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An Attempt At Drawing- Tell Me What You Think!

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#1 ·
I have been inspired to draw because of all of you, so today I picked up a pencil and some paper and tried to draw my pony.

The first picture is the origional photograph, the one that I modeled off of, and the second is the drawing that I did (sorry, the camera killed the quality.)

Anyways, tell me what you think! I will try to get more up soon, when I can figure out what I want to draw next.
 

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#7 ·
Lol i'm not even gonna post my first attempts (yes, i still have them!)
Your guys' are pretty good for a first time! :) I'd keep trying if i were you.
 
#8 ·
Haha my first attempts at drawing a horse were when I was about 3 years old. My mother actually saved some of my "art work" nobody would ever guess that my "horse" was actually a horse. LOL

Hey lilruffian. You should post your first attempts. I'd love to see them. I would post mine if I had them. I really would. :)
 
#14 ·
:lol: If you really want to see... i wont fill up the OP's thread though lol I'll post a few on my Wildest Art thread:shock:
 
#12 ·
a round of applause for you xD your really good my first attempt was when i was younger too dosen't look much like a horse xD i tryed again lately with my drawing and their ok i guess i don't know how to go into the details xD i just cant do it i may post some pictures later haha i draw on my dsi do it would be a flipnote xD
 
#19 ·
I was just like you when I was younger. I could get down the basic shape of things, but could never make it look real enough. Then I had the BEST high school art teacher who told me to always get rid of my lines. LOL. I know that sounds funny--and I'm hope I can explain this right--but you should always try to get rid of the lines around your drawings. You do this by using your smuding technique (so you have THICK swipes of dark--not a line) and by contrasting your drawing to your background.

If you look at the drawing below, you'll see what I mean. Look at the nose piece of the halter. Look at how I used the dark backround of the pipe panel to show the shape of the halter nose piece. There's no l"outline". If you look up further, near the horse's eye, I did the same thing. You can clearly see where I used a smudgy line to show the outline of the horse's face, but then--by the forelock--that line disappears. I used the ground behind the horse then....



Now, the exception to this rule is tack--bridles, halters and what not. There you really need DARK lines--which are actually shadows--and tiny, barely there lines along the leading edge of the tack where the sun shines. Does that makes sense? So one edge will have a thin, barely-there line, and the other edge will be dark-dark-dark. This will give you the 3D effect.

I'm not sure if you can see the detail on the drawing above since it's so tiny, and so here's a link to my art work photo album. You can click on the appropriate picture to see what I mean.

Picasa Web Albums - 10803105680809875... - Art Work

Let me know if you have any questions!!! Cyber art school is in session. :)

Pamela
 
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