My mentor and I (hamtaro69)

[AlexC]

Hello.
In this thread I will be mentoring hamtaro69 about the basics of drawing.
Ok, first assignment
Introduction-
What is your name?
When is your birthday?
Preferred drawing tools?
Ideal Job?
What do you want to achieve with your art?
Favourite artists?
Show 2-3 of your best drawings
Favourite Band?

Credit card details, paypal accounts ett:P (joking) :hugsmile:
I may as well answer the intro questions as well
What is your name? Alexander Carletti
When is your birthday? 14 Nov
Preferred drawing tools? Pencil/ink
Ideal Job? Environmental concept artist
What do you want to achieve with your art? Master drawing and painting
Favourite artists? Mr Blonde, Lukias
Show 2-3 of your best drawings...
Favourite Band? Beck
..now your turn

[hamtaro69]

Hey AleX!
Thank you for this great opporunity!
The answers then:


Ideal job,you ask ,haha :)I would skip this question ,i really dont know!
I d like to become an artist,in the minute its not really about the job,just it makes me feel good an excited when i draw something,guess it sounds dumb,but thats how it is!


what i wanna achieve?First i d like to have a degree in painting/drawing.

Favourite artist?Well ,Rembrandt,Dürer,Rubens,Goya,Botticelli and Leonardo of course!
A very special one is Salvador Dali ,his work is fabolous and how he lived and thought about the world o_O
About the here and now ,i d write William Whitaker,Michael Mentler aand i have to write Marko Djurdjevic ,i think he is a mooonster :) no offense!!! but thats some pure monsterness ,how he can use his pencil ,and his brain of course,but i could have writen all of the guys from ca ,i think they are realy,really,really good!

[AlexC]

Gregory did you photograph these drawing's or scan them in?
If you don't have a scanner I recommend getting one:)

[hamtaro69]

Yeah ,i made this with my digital ,i know pretty low quality, but i try to make sharper pics next time!
I plan to get a scanner,could you recommend one?

Oh,and what do you think about the drawings?

[AlexC]

Ok, assignment one
It seems like you want to work on your portrait skills.
The absolute way to get better at drawing faces is to practice from life.
If you can get to a life drawing classes obviously I recommend that, but in the mean time, finding a model isn't as hard as you think.
some suggestions:
Self portraits(from a mirror)
drawing family while they read/watch tv
go to an aged care home and ask if you can sketch the residents ( I did this and it was quite successful)
sketching at a cafe.

Anyway, for the first assignment I want you to draw a self portrait in the mirror
you can spend as long as you want on it.
You can work at any size however I recommend somewhere between A5 and A4 paper, not too large because you want to spend a decent time working on the rendering, not adjusting problems with the line drawing.
You have to Wednesday the 23rd to finish it, finish it earlier and I critique it earlier.
Also, tell me roughly how long it took you, what kind of pencil you used and the size of it.
Good luck:)

[hamtaro69]

Oh i messed this up :(
I live in a flat 10 minutes from my parents and i cant go online at home ...
Usually i have dinner at my parents ,so im online every evening,the thing is that i made photos from my self portrait,but it didnt save it to the card,then to the cam memory.... o_O
I just took the card,not the cam .. stuuupid meee!!!!

so i send what i made yesterday,not that you think that i dont work :)
I went to a Remrandt exibition and it really had a heavy effect on me!
awasome !

The other thing,about my self portrait ,i know i dont send it ,but my experience: as you ll see in this pics this technich is a bit different then how i draw in general ,i try to change,or to master this too,but!
as a beginer.. i made a mistake with my sportrait ,the construction is not 100% ,so techninc here or there ,its not perfect .
One of the drawings was made with a pen ,the other with a normal hb pencil!

I would like to ask how u draw from life,i mean the process,you always start with construction and always the same method ,or sometimes your mood influences too?

