Welcome to DevianArt episode: 6

Hello and welcome to another post of LLG and to another episode of Welcome to DeviantArt, a segment where I compare art I have attempted at making and compare it to the likes of more established artist on the popular site DeviantArt. This week has been a rough one and I haven't been able to post much and most that I did post was pretty bad so this post may not feature the greatest artwork pretty much how this blog in a whole has bad artwork but let's just get started.

For our first drawing by me it is a sad attempt at a person sitting at the desk and then raise their hand. The drawing that I am going to compare for this one is one that has already been used because I am having trouble finding one on the site at the moment.

This drawing is made by DeviantArt user by ilolamai and the main thing that I would see that I need to put more effort in my drawing is the style, the lower portions of the body and the hands. I would try to improve more but this weeks HP have to be taking lightly as most of the week I have been having trouble as the poisoning ( food poisoning, nothing serious ) has messed with me this week. Moving onto the next HP with that in mind now.

This drawing was mainly for me to try out my new charcoal set and while its shading looks like crap I still think it is the best out of this week >-<. 

This drawing by by napoleoman is made using

charcoal ( or at least that is what it said ) and first thing I notice is the smooth transitions in 

shading which is something I improve on later ^-^. That brings us to the end of today's post. I 

hope you enjoyed it, make sure to comment any advice you have for me on art or blogging 

and if you know of any good art critics make sure to tell them about this blog so that they can

judge my terrible work. Till next post I'll see ya'll later!

  

Welcome to DeviantArt: 5

Hello and welcome to another post of LLG and hope you guys are having a wonderful Saturday! For those of you who don't know, on Saturday's I get the worst and best HP of the week and compare them to artist who know what they're doing a lot better than me and try and see how I can improve by seeing what the artist do to make better art. I don't claim ownership of any of the pics listed and I will leave the creator's names in the post. Without further ado lets get started! For the worst HP of the week we have the Photoshop practice with a capped person. This was a follow up piece to the other

sketch I did of a capped person. Now I know it is really bad and I shouldn't try and use an excuse but I have been working on Illustrator quite a bit lately with the pen tool and when I got to Photoshop with the brush tool and mouse my hand was shakier than before. Enough of that though and let's check out the comparison. This drawing by by Tal-Blaiser was a bit 

suggestive and only the top part 

 is being shown because of that. Anyways for comparing I noticed that obviously they spent more time on this work and they used an angled shot rather than the profile I was going for. Next their lines are focused and not shaky in anyway, shape or form. Lastly they used their lighting in a very skilled way by having the light source come from the right and the shadow of the cap is angled because of this. So with the worst out of the way let us move onto the best. 

For the best I was going to choose the completed version of a character I did ( Mon) which could make for a good analyses as I have been working on that artwork for quite awhile but I have already had him pop up several times and his sketch made it into last weeks best I think so I decided against it. This sketch is one I did before another which the later one was made into the digital work I posted that got worst HP of the week but I do think this one is great. For this piece I was going for an angled shot that would cover the eyes and to make the shadows more prevalent on the right side with the thicker lines and shadows.

This cap reference by by randychen is very similar to what I was going for without said shadows and covering of 

the eyes. The main thing I noticed when drawing the cap on the HP was the fact that the hat 

itself looked a bit off and I can see how this person did it so it looks normal which I think is 

the main thing that I need to work on. I hope you enjoyed today's episode of WTDA and that 

you would show it to any of your friends who may be good art critics as that is what this blog 

really needs. Till next post I'll see ya'll later!

  

Welcome to DeviantArt

Hello and welcome to another post of LLG and today is the day when I make my WDA post. This is a post where I will compare art from more established artist to my own drawings. With that lets get started! First as if almost by tradition we'll start of with the worst HP of the week.

This HP from Monday I believe isn't even finished and awkward. It was just a quick and lazy practice at anatomy with people in real life poses. 

This is a picture by by ilolamai  quite similar in position to the one I did myself. Now on terms of style or just about everything else it is very different. Honestly I think that with a bit more effort and time I could have done better for that drawing but as I said it was just a simple practice. Moving on to the next pic which is the best HP of the week is one that I am very proud of. 

