Sketchbook's Kfeeras

[Kfeeras]

Hey Guys,


Thx for looking!!

[Kfeeras]

These are Sketches made in my favourite coffee-shop. It's so cool to draw there. You gotta be quick there.. :-P

The last two ones are digital caricature experiments after watching too much Joe Bluhm..

thx for lookin!!

[Kfeeras]

Another Starbucks Lifesketch from today, my Hand and a girl. After messin around with my Wacom for months and seeing Wes' pencil rendering in his SB i decided to spend my time with my pencil rather than stylus... so, if anyone knows good exercises and tips for pencil-rendering.. don't be afraid to share ;-) :medusachow:

[smid]

Hey Kfeeras thanks for visiting my sketchbook! I am glad that you liked my stuff!
About your question though I don't really have an appropriate answer. I am kind of lazy so most of the time I just drew some random stuff and I thought it woks. But than came a period with no decent progress at all. Being lazy for a bit more time one day(before 2-3 months) I decided to force my lazy self to draw something challenging every day. It was hard because despite my laziness I am kind of inpatient. But with a little practice I began to focus on my work more and more and discovered that patience and concentration are vital. I also rediscovered the joy of drawing through my barbarian methods for improvement haha. I don't really know how but it worked. So my advice is to look at your stuff and see for yourself what more do you want to achieve. What is missing. Than grab the pencil or whatever you like and try to make it happen. Use reference and explore the works of your favorite artists. When you don't know what to do just grab an anatomy book and make some studies. It is kind of refreshing for me. And I have to say that the first 3 sketches in your sb have a pretty dynamic feel to them. Keep making those they help a lot and look great. Hope I was helpful.

[Kfeeras]

Yes indeed thx alot!!

[Maria David]

Those coffee shop sketches are love, especially the first three.

[Kfeeras]

Thought i'd put a few SP's here from my 100 SP-"project"

[Exquisite Beast]

Nice work on the SPs man! I want to see more anatomy studies though! Join the fun...

[Kfeeras]

short update

[eminkey2003]

Cool start. Try to see the shapes underneath, not just the edges of them on the surface (i.e, the lines.) Although, it's a good idea to practice breaking out of them with countour line drawings and such.

[l0stinth0ughts]

nice sp bud, just need a few more anatomy studies and your on your way. i also like the girl sketch, nice nude, like to see some shading on that one. over all you got a pretty cool sketchbook here, ill keep dropping lines in this sketchbook. :rocker:

[CarpeDiem08]

Dude, awesome sketchbook! Lovin the SP's. How long did it take you to do 100 of those? Anatomy studies are always welcome. =P Keep drawing man!

[ItalianHorsey]

Oops...I didn't log out of my friend's name. The message from CarpeDiem08 was me.

[alvukovic]

NIce portraits! good job!

[Peter Berkovski]

cool Sb man,like your SPs and moleskine sketches - good work,keep em coming
Cheers!

[Kfeeras]

@eminkey: i'll pit this to heart thanx for the line!!!

@l0stinth0ughts: thx for dropping a line. I'm going to do and post new anatomy studies, i did a lot a year ago with this riven phoenix course, but if you don't keep up you forget those things

@horsey: thx!! it took me aroung 110 days, i was going to do one evey day but i wanted to put in more work than an hour in a few of these so it took me a little longer. also thhat last one took around 6 hrs in 3 days. i did these to get used to digital painting.

@alvukovic: thanx mate!!

@atlantik: i'll do thanx!!


cheers

-antonio

[kidult]

Nice stuff here - pretty good sketches just try practice adding more tones and values man!

[Kfeeras]

Update after a loooong time... digitals from the past few days

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[Saurus]

nice to see someone else into caricature!....keep up the good work

I really like that environment under the girl with no face on your previous previous post....real nice

[Kfeeras]

@saurus: thx mate!!

[Kfeeras]

asdfa

[Adrian Wilkins]

Hey thanks for taking a look at my sketchbook,

you mean the Tauren Hunter with his pet? or the Paladin whos about to kick ass? or the mecha suit? the paladin and the tauren was drawn a year ago but i didn't felt good enough to color them because i wasn't that expreienced with Photoshop. now i think i'm going to give it a try

and i like your sketchbook! especially the prelast selfportrait great job on that! keep on drawing and drop by a second time if you feel like!

[Kfeeras]

Little Recent Sketch from head, practising pencil-rendering. i really love those chrome plates

[~Faust~]

Hey, your pencils are getting better! Just remember to think about the subject you are drawing in 3D, also, be careful to mmix rendering-styles, like hatching and tone. Of course that's not a rule, look at Koppas work, he is a master! In general, you should carefully analyse the rener-habits of your favorite artists and try to learn some technqie from them.

Anyways, thanks for stopping by my book, Ialso like what I see here :)

[Eric Young]

I really like your cityscape in post #19. I also love those starbucks drawings. And those 100 self portraits are awesome. Keep up the great work, i can't wait to see more!

[Kfeeras]

Bridgman Studies . These are really great to do, did them with a nearly dried out brushpen

[Gasphemer]

It's neat to see how at first you were using a lot of guide structure lines but by the end, it's more so shapes.... it's neat to watch.

[Kfeeras]

@faust: i checked out koppa, really interesting wild but cool hatching, thanx for the hint and the comment!

@original&gasphemer: thanx for the candy!!


This update is a Work in Progress, gotta add ripped stockings and work on everything all around, esp the lightning.

Thats one hour work so far

thx for lookin

cheerio

[Kfeeras]

Coffeeshopsketches not from Starbucks but from CoffeeFellows this time. The first one. The other one is Starbucks again ;-)

[Kfeeras]

Oh i really need to do lifedrawing again, if everything goes well i'll be able to do so from october on..

