*^_^*Dragon!!!!

[Metalheadz]

Wow, these dragons are amazing!

But I thought the first one looked more like a bird than a dragon, unless they actually exist. lol

[Eclectric]

You thought the first one looked like a bird? *looks at it again* It looks aquatic... like a sea serpent with larger fins.

[*^_^*kako]

lol. I guess I can see how it may look like a sky dragon. I guess i should really finsh it up so that you can tell better what kind of dragon it is. Thanks for the comments you two. lol.

[*^_^*kako]

Here are some more of my pictures from two years ago if I've shoven any of them more then onece then sorry. I'll get some more newer ones up later today maybe.

[Eclectric]

Mmm... your paper looks pretty torn up. That can ruin a drawing. I think you need a kneaded eraser. They're not expensive or anything like that. They're basically grey blobs of stuff that are really good at erasing. You'd be amazed with how well they erase. and you can fold it and the kneaded eraser will eat the stuff it's soaked up and you can start with a fresh bit of eraser. neat huh? And these are practice drawings, right? Exercises?

[*^_^*kako]

That picture is torn up because it was on computer paper and i thought it would turn out bad so i diden't do it in my book where i would be safe. Oh and this picture below is a kako oringal, you won't see to many of these,but this one means a whole lot to me sense it came 100% from my head,in case you can't see what shes saying shes saying "And after this you can try-) and she goes into a big list of all these yummy foods. Note: the food to his left was what he has eatten already.

[Eclectric]

That's cute. Few tips for improvement though:

Use a ruler or some sort of straight object for straight lines.

Things should appear narrower as they get farther away, not wider.

Use looser, more flowing lines with table drapes, and add some wrinkles. Also, since the girl's knees are on the table drape a little, it should fold to indicate that she is.

The bottoms of the tall food stands shouldn't be flat when the tops appear as ellipses. In fact, since you're looking down on them, they should be slightly more curved. One thing that helps to figure out how wide an ellipse should be is to take a roll of Masking tape and hold it so it's level to the ground, and move it up and down, way above your head or way below your head. Then once you get that you can just put it in the sort of perspective that your circle would be in the drawing, and get an idea of what kind of ellipse to draw.

You should add a horizon line in the background at least.

The objects all look like you're looking almost straight down on them, but the people look like you're looking at them from an equal height.

While all the other objects look like you're looking down on them, the ice cream bowl on the table to the right looks like you're looking at it from an equal height.



Just some common perspective problems that make a drawing look less believable. Work on not making those.

[*^_^*kako]

=3check out my dragon!

[Metalheadz]

The 2nd picture of the dragon was a lot better than the first one with the tea party. Nice work. ^^

[Eclectric]

Lovely dragon. Looks a little like a certain Pokemon. Did you draw this from your mind or from a picture?

[*^_^*kako]

*^_^*These are just some picture i've been working on i got this great how to draw real stuff book and learn some neat tricks!

[Eclectric]

I like the at the best. ^^ Here's a few tips for you:
You should rotate a picture so it's right-side up before posting it. You can do this with any photo program. Try finding the picture of the house in your files, right-clicking it, and then scrolling over "open with" and select Microsoft Office Picture Manger.

On the house, your lines should be close to parallel when they're on the same wall or the wall has the same orientation as another. However, they should get farther apart when closer and closer together when they're farther away, such that if they were to continue forever, they'd eventually collide at what's called the vanishing point. In the case of this house you'd use what's called two-point perspective. you could look that up for more info. ^^

The pathway should widen as it gets closer to you, not get narrower.


On the rose, the only problem I see is that the heart in the bottom-right corner looks really 3D and nice, while the one in the top-left looks rushed and not as real. Other than that, you should just make sure the leaves on your rose are being shone upon by the same light source(s).



I like the cat. Darker shadows on his body would be good though, because it took me a little bit to see the shadow.

[*^_^*kako]

I used a blending stick for all of this.

[*^_^*kako]

here are some more pics,sorry for the dubble post but I was in a super drawing mood so here are alot of pics. Hope eveyone likes them.

[Eclectric]

I love your drawing moods. ^^ Nice pics Kako. Here's a few tips though:

Make sure the legs on your coffee table are the same height. It doesn't look like the table's level. The square at the bottom of the coffee table legs look flat. What you could have done as an easy way to get the one above that flat is to make parallel lines above that to get your square, then make parallel lines directly under those and connect at the corners. After that, make the legs. Everything else on that looks good. Great job on the couch especially. ^^

That doesn't look like a real butterfly but I know to take that with a grain of salt, because it's anime style.

That butterfly looks kind of... flattened, squished. Hmm... maybe if its body was a little narrower it wouldn't look like that.


Awesome job on that drawing with the kung fu guy. Did you draw that from a picture or imagine this? ^^


That owl reminds me a little of Kaepora Gaebora, you know, that owl from Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. It could use some feathers, though. You don't need to draw every individual feather in order to get the effect of a feathered creature, though. You can give that effect by drawing feathers in one part of it, most likely where the highlight is. Don't forget to give each feather its own highlight and shadow. Another way you can do it is to draw the shapes of the groups of feathers that are on there, then add some lines to indicate feathers. This fools the eye into seeing a lot of feathers. This trick is handy, especially for hair and fur, as you can't possibly draw each individual hair that's there.
One more thing is that there should be some indication on his body of light and shadow. Living things aren't immune to light or shadow, after all.