Just some drawings i did

[darkshadow]

*topic, i think this would count as fanart:
plz let it load, as you could might miss a few (http://www.mechag.com/forum/showthread.php?t=925)

[IFHTT]

Dang, I wish I could draw that good. I've tried to draw some characters before but I just suck and they end up looking like something drawn in Paint.You're good. :D

I really like the Lei Fang drawing in particular

[Lucifus]

Wow, those are pretty nice. The Kakashis ones are really f*cking good.

I can draw Dragonball Z character by looking at a pic like that, but otherwise, I'm hopeless.:D

[darkshadow]

thx, thats actually over 2 years time of drawings, i dont draw too much, and btw ill be switching isp's soon, so those pics will go down, i you want one of them for some reason, feel free to save it, ill try and re-up everything when i switched

[masamuneehs]

keep it up man. those are pretty damn impressive. are those the actual size of the drawings or have they been resized at all?

[darkshadow]

i resized them, the actual size was 2mb per picture and 12**x17** and up

[Jman]

they're nice. the kakashis, lei fang and rin are my favs.

[gr3atfull]

I love your Kakashi-sensei one. <3

[dragonrage]

hope you like this drew it like 2 years ago

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f342/Drage1/02-05-2005120414AM.jpg

[djblingsingh]

the ones after te kakashi drawings are really good but yo ucould still use some work

[gr3atfull]

@ dragonrage: you draw like a pro:cool:

[dragonrage]

@ dragonrage: you draw like a pro:cool:

aww *shucks* thanks.:D

[darkshadow]

i think the body looks good, the head seems a bit disproportional though, but good none the less

edit:

wel i finally started on another drawing, not done yet, and also not scanned, so bear with the quality :
http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/8397/afbeelding042hh.th.jpg (http://img211.imageshack.us/my.php?image=afbeelding042hh.jpg)

[darkshadow]

i guess ill have to bump this to get the above edit under peoples attention.

[darkshadow]

new entry:
and its obvious that its yet again a cam
http://img369.imageshack.us/img369/8075/afbeelding052br.th.jpg (http://img369.imageshack.us/my.php?image=afbeelding052br.jpg)

[IFHTT]

Dude that Gaara drawing is great! You should take up for the fools they got drawing the filler eps these days, it might actually make the show enjoyable. Keep it up dude those are really nice.

[RedX1z]

i agree with ifinghatetonton, also your skills are something that can easily be recognized as talent. ever thought about making manga or something? anyways, keep going at it, you never know when it just might come in handy.

[masamuneehs]

wow, that's some seriously good drawings there darkshadow!

Usually I have 'nice' ways of phrasing compliments, but honestly those two are simply awesome. If you didn't use tracing or try to replicate from a pic right in front of you I'd certainly say you have potential to do alot more.

Be interesting to see an action shot or one with a background. Keep it up man.

[djblingsingh]

darkshadow, the one of the girl is real amazing eye wise, im surprised you got it to look like that with pencil work. the only thing i see wrong with that is the jawline seems a bit to steep. that jawline would be perfect for drawing a bad guy/girl, but just make the jawline a little bit duller than have it taht sharp. alwo on her left, t hari seems to be a bit too big-unless* you drew her in 'action' which then it looks fine.

the one of gaara is pretty much perfect. i dont see anythign wrong with it except that tehre might be a bit too much detail on gaara's hair but then again its a sketch so no biggie looks fine actually, and i must say you're pretty damn good with shading there

keep it up, GJ

-Edit-

looking closely at the one of the girl again i see that the chin and hair was perfect, it was just the angle of the picture that threw me off, gj

[darkshadow]

thx all for the reply's, and yes! another entry :).
at first i was dissapointed with this one, but after finishing up it turned out pretty decent:

http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/4208/afbeelding094da.th.jpg (http://img225.imageshack.us/my.php?image=afbeelding094da.jpg)

(argh cam i know >_<)

[gr3atfull]

I find it pretty good in general but I cant really see the face though.:(

[djblingsingh]

size and comparison ratio wise its perfect for cloud

only thing i had a little trouble with this one was the face was kinda hard to see, but since its cam, i cant blame ya

GJ!

[darkshadow]

thx again, and now! scans!:
http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/3888/199vk.th.jpg (http://img241.imageshack.us/my.php?image=199vk.jpg)http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/9345/204ht.th.jpg (http://img241.imageshack.us/my.php?image=204ht.jpg)http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/1564/210xz.th.jpg (http://img241.imageshack.us/my.php?image=210xz.jpg)

[masamuneehs]

damn you do a good job man. why don't you upload them to the Gallery here though so we can see the entire full sizes? If I remember correctly imageshack places size limits on scans...

