Just a few pictures I drew when I was bored

[Jilata]

Since I somehow got to post on the forum again today. I am in the mood to post some more...

The first pictures are uploaded on the Greenmoon blog.
The nice descriptions are from Yayelle. I couldn't do it that well.

The pics are uploaded with Frubar Frupic

Jilata sleeping.


One of the times I hit something too big and did no damage. Running away then so I won't end in the DR.


I wanted to draw some surroundings as well. And I found this nice few in the BD area. You are looking at the lake from the path leading to the fortress. That girl in the picture is a lemur called Metisi.


Another one with landscape. It is the small lake in the cave in the BD area. Metisi is the girl bathing.


And the DR. You are facing the exit. Maybe you can find two people on the picture. The one still standing is the mean diaboli who pushes people off the way and the one falling is Jilata. Don't take it too serious. I just was looking for a reason why I fall down so often and somehow that was my conclusion.


Well I hope you like them.

[edit: added the link to the pictures]

[Bonifarzia]

Well I hope you like them.

Yes I do.
The images suffer a bit from scaling down, but the details look fine when zoomed.
The sleeping fenki is well captured.

[Sangwa]

I specially like the one of BD area.

[Dannae]

Interesting pictures Jilata. The details in the DR one held my attention for a time and I also looked for the falling fenki but couldn't find at this small scale. I like the charm of the sleeping Jilata drawing too. Love to see drawings of how players view their characters or others.

[Caraick]

The sketch of the BD scene is very nice I like them all, really, nice work 

[Tessra]

Wonderful! I love the landscapes.

[Perlam]

My former drawing teacher would say: more Black and White

Try to use more black and white, instead of so much grey tones, it will give your drawings more depth, it's a matter of daring i always say, but try it, you'll see what i mean.

Keep it up

[LigH]

I always thought about tweaking the contrast.

Pencil drawings need contrast, indeed ... but even though the style in general may tend to abstraction, I like your sense of details in contrast to the general rule.

[BoevenF]

Sleeping Jilata is awesome. 

[Jilata]

I tried to work with more contrast this time. Never had drawing lessons. All I can now is selftaught

I added the link to the pictures. So you need only to klick on them to see them in the original size.

Just a view in Ojaveda. Somehow I had no idea for any persons in there.

[Karlyle]

Very Nice, Really like Jilata sleeping.  Keep it up

[Caraick]

I think you did a nice job capturing the circular gates in Ojaveda in that last one.  Coming from zero artistic skill, it's hard for me to really judge others, but I still think it looks very nice

[BoevenF]

You're really good. May I suggest you to try to use a smudge?
Poor man's smudge:
Roll up a piece of paper, just like a pencil, and use it to make shadings.
You'll see!

[Jilata]

I tried using a smudge but maybe I should search for something that describes how to use it. I were a bit at a loss on how to use it.

Here my emperor Khado.


Another picture. It is an older one. One of my first I drew. I used some sort of wax crayon (or was it oil crayon? I am not sure what the exact translation is). And I used my left hand to draw.


The first picture I drew of Jilata. I found it again when I cleaned up my room

[LigH]

Uhm, well, the lefthanded one is ... hmm ... interpretable.

A general suggestion: Your characters appear quite slim. Don't be afraid of muscles, shoulders, hips...  
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A "smudge" is any tool that helps you smearing the pencil lines across the surrounding paper. Starting with the tip of your finger (although it is hard to clean afterwards). The (semi-?) professional tool is called "Tortillon" (paper rolled up to a kind of soft stick which is easily getting dull while rubbing the graphite across the paper).

I hope this lesson explains smudging easily.

Here a selfmade tortillon using a diagonally cut sheet of paper.

Follow the related links for more interesting tutorials.


Apropos "Tortillon": Very recommendable gallery of TortilloN @ DeviantArt