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[iheartmyself]

Been lurking around for a while, and finally decided to show some of my shizzle :]
This stuff is pretty recent and plan to continue on with it until i start back in Uni
[meaning personal stuff, Uni work will take over almost 100% 0_0]
Anyway, Here goes! all comments/criticisms/shaming welcome :)

Figure Studies - 20/07/08
2B-3B Pencil
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b231/liamg1988/1c.jpg
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b231/liamg1988/2b-1.jpg
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b231/liamg1988/3c.jpg
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b231/liamg1988/4b.jpg

Faceys - Cannot for the life of me remember when...Few months ago?
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b231/liamg1988/5c.jpg
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b231/liamg1988/6b.jpg

A fat kid on the bottom of a pizza box 21/07/09
watercolours
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b231/liamg1988/pixxaboyb.jpg
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b231/liamg1988/pixxaboycloseb.jpg

And Finally some Digital - Photoshop
05/07/08
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b231/liamg1988/carysb.jpg
20/07/08
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b231/liamg1988/carysfacecropb.jpg
15/03/08 Ollddd stuff. Foundation Character design Project
http://liamgrice.webs.com/birdfinalsmall.jpg

Well its a start XD
As I've said, crit the hell out of them, I'm looking to improve in all aspects so anything helpful is extremely appreciated :]

Thanks - Liam

[blenditall]

Haha, that pizza box is great! Did you do it right on there or photoshop it on?

[iheartmyself]

haha thanks
its just right onto it,
apologies for the terrible picture, my camera is dead so i had to use my phone

[P]

Good start.
Good portraits.
And a portrait on a pizza box, wow!!! i have not seen something like that before.
So keep uploading.
Cheers :)

P.S. thank u for leaving a coment at my sketchbook.

[iheartmyself]

Just a quick little speedpaint

22/07/08 - photoshop, bout an hour
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b231/liamg1988/carysgreeeensmall.jpg

[iheartmyself]

Just another quick lil update
Studies from people hanging around work today [about 20 minutes before my shift began :)] 22/07/08

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b231/liamg1988/people2.jpg
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b231/liamg1988/people1.jpg

[WickedEdges]

Love the pizza box one. Great idea.

[iheartmyself]

thanking you :)

[mr.right]

I have to jump on the bandwagon here. I really love the pizza box. I'd love to see more watercolors; you seem to have a good grasp of leaving just enough of the background in the composition of the character. I've seen watercolors that would've been done just as well with acrylic -- not fully taking advantage of the medium.

Kudos.

[iheartmyself]

*note to self, scribble on junk food containers more often

thanks alot :)
i have a few more watercolours in my sketchbook but my scanner is so kind to completely frag them away when I attempt to scan them in, so
taking pictures just about does it, so may have to resort to that
thanks again :D

[iheartmyself]

Just a lil update
23/07/08 - Photoshop, 45mins - 1 hour ish

[iheartmyself]

And another
Some faces and features etc 23/07/08

[iheartmyself]

23/07/08 - watercolours + shitty shitty SHITTY scanner

[iheartmyself]

24/07/08 - Self Portrait - Photoshop, hour ish

[purb36]

cool pics dude; welcome to the posting side of this. when'd you cut and dye your hair?
i think your 20.7 SP is the best one of the bunch. keep adding more and more emotion and expression in your SP's, that way you work on your pic and work on expressions (as well as have some decent variety in your SP's). keep on drawing, keep on posting dude. what do you study at uni? take care!

[Gail_Blitzy]

I like your anatomy drawings. You've also got a bit of eriness to your pieces

And like previous posts before me - the fat kid on the empty pizza box is genius!

[iheartmyself]

purb36: whend i cut and dye my hair haha? eh? if your referring to the red head and the brown haired self portrait, 2 different people...if not, do i know you haha?
and expression, got it :D
Ive just finished foundation in Art- Animation, and im going onto a BA hons in computer animation in Sept

Gail_Blitzy: Thanks alot! :D, people are loving the pizza box...crazy, crazy people XD and eeriness eh?, ill take that as a compliment :), some of my ideas for the past ive hoped have contained that element, e.g that bird up there ^
is sort of a paedophile bird, that people invite to childrens partys to entertain, thinking hes a guy in a suit...but hes not, hes a just a bird pervert. luls

everyone: tell me where i'm going wrong! :D

[Rist]

The have a nice style. One possible negative I can throw in the wind is that all your eyes seem to look too similar, as if you are sticking to a generic child-like model. But maybe that is your style.

Look at the difference between your digital attempt and your traditional. Push the trad as it looks much better in my opinion.

[iheartmyself]

erch, i struggle with eyes, i usually have to draw them about 50 times before they look half decent
any advice on that, i know with make people look like people, you study anatomy etc, how would the eye be approached? methods, tips etc?