[darkshadow]

Ok another entry, Fiend Huntress Rachel ( yes terra she would kill you too >_>), my scanner fucked up bigtime though ( but it was free so what the heck :P ), it looks a lot better on paper
http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/9577/223ak.th.jpg (http://img59.imageshack.us/my.php?image=223ak.jpg)

i might redraw her sometime in the future, cause i didnt really capture her hotness.

edit: high res pics in the gallery :D ( still looks nasty cause of scanner.)
http://forums.gotwoot.net/gallery/browseimages.php?c=3&userid=8379

[darkshadow]

i knew my previous one wasnt that good :(, anyway a new piece, recognize him you will! ( i hope):
http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/822/232yi.th.jpg (http://img81.imageshack.us/my.php?image=232yi.jpg)

high res:
http://forums.gotwoot.net/gallery/files/8/3/7/9/23_original.jpg

[Jman]

i knew my previous one wasnt that good :(, anyway a new piece, recognize him you will! ( i hope):

Ryu Hayabusa from Ninja Gaiden. Nice job you've done. :cool:

[dragonrage]

DS those are some wicked ass drawing that you did there, good job. But get a new scanner, meng or i will be force to say it again. :p

[oyabun]

before you shade, make sure the arms are anatomically correct and can actual be seen as connected even in normal space.the eyes look like 2 linbes and a dot. I think the shoulders dont connect properly and why are the eyes so somple.maybe you should try to add more detail. hhmmm

[darkshadow]

I understood nothing of what you just said.

[shinta|hikari]

I think he is saying that in the last picture, the right and left shoudlers dont match, making the right one seem like its floating behind him instead of being a part of his body. I personally think the chest, shoulders and head arent anatomically correct, and placed in an unnatural angle. Then there is the right arm. The angle at which he is holding the sword is physically impossible, unless he has 2 elbows on that arm. I think its because the biceps are too long. These can be fixed though, by simply adjusting the angles a bit. I agree with him about the eyes though. You need to make it more detailed in order to match the rest of the picture. The clothing is detailed, making it seem that rather than making the character look recognizable, you are just dressing a randomly faced one with familiar clothes. I guess it depends on the person, but I usually prioritize making the drawing physically correct (even if anime in itself is fundamentally not) before I go into details and shading. In the end, Im just being overly critical. Its just that, though shading would usually make a drawing look a lot better, I feel that people should still be able to see through that and check if drawing basics are even being followed. Im not assuming that you are satisfied with this, but seeing your drawings, you better not be, at least not yet. It would be a waste if because of all the compliments you get, you fail to see the shortcomings of your own work. Sorry for being too critical. I assume that the last one is original, and I think that is your best original work. But I would be lying if I said its good.

@oyabin - please write properly so people understand

[Thi3f]

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[shinta|hikari]

If you look carefully, its easy to see how the right shoulder should be a bit lower, and that the chest and shoulder angles obviously dont match. The right arm IS possible, if the bicep wasnt that long. The length is unjustified by the shape of the arm, since the shoulder and bicep muscles actually show. There is about the length of another bicep that shouldnt be there for that pose to work. Like I said, Im being critical, if you look at it as just another throwaway sketch no one would mind. But it depends on the standards of the person viewing it. The reason he couldnt draw the eyes in detail is probably because the of the overly thick lines throughout the drawing, which of course limits what can be drawn in. Indeed I mistakenly assumed it was an original one. Why? because it really wasnt properly drawn. Having seen the source, I will greatly lower the evaluation of the drawing. Its a copy for crying out loud. I thought it was his best original piece since the pose was good, albeit not perfectly drawn. It being a copy, and not a very good one at that, I have to be honest and say I am disappointed. If you actually took the time to look at the two pictures one after another, you will see how different they are, especially in the shoulder, neck and right arm areas. That difference made the picture anatomically incorrect. Next time, before you use evidence to ground your argument, make sure it is consistent. If there are differences in the copied piece (which there are a ton in this case), you cant justify anything.

[darkshadow]

Oohhhkkk, look whatever, my primary thing is 3d, i only do 2d cause i think its fun and its a small hobby, so critisize all you want, i wont care.
and do you really think i copied this like if someone poses for you? I needed some material, found this, copied the pose, and drew the picture, looking at it occasionally so i wouldnt forget details, strange that it isnt 100% correct right?
Please, go bother someone else.

