Drawing of a Basketball
 

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I drew this in an art class for the first time and used a pencil for the outline and colored pencils to color the drawing. Please tell me your what you think of it. :)

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inspirational

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I think it looks like a basketball

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Is this legit, Detective Spitfire?

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In my opinion, you should use the same color for the entire ball.

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Yeah, maybe, but I drew the basketball from about twenty feet away. From my point of view, the middle of the basketball seemed a little brighter than the top and bottom of it. I'll most likely try using the same color next time though. :)

*edit* Now that I think about it, I probably should have used the brighter orange for the mid-bottom section of the basketball and colored the top and bottom sections with the darker orange.

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That is definitely something worth considering when depicting a basketball, especially if you want to give the impression to the viewer that it is at a distance of twenty feet. However, I think it would be better executed by a difference in shading rather than the color used.

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I agree, I'll try to use more shading next time.

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No problem. I used to draw a lot of basketballs, and one of the more difficult things to deal with was how to show the difference in brightness of the top and middle without making it seem unrealistic.

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Really?

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Yes, really. I'm sorry if my artwork isn't "good" enough for you to take it seriously, but I put some work into this.

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Gotcha.

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You know, when I look at this, I can see a balding man with curly hair in the back. I don't know why I can see this, I just do.

I almost wanna draw a face in there.

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I feel like uploading the hand turkey I drew after I was drinking one night.

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It looks delicious. I kinda want to eat it.

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Hmm, maybe it looks look food because i didn't make the outline dark enough.

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God dang, I'm bad at drawing so much so I would say this is 9/10 lol.
I can't even draw a car.

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Probably doesn't help that the picture you took looks like it was taken with a potato.

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Thank you! Drawing is a lot easier when you have a frame of reference, in my opinion. :)

Yeah, unfortunately, the only camera I own is on my verizon wireless cell phone that slides so I can text. I would buy a better quality camera for taking pictures, but I rarely take any pictures so I don't think it would be worth spending at least $30 on a camera.

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try drawing it bigger next time. It will help you be able to draw some of the details without them coming out squished and stuff.

I mean, *cough* I don't draw very often so I can't say anything. But when I do draw I find the larger drawings come out better than the smaller ones.