[RandAlThor]

I was gonna mention the cool image on the pizza, but someone has beat me to it... then i was gonna mention that i thought the eyes were a bit too round, but someone beat me to it... then i was gonna mention you should also draw the whole body in relation to the features etc, but... oh .. no hang on noone has said that yet... lol ;-)

[iheartmyself]

I was gonna mention the cool image on the pizza, but someone has beat me to it... then i was gonna mention that i thought the eyes were a bit too round, but someone beat me to it... then i was gonna mention you should also draw the whole body in relation to the features etc, but... oh .. no hang on noone has said that yet... lol ;-)



As in draw bodies with faces haha?

[momothemonkey]

ya um i did listen to the i just have not posted my art on there

[iheartmyself]

25/07/08 - eye studies, still not there though, *plans on ploughing through 1000's of pages of eyes* Digital attempt, I thought was better, it also helped me render them slightly nicer/quicker than with pencil, but that's because im lazy as fuck and cant be arsed shading in huge blocks haha ;)

[iheartmyself]

right then
New/1st Moleskine Book
25/07/08 - again, people parading around in the big ole world and some arm/hand/facial features studies etc
And another self portrait with ++expression :perv:

[jhgoforth]

most eyes get their 'character' in my experience from the muscles around them. I love your work, but it all kind of has the same expressions for the most part...you know, the "oh my god I better not move, i'm posing" look. ;P

after a repeat look through the eyes i think i see the issue. They are all exactly open the same amount. :o As much as I hate admitting it from having studied it on myself before....that is rarely if ever true in both eyes. Some people even have one eye that is just barely lower on the upper lid than the other eye. Not really 'half shut' per se, but will be a slight bit down and creat a 'contour' around the eyeball (and this kind of thing will give it a ton of character as well). Unless in shock or fear, it's quite rare to see anyone with eyes quite that open in any given situation, especially in a 'relaxed' pose. The lower eyelid does tend to stay like you have them however (unless you are going for a Simpson's/Family Guy effect ;P ). Take a close look at what I mean in these rembrandt paintings:

Rembrandt: Self Portrait (http://www.abcgallery.com/R/rembrandt/rembrandt4.html)
Rembrandt's Mother (http://www.abcgallery.com/R/rembrandt/rembrandt189.html)
Self Portrait Bare-headed (http://www.abcgallery.com/R/rembrandt/rembrandt145.html)
now for me to take my own kind of advice and study feet more...gah....

[iheartmyself]

most eyes get their 'character' in my experience from the muscles around them. I love your work, but it all kind of has the same expressions for the most part...you know, the "oh my god I better not move, i'm posing" look. ;P

after a repeat look through the eyes i think i see the issue. They are all exactly open the same amount. :o As much as I hate admitting it from having studied it on myself before....that is rarely if ever true in both eyes. Some people even have one eye that is just barely lower on the upper lid than the other eye. Not really 'half shut' per se, but will be a slight bit down and creat a 'contour' around the eyeball (and this kind of thing will give it a ton of character as well). Unless in shock or fear, it's quite rare to see anyone with eyes quite that open in any given situation, especially in a 'relaxed' pose. The lower eyelid does tend to stay like you have them however (unless you are going for a Simpson's/Family Guy effect ;P ). Take a close look at what I mean in these rembrandt paintings:

Rembrandt: Self Portrait (http://www.abcgallery.com/R/rembrandt/rembrandt4.html)
Rembrandt's Mother (http://www.abcgallery.com/R/rembrandt/rembrandt189.html)
Self Portrait Bare-headed (http://www.abcgallery.com/R/rembrandt/rembrandt145.html)
now for me to take my own kind of advice and study feet more...gah....

ah i see, so close them on up basically
awesome, will do...to photoshop! cannot be arsed wrestling with a scanner again tonight

[purb36]

haha. no, i don't know you dude. i assumed that the first portrait girl was you. anyway, nice to see the new expressions in the new SP. one suggestion, take it or leave it: for this SP, if you used a more solid and saturated color for the closer half of the face, i think it would pop out more; as it stands right now, it looks like it's receeding, whereas it should be coming out towards the viewer. cool stuff dude, keep posting. anatomy, anatomy! nice eyes.

[iheartmyself]

This kinda, more of less better?
1. original
2. making them less shocked :x

[iheartmyself]

haha. no, i don't know you dude. i assumed that the first portrait girl was you. anyway, nice to see the new expressions in the new SP. one suggestion, take it or leave it: for this SP, if you used a more solid and saturated color for the closer half of the face, i think it would pop out more; as it stands right now, it looks like it's receeding, whereas it should be coming out towards the viewer. cool stuff dude, keep posting. anatomy, anatomy! nice eyes.

haha its alright, i hope the newer one is slightly more masculine
and i see with the receeding shindig, ill take it for another time, for now i'm just gonna leave it
anatomy is my thing for tomorrow so ill be sure to post some...one thing? what would everybody recommend to study anatomy? i mean loomis, muscle diagrams etc or just lifedrawing? im kinda stuck on where to begin

[throtailer]

Omg awesome, i wish i could draw liak that someday

[Gadbury]

Great watercolours, and good work in general - Its impressive to see you drawing out and about before work! I really should get a pocket sketchbook and join you guys... Keep on posting =)

Cheers

[iheartmyself]

oh shi, page 2...

throtailer- uhm, thanks haha, just practice, im nowhere near where i want to be, so thats all im doing.