[Giorge]

I see it's going pretty good , one thing , on the drawings , you need to have a variation of line , hard edges and soft edges , that tells the viewer where is the light coming from and where are the darker parts . Good luck on your 100 ap project :P

[Surion]

Great drawings! keep up the practicing!

[Kfeeras]

@surion: thx mate

@flamable: thanks i'll keep it in mind!

[Kfeeras]

mooore doods

[Kfeeras]

Drew this in class today. Painting it now ;-)

[Peter Stapleton]

hey Kfeeras, that's quite a bizarre creature you got there, it looks like she'd have a lot of trouble keeping balance. And having mostly human anatomy the joints of the legs should be reversed. Got some great caricatures you got here.

[Lakka]

Hey nice SB, Personally I'd like to see some more studies, the gestures you posted looked really nice though.

Anyway, good start, now keep posting! :)

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@peter: yeah I'm workin on the balance... havent still thought about that

@lakka: thx!!

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Jack Bauer/Sutherland

[Kfeeras]

Recent Dump

[Kfeeras]

Sketches from Croatia. I just came back from holiday in my home country. Theres no internet there so my productvity increased a bit!! ,-)

The Kitten: I love Bobby Chius cute animals and my girlfriend had a photo of a baby kitten so i tried to paint it... \w/

The head-thing: Got the reference photo from androids ff-thread.

[Kfeeras]

Quick SP about 1 hour

[Katzenminze]

hey i like your work, i can tell that you put a lot of time ad effort in it and that you are enjoying what you are doing!
my advices would be to tighten up you shading, when you crosshatch try not to be too criss crossy. maybe just put in lines going ain one direkion and if you need it darker put another set of lines in a 90 degree angel on it. if you do this for you hole picture it will look much cleaner than when you just scribble around.
as for the last portrait i think it looks a bit muddy because of the grey shadows, try to put in a bit color (maybe bounce light from a blue carpet or a scecondary dimmed light source? just to have not grey shadows.

my favourite is yor very first picture (youra vatar) its really outstanding :)
dont stop posting!

[Kfeeras]

wow thankyou minze, you're right, it is muddy. i think i'll start doing more sp's again, it helps me improve my digi painting!

thx for the comment on the avatar-pic, it is my favourite painting of the ones i did.

[IanE]

The portraits in posts #1 and #45 seem to be the strongest work in here, with the anatomy studies taking a quick 2nd. Try and apply the same precision you use in these two studies and the things you're learning from the anatomy studies towards your quicker sketches and no-ref work! Definitely lots of potential so get to using it all, man! Keep it up :)

[Kfeeras]

@IanE: thanx mate, really encouraging words!!


played around with teh last SP, i'll leave it now, will do a new one tomorrow.
Tomorrow... whats tomorrow again... ohyah...BATMAN!!! 8 PM!!! goodnight!

[JailHouseRock]

Hi Kfeeras cool sb here man.

I fuckin love those Coffeeshop sketches and life drawings mate, and great to see your doing some more anatomy studys they really help.
Nice portraits as well, and good work on the 100 sp's !
Good work man and great to see another Joe Bluhm fan as well...I bloody hope he updates his podcast soon...BLA!

matt,
Joe Bluhm

[Kfeeras]

@jailhouserock: thanks man, really kind words! yea he didint update a while, seems to be busy.


here's a few shots from my trip to croatia where i got the chance to draw a few live caricatures of patient people. needed around an hour for one. was the first time i did a live drawing for somebody. i see room for a ton of corrections but they were happy so i am, too. ;-):lifedrawing:

[DannyMuskens]

Nice of you to drop a comment in my SB, and it is a very useful one!
I am taking your advice to heart, and I am going to draw my heart out haha.

Already noticing that when you go back and forth from traditional to digital and the other way around that the one improves the other and vice versa, just like your saying.

As for the podcast, very nice! Im at work right now, but as soon as I get home I am going to listen to it. I'm curious as to what it will be about!
Thanks for that as well!

You are making some great strides as well, and you have a very nice SB here. Really like the caricatures that you do haha! Good luck to you!

[Kfeeras]

first rough for a succubus drawing for a friend

[me_art_and_animation]

your dog will be an artist soon, because it ate your sketch book. your work is amazing and inspiring. coffee shop sketches are best( according to me), they take me to a place of love and beauty, some old stories, just excellent work. keep posting more and more

[Kfeeras]

my dog really cant eat at all, because he's not a real dog. he's imagenery ;-)
really thanks mate i can't believe that you wrote that :lineart:

A lot of people seem to prefer my Starbucks-Sketches over the rest. hmm.. that confirms what bobby chiu said. He said that his Subway-Sketch-Book sold best because people like Art from Real life. I am so going to do this more often again! ;-)

Anywayses, here's some Cshops I found on my drive that i didn't post yet. And now I'll go and watch Batman Dark Knight!!

cheers

[Verehin]

hmmmm...very nice

[Kfeeras]

@verehin: thanx dude ;-)



MAN i just saw batman, what a great pice of film. i think its the best with "batman returns".



real quick sp, about 40 mins.

[Kfeeras]

Hands in Pencil and Thinned Ink, and a few Uniform Drawings

[Kfeeras]

hey guys, still batman in my head, tried a twoface-version of me. i cant tell you how much fun i had painting this. actually never had more fun.

please comment it, i want to rework it tomorrow and really go into detail and "flesh" it out, no pun intended

[Kfeeras]

So here's the final version of my twoface-SP. sure theres lots of room for improvement but i want to see it as finished for me

[P]

Superb superbiness! Really great idea.

[Christoffer]

Oh nice! I've always wanted to do a gory self portrait myself. I know you're already done with it and you're probably sick of putting further work into it, but I'd add more detail to the muscles so you can see the fibres and blood vessels. The shape of the bone above the eyeball could use some more work as well. That's all I can come up with but whatever. Good job anyway. Perhaps we'll be seeing more gore portraits from now on? :)

[Lakka]

Hey, I realy like that selfportrait, as it is very consistent with the quality of things. Basically yes you could go in and add alot of detail and so on, but right now it looks nice for the fact that you have not overdone anyt single parts!

