Jan. 23 2008 / I tried contacting the SF office with no response a about 11am Pacific. Could there be some dark side to this Red Bu…
Jan. 23 2008 / I tried contacting the SF office with no response a about 11am Pacific. Could there be some dark side to this Red Bubble negative dream team of 98mil. Hope we will find out shortly so goals can get accomplished as quickly as possible. Plans are to sell “Her Love” to everyone using greeting cards, posters, Tshirts, or wall plaques for maximum profit return.
(I have been looking for somewhere to enter novel/movie outlines and, thanks to Gayla Drummond’s helpful suggestion, am trying a few of …
(I have been looking for somewhere to enter novel/movie outlines and, thanks to Gayla Drummond’s helpful suggestion, am trying a few of them as journal entries, eager for feedback of course.) The year is 2345 A.D. At great expense, spurred on by fresh outbreaks of hostilities between the current super-powers, the U.N. has established a secret colony on the far side of the moon. Funding is steady for a few decades and the colonists manage to raise a second and then a third generation in the camouflaged domes and underground complexes on the moon, in spite of weak leadership and increasing social dissension. But when World War Six begins in earnest down on Earth, the regular supply ships fail to arrive. Frustration and despair bring on a crisis of authority, and the consequent civil strife soon reduces the lunar colony to a scattered few. Three young friends, two girls and a boy, who have been reared on the moon and have the characteristic white hair and elongated bodies, retreat to a cave inside one of the biggest craters, a hideaway of theirs since childhood. A few days later, while they are out on reconnaissance together, they happen to see a space-craft landing nearby from which a heavily armed contingent of soldiers disembarks. The three young people do not recognize the insignia on the ship or understand the language being spoken by the invaders, who are obviously hostile. Once the strangers have learned how to handle their bulky weapons in the moon’s reduced gravitation, they rush to the abandoned outpost and occupy it. The three teenagers return to their crater, easily traversing the considerable distance with their lengthy strides, and are busy establishing life-support and exploring the nearby caves when they meet an older couple, Donna and Jim. They are both friendly and are also seeking refuge in the caves inside the rim of the big crater. Donna and JIm bring the disheartening news that the latest World War has devastated Earth. The major powers have swiftly and decisively annihilated one another, leaving the petty dictators of formerly insignificant countries in control by default… and it would likely be many, many years before they ran out of military hardware. The older couple don’t have the heart to tell the youngsters this, but every city on Earth is now nothing but a smoking hole in the landscape. The few civilians remaining on Earth are also living underground at present, and the lunar colony has been almost entirely forgotten because it had always been top-secret and the elites were the first to go. Jim is a radio-operator and manages to set up a rudimentary communications-center in a separate cave, where he lives and sleeps with his equipment. The sparse news from Earth continues to be appalling. It transpires that the new European Overlord’s misguided invasion-force is now just as cut-off as the original colony because, in a fit of temper, the new ruler has ordered the execution of the entire technological community. Unfortunately, they had made him feel stupid. Jim hesitantly informs the teenagers of this and, against his advice, they decide to retake the main base. To this end, they begin to scout around and contact the other scattered survivors of the colony. This activity leads to several skirmishes with the invaders which do not go well for the colonists. At this point, when JIm and Donna are almost despairing, some odd radio-signals begin to appear on certain low-frequency carrier-waves. Jim attempts a response and makes first contact with a hitherto unknown species occupying tunnels and caverns at deeper levels below the craters. He arranges meetings with these ‘moonlings’, as he calls them. When the young colonists are ambushed by the enraged invaders, Jim and Donna plead for the moonlings’ help. Together they succeed in regaining control of the old outpost and of the moon, but are all forced to go underground again when there is a sudden barrage of meteors on the surface. In the process of surviving these disasters, they learn that the small gray moonlings are themselves descended from a long-forgotten civilization on Earth. Their ancestors were also sent to the moon at a time of technological advancement and highly developed culture, which abruptly collapsed and left them stranded. Through long narrow tunnels, the group of colonists follow the sad little creatures down to their odd dwelling-places in the subterranean bubbles that riddle the moon. With much ceremony, they are taken to view the ancient wall-carvings that illustrate the moonlings’ history and realize that in all probability they are beholding their own future. /
In the arid and mountainous interior of British Columbia, in the year 2121 A.D., a ranching family is surrounded overnight by sasquatches…
