Pandahund's sketchbooth - *Update, March 27th : Icarus*

[pandahund]

Hey everybody. I've been browsing around here for quite some time now and decided I wanted to start my own sketchbook trying to improve my drawing skills.
For a start here are 2 moviestills (took about an hour for each one). One DSG and some Oilpaintings. The last one is a self portrait.

Hopefully i'll get around to update from time to time :)

[Smoke]

Off to a good start, the self portrait is the best so far, I think.

Moar!

[Delmar]

really nice start, man. Like the oils!

Keep em coming!

[pandahund]

Thanks guys.
Here's some stuff i had to do for uni. I really wanna do something other than those lifeless studies. Trying to get into anatomie atm. So there'll be a few hopefully not soo shitty sketches in the future ;) Any tips on how to approach learning anatomy? We haven't had act drawing yet at our uni, but i don't really wanna wait :)

The following pics are done with pencils + coloured pencils, except for pic 3+5 which are done with ballpointpen.

[monotony]

I really admire your studies. they look pretty damn exact and well done. you really do some nice rendering with pencils and ballpoint pens. love all the marbles..
when it comes to anatomy you should have a look at loomis' books and bammes which I really like and you might know as well. bridgeman must be really helpfull as well.
but I'm not the one to talk. gotta do loads more studies. and drawing from life is what helps you improve tremendously. you'll find out yourself when you have your courses. what uni are u studying at?

[pandahund]

Thanks man. I'll have a look at those. I study at the "Ruhrakademie" in Schwerte. Looking forward to those courses.

Here are two "quick" photostudies. I want a tablet :\

[pandahund]

Ok, so at the beginning of the semester we had to do that smartiesglass

http://freenet-homepage.de/pandahund/glas.jpg

And now at the end of our semester we had to do it again to show how much we have improved. They're not really compareable since i used a photo for reference for the new one but meh...

http://freenet-homepage.de/pandahund/smartnew.jpg

[pandahund]

Getting used to digital stuff. Last one is a brush orgy.

[coldrum]

You've nailed those studies...nice control with the pencils. Now get cracking with some anatomy! : D

[Reject-D]

my favorite is the first one!! keep it up!

[pandahund]

Took me a few hours. Quite surprised how it turned out actually :)

[ohomoho]

the glass studys are crazy!

[Phantom0083]

I agree I love the glass studies!

[pandahund]

Thanks guys! Worked on a few things on that weird gunarmguy

[young paddy1]

loving the studies especially the coloured leaves and the second glass with the ice. I also really like that space enviro, got some class there.

My crit for ya is on this last piece, a lot of the shapes you are using are tending to flatten the image, like the straps across his chest or the frilly cuff. Try to think about how these things would conform to the guy's body in real life.
Also think about the way light would be affected by the position of objects (why is he blue on the opposite side to the gun? Where does the lightsource affecting the sleeve go on the shoulder pad and helmet?)

[Tea Drinker]

your pencil stuff are really something to look at. I will say with your some your digital pieces the color seems to be a weakness for you, particularly the first two in post #8. The values could be pushed a little more I think.

You have serious skill going on here otherwise, I look forward to more of your posts.

[pandahund]

Thanks for the crits guys. Yeah the lightsource kind of ended up being upside down all around... I gotta be more careful in future pieces. You're right about the straps now that i got an eye for that again ;) You think it could help if I added a slight reflection of the light emitting from his gun?

As for colour in general. I for myself think i've made a bit of progress in that department. You'd probably agree if you knew older attempts but yeah, some stuff of mine looks pretty flat. When i finally get a tablet I'll get around to do more colour studies by then because as working with a mouse is still a bit awkward. You can't blame everything on that though :D

Thanks again for your comments!

[pandahund]

A few Photostudies

[pandahund]

3 more photostudies

[pandahund]

Did this in 4 hours because i wanted to do this in one sitting and it got to late and i lost interest. It's on Din A2. I mostly used coloured pencils.

[Reject-D]

nice studies dude... and great sketches.. one thing i could say about your gunarmguy is that his shirt is the same color as his skin and that is confusing..

[pandahund]

Yeah, you're right. I should change the colour.

Here's a doodle from saturday. Trying out new pencils and paper. Did a quick colouration as well...

[pandahund]

Coloured something i doodled at uni.

[pandahund]

Since the beginning of this semester (2 weeks) we're doing figure drawing, so I'll be posting some more stuff in the future hopefully. I can only show a few with photo refs i did in about 15 minutes for each. I still got a lot to learn...

