Feeling like giving comments on some artwork? Here is your chance!

[Gith Galath]

Hi everyone,

I play in a great PbP campaign here on Enworld (Guillaume's campaign based on the Shackled City series in Dungeon) and I have drawn (or at least sketched) most of the characters in our game. Since I have posted these sketches here in the thread for artwork related to the campaignand this thread being in French, maybe some of you haven't read the thread or seen the pictures.

So I am opening this new thread to get some general comments on this artwork as well as some advice from some of you talented artists out there.

For those of you who can't read French, here is the list of the characters you'll find on the other thread:

Altran de Fossembault (male human sorcerer) (drawing finished)
Thrin Voiprofonde (male dwarf fighter/bard) (unfinished, sketch)
Valishan (male elf ranger) (unfinished, sketch)
Imay Boischatel (female gnome rogue) (unfinished, sketch)
Diero Domine (male cleric/wizard) (drawing finished)
Naline (female gnome druid/rogue) (no sketch at the time being)

Thanks

GG

 

[Oni]

Hard to get a good idea of what they look at because the pics are so large. I'd suggest limiting your biggest dimension to 500 or 600 pixels across (maybe a little larger if required to see detail), when displaying them on the web.

 

[Gith Galath]

Working on that! When its fixed, let me know what you think.

 

[Gith Galath]

Okay, thanks to my DM, Guillaume, all my drawings and sketches have been reformatted to a size that you will be able to view easily. So keep those comments coming...

G.G.

 

[Gith Galath]

If some of you could give me advice on how to color my drawings (the link to them is provided in the first post of this thread), that would be greatly appreciated. I have not studied in fine arts, I learned by myself and as far as colouring goes I am not sure how to go about it. I would try Photoshop, since some of you use it, but is it easier or harder than doing it with real paint.

 

[Oni]

Well photoshop has it's ups and downs. It's easier in that in can be more forgiving in regards to mistakes as it is just undo what you screwed up or easily alter it. It is more difficult I think with photoshop to achieve a good "look" to your work, especially if you want to show any kind of volume. The more painterly you want something to look, the harder it is to do in photoshop, IMO.

Like all things it really is mostly a matter of practise though, and so i just recommend jumping in with both feet, you'll learn as you go. Plus here on the wonderful internet you can find tutorials and FAQ's on how to do just about anything.

 

[Dimwhit]

There's a program called Painter (I forget who makes it) that's supposed to be good for coloring drawings. I used to play around with an earlier version of it (5 years ago) and it was very cool.