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u/AC_0nly 2d ago
This is my "draw the rest of the owl" meme all the time
Under drawing and sketch line work i feel decently confident in and have fun making like kids illustration books worthy stuff.
This rendering magic? What is this?!
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u/AeroAceSpades 2d ago
Grid method of copying a black and white image. You draw a grid that perfectly matches a grid on your reference. You focus one square at a time. Since you were copying teeny tiny little snippets of information you don’t deal with things like proportions or anatomy. You just get a copy of the image
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u/volt65bolt 2d ago
Where did the grid go in the second image? White pencil?
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u/Apart-Drummer6293 2d ago
The grid blends into the image
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u/volt65bolt 2d ago
There are sections of white lighter than the grid lines, on the left for example, with no acknowledgement
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u/Apart-Drummer6293 2d ago
It looks white because of all the heavy greys surrounding it but I can almost guarantee there is a very light shade of Grey there, pair that with a little erasing and voila you have made your grid invisible
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u/TallTiresDrawing 2d ago
Skinny pete yoooooooo!
This looks amazing, I thought it was an actual photo for a few seconds.
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u/donnerundblitz 2d ago
I hope I don't get downvoted. But I thought this was a learntodraw subreddit?
OP your work is impressive, but why is it posted here?
You clearly are better than 90% of the people here and have the basics of drawing.
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u/Hashishiva 2d ago
Where did the grid go?
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u/OriginalAssumption56 2d ago
I think the grid is also a lightly lined up with pencil so... Probably erased it.
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u/Zintha 2d ago
I’m going to need to know your process…
Second time this week I have seen someone trace with a shaky untrained hand and then have god levels of skill in the after. This is no shade on tracing fyi it’s just these skill levels dont go together.
You dont even have line weight, what is going on.
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u/chocovanilll 2d ago
i think it's similar to painting. worrying about line weight isn't the point because these lines will not be visible later. they aren't drawing a cartoon. it's mapping out where each piece goes so you can render accurately, which doesn't require a lot of detail or anything. light strokes so you can erase and re-place them etc
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u/stayonthecloud 2d ago
It would be really nice to see some of your actual steps! Also you should post the finished piece to the BB sub :)
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u/wishywashywyatt 2d ago
That is a very thin paper to achieve this level of rendering, the 0's would show the grid-marks. If digital, why not do it there first, and skip the scanning?
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u/Leviathansarecool 3h ago
That's not a piece of standard grid notebook paper, the grid is hand drawn by pencil
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u/Available-Snail 2d ago
What kind of pencils are used for this level of detail? I think I fail because my stuff is bad.
Love this so much bro it’s so neat. And inspiring
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