Danomight's shining sword of dreams...

[Danomight]

What's up everybody, enjoy the sketches and feel free to comment and critique.
Thanks.

-Danomight







reference used for the pose of the girl in the first picture.

[Danomight]

Here's an old man/wizard type character that I drew, pretty simple, no reference.

[Danomight]

More drawings....


I contemplated giving him a really cool guitar like a Warlock, but I settled for an acoustic.


Another drawing done for fun.


Life studies from a weekly session.

[karma0zero]

i like the one of the girl holding the torch, a real sense of the wind blowing the flame and her hair.

[Danomight]

Karma: Thanks, I've never really used my eraser to achieve light. I often find myself adding shadows onto my images by making things darker, but hardly do I erase to achieve lighter areas.

Here's another loose sketch I've done recently. No reference, as you can probably tell, just tried to make out the pose as best as possible. I think that when you draw light enough, you can somewhat sculpt the figure with loose lines and values. Anyway, here's the sketch.

[Danomight]

[Danomight]

I actually thought about doing a story for an anthology with this character, only cooler, and younger looking, and drawn better...

[Danomight]

Here is the process of how my drawings come along, mostly light sketching and a ton of erasing and redrawing, takes me a while to get the anatomy to a point where I'm happy since I don't use reference a lot of times.

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Old life drawing.

[Gilead]

Your life drawings are good.
I really like the action in your April 15 drawing. It's a good idea to draw something like that from your mind to get a creative idea going. Then try to pose yourself or a friend for a photo doing the same thing. Then you can do the same picture combining refference and imagination. The results will be better than either refference or imagination alone.

[Danomight]

Thanks for the tip Gilead. I tend to use reference only rarely, I seem to learn more when I am using my mind by itself. I think when you have to create something from nothing, you have to pay attention more, you can feel the curves better, the overlapping, the angles. When I copy a picture, I am only thinking about spaces and values, not really structure. I have never tried the method you mentioned though, I'll give it some thought, it sounds like a good way to correct yourself.

[Danomight]

[Danomight]

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[Danomight]

Here's a quick study I did this morning. I am really struggling trying to find a way to color my images. I am searching for a way to color pencilled graphite images, either digitally or traditionally. Everything I've tried keeps coming out really bad and bland. Any suggestions?

[Danomight]

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[m00ftak]

yo this stuff is excellent. you seem to have an awesome grasp of anatomy.

i will be following this thread!

take it easy.

[sabe2003]

A lot of the images seem to be gone, But I like the shading you got going on here. I enjoy the color ones too, very solid, esspicially that recent protrait of the woman, very nice. You might want to add a little more color variation on the flash tones though..... Keep posting!!