Mr. Gadbury- thanks man, haha, the only reason ive been doing that is because ive been turning up early to beat the traffic...as my car is..well...wankered basically, but yeah its a great time to do it, and your kinda rushed aswell due to shift times etc

[iheartmyself]

26/07/08
-2 lil sketchbook pages from the opticians > home
-1 page of hands..bridgman things? i dont actually know what im supposed to be doing with these books haha..from what i can see from other people is just copying diagrams, is that right? i threw a few of my own in there aswell so
-1 self portrait, restricted to 1 hour, spent 32 minutes

[purb36]

with bridgman, read, draw, read, draw, and then draw draw draw. draw lots from your head once youve copied some of the drawings, and use the material you have drawn to reinforce in your mind what you have read. and keep drawing. i highly recommend bridgman for his anatomy stuff. loomis, not so much, cause of his style, but that's just my opinion. i think loomis is an excellent explainer, whereas bridgman can be somewhat confusing at times. life drawing will help with identifying what is natural (bridgman also touches on different ranges of motion for body parts, which is very helpful) in poses, balance, etc. still lifes will help for rendering and shading of body parts. other than that, i got nothin. keep searching out anatomy stuff, and then draw, draw, draw. g'luck! :)

[iheartmyself]

27/07/08- Some anatomy from a Bridgman Book, slowly starting to understand haha

[purb36]

and now the same pictures from your imagination, and some other poses as well. :bashful:

[iheartmyself]

and now the same pictures from your imagination, and some other poses as well. :bashful:
haha yeah i guessed that, im still getting to grips with it at the moment, thanks though :)

27/07/08- Uhm....speedythingy, not done a character design yet haha...i have no idea what hes doing, or...if ill ever bother add more to it..maybe...maybe

[iheartmyself]

28/07/08 2:05AM - a speedy portrait of my madame, im tired, but its too hot to sleep!

[Matsign]

I enjoy your digital portraits. Keep cranking the figure studies (I imagine I will be doing them the rest of my life)

The live drawing... it is soo helpful and leads to many a good idea, and boosts confidence.

I'd suggest doing some anatomy of, well, yourself. Understand how you work. I've learned more from drawing my hands then Bridgmans narly ass things.

Keep crack a lackin. Don't forget to step out of your comfort zone. Identify something you don't usually draw and do something fun with it.

[iheartmyself]

hahaha
Bridgmans narly ass things.
yeah ive began to imagine bridgman as looking like john merrick
http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/3870/josephmerrick8xe.jpg

i think that hand is....hmm....a bit fishy
i am trying to get out of my comfort zone, but i dunno what it is yet haha
i havent really had a go at enviros yet, but my anatomy of figure is a whole lotta shit atm, so im cracking on with that

thanks a lut

[Matsign]

I truly prefer Andrew Loomis and his art educational books.
It's cheesy 1950s American Suburb looking, stay-at-home moms and BUY WAR BONDS dudes...

but the foundational figure construction is all A+ timeless.

His books are fun to read too.

[iheartmyself]

haha yeah, i love that element to it, and yeah as you said, the figure construction is awesome
im switching between both at the moment, bridgman for anatomy and loomis for figure
anyways haha,
start of today 28/07/08 a quick figure study, still cant quite get the grasp of construction but i swear to god, i will! :davi:
no idea what hes doing, or..why
im just a lazy ass like that

[iheartmyself]

quick update, some moleyskines
28/07/08 of me, but most certainly not...anything like..me

[iheartmyself]

28/07/08 some anatomy things, FREAKING WOO!

[Bagg]

hey man sic sketchbook, your skills are amazing so jealous :(... hope i can get my anatomy skills to your level some day, thanks for the inspiration. 5*

[iheartmyself]

hey man sic sketchbook, your skills are amazing so jealous :(... hope i can get my anatomy skills to your level some day, thanks for the inspiration. 5*

haha thanks
again im like nowhere near wherei need to be right now so, ive basically only started this whole anatomy understanding in the last couple days, ive just drawn alot from an early age i guess, i think its easier to pick up that way

encourage the children!

[iheartmyself]

29/07/08 - photoshoppy character ma jiga
nothing special, only ref was the heart, but it was a shit photo so i winged it, apologies if anybody knows exactly what theyre like haha

[iheartmyself]

30/07/08 bit of a mouthful today
first lot, from moleskine, out and about
eyes - 10 second studies
then some gesture studies..30 seconds, man i suck at these, any help on this stuff would be highly appreciated

[ROCKON]

Hey Iheart!
This is a good sketchbook!

Your Bridgemann studies look awesome and you have an interesting style in
your drawings!

