HOME | DD

superlemon — Nature Boy - linework

Published: 2004-10-06 04:03:57 +0000 UTC; Views: 169; Favourites: 0; Downloads: 23
Redirect to original
Description PLEASE full view!

Adam asked me to draw him something last night. I started sketching while we were on the phone, and voila! Well, okay, there was scanning and about four hours of drawing and then excessive tweaking between sketching and voila!, but... yeah. I'm going to make an attempt to color it at some point in the next few days, but I actually like it quite a lot as is. And I'm fairly impressed with myself, since this is pretty much the first real, complete picture I've drawn in months, and it's not a girl! It's a boy! And there are animals! And a background - holy mother of GOD, a background!

I've never been so much with the backgrounds. Or drawing the boys. So it's pretty exciting.

Upon closer inspection, I'm noticing that the squirrel seems to be kind of floating on the branch instead of actually sitting on it. That may be a line weight issue or it may be a positioning issue. I'll have to mess with it later to see what's the what. But considering some of the acrobatics I've seen squirrels perform, I don't think the way he's sitting is really that big of a stretch. Also, there needs to be a cord coming from the headphones. Stupid cord. It gets me every freakin' time.

Illustrator CS.
Related content
Comments: 5

glitterfiendling [2004-10-07 16:40:37 +0000 UTC]

Cute squirrel! I don't see the floaty thing, maybe because I'm sort of baffled by the entire background because it's so swirly. It's like my eyes are just so confused trying to follow the background that everything else looks sort of normal? Uh. Never mind. It doesn't look floaty to me, that's all.

👍: 0 ⏩: 1

superlemon In reply to glitterfiendling [2004-10-07 17:37:46 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, that was my tactic. Distract people with the intense swirliness of the background so they won't notice the many, many flaws. Nah. I just love me some swirly trees. They're the funnest things ever to draw.

👍: 0 ⏩: 0

Gamirk [2004-10-06 17:32:57 +0000 UTC]

wow, that's a really great drawing, it'll be even better when you add color. I have to agree with you on backgrounds, i never do 'em either. Wow i love how clean Illustrator makes everything (yay vector fans)! You should post your sketches in your scraps, they'd be neat to see.

👍: 0 ⏩: 1

superlemon In reply to Gamirk [2004-10-06 18:47:53 +0000 UTC]

I just put some things in scraps for ya! Not this one, though, as the sketch that spawned it is fairly craptacular.

👍: 0 ⏩: 1

Gamirk In reply to superlemon [2004-10-06 21:25:35 +0000 UTC]

awesome! i saw them all! thanks :]

👍: 0 ⏩: 0