1-up's art thread

1-up Salesman · 08-04-2008, 08:02 PM

Here's a picture I drew of Green Lantern: http://item.slide.com/r/1/131/i/Qmdk...9ZgM6ATgUid1T/

I know it's not that good, but I've improved.

CuccoLady · 08-04-2008, 08:12 PM

Improvement is good. Keep drawing and before you know it you'll be one of those crazily amazing artists who are... amazing. xD

1-up Salesman · 08-04-2008, 08:32 PM

well I have some more, but they're not at my house. Darn, I don't have all my best drawings.

Dr. Furball · 08-05-2008, 04:15 AM

It's not bad, but he looks pretty stiff (of course, I'm not one to talk). Maybe you should try posing him and/or turning him around a little bit so he's not facing directly forward. You've got potential and you're off to a good start.

1-up Salesman · 08-05-2008, 03:00 PM

Well, I'm getting some of my best drawings today, and those are alot better. Mainly Kingdom Hearts fan-art.

http://item.slide.com/r/1/77/i/AgFTI...mo30ATIrl23Y3/

Luigiman7 · 08-05-2008, 03:01 PM

lol long kirby

1-up Salesman · 08-05-2008, 03:02 PM

http://item.slide.com/r/1/42/i/AE96R...C7PahJ0pEqYOB/

Another not-new drawing. I call it: Cool Looking Anime Guy.

1-up Salesman · 08-05-2008, 05:13 PM

http://item.slide.com/r/1/165/i/2G2r...cGVuFxNDbpiK8/

JOKER!!! One of my newer drawings. Creepy..

CuccoLady · 08-06-2008, 12:44 AM

I like the joker one. The nose is a little off-center, but I like the detail in the mouth. I can't draw teeth for the life of me.

KEEP DRAWING. MOAR.

Dr. Furball · 08-06-2008, 03:01 AM

Those Kirby ones were great. I did something like that once, but with different abilities/hats.
The cool anime guy is good as well, but you may need to try to open his shirt more at the bottom. It looks attached to his pants at the moment.

***Cosmonautical*** · 08-06-2008, 08:39 AM

Cool stuff. It's always great to have more people posting their skills of an artiste.

Please keep the pictures to a maximum width of about 900, dude, page stretching isn't cool.

I mean, I run 1280 pixels wide and that was still some massive stretching. If you resize the images, feel free to edit your posts to link to the resized versions.

1-up Salesman · 08-06-2008, 11:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dr. Furball

Those Kirby ones were great. I did something like that once, but with different abilities/hats.
The cool anime guy is good as well, but you may need to try to open his shirt more at the bottom. It looks attached to his pants at the moment.

Thank you for all the compliments! Oh, and Cool Anime Guy isn't wearing a shirt.

1-up Salesman · 08-06-2008, 08:35 PM

**Galefore** · 08-07-2008, 03:09 AM

As always, I never understand why people go easy on beginners.

I'm not artist, but I do know that you should start researching and practicing proportions early if you want to draw; look at Sub-Zero's forearms: why are there sagging, bicep-like lumps (I know, they're armor, but just because I knew that doesn't mean everyone will; try to make armor look less ambiguous)? Musculature is a hard thing to draw. I know, so keep practicing, and as a general hint, study some charts of the human body to get a good feel of what the average human male or female's proportions and muscles would look like.

As I said, I gave up on drawing ages ago, but I know what looks right; study, practice, and patience will pay off, as shown by the immense talents of CL and Ace, both of whom began here as amateurs but quickly matured into some of the best artists we have here.

***Cosmonautical*** · 08-07-2008, 08:45 AM

Because every finished piece is an accomplishment, Gale. People can get better just by thinking about it the right way, but knowledge isn't something that can be built on without time and effort. Doing something the "wrong" way means he can look at it and figure out a better way, himself. You can only improve if you familiarize yourself with all of your qualities as an artist, and you can't do that without trying.

On top of that, showing a drawing you've spent a good amount of time on isn't the same as inviting outright criticism of your techniques. I'm sure he could sign up for a decent cartooning class, or rent some books from the library if he wanted to.

1-up should be proud of himself for having the courage to show it online, because he wants to.

1-up Salesman · 08-07-2008, 12:12 PM

I'll be sure to try to get better at drawing muscles, that's one of the hardest things for me to draw. The thing is, most of the things I draw are Kingdom Hearts, and Nintendo fan-art, so I don't need to draw a whole lot of muscles.

CuccoLady · 08-07-2008, 07:05 PM

^ Wow, I have the exact same problem. Which is why almost all the people I draw are Nintendo females. xD

Meowmaster · 08-08-2008, 10:52 AM

I used to only draw females and my males look wonky.
But Now that I'm drawing males all the time I cant rember how to draw females right.
The boobs keep on being lopsided.@_@
Balance is crucial.