[AlexC]

ok, from an earlier post, I cannot recommend a decent scanner, as it is I have a pretty cheap all in one scan/print/copy machine, it does the job though:)

Ok, a few questions about the last one- how big is it and how long did it take you, is it from life or from reference (these things help me critique you)

I definately see the rembrandt influence, I saw an exhibition of his work in Melbourne a bit over a year ago, very inspiring.

Ok critiques:
On the pencil portrait the proportions are mainly good, some small problems.
http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/9773/paintoverlh7.jpg
the shape of the eye on the right looks a little odd.

critiques on your rendering:
I see how you are approaching it, I used to hatch like this.
The problem with hatching like this is that your values don't really work well, and sometimes the form looks a little squarish(like on the neck)
With crosshatching use the longest strokes as possible (think about this, this is very important)
these next tutorials are by Killing.people
http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/8926/render01gu9.jpg
http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/4537/render02xe9.jpg

I recommend you use a 2b pencil instead of hb, you may notice that it gets a bit messy if your hand rubs over it, but overtime you won't smudge it.

The 2nd most important part of drawing behind lines, is values.
A good picture needs a full amount of values (from white to gray to black)
Save black for the absolute darkest spots(nostrils, eye's)
but generally a drawing that is dark with spots of absolute whites for the highlights will grab your attention, more so than a gray drawing.
A HB pencil really only produces gray drawings, 2b is much better:)
http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/2301/valuesqm4.jpg

that is a full scale of values
Practice with your pencil making a small value scale.
Artist Prometheus has a turorial that explains it better than me-
http://itchstudios.com/psg/art_tut.htm
(from the values section)
Colors and values are relative. By using various tricks it's possible to trick the viewer into thinking a color is really another color, or a value is darker than it is. Unfortunately, the artist is also tricked into using too much colors or values than is needed.

A hard edge between two values will be much more obvious than a soft one. You'll have to know when to use which. Sometimes your choice of values is very limited, such as when you're working in the shadow. By using hard edges you can describe a lot more detail with less values available. However, using gradients is very useful for changing value without the viewer noticing. The 'fake flat' illustration looks flat, but is actually a gradient. The square is the same color as the left side of the 'flat' rectangle.
http://itchstudios.com/psg/tuts/relvalue.jpg

as you can see in my paintover of your image, adding a real dark value in the background can really make your image punch, especially if you have only used a few values.

Ok, that is the critique for your drawing, you asked how I construct a face, so I'll do a step by step drawing on that further explaining that.

Please also post your selfportrait.
Also, your photo's are clear enough, but they are turning out really gray( I assume the paper is white?)
A flash might help, or taking a photo of it in better light-outside might help.
Alex

[Chop Logic]

Sorry to jump in, but you should try taking your photos outside using the sun as your light source. If you absolutley have to take them inside, use just one lamp, but natural lighting is best.

[hamtaro69]

Hey Alex!
here we go:



Oh my u wrote quite a long one :)

I am a bit hopless with the time infos ,because if i start drawing i cant really feel the time!
In generall ,they took me an hour !

I am a bit ashamed about my self portraits... (proportions are way of on the first one,looks like a lizard) but well on the other hand im here to learn so ,nothing to be ashemed about!

First and second both a/3, the third one is a/4.

About the last two from yesterday ,these were from reference,about 30-40 minutes each ,a/4, usually i draw on a a/2 paper though!

The first self portrait was made with hb,then in the end with 2b pencil and a bit white pastel pencil.

Second with an aquarell pencil ,again white pastel .

Third normal hb rotling .

Now im gonna read all the things what you wrote from front to end :)

Ah i remember you wrote about the step by step ,i d really appriciate that,i think thats one of my weekest things,yet ,to stick always for the same method.

The portraits dont look like me only the one only with line :/


-I agree with this -> The problem with hatching like this is that your values don't really work well, and sometimes the form looks a little squarish!

I saw the problem ,just i didnt really know how to solve it .

thank you for all the infos ,i try to learn them.