Anyhoo, the last page had some nice stuff going on, I think that as of now, humans are one of your strong points, which ofcourse is great.

I'd like to see you do some nitpickish images, almost blantant copies of refs, and spend a good amount of time on them. It really, really helps. The ref can be from life or a photo, but the main thing is time, spend some of that on it, and you fill find the all around quality of your work going up nicely.

Keep working! Looking good! :)

[Kfeeras]

Yoooo Folks!

Thanks for the comments!

@pijus: thx dude. you stuff is great for your age, but i already wrote you that ;-)

@Christoffer: No doubt theres a lot of room for further work, but theres so much other stuff i'd like to do. i have no great knowledge in painting detailed muscles and fibers and fleshy stuff, maybe i'll revise that image when i studied muscle and flesh painting a little more. i still hope that the BODYWORLDS expo will someday return to germany, so i can take reference photos there ;-) thx for commenting! and yes youll see lots of more stuff from me, not only sp's, starting with this post.

@Lakka: thx for the compliment. that is something that i will definately do! Thanx for remembering. I'll do a bargue copy if i find reference material.



SOOOOO. Let me say one thing:
:ai: :al: :ao: :av: :ae: :at: :ay: :ap: :ao:

one thing i wanna do more in future is combine my drawing with graphic elements and typo.

one reason is: making this sketchbook more interesting to look at.
the other is: practising graphic design. since i will study communications design from october on.

this way i have another use for my sketches ;-)

So, please let me know what you think about this attempt. It's in its pre alpha now ;-)


thanks for lookin!!

[xinranliu]

Two-face is badass dude! I like the foreshortening in your hand drawings. And I like the idea of graphic design elements + drawings etc.

cheers!

[lilou]

hey there :) nice to see some more germans here :)

ok now to your sb... I think your sketches have som estrong lines but they come along rather messy than controled... maybe you should try not to rush while doing them and keep an eye on linequality and rendering thechniques like hatching...

to your digitals... they seem good so far, nice varety indeed, but tehy seem to lack values!! watch out to have them balanced better, cos the darks and the whites seem just too strong for my tase :)

however, there is improvement, so keep on posting :) I'll watch'ya!!

bye
Diana

[Kfeeras]

@derriere: thx man!

@lilou: thank you for the crits. i followed your suggestion and this evening i just drew random organic forms really slowly and watching my line drawing (see this update). i must say that i think thats a good practice to improve line quality and rendering. theres still a long way to go but i'll keep workin at it.
the other thing about lacking values: do you mean the contrasts are too low or too high? too extreme? more variation? thankyou for stopping by!! :steph:


random stuff no reference. about 2-3 hrs work, format A3. the paintings are pretty rushed, only kinda tryout.

[lilou]

glad you took my advice seriously :) the new drawings are way better... and I'm not sayind rough fast sketching isn't good you can make it belong to your style, its just that I think your drawings will benefit if you practice controled lines too :)

about the values, yes thats exactly what I ment... the contrast is way too high for my taste, makes your pieces look artificial....

oh and I really have to say that those "things" you draw in your last update are...scary and pretty much original, wished I could let my mind go off like this... I'm too much bound to, you know.... normal stuff... so, respect from me :)

bye
diana

[Nightblue]

Great start of a sketch book! Love your pencil sketches. Your digital paintings are getting better too. Thinking more about light source would help your concept work. Keep posting!

[jharford]

Some really nice stuff here man. The first two cafe sketches are tremendous.
The gory sp is a nice idea, on a critical note, the face is looking quite flat, same in some of the sp's, some skin shading practice would be good.

[Kfeeras]

@lilou: thanks again for the advice. I think i'll keep rendering practises and studies for anatomy separated, because i don't want to spend that much time on a hand ;-)

@nightblue: wow, means really much to me, thanks for the comment and the advice. Ill keep it in mind

@jharford: thanks! yes you're right, skintones are such a wide area to study, i'll definately attack it one day.

[Kfeeras]

small update from todays work: random doodles and hands. the hands took around 2 hrs. found out that i can improve the quality of pencil scans by applying a sharpen filter

[thrilafrommanila]

wow, you draw some really interesting monsters. i dig the eyeball one.

perhaps some advice i can give is to experiment more with your colors. for example, your two face self portrait:

use some more tones in the flesh and also in the muscle. your skin is not neccessarily composed of just tones of peach, there are also reddish browns and yellows within it. also, if you wear a particular colored shirt (like blue) the color ends up reflecting into your skin and changing the tones to a more colder spectrum.

other than that i really enjoy your sketchbook. hope to seen even mor cool monsters and portraits :D

[Kfeeras]

@thrilafrommanila: thanx! i'll do!

heres some heads. never done a digital painting portrait w/o reference so i thought i'd give it a try. the first one took 1,5 hrs, the second took 15 mins

[Radio24]

nice digi value sketches. I might break up the brush size a bit, get some different types of line in there. perhaps some more texture in the bg.
cool stuff

[Kfeeras]

@radio24: thanks! i'll keep it in mind


focusing on the face here

[P]

Great hand drawings, it inspired me to meke some more of it too. And very nice portrait at the latest post!

[Radio24]

progress already from the last two digi's. Perhaps a bit more ear attention, just suggestion of an ear.
cool

[Kfeeras]

@pijus & radio24: thanx! nice to have some guys who come back to my sb! ;-)


2,5 Hrs spent on this one. Mostly done in Painter (those Blending tools.. AWESOME), details and corrections in Photoshop. With Reference. Really fun to do!!!

