the daily sketch

[smkie]

I have seen unbelievable work done in that combo. IT suits your style too. I can't rememeber what movie my son had on but in the beginning scene there were flames roaring off the surface of something and i thought THAT'S IT! I had been fighting it, disastisfied with what i had come up with. I reworked and it made a world of difference in the believability.

 

[Laurelin]

Thanks. The color is taking a while on that one. I'm still not sure about it, but it never hurts to experiment! lol

Here's a purely colored pencil pic:

I finally got to a decent scanner.

 

[noludoru]

Oh laurelin.. I am in LOVE with that one. I want the stuffed animal version, LOL!

 

[borzoid]

I love your style Laurelin especially the watercolor work.

 

[Laurelin]

Thanks! I want a stuffed animal too! xD

Here's one from 2003...... just for kicks

Almost five years old. I definitely sketch messier nowadays.

New lineart:

 

[Laurelin]

And a pixel sheltie.

And poodle:

And dal:

I'm going through my old photobucket account that I stumbled upon....

 

[noludoru]

Laurelin, could I borrow your last lineart (the one with the six canines) to color? Just to play with it, lol. It looks FUN. (I would not post it anywhere.... just to have fun messing around with it and coloring it.)

 

[Laurelin]

Sure! i don't mind at all.

 

[RedHotDobe]

I love the little pixel Sheltie!

 

[smkie]

lol you'll get messier yet i promise

 

[Laurelin]

lol you'll get messier yet i promise

It's bad though. I draw and I am like 'Oh, I know what these lines mean!' Then I come back and ink it and am like 'What's this line for?' lol

 

[smkie]

WHen i was around 16 i took a KRCH class at the Kansas CIty ARt Institute. I swear i thought the teacher was speaking greek, and i could make out less about his sketches on the human figure. Now....i get it. I layout like that too. Lots of little lines that line up things, i spend more time on the area between the dogs eyes and where the stop ends and begins and how that lines up to the ears, inside and out, and down to the mouth...hehehe I sure as heck "get it" now. I was really dumb back then.

 

[Laurelin]

I used to NEVER use any guidlines, now I don't know how I'd survive without them!

Right now I'm trying out a couple things I'm not so good at- humans and digital art.

I love how my cartoon humans are always somewhat anime looking and somewhat not. No idea why it works like that. I think it might have something to do with learning how to draw humans off of video games first. I've never watched an anime in my life. >.<

Well, obviously he's an anime style character in a game, so I suppose that has something to do with that.

 

[smkie]

impressive

 

[Zoom]

They rock at any rate...

I wonder how Sawyer would look drawn by you... *whistles innocently*

 

[Laurelin]

I would love to do a big pic of all the Chaz dogs together, but right now I just don't have time. Maybe this summer? That'd be a nifty project.

I'm actually kind of liking this, but I have NO IDEA what I'm doing.

 

[Babyblue5290]

Your guy kinda looks like he's from kingdom hearts lol Nice

 

[Laurelin]

Good, cause he is! :lol-sign:

Tis Roxas, of course. One of my favorite games. I think thats all for today though. Its fun but I dont know how to do digital art at all, so its just a bunch of experimenting.

 

[Laurelin]

Finals week, so I can't do anything major. So I've just been sketching.

 

[RD]

<3 I lurv Roxas!

Bored, so I did a quick scribbly Afghan. Scanner went contrast-crazy, it's not nearly that dark. I actually like this one except for the beard (looks way to stiff, but I SUCK at drawing hair so it doesn't surprise me lol). Might finish the long hairs later.