvasses, prints of lightbulbs ( :idea: )... Not really scannable stuff. Looking through my old classwork, I think this is still one of my favourite drawings... and it's three years old. :gssweatdrop:



Oh, and it may not be so relevant, but I kinda like this collage from four years ago too.



Anyway, don't you have your stuff online anywhere? I'd really like to see it. Either way, do you have any drawing tips that you found useful in the last two years? I'm trying to start a Mercury Lighthouse scene.

You really want to see my stuff? I DO have a scanner by the way. I've it right next to me. Okay, so then I'll make a new topic. Give me an hour to get it up. :gssweatdrop:

Of course I have drawing tips. I took cartooning class. I know a whole lot about perspective, but of course, you must also know that. I also know a bit about coloring. I mean computer coloring. Not crayon coloring. :gssweatdrop:

That eye is real detailed. You made in class did you? For what purpose? And off who?

Of course I want to see your drawings! Very much so! And is your scanner also a photocopier?

Cartooning class? That does sound rather useful. I ought to work on that sort of thing - I tend to try and use the manga influence as a way of simplifying figures while trying to keep them sort of realistic. Which tips were the most pivotal in the way your style developed in the last two years? (If my stuff resembles yours then, then that might be what I'd find useful too.)

We only briefly covered perspective in Art. Mostly, we were taught about using different media (pencils, oil and chalk pastels, acrylic paints and thinning medium, clay, plaster of paris, polystyrene templates), drawing/painting small and close objects. Our coursework covered all sorts of things, but it was all individual. We weren't taught much more technique by that point. The crayon colouring may be kiddy, but it's fun. :gssweatdrop:

The eye was done because... that's what we were doing in class. Everyone had the same task; self portraits with tiny mirrors. I suppose the purpose of drawing it (as well as it being an interesting exercise) was to avoid disregarding the teacher and therefore getting a detention.

Don't you just love the way creased paper scans? Playing with scanners is so fun. :heart: The focal length is so short, the garlic gets blurred after such a short distance. The lemon turned out a bit mundane, though; I ought to cut a thinner slice and put something contrasting behind it.

You scanned a bunch of food? :wah?: Um, okay.

Whoooooaaaa.... I've a lot to say about this scan. And it's not just about food.

Food. Food. Lettuce, an onion, and a lemon slice. Okay. That's outrageous. :biglaugh: Creased paper? You mean the blackish part that looks like a gradient with white? Or maybe the crumbly white paper part that looks like mountains?

Okay... I haven't scanned yet. I'm trying to sort out which I should show, and which I should not.

EDIT: Scanner's not working. I'm not happy. *Searches for installation CD.*

It's not an onion, it's a bit of garlic!

It's crumbly white paper that I like. Though that didn't turn out as well as the paper at the edges of some of those other scans... Ah well. The only limit to what's scannable is the angle at which the lid must be closed. I'm sure I can think of a few ways round that eventually. For now, I've just a drawing. It's the start of the scene I'm attempting - my first piece of fanart. My friends have already pointed out a few areas that I managed to improve slightly that way, but it still looks off. And they all thought this was a picture of a girl...