Inktober 2022 day 7, Trip

Posted Oct 7, 2022, 2:24:26 PM UTC

I was thinking more like peyote, but they just look like stones. So drew death caps from photos I took of ones that tend to grow in one of my abandoned chicken pens. These will alos take you on a "trip". To the hospital, if not the grave.

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Nanashi
Oct 8, 2022, 9:08:39 AM UTC
Very nice picture! I really love mushrooms
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- Amanock
  Oct 8, 2022, 2:21:23 PM UTC
  Thank you, I really like them too.
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Minimaid
Oct 7, 2022, 3:24:12 PM UTC
The world needs more mushroom drawings. lovely work, yet again.
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- Amanock
  Oct 8, 2022, 2:19:10 PM UTC
  Thank you, I took tons of pics of the ones growing in my yard and needed an excuse to draw them. They really are beautiful.
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  ockyboo
  Oct 11, 2022, 2:53:08 PM UTC | Total Edits: 1 | Last edited on Oct 11, 2022 by ockyboo
  Yeah, there's real depth in this picture, which is hard to do with nature pictures - at least for me xD What's your medium? Also, I really like the hints of purple
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  Amanock
  Oct 11, 2022, 4:36:37 PM UTC
  I do wildlife art for a living. I'm mostly a painter anymore. This is just in ballpoint Bic pen, and colorized in SAI. I wanted to keep the colors subtle and a lot of contrast tends to add depth.
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  Amanock
  Oct 11, 2022, 4:37:57 PM UTC
  Also dark colors recede and lighter colors tend to come forward.
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  ockyboo
  Oct 11, 2022, 8:16:10 PM UTC
  Woah, thanks for explaining that! I'll have to keep that in mind in the future ^.^
  I've never thought about doing an ink drawing and then going over it with digital color, what a cool idea xD
  and that's a really cool profession!
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  Amanock
  Oct 12, 2022, 4:18:09 AM UTC
  It's kind of embarrassing. I can't draw in SAI to save my backside. It's just easier to do it in ink and scan it. I just don't have time to practice. Can also do pencil and re-draw the lines in SAI and color it.
  Here's and easy practice, learned this trick in art school. Take a picture of something and make a "graphic" drawing of it. What that is, is make the shadows black and leave the rest white. What this does is the white suggests something is there without it being there. It's kind of an optical illusion. The next drawing do the same, but then add half tones (medium grey), those places that are between the shadow and the white. This will teach you not only how to shade, but how contrast works. All simple black and white graphic art is "contrasts". The last step it take that same image and using what you learned from the other two steps is do a realistic drawing of it. It takes practice, but will help you draw better.
  Looks really cool with wet or shiny things, like a frog.
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  ockyboo
  Oct 12, 2022, 4:31:53 AM UTC
  Woah, thanks for the advice! I'll definitely give it a shot! It's kind of you to explain all of that ^^
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  Amanock
  Oct 12, 2022, 4:37:09 AM UTC
  No problem, I used to teach some home schooled kids art. So good at explaining this sort of stuff. Though I would rather show then tell, sometimes it's easier for visual people lilke myself to understand it better that way. Like "perspective", way easy to show how it works then explain it.
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