shadowpencil
Deviation Spotlight
Collection
- Deviant for 18 years
Favourite genre of music: Romantic.
Favourite style of art: Surrealism.
Shell of choice: Egg shell.
Favourite cartoon character: See my gallery and take a guess.
Personal Quote: Not again...
Profile Comments 577
Still alive?
I am. Sorry for the lack of activity.
You have such an excellent gallery that I can't decide on any one picture to pick to gush over. Special commendations are owed to you for sticking with traditional mediums in a world where everyone and their mothers are dumping and humping digital drawings. There is a tactical authenticity to traditional art, and your work is standing proof of that; it's so vivacious, even when only black and white. That you use your talents for the niche fetishes of breast/belly expansion/pregnancy just makes you that much more a treasure.
Mind if I ask you more about your techniques? You must be a gold mine of knowledge and experience.
PS: Nice avatar sourced from Ranma 1/2. You're making me nostalgic.
Hello. Thank you so much for your kind comment, and I apologize for the very late reply.
I'm very happy you like what I do, and especially to hear you like what I have done with pencil and paper. To be honest, sometimes I wonder if I should move on to do mostly digital drawings; but knowing that people appreciate the work I do with pencil keeps me going, so thanks!
It's been very long, but if you still have specific questions, don't hesitate to fire them. In any case, thank you so much again for your comment.
Man, your pencil stuff has been an inspiration for me to draw for years!! I'd be upset if you ever dropped pencil art, but I could also understand it to some extent. Ultimately you do you, but your pencil work is truly special.
Hey, I'm just happy you eventually replied back. Considering how long it's been since your last upload, I was worried you'd gone.
I sometimes think of dabbling more with digital myself, but part of me sees telling a computer how to arrange pixels to make art instead of just making the art myself is a siren call. There's something so much more profound about having an illustration or painting that was made by human hands and that exists in real life that digital pictures -- even very good ones that I admire extensively -- cannot replicate. There is an authenticity to something made with maximum human input. That, and with AI image generation working it's high-tech plagiarism, even to the extent it is reviled now (which is growing, to my immense satisfaction I might add), is something that I easily see poisoning the well of digital work. I anticipate that authenticity and human element will be what people hunger for most in art in the future.
Something I would like to know, how do you go about drawing expediently, and with such consistent quality? Me, I can't even draw the same character the same way twice, and don't even get me started on how god damn long it takes me to do anything.
By complete coincidence, I have been some life drawings from reference photographs for a trade I'm working on... and despite occupying only a 3.5"x4" area of paper, and that I was quasi-cheating by trace-checking, the two where I went full shading still took me over six hours, each. It's hard not to feel like I'm incorrigibly incompetent when I have to dump that much effort for so little.
Would you like to see the sketches I'm talking about?
And welcome back. Hope to see more beautiful babes and heavily pregnant hotties from you in time... and remind me to comment on and fav some of them.
I am not sure if I would call my way of working "expedient". If I were to tell you that gaining experience made me faster at drawing, I would be lying. If anything, I feel that the contrary happened. Maybe I will eventually become faster, but for now, I'm still slow.
As for quality, I hate repeating the same thing everyone says, but it's a mater of practice. I think that if I'm any good at drawing with pencil is because I have been doing it virtually all my life, so I have gotten very familiar with the tool (I don't mean to say it takes a lifetime to get any good, just that sticking long term with pencil helped me a lot).
In any case, try to have fun when drawing. When I was doing my doodles back in the days before DA, I was not thinking of getting good, just on having fun. If you are having fun, it doesn't feel like practice, but it is.
Feel free to share with me your drawings. I'm not sure if I can be of much help, but I'd like to see them. I will try not to take so long to reply.
(And hey, if you are willing to spend six hours on giving a drawing good shading, the dedication is commendable, so don't feel bad. Depending on the characteristics of the drawing, it can actually be a reasonable amount of time to spend).
And thank you so much for the warm welcomes. I will try to upload something this weekend, so keep an eye open.