Oh and yes,the first two drawings were made on white paper,i made it a bit darker(thats why it looks gray) wit the cam,cause i wanted to show the line work.

[AlexC]

good work amigo!
Honestly, the more determined you are, the more drive it gives me:D
Here is a step by step, I kow it's digital, but it's easier than scanning a drawing at it's different stages.

Basic drawing Tutorial 1

I've only just began doing this, but arguably it's the most crucial thing.
Look at your reference, observe the silouette of his head, observe the lightsource, the light spots and dark spots, points of interest etc.
Spend at least a minute observing
take a few deep breath's in, ease your mind of any anxiety take out your drawing apparatus and lets begin.
http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/5196/tut1ks4.jpg
First stage is just massing out roughly the shape of the head on the page. At this stage if the composition isn't working for you it's easy enough to start over.

Step2
http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/7366/tut2nd2.jpg
mass in roughly his facial proportions, use reference lines for where his eyes and nose are.

Step3
http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/7363/tut3el4.jpg
more of the same, hust draw what you see, there are still lots of small problems with the proportions at this stage but nothing too offputting

Step4
http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/2153/tut4gj8.jpg
small adjustments

A new assignment will be up tomorrow, as well as some critiques.

[hamtaro69]

Hey Alex!

Thank you for this tutorial :)
I dont really do digital yet,but to understand what you mean its abs fine!


Honestly, the more determined you are, the more drive it gives me -> haha :)

Guess you wans online cause the site construction!
Im looking forward to the next assignement :P

Oh and i think its kilometers far from good work °_° ,but thank you!

[AlexC]

Assignment 2

Ok, I want you to do a few exercises in this assignment, hopefully learn some things you can carry on into your personal work.

Do you know what a blind contour is?
I read in a book called "drawing on the right side of the brain (if you see it at the shop/library pick it up, it's a classic).
A blind contour is a drawing from life, where you stare at an object without looking at the page.
here's a quick one I did.
I want you to spend 10-15 minutes doing blind contours, remember- no looking at the page!.
http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/3061/51qe6.jpg

It's good way to observe and get and warm up

part two of the assignment is to draw a self portrait, everyday for the next 5 days, at the end we'll see if there's any improvement.
If you can, post them everyday, rather than all in a big lump.
Also, is there anything specifically you would like to improve on/draw?
Alex

[hamtaro69]

Thnx for the assignment,i ll post the portraits day by day then!

Hmm i d like to get better in general,and for ex in figure drawing.

oh and about the book ,The Natural Way To Draw - Kimon Nicolaides ,check this one :)
its kinda similar,but it has a schedule with exercises.

Oh and i just wanted to ask you about your hatching technique,you made such an improvement in your 3 skbook ,but its visible that it changed mainly at one point,cant really say when around the middle of the second book and then it stayed so.
So i d like to ask if you saw someting,or felt different,or read something or what happened :) with you ? or just the time and practise?

[hamtaro69]

Here we go ,first day ,Monday:




im looking forward for your critic :P

I spent circa 1,5 hours with it, and its on a A3 paper!
hb,3b,4b and white pastel.

[hamtaro69]

Second day:

Bit more then an hour ,2b pencil ,aquarell paper

[hamtaro69]

This is for today,the Fourth day,actually this and the second days portrait looks like me! although the second one s nose is off,here its fine.

Actually i made a photo with the digital and i used the cam as a reference and sometimes i looked in the mirror too, it was a bit troublesome to keep this pose and draw meanwhile.
About an hour ,with 2b,4b pencils!

[JamesF]

Hey guys nice work, im especially liking the cross hatching, keep it up

[AlexC]

greg, post your last 2 self portrait's and I will crit them as a whole, then post the next assignent

[hamtaro69]

Sorry Alex

i dont have anything today,im still ill ,need to stay in bed !
The other thing is that i made 4 from the 5 ,so only one is missing not two,and i d like to ask for a critic ,now with this four,because its sure that i have to stay in bed the next two days too :/

thank you :)and realy sorry for the trouble !

ps: as for further portrait assignments(if you plan any),i found a model whom i can draw if i want to !and i plan to go to the aged care home as you mentioned before.

