Quick-Crit 2010

[rossmum]

my left hand comes over to help whenever i draw, and even sometimes when i write. been doing it my entire life and can't help it. no idea why

[Invader Veex]

My skin, Halo 3 Beta model. Diffuse only. Crit.

[ExAm]

uh, no, draw with your whole arm, move your joints.

Seriously? I've always been much more jittery when I draw like that.

[Timo]

uh, no, draw with your whole arm, move your joints.

They need to fire that lecturer then

[Limited]

Only helpful for cell style art.

If you use it in a layer mask on top of a colour along with some manual editing of the layer mask it can be useful for more the cell style art.

uh, no, draw with your whole arm, move your joints.

Straight lines = Yes. General drawing no.

You use your wrist and your fingers.

[Llama Juice]

I suck at drawing, but every traditional art teacher I had through college said to use my whole arm, I never really got the hang of it/confidence for it. I'll be giving Snaf's dot line suggestion a try though :P


Also....

(ignore the black line on the front of the vehicle :P)

Oy Llama, care to tell us about the render settings

I used Mental Ray materials in Maya with a physical Sun and Sky. There's presets in the mia_material_x material so that you can get close to a lot of the types of materials you'd want. I just tweaked the presets a bit and called it good. Then made sure my render quality was set to Production (Motion Blur) and hit render. Rather simple, just long render times.

[PlasbianX]

Seriously? I've always been much more jittery when I draw like that.

That's cause you're not used to it. You gain more control over time as you get used to using your whole arm. I used to draw with just my wrist but now all I use is my arm. (Im an art major ;p)

Straight lines = Yes. General drawing no.

You use your wrist and your fingers.

No. For drawing, always use your arm to draw unless its something extremely small and detailed that you have to use your wrist for. Any college art professor will tell you to use your arm while drawing and use your wrist as minimal as possible. Im going to trust my drawing professor's teaching as use my entire arm.

[Futzy]

My skin, Halo 3 Beta model. Diffuse only. Crit.

Too obvious bevel and emboss.

[Con]

Veex, check out these tutorials here
http://racer445.com/
they're super helpful

[Limited]

No. For drawing, always use your arm to draw unless its something extremely small and detailed that you have to use your wrist for. Any college art professor will tell you to use your arm while drawing and use your wrist as minimal as possible. Im going to trust my drawing professor's teaching as use my entire arm.

How small we talking? An image thats like the size of your hand (average hand).