In the arid and mountainous interior of British Columbia, in the year 2121 A.D., a ranching family is surrounded overnight by sasquatches, all gibbering in apparent terror and staring fearfully at the mountaintops. The father of the Nelson family and the two teenage boys climb up one of the mountains to investigate. Approaching the summit, they see that numerous space-ships are landing up there and a great many green, reptile-skinned aliens are aggressively securing the area. Returning to their ranch, they enter into an uneasy alliance with the sasquatches, who smell horrible and are bad-tempered as well, mostly because their deeply instinctive secretiveness has been violated. The farm animals are reacting to their fetid presence with frenzied panic, so Mr. Nelson guides them himself to a nearby cave situated inside a deep gorge with a stream at the bottom, a congenial habitat for sasquatches, who rely very much on their remarkable climbing ability. The rancher does not see the sasquatches as the immediate threat – at least they are terrestrial. He would tell the rest of the family to keep quiet about them for the time being – the Nelsons don’t want to stretch their credibility too far just yet. But Mr. Nelson admits to himself that he is disturbed by an impression that the sasquatches want to tell him something. There is something in their angry, babbling speech that sounds quite urgent. But when he gets back to the ranch he doesn’t say anything about these thoughts. Having over time devolved from a few surviving proto-humans who had taken refuge in marginal areas, in haste to hide from the mass migrations that surged out of Asia when the great North American glaciers finally receded about 10,000 years ago, the sasquatches have survived almost entirely through concealment. Despite their size, they are uncannily silent in their movements and wonderfully skilled at remaining motionless for long periods oftime, a very useful adaptation in the higher altitudes which they prefer. And of course at those altitudes, in that steep and airy environment, their powerful body-odor would not be the dead give-away to their presence that it becomes closer to sea-level. The Nelsons are dismayed to find that repeated attempts to alert the authorities and the media are met with disbelief and ridicule but no actual response. The alien invasion-force continues to occupy the highest elevations, with terrible rumbling and screeching noises and occasional showers of green and purple sparks into the night sky. The terrestrials huddle together on the ranch below, perplexed and afraid. The sasquatches normally live in the small, isolated units that are natural in a barren landscape, and they are not at all sociable. It is remarkable that the two teenage brothers are able to extablish a rapport with the furry primates and even begin to learn their simple langage. The climax of the story occurs when the two brothers lead a scouting party of sasquatches up the mountain and manage to capture one of the aliens. The sasquatches excitedly insist that the green-skinned creature is not an alien at all, merely a severely disfigured human. The Nelson boys would never have believed such a thing to be possible but, using desperate measures, they are able to ‘deprogram’ the ‘alien’ at an old motel near an abandoned mining-town. They proceed to discover that the vicious ‘aliens’ are in fact members of a covert assault-force originating from the Grand Cartel which by then controls South America. They have been raised for this purpose in isolated jungle compounds, where they have been both surgically and chemically altered. They have also been brainwashed to believe that they are on the planet Zalomar, where their ancestors were supposedly imprisoned centuries ago, after having been rounded up and taken away from their home-world, the beautiful planet Tiffawil. Here on Zalomar, they believe, they have been enslaved and condemned to mining ore in the very deepest tunnels and under conditions of extreme heat and danger. Their Zaloman overseers are muscular and masked, and they speak only in a crude and heavily accented English. The brainwashed ‘Tiffawillians’ are convinced that, following a successful rebellion under the leadership of the great Tixtlan – who is no doubt a figurehead created by the Grand Cartel – they are now engaged in a righteous war of conquest and liberation for the entire planet of Zalomar. When the two brothers demonstrate the truth of this situation to the rest of the Nelson family, a public rally and news-conference is arranged with the help of the local small-town newspaper editor. The covert invasion is stopped, being quickly met with overwhelming military force. One sad consequence of these events is that the Grand Cartel ruthlessly decides to scrap ite reserves of false aliens and there are terrible and gruesome massacres in the jungles of South America. The End
This is a futuristic and allegorical fantasy, a derivation of my poem “The Last Live Act”, that explores the psychology of the relationsh…