[shinta|hikari]

and do you really think i copied this like if someone poses for you? I needed some material, found this, copied the pose, and drew the picture, looking at it occasionally so i wouldnt forget details, strange that it isnt 100% correct right?

Umm, all people copy like this. You look, then draw. What I am just saying is that the drawing, despite being a copy, is anatomically incorrect, making it worse than if it had been an original. Also, not 100 percent is of course ok, but not if its like 60 percent. At that level it wouldnt be a copy at all would it? I already knew your specialty isnt 2d, that is kind of obvious. Finally, I am not bothering you. I am just criticizing your work. I didnt attack you directly like saying 'you suck as an artist, never draw again' or anything like that. I just posted what I thought of your work. And if you read again, you will see all of my comments are as objective as possible, all relating to physical correctness or accuracy of the drawing. I didnt even input any of my personal artistic preferences in it. So if you are pissed knowing the truth, I guess you wont be improving much from here. Knowing where you went wrong, accepting it and fixing it is the only way to get better. Ive had people harshly (much harsher than I did) criticize my art before, but I didnt go say 'i dont care or bother someone else' because that would be just like saying I suck so be it. If someone has a valid point, you dont go shutting them up just because you didnt like what they had to say. I had actually thought that you posted these works to actually be commented on, not be blindly praised just for being there. Its nice if you think 2d is fun, even better if you do it as a hobby. Just dont snap at people for being honest about what they think. I think that is a lot better than just glancing at something and saying good job without actually putting the effort to really look at it. In the first place, if you thought of it as just a pasttime and really didnt care about what people had to say, why post it? Also, why do you feel bothered? Anyway, if it bothers you that much, I will stop commenting on your work, since it seems you only want to hear good things, and I dont lie just to please people.

[Thi3f]

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[darkshadow]

No no no, lol i dont mind constructive criticism, or even negative criticism, i just meant that such a full detailed post on every point the poster thinks i did wrong is pretty much wasted.
Since i post these drawings here cause i am happy with the result, sure you can say stuff like, the anatomy is incorrect, or whatever, but making a 20 line post is pretty much waste.

If it was 3d however, i would really have appreciated a post like that, cause thats more then just a hobby for me.

But its just 2d, so after reading something like that i wont be like, damn shit crap, i have to improve this and that now.
I just think, hmm ok, might think about that next time. And i move on.

I didnt mean to say you should'nt comment, cause any comment is nice, even a negative one, it means you at least took the time to look at it, but such an indepth explanation isn't necessary.

Edit: oh and another thing, my picture was tiny, not even as big as the one Thi3f posted, i couldnt even see the face.

[shinta|hikari]

@thief - it doesnt matter if the work is already shaded and finished. Constructive criticism, if it has valid points, can always help. It just means that next time the mistake can be avoided. Obviously, that is not the last picture darkshadow is going to draw.

Also, the comments arent just for darkshadow alone. It can serve as good tips for others who plan to draw their own fanart. If you think that taking the effort of doing that is praiseworthy then by all means. If not, then dont. I dont think anyone cares either way.

Good job reading and even replying to my unreadable post. Really well done.

@darkshadow - I guess if your picture is tiny, the eye details cannot be helped. I didnt say that you have to improve though. Like I said, if its just a small hobby then its all fine. but Im glad you got the point that I was just commenting on the picture.

I guess the long comments may seem excessive, but i gave that detailed critique before you said that 2d was just a small hobby that you dont care much about. If I had known, then of course I wouldnt waste my time doing so, unless maybe I thought it would serve some other purpose, like I explained above.

Since you say that an in depth explanation is not necessary, then I guess it would be pointless to write them from now.

See? I can write paragraphs.

[Mizuchi]

holy sh*t whats that like animated avatar-sized thing of 3d neji beating up sasuke??? Is that like from a game or what? It looks so good.

[darkshadow]

http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/5070/page1he0.jpg
http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/3266/page2nr0.jpg

>_>, horrible i know.

[Kraco]

Heh. The story, so far, works surprisingly well considering there is no story...

I think it's better than you give it credit for. The movement is not that bad in my opinion. However, you really should use a ruler, man, with the frame borders. Drawing wobbly freehand lines like that makes it look extremely bad.

And I have heard from very reliable sources that every time somebody uses a scanner producing that bad scans, God himself descends from his throne and kills 24 innocent kittens with his own hands. So for the sake of everything holy, get a better scanner! Your current one doesn't make justice for your efforts.

As an extra detail there was a mound under the tree on the first page, but on page two it has disappeared, I think...