[AlexC]

right, I'll critique your works.
I understand that you can't post the rest of the drawings, life gets in the way-etc

Firstly, I think you did an incredible job on the blind contours. The reason why they are important is because, say for example your drawing on the bus and looking at the passengers and sketching- you will wan't to take in as much information as possible in each glance, to see the outside of their face, where the shadow hits, their face structure. This isn't an assignment, but if you want to, draw someone or something from life and make it like half bling contour/half look at page
In other words, try and take observe the object while drawing without looking at your page, then look at your page and continue.
This works best when you want to draw quickly, or a moving object.

Self Portrait assignment
I read somewhere that if you draw the same thing everday for a week, there should be a slight, but noticible difference in quality from day 1-5.
http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x230/hamtaro699/P1010194.jpg
personally I think this is your best one, but it's from a photo so it's a little diffrent.
You've probably heard this before, but the difference between drawing from life and a photo is that a photo tends to flatten an image. It also won't capture the light and shadows perfectly, whereas from life you can move closer to the mirror, turn your head and adjust the lighting. Also, drawing form is much easier.

SP1
this one is ok, proportions or so, so, but it doesn't grab my attention and the values are too light.
I drew up some lines on your drawing so you can get a better grasp of what I'm saying.
http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/2982/tut1jc3.jpg
How your drawing could be improved
Well firstly, your proportions are skewed so the easiest way of aligning them would be to use a ruler to mark across their position like you did for the vertical of the face. Just a light enough line that could be easily erased.
The next thing would be to amp up those values.
From the looks of it you have 4 values, the paper value, the white highlight, the lighter dark and the darker dark.
Your need a fuller range, or a darker range.
Is your hair the same value as your skin? Where is the lightest point, or the highlight( usually always the highlight on the nose, it's where the face sticks out the most, so light always hits it.
You drew the nose and lips really well. It's just the structure that lets your drawing down a little.
Don't be afraid of working till the paper cant get any darker. Build up the values by using a darker pencil.


Self portrait2
A very common mistake people make, is putting the eyes too far apart.
Draw a line from the nose straight up and it will align with the side of the eye
http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/3230/tut2za1.jpg

hope this helps

self portrait 3
-coming soon-

I wont critique portrait 4 because I'd rather write up a general critique.
The 3 Main areas I think you can improve on are
Proportions making sure everything aligns in the right place, and nothing looks "wrong" or a weird shape
Rendering This is what we will go into next, because once you get better at rendering the quality of your images goes up so much.
Structure and Form once you get a thorough understanding of how light hit's something, how form wraps around an object and how to think in 3d terms, drawing from your mind and life will be a helluva lot easier.

When I say the plates of the face, do you understand what I mean?
here is an example
http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/575/tut3hk0.jpg

part 1 of the assignment is to draw 2 self portraits from life just showing the plates of the face, no rendering although you can use lines to show which way the plates are going.

part 2
15 minutes of blind contours

part 3
eye study
you don't seem confident drawing eyes in the right place and with the right shape.
your assignment is to draw your own eye, relatively large, rendered up
draw your own eye 5 times, different angles.
http://inexorablyloved.files.wordpress.com/2007/03/sunny-eyes-012b.jpg
get some refs from the net and do 5 more studies.

part 4
observational still life
this assignment is to spend an hour or more, working on good paper doing a still life.
Set up the lighting yourself and arrrangle a good composition. Use simple objects such as mugs or vases etc.


due by
I know it's a lot of work, but I am sure you have the time.
Due by Sunday Feb 10
good luck, if you need to ask any questions just ask away!!!:)

[hamtaro69]

Sunday is here ,so here we go

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[hamtaro69]

Hey Alex!