This is a futuristic and allegorical fantasy, a derivation of my poem “The Last Live Act”, that explores the psychology of the relationship between humans and robots. The protagonist is a man of thirty-plus who is called “Ultiman” by the robots who care for him. The planet Earth is in its final decline and the robots insist that he is the last human alive. Ultiman, whose real name is Dougal Blake – his only remembered link to his origins – struggles to maintain his own humanity and sense of self. He obsessively studies the historical records on the computers and tries to achieve his own kind of individuality through writing poetry. In this endeavour he is encouraged by the robots, who are very much interested in his ideas and collect everything he writes. He sometimes fears that his continued existence may be dependent on this production. Ultiman voices his thoughts continually, quite unselfconsciously, the act of speaking being primarily instinctive. The interior of the large cement bunker, where the opening scenes take place, is all that Ultiman has ever known. He has always been informed that the surface of the planet is now uninhabitable, the implication clearly being that he needs the bunker and the robots to survive. The surface of the world is covered by a mutant form of vegetation that has evolved to live off the lingering pollutants of the defunct industrial age. The atmosphere has also become unbreathable, thanks to this plant. It is a fast-growing, phosphorescent, and somewhat mobile vine with waving tendrils that aggressively fasten onto any living organism and absorb its nutrients and fluids. Other than this nightmarish vegetation, the artificially isolated human now appears to be the only organic life left on the planet. Through a series of accidents, Dougal discovers that the robots have been lying to him and deduces the presence of ohers like himself. The robots have purposefully retained a few humans, selected for initiative and creativity, as a potential source of innovation. But once the robots had gained world-wide control, there was no objective left to motivate them and the isolated humans began to fill the consequent voids of function and purpose. All over the world there are loosely connected clusters of robots, each group busily building the visions and fantasies – sometimes quite bizarre – of the artists and poets held captive inside the bunkers. Of course, the humans have no knowledge of this activity, any more than the robots have any real understanding of time or death or beauty. When the mutant vegetation begins to die out finally because the toxins it fed on are becoming depleted, Ultiman is able to make contact with some of the other people. His task is very difficult, since many of them have become severely disoriented, but they do gradually form human bonds with each other and build a sketchy kind of society. Ultiman leads the others to regain control of the robots and uses them to build space-ships and escape the dying planet Earth.
I have moved on from the type, and have stepped into the world of cute characters, usually with a think black outline, which is paying of…
I have moved on from the type, and have stepped into the world of cute characters, usually with a think black outline, which is paying off. Check the latest little alien (named UV) here> http://www.redbubble.com/people/diesellaws/clothing/1463623-4-uv-spare-me-the-pain What a great resource RB is – fantastic!
DieselLaws and Thickblackoutline, ....
DieselLaws and Thickblackoutline, , have joined forces to bring you a brand new group…Thick Black Outlines!. Add your best THICK BLACK OUTLINE shirts/art to this group! As this is a brand new group, please let me know if the rules display the two EXAMPLES properly- your feedback would be greatly appreciated!
If so… then do we have the group for you!! The artist behind the awesome vector thick black outline stylings, that IS DieselLaws, an…
If so… then do we have the group for you!! The artist behind the awesome vector thick black outline stylings, that IS DieselLaws, and myself, are hosting a new group for all your thick black outline needs. Today I’ll be naming names and inviting the plethora of favourites I have, to come and join our group, and add their work. In my Interview with Evangeline Than, I said that…........ I noticed that everything had a better vibe to it with a thick black outline around it. It gave it that certain something, it made it pop… It’s different, and it’s something that I’m passionate about ~ that is, having bold designs that are colourful, which pack a bit of punch. So I want to collect all of you like~minded artists, who put a THICK black outline around your work… Essentially it’s lines which are thicker than the rest of the lines in your art. Secretly, it doesn’t have to be black….... Can you dig it? Go to the Thick Black Outlines Group
THE THICK BLACK OUTLINE GROUP —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—--...
THE THICK BLACK OUTLINE GROUP —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-— GROUP RULES: Your work must have a thick black outline around it, taking it that one step further. Preferably in Illustrator or Photoshop, or even the good old Sharpie! At this point in time there is no limit to how many designs you upload in one day, however please only put your best work forward. Examples: P.s. Just to clarify – We only accept THICK black/coloured outlines – Thin/Standard black outlines will not be accepted. (Unless it’s a brilliant design.) We look forward to seeing your work! Your hosts: / Diesel Laws / Thickblackoutline
Hey everyone just wanted to say how stoked i am that one of my t-shirts got featured in two groups Thick black outlines...