[wholecar]

WOW !
Your sketchbook is awesome duuuude !
Amazing glass studying and great progress :)
Keep it !

[pandahund]

Thanks man :)

Here's another one

[pandahund]

Pencils and watercolor

[pandahund]

Another one. Ballpoint pen on Din A2

[pandahund]

Ballpoint pen and pencils on A2

[pandahund]

Tweaked a few minor things and did a proper photo.

[pandahund]

Did a few quick mindless doodles... Mostly ballpoint pen.

[pandahund]

Some figure stuff ... from photos though. It's flawed in some places, plus the heads suck big time. I am kinda satisfied for now though. See for yourselfs...

[pandahund]

Still suck at faces. Graphite, ballpointpen and marker.

[abiLity]

Yeah! The last two pieces are awesome! : D

[pandahund]

My Entry for the blizzard fanart contest. I am quite proud of it actually since i've used mouse only D:

[pandahund]

More figure stuff. I think i already see some little progress. It's fun anyway :)

[abiLity]

Yeah! Die Alte is mal FETT!!! : D

[pandahund]

Two more..

[Peetaer]

the dude with an axe in his head is totally awesome. haha!

[pandahund]

Inspired by a sketch of craig mullins.

[algenpfleger]

Wow, your digital stuff is really good Ö_Ö Colors especially. Awesome!

But but but, for the faces, tackle Loomis and Vanderpoel, that helps tons. Really! Go do it :)

[pandahund]

@Algenpfleger: Thx! I'll tacke the heads soon enough.. I hope :)
@Peetaer: Thanks, hope you like it ;)

Here's some more figures..

Bad photos, I might take some new ones with better lighting.

[pandahund]

Worked with oils again. About 30-45 minutes

[pandahund]

First steps in Painter X, a vector shark and a few figures.

[pandahund]

The next "digital animal" and a few Brigdman hand studies...

[pandahund]

Another animal.. 4 to go D:

[pandahund]

First speedpainting using a tablet. Still gotta get used to it.

[D@niel]

You will get used to the tablet in no time!!:) Some cool stuff here, especialy your colours. Keep it up:)

[Sady]

Love those reflection/refraction studies on the fisrt page. And these later figures too. Very good. 8)

[pandahund]

Thanks for the comments guys. Yeah, i am actually getting a hang of the tablet. It's getting more and more fun and it's very motivating, knowing how it was like, working with a mouse before...

Kinda doodled around and this came out. I obviously still need to work on faces... But hey. It can only get better :D

[pandahund]

Did a selfportrait from old photo reference. Kinda cheated though as i picked the values :( What do you think?

The proportions are kind of fucked ... but it can only get better i suppose :)

[pandahund]

Old guy in painter...

[pandahund]

Edited the lips of that portrait a bit. It's still off though i think.

http://freenet-homepage.de/pandahund/sp2.jpg

Here's the reference

http://freenet-homepage.de/pandahund/bikekeke.jpg

[photosynthesis]

Very nice work. I love the tripod robots with the "egg beaters"?,the amputee, and as you've been told already the glass still life drawings are excellent. I think the self-portrait is coming along nicely, maybe the edge of the right nostril is too hard though, seems to flatten that side of the nose. Either way your way better with a tablet than I am. Keep drawing.

[Jussi Tarvainen]

Hey Pandahund. I really like the latest selfportrait. Very nice colors and lighting to it. It's great to see all those life figure studies and hand studies.

Keep up the good work!

[pandahund]

@photosynthesis: Thanks man. I think you're right about the nostril. Now that you say it, it does look a little harsh.

@yousa: Glad you like it :) I gotta do lots more studies though :o

[pandahund]

Here's todays selfportrait. I gotta say it does look a lot more like me than yesterdays... Haha

[erik-jan v/d schuur]

love your still lives so impressive

[Nerahla]

We were talking about this in IRC yesterday and I think you can benefit from the conversation too --- you already draw "things" well.

But really drawing the human body well will help you draw everything else well, because it's so complex. So don't worry so much about photo referencing a rocket or a cave and just do people, people, people. The more you draw people well, the easier everything else is. They become ridiculously easy to draw and render actually, after doing people.

You are learning really fast though! I mean, from the first few posts to your last self portrait, you did not skew this one as much and the colors and values were very good.

Did you use a photo-reference or just a mirror?