[Radio24]

ya mon!!!
I dig it, you're cruising. I'm still searchin for a bit more texture, it's startin to creep out in the top hair. word word.

[algenpfleger]

Oh dude, those creatures are awesome, and so are the hands. Great to see you tackling faces too! Last one looks great :) Just don't forget to do some colored stuff once in a while D=

[Kfeeras]

@radio24: okokok.. giving my best ;-) often i do not know where to put textures and what kinds of textures would fit. i gotta admit that all my photoshop work was done using the m@-brushes, they are so terribly perfect!!

@algenpfleger: thanks!! i'll do color-work for sure but.. well, monochrome is hard enough for now. thx for stopping by!


ok i went to starbucks-sketching yesterday but due to the time of year, people would sit outside rather then inside. outside starbucks sketching sucks donkey ass. There are people passing by and looking... no no, i like my inside guerilla situation best. I think I gotta wait for the winter.

[Kfeeras]

Eye experiment

[Kfeeras]

Qickie SP to kinda warm me up for the day

[Kfeeras]

tried something in the direction of character drawing, dont wanna say design here ;-)

[Kfeeras]

another quick character doodle,

[monotony]

very impressive work on all the selfportraits. the show a lot of great progress.
and I really like the handsketches with typo.
your linepractice with organic forms is really good as well. you could make your next ones look a bit more complex allready try and apply some anatomy to them and invent some creatures for practice. it's good fun!
keep sharing.

[Kfeeras]

@monotony: thanks mate, i'll keep it mind!! ;-)

Creature Tryouts inspired by results of the android-zbrush-technique

[Kfeeras]

inspired by chupacabra's sketchbook (http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=67265&page=27). he wrote that he practises colors by painting landscape thumbnails without colorpcking. it's definately fun!!

[Kfeeras]

Yay my first digital paintings from life that are not self portraits.

the first one took long to figure out, the second one was much easier

[Kfeeras]

Cheers guys heres my first Entry to a weekly activity. Its for COW theme is "Feeds on Sound". Got a little inspired by Spore. I dont expect any votes, just wanted to participate.

[amarryth]

nice stuff here! i've gotta start doing more painting and self portraits..

i love the hand drawn work, it's easier to see what went into the piece vs. a digital painting that covers all of the process...

the sp on blue is killer

[algenpfleger]

Haha, the thread title is awesome :D

Dude, I love those color studies! Especially the stuff from life looks better and better. You should definitely keep pushing there, for you will learn, like, tons. :)

[jedininjaman]

good work, I like these

[Josef K.]

nice stuff! i really like those still lifes! great to see that there are other guys in munich trying to find their way with that concept-art related stuff :) maybe i could join your sketchgroup sometime?

[AsaB]

Your productivity floors me! And that diversity, too. We've got creature designs, enviros, face and hand studies and what else here! You're definitely not one who gets stuck in a comfort-zone, huh? I really like that, I hope you'll keep exploring different subjects and styles!

That being said, I don't have any crits for now. But I'll be back so see some more sweet stuff from you!

[Kfeeras]

@amarryth: Thanks alot! I gotta confess that i often clean up my pencils manually in photoshop a little, and also apply a sharp edges filter. Makes it look more like the original, especially when you have a scanner that sucks donkey ass like mine ;-) But youre right, the effort is best seen on drawings.

@algenpfleger: thank you very much!! Its the same for me with your name ;-)

@jedininjaman: thanks mate!

@josef k: thanks man! I pm'ed you already. ;-)

@AsaB: No, my officechair is enough comfort for me ;-)

Thanks for all the replies guys!!!



Feeeeet Feeeeet Feeeet and hands and a SP i had to stop doing halfway trough and didnt want to finish. Really looks like ratcrap but ill post it anyway ;-P

More coming soon!!

[Kfeeras]

Heyguys! This is the reason i stared at my screen for around 6 hrs the last days... Never took a painting this far, really pays off and i think i learned a ton! Soooo... back to pencil!!

[P]

Hey Kfeeras. This page is something different from previous ur posts, lots of inspiring paintings, sketches too. And that latest post - oh man, it looks fun, time payed off, really good job!

[Kfeeras]

@pijus: thanks for the cm and for comin back!


Heres two quick anatomy paintings. Reference from characterdesigns.com

[Kfeeras]

Still Life in Acrylics. From Photo reference taken in my room. Painted it 6 Months ago.

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The Digi is exactly one year old. Had it in the crit section here, it was for a friend of mine.

[SneakersSpeakers]

I'm really digging the guitar acrylic. I'm a little confused as to what the greenish thing to the right is, I think it's a little bit distracting, but I really love those clothing folds oh my.

[algenpfleger]

Ohoooo the edges on those legs are delicious, great work man! Loving the nectar creature too haha, and the hands. Keep it up! :)

[Kfeeras]

@sneakersspeakers: thanks!! ;-) the green stuff is some geometric forms i painted on my wall.

@algenpfleger: thanks for commenting and for returning!!




quick stuff from today

[Kfeeras]

Coffeshop Sketches from yesterday. Will do more today

[fury03]

Wow man... Great stuff! Really love the stuff on the third page with your creature studies and face paintings. Your coffee shop sketches are nice too. Makes me want to go draw at my local coffee shop.

[Kfeeras]

@fury03: thanks!!! yea goto your next coffeshop and draw cause theres no real reason not to do it. ;-) altough it needs a little time to get comfy with.


Soooo for todaaaayyy:

1. Landscape around 2 hrs in PS

2. I still suck at Architecture Drawing, never did this before... But that'll change... ;-) That was fineliner and marker in moleskine. Tried to get the right lines at first.

3. Yeah yeah a bad andrew ripoff but its fun!!

[ArtZealot]

Hey, you have a nice sketchbook going here. I really like your environment studies, they're really solid. I saw your post over in the thread about whit brachna's video, with the mountain reference you found on flickr and just wanted to give some thanks. I'm downloading it right now, and have wanted something good to study from, these pictures sound promising. Cheers' and have some stars.