Hey everyone just wanted to say how stoked i am that one of my t-shirts got featured in two groups Thick black outlines and a vector t-shirts only. Heres the shirt that got featured check it out let me know what you think Im always keen for feedback on my work so I can better my self Peace
This is a tongue-in-cheek, futuristic murder-mystery. The basic premise is that, at some time in the distant past, the princes of organiz…
This is a tongue-in-cheek, futuristic murder-mystery. The basic premise is that, at some time in the distant past, the princes of organized crime decided to modernize and automate. They then secrety created several robot prostitutes, programming them to make payments into certain off-shore bank accounts. The “slut machines”, as they were popularly known, were not in fact popular at all, and after a few regrettable incidents and numerous complaints, the entire project was forcibly terminated early in the twenty-third century. However, as a result of an abrupt power-shift in the underworld and the consequent inefficiency of execution, one unit has escaped destruction. Her name is Lenorra and she continues to function for many years afterwards, only coming to official notice when her neural networks begin to degrade finally and she starts to accidentally kill her clients, who tend to be older men. The story centers on the detective whose job it is to investigate these bizarre deaths and ultimately to track her down. He and his female assistant soon find themselves, as lowly local police, in conflict with the interests of the Global Government, whose members are eager to capture the robot as a prototype. In the latter half of the third millennium, the technical advances of the second are in a state of collapse. In the climactic car-chase, the detective’s young assistant loses her life, but he manages to convince his superiors that it is really the slut machine that has been burnt to a crisp in the crash. He then quietly retires from the police force and goes into business as a private investigator, using the reprogrammed robot as his sidekick.Together, they make a fortune, so this story has a happy ending.
great news for me I was featured in the thick black outlines group with my / kate the cat is very happy painting / thank you very much to…
great news for me I was featured in the thick black outlines group with my / kate the cat is very happy painting / thank you very much to TBO for the feature this group rocks!!! / cheers kim
I am proud to unveil a new painting from my studio entitled, “Segawa Kikunjojo II”. (Dancing The Part Of Yamauba) My painting is style…
I am proud to unveil a new painting from my studio entitled, “Segawa Kikunjojo II”. (Dancing The Part Of Yamauba) My painting is styled after ancient (1760 era) Japanese Graphic art, by artists like Tori Kiyomitsu Ga and Eshi Tori Kiyomasu Hitsu and based on paintings like, The Autumn Moon Above Ishi Mountain and Segawa Kikunojo II, Dancing the Part of Yamuba. / This is the first in my study paintings of ancient Japanese artwork. It was a very intense and rewarding piece to work on. Every line and brush stroke needed to be calculated and yet also flow with an ease and grace. This is my first original painting in a series of many I intend to delve into over the next year. / I am very drawn to Japanese art and grew up with traditional Japanese artwork in my home. The beauty of this type of art has always captured me, as I hope my work will for you as well. Here are some photos of my art as it is being created and completed…enjoy! xoxo
There is something very beautiful, magic…
There is something very beautiful, magical and enchanting that I find about silhouettes…. / They spark my imagination… / I hope my pieces here can do the same for you :) This is a collection of my silhouette works over in my main portfolio dimarie click on any image below for larger view / this will take you to my other site :) / —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—- / / —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—- / / / / / / / / —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—- / / —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—- / / / —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—- / / —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-
Well, someone asked me how I did it and I decided to show them. Enjoy. !http://diesellaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/behind-sce…
Well, someone asked me how I did it and I decided to show them. Enjoy.
This Gimp tutorial will show you how to create outlined text like in the example below the tutorial: This is a …
This Gimp tutorial will show you how to create outlined text like in the example below the tutorial: This is a fairly simple procedure and one that I’ve used on a number of my t-shirt designs. So, here we go (I’m going to assume that you know how to use the text tool to write text on your image and how to move it around to where you want it): Preliminary steps Make sure that you have your text written using the text tool, placed where you want it and coloured in the colour that you like. Ensure that you have the colour(s) that you’d like to use for your outline(s) selected as the foreground and background colours (in the toolbox panel) Outlining your text Once you have your text placed where you want it, Right Click the layer in the layers, channels, paths tool panel (default is to the right of your image window) and click duplicate layer (normally 5th down from the top) Name your new layer Outline 1 Right Click on your new layer and select Alpha to Selection (third up from bottom) You should now see your text marked as a selection. Go to your image window and choose select->Grow A new dialogue box will appear. In the dialogue box, choose the size of the increase that you’d like to grow your text by (It’s normally best to leave the unit of measurement as pixels). Note: This will depend on how large the text is to start with and the effect that you want to generate. Experiment a little until you get it the way you like it by simply using Gimps fantastic undo tool. Edit->Undo Once you have selected a growth size, you should see the selection mask has got bigger around your text. Now, go to Edit->Fill with FG colour or Edit->Fill with BG colour (depending on which colour you want directly behind the text). You should now have larger text filled with the colour that you have just selected. Now we need to make your original text visible again. To do this, simply move your Outline 1 layer underneath your original text layer (Simply drag & drop) in the layers, channels, paths tool panel. You should now have your original text outlined. / Adding a second outline colour This is exactly the same as the steps above except this time you need to start with your Outline 1 layer.and make that one grow. Note: Name this latest layer Outline 2 _to make them easier to identify. You can repeat this effect as many times as you like.. Well, until you fill your image up with layered text, anyway! Important!!! You need to ensure that your original text box in the image is large enough to cater for the growth of the text. If it isn’t, when you duplicate the text layer and grow it, you will end up with parts of the outline missing That’s about it for this How To Have fun with your text!! Example of Outlined Text / If anyone has problems with this or finds that part of it isn’t clear, please leave a comment or send me a bubblemail.. Cheers!
