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From: "Akal Ashata Alis" <akalalis_at_earthlink.com>
To: <SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 10:46 AM
Subject: Re: [SkunkworksAMA] Artist Q's
>
> > I've acquired a desire to draw/sketch/(whatever you wanna call my
> > crap i put out) and have wondered... What is the hardware you guys
> > use? pencils, pens, paper, drawing surface. since I'm just starting
> > out, i haven't gotten much supplies in this line and have been using
> > some of my Drafting supplies every once in a while when i feel bold
> > enough to waste some Vellum. But in all honesty i would love to
> > know...I'm getting a drawing table soon so i can do my drafting
> > homework at home (im in college right now), and don't wanna waste my
> > money on something thats gonna be crap for the job or be useless in
> > a matter of days/weeks. any recomendations/cautions are welcome,
> > even requests to see any drawings I've done... even though the only
> > people who have seen them are Scrapper and my sister (unless you
> > noticed any of the old ones i posted and deleted a few days later a
> > while ago)
>
Hi hi hi!
First of all, what kind of art are you most interested in? There are tons
and tons of tools out there and the best way it to experiment for whatever
focus you have. If'n you're interested in the comic side of things, tools
are far different than say, a color pin-up. *smile* Jim is an expert on the
comic side. *smile*
I like strathmore bristol board for most of my work but then, in watercolor,
that changes. I love working in graphite. Good old Ticonderoga pencils. Love
'em. *smile* But then, there are also different grades of graphite/charcoal
in order to give depth to an image if you want to make it more than a simple
sketch.I used to use mechanical pencils exclusively and then went back to
regular pencils one day when I was low on cash for leads and such for the
mech pencils. (Starving artist and all. *grin*) For inking I like Micron
pens. But I have a tendency to work tiny and they go down to 005 which is
tiiiiiny. But they go pretty big, too. But then again, my inking sucks. So
there are likely better folks to give you suggestions on that. I've seem a
lot of artists use the brush pens. All of them said it took some practice
but once they were proficient, they pretty much won't use anything else.
Drawing tables are nice and as you're getting into drafting, they're very
useful. Though a lot of artists may have drawing tables, they will often
draw at other places. At their desk. In front of the TV. At the kitchen
table. On the computer. Things like that. It's all in what you end up
finding you are most comfortable with. I completely redesigned my small
office space so I could squeeze in an extra desk top --the kind with no
shelves or anything, just the nice big desk, so that I could do both
computer art on one side and then turn around and work on my fantasy art on
the other. Fun fun fun.
Study anatomy. Play with different styles. Look at other artist's work and
see which ones you enjoy the most. I personally, love Jim's art and his
style of work. Very realisitic anthro's. He's done his job at studying both
animal and human anatomy, right down to the number of teeth in a skunks
head. *grin*
And the most important thing...practice practice practice.
I missed the art you posted. I'd love to see some of it and if you don't
mind, possibly give you some constructive suggestions.
I have a site, if you're interested as well to see what kind of art I do.
www.stripedsmiles.com
Good luck!
Tashta
Received on Mon Nov 01 2004 - 20:23:27 CST