The Reborn Art thread

[LilaChan]

^I think I gave even harsher comments about yours . It's perfectly fine (actually I'm quite thankful for it), I couldn't pin point exactly what's wrong with the pictuer anyway. It's hard to notice what's wrong with your own picture then someone else's.

learning to draw from anime/manga drawings or any kind of caricature usually never get someone very far. I learned my lesson the HARD way

Agreed. I ended up only being able to draw anime/manga style and cannot draw anything else. But I gone too far to unlearn anything now T_T

(And yes, I had to google up some of the words you used...my english really fails )

[R4n]

^ you are still too kind, i had received much honest and harsher comments before (from my peers, not internet people), so don't be afraid to hurt my feelings. Seriously, i would rather being hurt if it helps me achieve my goal. No pain no gain.

I dislike empty flattery much more than flames. Flattery poisons your mind, creating a barrier in which you'll never improve. Everybody lives in reality and not some kind of delusional world.

Honest opinion and harsh crits push you forward. so bring it on.

[LilaChan]

^I like your attitude

Often, the people you know better would actually critise you work then people you just happen to 'know'. My friends often say the men that I draw looks like girls...and how the girls just looks like moe blobs. I guess on the internet you don't try and criticise too harshly because you have no idea how that 'person' would react. Just never criticise 12 year olds too harshly.

Flattery poisons your mind, creating a barrier in which you'll never improve. Everybody lives in reality and not some kind of delusional world.

Why am I imagining you in a sea of fire screaming that out with over load of hotbloodedness? xD

Honest opinion and harsh crits push you forward. so bring it on.

Quoted for the truth.

[iPikachu]

i saw that genkishi at the contest thread too, thats some really good work with the metal plates.

i guess its best to start from realism, this year my art teacher started with drawing realistic potraits and the guide lines and all helped a lot c:



basically his head's poprtions are wrong, ears are supposed to be "on par" with the eyes, the neck is too thick?.. the "adam's apple" is positioned wrongly i think.. and yeah the head is flat.

I guess on the internet you don't try and criticise too harshly because you have no idea how that 'person' would react.

on the internet i tend to criticise a little, but on a specific forum the general age is young girls and they tend to be angry over little comments >_>
though you're sort of right, my friend was drawing alphonse from fma in his anime-human form today and i just told him "it sucks deal with it" likewise he does the same thing

......how is chrome easy to draw? she's like the hardest for me. RRAGE


some sketches
hmm okay apparently imageshack hates me that much..

does not look normal enough.

does not look angry enough.

does not look epic enough.

[R4n]

... dump and run *embarassed*

i am sorry for the big file size......
Edit: i just realized that the head is way too big TT__TT

[hdiuy]

... dump and run *embarassed*

i am sorry for the big file size......
Edit: i just realized that the head is way too big TT__TT

I was wondering to what end do you wanna improve your drawing on? I have seen people draw the the exact version(from the manga) of a character and it looks nice and i have seen people drawing their own style of a manga character and it looks nice as well.

Honestly i thought that your Chrome looks nice and that the head doesn't look big. And no it is isn't some empty flattery , but then again i'm a sucker when it comes to drawings. I may not be some kind of expert in drawing but i thought your drawing was cool.


EDIT: Holy cow, i just reaslised you posted your post 4am in the morning!

[R4n]

... i think i might be a little bit too harsh on things. But yes i do prefer ppl not holding back their crits... =D
you are a nice guy (judging from your posts...) ^^

[iPikachu]

you're seeking draw/illustrating for profession? o_o

i don't see anything wrong with the head either... o_o head shape? then again i dont have my side view ref paper so i cant really compare..

(i wish i got classmates that draw as well as you, in my art class 80% all don't like to draw)

[LilaChan]

Happy Chinese new year everyone <3 Now gimme my red packets

Erm...chinese new year gift? Or maybe not . I just happened to finish it today that's all. I loved that frame with G (1st's Storm Guardian), so I wanted to colour it. It was impossible to clean the magazine scan and colour it, so I ended up tracing it. I detest vectoring, so I just inked it how I usually do. Inked and coloured on Paint Tool Sai, random crappy effects by Photoshop. This is the exact size that I coloured with...and erm...it's kinda wallpaper size but kinda not. Erm..that's all really. Not much to say about it. Criticism welcome (if I don't say this, no one will ever critise it )

[pandaaqueen]

I love the colours you've chosen, above all the eye colour.

The highlights of the right eye look unnatural, though.

[R4n]

i think you forget to add the white highlight for the right eye

[Crude]

Very impressive colouring, though I think the hair colour and the background are way too similar. Maybe change one of them?

[LilaChan]

^The hair doesn't seem to intergrate with the rest of the picture, so I tried to make the background colour similar to see whether it'll work out better.

Anyway...I'm surprised that at least three people haven't notice two big fat misakes . Or did you three just didn't mention it?

1) The piece is mirrored compared to the original (because I found it easier to colour it from the other side and forgot to flip it back)
2) I forgot to colour the tattoo/scar/whateveritis

Anyway, I tried to change the glow on the eyes to make it look right, still doesn't look right. Added a darker tone for the inside of the mouth. I changed the crappy texture into another crappy texture. I nicked the texture from NASA...it's just the photo of the moon.



Here it is without all the crappy stuff I added. It actually looks better

[pandaaqueen]

Or did you three just didn't mention it?

This.

He looks much better without the tattoo anyway XD It's far too stereotyped, for my own part. I don't have anything against tattoos in general, admittedly. Dino's tattoos set a good example, imo. They are stylish, well-designed and original.

[Crude]

I actually didn't notice, and I re-read the chapter just a while ago... Anyway, the colouring is awesome, though I have one more little issue. The hair looks odd since everything else seems to have a black outline.

And about tattoos, I have to agree with pandaqueen. I've always found tribal tatoos to be way cooler.