DRAWING TIPS
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- Zoom in as far as you can
- Work your way from the background to the foreground
- Lay down a shape in color and then draw your outline on top of it instead of drawing the outline first.
- Big shapes first, details last. When you start with the details your perspective gets out of whack real fast.
- Drop some dots at shoulders, head, eyes, hips and other important features to make sure your perspective and positioning will end up the way you want it.
- Follow the stupid-good artists and really look at their drawings to see how they did things.
- Draw as much as humanly possible. Even bad drawings make you improve, oftentimes more than good ones. (Dont feel like you have to submit them all though :)
Celebrity portraits are tricky. Google references all the way! Overdo the distinctive features. Looking up caricatures may help, because they show what those features are in a very simple way. If they have certain clothing/uniform or a characteristic hairstyle, use those.
Also, shoot for the stars! Try even the hard prompts - you don't have to publish them or even finish them in time. I just spent 20 minutes drawing Natalie Portman as Queen Amidala in the sandbox, because I got a prompt for "Natalie Portman" and I tried it but didn't make it good enough in 10 minutes (thus never submitted it). Practice makes perfect - and the next time, if the same prompt comes my way, I'm sure I can do it. :D
How do you get more people to like your drawings? I work hard on some and they end up with +2 while my lazy ones get +7. What do I do?
@Bryan5918 comes down to luck really. Commenting will make more people check it, and make sure you give out points to those you think deserve them. I think people dont bother checking games they have 0 points on for some reason.
Take this game of yours for example:
http://drawception.com/viewgame/KkdqBL5ggN/smoke-on-the-water/
You got 2 points out of 34 views, but the highest panel has 3. Its one thing if everyone has a lot of points except you, but that isnt the case. Some games just go that way, in fact I'd say its more common than not.
Thanks! That was a great prompt, the image popped into my head immediately. :D
These are some really good tips! I definitely use ctrl-z nonstop, I do everything about five times before I get it right. I try to think from the background forward, that way I don't get stuck trying to fill in tiny areas when I could have just painted them one layer back.
Please share any secrets to your success on drawception.