Actually there is not much to critique other than your last few gesture studies.
They look slightly "clumsy", and that is a result of not getting the proportions right before getting into details.
Just remember to be light handed and "fluid" in your lines, before you lay down the law on the paper :P

But like I said, not much other than that to critique, because I love your colouring and style! (And the imagination from your last photoshop pic!) :)

[iheartmyself]

Hey Iheart!
This is a good sketchbook!

Your Bridgemann studies look awesome and you have an interesting style in
your drawings!

Actually there is not much to critique other than your last few gesture studies.
They look slightly "clumsy", and that is a result of not getting the proportions right before getting into details.
Just remember to be light handed and "fluid" in your lines, before you lay down the law on the paper :P

But like I said, not much other than that to critique, because I love your colouring and style! (And the imagination from your last photoshop pic!) :)

thanks alot! :)
lighter on the hand, will try!...anything to get better at it, i guess i am heavy handed, i seem to rush alot too, so ill try cooling it down a bit
but yeah thanks :)

[iheartmyself]

31/07/08 - a naughty Rembrandt copy, about an hour ish
uhm, im using standard brushes in ps, any tips on hardening them, making it look decent, to me, my work still has that blur over it

[iheartmyself]

01/08/08- right then, first of the month :D
2 page of gesture drawings, 30 seconds each pose
some moleskine pages
feet's and hands's/arms's - need to get into this shady shading business
and a digi portrait, also trying to do things with no ref [this had no ref]
crits as per usual, WELCOME!

[Onir]

Hey man, nice sketchbook. I like the gestures from this last post alot, very shape and form oriented which is a great way to look at the figure in my opinion. I can also tell you've got a great understanding of form by the pen renderings as well; nice restraint on the hatching, I always get too caught up in doing it and usually over render :$ Criticism is a bit hard honestly; you're moving in a really nice direction with your studies, and this latest digi painting has a nice solidity to it. Just keep up what you're doing I guess; and also keep with the creative stuff! :) Nice work once again.

[psantha]

Look who's talking! Birdgman as the Elephant man? Baby-chicken head?? :D
Awesome stuff, very inspiring sketchbook. I wish I knew how to subscribe.

[psantha]

I used to work there yes, I was working on the user interface of GRID and DIRT. Now I am in NCsoft.

[Industrialist]

Hello,

I just wanted to say that i really like your art style and painting skill, it really inspires me to find a style myself which i am having trouble finding.

:)

[Brun]

great studies, keep at it

[Euphemism]

Hello! The best drawings out of your thread thus far have to be the people studies and the anatomical drawings. In the anatomy studies you show the most confident lines out of your work, and the people studies are very lively and illustrative. Great job!

The only works I was a bit iffy over (yeah, 'iffy', great grasp of English there...) are the female portraits: I'd like to see them express more emotion than being just 'neutral'. They're just pretty to look at, but in a shallow-personality Stepford wives kind of way. There are lots of girls who don't fit the ideal; reconsider your approach to these portraits and uglify them! >:D

Play around with different facial shapes, and ages - long face, square jaws, round cheeks, laughter lines, birthmarks, and so on. As most people are telling you right now, I'd like to see a combination of your strong anatomy studies and illustrative doodles combined - maybe with a female portrait? :D - and see where you go from there. You're on a good path here. :)

[iheartmyself]

Industrialist : Thanks, i dont really have "a style" haha, i just draw..didnt even realise really :D
Brun: I will :]
Euphemism: thanks alot! really really helpful, will try it out..im trying to get mty head around face drawings to be honest, i think im fine with the rest of the body but im shitty at faces, and jesus...iffy is the dogs bollocks of a word XD

05/08/08- Sorry for the no updates, my scanners been playing up, BOO!
anyway, kinda stole this exercise from psantha, the 50 hands. so heres 14 [including the moleskine] and a few moleskine pages
crits please as per

[gmags]

Great work bro!! Really like the shading technique on post #52. Keep posting those digital coloring pieces. Thanx for stopping by!! :)

[psantha]

And your hands are great! :) Very few lines and no mistakes. Impressive.
I have figured out how to subscribe to a sketchbook. It's under the "thread tools" on the top of the page.
Nice stuff mate, keep it up!

[momothemonkey]

hay sorry about the thing where i wasnt listing to the ppl commenting me on my sb. i just thought id stop by and say tht im going to put up a pic i did of my friend. it looks nothing like her but its got to count for something right?

[iheartmyself]

uhm just a quick one,
07/08/08 photoshop, about 1 minute each, some un-ref faces, trying to get used to faces, wrong/right? HELPS!!

[smuckers]

hey again, been keepin an eye on this book for a while now..
Your colours are real pleasing, i like them very much.. sketchums are coming along too. Latest batch a lil too light to see so small.. but seems like things are good apart from the eye area lookin a bit wonky perhaps.

[iheartmyself]

hey again, been keepin an eye on this book for a while now..
Your colours are real pleasing, i like them very much.. sketchums are coming along too. Latest batch a lil too light to see so small.. but seems like things are good apart from the eye area lookin a bit wonky perhaps.

ah sorry, my resolution and screen brightness etc might be a bit different to other peoples then haha..duh and the reason theyre small is...well no real reason, just thought itd be pointless uploading a huge picture of a 1 min sketch haha
yeah ive been told to stop making people "perfect" so i went overboard...i thought best way to do that is to exaggerate, then tone down
Thanks :D

[purb36]

dude, those hands were pretty sweet. where's the rest of them? :P what's your process like when you do digital portraits?

