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Published: 2014-05-17 10:43:32 +0000 UTC; Views: 776; Favourites: 23; Downloads: 0
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when i feel down or just have nothing to do, i drive my "best friend" to the beach n together we watch sunsetpracticing to draw car Β
i know wats wrong with my drawing : didnt draw any details on the tires, no plate number n the shading is awful Β
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thank u very much ^^
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Wow, I think you got quite a talent for landscape-drawings. The sky is just awesome! ^-^ And the water... ~ :>
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thank u thank u so so muccchh Β
hehee....would u like to watch sunset with me??Β
okay okay dont *kick*me Β
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haha no prob xD I won't kick you xDD
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The car looks really good, despite what you said! Drawing stuff like cars etc is really difficult, imo, but you've shown you have the knack for it. Keep up the good work!
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thank u so much...u r soooo nice Β
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i forgot to mention that i love the serene atmosphere of the piece ^^ it's very calming
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yeah, whenever need to be alone, always go to the beach, sit there by myself, sometimes its kinda relaxed Β
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dat car thoo~~~ i wish i knew how to draw one ;^; i should practice~
the shading is not awful! 
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geees...thank u for loving the water Β
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I think the shadow of the car was a little off, it didn't go on the same direction as the car, the image is a bit dark that the shadings doesn't look neat, & you were right, you didn't put any details on the car. BUT you already did a good job on practicing car, I really like it's outcome. Good perspective & very neat lineart. I also like how you put effort in shading the sky to make clouds.
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yes, the shadow is off...this drawing have many flaws..
thanks a bunch sweetie..its really nice to hear such a beauty like u did the compliments on my humble drawings
i cant give anything xpensive for u...but i give this from my heart Β
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No problem & Thank you very much
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also the angle of the car is a little weird BUT it's waaaaaay better than any car I've done 
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thank u thank u
the poems i found it on google i just copied it im not good at composing wordsΒ
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you're welcome 
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I like the person, but I think the perspective needs a little work. The drawing looks almost tilted.
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yes, this drawing is kinda fail, maybe i should put "FAILED" next to the title Β
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really nice perspective and idea ^^ and you seem to know the little probs by your self so...
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yeah.. i know wat i did to this drawing...
btw thank u sooooooooo much heheee Β
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I really love the background with the reflection of the moon / sun on the water as well as the mosaic wall and the tiled ground. Besides the wheels, the car looks super awesome~
Overall it looks amazing~ Β Β Β
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hiks hiks..thank u so mucchΒ Β so far no one mention about the mosaic wall, u r the only one, its so touching Β
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Nice shading with the car near the sunset. The sky look good.
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Nice effort.
First I need to ask you, did you willingly make that horizon line curved?
It's always a good practice to keep the horizon line straight. You can move it's angle (not highly recommended) but better not make it curve. Though lots of manga does it - but remember they make it look like seen from fish-eye lens. Every elements and every proportions change with it, not just the horizon line.
Right now it seems like the world is falling on the left.
Now other things -
1. It seemed to me that you are good to draw machines and it's right. You draw machines well. The car looks great. There can't be any negative comment on the car (except the tires)
2. Making the tires totally black, you gave it an impression of big black balloons, not wheel and tires. So more time next time and draw tires.
3. Not sure what you wanted to draw actually. A drawing of a car or a full scene? If you intended to make a full scene, then I must say you've put so much effort on the car that everything else in the picture lost it's meaning.
So when you are focusing on a particular subject - like the car - then draw only the car. And if you want to make a full scene, then don't give anything more details than other one. Think of the full scene and work on the bigger picture. Bigger picture means the picture itself instead of individual elements. If you see famous artists' paintings, specially impressionist painters, you will see they didn't give any elements finest details but at the end the whole picture looks beautiful. That's called working on bigger picture. You can say what about the realistic painters? They also followed the same rules, first they imagined the entire scene and then blocked in colours and then put details to everything at the end.
Right now your car has 5 times more details than rest of the scene.
Simple rule:
Successful normal drawing (landscape, scene, concept)= draw less at first.
Successful technical drawing = draw only focused object and put all the details you can put.
4. Object proportions. I am not sure about this one, but look at the slabs on floor and then to the car - the slabs don't seem a little bigger? it is making the car look smaller. And I think that car is not that small.
Decrease the slab size according to the car's size next time. Also the man shouldn't be that big.
