yeah, I just hit reply and read the previous posts from there so I rarely actually see people's profiles anymore

it's faster

glad it helps, i was just taking a shot in the dark and just mentioned the things i saw, so thanks for clarifying

as for that dude looking like a girl it's gotta be the eyes and i noticed with men the defining angles tend to be sharper while for women they tend to be curvier, so that might be the thing also

and don't knock notebooks , i draw in them all of the time cause they are more pen friendly and they are basically the poor man's sketchbook

just my two cents

EDIT:oh yeah, if you don't mind could you send the reference you used for the winged drawing and as for the ear, i would shift the jawline back, hope it helps

...I'm going to sit here and giggle for a moment now since my emo-haired post is a boy. n_n

Thanks, by the way, to everyone. And I have other little silly doodles like my third post. Perhaps I can pull out another one sometime.

Moving on, I have a bunch of actual sketchbooks, which is partly why my use of the notebook is somewhat inexcusable, even though everything seems to come out better on lined paper. ._. Speaking of pen sketches, I uploaded the newest one I have; I'll throw that one up here in a minute. First, though, I must ask, are you certain you'd want the reference photo? It was a nude I found in the deviantART stock repository (full profile, no 'detail', so to speak).

Now then, on to the latest pen doodle. This bugger here probably took me a good two or three hours one night while I was at my sister's house. I'll apologize for it being so large, but his face needs it, I swears. D:

The first thing I always have to say about it is that the angle of its head was a new one for me, which would explain why its jaw seems kind of awkward. I also could not figure out what the deuce to do with its horn, hence, broken. One of its shoulders is screwed up, can never figure out which one, and oh my god I hated its hips for giving me so much crap. D8

the drawing looks great you can really see that you took your time with it(which is something i can't do) and i am 100% certain about the reference

concerning the shoulder, the one in the back is too high possibly cause you drew the top line on the pect at too great an angle, so if you dropped it a smidge it should look fine

pen drawings on notebook paper usually come out better because it's less textured

and i wanted to ask, are you self taught or have you taken classes?

I wish I can draw a dragon like that too...(I can only draw cute dragons)

*pat pats* I'll be totally honest, I learned how to draw my first dragons by watching a whole lot of DragonBall. ._.; It's kind of embarrassing, but apparently it's yielded some results. That was a looong time ago, though; I've done a lot of fiddling with them since.

All of my art is self-taught. I actually started getting better when I was younger by first doing a lot of copy-work. From there I began swiping aspects from other styles, until eventually my own started evolving all on its own into what it's becoming now. I would probably rule in the amount of evolving it is indeed doing towards the depth of my current slump; when aspects of my art change, it gets harder for me to put out.

Also, it probably is the right shoulder. ._. It's just weird in general, ainnit? Hilariously I don't have much trouble with textured paper because half the time I'm using printer paper rather than blank journals or sketchbooks, but I think I only have two sketchbooks total, out of about five or six, that actually have particularly textured paper.

In concern with the reference, I'll have to find it, so don't be alarmed if you don't see anything about it for a few days. That repository gets bigger and bigger every day, and oh man, sometimes stuff disappears because people are stupid and let drama get in the way of art.

In the meantime, here's a silly little doodle I'd started in high school, but only finished last summer.

This looks like Iae, but it isn't. It actually goes to a role-play I did on a forum years ago, and I had loads of fun writing the part that this picture illustrates. Basically, this is a conjured copy of the man, recently undead, who had eaten this horrible fuzzy... thing, that in normal circumstances would make a person spontaneously explode. Apparently when an undead individual eats one of them they get ridiculously high.

Also, apparently when my chibis have actual hands, they're huge. ._.;

The good thing about chibi's is that they are meant to have big features, so the hands dont really stand out much.
This is great work and my fav is actually your avatar pic. I like the expression.

i had a feeling that you were self taught, i just wanted to make sure

i think the shoulder looks great it just needs to be dropped about half a centimeter

and don't rush with the reference i just want to see how it effects a drawing cause i want to start using them

the chibi drawing looks awesome and the hands fit the drawing so they don't look out of place

._. My avatar is my favorite too. For some reason I love love love bits like that.