1-up Salesman · 08-08-2008, 05:11 PM

I'll probably post another drawing later this weekend. I hope can, the scanner isn't working.

1-up Salesman · 09-23-2008, 06:51 PM

So you'll get the joke, that's Light Yagami in the lower-right.

This one was like.. One or two weeks ago. It's my attempt at drawing a Pokemon-style character.

DANG IT! Crap, when you scan a picture, what do you save it as? I scan it to MS Paint and save it as a .PNG.
Sorry about the page-stretching.

08-04-2008, 08:02 PM	#1
1-up Salesman Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Letting you guys know that I'm planning on continuing Attack of the Spammers soon. Gender: Posts: 4,095 Thanks: 2,162 Thanked 250 Times in 194 Posts Blog Entries: 9	1-up's art thread Here's a picture I drew of Green Lantern: http://item.slide.com/r/1/131/i/Qmdk...9ZgM6ATgUid1T/ I know it's not that good, but I've improved.

08-04-2008, 08:32 PM	#3
1-up Salesman Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Letting you guys know that I'm planning on continuing Attack of the Spammers soon. Gender: Posts: 4,095 Thanks: 2,162 Thanked 250 Times in 194 Posts Blog Entries: 9	well I have some more, but they're not at my house. Darn, I don't have all my best drawings. Last edited by 1-up Salesman; 08-04-2008 at 08:33 PM. Reason: Automerged Doublepost

08-05-2008, 03:00 PM	#5
1-up Salesman Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Letting you guys know that I'm planning on continuing Attack of the Spammers soon. Gender: Posts: 4,095 Thanks: 2,162 Thanked 250 Times in 194 Posts Blog Entries: 9	Well, I'm getting some of my best drawings today, and those are alot better. Mainly Kingdom Hearts fan-art. http://item.slide.com/r/1/77/i/AgFTI...mo30ATIrl23Y3/ Last edited by Cosmonautical; 08-06-2008 at 08:36 AM. Reason: Automerged Doublepost

08-05-2008, 03:01 PM	#6
Luigiman7 ヽ(◔ ◡ ◔)ノ.･ﾟ*｡･+☆ Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: ~)´◡｀(~ Gender: Posts: 17,605 Thanks: 1,134 Thanked 1,012 Times in 713 Posts Blog Entries: 8	lol long kirby __________________ ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼ＷＯＮ’Ｔ　ＹＯＵ　ＢＥＣＯＭＥ　Ａ　ＭＡＧＩＣＡＬ　ＧＩＲＬ？

08-05-2008, 03:02 PM	#7
1-up Salesman Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Letting you guys know that I'm planning on continuing Attack of the Spammers soon. Gender: Posts: 4,095 Thanks: 2,162 Thanked 250 Times in 194 Posts Blog Entries: 9	http://item.slide.com/r/1/42/i/AE96R...C7PahJ0pEqYOB/ Another not-new drawing. I call it: Cool Looking Anime Guy. Last edited by Cosmonautical; 08-06-2008 at 08:36 AM.

08-04-2008, 08:12 PM	#2
CuccoLady Anime and Cartoons Mod Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: THIS LOCATION REMINDS ME OF A PUZZLE, LUKE Gender: Posts: 9,077 Thanks: 2,825 Thanked 1,222 Times in 822 Posts	Improvement is good. Keep drawing and before you know it you'll be one of those crazily amazing artists who are... amazing. xD

08-05-2008, 04:15 AM	#4
Dr. Furball Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Mad Science Academy, 12th Floor Gender: Posts: 1,125 Thanks: 185 Thanked 97 Times in 60 Posts	It's not bad, but he looks pretty stiff (of course, I'm not one to talk). Maybe you should try posing him and/or turning him around a little bit so he's not facing directly forward. You've got potential and you're off to a good start.

08-05-2008, 05:13 PM	#8
1-up Salesman Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Letting you guys know that I'm planning on continuing Attack of the Spammers soon. Gender: Posts: 4,095 Thanks: 2,162 Thanked 250 Times in 194 Posts Blog Entries: 9	http://item.slide.com/r/1/165/i/2G2r...cGVuFxNDbpiK8/ JOKER!!! One of my newer drawings. Creepy.. Last edited by Cosmonautical; 08-06-2008 at 08:36 AM.

08-06-2008, 12:44 AM	#9
CuccoLady Anime and Cartoons Mod Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: THIS LOCATION REMINDS ME OF A PUZZLE, LUKE Gender: Posts: 9,077 Thanks: 2,825 Thanked 1,222 Times in 822 Posts	I like the joker one. The nose is a little off-center, but I like the detail in the mouth. I can't draw teeth for the life of me. KEEP DRAWING. MOAR.

