My first attempt at... Art. Options

[ShogunSniper]

Heya. This my first serious attempt at any artistic drawing. Yeah, I draw some tribal designs on the back of my notebooks and creative ways stick people can kill eachother on my homework, but in 15 years have I yet to create a serious piece of artwork before today. I kinda documented the genesis of my brainchild and am fairly happy with the result.

First attempt: Here (It's small)
Yeah, disproportionate torso, small head, shoulder strap doesn't even hit the shoulder, but I was content with this as a first try. This was meant to be my RP character, but ended up not turning out like him. So I started calling him Rick

Second: Here Same pic, just *attempted* to enlarge the head slightly but ultimately ended up messing up an already akward face.

Then I started over again using those as a basis, but upped the scale significantly.

First Genesis I made a basis to help me sketch. A skeleton sort of.

Second Genesis I'm quite happy with myself at this point. Go out and buy new pencils and a sharpener after this.

Third Genesis A face appears! Plans are made to move the waist from the last stage up to avoid the whole three foot tall chest thing. Also plan to change position of the sword.

Final Genesis Finished for now. At this point I decide it looks more like my character Sadril than a "Rick". I erased a lot so its blotchy sure, but its good for a first drawing, right?

Sorry if I bored you, but I was excited.

[Taillus]

Very good work for a first timer. I would love to get some of my art on here as soon as my long and tiring battle with a certain Lexmark Combo Printer/Scanner is through. It is quite finicky and I HATE it but soon I will have to break down and figure out what is wrong with it or buy a new one.

I think you really have some hidden talent there seeing as how you really haven't drawn before. I can give you some pointers after this weekend if you'd like. I am not the best by any stretch but I do LOVE to draw.

I really enjoyed the stages of Genesis. I thought it was cool how you stepped us through your work. That is how you really come up with some art. Sizing and posing before you draw gives a definite advantage.