Do you draw?

[Poetic Nova]

Used to.

Last time I did draw something was 5 years ago. It's sadly just a test of patience I dont have.
When my low attention span doesn't interfere its my OCD that will make sure that I give in after making mistakes too many times.

 

[the December King]

Yes. Yes I do.

...But it's fallen completely to the wayside now. Can't say how it happened, I for some reason just don't care about it at all anymore. Even thinking about drawing something, or looking at other people's artwork just fills me with a sense of utter futility...

I find myself in the same boat as Casual Shinji, except that I do miss it, a little. I think it's the dayjob as a VFX artist. Often when I have tried to apply my artistic talent to VFX, it gets ditched for other mundane methods. it's too much to go into at the moment, but I'm hoping to get back into concept art and illustration... or, whatever. Eventually.

Oh right, I forgot to add some drawings!

Spoiler: The Umbromancer

Spoiler: Remorhazan Elder

Spoiler: Alag'har Of Blackscale

 

[Fijiman]

I used to, but after high school I just kind of stopped and haven't bothered to try again. I want to, but I just haven't.

 

[Gray-Philosophy]

Oh absolutely! I'm always eager to learn, so critique is indeed very welcome!

Alrighty then.

-snip-

Oooooh I see what you mean, yeah. I've often found something just a little bit off on some of them without being able to quite put my finger on it. Very good points! I'll definitely work on practicing the balance some more, thank you

 

[EMWISE94]

Oh do I! though its mostly just a mess of stuff:

Spoiler: sometimes it's character sheets/lineups

Spoiler: sometimes its rough pieces

Spoiler: but majority is rough character concepts

There's a lot more but I'm not gonna just throw everything here, plus most stuff is like old or just really rough... I'm kinda embarrassed to show my stuff. Also yeah I kinda lean heavily towards just drawing out rough concepts, haven't done a finished polished piece in a while.

 

[SD-Fiend]

I really wish I would use the vast amounts of spare time I had to learn to draw, but I don't know where to start from... I just feel I'm missing something obvious.

 

[SupahEwok]

I was going to teach myself to sketch serious fantasy maps, with the goal of later painting them. Got a book, nice paper, pencils, the whole shebang. I just wanted to expand my hobbies and give something artistic a try, since I never did before. But after a couple of sessions at the beginning of this semester, I fell into a great big apathy hole that's pretty much consumed my life. I don't know when or if I'll ever get back to it.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

I don't know how to answer this without coming off as someone promoting their own stuff...So I'm just going to do exactly that

http://enmadaio2588.deviantart.com/

The above link is to my old DA account...Damn, 8 years...I haven't posted any drawings on there in a really long time though do mostly to the fact that I haven't had a scanner or a digital...drawing...tool to really use. Another tick against DA is that apparently posting your art on there somehow makes it theirs...I dunno, I read a thing about a DA-user finding his own designs on T-Shirts and not being paid or some such thing. From there I also have a NSFW DA account which uses the more familiar Shoggoth8852 handle. Again, the Shoggoth8852 account is NSFW and features a mix of hand drawings, digital drawings and, short stories (some of which have cliff hangers which will never be resolved.)

Aside from Deviantart, I have tons and tons of old notebooks, sketchpads and, blank books in which I've done more drawings and sketches than I could possibly remember. I have posted one "let's play" video on my youtube channel (sorry about the plug) in which I draw a Charmander in Art Studio Academy on the Wii U.

 

[DementedSheep]

Another tick against DA is that apparently posting your art on there somehow makes it theirs

You sure? They pulled out the "we own what you post" thing as an April fools joke once but last I checked they didn't actually own it. However I've not used DA in years.

 

[COMaestro]

I used to doodle quite a bit, but nothing ever really good. I find that I can make a decent sketch of things that I look at, but am pretty bad when I just try to draw with no reference. I'm also really bad at shading and coloring, so by best pieces are just sketches. Honestly, I like the look of sketched artwork anyway, with rough pencil lines and everything. Don't know why, it just appeals to me.

