Sealyham drawings

smkie

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WE all start at some point. The best thing about drawing is each time you work your skill level is based on the piece before. I epsecially like the expression on the second one. Your drawings show personality and that is important. :) I think looking at some pictures of dog skeletons might help you get a feel for how the body is put together. HEre is a good example. Skeleton of a dog

Keep up the good work!
 

smkie

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WHEn i was learning to draw my father told me to remember "crooked as a dog's hind leg" and for some reason that helped me. HOpe you come back and share more! IF i can help in anyway i would be glad to.
 

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It's a good start and you've definitely got the body shape correct. Smkie is right, being able to visualize an animal skeletally does help, looking forward to seeing more. :)
 

Stage Dragon

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These are very mod and cool! Thicken the lines and add some color or go black and white pen and ink and I think these babies might sell. I am not a big fan of realism though, so many people do realism, it's refreshing to see someone else who stylizes their art :)

Here's one of my sealie drawings:

So you can see what I mean by stylized/abstract/folksy. Yours kind of remind me of Erte. He had the tall elegant ladies walking the tall elegant dogs.
 

Stage Dragon

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Art is subjective. There are no rules to speak of. Some of the most successful artists didn't follow the rules and started their own genres. I really think unschooled art is so refreshing, when one gets all this education, they start to look like everyone else's. I had to unschool myself. I had lost my joy in my art and when I dug out a box of my old art from when I was 4 and 5 years old, and just studied them and went back to that simplicity, I became more successful and started to enjoy my work again. To quote Picasso "every child is an artist, the trick is to remain one as an adult."
 
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Well I forgot to complement Stage Dragon on his/her(?) posted drawing.

P.S They were sort of freehand, but I was mostly drawing based on outlines in various photos off of Google.
 

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