Howdy folks - this isn't a dogfight (is that with fighter planes?) , but it's a sword fight, so I thought maybe it would be of interest... it's a medieval knight vs. a Mamluk soldier (Mamluks being a middle eastern warrior caste). Pencil & marker sketches.

Welcome Back

First of all, welcome back everyone, and a regular welcome
to those who are new.

Like Xia mentioned in the previous post, I will try to keep
things going around here.

I've put up a new weekly topic, but of course any other work
is still wanted.

If anyone has any suggestions for a topic or any other
comment ext, you can contact me via this link.

Hope to see you back soon!

So back to the old bloggy community

Just decided to switch back because the new one seems pretty distance.
I am working on putting Drupal + word press + coppermine (gallery) onto the idrawgirls domain....
So...there will be a lot of work.

But for now we are back here.

Knuckle is the Admin here....
Feel free to make up new topic and tweak however if you feel like you want to get the people going and do some activity.

PEACE!!!

Thanks for the support guys!

Community Announcement!!! (IMPORTANT)

Hey Guys!!!

As you all know that this place is a Temporary HOME for the community.
I have been looking around and try to evaluate which platform will be GREAT for the future of the SMALL community to come.

And after reading a bunch of tech BLOGs and such...
I FOUND this really COOL place!!!!
IT IS BRAND NEW by a start up company in England I think.

It's new and have all kinds of new (embed, widgets, feeds, videos) stuff that we need!!!
The NEWEST FORUM/COMMUNITY Platform I could find!!!

Provide a Better Experience for THE Community Members

• Multimedia - Embed photos and videos with ease, just copy and paste.
• Threaded Comments - Makes for easier to follow and deeper topics of conversation.
• Social Forums - Member profiles generated from the topics they participate in.
• Hottest Topics - We balance popularity and freshness, to bring you the hottest topics in your forum.
• Forum Search - Actually FIND what you are looking for in your forum.
• Unread Message Tracking - Quickly see what's new since your last visit.
• WYSIWYG - (What You See Is What You Get) Rich Text Editors allow you to SEE your formatting changes as you type.

SO HERE is the NEW COMMUNITY HOME:

http://forum.idrawgirls.com/

Go check it out, REGISTER, and START POSTING!!!
Let me know what you think!!!

I will switch within a week or or two, depending on the time frame I have available.

PS: Knuckle>> Let me know if you are cool with the look and feel.
PEACE!!!

Drawing caricature of Bjorn Borg

Here is a caricature of the swedish tennis player under the 80´s. It was published in the book Drawing Faces.

My name is Esbjorn Jorsater, and am a comic art school teacher in Stockholm, Sweden. I also work with the social network Comicartschool.ning.com

naruto or something lol

lol started as a brush test doodle, and slowly formed this, maybe subconcious from watchin the latest episodes earlier, zomg. sasuke! :)

cloak dude

er well, it was just a doodle, but decided to try work it in a bit... try improve a little like :) hope ya like it

facial expression translates to: "... Ye i gotta problem, I dont like this red cloak, I ASKED FOR BLUEE!!!!!"

XD

Greg x

Where wolf?

It's Marty Feldman as Igor!

Heh heh, get it?

Werewolf

Wonder Woman

Quick sketch - inked in marker -

T E S T

I will not write any comments to this. This is kinda more a test if you can see, what this was supposed to look like.

Please write a comment with your bid! (My dad said it was all impossible to see - for me it's pretty clear :D)

Easter Chibbit

Chick + Rabbit = PURE CUTE

bin dun?

Easter Mutant

Well it took some time but here is my part for the easter mutant:

Made it quick in Illustrator. I could do better but I've been ill
for about 4 days now and I'm already happy I managed to put it on
before the topic changed.

Space Nebula

I was trying to do a space nebula thing but I dont know well how to do a center light without the render flare. This is my 1st post finally :)

The Bird Woman

This was for daily deviations in conceptart.org, i hope u like it, DONE IN GIMP! http://niyado.deviantart.com

clouds

my attempt at clouds

Another photo study - semi-finished - inked with brush

Sketch practise

Hi everyone!

It's been awhile since I last posted something (sorry!), but I've been quite busy...

So, here's a little sketch-thingy I made recently^^

I've also been studying some anatomy, and I really like how her face came out, since I always have trouble drawing faces this small >.<

Please comment! ^^

Clouds

Hey guys! This was my own attempt on creating some clouds, it turned out quite good, but not too realistic.

Btw; is it a "no-no" to use dodge/burn? I recognized that you didn't use it any in of your tutorials.

Anyway, I hope you like it! (I hope it's not a problem that I spam the site with my stuff :D)

Poses

Finally by drawing multiple times the tutorials from idrawgirls.com i can now draw this poses from my mind. Hope u like it. http://niyado.deviantart.com

Clouds

Well here is my first attempt for clouds:


It's done with a soft-edge round brush. I found that sticking with a larger one
works better. Finishing the edges with a large eraser also works well.

Cliff

Hi guys!

This is my latest painting. It turned out quite simple, because I couldn't make any nice background, even though that's what I wanted.

I tried with some water and a sun, but it turned out quite sh*tty.

If anybody is interested, then you can have the PSD so you can make a nice background, and show me how it's done. :-)

Open Soure Software

I just did a quick search for open source software, and found this.

An article that contains a selection of replacements for the Adobe Creative Suit.
Guess one has to be creative when low on money. ;)

It also contains Open Office, a free variant on MS Office. One of the programs I use.

Free software is a matter of liberty, not price. Think of "free" as in "free speech,"
not as in "free beer." Free software is a matter of the users' freedom to run, copy,
distribute, study, change and improve the software. (from Free Software Directory)

Some more links:
Free Software Directory
Source Forge
Gara Systems

Have to advice this one also though Classic Media Player. Like the old windows media
player, but no need to install and it plays about everything.

Also recommended Greenfish. Personally I found the Icon Editor quite handy.

And of course one of the best known: Firefox
Although I do have to admit I use Netscape. ;)

Let the open source revolution begin!

Happy easter guys lol

lol silly mood = silly pictures today hahahaha, happy easter guys! x

Gymnast

Another fairly quick photo sketch - inked in brush - she's Russian.