Bananas GOOD, Kremlings BAD
How to do it:
1) Choose any medium you want (I used Paintbrush on a PC).
2) Pick the size of image (or piece of paper) you want (SMALL is the easiest way to go).
3) IMPORTANT: Start drawing RANDOM shapes, lines, etc. in different ways until it starts to LOOK like something. Don't START with an idea. Let it just come.
4) Go with that thought and manipulate the image until it starts to take shape.
5) Any thoughts of ideas of what else to add to the drawing should be added as well. It's up to you.
6) Color/Shade the image as you desire
7) (OPTIONAL) - Write a description of how you arrived at the final piece.
Here are my examples. I just did them today (except for the "Eskimo" one):
"G'morn, Eskimo"
Description: (Hah! I don't remember, because it was a month ago)
"Sleeping"
Description: Started with a "C" shape. It looked like a neck pillow for airplanes, so I decided to make a person sleeping reclined. The person ended up too reclined for an airplane seat, so I had him on a bed. I had brighter colors, but decided to make it like it's in the dark.
"Shapes"
Description: Started with a circle object. I was just focusing on shading of colors on various shapes, when I decided to include a mace. I made no effort to make all lines straight. Strokes were made with the pencil and brush tools.
"Under Red Sun"
Description: Started with the shape on the bottom that looked like a sun. I then drew a random shape in the center that eventually looked like a shark. I decided that it looked more like an orca, so I made it look that way more so. I decided that the orca was on top of the water and that the "sun" on the bottom was a "reflection" of the one on top. The colored lines to the upper left are a very rough depiction of an aurora.
"Fist 'N' Gun"
Description: Started with random shapes. It quickly beared a striking resemblance with a guy punching upward with his fist. It looked like some sort of action hero. I then saw the machine gun in the image and made it look a little more so. Even now as I look at it in its complete format, it STILL looks that way.
"Unfinished"
Description: I didn't just want to do smaller images, so I decided to go 640x480.
Started with just testing strokes with just the pencil tool. It (obviously) immediately looked like grass so I decided to make it a grassy scene.
Just for fun, I wrote down the last name of one of my coworkers backwards. I evenually erased that and put in the title backwards.
I then had an idea to put a fence in it. I didn't want to use lines, or try to make the pencil tool do straight lines, so I kept what I drew down (except the really wild lines). I didn't feel like finishing the rest of the pickets so I was going to call the piece "Unfinished" and make it look like the fence wasn't finished on the far side. I then put grass at the base of the fence and decided to put a couple of rocks in front of it.
After that, I decided to put two hills, a sun in the center, then finally clouds on the two upper sides.
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Let's see what YOU can do now!
1) Choose any medium you want (I used Paintbrush on a PC).
2) Pick the size of image (or piece of paper) you want (SMALL is the easiest way to go).
3) IMPORTANT: Start drawing RANDOM shapes, lines, etc. in different ways until it starts to LOOK like something. Don't START with an idea. Let it just come.
4) Go with that thought and manipulate the image until it starts to take shape.
5) Any thoughts of ideas of what else to add to the drawing should be added as well. It's up to you.
6) Color/Shade the image as you desire
7) (OPTIONAL) - Write a description of how you arrived at the final piece.
Here are my examples. I just did them today (except for the "Eskimo" one):
"G'morn, Eskimo"
Description: (Hah! I don't remember, because it was a month ago)
"Sleeping"
Description: Started with a "C" shape. It looked like a neck pillow for airplanes, so I decided to make a person sleeping reclined. The person ended up too reclined for an airplane seat, so I had him on a bed. I had brighter colors, but decided to make it like it's in the dark.
"Shapes"
Description: Started with a circle object. I was just focusing on shading of colors on various shapes, when I decided to include a mace. I made no effort to make all lines straight. Strokes were made with the pencil and brush tools.
"Under Red Sun"
Description: Started with the shape on the bottom that looked like a sun. I then drew a random shape in the center that eventually looked like a shark. I decided that it looked more like an orca, so I made it look that way more so. I decided that the orca was on top of the water and that the "sun" on the bottom was a "reflection" of the one on top. The colored lines to the upper left are a very rough depiction of an aurora.
"Fist 'N' Gun"
Description: Started with random shapes. It quickly beared a striking resemblance with a guy punching upward with his fist. It looked like some sort of action hero. I then saw the machine gun in the image and made it look a little more so. Even now as I look at it in its complete format, it STILL looks that way.
"Unfinished"
Description: I didn't just want to do smaller images, so I decided to go 640x480.
Started with just testing strokes with just the pencil tool. It (obviously) immediately looked like grass so I decided to make it a grassy scene.
Just for fun, I wrote down the last name of one of my coworkers backwards. I evenually erased that and put in the title backwards.
I then had an idea to put a fence in it. I didn't want to use lines, or try to make the pencil tool do straight lines, so I kept what I drew down (except the really wild lines). I didn't feel like finishing the rest of the pickets so I was going to call the piece "Unfinished" and make it look like the fence wasn't finished on the far side. I then put grass at the base of the fence and decided to put a couple of rocks in front of it.
After that, I decided to put two hills, a sun in the center, then finally clouds on the two upper sides.
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Let's see what YOU can do now!
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