A green peanut or bean?
The shading is not bad I think, the highlights should be rounder (the overall shape is more or less two adjoined spheres) and the bottom shadows extend further.

Interesting, I see what you mean with the shadows and the highlights, I didn't feel it quite "matched up" but couldn't figure out why.

On that note, I did realize that many layers of slightly spastic airbrushing on low opacity makes for a great "lumpy" texture.

Doodles, was just a practice drawing an arm but then I drew a soldier.

Das a nice arm bro. Very solid.

I think the soldier agrees with me.

Did some rendering practice today.

The middle one seems pretty bad, but I'm satisfied with the other two.
(Huge compilation image ahoy)

http://sothe.nabyn.com/ <-- This is where I put my recent art

Pretty good stuff man, I've never been too great with pencil and paper drawings, although I have gotten somewhat better lately.

Thanks man. I'm sure you'll get better with practice. I actually owe a lot of my recent drawings to Andrew Loomis tutorial books.

because i'm like, totally an awesome artist





no that's actually a cover for a song KrazyPixelWulf is doing, he just asked me to draw him one and I thought it looked nice so i put it here.

Not bad, most pixel artists make a mistake of "overdrawing", or adding more details then are needed, which doesn't work very well in fewer numbers of pixels.

In other news, I drew an apple today! Or well, a crazy person might call it an apple...



Now, I'm not sure why but drawing completely from my mind, seems to suddenly do much better at the technical aspects of drawing the object.


While lacking texture or color variation, it's plain to see that this second image has a much more "round" looking form and seems to just be generally more three dimensional looking.

EDIT: reshading of previous one in attempt to address some issues with it.

Working on female figures. May contain butts.

I feel like that eye is further around the head than it should be but I guess it's hard to tell before the other facial features are there.

I agree actually, The eye looks too flat compared to the angle of the head and the (axis?) of the eye doesn't match it.

CaveCricket, if you're going for "realistic figures" then the head is far too large, if you're just going for a cartoonishly correct as in, generally symmetrical and everything is reasonable placed, this it's pretty good. Mostly it's just a matter of proportions which are technically the least important part of anatomy to get "correct" unless you're going for 100% physical accuracy.


Got bored a bit ago and wanted to practice drawing something from real life, most convenient example was right at hand.

some face thingies from some people thingies



And a 'scape or two