[ohnojenny]

Hey there! Really liking the textures to your painted work. I also like your anatomy studies. Those can come in real handy! I should get to work on those, actually... and great life drawings. :3 No better way to learn, right?

In any case, on your newest update... not bad at all for one minute on each! The face I like the most is the last one -- great features and everything. they just work. On the others, especially the first, I notice the eyes looking in two different directions. The cheeks on all of them look good -- the only thing I say to watch out for are those eyes, and maybe mouths too. :3 But awesome work! Keep it up!

[iheartmyself]

purb36- haha, thats all of them at the minute, im just aiming towards 50, will post more soon. Process eh? its usually a terrible sticky mess of photoshop dickery..if i do another portrait or whatever, ill post some processes, i was going to request some ideas on how to start /progress through a portrait in the next post anyway XD - thanks!

ohnojenny :D yeah i was suprised how much more familiar you become with the human body by knowing whats inside it and where, crazy. Thanks XD
i should have explained myself more on the heads, i tried to make them look..i dunno, a bit...non perfect, with alot of exaggeration, thus the wonky eyes, but none the less i dont want to get into the habit of not being able to do eyes straight haha

to the drawing machine!

[bakatron]

musculature studies are wicked!

[skorpi]

Nice stuff here, I like how you use wathercolor

[Hybrid_75]

i like your stuff, just work on the form a bit more. Like making things more 3 dimensional. nice drawings.

[iheartmyself]

08/08/08 oo well lar-dee-dar, a photoshop, with a progress GIF, and some more moleZOMGZskines!
bakatron - thanks :D
skorpi - ta :)
Hybrid_75 - will give it a go, it does look like i've been concentrating on line more..time to tackle this 3d malarkey XD

[lennon]

As you seem decided to put a great effort into this I'll do the same with my reply. First of all, just remember at all time that I think that your work is awesome, and that this are only things that I think that you can do to improve it.
The faces look pretty good, but you still have to work on them. If your drawing men for example, you could use a larger jaw (I'm talking about those three drawings).
In the painting you've get a little better (specially because it's young, and therefore has a smaller jaw, more like a woman, still some chin, wich is good). But just, remember that the jaw is not always so pointy and rounded, but sometimes it's square.
The main problem with the painting, is that the eyes are way too big. It's common for us to tend to draw the features big at the beginning (I now that you probably have some time drawing, and you do very well, but trust me that your beginning at it).
You don't seem to have the common problem of drawing the eyes to close to each other, but you are a going just a little towards the other way. Be careful of that. Also, in the space between the eyes, don't forget that the nose and the forehead very rarely merge in a stright line. If you don't know how to draw that when you're painting the head form a front view, you should only do a shadow just below the forehead, half the tone of the shadow of the upper part of the eye.
If I were you, I'd concentrate in the drawing. If you can, grab a Vilppu book (Bridgman is great, but Vilppu explains better how to work the 3d of the form). Also, try to draw the head from more POVs. I've seen some 3/4 in here that's great, but remember that you can watch the face also form above, below, and still it can be in 3/4 try to draw some of that. Concentrate for example, in drawing the nose in all those positions. Try to decompose the shape first as a polygonal primitive, and then draw it right in perspective (doesn't matter that you don't want to draw a primitive every time you draw a nose, just do it, so that you can understand the problem in a more simplified way).
Look at the nose in the drawing that says "no- certainly not". They are in front, no funny angle or anything tricky, and still, you can see that they are flat, you can notice. That's because they are shaded white, just as the forehead. If the forehead is white, and it's a straight line, and the nose is curved, then how are those two planes receiving the same light? If for example the light cames from above then it should light the nose more than almost anything in the face, along with the very top of the head, and perhaps, the protuberance where the eye browns rest, and the bone that cames out right below the eyes. Go on, touch your head and see what parts are facing upward. Se what parts are facing downward: those should be in shadows. I'm pretty sure that you know this, but start using this stuff and you'll do great.
Get into the 3d of things. When you draw the head you should know the exact shape of all of it, to what direction is it going and how sharp or smooth are the edges.
Also, don't forget the wrist when you draw hands (yours looks like as if they don't have any, and as if they came from a blob)

[iheartmyself]