[Kfeeras]

@ArtZealot: Thanks man, hope the refs are useful!!

Stuff from today. Got to practise landscapes, been too long only on humans..

[jedininjaman]

haha oh man great work really charming, i love the guitar still life
and also the legs you did form the knees down have excellent weighting, really nicely done
keep it up mate and stop by sometime
-jedi :)

[thesadpencil]

hey sweet sb, i like the brushwork in your digis, very painterly. you've got some awesome concepts in here as well, i lol'd at the purple monster taking a piss.........brilliant. i also really like your caricatures. i think you should focus on sharpening up some of the edges, and put a bit more emphasis on your values by enhancing your lights/darks. other than that just keep up the good work.

[Kfeeras]

@jedininjaman: thanks mate i'll do!!

@thesadpencil: thanks ill keep it in mind


SP and painting for a friend

[Vimerge]

Thanks for providing insipration ;)

[Kfeeras]

@wow thanks, thats what i'm trying!

wentworth miller. so cool. next may be dr. house

[Lateman]

Bäm!! cool sb! nice portaits ... keep doin that! :)

cheers lateman

[Kfeeras]

@lateman: thanks, I'll do!

Oh my.. long time no update. Been busy lately with some boring illustration stuff. I'l get my DS with Colors! in a few days!!!

[kamal_anjelo]

Liked the recent environment colour works, and portraits are very nice too.keep posting.

[algenpfleger]

Serious progress in here man! Nice! :D Especially the landscapes are sweeeeeet, and the faces are getting a lot better too. Study a bit more from life, and try to make use of your full value range. And do more of everything! :D Keep it up :D

[Kfeeras]

jeehaw 5'th page!!!



kamal_anjelo: thanks man i'll do!!

algenpfleger: thanks, always nice to hear from you!!



First of all, sorry for the crappy quality. I bought a huge A3 Sketchbook and I cant fit it on my scanner. I can scan the single sheets in two parts when drawing of loose paper, but that method is hard with a big sb. I used my digi camera instead.

YAY my Communications-Design Class started today. I'm at the Hochschule München, it's a Bachelor-Course and its gonna take 3 1/2 years.


The last is 60 min snow landscape.

[Kfeeras]

Hey guys here's another bunch of my big-sketchbook drawings which i cant fit on my scanner. Mostly practising legs the last 2 days.

[wilkerson]

The snowy rock stuff is good. The other environments need work I guess, it's really hard, I understand. Sometimes I find drawing them first gives a better grasp on everything. These legs sketched are probably going to help a lot with your figure stuff. good work

[Kfeeras]

@wilkerson: thanx for stoppin by!!


Yaaay lifedrawing again!! Really good to do that again.

[katinki]

nice lifedrawings! i long for doing some again too! even after your (very nice) bammes legs some of the guy's look a bit wonky, except from the sitting one - here they look great! and i like that i can recognize that it is the same guy in all the studies!
keep it up!

[iven]

Wow I see, very good drawings my Friend, I saw your from Munich,
I hope you did some Gesture drawings from there:steph: !

I moved out from Stuttgart to Toronto and I am looking for a Diplom or a Degree
in Animation.


Gruesse an: Spaetzle ESSER und Fleischkaes Bierzelt HOCKER da drausen.

[Kfeeras]

@katinki: thanks for stopping by!

@iven: good luck!!


Few new thingies from my SB, long time no digital, just feel like drawing these days

[basementPicasso]

hey, thanks for stopping by my sketch book. You have some great stuff going here - really like the portrait work - you are really nailing it quickly. I find self Portrait very hard, so nice to see what others are doing.

[Kfeeras]

@BasementPicasso: thx man!!


Small update, todays stuff. Gotta do more digis again

[Josef K.]

nice studies man! maybe you could try to vary the edges of the drapery a lil' more! guess its overhighlighted here and there too (i do also have to work on overhighlightening (what a dumb word -_-)). Wanna see more!!!

[monotony]

wow that last mountain study turned out really nice.
good use of texture and sketchy strokes next to it.

[Katzenminze]

Hey man! thanks for those vids on my sketchbook, they are really useful!
i see greate improvement in your stuff. i like the idea of your coffeeshop-sketchgroup. you must spend a lot of time at starbucks :D
i think that last cloth-study came out really nicely!
lass was sehn :)

[towy]

you have many interesting mvie on your youtube,, interesting sketchbook here :]

[Kfeeras]

@josef k: thanks man i'll do. uni has kept me busy this week ill try to squeeze in some painting tonight

@monotony: thanks, I really like snowy mountains somehow, thoug i dont like skiing or snowboarding

@minze: es geht schon, so oft bin ich auch nicht bei starbucks, aber wird jetzt irgendwie wieder mehr

@towarlock: thanks! you mean those vids I posted on Katzenminzes SB? No those are not made by me. ;-)

[towy]

ow ok isn't your video :), but thanks for post ^^
really interesting anyway
keep up ;)

[Kfeeras]

yaaay painting.. first is from photo rest from life. all of them around 30-60 minutes in ps

[Josef K.]

yeah thats it! great studies! gotta get off my butt and do something like this too! hmm you could really try painting soft edges here and there though! gives more depth to the shadow areas and lets the bright ones pop out more. looking forward to your next post!

[wookiedabo]

great studies further up man, I really need to work on legs as well, bit of a stumbling point for me. And you can see it paying off in the recent life drawing and characters. the paintings are a solid start, if a bit saturated. good stuff.

[sinneart]

Fantastic sketchbook! You have a natural eye for proportion, perspective and lighting - nice stuff.

