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i was kinda bored yesterday so i started to draw this with no refference to orginal till i had done a sketch of the outside, after that i got a pic to look at.

i was going to do the inner details but i cant get them right what do you guys think of it so far?

Edit: just noticed the topic was wrong

Muy bien man muy bien.


The sword is longer than what you have it tho.

Great, you do have that little something when it comes to draw. Not many people have it.

Thee_UniQue wrote:Great, you do have that little something when it comes to draw. Not many people have it.

Actually, imo it is like PS, you just need practice and some creativity.
Though, at drawing, some talent helps too.

I suck at hand drawing. I keep trying over and over and each attempt sucks even more than the last one.

Thee_UniQue wrote:I suck at hand drawing. I keep trying over and over and each attempt sucks even more than the last one.

start with really simple pictures (kinda my problem i wanted to draw epicly at first)

Make everything bigger/longer. Your main problem is that your copy isn't to scale to the real thing. However, it looks great. Keep it up.

Melez wrote:Actually, imo it is like PS, you just need practice and some creativity.
Though, at drawing, some talent helps too.

lol, no. Not by any means.

Even with Ps, you can only get as good as you are capable. Simply practicing won't make you as good as the next guy if he/she shows extreme talent. This applies to traditional art aswell ( if not more so.) As much as it pains me to say it any form of art has some form of elitism, it can't be helped. Even though noone is born with talent and it takes practice to define that little talent you might have not everyone plays on the same plateau as everyone else. It's just how it is, if it wasn't, everyone would be a soccer star, musician, actor..etc.

Ontopic: Can I get your age? It will help with giving proper critique since traditional art is a little different from Graphic. Some advice I can give you is to losen up your hand--right now you're pressing really hard and it's making you produce stubby, flat, and some what boring since there is no variety in your strokes, outcomes. Other then that and a few other points, good job.

dude thats good because i can't even draw the lvl1 sword lol

Hostage wrote:Ontopic: Can I get your age? It will help with giving proper critique since traditional art is a little different from Graphic. Some advice I can give you is to losen up your hand--right now you're pressing really hard and it's making you produce stubby, flat, and some what boring since there is no variety in your strokes, outcomes. Other then that and a few other points, good job.

um lol age 17, the pressing is kinda due to not haveing my normal pencils (the pen pencils), so i used a normal one (HB) that i couldnt find a sharpener for.

also the fatness may be because i drew it first from memory and when i got the picture i drew the details and handle (and some of the end).

i cant do the details till i get some new pencils or a sharpener, so im going to draw another chinese wep (up to 10D) so what one should i try now?

8D Spear looks pretty cool and is quite technical with detailing, or 10D spear.