[pandahund]

This was photoreffed and i picked the values.. Shame on me :( I was just concentrating on gettings the proportions right for now. I gotta start getting the values on my own. Thanks for the encouragement. I'll concentrate more on people from now on :)

[Suira]

Man, I really like some of the stuff you got going on here, that las SP, looks cool.

But yeah, I think you still need to work on human figure and imaginarty stuff, but your progress is totally awesome man, keep it up!

[pandahund]

@Suira:Thanks man. Concentrating on figures atm :D

Here's some more Bridgman..

[monotony]

wow man, I really like your self portraits. nice touch with adding some more colors especially in the shadows. You should try doing the next one from life to see if you can get the likeness and the colors you seem to get when working from photoref. remembering the great pencil and ballpoint studies I'm sure you can pull it off.
the development you show with your digitals is great. the tablet is good for you dude.

[pandahund]

@monotony: Thanks man, gotta get a proper mirror so i can start doing it without photorefs. And yeah, the tablet is great :D

Finally finished the fourth vector animal... Kinda got caught up in details. What do you think?

[pandahund]

Experimented with markers and ballpoint pen D: Kinda screwed up...

[pandahund]

Did two photostudies. Getting used to no colorpicking... bad me *slaps* Oh yeah, and another fast vector animal as i don't really wanna invest that much more time into this project. Two to go :)

What do you think?

[Farvus]

Nice sketchbook. I dig the vector scorpion. At first second I thought it's 3d render :D. Those more enviromental paintings also stand out. The colours are harmonious and pretty realistic. In the one with the helicopters I would be more careful while suggesting ground texture. Too loose scribbles can read as random detail which distracts and kills the composition.

Keep posting, man :).

[pencilgeek]

hi pandahund...your eye and hand coordination is the higest guality but your figure drawing is lacking a bit dont get me wrong your figur and anatomy studys are good...i suck lol your much greater thean me im new at drawing lol.

[pandahund]

Speak your mind, man :D I'll say it myself... "my anatomyskills suck"

There! I've said it ;) I really gotta improve there.

[goran]

Love the glass studies ,great pencil control ,bg are cool you know about anatomy ,who am I to judge ? Just continue on your journey and have fun.
Cheers

[pandahund]

@goran: Thanks man :)


Here's the two animals which i had left to do. Rather cheaply when you compare them with the scorpion... but i just wanna finish that task now...

On to other tasks now :D

[JinRa]

hey great stuff! keep it going! love the helicopters!

[Farvus]

These read really well even from distance so you already made succesful illustrations.
Good job :).

[Carbono]

Man, your use of colored pencils is amazing, insane stuff, i really dig it!
Keep it up bro! Great stuff!

[pandahund]

@Carbono: Thanks man, there'll be some coloured pencil action again in the near future :)

Kinda living through a sucky phase at the moment... lol This time i actually got "something" done.
Doodled around in painter without refs.I just noticed... her shadow doesn't make any sense ;x
Well, maybe i'll change it.

[pandahund]

Here you can see the reason for the future lack of updates in this sketchbook ;( Gonna color this with coloured pencils. I don't want to :D
Well, cya in a few days/weeks ;)

[pandahund]

Some sketches i did plus some of the better 30 seconds gesture drawings i did at posemaniacs. Although they are some of the better ones .. they still kinda suck ;P

I need more practice.

[TumTum]

its JD and Elliot!

[Caffeine_stream]

Thx for stopping by my sb, Your pencil stuff is amazing. Don't worry about the pose maniacs stuff i tried a bunch and they looked rubbish. every once in a while one goes right. my only hope is over time more of them start going right.:yayca:

[TLL]

JD looks good I think. Elliot looks a bit strange. I don't know why, cause I suck on portraits myself. Maybe the neck is a bit to shourt?


PS: What do you study and where (I'm searching for some good unis here in germany)

[pandahund]

Yeah, that's what i've mainly been working on the past few days... Any questions as to why i hate haribo?
Now most of you people will understand the pic with the dude who's got an axe in is head.
This was rather boring to do ;( Glad i'm finished now!

Oh yeah, and 2 hands from life (I'll do more of those. they were fun). Moreover those two boxing guys which i started from a photo.
Well, like 40% off the photo. The other 60% i kinda did out of the blue while i was "watching" tv, which probably shows in weird anatomy or something.

