Drawing Thread

I've been practising for a month. It's not even close

 

It will always be better than mine

 

This is some of the best detailing I have done, but it is not even close to being good


EDIT: I entered it in the Mountains Campaign

 

If you're losing the touch so to speak that quickly it might be because you haven't built it up very well in the first place. The more you've drawn/detailed in the past the harder it is to forget how.

 

Hey, I'm practicing expressive lettering and studying people like Si Scott, any tips on that?

 

Idk just be expressive lol

 

The only think I have to say is look at my Easy Detail Improved track... It shows how I do all my detail

 

OK, curious mini discussion. What do you guys have troubles most with when it comes to detailing? Water, foliage, BG, consistency etc.
For me it's gotta be finding motivation and mountains

 

Tree's and pretty much anything else

 

Motivation and rocks mainly.

 

rocks, north shore clouds are pretty easy for me... I did trees once and that was a pain for me

 

use curve tool + grid

PS: Maple this thread has been featured in the latest issue of "The FRHD News"

 

Leaves. Consistency but sometimes I like the gradual change in a track

 

Trees, I don't draw trees in my tracks because I cant do them. Been taught by a couple people but it never works out.

 

I'm horrible at anything biological. I cannot draw a living thing if my life depended on it.. (No pun intended..?)
However, mountains/cliffs/rocks/ridges come easy to me. I don't know why.

Also, about the whole getting better at detailing and if it comes naturally or not: when I started playing FR (way back 6 years ago) I was HORRIBLE at detailing. Just recently (about half a year ago, when FRHD came out) I started looking closely at how Maple, Forlorn, Wheelie, DeadRising, etc. did their detailing. It went something like "WOW! That looks amazing! I wonder how they did it.." I would zoom in and see their techniques - how they used scenery lines to emphasize and shadow other lines, objects, and so on. Luckily, I'm a quick learner and figured out how to take their techniques and morph them into my own. It still took me a good 2 months before I was able to produce my first well-detailed track in which I entered in the Grey Group contest.

When it comes to planning, I do nothing of the sort. I just think of something simple, like the theme of the track where the rider starts. From their I build minor details around it in my head and get a good idea of what I want to do. From that point on, I just draw a small portion of the track (about 1 second of gameplay or something), and detail the poop out of it. For example:

I had this part of my track done before I even had my first jump:

 

Glad to help

 

That's great, the people whom styles you've studied will shape your own style. In the end you have your own crazy unique style from a blend of different authors

 

Man I sure wish I end up like you

 

Why do you wish that?
I'm still the slowest track maker in the history of authors.