My 1st picture

[Sero]

Hello Animeotk members
here is a link to one of my Favorite drawings that i am most proud of
Its not a spanking photo but with some advice and help i can probably start uploading some soon



If the picture does not show up here is a link to it on Image Shack
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/408/001lvh.jpg/

If that doesnt work.. then.. well


Thanks Guys

[RobM]

All pictures ever made, even back to cave paintings and van Gogh or Rembrandt are a careful balanced mix of technical ability and artistic ability.

Your clever Neolithic Man had to choose dyes that wouldn't change colour over time, or paint it against rocks that experiance high levels of humidity or waterspill where his paintings would be erased.

Renaissance painters and their peers had to make sure that they used the right size of canvas, that it was oiled and pliable, that the artisans correctly varnished it after it was done, and that he'd left sufficient space around the edges for the canvas for it to be framed straight and level - and then it has to be nailed to the wall correctly, then there's the bribary, simony and trying to get paid...

Nowadays, with digital art, things have obviously become a lot harder - since they now involve computers. Computers make everything harder. If van Gogh had to deal with computers he'd have cut his whole head off right from the start, rather than get involved.

The point of all this, is that you have failed at the fundemental technical stage and everything you've done from then on, has been hopeless. It doesn't matter how good the art is, technical ability drags it down.
This is the same advice I've given to the last few pencil-sketch uploaders on AotK - you have to get the basics right.

1) Legibility.
Is what you've produced readable and understandable on a page?
If you're drawing it with a 2B pencil (US Class #4) then its not going to be and right from the start you have a technical problem. It may need to be redrawn, traced or inked with a pen or a HB Pencil (US Class #2?).

2) Scanning.
Is the page in the scanner straight? No? You'd think thats obvious, but you've not put it in the scanner straight.
It doesn't matter whether the drawing on the page is straight to the lines or not... you've got to scan it the right way up and then rotate it afterwards.

3) Formatting.
In this case, either you did none or you simply did resizing. This was a mistake.
The stages you MUST do for any scanned art.
-- Rotate the drawing so that your sketch is straight.
-- Crop out the white areas and blank areas to create a box shape.
-- Resize it only AFTER cropping to the final size, resize it to *at least* 640 wide. Its usually best to choose the best width and just keep the height proportional to the new width.
-- Consider Hue/Saturation changes to bright/darken the work if the scanner hasn't brought them out correctly.

There are a novemdecillion of free programs out there you could use. GIMP and Mulitiple Image Resizer.net to name two off the top of my head I have installed on my PC.

4) Posting.
You've put it onto Imageshack, which is alright, but you've given us the wrong link. Rather than link directly to the picture you've linked to the page itself which doesn't allow 100% zoom be default and which you can't imbed on this forum. All of which is irrelevant. Look for the link which ends .jpg or whichever format you've used and send us the correct one next time to go straight to the picture - this is also the link you can imbed using out 'insert picture' function.

Get all of these at least 50% right, and we can see your picture. Until then, you've got an obscure, SD chibi blob and some squiggles on a canted piece of lined paper that looks by scale to be on the far side of the room.

[Rak]

Ah, sweet, sweet british cyanid ^^

Problem is, RobM's right... This is your picture, full size :



Do you honestly believe we can make out anything of it? Come on now...

Not even judging the drawing in itself, look at the way it's presented... Why is that piece of paper all crumpled? Try finding some white paper (i.e. with no lines on it), and keep the sheet clean next time (don't fold it, put it in your pocket, play basketball with it etc.), it'll make things a lot easier.

Then, follow Rob's advice and do a proper scanning. I've seen people take pictures of their sketches with a camera and get a better result. You have the tools, apparently, so use them right. Maybe you did, and you let imageshack resize the pic. In that case, look carefully at the options given when uploading...

Third thing, but that's more of a personal opinion, this is a spanking website, not dA, or any random art site, so if people could stick to spanking art... Meh, at least you didn't post it in a gallery...

That said, make some efforts and you could have your place among the artists here, someday. First lesson to become a good artist: learn to take criticism, and use it to get better, be glad someone devoted their time to write a long post about what's wrong with your upload.

And knowing RobM a bit, he's been gentle with you, haha!