A Cartoonist's
Playground
In this blog I'll share my
experiences navigating digital art and cartoons. |
In this blog I'll share my
experiences navigating digital art and cartoons. |
I think my strongest drawing ability is drawing faces. Here is my advice on how to draw them. Step 1: Get a photo of your subject
Step 2: Identify and draw the major lines
Step 3: Add in other features This is where I draw in the eyes and the mouth. You can also add in other minor facial details here. Step 4: Draw in the hair and clothes The hair and clothes are much freer than the facial features. Hair moves and clothes have unique wrinkles. You don't need to base this off of the photo, however if you aren't yet familiar with drawing clothes and hair then you may want to draw the shapes of the locks of hair and the wrinkles and folds in the clothes as they appear in the picture. As you can see I didn't draw the hair and clothes exactly as they appear in the picture, but I did take inspiration from their general shapes in the photos. Step 5: Final details and color Add in your final details to your drawing and color it! Depending on what style you're going for, you might want to color it in different ways. Here are a few. For more on faces, I learned a lot from Christopher Hart's books Figure It Out: Human Proportions and
Figure It Out: The Beginner's Guide to Drawing People.
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One of the first things about art is the medium. Whether you use paint, or pencils, or computers, you have some sort of medium. When I started drawing comics, I used pencil and paper. I would draw the picture on paper, outline it in pen, take a picture of it, get rid of noise, send it to my computer, get rid of noise some more, color it, put speech bubbles in, and finally edit the multiple frames together. This is a complicated and tedious process that took up time with only decent results. Occasionally lines from the picture of the paper would remain in the final, as would lines I erased on the paper that still had imprints. In the picture below you can see that in the final the lines still have some white around them. Then I found Autodesk Sketchbook. I started with the mobile version on my ipad, and then switched to the PC version when I got my new computer. At first when I was using my ipad, I still had to transfer the drawings from my ipad to my laptop, but it was much less hassle and much less steps. When I started doing it on my computer, I had it all on one device. This made it much faster and more convenient. I soon also switched from putting the text in using PowerPoint's speech bubbles to putting them in using Autodesk sketchbook itself. I've also learned some tricks over time, but I'll share those a different time.
My ArtI just want to put it out there that I am not a professional artist or have any experience for that matter other than my self taught art skills. And books. Okay. Now that I completely discredited myself, I'm prove my worth. This is my art. These are from my superhero comic strip. It might be hard to understand what's going on if you haven't read any of it before, since it's an ongoing storyline. But you can see the art. I've also done other artwork, such as the backgrounds for this website. You can see more by going to the art tab. ImprovementI'm learning as I go. I'm improving as I go. To show this, below is what I considered to be some of my best work this past spring/early summer (left) and what I consider to be some of my best work now (right). I used pictures of the same characters and similar scenes for comparison. Next TimeIn future posts, I'm not going to show as much art and I'm going to talk more about things I learned and what I found useful. I'll definitely keep you updated on my art, though. If you want to see more, go to the art tab!
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My name is Loren SinclairI am an artist and amateur cartoonist. I have been drawing my own comic strips (the biggest one about superheroes) and improving my art along the way. Archives
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