You will be highly benefitted if you read/watch tutorials or books on 'perspectives and sizes'.
5. Dotted lines for clouds? That's a totally different style - that's like a decorative style of drawing - Doesn't match your drawing. It's better to draw the clouds using the eraser as you did to the smaller clouds.
6. Texts - what is worse than putting texts in drawing? putting small texts! Texts captures our brain's attention faster than anything else in the picture. And when the eyes can't read them because they are too small or illegible - then where does the mind goes? It wanders all over the painting WITHOUT interest.
It's neither a supportive illustration, nor the texts tell anything informative. Remember - human started to draw because they had no language. Once a great artists said "I lifted my brushes because I fell short of words". So reduce texts in drawings and definitely not small texts.
7. I can see a bad tangent. Where? Draw a line on the car's roof - it will join the ocean's horizon line. You erased that part but that doesn't change the level.
8. Here comes the most tough part. You need to observe realistic shadows. That's difficult but not impossible.
The car's shadow on surface is not near realistic.
9. Do you scan your pencil drawings? or photograph them? Do you use any photoediting softwares? if not, then I would highly suggest to scan the pencil/charcoal/ink drawings (if you can) and edit them to increase the contrast and natural page colour.
Hope that helps.
p.s.Next time try straightened up the horizontal line! The car is sliding off.
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ive mentally prepared before asking u to take a look at my drawing coz i know i'll get tons of critiques from u... n now im ready to plunge into the sea of critiques
- yes sir, next time i wont mess up with the horizontal line i wont play with the fire anymore n now i get burned
1. thank u, sir
2. yes, next time i'll put some details (eventho im not sure whether the details adequate or not Β Β )
3. got it !! i'll keep it in mind
actually i wanna draw a car, n it failed again...maybe next time i just draw a background-only drawing
4. yes, failed again on object proportions
have so many things to learn if wanna draw correctly, its really not easy
5. got it !!
6. ok, this time i have to admit it that im trying to make a drawing+text, but its always failed like u see...
7. noooooooo... bad tangent again..
8. yes, i know its shadow isnt right, but i dont know how to fix it...i'll try to use reference next time otherwise my drawing goes nowhere
9. i scanned it n i always use pencil, no ink, no charcoal.. i dont do any photoediting or photoshop on my drawing, so if theres something wrong just let it be n i'll fix it on my next drawing..btw wat should i do with the contrast? is it too dark?
p.s. ok sir, next time my drawing wont be so disappointing anymore
thanks for ur deep critique, as usual urs is really a big help Β
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Yes, Horizontal line is a great tool if you can use it properly - you will know more about it if you read about perspectives. So it's always better to not mess with it unless you know very well what you are doing.
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The details are never enough
In the previous drawings, your stylized text didn't look bad on drawing, just they were visually attention grabber. But this small writing which can't be read is total distraction. Β
I also have seen some people use some terribly decorative fonts that one can't even read the document.Β
Hmm no trick for bad tangent, just be sincerely practice - draw and draw like crazy
Shadows - I myself asked this question long time ago to a digital painter. He said he studied lots of real life objects, and, as the result his paintings' shadows got a 'close' touch of reality. Observation is always the first way. A second way is Geometry - take the source of light as a single point or dot and drag lines from there touching the object's corners, and draw until the lines meet the ground. Fill the area on ground. And there you get an almost real like shadow.
Here is a loose example -Β
Β something like that.
Scanning: You must use some photoediting software to 'clean up' your drawing. Gimp is a free one.
-scan well
-save in .TIFFΒ
-desaturate
-multiply natural paper colour (optional)
-increase contrast
-play with level
-flatten and export in .JPEG
-done.
Goodluck.
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honestly, im confused after reading about vanishing point Β maybe i should read it again n again, need time to digest..
but the second one about fore, middle n background is interesting, also the contrast issue...i wanna try drawing a simple one (contrast related drawing)Β Β
btw if i wanna put text into my drawing, wat kind of drawing should i draw?
ok, i'll download Gimp, geees thanks
my scan makes the drawing comes in blue, sucksΒ its nowhere near my original drawing
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Vanishing point is simply a point on horizon line, every thing 'supposed' to be vanish there in a drawing.
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btw if i wanna put text into my drawing, wat kind of drawing should i draw?You want to draw so that you can put texts in it? 