And the last pic was one minime selfportrait i did with the shitty mirror i found.
The likeness is a little bit apparent :D Could have been worse i guess. I'll do more of those in the future. That other guy on the right was result of doodling.
The eyes are weird... Enough talking :) Now for the pics

[Tigermilk]

holy shit! The haribo bag is fucking insane!
coloured pencils?

Keep it up!

[pandahund]

Thx man. Took long enough... ;) And yeah, colored pencils.
Can't see them anymore :D Tomorrow i'll post another photo with the
actual bag next to it i think.

[monotony]

dude, that candybag looks like one hell of a lot of tedious work! great finish, though. looks very very good.
your sketches are improving as well.
flesh out some of the concepts a bit more. no matter if it is creature character or environment. or one of these painterexperiments. because if you try to get pieces to a more finished state it'll be more obvious to yourself what you need to work on.
anyway these animal vector illus a cool.

[Kfeeras]

i think the animal painting series could need a little more consequence in terms of amount of detail: the scorpio is pretty tight rendered, while the lion is just a silhouette.

The lion seems to have only three legs: one leg is covered by the other. what may look normal on a photo seems a little odd in such an stylized interpretation. but thats just a minor thing.

I think the most room for improvement lies within figure drawing. You're on the right way with the posemaniacs stuff. What helped me alot: If you're not happy with the result of 30 sec drawings, set the time to 60 seconds. Gesture drawing has to be practised stepwise. When you find that its too long then just gradually go down with the time. My goal for someday is 10 second gesture drawing where you can see the pose and gender of the figure.

Respect on that Haribo! Don't wanna know how much time you've spent on this!


Keep postin and studying!

-antonio

[eminkey2003]

I like your brush experiments. Try some more hand studies, especially fists grasping shapes like cylinders, cubes, spheres, etc. I say this because I saw two monsters grabbing weapons with really squishy, soft hands.

[pandahund]

Thanks for the advice, guys. Sorry for no updates. I am currently busy with graphics designs semester task. Don't know if that fits in here but what the hell. At least you'll know what i am working on...

Currently doing a magazine fake (intended for cannibals)

It's only 18 pages, but typing my own articles is rather time intensive. Guess, I'm not the born writer. I have like 5 pages left to fill. After that you can expect a rather big illustration in the near future. More crazy devastating kitchentools... yayy :D

[pandahund]

Hoorayy, the magazine is finished. And the Illustration i promised last "update".. is ready too :D
MEATGRINDER MECHS IN TOKYO... lol.. Whatever.
I did some shitty scribbles upon which i based some basic models i did.
I used those to set up a scene in 3d and did a very basic render to paint over. This was kinda fun to do...

Oh yeah, and I attached a new photo of that haribo bag with better lighting. Plus the magazine i did.
For a closer look click here (http://www.file-upload.net/view-1101626/magfin.jpg.html)!

[Christoffer]

Haha! Awesome magazine! And the meatgrinder mechs are cool. I'd like to see some of that grinded meat on the streets. You've improved a lot. Is your teacher forcing you to do those object drawings? In that case I guess I can understand why you drew those lovely portraits of him. :P Kudos to your patience!

[pandahund]

Yeah, we were kind of forced to do that ;) But it's not my teacher in that drawing. It's Thomas Gottschalk. He's doing advertisement for haribo around here. Though you're right, he'd fit in there perfectly :D

[cout<mecha]

Really like some of the work you are doing in this sketchbook. It show a lot of different skills and does load you down with too much studywork. In fact it's quite entertaining. Can't wait to see where you go with all that.

Have fun!

[monotony]

wow, nice update.
the meatgrinders piece is really good. love the scene and the colors are nice as well. one thing that bugs me a litte bit is the perspective on the houses. some of them seem to have a third vanishing point some have don't and a lot of them have just slightly off verticals. it's not that much of a big deal looks just a bit strange with very straight white lines on the street and lanterns and then houses that look abit too eyballed.
the 3d model is very cool though. and the magazine looks like an interesting read :yum:
mmmh brainburgers..

[Bendragon]

Hey man! Good amount of studies in here. Keep them up man, that is the way to grow. And plenty of observational drawings from life can do wonders to your work :)

[pandahund]

Thanks guys. Hopefully I'll be posting more studies and stuff next month as i am currently still busy with uni stuff. Here's a rather quick oil from today...