Blind countours are so much fun!
I really like to make them ,specially with figure drawing !(but i guess i have to practise some legs :P)
Hope you like them too!

I had quite some experience this week,what i d like to write about!

Where to start?

Yeah ,so your last critic made me think a lot and i d like to say realy thanx!
i always write that ,so its surely boring ,but thanx

you were just right with the eyes and almost everything what you wrote ,and it helps me a lot if somebody points out my mistakes !

[AlexC]

thanks for posting man, I am still in, don't worry about me.
I was a bit worried because my time is almost a day ahead of yours ( the time of this post is 10:30 Tuesday morning) and you didn't post on my sunday so I thought you bailed on me!
Anyway I am real glad you posted and that something clicked for you:)
I will post crits and new assignment soon-hold on!
Alex

[AlexC]

a good portrait is built on good structure.
Think about it, what makes you recognise someone? You probably couldn't tell me the colour of your friends eyes, but you can easily recognise them because you recognise the structures of their face.
The point of last weeks assignment was for you to understand something about how the face works.
Obviously this isn't something you learn overnight, it comes from lots of practice so don't feel disappointed because it takes a long time to fully grasp, you will get it eventually!
eyeballs
these are ok, but I feel you haven't quite fully gotten a hold of the shape of an eye balls.

Try and think about it like this.
an eyeball is a sphere, but since our eye balls don't pop out of our eye sockets then we don't see the whole thing because our eye lids cover them.

When you look at an eye analyse it.
Can you see the whole eyeball or only part of it( usually unless we have seen something frightening-like a ghozt, we can't see our entire eyeball)

-Around my eye socket, does it seem dark ( yes it does, because of the way our skin stretches over our skull, when you see a human skull you see big black holes)
What direction is the light hitting our eye?
The small highlight(s) indicate the direction of the lightsource (have a look at the mirror and move your face around)

-What do the eye brows look like
-Also think about the eyes in relation to each other
in other words, are your eyes too close, too far apart or just right?


the still life

hummm, disappointed!
I was hoping you would really try and push yourself this time.


Assignment time
this week I want to focus on structure and rendering, and next week we will work on rendering some more.

Part 1
Draw a Human skull
here are some examples
(drawing by David Kessan)
http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/6546/skull1gy7.jpg
http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/1038/anteriorskullcopync8.jpg
http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/4145/bc135weblgwk3.jpg

have a look at the skull, imagine it in 3d-
what does the skull tell you about a persons face?

Part 2
this time do a still life, but try and use interesting objects.
Render it, render it till you think you over did it.
Then ask your self when did I feel awkward and not know how to continye it?

This is called a limitation, it's where you reach the end of what you are capable of, but you aren't completely satisfied with the image

as you improve your skills will expand and you will overcome your limitations

Part 3
last week we looked at eyes, this week we are looking at noses.
draw your own nose lots of times, and try and look at other peoples noses and how they look.

observe the nose
look at it, where is it lighter and where is it darker, feel the shape of it, look at it in proportion to your other features

good Luck
Post these by Next Monday Feb 18th

[hamtaro69]

I just sent a pm:P
Im on the assgnments !

[hamtaro69]

Now i really feel a bit bad about the scanner ... the small details are not really visisble on the skull ,but i hope its ok!
It took me 3-4 hours ,and first i put on the dark darks and then i searched for the lights and then the mediums .

i would like to ask you to explain these few things what i read in the cross hatching tutorial : grain flow,seamless tones,abrupt clusters and even flow hatch grain ,because i even searched for them in the dictionary but i cant find anything -____-

[AlexC]

ok, good to see you've posted these, I will critique these later today, but you still owe me a still life.
Right now I got a bit of painting I want to do:D

[AlexC]

Ok,

I have an example of the planes of the face, but as luck turns out, I can't find it, but I can get another copy soon.
Critique on Skull
I think this one is actually an improvement, really seems you pushed yourself, welldone.
I like how you used values behind the skull to push it forward, it really works well.
however, if you are rendering a surface(the background in this case), keep your line going in one direction, don't have them going everywhere.

