Got tips for ya!

Alright folks, there was nothing too special about this week, but the one thing i enjoyed doing the most is the drawing above, and as it was a fairly easy coloring process i decided to do my first coloring on Photoshop tutorial, which i just finished so is "fresh from the oven" hehe

The picture above is self explanatory so click on it for full view!

And finally this is the final product! This is from a animation series called Bleach, which is awesome BTW.

Not much more to add this time!

Cheerios!

The geometrical shapes of art!

Hya there folks a tad late this week but here it is my post, and as i posted on my Facebook for the fact that this post is late, i have some tips on how to draw(which is the first of many to come) followed by a little recipe.

Ok so what i mean by this title is that there's always simple geometrical forms and shapes hidden within even the most complex of drawings, and if u want to get better at it the first thing u should be doing is taking notice of it.

First thing is remember when u were a kid and u would draw a man or a house with simple straight lines?! Believe me when i say that in that sense anyone, and i mean even Leonardo da Vinci starts the same way. That is called structure, at first you have to come up with a basic structure from whatever you're thinking of drawing because the basic will lead u to a final drawing with better proportions, plus structures so to speak are meant to be soft lines that when it comes to the end, depending on the style of drawing u have, will not show relevant expression and the main lines will have more or total strength therefore become=ing more noticeable.

Take the sketches on top and notice how all the elliptical, circles, squares and triangles form the body of the different characters on action moves, with a sketch like that u'll be able to have a glimpse of what the final will be.

Now these ones on top are more "final" sketches, but i marked hard some of the structuring lines so u can see where the drawing is coming from.This is a basic rule for drawing, the better u get at this the less lines u'll need to use for this first part, some artists reach a point where is possible to start the drawing straight from the main lines, what happens in that case is that they've become so comfortable with the structures that those never leave their heads, but i can guarantee u that on their free time they'll still do some random sketches with structures in order to keep them sharp with it. So as a tip i'll tell u to practice, with pictures, either photos from books and magazines, comic books, manga whatever it is that u like study the picture u choose and try to reproduce the geometrical forms in it, investigate the simple lines so u can fully reproduce the drawing, and while doing that u also compose a certain data in your mind from what u drew. 

Cheers!

The one behind!

What up y'all?!

   The pic above was done by me and it's also a self portrait, a rather more developed one (compared to the previous one). As u can see some of the items that I possess and are figurative to whatever type of art I love and take on, either as hobbies or professionally; 

  The giant pencil I'm holding is much like the one I use( the real one is smaller of course hehe ), the guitar is my SG Gibson, which unfortunately I didn't bring with me to Aotearoa (NZ), the chef hat is quite like the first one I had, I realize that I'm missing my photo camera but that's only cuz my Olympus fell into the foul waters that surrounds my lovely home sweet home, in a act of hastiness as we were leaving the house for my mom's wedding, it slipped off my hands for the first time and right when I was standing near water hehe, have you ever heard of Murphy's law, yep that's my view of the incident! 

For those that don't know my house in Rio de Janeiro ( home for me) is in a island in the middle of the city, not off the coast but in land, i take a little "five minute ride" boat to get to it!

The incident of losing my camera made an excuse for me to buy a better one, but i definitely miss my camera, being in a new place and having all this beauty around me!!

That's all for now f-f-f-f-folks! 

A great weekend has passed went through a day tour to the south on a very small "beach"city, while there got on a "Cruise" on a extinct volcanic crater, it was an immense thing, when the Captain said on the speaker "the MOUNTAINS around us used to be the mouth of the volcano", I couldn't believe my eyes, they say this volcano has been extinct for millions of years, therefore i can't help but wonder around imagining the dinosaurs around it and how big everything was back then, isn't it awesome to think that the nature and all forms of life have been able to adapt themselves around each other since the beginning of times, and how much destruction the "giant" insects of those times would cause nowadays! I would love to be able to travel in time, and for that i let my mind wonder around whenever i can...

Lately i have been getting back in touch with my artistic side, just finished last night a drawing i did of myself, and for that i'll start now posting drawings as well, this one i entitled: Me drawing myself!

cheerio!