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Published: 2013-11-11 06:10:17 +0000 UTC; Views: 894; Favourites: 28; Downloads: 5
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My one goal in art is to create a comic. I continue drawing so I may one day tell my stories visually. But to do that, I need to get better at buildings. Architecture is something that gives me trouble. Yesterday I tried to illustrate a village scene and just... failed epically.So when *JessicaMDouglas issued a challenge to draw something we don't normally draw, I jumped at it and painted this.
I certainly like the result, but I know that it turned out good only because I painted it from one of my own photos. If I tried to paint this straight from my imagination, I wouldn't have been able to pull it off. But I will continue to paint from more of my photos, and hopefully I'll get to the point where I will be able to draw the scenes I see in my head.
Critique welcome.
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Painter 11
Approx 4 hours
10 Nov 2013
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Holy shit Khez. /officiallyblownaway
I have noticed that the more I draw from references the more familiar I become with structure and, as you said, the easier it becomes to draw from my imagination. But if don't already know the lay out of an animal or area then fabricating it from my mind, even if I can picture it clearly, is hard. Keep going. You're doing FANTASTIC 
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First off, there's nothing wrong with painting from references. My uncle's a professional artist, and he regularly goes places to paint what he sees. There's a reason for the massive resources section on Deviantart, and a reason why plein air sketching is still such a practiced art form.
Also, man, you definitely beat the pants off everyone in the challenge. This is lovely. I like the way there's so much texture and detail at the front, and it becomes less distinct back on the far fields and the hills.
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Thanks, Ryua. 
As for using photo refs, it only becomes challenging for me when I want to paint from my imagination. The architecture I'm thinking of comes from a story I'm writing, set in a fantasy world with diverse peoples and cultures, and I want to design a variety of buildings for a variety of locations. The thing is, I'm no architect, and I barely know how buildings even work. >_> What I'm aiming for is knowing how to draw a decent building, so I can use references as a guide and not a crutch. I won't have perfect refs for every angle of every building that I want to draw, so I feel I should learn how to draw the basics and then fill in the blanks with references.
If any of that makes sense. xD
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That does make a lot of sense. Seems like a massive undertaking, but a really cool one.
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It will be a challenge, but a fun one, because it's for a project that means a lot for me. I'm glad Jessica inspired us to try this.
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This is amazing! I have to say, looking at this piece it certainly doesn't seem like you're bad at drawing buildings. ^_^ All the lines and the perspective work, the textures and materials look good - this building seems awesome! Lovely background as well; it's very serene. Excellent work!
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Thank you. It's just when I don't have a reference, I'm hopelessly lost. I have some more photos I'll draw from and I may even go out and photograph some apartments or something so I can keep practicing.
My favorite part about the texture is that I painted it in. No photo overlays.
Thanks--it really is very serene in person. I'm glad some of that translated to the painting.
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Oooh, that's a fully painted texture? Very nice indeed!
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Thanks.
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This is gorgeous, I thought it WAS a photo in the thumbnail dude. I gotta do more of these studies myself somehow.
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Thank you.
Yeah man go for it! Even if it's just a quick sketch, it's fun to try a new subject. I'll be doing a lot of these myself, the challenge requires us to make 5 practice sketches by Dec 1st, and I could use some improvement right now. And maybe then I can make a decent-looking comic. :'D
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That really is a success. It's actually really impressive, the colors you used for the grass, the depth effect ; did you use a reference or something ?
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Thank you.
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Well, it will come with time 
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Thank you. I worked hard on the stuff and the textures in it. xD
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AHAHAHHAA OMFG I came to your gallery to fav those other pics that I faved on your 5' account, and then this pic caught my eye and I freaking snorted at this comment wow wtf last-year-me XD
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amfg why would you want to fave those things again D; speaking of which, I need to go fave the crap out of your new gallery muahaha
*totally forgot what this comment is even about* OH YEAH THAT ONE COMMENT OMFG. I... I did kinda wonder what was happening. xD
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