Chiyuri the beginer.

• Chiyuri wrote on 2013-01-12 20:51
  Well.. I resently (yesterday) started drawing for the very first time. I tried to follow some tutorials but they all asked me to draw impossible circles. Who can draw circles anyway..
  Anyway, following's someone's advice, I successfully drawn things but some people have told me they look odd or incorrect. They tried to explain to me what I did wrong but I'm not sure to understand them all that well so I though I could ask you guys of mabination for your critique and contructive comments and tips on how to improve.
  Here what I drew so far.
  
  

  [Image: http://i1112.photobucket.com/albums/k497/Chiyuriyami/IMG151_zpsc697806d.jpg]

  
  

  [Image: http://i1112.photobucket.com/albums/k497/Chiyuriyami/IMG152.jpg]

  
  

  [Image: http://i1112.photobucket.com/albums/k497/Chiyuriyami/IMG153.jpg]
• Lewd wrote on 2013-01-12 20:53
  [Image: http://puu.sh/1MUUa]

  
  This is how you draw a circle
• Chiyuri wrote on 2013-01-12 20:57

  Quote from teneshi;1013092:

  [Image: http://puu.sh/1MUUa]

  
  This is how you draw a circle

  
  
  Ok, Now record yourself drawing it with a pensil.
• Taycat wrote on 2013-01-12 21:52
  You should work on face placement. So far, all the faces have had the eyes on the girls foreheads.
• Skye wrote on 2013-01-12 21:57

  Quote from Mythical Detective Loki X;1013109:

  You should work on face placement. So far, all the faces have had the eyes on the girls foreheads.

  
  
  idk, only one or two look that way to me.
  Mostly they just look like regular anime faces that you'd see in any anime art.
• Taycat wrote on 2013-01-12 22:02
  I'd also suggest developing your own style and trying to be not so anime.
  There are lots of people that are asshats and will scream at you for it being so "shitty anime" or whatever.
• Chiyuri wrote on 2013-01-12 22:02
  Alright thanks you. I'll try lowering it a bit and see how it goes.. Drawing is too much addicting. I can't beleive I lived all this time without drawing.
  
  

  Quote from Mythical Detective Loki X;1013117:

  I'd also suggest developing your own style and trying to be not so anime.
  There are lots of people that are asshats and will scream at you for it being so "shitty anime" or whatever.

  
  
  Nha, I'm happy with that style. They can complain about the anime like style all they want, I have a strong love affliction toward this specific style. But just so I am understood, I see various different style within the "anime" ones. When I say I have an love afliction to this style, I mean this exact style and not the other anime style. Through even now, I'm not completly satisfied with the quality of what I am doing, still a ltitle off from the exact style I want to achieve.
• Taycat wrote on 2013-01-12 22:25
  Ah I see.
  Though I wonder what you mean by "other anime style"?
• Chiyuri wrote on 2013-01-12 22:32

  Quote from Mythical Detective Loki X;1013127:

  Ah I see.
  Though I wonder what you mean by "other anime style"?

  
  
  Well.. if you take two different artist that draw in a somewhat anime style, Show me a few of their drawings, I can more or less tell which belong to who since everyone have their own little uniqueness or way of drawing things in an anime style.
  There is this certain artist that I love the way she draw more than other anime artist. So I'm trying to get closer to her style than other anime styles
• Taycat wrote on 2013-01-12 22:38

  Quote from Chiyuri;1013134:

  Well.. if you take two different artist that draw in a somewhat anime style, Show me a few of their drawings, I can more or less tell which belong to who since everyone have their own little uniqueness or way of drawing things in an anime style.
  There is this certain artist that I love the way she draw more than other anime artist. So I'm trying to get closer to her style than other anime styles

  
  
  It sounds like you would rather copy others style than develop your own.
  And if you really want me to find two artists and get you to determine who drew them...
  Check under spoiler.
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• Chiyuri wrote on 2013-01-12 23:14

