Commander Zeig

[Rambo9]

Some digital stuff, some sketches, hope people will help and tell me whats good and bad. hope you enjoy

[Rambo9]

some quick thing i did today, i just started using this program. haha as you can tell.

[Ash888]

try to post your first stuff again.

[Rambo9]

here are some really really old ones.

The marble ones, i just redrew, they werent my idea, it was my friends idea, i just wanted to see if i could do it too.

[Ash888]

Now this is something we can comment on. Not bad.
The skull is good, adding a few more values would finish off the piece.
I don't expect you to fix these if they are old.
I would like to see the level you are at now.

[Rambo9]

alright, ill make some new ones and put them up soon. thanks

[Rambo9]

i took an old sketch and changed it up a lil

[Ash888]

that was quick.
Keep going on it, very the tones and add more color.
If you keep going at this pace, you will be a pro in no time.

[Rambo9]

I used Painter 4 and the tracing paper for help and got these few things, tell me what you guys think

[Rambo9]

this is probably my last one of the day. what do you guys think? i need some input

[Rambo9]

i have some more today. i worked on the one from yesterday a little more and i did some really simple ones today. that you cant even tell what they are, but oh well.

[Rambo9]

i have like 30 new sketches ive done that i want to put up, mostly their cartoons like johnny, but iv got a few more original bodys in their. heres some for today. hope you like

[Rambo9]

i was just foolin around cuz im bored

[Devere]

interesting rendering style, I'm not certain if you want the sort of overlapping strokes cause by having too much spacing and hi flow low opacity in photoshop or it's just a mistake. but I will say it does add a certain character to the paintings.

[Rambo9]

well i found a few old sketchbooks lying around and since im so bored ive decided to put them all up, after this ill scan some of my new things up, including a few original ones which im quite proud of. most of these are cartoons or things youve aalready seen. not much concept in them but i decided to post them anyway, their fun.

[Rambo9]

here are some more old ones. hope you like, hope i get some more feedback

[Rambo9]

ok, here are some new ones!!! pencil sketches

[Rambo9]

these are more new ones and probably the last for a while

[Rambo9]

i have a lot of new things. some bodybuilders and arnold

[Jason Rainville]

It looks like you're tracing on top of images. Two things about that;

If you're looking to improve on your art, tracing is probably the slowest way to go about it. What you need to do is learn how to observe things accurately, and... learn how to draw. The anatomy pictures you posted, how can you understand what muscle is which based on a very impressionistic take on it? The point of doing anatomy studies is to get SPECIFIC, to actually learn what's under the body.

If you're looking to get praise or recognition as a good artist by tracing pictures... you won't get it. It takes very little skill to trace or over paint a picture and since you needed an image to start out with, the exact image you produced is already in existence, there's no reason for you to trace it.

My advice is to ditch tracing and OBSERVE. Open a picture in one window and draw it out in another. This way you'll actually have to remember what you're drawing and you'll get better at observing things; a trait that is handy for any artist.

[hitnrun]

Study anatomy, study the different ways of drawing, study different techniques, and most importantly master your tools. Keep your pencils sharp, your kneaded erasers clean, and a regular eraser on hand at all times. If you're serious about drawing, then get yourself one or more books by George Bridgman, Joseph Sheppard (spelling?), and Gene Franks is a fantastic artist too. I'm sure the other artists on here can put you on track with other very talented artists.

Do some anatomy studies and post them - it's always fun for us to see how your progressing, and everyone here can give you tips, and help you improve. Although, again, if you're serious about art, you can also look into taking some classes - these forums are great, but noone here can give you the classroom experience, nor the one on one help that a teacher can give you.

So yea, keep posting, and study study study!

[Rambo9]

yeah, on the painting/digital stuff, i do trace it, ill stop, its because i just got the program and wanted to get the hang of how it worked, but i was never hiding it or anything, i said they were traced in the begining. but thanks anyway, ill start my own stuff

and yeah, i have a lot of drawing books, and i will do some anatomy stuff, but im taking a ceramics class right now and working on sculpting using sculpey right now and dont have as much time right now to draw and sketch but im going to take some of those classes next year. thanks

[Rambo9]

here are some of my stuff

[Rambo9]

here are a few more things that ive done, not too good, i need to work on a lot of things, but yeah

[xzacto]

I guess i have a few comments. Could you post reference images when you have them? also keep your image sizes down so they will fit on a computer screen of 1024 x 760 ish. that one image of the girl's face has all of the earmarks of an overpaint, which is ok if you are going for that sort of thing. but I think it's important to state why you are doing it and where your source image is.

keep drawing! looks like you are having fun with it.

[lithiumdawn]

Good stuff keep working at it I'm sure you will get better

My sketch book:
http://conceptart.org/forums/showthr...=1#post1926198

"I walk the path of Kings and Gods" - Lithiumdawn

[QETALIVAN]

keep studying anatomy and try to copy some old master painting, try not only line-art but tonal work as well, in pencil only if you want to learn quicker.
You will see how fast you improve.