What Do You Draw?

I enjoy drawing mechanical things, broken with hanging wires and very industrial, or sleek and shiny and pointy. Also, zombies.

Theres a knock at the door, but no one lives in there...

Noodle People. Because anorexic slim people with outrageous proportions fascinate me.

edited 5th Apr '11 7:53:08 AM by SilverBlack

I tend to draw very odd portraits and profiles, things that people look at and go "well..." you know, borderline creepy stuff. i'm trying to get into drawing creepy stuff, also women, but they are the hardest to draw of all the genders, so it's easier to stick to men.

They don't think it be like it is, but it do.

^ Huh, for me it's the opposite: it's a lot easier for me to draw women than men.

I've really got to stop doing fanart doodles of bishonen before I totally lose my ability to draw normal looking guys

Tumblr here.

I'm a comic artist, so the stuff I draw usually is of that nature. Otherwise I practice things like posing, energy blasts, explosions, or facial expressions. Then, if I'm bored, I'll draw some Visual Puns or small pieces of fanart (Dr. Eggman is fun to draw!)

Weird in a Can (updated M-F)

This. Some things require you to turn off your adult content filter.

I also do sprites. Lots and lots of sprites.

edited 30th Apr '11 9:45:39 AM by RoninCatholic

I must be cruel, but to be kind That bad may begin, and worse be left behind

Anatomy/body studies, mostly. It's the overlap point between my interests in medicine and drawing.

I draw... whatever passes through my mind at some times when I have no idea what pose to use... I am pretty good a s portraits since I started drawing by making portraits of naruto characters. I am now a bit good at making realistic portraits... but still crap compared to a lot... I also try to do full-body poses and drawings related to a story in my head that I was never able to put in any form... If I learn to draw better I'm making it into a webcomic... or seven. I have some work in photoshop and am really good at coloring in it (not excellent but recently I made something brilliant and have a history of nice things. Just wait about six months from now and I think I will rock... if I don't die.

I draw mostly people, and mostly with a lot abstract/surreal elements. Like this◊. Sometimes other creatures or purely abstract. There also is a varying amount of horror/emo inserted, depending on my current mental health state. Colour ranges from OMG my eyes!! to black and white.

If everything you try works, you aren't trying hard enough

I usually draw my pics off photographs, I am a realism FREAK!

I love Art.

Friend-fiction comics in which my friend is beaten to near-death over and over and then recovers by deux ex machina. Cameos by various other friends also try to kill him. I only drew 5 pages, but I'm getting back to it.

whatever commission is granted or whatever whim suits me.

"Psssh. Even if you could catch a miracle on a picture any person would probably delete it to make space for more porn." - Aszur

Random people I see around me or characters I like.

If someone wants to accuse us of eating coconut shells, then that's their business. We know what we're doing. - Achaan Chah

Greetings from Writer's Block!

I lack time to draw for leisure anymore, so much of what I get around to drawing consists of kind of◊ chibi-ish◊, kind of◊ Animesque doodles◊ of my characters. I get around to them by doing so during a class that we don't do anything in.

"Jack, you have debauched my sloth."

I draw people in an anime style, although recently, I'm disillusioned over how I draw and why. I feel like I aspire to realism to please others and to get popular than for myself.

I only use traditional media, none of that digital shit, b/c I lack the patience to learn how to use it.

I liked it better when Questionable Casting was called WTH Casting Agency

Anime styled art gets unfairly hated on, but a lot of that is because some people use "it's anime" as an excuse to forgo learning about anything that isn't figure drawing related as well. Even if the people are stylized, perspective/color/composition/etc. is still important...Also, stylistic art can be pulled off well and pulled off badly, so "it's anime" doesn't excuse you from that.

It's less that people should aspire to realism (which is a style of art like any other), but rather that they should realize they need to try new things if they want to improve as an artist. Even artists who are already good (assuming there to be some objective measure of this, that is) won't get better by drawing the same way they always have. I kind of think of it like this—you know how there some writers who seem to write the same novel over and over again, or use a basic formula to vomit out Airport Novels year after year? Those books might sell well, but not many people consider those authors "great" writers (I kind of object to classifying stuff as being lowbrow and therefore "bad" literature, but I digress.)

