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TommyMcGann — Cheating with a grid
Published: 2013-04-27 15:22:01 +0000 UTC; Views: 776; Favourites: 17; Downloads: 0
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Thorin Oakenshield as portrayed by Richard Armitage in Jackson's movie "The Hobbit". Black ink and bloody grid.I made this some months ago (on January 2013 prolly) and just found it while I was putting old books on my brand new IKEA bookcase. x) People told me that the best way to draw portraits was to use a grid to make sure proportions were respected. I shouted "NO that's cheating! I prefer doing bad portraits than doing great portraits thanks to cheats". But finally I tried it just to see if it works. And damn, indeed it's well proportionned, for once.
But still it's CHEATING. >< I won't use that technique again... Plus, there's no fun drawing if you have to count squares and so on....
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I hate this method as well. My high school art teacher was a heavy advocate of this square technique, and I despised it. After a while I realized how much of a cheat it was in a sense, and also how much fun it took away from the act of drawing. I am used to drawing portraits and stuff like that, so I quit using it after my first art class and never looked back.
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No art teacher told me about this technique (well, I had only one art teacher and he didn't teach us any technique apart from the torn paper collages), but apparently some people on DA use it, they told me about it. They do as they want, but... I see no fun in counting squares, personaly. x) As long you find your own techniques that you really like, I think it's good you quit that technique.
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Yeah, I would rather have an average piece of art that I did free hand than a magnificent one that was drawn using squares.
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Thanks a lot, but I'm only cheating here...
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Well, I don't really count that as cheating. I count it as an artist's help. If that was hard to understand, I'll just put it this way: It is a very lovely photo 
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Hehe! x) Well, I don't count that as a drawing technique, so for me it's kinda cheating. And I don't draw to count squares, eh! >< But thank you very much.
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Oooooh, sympa, cette émoticon! ^^ Merci beaucoup, mais je ne mérite pas tous ces applaudissements, j'ai triché en usant une grille... ><
En tout cas merci pour cette charmante émoticon et le fave!
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Mais de rien vraiment !!
Je trouve fascinant le don qu'ont certaines personnes à pouvoir retranscrire exactement les traits d'un personnage juste avec un crayon 
J'avais vu celui-là aussi, pour te donner une idée de ce que je veux dire : [link]
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Ouh, oui, enfin j'en suis pas à ce degré de réalisme là non plus! ^^" Joli travail au digital, dommage juste que l'artiste n'ait pas encore plus joué sur l'illusion d'un dessin traditionnel, mais c'est très bien fait pour sûr.
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impresionante tommy digno de un comic americano
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Gracias muchacho, but as I said I cheated for this one. ^^"
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haaaaaaaa ok 
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x) Thanks, but as you said indeed, I'll use my own techniques... I prefer frankness and spontaneity rather than all the tricks in the world.
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ok tommy 
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Merci beaucoup, mais comme je le disais, j'ai triché avec une grille... ^^"
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triché, triché, le résultat est très réussi, c'est surtout ça que je vois !
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Oui, mais justement: le résultat est réussi, mais le seul mérite que j'ai dans ce dessin est l'utilisation anarchique quoique sympa des hachures et des ombres. Là, j'ai avoué haut et fort avoir utilisé une grille, mais si j'avais effacé la grille et rien dit, les gens auraient loué mes "talents" sans savoir que j'avais triché. Et c'est ça qui me dérange un peu dans cette technique, aussi.
Mais c'est très gentil de ta part. ^^
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