What Do You Draw?

...Or sculpt, paint, collage, photograph, etc.? What's your craft, your medium, your typical subjects?

I draw, primarily with pencils in black and white, mostly sketches or cartoons. I've drawn anime and manga-style art the most, especially people and character designs, but I've lately also gotten into observational drawing, copying from photographs or real-life for practice, and experimenting with new mediums like color pencil, watercolor, paints, and marker (color, basically) . I've worked with digital art in the past, but while I have some skills with it I haven't really taken to it.

I've mostly been doing gesture drawing, drawing hands, poses, or faces and bodies, also trying to draw space, rooms, and places, and even random plants or knick-knacks. I draw detailed copies from photographs of nudes online for practice with light, shading, form, and anatomy, and sometimes from photos in magazines or around home.

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I've been attempting to draw webcomics and the like since I first learned that people made webcomics, so my style is kind of suited towards it. I work with sketches and digital inking/coloring. I hate anime art-styles, so I've done my best to maintain a western cartoon style, but there's no actual conventions I use.

edited 7th Jan '11 8:17:59 PM by Scrye

Mostly, people. I would like to start working on other things like buildings and objects, but I tend to stay in my comfort zone. The things I do for class are mostly focused around the human body, though, so I just find it more convenient to stick with that. I guess my style has become kind of anime-like, mostly with the face, but I try to keep it as a hybrid of that and a more realistic style. For models, I sometimes visit Posemaniacs, look at random photos, just make things up, or act like a creeper at school and draw people sitting in front of me during class.

Typically for school works, I use watercolor and acrylics, occasionally with some pen. For personal things, I usually use watercolor or just leave it as a pencil doodle.

But the one word answer to this question would be "people".

Uh. Painstakingly researched clothing, occasionally with people in them. My art style is thin-lined and semi-realistic, like manga without the over stylized faces or Disney animation in general.

Trying to get into scenery and buildings and all that so I can draw a webcomic.

Sometimes I do sumi-e. But I'm kind of crap at it.

edited 7th Jan '11 6:12:07 PM by Leradny

Aliens And Monsters.

They don't attack my place though.

Same as above.

Animals are my main subject. Semi-realistic or realistic. I do wildlife art, pet portraits, and some fantasy work. Some fanart too, started to do a bit of anime.

At work it's mostly fantasy, cartoon and semi-realistic.

I draw fat people in various stages of undress. While I draw, I laugh hysterically and foam at the mouth.

@Yuval "I draw fat people in various stages of undress. While I draw, I laugh hysterically and foam at the mouth."

Oh mai. XD

Me, I draw: Pokemon, landscapes, flowerz, animals, sunsets, whatever random objects are in front of me at the time and shit so disturbing you'll wonder if I live in a mental home. :3

It's all here really (although I'm working on more disturbing shit)

My favourite tools are watercolours, pencils, pens and good paper. I'm actually not very fond of/good at drawing onto the computer, it kind of ends up looking retarded.

edited 20th Jan '11 10:28:26 AM by TacoNinja

^^ I'd like to see you when you're drawing.

edited 21st Jan '11 5:57:21 AM by spoki0

I just finished this one.

It was requested by Lemurian.

Other than that it's quite random.

edited 24th Jan '11 9:18:29 AM by spoki0

I usually tend to draw my favorite characters, whether it be from an anime, cartoon show, or video game, etc. And usually they're in chibi form

Of course, that's not to say that i don't draw them in their regular state, though.

Medium: Usually pencil, since it's the most readily available.

Style: Varies. If I'm drawing people on a larger scale, it's pretty darn close to realistic◊. If on a smaller scale, it's in a simplified, comic-drawing suitable style◊ that isn't really anime, but looks a lot like it because that's what I used to draw about three-four years ago. When I have to hammer out a comic and I don't feel like putting any effort into drawing, I use any style of chibi◊, or just scribble shite. (in this example, Lightning and Serah. Snow doesn't count because he actually looks good.)◊

Subject material: Almost exclusively people, they are my specialty. The people in particular are fictional characters of my creation. Lately I've been drawing a lot of Vikings and Anglo-Saxons.

Pencil and micron pen on bristol board! When I graduate in 5 months (!!!) I'm gonna try and break into the comic book industry, and bristol board is what everyone pretty much uses.

So if all goes well, in a year or two (or three, etc) I'll have my own ongoing comic series of awesomeness! Lots of drawing, but lots of fun.

Mostly pixelart on my part, I do some CG and traditional stuff ... but I just like pixel pushing that much more. :p

Sewing pillows with faces of different characters and filling my room with them.

Landscapes, animals and plants, people. Still-lifes for practice. I'm working on realism at the moment, though I'll also do more stylised fantasy works.

I'm very good at drawing humans, cartoony or otherwise. I've also dabbled with horses and birds, though I have a very difficult time with dogs and cats and the like if they aren't anthropomorphic. The hardest non-living thing for me to draw are architectural buildings. I can draw trees, ice, mountains, and grass, though I'm not necessarily very good at it.

I draw girls.

Yay for a life-long obsession with pin-up art and Heavy Metal!

edited 5th Feb '11 3:01:00 AM by don

A lot of fantasy art, monsters, and a healthy helping of video game art. Pokemon◊ in particular. My medium of choice is usually pen and ink, with digital coloring.

Mostly I paint abstract color patterns, girls in interesting clothing, or graffiti art.

I draw with Ticonderoga pencils in composition books. Sometimes I'll do lineart with a needle tip pen, or scan a picture to cell shade it in photoshop, but usually I don't.

More often recently, I'm getting the hang of sketching directly in photoshop with my tablet. I've had it forever now, but sketching things with a tablet still feels off to me. Its only in the last month or so that I've gotten even remotely comfortable doing it.

Now, onto what I draw, its mostly fictional people. Concept art, posing, lounging around, fighting, using magic, modeling clothing, acting a comic, whatever. They're done in a anime-esque style, though I've been experimenting with borrowing influence from american cartoons. I've also been trying to do more with backgrounds and coloring, so that people aren't just floating lineart in white space, with some mixed results.

I am also, however, prone to creating patterns while doodling. Anything from mimicking the designs on the backs of playing cards, to framing a random page with vines and flowers. I'll occasionally get some interesting results when combining this with people, though it isn't always successful.

As for reference material, usually I grab a mirror, strike a pose, turn on a flashlight, and go. I'll also mimic patterns from anything from the aforementioned playing cards to the spots on a cat.

edited 14th Feb '11 2:05:07 AM by Dec

Being an aspiring cartoonist, I draw stylized cartoony things and so on.

I draw with oh-so-professional 2B pencil on oh-so-professional copy-paper. I draw fairly realistic people with unrealisticly large eyes, animals, noodly cartoon everything, and crappy chibis for when I don't try at all. I try to do my own style but it pulls from western animation when I'm cartooning. I actively shun teh manga. It's so easy to slip into, not so easy to slip out >.<

edited 13th Feb '11 9:06:29 PM by piearty

Eyes. I draw eyes.