I also think if you got a 2b pencil and added some lines to the darker parts without rendering with it, it would really push it.


with the grain flow,seamless tones,abrupt clusters and even flow hatch grain , the examples in the tutorial describe it much better than any words can.
The most important thing is that you don't hatch squares

don't hatch like this
http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/6558/badoc8.jpg


Next Up, I wanted to give you a few examples of different styles of rendering.
Remember, there is no right or wrong way of doing it, but there are ways that are much better and ways that are much worse

this is a sketch by Wesley Burt (if you don't know him join the fanclub)
See how he uses dark darks to push the contrast, and his rendering doesn't go in every direction
http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/7180/whitetp3.jpg

this is by Luke Hollias (lukias on CA)
http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/1448/lifehelsmw7.jpg
See how he uses dark values for the hair and eyelashes to push the contrast.
Also observe how close his lines are to one another and how solid his form is.


this is a drawing I did
http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/4055/10465614rp6.jpg
One thing I notice about the way you render is that you seem a little unsure of what direction to do your hatching in. Look at the object and visualise the form of the object in your head. Is it flat, rounded etc?

I did a rendering tutorial, sorry if the writing is hard to read.
http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/1751/12708129er2.jpg
http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/3170/46935752sw7.jpg


if there are any questions, ask away

[hamtaro69]

Yeaaah :)
You wrote a small tutorial and even scanned it :)
Thank you very much ,i ll try to use this from now on!

[hamtaro69]

Actually i had a chance to go to the city today and draw people(half blind countour ,as you mentioned with the bus example) in the menza(my first time) !
Was a lot of fun :) although ,the people are rude ... everybody behaved as if i would show my middle finger or taking photos ,whatever ,
they even hurried to finish their meals and go away ..

[AlexC]

Oh and i would definietly like to join to the fan club ,but i cant visit his home page and i cant see any of the pics in his sketchbook either!
to be honest ,first i thought that it was your drawing and i was really amazed ,how fast you improved

http://conceptart.org/?artist=wesburt
hah, yeah, Wes is in an entirely different dimension to me, well he has been drawing over 10 years longer than me too, guess that counts for something:P
:)
Anyway,
Oh and the noses are finished too !
Glad you liked my skull ,about the unsure , i i i actually it was like i was able to "feel the form" just sometimes i would have had to contoninue the line ,but without crossing them ,and i rather draw them crossing,then without o_O I mean i think that was the problem ,but if you have any kind of free time,i really dont want to ask you always for everything , but just with digital could you show me where does it seem unsure ?

um, I am not really sure what you mean to be honest.
I will telll you this though, rendering and proportions really improve from doing lots and lots of observational work, sometimes not things you even particularly like drawing.


http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x230/hamtaro699/P1010457.jpg
this is better rendering, you remember what I said about not spacing your lines apart too much? Yeah, this is on the right track.


http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x230/hamtaro699/IMG_5353.jpg

about the still life. Personally I don't think coloured leds are ideal for observational work because you can only get so dark with them, whereas a lead pencil can go from black to white.
If you do enjoy working with colours(I do too)
I suggest just doing the outlines with them, or if you render them up, go over the lines with a normal pencil to beef it up (I have an example I could show you)

I do public sketching too(mainly on the bus since I spend 2 hours on them anyway). The tip is to observe and try and memorise, then draw without looking up and down again.
here's a little tip wear sunglasses that cover your eyes
at least then they won't know who you're looking at.
Don't be dissuaded if people get agitated at you, I've had people called me a drawing stalker pervert:P


I am a little unsure what to give you as an assignment.
PM me as soon as you read this, and tell me what you really want to work on, and I will create this weeks assignment.

