Nice design, Fernando! You should draw more. Nice drawings from Bob as well! They remind me of my mom's graphite work.
I'm trying to draw more. It's hard though because I enjoy painting so much more. I recently decided to practice my comic book skills, so I've been going through books of my favorite artists and copying them to see if I can figure out what makes their styles work. At some point I want to draw my own graphic novel.
ErogenousJones said:
That is some real nice work guys! I've always been very jealous of people who are skilled in the visual arts. Art is something I really love and find interesting, but I have very little (read: zero) ability in it, unfortunately. I do a bit of writing (or at least I try...) and play music, so I guess that's something, but I'd really love to draw or paint. But I digress. Kudos to you fine artistic folk!
You should get this book called Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. It's a great great course, and I've seen breath-taking results from it. I use all of the concepts in it to teach my classes. I've seen kids go from only being able to do stick figures to drawing pretty decent 3-D objects in a single afternoon. My friend took a 2 week course using the book, and her drawing dramatically improved in that short time. One of my friends, I literally sat down with her for 10 minutes and just told her some stuff from the book, and she improved about 50% within a week. She had only done stick figures before that, but after that she started drawing on a regular basis and now she paints. I certainly have benefited from the lessons in it too. I did the course when I was 14.
Basically what it teaches you is that drawing isn't a talent, it's a skill that can be learned, and it is all in how you look at things. It's in the eye, not in the hand. Once you learn that, you can learn to turn off the part of your brain that prevents you from seeing things they way they really are, and then it's just a matter of practice to fine tune your technique. Practice is key to developing skills. I spent about 6 months painting around 6 hours a day, and that's when I really started to get better. It's very similar to music, actually. Sometimes when I'm teaching color theory, I think "Man, this is music theory!".
If you guys didn't all live far away, I'd offer to teach anyone here who wanted to learn how to draw or paint or whatever (you know, how to make a sfx blood cannon or a prosthetic monster face). I've taught a lot of people how to draw, it's not as hard as you think.
