Just the eyes

[squeej]

I'm more curious about how you draw your eyes. Little hints and tricks would greatly be appreciated. Zindy's eyes seem so precise and accurate. One of my questions for all of you, is: What ways are best to draw the eyebrows? Do you use lighter pencils? Mixture of dark and light? Etc?

[Nina du Preez]

I draw each seperate hair in the brows, keeping in mind the overall shape of the brow, and ofcourse the subject.

I usually use a 2B pencil, but have sometimes also used an HB pencil. It kind of depends on the light and strength of the shadows on the face.

[Zindy]

Have you seen this part of my tutorial? (http://zindy.zone.dk/html/drawings/tutorial.htm#eyes)
You can see how I do it there.
Most of the times I use the same pencil on the same drawing. Which is normally a 2B,3B or 6B pencil. The important thing for me is just that the pencil is sharp.

/Zindy

[squeej]

Yes, I went through your tutorial several times. I searched for other tutorials- but quite frankly, you draw people's eyes the best I have ever seen.

I posted some of my drawings on my family website, but I need to find a new way to make it so you can see them without having access to all of my family news. (I mean no offence to you) Meanwhile, thank you for all of your great drawings and your fantastic website management skills, etc.

[squeej]

Maybe this link will work

http://www.myfamily.com/isapi.dll/c/content/f/viewproperty/siteid/IahHAE/contentclass/PICT/contentid/ZZZZZZLW/propertyname/Original/~/rcktmn.jpg

[Nina du Preez]

No the link does not work... :cry:

[Zindy]

Yes, I went through your tutorial several times. I searched for other tutorials- but quite frankly, you draw people's eyes the best I have ever seen.

I posted some of my drawings on my family website, but I need to find a new way to make it so you can see them without having access to all of my family news. (I mean no offence to you) Meanwhile, thank you for all of your great drawings and your fantastic website management skills, etc.

Thanks a lot, you are too nice :)

When the link works I will look at it...

/Zindy

[squeej]

I'm going to build my own website. I'd like some advice on the free web servers that will host my site. Do any of you have some information concerning which companies online provide good free website hosting?

[Nina du Preez]

Geocities is my favourite...I have 6 websites there... :wink:

freeservers used to be good, now they have too many popups.. :?

Aol = Ao **** :twisted:

Angelfire is not always a sure bet, there servers are often down, the same with lycos... :evil:

been there done that and now I use Geocities.. :D

[squeej]

I figured that Geocities was my best bet. For my last web page I built I used their servers.

Well, I started working on my website. It's barely created- so don't make fun of my abilities of web building yet. I have lots of tweaking to do and remodeling. My excuse: work, school, eat, sleep- these are all that I do sometimes.

Anyway: My site is www.geocities.com/squeej76
Under it you can look at one or two of my sketches and drawings. I promise to upload more in the next few days.

Also, don't be jealous of me only adding zindy's web site on as my links. I plan to add some of yours as soon as I can get them. All in good time. Thanks. :)

[Nina du Preez]

that looks cool...what proggie do you use? dreamweaver, frontpage??

Or are you one of those chaps who like to write everything in notepad?? :wink:

My new website is also still in the starting phases. But you can go look at:

http://www.geocities.com/web_scape/

[squeej]

I haven't really started my page yet. I only posted the bare minimums so you guys could actually see a drawing or two on my page. Since my computer and server at home are down, almost permenantly, I have to type it all myself when I'm at school or at my brothers. I plan to make the page actually look good later on down the road- for now it will look ugly, so forgive me.

I like where you are beginning from in your new page :) keep up the beautiful work!

[Nina du Preez]

I like where you are beginning from in your new page :) keep up the beautiful work!

thanks a mill... good to know that I am going in the right direction.. :wink:

[Art15]

It makes me want to update my site! :wink:
Nina, your new site is very clean and stylish. :D I'll make a note to add a link to the site and i'll make regular visits to see its progress.

Out of curiosity, which programme do you use to create the pages?

[Nina du Preez]

I use both Frontpage and Dreamweaver...have actually just started with the latter, but have been using Frontpage for the past 3 years...

I like Dreamweaver because it is limitless, and it allows you to go further than a lot of other programs, but I can say that I have just about tried them all. Had Netscape composer once, then Adobe Golive, then Frontpage and now Dreamweaver... :wink:

[Art15]

Cool... Dreamweaver is my first choice. I use to create in NetObjects but it is too restrictive and lacks the scope of Dreamweaver :wink:

[Dark Angel]

thanx 4 the link guys

[DeGrawgirl]

very nice drawings... :)