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Kapow2003 In reply to psychocouac [2015-09-17 16:33:31 +0000 UTC]

Thanks so much, man. Yeah, I've gotten use to the small size now. In fact, when I was working on the Firefly base card art, which measures a whopping 5x7 inches, I was thinking, "What am I going to do with all this space???"

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psychocouac In reply to Kapow2003 [2015-09-18 12:34:28 +0000 UTC]

lol. I have to say that I can't even understand how you manage to put so many details and reach such likeness (for portraits) on those cards.
That's beyond me. The only other thing that confuses me this much is why these are not filled with comments already!? I don't really get it.

Also, thanks for the fave. I really feel like I don't deserve it though. I would need to practice and progress a lot more for that.

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Kapow2003 In reply to psychocouac [2015-09-29 15:08:43 +0000 UTC]

Practice is the key (Or I guess repetitiveness ). If anything, constantly working helps you work the kinks out, and helps you be more efficient later on. 

As far as the details go, I use a lot of Copic's mulitliner pens for the finer details. I use their 0.03 sized sepia pen for the hair strand details and for the eyes, and the 0.03 cool and warm grey pens for a lot of the technical detail on ships.

What's helped me recently with portraits is drawing them upside down. I'll flip both my reference image (printed to the exact size of the card) and the sketch upside down so that I'm concentrating less on the actual likeness and more on the lines and shapes that make up the face. Visually, I'm looking at it in a more abstract way and it seems to help me get the features more precise. It's similar to the grid method where you concentrate on the shapes and less on the entire portrait. Hope that helps (And makes sense!).

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psychocouac In reply to Kapow2003 [2015-09-30 11:50:45 +0000 UTC]

It does make sense and I'll certainly try it. Whenever I try to draw using a reference, the result is "ok" but far from similar to the orginal. What I mean here is that it looks like a human but not like the one I was drawing.
Trying thing upside down from the start si definitely worth trying.

I'm still aprehending colors. I have a set of copics but mastering these is still out of my reach for now.
I'll probably stick to digital colors until I can better understand how they work and perhaps then, I'll give another chance to the markers.

But as you said, practice is the key. That's true for everything but perhaps even more when it comes to drawing and unfortunately, I don't think I'll have time to draw as much as I would need to practice in the  near future.

In any case, thanks a lot for the tip. I'll definitely try and who knows perhaps post something new thanks to it!

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