[AlexC]

Rambling.
This post might not make a lot of sense, I just wanted to communicate a few ideas with you.
These are rhetorical questions, you don't have to answer them if you don't want to, but I think if you wrote it down and I read it, it might make things easier(and things often make more sense when written down).
Ask yourself-
What are my strengths? Do they outweight my weaknesses?
Am I embarrassed with anything in particular? If there is one thing I would love to master, what is it?

Who are my influences? Who inspire me the most. Do I like these artists because of the way they draw-their styles, or is it the things they draw, like monsters or something?
Which artists do I respect the most because of their attitudes or their desires to learn?

In a year from now, what will be different? What is different now from what I was doing a year ago?

Am I struggling with the concept of being an artist? Is art the most important thing in my life.
Is my work stagnant and getting old? How do I keep things fresh?
Am I experimenting with other mediums? Am I experimenting with the things I draw.
Does music inspire me (seriously listen to the mars volta if you don't already
next these are some ideas of things you might want to draw, and how studying them can lead to other paths.

Faces> portraits> facial features> stylised faces>

figures> arms >legs >muscles >anatomy >character design

arms>feet (both are good practice because they are quite complicated to draw)

animals >creatures> monsters

objects>still lifes

trees> plants >landscapes

cars >vehicles >mechanics >robots >spaceships

different mediums, pens, ink, pencil, charcoal, paints-acrylic, watercolour, oil, etc
I think it's a good idea to try every media, you might actually find it really enjoyable too, just something to think about


I think this week I said we were going to work more on rendering so we'll do that, next week we will look at experimenting and getting out of our comfort zones

Here is a demo by David Kassan, hope you like it
http://img61.imageshack.us/img61/7889/fulldemowebis2.jpg

[AlexC]

This weeks assignment

Looking at rendering again
I don't want to see any more bling contours:P
I want you to spend your time drawing a hand and a foot.
I want you to draw something (an object not another picture, no photo's) that looks interesting and hard to draw. Maybe it's got complicated shapes like chords coming out of it.
I want you to construct it in 3d, draw in the light source and render it.

Do you know about squinting?
squinting helps you look at values that might be confusing. Squint at your drawing and the object, it makes thing a heck of a lot easier

post any other drawings too, and render them to your best ability

[hamtaro69]

Pm sent ,

First tries ,today i spent more time get used to the form itself ,hope its visible,theses are near life size
Of course more to come :) with rendering!!!

[AlexC]

http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x230/hamtaro699/P1010484.jpg

feet show improvement that foot in particular shows huge inprovement

don't have much time to share, here are the planes of the face sheets I promised
http://img70.imageshack.us/img70/430/73961101pe2.jpg
http://img70.imageshack.us/img70/6892/14091975jq7.jpg

[hamtaro69]

Ok ,thank you for the planes !
These are not asgnements,but you wrote i should post every other too!

[AlexC]

that oil study is real good man, you see what I said about experimentation? Sometimes you might have to draw or paint something you don't want to, but as an artist, it's your responsibility to draw it to the best of your ability and also to attempt to experiment


that doesn't make a lot of sense:P
Anyway this next assignment is a biggie
I want you to read through the links I gave you in my PM

and to do 4 drawings from a photo or from life in 4 different medias.
I don't mind what medias you use but I recommend doing one in pencil, 1 in charcoal and one with ink or pen.

You use the same picture for each drawing, so pick something you wouldn't mind drawing multiple times.

While you can use more than one media for each drawing, I recommend sticking to one.
Any questions reply in this thread ( it's kinda easier for me)

[hamtaro69]

hehe :)Glad you like the oil study :)

I ll read the things for sure ,though it ll take some time :) at least a day o_O

and there ll be questions this time for sure :)

About the picture is it unimportant if its a portrait or figure ?

[AlexC]

I really don't care what you draw, as long as it's a good quality photo (show the photo too if you can).
I hope you enjoy the assignment

[AlexC]

hey Gregory, where's the assignment?
My computer has been broken for over a week (at the library now)
so don't think I'm quitting on you.

[AlexC]

my computer is working again:)
hope to see something soon