My only general crit is regarding your basic line quality... seems that you have that signature "chicken scratch/peck" habit/method (that pretty much all artists start out with, I think) when putting down your initial sketches... Try to focus on making every line count - make as long and as graceful (varying your line weight to show light/shadowed areas) as you can. Don't let your pencil leave the paper. Try a few excersizes by doing that - you may find out something new!

[Kfeeras]

@josef: ok i promise to add some hard edges on the next painting ;-)

@wookiedabo: thanks!

@sinneart: yah thats definately one of the weakpoints im trying to practise. thanks for the hints!


LIFEDRAWIIIING FROM CLAAAAASSSSS YESTERDAAAYYY

[Kfeeras]

SP 1 hour

[a la bapsi]

yaaay sp
your life drawings are gorgeous! :D

[Josef K.]

maaan you really make me feel like a lame asshole! gotta update too soon :D you ... you lazy bastard :@ !!

No really go on like this - great update buddy!

[arsanik]

I really enjoy the landscape and the screaming face in your last two most recent posts! The leg studies are awesome as well.

[Kfeeras]

@bapsi: ............yaaaayyyyyy........aaaayyyyy....thanks bapsi!! cu on vent!

@Josef Ka: Ohnoo you are working more than me, you just have to post it!! Thx for stopping by again

@arsanik: Thanks man!!!


If I didnt post something in your SB's I'm sorry I'll definately do it, I'm just a little short on time recently!

Heres some recent moleskine Stuff. I only draw from life in this Book. Mostly Starbucks Sketches!

[Kfeeras]

Digi Painting of a Piece of Tangerine on a speaker from life.
About 2 hrs

[sinneart]

Fantastic! But crap, now I'm craving something citrusy... :P

[Joce]

kool moleskine stuff

[Kfeeras]

@joce: thanks!!
@sinneart: thanx for the returning and the comment. this time I tried to nail the lines at once. tried ;-) And experimented with direct brush on paper

[Josef K.]

great stuff buddy! wanna draw some naked people from life too :[
that still life is cool too! like the way the light passes through the fruit! good job!!

[algenpfleger]

Oh man, the life stuff is getting better and better! Keep pushing!

[Kfeeras]

@josef: thx!! yey drawing nekkids iz funn!!

@algenpfleger: thx dude i'll do!!


Stuff from the last week:

[DStraX]

nice sketchbook, but i think you should work on the line weight, judging by your last post :)

[Vehkt]

I love the variety you've got going on in this thing :) Looks like i'll have to keep an eye on your SB too :D

[Kfeeras]

one hour sitting in starbucks and painting on macbook

[a la bapsi]

GORGEOUS!

can you show us a process next time?
i'm totally lost when it comes to painting digitally from life in color D:

[Kfeeras]

@bapsi: thanks! i'll post the prog next time!!

ds sketches and a strooong chick

[Kfeeras]

yay guys i'm sooo all about digi painting again ;.)

[Kfeeras]

Yaaay life and portrait drawing again!!

[Kfeeras]

Todays digital pain

[JailHouseRock]

Wow mate you've made some real progress!

Those life drawings seems to have really up't your skill, great linework ang form.

lovin the photo studys as well,

keep-at-it

matt,

[Kfeeras]

@jailhouse. thx so much for stopping by!!


three 20 min portraits from photo. josef k. told me he does this so i took a shot. its fun because you KNOW that you wont spend more time than 20 mins on it...

[flurry]

Thanks for commenting in my sketchbook.
Sweet 20min studies there, lovin the orange/satsuma too, although I feel that the colours are slightly too saturated with the orange tree and the grass there. Nice anatomy/lifedrawing studies and earlier concepts. Keep up the good work.

[Flaskpost]

i´ll second flurry on the 20min studies! keep up with those man. do some every day and you´ll kick ass in no time. =)

[Hive_minD]

keep those lines going. Only crit I would suggest is working hard on your initial sketch. Getting those lines in right at the start will help a lot!

Chris

[Kfeeras]

@hivemind: thx dude i'll keep it in mind.

@flaskpost: ok I'll do. still don't like that idea of timing so much but i see the sense in it and it works! thx for stopping by!

@flurry: yea mate ill definately revise the orange tree once. thx for the comment!!

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some girls from the head. i figured out that i can draw a pose much better if i draw the legs first (and the head last)

[Jasper_]

Your figures from life are looking great, very nice line placement. Keep doing those and your digital studies and you won't stop getting better. I also like those stylized portraits in post 152

[Kfeeras]

@pyroclasm: thanx dude!!!


moleskine stuff from today: lil starbucks and lil from mind

[Kfeeras]

small update for today. did this from life. dide a couple lifedrawings but i dont like them so i wont post them. cheers

[Flaskpost]

nice, man! solid drawing, but you could push the values alot more i think.
more contrast! =)

[Kfeeras]

@flaskpost: thx dude!!

one point perspective drawing for class. its a completely new field to me.

[P]

Great life drawings, love the moleskine stuff, portraits, and those latest environments - so simple but sweet.

[VanDog]

hi!maybe you shoud work with anotomy but i really like your shape feeling.
keep working and all will be fine soon

[Mischeviouslittleelf]

Some pretty strong studies here actually, so kee them up!. I like your application of line control. That said, you need to work on your anatomy and understanding of form, what comes foreward, and what remains in the BG really depends on one another so yea, that is something to focus on:)

-E

[Abrodos]

Like your perspective drawing stuff! Also, your color studies. Do you use a tablet or the Macbook lets you draw directly on the screen?
Cheers

[Kfeeras]

@pijus: thanks!!

@VanDog: Thx man yeah m working on it;)

@elf: thanks for the hints!

@abrodos: no its a wacom bamboo a5. and a white 13" macbook. lets me paint for 2 hrs without recharging.


Ess Pee!!!