Welcome to my insane attempt at an Art Tutori…
Welcome to my insane attempt at an Art Tutorial, (cos I was nagged to do one – god knows why). / / OK I’m going to sketch a face, I’ll be scanning every little stage of progression right up to the finished result, try and follow the same steps as I do. Try not to go to far ahead otherwise you’ll be giving yourselves arm aches from rubbing out! / / Materials: / One piece of A4 Zerox paper or / Photo Quality Inkjet paper / (or if you really rich and recently been paid an A4 piece of cartridge paper!) / A ruler (no not HRH Queen Elizabeth II) / Lead Pencils B, 2B, 4B, 5B, 9B, 5H, 10H, F / Eraser (better still a kneadable putty rubber if you can get your hands on one) / Cup of tea (Earl Grey, white with one sugar – make sure it stands for two minutes in the teapot first) / / BASIC OUTLINE GRID / I always start off with a Basic Outline Grid; reason being is that it keeps me consistent (plus it great for plotting the head onto the paper). First off using the 5B, I draw a vertical centre line down the entire length with the ruler (just hard enough so you can see it (you’ll be rubbing it out later). Now about 2” from the top draw a horizontal line, 3.5” from that draw a second horizontal line and 3.5” down from that draw a third horizontal line. These three horizontals will define the top of the skull, eye line and jaw line. Then I draw two wee circles 5/16” width (or No.9 on an old green plastic Linex circle template – I kept from my schooldays). These two circles are approximately 3’4” from the centre line (that’s from each edge of the circle to the centre line. Then add a couple of horizontal lines for the nose and mouth, don’t worry about accuracy at this stage, simple lines will suffice. Now if you’ve followed me you should have a weird looking thing like this OK? / / BASIC OUTLINE (Skull top) / I now divide the widths of the eyes with slight marks, I use Plato’s golden rule (width of head is five eyes widths). I then draw two vertical lines to gauge the width of my head (not too long only a couple of inches). Now I need to define the top of the skull, starting from the top left left (as I’m right handed – reverse to top right if your left handed) I draw a rough quarter circle from the centre vertical to the second horizontal (notice that the quarter circle intersects the width of head line coming in slightly. Repeat for the other side and you should have drawn this: / / BASIC OUTLINE (Jaw line) / I now need to add the jaw line. This is dead easy, just pick up either of the vertical width of head lines and draw a longer sweeping arc to the base horizontal line and repeat for the other side. Try not to make your jaw line too pointed or too flat (we can alter this later when doing portraits, member stick to simple (bit like me really). OK you still keeping up with me? / / / / BASIC OUTLINE (Eyes, nose and mouth) / Now I need to define the Eyes, nose and mouth a little. First I start with the eyes, I draw two arcs just below the tops of the eyes and thru each eye and then beyond the centre horizontal (this is where lots of folks lose the eye shape so be careful – TRY NOT TO DRAW EGYPTIAN EYES). Now I draw a very simple (there’s that word again) nose nothing exciting, I’m still plotting it all out OK) For the mouth I use three lines, top of the lip (the fulcrum?) I draw a bird in flight (remember when you did that at school, easiest way to draw birds!). The middle of the lips is an inverted bowl or cup line and finished with a squiggle for the width of the bottom lip. Then mark the width of the mouth on the with two marks approximately in line with the centre of the eyes. I’ve seen people spend eons trying to draw the lips trying to get them accurate, don’t bother, at this stage keep it simple (there’s that “S” word again). Finally I define the height of the ears with two small horizontals. Tops of ears just above the eyes (some would say in line with brows, that’s fine except I don’t draw the brows yet), the base of the ears approximately in line with the base nose line. Wow it’s starting to look like something better than a rag doll now, yippee! / / BASIC OUTLINE (Ears) / This is what stumps loads of folks, they either cover them up or try and show as little as possible. Ears are wonderful, why without ears we couldn’t wear glasses or fancy hats!. I’m going to show you how to draw generic ears (generic means simple – they aren’t perfect but they look OK). First off I draw two small mountains (Alps, Andes whatever – just don’t draw those flat top pillars what you see in the wild west), one bigger than the other (biggest is the top of ear, smaller is the first fold ring of your ear). At the base ear horizontal