SARGE in carbon
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Demonslayer
Water Chip? Been There, Done That
Too much of dragon ball 
It's "charcoal", not "carbon", duder.
Also, it looks like a lump of clay trampled and shat on by a thousand elephants. The directions are off (nose in a completely weird place in respect to the ears, what appears to be the eyes, mouth and jaw). Work on anatomy, and practise sketching people from real life, in the bus, in the street, in a cafe, wherever you can.
Also, it looks like a lump of clay trampled and shat on by a thousand elephants. The directions are off (nose in a completely weird place in respect to the ears, what appears to be the eyes, mouth and jaw). Work on anatomy, and practise sketching people from real life, in the bus, in the street, in a cafe, wherever you can.
Hey, it's Sagat!
Well, that kind of depends, really.Wooz said:
Although I admit that he probably should be saying 'charcoal' (it sure as hell looks like charcoal to me), it is still possible he drew it with carbon, as he said.
[1] Charcoal is made from burning wood (usually willow) in a restriced supply of air. After burning, what remains is mainly carbon. The charcoal retains the shape of the original wood, and when made from twigs or small branches it produces convenient drawing instruments: so called 'charcoal' sticks. (It's a semantic thing.)
[2] Although the pencil is an English invention, it was the French chemist Conté who finetuned the instrument by using a different lead (a mixture of graphite and clay instead of pure graphite). Conté still makes pencils today and has one of the finest selections in the world. They also manufacture a series of pencils made from 'carbone' or carbon, which is totally different from charcoal (which the French call 'fusain', by the way - a semantic thing no doubt). The carbon in those pencils isn't pure carbon, though. It's carbon mixed with clay (I think), making the linework resemble more that of what in Dutch is called 'Siberisch krijt' (sort of chalk, but a little oily). It's waxier and it doesn't smudge as much as charcoal or pastels. I think that Derwent and Faber-Castell also make these carbon pencils. The linework of a carbon pencil looks a lot like that of charcoal and also needs to be fixated.
As for the picture: what the others said. Keep practising, you can only become better.
Weirdness. I don't think I've ever used an oily charcoal-based pencil outside lithography pencils and oil pastels.
Not that I use pencils much. I rather work with the cylindrical bars of pressed charcoal/pencil/pastel that are supposed to go into those... uh... thingies which look like a big, fat pencil, but open a dune sandworm mouth when you press them on the butt.
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These things
Except not the whole thing as such, just what's supposed to be in 'em. The charcoal bars.
Not that I use pencils much. I rather work with the cylindrical bars of pressed charcoal/pencil/pastel that are supposed to go into those... uh... thingies which look like a big, fat pencil, but open a dune sandworm mouth when you press them on the butt.
...
These things
Except not the whole thing as such, just what's supposed to be in 'em. The charcoal bars.
Demonslayer
Water Chip? Been There, Done That
ptrk said:
This guy
Plus this armor
lol really they are similar.
but armor is different. he has spaulders and its not from elastic material but from plate. take a look at it. the thing on the ear is looking the same but it has the mic. well I made this all by myself. I didnt take anything as a model.
but armor is different. he has spaulders and its not from elastic material but from plate. take a look at it. the thing on the ear is looking the same but it has the mic. well I made this all by myself. I didnt take anything as a model.
Keep practicing until it doesn't look like crap anymore.