  Quote from Mythical Detective Loki X;1013143:

  It sounds like you would rather copy others style than develop your own.
  And if you really want me to find two artists and get you to determine who drew them...
  Check under spoiler.
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  [Image: http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqk986wo0s1qe1x2to1_1280.png]

  
  

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  Dunno who drew them but they look different enough to not be the same person. If it's the same person, their skill improved inbetwen the time frame of which these two were made. The second picture has deeper lines and the light details are more pushed than the first one. The amount of details torward clothing is more advance in the second picture and the way the eyes are drawn differ greatly. The one who drew the first picture seem to have a preferance for longuer feet than the artist of the second picture. Oddly both nose seem drawn in a similar way even if the type of nose is different.
  
  As for whenever I am trying to copy or not. They say there is nothing left as original in the world anymore. Everything is a reflection of things done in the past, hence everything has copied the past to some extend. I will probably not achieve the exact same style than the artist I look up to, But if I can get close to the details I loved about her art, than I'll be happy. This slightly different but close to her style will become my own style. Heck, you could even say "anime style" is just a copy of the first one, but even so, they slightly differ from one another. Isn't even jsut learning technicly coping what people are teaching you, making a copy of the knowledge for yourself?
  Overtime I may even change the style I am trying to do a little and head in a different direction.
  Anyway in short, I don't think of mimicking as a negative thing but more as a positive way to learn things.
• Shanghai wrote on 2013-01-12 23:18
  One of my friends told me if you're self-teaching yourself(which you seem to be doing), it's fine to copy as a learning experience. But stash it in your sketchbook and don't ever admit that you were the creator of said piece, even with artist's permission. But you should definitely shoot for at least some deviation in drawing. Everyone has something different that they can draw better/works for them/comes to them more easily than others. Try to find that, and embellish it. It's like a secret weapon.
  
  If you want my input, I really really dislike fat chins. Which is probably why I never draw women right. I think their chins are far too wide because the mouth-to-chin distance is pretty large in some of them.
• Skye wrote on 2013-01-12 23:23

  Quote from Shanghai;1013163:

  One of my friends told me if you're self-teaching yourself(which you seem to be doing), it's fine to copy as a learning experience. But stash it in your sketchbook and don't ever admit that you were the creator of said piece, even with artist's permission. But you should definitely shoot for at least some deviation in drawing. Everyone has something different that they can draw better/works for them/comes to them more easily than others. Try to find that, and embellish it. It's like a secret weapon.

  
  
  Yeah, I was gonna say that, unless I'm mistaken, many artists learn by copying others' styles and then finding their own style once they're comfortable enough with their own drawing skills.
  A+ for you.
• Yoorah wrote on 2013-01-12 23:37
  All the anime style discussion is irrelevant, tbh.
  
  You REALLY need to practice drawing basic shapes like circles, first. After all, basic geometric shapes are the foundations of anything you draw.
  I don't mean this in an insulting way, just trying to make a strong point here. It's absolutely key. It may be difficult if you've just now started, but keep at it and with enough practice, you'll be able to get decent at it. Only then can you move on to drawing anime stuff or whatever it is you wanna do.
• otto wrote on 2013-01-12 23:46
  ^^ I wouldn't recommend that to everyone, especially if they have trouble with drawing shapes at certain angles/directions. They may be the foundation of everything, but if you're not good with them it doesnt mean you'll never be able to draw something well. Using basic shapes makes my art worse personally. It's all up to preference.
  
  

  Quote from Mythical Detective Loki X;1013109:

  You should work on face placement. So far, all the faces have had the eyes on the girls foreheads.

  
  
  Actually, the components of the face are very well placed. There's a good distance between the eyes and hairline, and the chin and mouth (even i have problems with that orz;;)
  
  
  I think you're off to an awesome start! Dont worry about style right now, just have fun with it and practice different things (try drawing past the neck y/y? ;D). You're a fuckton better than I was when I first started lol