mark, I draw a ladle or cup shape and join this ladle/cup shape to the big mountain (bet you never thought you’d be going hiking this early in the day, did you!). Now from the smaller mountains draw a squiggly path coming down from near the top (squiggly the inner edge of the path whilst leaving the outer edge relative curved. / / This is looking so good now; you deserve a pat on the back if you’ve reached this stage. Now sit back and have a sip of your tea and admire your fine handiwork. Do not tamper with it; FRED put that pencil down NOW! Do not rub out either, cos I want to see your efforts OK. One last thing I do not allow smudging OK, in my class we cross hatch and shade only. BASIC OUTLINE (Tidy up) / As you can see I have erased the construction grid (no longer needed) and have strengthened the general outline, including defining the eyes, upper lids, brows (still rough), nose left as is and tidied up the mouth, I also redrew the right ear as I felt it was thinner than the left one. This is still a very simple face; it has no sexuality yet (WILLIAM stop sniggering or you’ll be asked to leave the classroom!). At this stage any changes are easily made, any adjustments are quickly redrawn without upsetting the sketch to much, in reality we haven’t started any in-depth shading, only drafting up the outline. / / / / BASIC OUTLINE (Adding Hair) / Hair is always the last feature I tend to draft out, as you can get trapped in getting the hair done first, and then finding it is either too long or too short for the face, this way you can easily judge the thickness of the hair as the top of the head is still visible, and it is so much easier to decide where the hairline rests on the forehead. Today, I’ve decided to stay with a short slightly wavy style (we’ll attempt more styles as you progress I promise). / / BASIC OUTLINE (Tidy up hair) / Once your hair is happily seated were you want it, only then do I remove the top of head line, as it is now surplus to requirements. This small step really does make the difference between a good proportionate hair style and those hairstyles you sometimes sketch which are physically impossible, i.e., the top of the hair is below the top head line, (I can only recall one instance where this is permissible, it was in the film Hannibal starring Anthony Hopkins where he cut off the top of the victims head and made him eat his own brains, so you see, not too nice). / / BASIC OUTLINE (Alternative Hair) / Here are a few examples of alternative hairstyles on this same simple face. As you can see it really is easy to sketch whatever hairstyle you wish upon this generic face. / / / / BASIC OUTLINE (Alternative face shapes) / Here are a few examples of alternative face shapes, again using the same generic face we have drawn, only in these instances we have either re-drawn beyond the generic shape to produce a fatter face or drawn within the generic shape to create a thinner older face (not too much, remember there is a skull inside that face – you cannot easily cut into that!) / The beauty of this technique, which I used on a daily basis, is that it really does help me achieve consistency in my drawing skills, even when I’m in a hurry, trying to meet deadlines or even when I’m not really in the mood to sketch! Another reason I developed this technique was that it assists in me in quickly drafting out whatever face I wish to draw, with the minimum of effort. I really do find that if you need to draw faces in the full front pose, this is the only tried and tested technique I’ve come up with, well anyway it works for me. Next lesson we will begin in earnest on forming up and shading the features, so thanks for coming in today and remember after each class I expect you all to keep up with me through you home study assignments before turning up for the next lesson. Those students who wish and are able may email their home study assignments direct to me via my email address at szymczuk@btinternet.com but please ensure that your files is NO LARGER than 100KB please. Class dismissed. QUIET PLEASE-EE as you leave, try not to disturb Mr Tompkins and his Druid Poetry reading class next door thank you! Drawing a face Tutorial – Part 2 / Drawing a face Tutorial – Part 3 / Drawing a face Tutorial – Part 4 / Drawing a face Tutorial – 5
Hey everyone! I have just entered some of my art in a photography competition. I would love for you all to vote for me ;) You can vote mo…
Hey everyone! I have just entered some of my art in a photography competition. I would love for you all to vote for me ;) You can vote more than once, but only once every 24 hours. You can vote for me here Love, / Sarah
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