Similarly, if an (anime, or any style) artist always only*

does the style they're used to, they aren't going to really evolve and improve even if they draw 1000 pictures.

Meh, just my two cents. I'll admit I'm a bit of a hypocrite saying all this, since I'll slip into periods where I don't do much experimenting at all for weeks/months...

Tumblr here.

I draw mainly heads from the sideview, like on Total Drama, and sometimes torsos, but putting them together is hard.

I draw mainly with pens, generally ball-points in black, blue or red. Sometimes I use other sorts of pens, in different colours, or use coloured pencils, or non-coloured pencils (mainly on the harder side though sometimes softer), or whatever. I also paint, sparingly, in oils and water-colour, with the occasional application of tempura paints that I have had since I was a wee thing. Occasionally, I mix media, to peculiar effects. I used to sculpt; I may take it up again.

As to what I depict, it is whatever my mind and hand demand me to draw. Usually this is on the surreal-fantastic end of things: Lots of strange, towering buildings, monstrous plants and creatures of various sorts, the latter ofttimes bearing in long scarves and funny hats. A lot of it has to do with my writing, or begins as pure automatism and feeds back into the work through inspiration or synchronicity.

A weird little aside: Though I often draw animals real and imaginary in human(-like) garb or situations, I don't draw people as often for the simple reason that it is (contrary to popular reasoning) ultimately easier to get away with botching certain aspects of the human form than it is to accurately portray something completely different in a similar context. Plus, I've been drawing people longer, and repetition is the enemy of sanity.

I'll hide your name inside a word and paint your eyes with false perception.

Currently my sketchbook seems to be composed entirely of aliens, fanart, and fanart of aliens.

My stuff tends to be heavy on the speculative fiction end of the spectrum- lots of fantasy and science fiction and superheroes, with occasional oddball mashup detours like the military sf funny animal superheroes >.> One constant, though, is that I appear to be completely addicted to things that allow me to show motion beyond the limitations of the human body, like big billowy capes and coats, wings on the characters, unrealistically long hair, or, in the case of one of the military sf funny animal superheroes, extremely long, somewhat floppy rabbit ears.

-*shrug* I'm not sure it qualifies as a signature style, but it sure is fun

Small female characters interacting with larger hands.

old, newer and animated.

What am I doing here again? What are you doing here? I lurk around at Deviantart rather than here.

I draw sketches of scenes I plan on writing in my novel, whenever my current book or my next one.

I'm trying to get so much better at it

Great thread of all the different drawings you are all up to! I love to draw all things dinosaurs. The drawing method illustrated in the article how to draw a dilophosaurus is my favorite method for creating different drawings of dinosaurs, and frankly it works for most drawing objects if you ask me. I like to start out with the rough object of lines and core shapes of the dinosaur first. Then, I add in the limbs. And lastly, I add in the detail and clean up the drawing with my eraser. Hope that helps anyone looking to draw more dinosaurs!

Animals, anthros, and anime-styled humans. I've tried other art styles but feel that the anime-esque look works best with my skill set. I still need to get better at drawing hands, though.

I started off doing a lot of ponies, to the exclusion of everything else. I've expanded my range of subjects quite a bit since then, although I still have some work to do on my skill at drawing certain things, like backgrounds and humans. Fakemon and mythical creatures are at the top of my favorite subjects list right now.

As for the medium, I carry a binder full of standard printer paper and at least two pencils pretty much everywhere, and I also do some digital stuff with Photoshop and Illustrator.

One common thread between the majority of my drawings is that the subjects have some greater context that they fit into. A lot of the stuff in my gallery is concept art for fanfic, for example. Characters don't exist (well) in a vacuum. I like things to have context, to be able to ask "how" or "why" and get an answer.