[Kfeeras]

1 hr doodle no reference (tried to remember the sp from last night)

[Kfeeras]

so the other day while watchin a tv show...

[Kfeeras]

alriiiight guys!! I bought a brand new small moleskine and the cheapest colored pencils i could find. i'll fill this sketchbook with memory drawings from people i see in coffeeshops or on the train.

I saw a video of Stephen Silver (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bUmeswKSe0) where he told that you get most out of lifedrawing by drawing once, turning the paper, and them drawing the same thing from mind. I did this during the last lifedrawing in class and i think its a great thing to do.

I still remember the five poses I've drawn last monday and i think ive learned more than in all the sessions before. I drew every pose twice that way. I someone wants to see them i can post them but they're all very sketchy 2 minute drawings and not soo pleasing to the eye.

I decided to change my starbucks drawing routine a little. I used to draw the people while looking at them all the time. This time I observed first and then sketched from memory.

This way I am forced to simplify and caricature a lot more, cause I can't memorize all the tiny details.

The result are the first two images you see here. The rest is doodle from mind while in class.

[Kfeeras]

small update from starbucks

[a la bapsi]

yaaaaay

life drawing
starbucks is full of interesting characters. xD

[Kfeeras]

hei baps, thanks for opening the 7th page ;-)

lifedrawing and portraits from class today

[kidult]

Liking the faces in this last post!

[Kfeeras]

kidult: thx alot!!


caricature wip

[Kfeeras]

yay finished the caricature. but i won't post the reference image, dont know if the person would mind

[roidvoid]

caricature could pass for natalie portman
good work man

[Kfeeras]

@roidvoid: really? hmm... thanks for visiting!!


recent stuff from my little moleskin

[a la bapsi]

i love your moleskine people.
i assume these are from life too?

[Kfeeras]

@bapsi: yay theyre all from life! thanx for visiting again ;-.) cu next time on vent.


Chris Rock Caricature. Around 5 hrs work. His new program is so amazing..

[Kfeeras]

Finished after a talktrough in the crit section ;-)

[Max Challie]

Hey there, I like your coffeeshop sketches! You are good at capturing the personality of the people you draw. Which you need for caricatures! :)

[Kfeeras]

maan i need to update more ofteeeen!!!!

@max: thanks so much, thats exactly what im trying to achieve!! ;-)


Did a car of a teacher at the university. apprx 2 hrs on him, had to do it from memory, no photo, just a quick pencilsketch from life

[Kfeeras]

Those are preliminary Sketches I'm doing right now for a personal piece. I want to make a big Image with Caricatures of the Main Actors from the Movie "Love Actually".

[Kfeeras]

Happy new year to all y'alls!!

More caricatures and random faces.

[Kfeeras]

short today. busyyyyyyyy

[Kfeeras]

Sketches of my Girlfriend and Antonio Soprano.

This is B/W Gouache and pencil on Brown recycled paper, really like this way of working.

[Janos]

Na Herrgottsacrament!

You've got a very nice style and a great eye for human anatomy and proportion (and of course the over-/underproportion in your caricatures).
I like the b&w work on brown paper the best, they're detailed yet very simple images.

I like!:teeth:

[kikindaface]

Hey dude, it's really a nice sketchbook ! Your line is getting better and better ! Your caricatures looks really good too ! Keep at it ! and maybe try to study anatomy, it will help you !

[2buiart]

hey I dig the latest post, raw looking stuff. Show more studies.

[Kfeeras]

Janos: thx! yea i somehow like that style

Walid D: alright i'll do!

2buiart: thx! i'll do!!


Sketches from today

[P]

Dig the gouache caricatures. m i dig all! I agree with 2buiart, more studies dude! Keep it up! cheers!

[Kfeeras]

@pijus: alright alright alright i'll do em, promised!


That's all sketching from life at starbucks, uni, subway and so on, all from life and done in the last 2,3 weeks. i keep my little moley everywhere i go!

[Jeff Bartzis]

Wow man, really nice stuff.

[Kfeeras]

@jeff: thanks man!!

stuff from uni today. all from life

[chris chUa]

cool sketches, man! dig the faces :)

[Kfeeras]

@chris: thanx! and thx for stopping by, i love your work, man!!

two digi doodles from today, not so happy with em, gotta practise this!!!

[pandahund]

Haha, damn. You're really skilled doing those caricatures. I really like your sketches in general. Something i gotta work on.

About your question. I am studying "Kommunikationsdesign". 5 semesters left ;)

[JailHouseRock2]

Lovin the gouache caricatures, and great to see more studies,
Lol that Jedi ones awesome dude!

Keep it up,
matt

[Kfeeras]

@jailhouse and panda: thanks guys!!!


Jack Bauer Sketch, 1,5 hrs, and the WIP

[monotony]

hey, I really like your new series of caricatures.
maybe a bit more saturated colors on jack bauer would help it, but the likeness is definately there in all of them!
oh and the lifedrawings on top of this page look cool as well.
keep it up!

[sketcheth]

Now this is a refreshing thread. It's great to see work like this...really...just nice. You capture likenesses extremely well which is definitely something I struggle with when I'm even just doing normal portraits.
Be careful that you don't just change the values in the tones you use in these painting to add depth and shading, try to sneak some more color variation in, it will really add life to the images.
Awesome work. Thank you for being different!

[Kfeeras]

@sketcheth: wow, thanx dude, never got a compliment like this ;-) felt a little fuzzy while reading this. i'll keep your suggestions in mind!

got a half hour time to spare today, and did two quick scaped from reference, didnt do this for a long time.. i'll do more!!

[Meilin]

Cool stuff, I especially like the caricatures from uni.
Your environment studies seems to be a bit too saturated. But it's cool that you’re pushing yourself and trying new stuff. Keep up the good work.

[Kfeeras]

@mailin: thx alot!

a little something from today

[theUNKNOWNsketcher]

The last one is something!