As you seem decided to put a great effort into this I'll do the same with my reply. First of all, just remember at all time that I think that your work is awesome, and that this are only things that I think that you can do to improve it.
The faces look pretty good, but you still have to work on them. If your drawing men for example, you could use a larger jaw (I'm talking about those three drawings).
In the painting you've get a little better (specially because it's young, and therefore has a smaller jaw, more like a woman, still some chin, wich is good). But just, remember that the jaw is not always so pointy and rounded, but sometimes it's square.
The main problem with the painting, is that the eyes are way too big. It's common for us to tend to draw the features big at the beginning (I now that you probably have some time drawing, and you do very well, but trust me that your beginning at it).
You don't seem to have the common problem of drawing the eyes to close to each other, but you are a going just a little towards the other way. Be careful of that. Also, in the space between the eyes, don't forget that the nose and the forehead very rarely merge in a stright line. If you don't know how to draw that when you're painting the head form a front view, you should only do a shadow just below the forehead, half the tone of the shadow of the upper part of the eye.
If I were you, I'd concentrate in the drawing. If you can, grab a Vilppu book (Bridgman is great, but Vilppu explains better how to work the 3d of the form). Also, try to draw the head from more POVs. I've seen some 3/4 in here that's great, but remember that you can watch the face also form above, below, and still it can be in 3/4 try to draw some of that. Concentrate for example, in drawing the nose in all those positions. Try to decompose the shape first as a polygonal primitive, and then draw it right in perspective (doesn't matter that you don't want to draw a primitive every time you draw a nose, just do it, so that you can understand the problem in a more simplified way).
Look at the nose in the drawing that says "no- certainly not". They are in front, no funny angle or anything tricky, and still, you can see that they are flat, you can notice. That's because they are shaded white, just as the forehead. If the forehead is white, and it's a straight line, and the nose is curved, then how are those two planes receiving the same light? If for example the light cames from above then it should light the nose more than almost anything in the face, along with the very top of the head, and perhaps, the protuberance where the eye browns rest, and the bone that cames out right below the eyes. Go on, touch your head and see what parts are facing upward. Se what parts are facing downward: those should be in shadows. I'm pretty sure that you know this, but start using this stuff and you'll do great.
Get into the 3d of things. When you draw the head you should know the exact shape of all of it, to what direction is it going and how sharp or smooth are the edges.
Also, don't forget the wrist when you draw hands (yours looks like as if they don't have any, and as if they came from a blob)

:D thanks alot, very scarce critique is flying around this thread. ill check out Vilppu asap, need to shoot off to work now, but its on my list of things to do.
i can also see what you mean by the forehead/nose, i understand that the shadow above the eye is too much in comparison to that. and noses etc, ill get onto it. seriously thanks alot! :)

[lennon]

Glad you could take a crit, it's one of the most difficult things to learn.

[iheartmyself]

Glad you could take a crit, it's one of the most difficult things to learn.

i can imagine, but thats why im here so..itd be a waste to ignore these, theyre literally priceless

[iheartmyself]

09/08/08 nothing special, a hand and eye, a study of a face to try and understand the "brow" shadow, i think i've subconsciously managed to draw Nicholas Cage...anyone else see it? :|, and some stylised thing's, figured id try it out....(i like)
oh and i've found a new best friend...the mechanical pencil! :O:D
sorry, as i said, nothing really that exciting..may have a few more to show later on..

[purb36]

hey dude. for your faces, i think that there seems to be a lack of definition in structure, and that's because the planes of the face aren't well defined, mainly in the cheek and mouth area. i would suggest work on using more flat color to define the planes first, and then change values to describe the form. remember: value change equals form change. take care, dude.

[iheartmyself]

11/08/08- right then...i tried to do some liney type of shading [if theres a technical term for this, please do tell XD]
a figure thingy, and 2 heads
im getting fed up with my scanner, ive tried the entirety of settings and these are the only ones that came out half decent [scans i mean, not drawings] it decides to contrast my images until you cant see detail etc, anyway, crit, and could someone point me in the direction of face/head plane form reading?
thanks XD

[iheartmyself]

11/08/08 more today again, top one, my lady
and the bottom...one on the left is from start of june, one on the right is from today, its the main character for my final major project for foundation..i would have approached it a bit differently if i did it again today ahaa...also it shows that im learning something from this place :D [ignore the weird nose (on the right), my scanner is shit, i dont even know what that is...]

[JinRa]

nice portraits! good work!

[purb36]

hey dude, thx for the pm. you got me moving on these.

so, i drew up some stuff real quick to explain what i meant about form and value and structure. i'm posting these openly so that they can help others who come to this page as well, but if you don't want me to do that, i can just put them in links. now, i'm not an expert in this stuff (im studying it myself, so i hope that it's good).

so, here's the paintover i did of your last painted portrait, showing what i meant by defining the planes.
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in your original painting, you have many different values in the cheek area and the forehead. by making these uniform, it creates a plane. using different values based on the lighting situation creates different planes which will give the image dimension and form; the parts where light cannot hit will be darker, and the parts more exposed to light will be lit.

here's some illustrations of value change meaning form change. when something is a flat value, it does not appear 3d, and you cannot understand the form by looking at it. throw in some value change, and it is easier to see what the form looks like. the value describes the form. smoother, softer transitions mean a smoother and softer form change. sharper edges, sharper value changes describe abrupt form changes.
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these are more basic things that of the type that i have been working on to practice form: mostly simple geometric shapes, and working on nailing down form so that it looks accurate. some are better than others. :bashful:
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hope that helps; g'luck dude! you can do eeeet!

