Nightrode's Art Thread

[nightrode]

So yeah. I decided to have one on my own. I love to draw - but I'm not very good at it yet. ^^; Critism is allowed, but I already know that I'm pretty bad, so no bashing, okay? *Totally nervous*


So, here a picture of moi drakon to start it off.





I hope it's good for a beginner, haha.

[Sven & Hermes]

That's pretty cool - i love the eyes, they remind me of Ken Sugimori's style in a way.

What did program did you use to draw? Did you use a mouse? I know a good free art program (which i use) called GIMP, and works in a similar fashion to photoshop ^_^ you should check it out!

Time for some crits! I'm not going to go all faffy on you because you're still learning (well, everyone is tbh). Soo, I'm going to speak first about your wings because that's what struck me the most. I suggest for leathery wing shapes, you check out pictures of bats, and see how they're wings go, if you want to go on a more plausible (I'd say realistic but dragons aren't real XD) look of your dragon's wings. I recommend that you treat the wing like an extra arm - look at your own for a reference, but then enlarge the fingers, maybe with a thumb for grasping onto cliff edges or claws on the 'fingertips'. Also, the wings should try and attach to the body, sort of like how you did the 'shoulders' of Night's forelegs. I personally like the forelegs and the wings to be connected together on the shoulder blade (if they have one), but that's just personal preference.

Next, these are just little things that aren't as important, but make all the difference. For example, I find the neck attached to the dragon's head not wide enough. Why? Because If you look at Night's head and where his throat is at the back of his neck, (unless his throat is supposed to be higher), there is missing a little bit of neck. Where you had finished the purple on the underside, i think you should have left it like that, and replace that white space with purple too, so that the neck looks a little fuller and looks like the throat can go somewhere.

Don't take this personally, I think you're doing great ^_^ Everyone has to start somewhere, right? In art, it's nearly always the peers who guide you to do better I hope my words make sense for you!

[nightrode]

Hey, thanks! That's alot of positive critism. ^^ Thanks for reviewing.

The style is my own style I kinda got from drawing by now. I didn't look at that guy, haha.

And believe it or not, I used Paint, lol. I usually do that to do a solid outline, and shade in Paint.net, but I felt too lazy to do that. (Besides, I wanna concentrate to have a good outline for now.)

Anyway thanks, and I'll try to fix that next time. ^^