Albino Gnoll's Art

[Albino Gnoll]

I figured I'd make a thread that has some of my drawings in it. Please feel free to give feedback, and in fact I encourage feedback. I want you to critique me. So...I'll just throw out one of my more recent drawings. I did this one within the past year, perhaps right at a year ago, I'm not sure.



Ah, just looked at the picture, I had dated it so it has been a little over a year ago now.

Anyways, a little bit of information about this drawing. I play a game that is an online game and I play on an RP server. One of my characters is a gnoll, which is basically a hyena like humanoid. They are very tribal and clan oriented. At any rate, my first gnoll character on that server was made the day gnolls became a playable race. So the actual character is about two years old now but I drew her much later. Anyways, the character's name is Jenrawrdra. As for why she has such an "odd" name it is because gnoll names are supposed to be very guttural and are supposed to roll off your tongue. I didn't know that at the time I made this character but honestly, I still think the name fits that qualification.

The drawing itself took about two days to do. I referenced a screenshot that I had taken while in game in order to draw this picture. Each hair in her mane was done one by one, there was no special technique to it. I literally went through and drew the individual hairs and I think my patience paid off but some may think different, I don't know.

At any rate, feel free to comment, give pointers and that sort of thing, and don't worry about offending me. I want honest opinions on this. If you think I could have done better on something, say so. If I don't get accurate feedback on what areas I need improvement I will never improve.So...tell me what you think if you wish.

[Elfy-ness]

Something about the front fore-arm looks like it was slapped on? But other than that, your a brilliant Fajita!!

[Albino Gnoll]

Here is another drawing that I did though it was done perhaps somewhere around 3 or 4 years ago.


Some info on this drawing here. The name of the piece is Wolf-head Drawing Tattoo (There is a story behind that name and I will explain if you want). I did this by memory. I was on a trip and all I had was notebook paper. I was waiting in line somewhere and I had my notebook paper with me as well as a pencil and to pass the time I just started drawing. In total this drawing probably took me about two or three days. I was about halfway done when I got through the line but had little time the rest of that day or the following day to finish it, but I did find some time to work on it the third day, which is when I believe I did finally finished it.

I know I said I drew this on notebook paper and you may be thinking, "but there are no lines." There, however, is where you would be wrong. There are lines in the ears and other shaded areas of the drawing. After I got home I scanned the image and I went into MS Paint and erased the lines as carefully as I could so that the image would look sharper upon posting it. The lines in the ears I could not erase, however, due to it being shaded. I didn't want to mess up the shading so I just left those lines where they were.

Anyways, feel free to comment as always. I hope to get some feedback.

[Albino Gnoll]

Well...things are slow right now so here's another old drawing of mine.


Some info on the drawing. This was, as you can see by the date, drawn back in 2005. It took me quite awhile to do, I'll be honest. At times I would get tired of working on it and not do anything to it for several days sometimes weeks, depending on how busy I was with school. Anyways...again, a lot of detail in this drawing. I went through and did each individual blade of grass, every single hair on the fox, every leaf on the bushes on the cliff, every leaf on the tree (though that's kind of hard to tell), and of course all the shading on the mountains and the rock surfaces.

To rate my own work...it was really good for 8th grade, but compared to what I can do now it is rather lacking. The only thing I remember about the start of the project is that I was sitting in my history class while Mr. Fox (no joke, that was the teacher's name) was lecturing about the revolutionary war. I looked up from my notes and saw a fox poster on his wall. The fox was sitting in a very similar position to the fox in my drawing. For some reason I just felt the need to draw. So I started doodling in my sketchpad and copied down the notes from the lecture later...Xan, you in particular should remember that since it was your notes that I copied.

So yeah, there's the story behind the drawing as well as some insight in to what was going on at the time. Please comment. Don't be shy, I want feedback.

[Cory]

Are we all artist here!?
well im a comical artist :3