[smuckers]

if your troubles lie with face definition, perhaps doing some investigation on the basic planes and blocks of the face would be valuable study?

[thesadpencil]

hey pretty sweet sb you got going on here, i like your style a lot, keep it up with all those studies they will definitely help. continue working on pushing the values and contrast in your digis. other than that just keep on trucking mate.

[oODanyalOo]

Aww man, I know what you mean about how university takes over once you start the term. You've got some good, clean studies going on I like your concentration on values too, keep it up :)

[purb36]

smuckers hit it right on the nail; if you can find a cast that shows the planes of the head, i think that would help a lot. and if you find one cheap, let me know. SOMEBODY over here needs to go shopping... ;)

[iheartmyself]

13/08/08 right then, some moleskines, a leg anatomy drawing [need to study more of this, in fact, might dedicate at least an hour a day], and a digi head study..with values and such, thanks to purb36 for some pointers
smuckers- thanks, i think im going in the right direction :D
thesadpencil thanking you :)
oODanyalOo its a bitch aint it? haha, thanks
p.s, try to use your imagination for the life studies, there is a HELL of a lot more markmaking going on, it just doesnt show...perhaps ill try taking a picture to show the difference
anyways, here we go.

[purb36]

looking muuuuuuch better already dude! keep at it.

[smuckers]

that new paint is definitely popping a whole lot more, also.. what book is that leg from there?

[iheartmyself]

14/08/08 m'kay,
we have some hands (3)
2 leg anatomy drawings
1 arm anatomy drawing
a chimp
and the same chimp coloured [nothing amazing, just a multiply and block, i quite like it and will definitely check out some more in future]

and thanks for all the feedback, im not tiring of it at all, so keep it coming :D

[momothemonkey]

i added more. i had no paper when i wanted to draw and so i drew on the computer
but the stuff i put up is on paper

[momothemonkey]

thx i have more comments on mine about wut u said by me. if u want to read them

[Arsenopyrite]

I loved the pizza box idea, and I think that the roundness of the characters eyes adds stylization. Also love your line work to death death death.
Keep it up! :D

[iheartmyself]

15/08/08 drawing of my nan...looking as mean as anything 0_0 and some hands, en-fucking-joy :sungod:
edit: added the coloured version, just a lil experiment in photoshop

[Ty Oulton]

Your chimpanzee kicks my monkey's ass.

[iheartmyself]

17/08/08 right, i really need help this time
first some hands,
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but this! i need help!
whats wrong with it!?, where does it need shadows etc, is the perspective off? i thought id ask here rather than sit in front of it for hours thinking...what the fuck..so help! :D
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[Grafguy]

nice sketchbook, dig the style and the sketches!
For the Fat Guy, if you draw him in simple forms (cirkles, squares,...)
maybe it'll help you understand the volume. Also draw the middlelines of the forms to get an idea of where they point at.
If your goin for a frog point f view, the belly's off, you should it from below instead of from the front, the hands r to small.
Actually its hard to crit cuz i dont know from wich point f view u want it to be :p
good luck, grtz!

[purb36]

dont know if you know the forum section, but for critiques on a specific piece you might try starting a thread and posting your here in the Critique Center (http://conceptart.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=59). it might be easier to get focused crits from people that can really help you not only with the specific drawing, but with the principles you can learn to apply to your next and future drawings.

for the creepy guy, it all depends on what you're going for. in terms of perspective, we're supposed to be looking at him from below, right? initially, i would say your contours don't make it seem like it. curves that you have that encircle the body (e.g. his pants waistline, the curves of his vest and his shirt, etc.) should be drawn as if seen from below, meaning that the curve will be highest in the middle and lower on the ends. light is coming from directly above or is it above and in front? cast shadows (like those from his arms cast onto his vest) should help describe form by the way they land on an object, and form shadows (those that are on objects that show where they turn from the light, consequently showing the shape of that object) should be darkest where there is no direct light and no bounced or reflected light from other objects. in the form shadow (the shaded side of an object), because there is no direct light hitting it, the only light that reaches there is reflected light, which comes from the objects around it. so, for example, the underside of the arms should have some green light that gets bounced in, which will cause his shirt there to have a greenish tint added to the shadow. the strength of the light and the reflectivity of the materials will determine how much green light will be reflected, and what other colors, if any, will be reflected there. there's a metric tonne of information about this kind of stuff in the Peer Project 2 thread (http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=76955), as well as this website (http://www.itchy-animation.co.uk/light.htm)...apparently this page is being turned into a book, which i hope to get as soon as it comes out. maybe try some studies of cylindrical objects lit from above as well. i'm out all day tomorrow, but if i have time, maybe i'll take a crack at a paintover. definitely start with the critique center, though. take care dude, and g'luck. keep working hard, cause it's paying off.

[iheartmyself]

right-o
18/08/08
a creature fat guy thing,
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Grafguy: cool thanks, yeah im taking a pop at perspective and simple volume...btw what do you mean by frog point of view?