This drawing is  a character design I am doing for a project and is based on old time cartoons with his glove hands, simple eyes and more laxed on anatomy. I know it has its flaws and while I did put much more effort into this piece it isn't full effort as I did get lazy with some of the strips and the hands ( especially with the left one). 

This picture by by SuperLakitu  is a very good drawing to use to help me learn what to do to improve 

with the most obvious being that the left hand is facing the appropriate way and the less 

obvious being that SuperLakitu made the character more round instead of rigid. With that 

 that concludes today's post. I hope you enjoyed it and can't wait to see ya'll next post.  

Welcome to DeviantArt episode 3

Hello and welcome to another post of LLG where we like to celebrate the passing of each week with a wonderful segment that is filled with effort and critic called Welcome to DeviantArt. If you do not know what this is it is a weekly segment on this blog where I get two the previous HP's of the week ( best and worst ) which are drawn completely by myself and compared them to a more established artist from the site DeviantArt as a means to compare the two and try to improve my own skills by seeing what a better artist does. With that being said lets jump right into things by starting off with the worst HP of the week.

This weeks worst HP has to be the Japanese shrine style ramen shop. 

by Joel-Lagerwall

Taking a short look at what the Deviant user Joel-Lagerwall did I can see on a couple of hundred of things I did wrong. Before I start though I'd like to say that I did do the HP without references just with memory which is a big mistake. To begin with on my drawing I did not add any pillars and multiple " roof things " which would have worked better. I did my best but failed pretty badly on trying to add shading. Lastly While i wasn't going for the solid color walls like this drawing but rather the gridded one I could have made the white more dominant than the darker color. Moving onto the best HP of the week we are going to use the picture I made of myself walking.

For this drawing I tried to draw what you would usually see if you came across me in real life with a little cartoon spin of course. Now what I wanted to focus on for this pic ( other than trying to make a full character with distinct clothes ) is the body placement.

by humon

This drawing by a user by the name of humon kinda shows what I was going for and other than being able to make folds of the clothes and having cleaner lines I'd say this is a pretty good match. So with that today's Welcome to DeviantArt episode comes to a close but fret not as with next Saturday comes a brand spanking new episode for your entertainment. I do hope you enjoyed it and till next post I'll see yall later.
 

Welcome to Deviant Art episode 2

Hello and welcome again to another post of LLG and another episode of Welcome to Deviant Art episode! For those of you who don't know what this is it is a post I do every Saturday where I get the best and the worst HP of the week and compare them to artist on Deviant art who drew the same topic as me. All the names of the creators will be listed and this is for critic and research to improve my own style thus is under Fair Use. I do not claim to own any of the pictures other that the HP's so without further ado let's get started! First off i do like to start off with the worst and we'll start with the angry faced guy  with a hood who didn't look as angry as he did with another facial expression.

To start things off we got to first search up what it is I tried to draw.

Sounds about right. 

by Dyemelikeasunset

Straight off the bat we find a picture of a way edgier person who looks more upset and better in a hood than my character. I think what I need to focus on in order to make better " edge lords " is to focus on more of the shape and expressions rather than the clothing and hair. To improve I need to get better with expressions. Next up for the best HP of the day would have to be the drawing I did when I tried challenging myself to draw someone that I saw in my day.

While I think it isn't my best ( as a lot of my stuff ) I think it was the best this week and I can see it as being acceptable. So to begin our search we are just going to look up a facing away girl or something. As you would imagine finding such a specific drawing is hard and looking very hard I could only find characters standing up but that'll do.

by madspartan013

Looking at this picture I can see how I could improve on things such as shading of the skin to the shape of the hair. I do like the artist from both artist ( not me ) make the characters lean a little back. I just think it looks really neat and both do well do to keep good anatomy while doing so. Well with that today's episode comes to a close but come back next week and there will be more HP'S to be compared in the next episode. If you don't want to miss it make sure to either click on the blue follow button on the web version of LLG or follow the blog on twitter where I post to let ya'll know what is going on and maybe ask questions from you guys to get ideas for future drawings and episodes. You can search up my twitter username which is LLGWriter for that. See you guys next post and don't forget to comment what you think.