Haven't drawn in some time though. I'm usually just too tired to do much of anything after we get the kids to bed. I occasionally paint miniatures for some board games, but even that I've been falling behind on. It's so much easier to just watch something on television or play a video game than to do something artistic. Hopefully I'll get back to doing some art at some point, but it will probably be when my kids are older.

 

[Barbas]

I drew my own avatar, but it's gone now.

Not necessarily. Open an old Escapist PM and you might find that the message box displays a copy of your old avatar. You can also try visiting "http://quizzes.teen.com/profiles/view/" to see other people's old avatars.

Granted, they may not be the right size, but it's all kept in the internet somewhere.

Spoiler: Here's one I spewed a few years earlier!

 

[Shoggoth2588]

Another tick against DA is that apparently posting your art on there somehow makes it theirs

You sure? They pulled out the "we own what you post" thing as an April fools joke once but last I checked they didn't actually own it. However I've not used DA in years.

It could have been the April fools thing...I really don't remember too clearly since this was a while ago and I haven't really been active there for months.

 

[MythicMatt]

I think I might be capable of drawing... However, literally all the stuff I have drawn is bad copies of other artists works.

If anyone has any helpful advice on how to draw without copying other art, that'd be helpful.

 

[Dizchu]

Yeah, I draw. Not as much as I used to but I have a portfolio of stuff.

Spoiler

 

[Ryallen]

When I was in high school, I desperately wanted to. I knew more artists than most where I went and everyone there was crazy good at drawing, so I tried to draw as well. I never got very good. I could only draw characters from a single angle, faces were always messed up because I could never draw the second half of the face decently, hands never melded into arms very well, the hair I drew was far too anime-esque for me to take seriously, all the poses were incredibly stiff and unnatural, almost like dolls, and I couldn't even draw women. Like, at all. Their breasts wouldn't look like anything coherent. So I just stopped and started focusing on writing, which I am much better at.

 

[the December King]

Yeah, I draw. Not as much as I used to but I have a portfolio of stuff.

Nice work, Dizzy! Love your palette choices.

 

[Dizchu]

Nice work, Dizzy! Love your palette choices.

Thanks, the gradient map tool in Photoshop is a miracle.

 

[Eclipse Dragon]

I think I might be capable of drawing... However, literally all the stuff I have drawn is bad copies of other artists works.

If anyone has any helpful advice on how to draw without copying other art, that'd be helpful.

How exactly are you copying other artists stuff? Do you mean you trace over them or draw nothing but fanart or that your idea seems to always have been done elsewhere?

 

[Spider RedNight]

Well, I'm already part of one of the groups on here but yes, I draw..... not as often as I used to because I find myself in a lot of blocks but yeah, I really like drawing most of the time. I'm a -dramatic pause- FAN ARTIST. I have/had a dA but my sister's on there and she's more popular than I am so I fled to Tumblr to post my art before I realised that Tumblr's kind of a cesspool but I still put my art on there

Recently I've been all about palette pictures because I like having limited choices and seeing what I can do with the colour combinations. I have a handful of muses but Borderlands has me by the throat so I've been drawing.... looots of Hyperion losers.

Spoiler: Tales from the Borderlands. Palettes!

Spoiler: Mmmm Random Phoenix Wright character?

One thing I absolutely cannot do for the life of me is backgrounds. I do people and sometimes... animals. Sometimes. Not well. Yeesh.

Spoiler: HIM from Powerpuff Girls

[http://s809.photobucket.com/user/Capricious-Spider/media/CNV%20HIM_zpseuhiuwmd.png.html]

But yeah. I mean, I draw for fun; I was brought up with grandparents who didn't like colouring books because drawing what you wanted was the more creative route. I also paint buuuuuut those are less for others to see and more a venting tool. AT LEAST... my art looks kinda better than it did a year ago. Woo, those were REALLY dark times. I mean, these are dark times too but not nearly as dark as THOSE times

 

[FPLOON]

I used to do a webcomic that was featured on my high school's website... It only lasted a month on said website because it always linked to my formal website, where the comment section was too NSFW if any parent were to "stumble" across it...

Other than that, I took a couple of art-based classes and the best that came out of it was my natural talent of making art using charcoal... on top of remembering that I can still draw characters from Spongebob and Powerpuff Girls...