Dracula Sketch

[MindCandyMan]

I am gonna post this in my thread as well but wanted to get feedback on how to make this better. Of course the pose has some comedy to it hehe.

Here's a funny story about this hehe...I was riding on the train and some middle-aged lady...she looked like a mom...taps me on the shoulder and says, "That's a really good drawing"...Was just kind of a weird experience...I am used to people looking at my drawings and then muttering..."what a freak....." At any rate here's the sketch.

http://www.mindcandyfilms.com/jons_uploads/Dracula Sketch.jpg

[carpal]

your persistence is really paying off, I like how you handled the wings. Nice detail there, I can also tell you have done a few arm studies lately, they are looking nice and defined.

You have had some nice stuff lately.

I had the same experience except a lot more odd. (I think you will find that the middle aged crowd will be fairly amused by most the stuff you do) which is good because if you ever need to sell paintings or something, as long as it is better than what they could do, you are good to go.

ok so I was on a bus back from NYC after new years and sitting next to this little boy. He was really into DBZ and had sketches of goku and the like. He was selling them to people on the bus for $1. I let him look through my sketchbook and then he said I could have one of his Goku drawings for free. I ended up making a sketch of a generic Anime girl to give him and the guy sitting across from me turns and stares me in the face and says this "You are going to change the face of drawing. I can't believe I am seeing it first hand." (the guy was senile very old and kept muttering about how he was trying to find his wife who is lost somewhere in the country) It gave me a good laugh.

sorry to hijack the thread with my mumblings.

Can't wait to see more stuff!

[StephenC]

MCM &PZ..i've had this same feeling...usually i just smile and say thank you for the kind words...but what i'm really thinking is,...you have not seen Andrew jones...

[DustinTrimble]

I think that just making the details of the face more clear would help this image. The wing and arm is well done,

[MindCandyMan]

DustinTrimble - You are absolutely right. The face is under-developed compared to everything else. I didn't notice but it's so obvious :(

StephenC - I know exactly what you mean...I crack up when people say anything I do is "good". I just laugh and say if I really was good I wouldn't be working in an office filing papers. I think the same thing as well..."You haven't seen Andrew Jones, Puddnhead, Jon Foster, Justin Sweet, the myriad of artists that make my work look like trash" hehe.

.PZ. - That is a hilarious story!!!! :p Dude you have to write that down that is hilarious. I can just imagine that senile guy saying that heheheheheh...that's the way my train ride home is every day from philly...hahaha...I really think more people are psychotic than we think hehe

[wassermelone]

Jees! Its hard to believe your relatively new to this...
Is this completely out of your head or did you use some sort of reference?

Because its looking a lot better than some of my art and Ive been doing that for years =P

[MindCandyMan]

Thanks toaster I appreciate it man. September 15th of last year I started. Wow 7 months almost...sheesh...doesn't feel like it. This sketch was funny...I sat down with my nephew next to me (he's 6 and loves LOTR)...and I said, "Ok you tell me what to draw and I will draw it". So he said really quickly...Ok draw a scary guy with horns and with jagged teeth and give him wings and put fire around him! He said...so I started drawing all that stuff...I opted out of the fire part hehe...he said, "Oh that doesn't look right...it's supposed to be the balrog". Hehe. So I just finished the sketch myself. Everything except the arm was done without reference. I was having a lot of trouble with the arm so I opened up an anatomy book and got some help.

Something jon foster told me really really helped...it seems so simple but it helped so much. He said, "Pay attention to your strokes...don't just lay down a bunch of stuff or just work an area because you don't know what else to do...make that stroke count...use the side of the pencil...the tip...anything to accomplish what you want with that stroke...but pay attention" That isn't exactly but the basic idea behind what he said...so I have been trying to calm down and really think before I put something on the paper. That seemed to help.

Changing the drawing to sepia tone somehow makes it look better too heheheh...kind of cheezy but hey I need to do anything I can heheh.