Drawing Thread

I honestly think it looks good but maybe a bit of shading at the bottom of the walls would help kinda reminds me of the mc Escher stair thing idk if that’s what you were going for

 

I agree with eryp. I am for sure not the best at perspective drawings but I think it would be better if you used more broken non-blocky areas. Like maybe a crack in one of the corners unless you are going for a modern newer vibe. More smooth curved surfaces could help too. Again I am not strong in perspective drawing but that is what I think you could improve upon.

 

thanks for the (mostly) great feedback everyone (eryp).
yeah i wish there was colour in frhd purely for this track. but at that point it will literally just be me recreating monument valley in free rider, which I don't want to do. I just want to take a heavy amount of inspiration since isometric type tracks haven't really been done before. and if i can make a super good one before people start turning it to sh.it that would be nice.
i'll either try to make it less blocky and it'll look good. or it'll look bad and i'll try to embrace that and build around the strengths a blocky isometric track has.
also i recommend checking out monument valley. it's a great puzzle game with a subtle story and amazing art.

 

How does one draw people?

 

brush spam from http://frhd.co/t/786115-charlie-s-cliffs

 

Coated_Badger Do you use the isometry grid from the free rider lite mod?

 

hey everyone, looking for some tips on how to do bark on a tree

 

Does anyone have any tips on how to do trees in general?

 

look at the first 20 pages of this thread should be some tips somewhere in there

 

Ok, thanks, buddy. Big help. I only got to #14, but I'll finish later. I found some really good stuff, but I don't know how much it will help me. All of those people are drawing legends, and I've only been here since August last year. I'm really good at real-life drawing, but FRHD? Not so much.

 

yeah looking at all those old posts and people who don't play anymore is so cool

 

This account is new, I know that. But you seem to really know stuff like you have been around a really long time. Who is your main? Or will you even tell me?

 

main got banned a while ago and I haven't played in a few years but recently came back

 

Ah I see

 

The outline of your tree is very smooth, which is fine, but that limits the style of bark you can apply to your tree.
For example this won't work

Obviously that's a completely different type of tree but you get the idea
Try some other styles out

Make a copy of your track and let yourself be sloppy, just try stuff out, play around with the shading. Maybe even make an imaginary light source and try to shade based on where the light is coming from

 

I'm going to whip up some basic tips on this

 

Ok

 

thats extremely helpful, thanks! i think for the track that I'm doing, I'm going to keep it pretty minimal, but use the overall tree as a canvas for different styles.

 

Tips for drawing trees

Let's start with a fractal !

Somewhere in a trees DNA it is told to fractal towards wherever the largest light source is and cover as much space as possible, while still supporting it's own weight. (This might be completely wrong but lets go with it)
Three rules:
1. Each branch breaks into two slightly smaller branches
2. Branches are a little shorter than their parent branch
3. The direction of a branch is similar to the direction of its parent

Obviously in reality most trees don't look similar to that, but the principles are still there (maybe).

Lets apply those rules fairly strictly, but try to make it look more natural

Each branch is about half the width of it's parent branch. Branches are generally shorter than their parent. Following the third rule causes everything to spread out naturally.
Doesn't look too bad.

In practice you shouldn't be thinking about fractals, but if your tree is looking like garbage then it might be diverting too far from those rules.

Check this out, tall trees are pretty much just short trees with bigger trunks :O


Now you can use the ends of the branches to outline where the leaves should be.

I always recommend outlining the leaves before detailing them, play with the shapes and see what looks right before you go crazy detailing the thing.
One common mistake I see is people making the head of leaves way too small, bigger is always better when it comes to the total area of leaves.