just another journey thread

[undergroundkg]

sorry to steal the idea for this type of thread but i like it :)

i am going to be applying to ringling soon and wanted to sharpen up my drawing skills before i do so.

ive drawn all my life but the past 2 years i have been heavily focusing on 3 d and my drawing skills have deteriorated a bit. so i am going to be forcing myself to draw daily now and posting the results here.

so any c & c,suggestions, or exercises u have for me no matter how harsh please tell me. i leave myself at your guys's command!

here are some examples of my work from last month.
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=6645
and a couple things i did in class
http://www.purgatory.net/joe/shroom.jpg
http://www.purgatory.net/joe/SKinkshrunk.jpg
http://www.purgatory.net/joe/bertox2.jpg

and here is a few things i did this morning
http://www.purgatory.net/acturus/b1.jpg
http://www.purgatory.net/acturus/b2.jpg
http://www.purgatory.net/acturus/b3.jpg

[Jeff Gran]

nice stuff man. I like your inking style, very cool linework. I just think on your character sketches you need a better understanding of structure and anatomy. draw more from life. Especially for a portfolio they'd be more impressed by that than concepts, IMHO.

[undergroundkg]

i totaly agree with that. i am gonna be practicing alot

[undergroundkg]

well i was looking at my first portrait and wondering what was so god awful wrong about it. and then i looked at other work on here and noticed i had no detail. i was affraid to comit and very dark lines or dark patches. i think that hurt me alot and the structure is way off.

it was my first life drawing in quite a bit so i am pretty rusty..
here is my second try from today.
i still have major structure and lighting issues but i think its better then the above.
http://www.purgatory.net/acturus/b4.jpg

[undergroundkg]

been doin a bunch of quick sketchs of ppl today so some arent finished because people moved or stoppe ddoing what they were doin.
i was focusin on the shape more then shading
http://www.purgatory.net/acturus/b6.jpg

[undergroundkg]

i noticed i have to also comit to white areas as much as total black areas. so i left more white on this one. but i dont think its lines are dark enough yet. still need alot of work.
and agains ome structure isues that need to be worked on
http://www.purgatory.net/acturus/b7.jpg

[undergroundkg]

im having trouble with hair. never really thought about it to hard so i did a hairy pic this time. but the hair didnt come out to well.,however i think the face was decent and still improving from the last. ill have to think about what im doing wrong some more.

http://www.purgatory.net/acturus/b8.jpg

[undergroundkg]

just a sketch ona n index card
http://www.purgatory.net/acturus/b9.jpg
and this 1 i was just trying to understand the shape so the shading is a mess but i learned something so it was worth it
and that eye is way to big :P
http://www.purgatory.net/acturus/b10.jpg

[undergroundkg]

ive been workin on 3d all day for the past 2 days so had no time to draw
here are some of the thigns ive done in 3d if any interest . http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=86472