For an example: Like if you draw a tank, and just write the tank' name with great decoration and style - that won't earn you extra credit. Instead labelling parts of the tank in small clean legible words will be sufficient.
Some other storybook illustrations can have texts too. But that's not your job. I mean in those kind of things, artist draws the picture, writer writes the lines, and the publisher or editor combines those together.
No scanner in world gives a perfect result. So one always have to edit it. Bluish output - that's why the first step I mentioned is 'desaturate'. Then brightness and contrast. Lastly level.
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You want to draw so that you can put texts in it?
maaaan....how can u read my mind?
actually yes...thats wat i intend to do but oh well...i just do the drawing
ok, i try to adjust the brightness n contrast, hope my upcoming drawing will be brighter
btw wat is prompt challenge? is the theme is food?
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actually yes...thats wat i intend to do but oh well...Well if you want to draw so that you can put texts in it - which means the text's output is primary for you - then I will not be much help for you. What you are intending to do is called Calligraphy (traditionally) or Typography (digitally). I have not much knowledge in those fields. So I can't help you if the drawing is only secondary and supporting element of your texts.
If you are intending to do Manga or Comics style drawing which has texts in it for the sake of a storyline - then those also will follow the rules of compositions. A real comic artist just doesn't put text anywhere. They have some designs for that.
btw wat is prompt challenge? is the theme is food?You meant the Prompt challenge in Rising-Artists ? That's a very nice competition they held every month. Every month they choose a theme and ask the members to make art based on those themes. The winners get a prize which they mentioned. It's a very healthy practice to participate, practice and have a good spirit
Last month's theme was Cuisine and this month's theme is Envy which is over too. Soon they will declare a new theme. Any member can participate.
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noooo.... then my comics r also failed
*just finished my comic n yeaah failed*
i think i'll still upload it but have to erase all the dialogs, haaay....
wat i did with my drawing likes a blind man walking without guiding, stumble n stumble again..
about the competition, wat ive seen so far in many many groups, never the traditonal art won, black n white never won against those colored art , no matter how skilled the artists are have to admit defeat to the colored one, ive seen this a lot.. kinda not fair, yeah i know color is more interesting to see than just black n white..
i think maybe they should held a competition only for graphite only, so anyone who use pencil have chance to win
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If you want to make comics, first you have to develop a style. Not necessarily original style but original is always better. So drawing and understanding composition will be included in those things. And the text speech bubble in a comics page is always designed based on where the viewer's eyes will go first. Normally you see the picture first and then read the text. That's designed like that. Putting text anywhere will cause the viewers notice that only at first.
And the colours vs b/w thing - you see one can do a lot with a pencil or a pen. I have seen artists here who makes stunning drawing. Do you know most of the artists who paints in colours, paints the whole thing in b/w first? To learn the values. But we human being's eyes are easily drawn to colourful things, warm things - so people loves colours. Also putting colours are a but harder in my opinion that doing things in b/w. Colours stay in harmonic relations with each other. Using correct ones are tricky. But if an artist's b/w art piece has more impact than someone's colourful art-piece, then I don't see a reason why it won't get recognized. See an art like this -Β fav.me/d6uxl1u or this fav.me/d5bjt2m can it go unrecognized? Never.
The first one is pen drawing and the second is only mechanical pencil drawing.
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yup many talented peoples out there their skill is just amazing
wish i could found one to teach me Β Β
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You can find more like those awesome artists on dA or their Β websites or blogs and ask some specific set of queries in a comment of their deviation. I guess most of them willΒ be happy to help. Some may reply in one line coldy and some may reply broadly. Don't be discouraged and keep on learning. And read books on the subject you want to learn. Read all related articles and listen to all advises, even if the artist tells it in one line - take all knowledges what you can gather.
Being self taught is hard, not impossible. Also if you have chance to get enrolled in art classes, then do -- You will have professional advices.
Also ask in forums. Forum is a great place to learn I told you.
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yeah..u r right...thanks for ur advice, now im full of "spirit"
i'll try to draw something tomorrow Β
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No problem.
Goodluck 
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The perspective and the atmosphere here in this picture's pretty nice! However, I think the middle part of the car looks a bit compressed and the shading can be a little less gradual and "shinier," due to the fact that car materials tend to be that way. Might also want to make the shadow a bit smoother (and check the perspective of the shadow; I think it looks a bit off compared to the ground and car).
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u r right...thanks for ur advices, this drawing comes with many errors Β
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