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Hey guys, first post here Not diagnosed yet (lookin for a doc) but I already feel more at home browsing here than I ever have before, so cheers!

I've been drawing since I first held a pencil and doing portraits since 11-12 years old, but regretably I slacked off for years and years after leaving middle school, and only recently have I gotten back into it at 22 years old. I've never had more than a couple basic art lessons, because (oddly enough!) I just ignore whoever's talking and do it my way anyways haha



The 2nd portrait I ever drew, just turned 12 years old



My 6th portrait, drawn a year later



My restart pic after several years of not drawing, done a year or two ago with an old 2b pencil



Getting back into the charcoal!





Weird thing is, I am NOT an artist by any stretch of the imagination. If I don't have something to look at, I am completely and utterly repressed of all talent. I can transpose whatever I'm looking at pretty well, but that is all I can do, and the artistry (from actual artists, creators of all the resplendent expression posted prior) I see from others in this thread is making me jealous, you guys are awesome!

Actually, I have a question for the artists here too- Is it weird that I can't draw worth snot without something to look at? Or does that just mean I am mechanically-minded to the point where I can only do things involving the mechanics around me, not what I'm thinking of?

Last edited by Spuddy on 27 Dec 2009, 7:54 pm, edited 4 times in total.

*puts down pen in defeat...WOW. what sort of program is that? photoshop?

Spuddy, can you fix your links? I'd really like to see!






ok, so i only have paintbrush. and i'm not nearly as skilled as the people here. holy dawg! you guys are good.

Fixed my first post above ^^^

Did I hear you say this was done with MS Paint?? Damn! I didn't even know that kind of detail was possible Looks good SG




And just a general FYI, I'm working on my life's work masterpiece right now (literally, the best I can possibly do) in a pic for my grandparents, so in about 50-100 working hours from now I should have far and away the best picture I've ever produced to post, can't wait!

Ahh.. you have a gift for drawing individuals. that 2nd one shown, your 6th portrait is very, VERY realistic.

well, it's done on Paintbrush, which is essentially MS but for macs. and i have a graphics tablet...so it doesn't really count as being too skilled.

i really want to see your masterpiece.

Hi, please check out my website full of drawings, I hope you like them:

http://www.belfrylove.com

Hey, guys. I've been meaning to put some stuff on this thread for a while but I do not have a camera because of my superpower that allows me to break anything small, electronic and expensive by it being in my possession. So, instead of waiting for my friend to steal another SLR, I decided to take some crappy pictures with my webcam and pimped them out with photoshop (meaning I changed the brightness and contrast so they actually had some definition).




Graphite on stained paper 2009
22" x 30"




Collage and mixed media on paper 2009
9" x 12"

@heliocopter: damn, nice work

nice stuff heliodude :)

http://dmausf.deviantart.com/

A lot of my stuff is here so feel free to drop by and have a look.
I do mostly photography work now, but I have some artwork there as well.

My scanner is broken so excuse the poor quality of this blurry camera shot

Thank you!! ! I really wish that I had access to something better than a webcam. Not to brag, but those pictures really don't do those drawings justice. Everyone at my art school thinks I'm "too illustrative," that I need stop "telling a story," that I'm too "traditional," and they basically seem to be very bored with my work. I'm under the impression that this is because I do not smear my menstrual blood across the wall in the shape of a penis and tell them that it is significant because of this reason and that reason.

art school is BS in my opinion.

Hahaha. I've never studied art at school, but I find a lot of fine arts to be very pretentious and snooty. I like technical illustration and environment concept art generally.

Scizzwigs, HAL! How do you get the perception so perfect?

I'm not quite sure what you mean by perception, so I might be going in the wrong direction here. The bottom two are done in one point perspective, so receding all go to one vanishing point, while there is no foreshortening on anything vertical or horizontal to the viewer. There's lots of information on drawing perspective on the internet, if you want to know more.

Is that what you meant?

I work using mostly organic materials and paper goods.

Here's 2 of mine:

Chrysalis



A Mask For the Blind: