Drawing Quicksand

[tanya_wam]

I'm trying my hand at drawing some quicksand art but am getting really stuck with how to draw it?

I was using a photo of a ripple in water and trying to 'dirty it up' around the person in it, and make it look my sludgy and oozy but I am failing miserably.

Any tips for the budding yet not so talented quicksand artist?

[Acidtester]

make ovals around the victim, ellipses, not ovals. to see the perspective, then make it chunky. think of melted peanut butter, or something else really goopy.
always think about where the light is coming from.
shadows are your friends, but light is what we see.
try to draw with a white pencil on paper that isn't white.

[Northerner]

do you mean you're trying to make a photo manipulation image?

I guess you could make some mud splattered on her, and imply there's mud under the water.

It probably wouldn't be easy to convert the water itself into mud... Unless you really start copying and pasting elements from different photos..

[tanya_wam]

make ovals around the victim, ellipses, not ovals. to see the perspective, then make it chunky. think of melted peanut butter, or something else really goopy.

I like that. I use the word gunky instead though but gloopy is good!

try to draw with a white pencil on paper that isn't white.

[Billie Bonce]

Do you have a DeviantART account? There is a Quicksand Group there http://quicksand-group.deviantart.com/ and some time ago (well, actually, 2 and half years ago) I started a discussion about drawing/painting mud/quicksand there http://quicksand-group.deviantart.com/j ... -401597951 . The discussion was not long and it went not quite as I would like (Actually, I added some of my drawings to kick-off the discussion and I expected that more people would show their achievements instead of commenting on my ones) but you still can find some good advices there.

Also, you can look into my "Quicksand favorites" there http://billie-bonce.deviantart.com/favo ... d-Drawings to see drawings by many various artists and to choose what do you like more...