[Kfeeras]

thanx, mr. unknown ;-)


3 hr Self Portrait A3 in Gouache

[2buiart]

I really dig the last landscape (mountains) on post 214.
The color and softness of it gave me the relax and chill mood

[s-man]

Nice colors~goooood works.give us more!!!

[xobgob]

always loved caricatures and yours are hard rocking :rocker: :rocker:
also about the enviros no words :)

[Kfeeras]

thanks guys! really great to hear motivating words!!

small update, was busy with uni work, but february will be daily uploads!!

I tried to caricature Zach Braff, but epic fail in my opinion. I dont even know if i got the likeness... put postin it anyways, took me 1 hr ;-)

chrs

[Kfeeras]

Stuff from today (yes, really!!) ;-)

[Josef K.]

awesome stuff buddy! you're improving so goddamn fast, its making my head spin!!! love the caricatures!

[bharat]

landskap n all stuff...r ok but u have very big problem in praportin , n life skatching, do some hard work on that.

[Kfeeras]

Thanks guys for the kind words!!

Heres some from 2day: A few 20min Headsketches and one Starbucks

[Kfeeras]

That was for a sketch activity on ventrilo:

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Quick Color Study:
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Pencil Doodlings:
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[Kfeeras]

*dump

[Mitze]

Great sketchbook love the studies keep at it.

[Kfeeras]

Thanks Mitze!!!

[Kfeeras]

blala

[Oranje Joe]

the blue and orange mountain study is my favorite thing on this page!

the most recent sketch is very accurate, but i think the strokes compete with the form that the shading tries to create, it would be better to lay them along the contour of the shape you are molding

cheers>:D

[Kfeeras]

oranjejoe: yes you're right, thanks, i'll keep it in mind!! tx for commenting!!


random brainfart:

[Max Challie]

Hey Antonio, sorry for not dropping by in so long.

http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=584963&stc=1&d=1233884201
http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=585503&stc=1&d=1233944324
These are two drawings that could have been pushed much further. Refine the rendering on the first one, push it to as finished a level as possible. Match the tones to the best of your ability.

Adding darker tones creates depth. Even the smallest additions will change the perspective drastically. With the ritual guy, darken the tones around his waist, it will bring the bowl thing (forgot what to call it, haha) forward, and just make the image much more three-dimensional.

Don't be happy with doing lots of fast stuff. Do quick studies, along with pieces that you push as far as you possibly can. Don't be afraid to spend 10-60 hours, heh.

:)

[Risata]

thx rhx ;D
ah man ich fühl mich irgendwie voll fremd hier ;_;
xD
very nice scetches <3

[Kfeeras]

Hey risa, thats ok, you'll find fans in no time!

Max, thanks so much for the comment. I took your advise and continued working on my "Bargue" Drawing ;-) After scanning I figured i could go a good step darker on the face, and its something different to really take time on a drawing!! I've spent another hour or so on it, thats my current stage:

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I think I'll start another one, just this time with an accurate drawing. Messed up this one, the features are a little off. I have to find out how to "overcome" the paper texture, will do a little research on that!! Thanks again max, you really helped me.
Nice post in the cssg by the way! Hope to see more!!

cu

[Kfeeras]

Done with the portrait.

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Starting a Bargue. Thats the stage after 2 hrs

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[Helioth]

Yo!
Watching you naow ;o

Good studies and progress.

[Kfeeras]

Helioth, thanx, will watch you too!!

Quick Sketch and the Bargue after 1,5 more hours

[Risata]

bei dem gesicht von dem mädchen haste dir aba keine mühe gegeben :0
xD haste sie irgendwo abgezeichnet als von nem foto oder so o.o? weil bei dem hintern sieht es bissel kommisch aus o-o
die schrafierungen sind schön weiter so, falten üben xD bist auf dem bessten weg o-o/
sach ma sollte ich lieber auf englisch bei dir schreiben? ich könnt aber die hälfte dann nicht ausdrücken xD;

[Kfeeras]

Stuffs from today

[Risata]

die zeichnungen sind schön aber ich empfehle dir einen weiheren bleistifft zu nehmen ^^ da sieht man den strich nicht so stark bzw die stichrichtung ^-^
fürs erstes würde ich dir auch raten weissen stoff zu nehmen um die faltenstudie leichter zu machen ^-^
denk auch an den körper der unter der kleidung ist der giebt meisstens die falten richtung an beobachte deine jeans oder die handtücher, beobachten ist wichtig ^-^ aba das weisste ja schon ;P
der blonde typ sieht aus wie cloud aus ff7 xD; is er das?

[Kfeeras]

Thanks Risata! CU Tomorrow in SB!!

[Kfeeras]

Starbucks Sketches


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[Fitzin]

With those sketches, It seems that you need to shrink the head. Even if its bigger than what you see, go ahead. (I'm talking in a sense of realism.)

Be more carefull with those planes also.

Keep attacking at it!

[Kfeeras]

Thx for droppin by! CU on Vent!!

That kept me busy the half day

[Max Challie]

I think you need to clean up the lines man (although maybe it's the coffee :P).

Just slow down, relax. Observe. Perhaps move your hand over the surface where the line will go, then when you're ready, make the line. Lots of blind contour drawings would help, too. See how much of a life drawing you can make with one line

[Kfeeras]

Hey Max, alright I'll think of it, thx for droppin!!

[monkeyman478]

Looking real good the sketches from starbucks, out of interest how much time do you spend drawing each person and have you ever had the awkward situation of someone noticing you were drawing them and confronting you about it, negatively?

[Kfeeras]

Hey monkey, thx for stoppin by!! Answered you in your SB.


Two Quik-ees. More later.

[Kfeeras]

Lifedrawing

[Kfeeras]

Selfie feat. nice Crits from the guys on Ventrilo. Thanks guys!!