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[tomas1297]

Nose and chin a bit thin.

Read that out loud.

[lordnincompoop]

Yup.

[ILikePie]

Anyone have *any* luck getting wacom's products to work in linux. I can move the pen just above the tablet and see the position of the mouse, but when I click (touch the tablet), the whole thing freezes and will only move if the is touching the tablet. The fact that I can't see where the pointer is is driving me insane.

[strongrudder]

I've only worked with a tablet in Linux through a Windows emulator, which is no help. :d There are third-party drivers for Linux, the Wacom site informs me... have you fought with those yet?

Spoiler: a Plant! (click to show/hide)

This is a sort of carnivorous plant that's mostly a cross between a pitcher plant, a Venus flytrap, and... a frog?
I love working sketchy, and tried to tie it down a little more here. A higher original resolution and a more opaque brush probably would have helped, in retrospect. :T

[ILikePie]

I've only worked with a tablet in Linux through a Windows emulator, which is no help. :d There are third-party drivers for Linux, the Wacom site informs me... have you fought with those yet?

I have them installed, though my package manager uses some primitive version, when it comes to supporting some obscure product, don't even dare look at gentoo. I'll try compiling the drivers on my own, maybe that'll work.

[Duke 2.0]

 Began day doodling on my notes, all of said doodles looking absolutely terrible and I erased them as soon as they were finished. Depressed, I began doing sketches on the bus again. Shading, how the fuck does that work?

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[Red Fortune]

Look at black and white photos and other drawings.

[Duke 2.0]

 I understand the areas where color should be had and how dark areas should be, but I lack the ability to make them. I dunno, I guess I need some guidance on how to use proper technique instead of knowing where to use it.

 Although I suppose the lighting of a fizzy black sweater lit on both sides would be difficult to deal with as a beginner.

[Red Fortune]

I understand the areas where color should be had and how dark areas should be, but I lack the ability to make them.

Heheh, you may think you know where the values go, but if you did you would know how to make them it's not as simple as that!

[strongrudder]

I think before you worry about shading, it's most important to make sure the drawing underneath is sound. When I started to seriously work on figure drawing several years ago, I did this whole rendered drawing. Thought I was doing awesome... only to get to the end and realize that since the underlying drawing sucked, the painstakingly rendered shading looked awful. I think my shading technique was decent? But it ended up being a polished turd in the end.

I got some advice to use a pen to sketch for a while. The idea is, since you can't erase it forces you to learn how to make the correct line the first time. Gotta wade through some sucky drawings to get there, but I found it useful.

Some of my friends also like to take markers and draw things by filling in just the shadows - like this and this. No lines or anything, just chunks of black (or whatever color). It might help you understand volumes and shading better. I think I need to do some of that myself.

[Soadreqm]

Anyone have *any* luck getting wacom's products to work in linux. I can move the pen just above the tablet and see the position of the mouse, but when I click (touch the tablet), the whole thing freezes and will only move if the is touching the tablet. The fact that I can't see where the pointer is is driving me insane.

Huh. I think mine worked pretty much out of the box. Or maybe I had to install something with "wacom" in the name, I'm not sure. Well, okay, the buttons aren't doing anything meaningful, but the basic tablet functions of position and pressure sensing work just fine. Bamboo Fun in Ubuntu.

[Heron TSG]

Its a nice picture Barbarossa but one of the requirements is that it be in the style of Botanical Drawings as per the example. I.E. A strong sense of natural texture and as well as a decent amount of fine detail.

What constitutes a botanical drawing, a separate diagram of each part of the plant? Working on it.

[Siquo]

There's a link to a reference in the challenge.

I had to do these in school. It should/might contain blowups of details, cross-sections, perhaps multiple angles, different stages of growth (blossom/fruit/leaf), and you can use either letters as per the reference, or use lines to indicate and name parts (although it might be that using lines to indicate parts is only used in anatomy drawings of humans and animals). No background, no frills, but a lot of texture and detail in the subject itself.

[Spreggo]

There's a link to a reference in the challenge.

I had to do these in school. It should/might contain blowups of details, cross-sections, perhaps multiple angles, different stages of growth (blossom/fruit/leaf), and you can use either letters as per the reference, or use lines to indicate and name parts (although it might be that using lines to indicate parts is only used in anatomy drawings of humans and animals). No background, no frills, but a lot of texture and detail in the subject itself.

Yes, I think the idea is that someone could use the drawing to identify it, perhaps in relation to other very similar species with subtle differences.

[Spreggo]

I understand the areas where color should be had and how dark areas should be, but I lack the ability to make them. I dunno, I guess I need some guidance on how to use proper technique instead of knowing where to use it.

 Although I suppose the lighting of a fizzy black sweater lit on both sides would be difficult to deal with as a beginner.

One of the things that works well for me is to block in the shadows as actual shapes, before actually shading them in. A good exercise to get the hang of this is to draw and object by ONLY blocking in shadows - no contours, no texture, et cetera...

Another thing to keep in mind is massing of shadows. Rather than trying to render every single little strand of shadow, focus on the larger areas of shadow that those smaller ones produce.

This guy is pretty much doing what I mean. There are more examples out there too.