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Oh my, Ears. I totally forgot to even attempt ears. I'll make sure to do that next time. Also, I left out the nose because the picture I used as reference also lacks a nose.

Your pictures will probably help a lot. Most of my proportions and such are based of me, acting out the scenario and studying it, or looking in a mirror while I do it. (Which once again, isn't very good due to my boney appearance.

I wanted to finish one full picture, before trying out a ton of sketches, so I will probably use your pictures along with other resources, and just sketch arms for a day, or legs, or hands, etc etc.

Eventually, after getting at least a bit of anatomy down, (enough so that it doesn't look like slenderman or something), I'll focus more effort into details and posing. Eventually if I make it past that point, I'll move on to depth.



I am absolutely horrid at art, and I can only see concepts, when I imagine art, I can see the outlines, of the work, but the process of getting there is an impossible thought. To me, art has to be drawn instantly, there is no erasing of lines or anything. That is my main thought I need to get over, once that is done, I may be able to actually attempt a good drawing.

Along with that, because I see everything in concepts and outlines, I have always required something to base my picture off of. This picture was based off a friend's drawing, which I traced, then sketched the body outline under the clothes, then freehanded my own body off of that.

I cannot, although I have tried, come up with an original idea. It's one of my main blockades on my path of sketching for fun. Other artists are able to just say, "Today I will draw an apple" and then they begin drawing an apple. Originally, this picture wasn't supposed to be based off of anything at all. That turned out so unnaturally horrid, I had to start over. I eventually stole the hair from Artemis's avatar, and decided that since I cannot come up with a face design either, I would just do her fantroll and hope for the best.

Sorry for all the text.

So, after I finish my first work that I deem is good enough to be above a simple test of style or tablet, I will upload it here.

I stole my sister's tablet in order to do some drawing, and so far it's been going well.

Ima give that a shot then. Most likely. It seems that in order to build any of these things I need to use command line? That seems a little... annoying.

I found a C++ Libtcod tutorial, but I don't know how to make a directory. :C

Hello, I was looking to start programming, at least a little bit now that I understand classes and polymorphism and other such things a lot better. I was wondering if anyone could recommend a good Library to use for C++.

jopax; i like those sketches! you should try to draw in the same way digitally. love that loose, sketchy style

heres my latest painting;
OMITTED FOR SIZE

I would totally make that my background if it was more background appropriate size. That's pretty damn awesome.

Hmm, I thought I used that once. I thought it was only for like text based games or something strange like that, I'll go look it up right now. What's appearently so bad about it's usability?