[illuminator]

For your viewing pleasure, we've put together a video showing a sketch in progress. You can find it by following the following link:

Ash draws a cavalry...of sorts!

It's a concept sketch of a riding beast large enough to carry multiple Lo'Jou (one of the two species found in the Nuko warring faction). There was going to be one on it's head but i ran out of page.

Let us know what you think!

[frog of dhoom]

nice watching that video made me think how cool Edadh is, i don't know why just did

it would be better if the camera was closer to the picture

[illuminator]

but then the picture would be cropped...

[izombieyou]

Crikey you're fast!



Nice video.

[illuminator]

thanks!

Quote:

Crikey you're fast!

only when the time dilation capsule is working

[druchie]

Nice work, and i see you've finally figured out how the time capsule works

now if only i could draw that well and fast for real..

[illuminator]

practice, my friend, practice

and if you blink so that you're viewing the drawing procedure four times a second, in recall that would condense the usual 24 frames per second we naturally view in (has anyone else noticed that this means a time particle is in native state one 24th of a second long?) to 6 seconds worth of action into one second.

Which would mean drawing that fast

[h3rne]

Ash

Thanks for posting this - it was really fascinating to watch you work. What amazed me is that you don't seem to use any scaffolding (or is there a pencil sketch on the paper I can't see?!). Is this typical?

Do you do all your art "hard copy" or do you draw digital too? If so, what hardware/programs do you use?

Sorry if these questions have been asked before, but a search didn't throw anything up except your preference for Charcoal and your very good advice to practice, practice, practice!

As Ever

Simon*

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hey Simon

there's no scaffolding, as you say, but i did do a quick thumbnail before hand (on a different piece of paper) so i had an idea of what i'd be drawing - i don't usually do this, i just wanted the video to be fluid. so i only half cheated. i also tend to move my sketchpad around alot more, but for the video i had to keep it quite still, so that was a challenge.

I find with charcoal, you have to make each stroke count, cos once it's there it's there. With pencil i'm lazier i think as i can rub it out (only so often of course). I always found life drawing with charcoal was easier and more fluid than with pencil, though you don't get the same detail. i sketch imaginatively in pencil. i may do more charcoal-pencil though (like the video) now you come to mention it, as for long shots and impressions of things, for a first concept this may prove useful. hmm

i don't sketch on pc as i have no tablet and my mouse control only goes so far. i do a hardcopy, as you say, then scan it for colourwork

thanks for taking an interest. i'm perfectly happy to answer any questions, but i can only tell you what i personally do, not what anyone should do (being self taught and all that) in terms of process