I'm sure it's not too hard to figure out that I've had no professional background in the field. I use no guide lines, everything's grossly incomplete and most of my stuff looks pretty much the same. I also have a wicked no backgrounds complex and my poses and angles are very limited, which I have been working at for some time, and am kind of failing at. It's why I've dug around for references here and there every now and again.

On Dai (crazy-high zombie-man) the hands probably stick out to me because usually when I draw chibis they have big heads and then, as is typical of the generic style, everything else is little. I definitely doodled it just for the look on his face. n_n;

Also, thank you, and now, since my avatar had been brought up, I'll finally post the full version, which... isn't much more than what's already there. ._.

This is actually a work in progress that I got stuck with about a year ago. This one is Iaeruki; it was another peek much later into his ridiculously long and horrible life because I'm a sadistic b**** and can never ever give him true happiness without quickly wrenching it away from his grasp. 8D Er... *keff* More on that in a moment.

While this one might not ever actually get any further than this, I'd like to eventually finish it some day. My main problem right now is how to put in his shoulders, which have turned themselves into a rather vicious roadblock. Until I figure that out, it's pretty much locked in place. I am proud of what little is there, and I only used the reference I had for it a little.

There is a quote, from which it derives its name:
"He's... strange. He spends all of his time in his room, and leaves only for food. No one dares approach him; he never speaks, and many of the other patrons describe his gaze as something feral, yet abysmally hollow. No one knows what happened to him--how he lost his eye--but only when his mind dances a short waltz with lucidity do we know his voice, and then... only by his screams." --Aetsadia

It's called 'Lucid Screams'. The same quote also suits the picture of him I posted before the dragon.

when i try to do new poses i just draw a bunch of basic shapes and use it as a reference, if you want an example let me know and i'll post it in my thread or send it to you

and also if i'm stuck in a drawing i just keep trying to draw the problem spot in pencil so i can erase it if it looks wrong

and that's a very nice quote

Thank you. The quote's existed pretty much as long as the picture has. I have others from that point in his life, but only one other as profound, and at the moment I unfortunately can't remember it, though I'd like to have it again as a status message.

Normally when I'm stuck somewhere, I do the same thing; I always draw in pencil, so that part isn't much different, but in this case, unfortunately, the paper I'm using particularly likes the graphite I'm using and will take to it rather strongly, so what's probably going to happen is I'm likely going to end up either hunting for another reference, or I'm going to be making one to use. I'll probably end up making one, in all honesty.

that sucks about that paper cause you can't tool around with the drawing, and i feel it's better to make your own references cause you can be more self reliant, unless it's something that you've never drawn before like maybe a monkey

*laughs* Yeah, definitely. Fortunately Iae has mostly human anatomy. It shouldn't be too difficult to translate slight shoulders and breasts to man torso. XD

lol......yeah all you would have to do is slightly broaden the shoulders and draw a flat chest, unless he pumps iron or sumthin'

Nah, he's pretty thin and lean. *snerk* He's a pretty-face, so I'd be worried if he had three-inch pectoral muscles. ._.; He barely has anything for arm musculature, which would make the concept of a ripped chest even more terrifying.

lol.....you just gave me a terrible mental image

...Uh-oh. ._. Should I be worried? I should probably be worried. I do that a lot. Sometimes kind of literally. In writing. A lot. And sometimes it transfers artistically. ...Speaking of, I have a charcoal work in progress kind of like that, and if I can get the damn camera to work, then I'll get an updated shot of it. : | Right now, however, I have three complete sets of rechargeable batteries, and they're ALL DOUCHES. AGH. I hate them. Especially since I went bed spelunking for two of them and gave myself the sneezes for nothing. They can't even turn the stupid camera ON.

no, don't worr, i just imagined a guy with a slender body, but with the pects of a body builder, so i kinda exaggerated

and i know exactly what your going through cause i had up until two days ago, a pair of rechargeable batteries for an ancient camera that takes four, and eats up a crazy amount of power so, yeah

Kaidona, i like your avatar piccy even more after reading that quote. Sorry I can't be more help, i've never been really good at art.

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