Pretty simple topic... Anyone here draw? And if so, can you post some pages of sketches or out of a sketchbook? I think the sketchbook is more interesting than any single piece, and I like trying to figure out the techniques used. In a finished piece it is usually difficult to examine just one technique, as many are used; but in a sketchbook, the artist could be practicing a technique, experimenting how one technique combines with another, and so on and so forth...

i draw and i kinda do it well. hoping to go to college for video game design or something. maybe abusness but umm here are some of my drawings.(yea my parents frame my drawings...kinda lame lol)
im currently working on a mitsubishi eclipse GST drawing. (the one as my avatar) ill post it when its done.


Last drawing(quick grade for my art class)
(IMG:http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn320/xXxKidderxXx/100_1449.jpg)

Freshman year for a still life project grade
(IMG:http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn320/xXxKidderxXx/100_1451.jpg)

My last project grade
(IMG:http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn320/xXxKidderxXx/100_1452.jpg)

Freshman year(first drawing in highschool)
(IMG:http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn320/xXxKidderxXx/100_1453.jpg)

Dang those are nice! I like that you use a traditional means like pencil and paper... that's how I do it.

MadHatterEvo Here is my dA account... yeah, I'm kinda workin' on a comic... it's pretty cheezy, but it's definately fun!

Here is a couple of images I drew one night while working a graveyard shift... I work 2 graveyards a week, and I take a Monster Energy Drink at about 0000 or 0100 to last me 'til 0600 when I get off. After I drink my energy drink, I pull off amazing drawings, but only for about 2 hours because then my hands start to shake and I can't draw... then it wears off... I got more I need to upload still...
(IMG:http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll243/MadHatterEvo/CoookieCrispMonster.jpg)
(IMG:http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll243/MadHatterEvo/CreatureOnNapkin.jpg)

looks nice, is that in pen?!
just a suggestion, but you could use a pencil and then shade in some good details make it look even better

if you dont mind could i print that out and trace it then shade it, so i can show you what i mean? i wont take it as my own or anything.

Yeah go ahead, no problem! And yeah, in pen on a napkin... I forgot my books at home so I used the next best thing... And my pencil had run out of lead. I use a mechanical pencil, the "quicker clicker" kind with the thumb button.

hah nice, ive nvr though about drawing on a napkin. i dont think a pencil would have worked well on a napkin anyways (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laughing.gif) . ok well if i ever have some extra time ill work your guy. maybe we could make a comic or something? lol

just checked out ur dA account. nice comic dude i like it,

As far as shading goes. Neither is greater than the other. Using a pen you can hatch or cross-hatch or even use curved hatch. Using a pencil you can shade with pressure or hatch the same as a pen.  DSCF1485.JPG ( 1.55MB ) Number of downloads: 11
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dude! the one with the chain in it looks sick!

Yeah, but I usually use pressure with the pencil and cross-hatch with the pen... for a while I didn't have a pencil so I was practicing all kinds of ways to shade with a pen... You know those wood cuts (click here to see example) that you see from Colonial American times in History books... I even tried some of those, which looked crazy with the Anime drawing style I have.

Thank you


Dude, wood cuts are hard as shit. Any form of print-style is difficult for me though. I always forget to do the opposite of what I need for the press.