Thornage

[Thorn]

Hey all, I'd like to share some of my work with y'all :3

Gift for Lotus

For fun :3

hehe



character is © Jay kit
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Now for my newer stuff, all done fairly recently :3


Character is © SilentRavyn


Used a 3H staedlar Art Pencil on 70Lb Grade paper, 9`by 11``


Of and for a friend :3

Art and Character © to me, I love this one

Tried my paw at realism
from that to this, Character is © Sunder Lane

Crosshatching, oh noes, 4 hours on the inky type thing :3

Annnnnd
this 

[KapitanVonWolf]

Awesome job on them.

[Thorn]

Awesome job on them.

Thank you ^_^
All of them where done since Feb. 12th 2011; After Voices Yap 'n Draw
Jalmu gave me some pointers, and WHAM, I took off with my art :3

[Thorn]

[Cobalt Wolf]

wow, nice work

[Disel]

cool stuff

[Thorn]

Done using India ink, calligraphy pen, and charcoal pencil, 5 hours all together including the rough draft.

[Thorn]

Gift arts for Jalmu :3

[Lady Serpent]

You've got some gorgeous work going on here, mate.  I'd love to come in and comment further when I get more than twenty-five seconds of free time. 

Be back soon;
-Sephren

[Thorn]

You've got some gorgeous work going on here, mate.  I'd love to come in and comment further when I get more than twenty-five seconds of free time. 

Be back soon;
-Sephren

Looking forward to it ^^

oh, and my latest PG+13 piece ^_^
HYENA!!!! OMG, I love hyena's <3

[blue-vulpine]

Nice work there, Thorn! I was just thinking about how much furry artwork has gone digital the other day since I started looking at furry art. Although I'm not knocking digital at all, its nice to see artwork done by traditional means. :3

-Tj

[Thorn]

Nice work there, Thorn! I was just thinking about how much furry artwork has gone digital the other day since I started looking at furry art. Although I'm not knocking digital at all, its nice to see artwork done by traditional means. :3

-Tj

Hehe, I've tried my paw at digital; nothing magnificent came of it. For me I like to be able to interact with my art work and that closeness helps bring them to life, for myself a least :3.
I think the reason digital is becoming so popular is it's ease of use; digital you need two things, the proper hardware and some good software.
Traditional, you need good grade paper, pencils ranging from 6h to 8b, computing stuffs, laminators, and so on, digital can be more economic hehe...
And thank you for checking out my work ^_^

[Lady Serpent]

Mm.. I think I would disagree about the material ease of use, but perhaps agree with the 'ease of use' in general.  Personally, I generally just use regular pencils (or, recently, mechanicals, which are wonderful) on recycled paper because I can't morally justify buying paper just to draw on.  There are, of course, the watercolour paints and the sketchbooks kicking around, but even those are just the generic non-expensive kind.  I truly don't think it's the materials that make the art.

However, I do agree that digital can be easier to get into, especially with colour.  Not to say that digital art doesn't take talent, because surely there are some intense digital artists that work very long and hard at their work.  But, to me, I always felt it was 'cheating' in a way, because it's so easy to get crisp, clear lines and completely erase or re-colour something if you make what you feel is a mistake.  Mistakes in traditional are harder to fix, though certainly not impossible depending on the media.  It's just easier overall to make something flashy in digital, though ultimately, you can excel at either if you work at it, and you're not going to be an amazing digital artist if you don't work hard, either.  It just seems to be easier overall to create something likeable or flashy in digital because of the myriad effects you can add with the click of a button, as opposed to needing to work harder at it to create the same level of effective effects traditionally.

Traditional can be less flashy, I think.  More pure, maybe?  But that's probably just my personal preference speaking, because although I like art from both, I much prefer sitting and drawing with pencil and paper than sitting in front of a computer staring at a screen.  There seems to be a bit of a disconnect between hand and art when what you draw isn't on the same plane as where your drawing ends up.


/ramble

-LS

[JazzyLament]

Much of what Lady serpent says is true. Looking at it from an analytical standpoint you can derive a multitude of pros and cons for both sides.

I can agree that for digital work there are a lot of say, 'cheeter' moves that you can do. Whenever I switch back to my sketch pad after doing some digital work, i find my brain subconsciously telling my fingers to form the 'Ctrl-Z' formation, or thinking, "well I could try doing this for this pose here on a different layer so I don't mess up the rest of the drawing" and then having to kick myself and remember that I have an eraser in my hand instead of magic wand that corrects any mistakes. Guess those are some the benefits of doing digital but, again like Lady Serpent said, I don't think either of them trumps another. Traditional art has a much more 'real' feeling to it that I can't really describe. It's like you are actually creating something yourself, without having that distancing feel. The way a pen slides across a tablet feels a lot more artificial than, say, pencil going 'Tss, tss, tss' across a paper as your sketch. Unfortunately I never had the opportunity to learn how to color traditionally.

I would like to learn sometime though, because as Thorn has shown us here, there are such marvelous works that can be created by using such techniques. Seeing traditional art like this always seems so much more...real I suppose than digital work, since you can actually imagine the creator's hand manipulating the materials to create such excellent work. Not to belittle digital by any means however.

Anyway, Thorn, very impressive gallery, you can color me impressed.

[Thorn]

Mm.. I think I would disagree about the material ease of use, but perhaps agree with the 'ease of use' in general.  Personally, I generally just use regular pencils (or, recently, mechanicals, which are wonderful) on recycled paper because I can't morally justify buying paper just to draw on.  There are, of course, the watercolour paints and the sketchbooks kicking around, but even those are just the generic non-expensive kind.  I truly don't think it's the materials that make the art.

However, I do agree that digital can be easier to get into, especially with colour.  Not to say that digital art doesn't take talent, because surely there are some intense digital artists that work very long and hard at their work.  But, to me, I always felt it was 'cheating' in a way, because it's so easy to get crisp, clear lines and completely erase or re-colour something if you make what you feel is a mistake.  Mistakes in traditional are harder to fix, though certainly not impossible depending on the media.  It's just easier overall to make something flashy in digital, though ultimately, you can excel at either if you work at it, and you're not going to be an amazing digital artist if you don't work hard, either.  It just seems to be easier overall to create something likeable or flashy in digital because of the myriad effects you can add with the click of a button, as opposed to needing to work harder at it to create the same level of effective effects traditionally.

Traditional can be less flashy, I think.  More pure, maybe?  But that's probably just my personal preference speaking, because although I like art from both, I much prefer sitting and drawing with pencil and paper than sitting in front of a computer staring at a screen.  There seems to be a bit of a disconnect between hand and art when what you draw isn't on the same plane as where your drawing ends up.


/ramble

-LS

Hehe, don't get me wrong, I am in awe of some of the works created through digital means. Regardless of your prefered medium, it takes personal sacrifice to excell at anything; I exchanged a social life for long nights of sketching, and now I'm making up for that. As always there are exceptions, but that's how it works on my end.
Will elaborate soon, gotta run!
~Thorn

[Thorn]

:3

[Thorn]

[Puma_Concolour]

lookin' good thorn. must have taken quite a while.

[Thorn]

lookin' good thorn. must have taken quite a while.

About 4 hours, not including digital touch ups

[Thorn]