13 Drawing

[DeletedUser]

Im doing a page on 13 in my art book and I thought this would look like a nice title ( and take up loads of room on the page ) took my quite a while to draw and thought I'd share it as this forum doesnt see alot of traditional art so a bit of variety cant hurt. Black & White is better imo but I'll let you make your own mind up.
Might scan this in and illustrate it one day if I get bored, but I've got way too much other art work to do before I start messing about with pieces I wont actually use in my sketch book.

Original

Black & White

Regards,
Genetic Engineer

 

[DeletedUser]

colored one looks better to me
i also think the standard number one archetype would have been more suitable....no offense but the one looks slightly like a soap bar
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[DeletedUser]

Hmmm yeh I considered the standard "1" but I was scrolling through fonts on photoshop, saw this and I really like it, plus it gave me more room to draw on.

 

[DeletedUser]

I would say the coloured looks better for this. The black and white is ok, but would look better in ink. if its only just greyscale. But as a abstract concept its good, might of looked a bit better with the one being thinner.

 

[DeletedUser]

Yeh looking at it now I would agree, could have done with maybe half the width or something really :/ But, too late now

 

[DeletedUser63403]

As it has been pointed rightly pointed out, 1 doesnt match with 3. Maybe when you convert it to digital (if you do), then you can make it thinner.

Artbook huh? Nice.

 

[DeletedUser]

Yes if I make it digital I will try and get the proportions more realistic.

The book is A3 btw, not A4 otherwise the drawing would be tiny.

 

[DeletedUser]

When designing typography it is important (for it to look good) to keep the distance/width from one point on one side, to another on the other the same size on all chars... if that makes sense.

 

[DeletedUser]

I believe they are roughly the same width, but they need to be proportional is the main thing. Which they are not.

 

[DeletedUser]

I meant like thickness, so measure from the left of the 1 to the right of the one, and measure from any point on the 3, then get a ruler, keep it level and find the part on the opposite line that is perfectly level with the initial point. That's what I meant.

 

[DeletedUser]

I dont get what you mean ?
Do a diagram in paint or something

 

[DeletedUser]

I will explain on skype.

 

[DeletedUser]

Well i did art at school a long time ago.

Try some shading, Atm it just looks flat. Work on pencil tones...softly shade it in and you will get a much smoother look.And maybe instead of drawing 13 Draw Thirteen.
Just let you imagination run wild.

 

[DeletedUser]

most people rub the penciling/shading out with a piece of paper or tissue over their fingertip or the hardcore artists use the fingertip itself and don't care that they have charcoal all over themselves

 

[DeletedUser]

Thanks guys, I shall try some more shading with the charcoal pencils I have found

 

[DeletedUser]

scribble and smudge

 

[DeletedUser]

In my opinion there is no point really putting any shade into the piece. As its a typography piece, so flat anyway, there is no real area to add shade to it, unless you make the piece 3D.

 

[DeletedUser]

I was going to add it onto the machinery within the piece ? Just so the mechanics look more realistic

 

[DeletedUser]

Ya that would work.