08-06-2008, 03:01 AM	#10
Dr. Furball Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Mad Science Academy, 12th Floor Gender: Posts: 1,125 Thanks: 185 Thanked 97 Times in 60 Posts	Those Kirby ones were great. I did something like that once, but with different abilities/hats. The cool anime guy is good as well, but you may need to try to open his shirt more at the bottom. It looks attached to his pants at the moment.

08-06-2008, 08:39 AM	#11
*Cosmonautical* Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: I rub my tilde all over your asterisk Gender: Posts: 28,100 Thanks: 2,151 Thanked 5,338 Times in 2,433 Posts	Cool stuff. It's always great to have more people posting their skills of an artiste. Please keep the pictures to a maximum width of about 900, dude, page stretching isn't cool. I mean, I run 1280 pixels wide and that was still some massive stretching. If you resize the images, feel free to edit your posts to link to the resized versions.

08-06-2008, 08:35 PM	#13
1-up Salesman Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Letting you guys know that I'm planning on continuing Attack of the Spammers soon. Gender: Posts: 4,095 Thanks: 2,162 Thanked 250 Times in 194 Posts Blog Entries: 9

08-07-2008, 03:09 AM	#14
Galefore EXPLOSION GOD OF MUSIC Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Some studio somewhere Gender: Posts: 8,275 Thanks: 1,361 Thanked 826 Times in 535 Posts Blog Entries: 5	As always, I never understand why people go easy on beginners. I'm not artist, but I do know that you should start researching and practicing proportions early if you want to draw; look at Sub-Zero's forearms: why are there sagging, bicep-like lumps (I know, they're armor, but just because I knew that doesn't mean everyone will; try to make armor look less ambiguous)? Musculature is a hard thing to draw. I know, so keep practicing, and as a general hint, study some charts of the human body to get a good feel of what the average human male or female's proportions and muscles would look like. As I said, I gave up on drawing ages ago, but I know what looks right; study, practice, and patience will pay off, as shown by the immense talents of CL and Ace, both of whom began here as amateurs but quickly matured into some of the best artists we have here.

08-07-2008, 08:45 AM	#15
*Cosmonautical* Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: I rub my tilde all over your asterisk Gender: Posts: 28,100 Thanks: 2,151 Thanked 5,338 Times in 2,433 Posts	Because every finished piece is an accomplishment, Gale. People can get better just by thinking about it the right way, but knowledge isn't something that can be built on without time and effort. Doing something the "wrong" way means he can look at it and figure out a better way, himself. You can only improve if you familiarize yourself with all of your qualities as an artist, and you can't do that without trying. On top of that, showing a drawing you've spent a good amount of time on isn't the same as inviting outright criticism of your techniques. I'm sure he could sign up for a decent cartooning class, or rent some books from the library if he wanted to. 1-up should be proud of himself for having the courage to show it online, because he wants to.

08-07-2008, 12:12 PM	#16
1-up Salesman Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Letting you guys know that I'm planning on continuing Attack of the Spammers soon. Gender: Posts: 4,095 Thanks: 2,162 Thanked 250 Times in 194 Posts Blog Entries: 9	I'll be sure to try to get better at drawing muscles, that's one of the hardest things for me to draw. The thing is, most of the things I draw are Kingdom Hearts, and Nintendo fan-art, so I don't need to draw a whole lot of muscles.

08-07-2008, 07:05 PM	#17
CuccoLady Anime and Cartoons Mod Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: THIS LOCATION REMINDS ME OF A PUZZLE, LUKE Gender: Posts: 9,077 Thanks: 2,825 Thanked 1,222 Times in 822 Posts	^ Wow, I have the exact same problem. Which is why almost all the people I draw are Nintendo females. xD

08-08-2008, 10:52 AM	#18
Meowmaster Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: The most dangoureus place on earth.....BRONX,NEW YORK!!!!X_X Gender: Posts: 202 Thanks: 0 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts	I used to only draw females and my males look wonky. But Now that I'm drawing males all the time I cant rember how to draw females right. The boobs keep on being lopsided.@_@ Balance is crucial.

08-08-2008, 05:11 PM	#19
1-up Salesman Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Letting you guys know that I'm planning on continuing Attack of the Spammers soon. Gender: Posts: 4,095 Thanks: 2,162 Thanked 250 Times in 194 Posts Blog Entries: 9	I'll probably post another drawing later this weekend. I hope can, the scanner isn't working.

09-23-2008, 06:51 PM	#20
1-up Salesman Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Letting you guys know that I'm planning on continuing Attack of the Spammers soon. Gender: Posts: 4,095 Thanks: 2,162 Thanked 250 Times in 194 Posts Blog Entries: 9	So you'll get the joke, that's Light Yagami in the lower-right. This one was like.. One or two weeks ago. It's my attempt at drawing a Pokemon-style character. DANG IT! Crap, when you scan a picture, what do you save it as? I scan it to MS Paint and save it as a .PNG. Sorry about the page-stretching.