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Slinging Ink Studio
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11d •
My practice
This mask method looks awesome! The only thing I'm struggling with is making both eyes look right. I know I should keep an eye on the corners lining up for the perspective, but maybe there are other tricks? Anyway, I think this method is going to work really well for me — I just need more practice! 😁
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@N. Colin Dyer Yes! I just need more practice with different angles and to add more life to facial expressions. Time to dig up some good references!😁
2 likes • 6h
drawing folds is quite difficult! the main difficulty is that I can't understand when to draw which type, or the reference has too many details and I can't simplify🫠
2 likes • 6d
@Manga Temzy I think it’s a great idea that you’re practicing gesture with a timer, especially with short time limits! At first, I drew over your practices to show what I mentioned earlier. Then I added some examples of my own poses with different timings, and what I tend to focus on depending on the timer. 30 seconds – Honestly, I’m not a big fan of such a short time. I usually use it just as a warm-up, since it doesn’t give me enough time to show what I want. Personally, I can only manage to capture the placement of the three main masses (skull, ribcage and pelvis) and the overall limb dynamics. 1 minute – With a bit more time, I can start focusing on the direction of the limbs (I mark this with circles — you can see it best in the first pose). 2 minutes – By now, I have enough time to show some form, not just the flow. You might notice that I don’t always stick to what I just wrote myself — I usually draw with a 5-minute timer. I just enjoy having more time 😁 Also, I want to point out the importance of asymmetry in tilts (not sure if I’m naming it correctly). Basically, when the head, shoulder line, and pelvis line are all tilted in different directions, it makes the pose look much more interesting, at least in my opinion.
2 likes • 6d
I think the main thing is just to keep practicing — with time, it’ll naturally get better and better. Here’s how I was drawing gestures a year ago. I find it really useful to save your practice so you can track your progress
27d •
Welcome to Slinging Ink Studio
Here's a little bit about me and the whole idea behind Slinging Ink. You are probably here because of the art techniques, practices, or as I like to call them on TikTok, art hacks... BUT. While drawing and helping you be a better technical artist is of course my goal, I have found through interactions with my students, that understanding how to tell a story has seemed to resonate even more. I love traditional materials and processes and in an ever increasing world of 'content over creativity', I want to be able to share my love of story and equip creatives to go out and tell better stories. Are we losing the ability to tell stories that last? Do we have the tools necessary to make stories of substance? With impact? We have a generation of artists coming up that are talented and have loads of creativity and don't know what to do with it. While they may be talented with a great idea for a story, without the right tools it stays in creative limbo. You can read comics, manga, and watch movies, but if that is the only guidance you have to making your story a reality; at best, you will have a pseudo-copy, derivative of the source material, and at worst; a hollow shell of a story that lacks the substance needed to make your audience care. Nobody wants that. In short, I want Slinging Ink Studio to be the go-to resource for creatives who want to not only grow in their technical art skills, but also be challenged to tell stories with substance. My love is for sequential art, and the examples will be catered toward comic storytelling, but the concepts and principles extend far beyond sequential art. Art informs art. Take the tools and principles and write, draw or film. Create stories with substance. Care about what you make, because if you don't care, why would an audience? With that being said, there is so much coming that I am excited to have a place share, but for now enjoy the free resources and let's get to work. N. Colin Dyer
1 like • 11d
Hello everyone! I'm self taught artist, started drawing a little over a year ago. Here are my drawings of figures with a 5 minute timer. I'm here because I saw a videos on TikTok and I like the style and method of drawing faces, and I want to learn how to use it in my drawings 🤓
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