[Gliederpuppe]

huhu

krasses zeug am anfang die gläser sehen so realistisch aus das ist richtig übel.
ich kann dir leider keine tipps geben ich bin zu schlecht aber mach weiter so freue mich in zukunft noch mehr von dir zu sehen.

also dan mal fleissig ans werk ;).

mfg Gliederpuppe

[snootchy]

your speedpaints in post 66 rocks!!

[Silvenon]

Wow! Those are really something, the glass drawings are so freakin realistic, how on earth did you do that?? Amazing...

Hope to see more

[Joce]

awesome stuff man. keep it up

[HAJiME]

Your ability was pencils is incredible. It's a shame the Haribo was such a chore to finish.

The walking meat grinders make me happy, am I sick? They are brilliant fun. I'd like to see them chasing masses of people.

Also, the Blizzard fanart... Only a mouse? I'm going to find a way to set your wondering kitchen utensils on you. :[

[mAkAm]

uhhm.. geilomat?! :D keep on rockinnng... ah and btw was studierst du wenn ich fragen darf :O?

[InFlame]

hey pandahund,
haha, grüß mir mal Herrn Bach! ;) Die "gepingelten" Bilder sind echt spitzenmäßig! Saubere Arbeiten! hab mir bei den zeichnungen gleich gedacht, dass Du an der RA studierst! Klasse, sehr genial! (kommt mir alles sehr bekannt vor!!)
hast hier ein tolles sketchbook, weiter so! :D welches semster machst du gerade??

LG,
rebecca

[pandahund]

Long time no update, i gotta say I've been "lazy". Well not lazy. Ahh, fuck it :)

Here's some figures and graphicsdesign stuff I've been doing. I also bought a bigger sketchbook which i will hopefully fill up on a regular basis this time :)

so long..

[Diabolique]

Love your glass and ice pencil renderings VERY nice stuff.

[Farvus]

Nice rendering of form in those studies. It's also getting more loose.

Keep posting :).

[monotony]

woo, good to see you back on track,man.
the lifedrawings show a lot of improvement already!
and the digital monkey cover is awesome.

[abiLity]

Hi Panda!
Nice improvements in your figuredrawing skills, keep it up! :D

[maeshanne]

nice work, like your pencil drawings

[pandahund]

Some more figures. Well not many, only took the ones i thought were worth posting,
Two christmas postcards and a series of abstract photographies.
Oh and some characters out of my Initials in a certain font.
Cut the print apart and took the pieces to form the dude with hat and bag :)

[I'A CTHULHU]

pfff..hab mir alles genau angeschaut. du bist einfach spitze!
das einzige was ich nicht verstehe-wieso hasst den gottschalk so sehr? :-D
nothin more to say!

mfg

[pandahund]

@I'A CTHULHU: Thanks man, i appreciate it :)


Here's some sketches and a model i did for animation course, of which i'll post some renders later i guess. It's a toy out of an "Überraschungsei".. lol

[Mischeviouslittleelf]

cool 3D stuff you got in that latest post. I really like the martial arts studies;)

-E

[Kfeeras]

geilet zeuch! das ölbild is wahnsinn! was studierstn genau? Wie lang hast noch vor dir?

grüße

[monotony]

sweet update, dude. the pencilsketches look so much better already.
the last girl is especially good.
looking forward to more, more and more of them :D

[Sebastian Gromann]

yay NRW for the win :D

deine pencils werden richtiiiiiig gut ! :)

[pandahund]

Been quite busy with unistuff in the past time. Here's some excerpts.
We had to create a font out of ... any.. stuff and do a book out of that.
So i took some electrojunk out of the basement and basically made it a font.
Those silouettes are made out of the corresponding letters.

Those mattepaintings were to the topic "holidays in unusual places".
Photos i used were mostly found on google imagesearch. They were quite fun.

Last but not least there's a few figures.
Finally got new models to draw from... yay :D

[amianna]

Great work ! The Holidays in Hell group is SO good...What program did you use?

[pandahund]

@amianna: Thanks. It's 100% photoshop ;) And i mostly used images i found on google imagesearch.

Now for a little update. Here's 4 Illustrations to Ovid's Metamorphoses..
To be more exact. The story of Icarus.

[iven]

I really like #94 because I never painted, and I like your 3D models,
my first thought about the solders was that it looks to friendly, the colors.

Some of your stuff reminds me on Moebius ,,Herscher der Zeit'' if you don't know this movie, it's worth to watch it.

Oh by the way if you photograph your stuff adding some contrast make's the picture more visible, your nude stuff is great but I had a hard time to see it.