Purb36: yeah ive had a look in the critique bit, ive posted to no attention, so it seems ive gotten more advice here haha
anyway, thanks for the crit, youve been a huge help man *thumbs up*

[iheartmyself]

19/08/08 poo update, im gonna be drawing a bit more traditional later on with anatomy etc so this is for now
im trying to sneak myself onto the character concept tree, one branch at a time
ive learnt alot so far, it should be finished relatively soon
its the first time ive buggered about with thumbnail silhouettes so i think ill take that idea with me from now on

but still, as usual, i really appreciate the comments and critiques i get, so dont be shy [if you flick through, you might as well tell me what you think right? :bashful:]

[iheartmyself]

same again, gonna call this a day with this one
cant be bothered to continue, i think if i add anymore to it, itll ruin the grittiness of the picture

[JailHouseRock]

Lol love your style man!
great sketches and that pizza box things great.

Weheartyourwork.

keep it up

matt

[iheartmyself]

20/08/08
2 lil speedies, first one about 45 minutes, give or take 15 due to photoshop crashing twice with the basic outline saved
BAH
and the bottom one about ten, lul
enjoy
JailHouseRock thanks buddy ;) :assspank:

[iheartmyself]

20/08/08
uhm a 20-30 minute thingy photoshop [should really keep track]- basically a thumb with some form
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and all in all, it was just an excuse to make this XD
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[iheartmyself]

22/08/08 summore photoshop shit
trying out the silhouette technique with a human as appose to an amorphous blob. also trying to make use of big brushes rather than lil diddly ones, works quite nice me thinks
These things are quick sketchys, i could do with attempting something with a more refined finished look
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and where is everybody? i miss my guidance :spam:

[iheartmyself]

24/08/08 oh snap, couple days with nothing, oops
been a bit lazy, anyway
heres a very quick sketch thing, going for some abstraction
will upload some decency soon i promise :D

[purb36]

dude,
sorry i've been away...i just moved back to the states and i'm still jetlagged, so i havent even been on here like, at all. anyway, the animation you did is nice, this last pic is REEEEEALLY nice. i like the textures that you're using, and the transition from your rough to your more detailed parts is very good. now try for more finish in your finished parts. forms are looking good, but keep studying so that you can be more and more complex in what you make. keep working at it, and don't get discouraged even if there's nobody around. you're getting better. peace dude.

[P]

Nice sketches, its even beter then ur first posts!
Keep it up, want to see some more.

[Verehin]

very nice stuff

[iheartmyself]

29/08/08 haha, i see the trend seems to follow after one person comments, as long as the OP isnt the last person to post, people will look...hmm
anyway, heres some moleskines ta-da
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purb36- its alright haha, you're not tied down to mentoring me XD. thanks, and yeah i know i need to finalize things more...the lack of knowledge on doing it is the problem, but in the end it boils down the basics, shapes form perspective etc which im still grasping [and doesn't that make you sound lame] but yeah, need to perfect these things and hopefully finalize more,
"aardman - don't polish a turd" which is what id be doing

pijus- thankyou :D im hoping for that to be the case haha

Verehin- thanks

[iheartmyself]

29/08/08 another head, woo...
just a study, still not amazing i know, but im slowly getting there haha
i think im happy with the level i am at to start my uni course :) [another month yet, so another month to improve more] im going to be getting into 3d [as my course is 3d computer animation], so my goal for summer was to get my drawing etc better, so i wouldnt be worrying about it whilst doing 3d, also i think its still very important to have a certain level of drawing painting etc with 3d, you need concepts to make anything anyway

[iheartmyself]

06/09/08 righty oh, not been posting again, work is raping me with extra hours and over time at the minute, same with next week, im finding coming home and going to bed more appropriate than drawing hahaa
anyway, heres some from yesterday when i had a spare haff hour
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first one was already posted earlier on but i copied and pasted the page after it
so this is the "real" one. anywho, here we go:

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crits welcome as always, here in my car, i feel safest of all, i can lock all the doors etc :$

[purb36]

hey dude. i like the volumes that you're coming out with in your pencil drawings. as for your painting, now i don't know much about painting, but you might try first setting your color scheme, then putting down a layer of the opposite color of the dominant color in your color scheme, and then painting over top of that. supposedly it will make the colors richer by contrast and the areas that are still allowed to peek through will give your image that much more life. i'm not an expert; its something i read in one of the threads about color theory and composition. if you can find jason manley's dark elf mage tutorial, he talks about this in there (http://www.gfxartist.com/features/tutorials/7714). g'luck dude, and if you have any crits about my stuff, feel free to let me know. i could always use a good crit. :)

[iheartmyself]

07/09/08
some lil moles and a photoshed,
tried out what purb said about colouring over the opposite temperature of what youre after
eg for a warm mood, colour over a cool mood
not sure if it worked too much haha, perhaps its just me, i think it has more colours in the skin, but thats about it i guess
ps i was after a warm mood so i coloured over blue

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[purb36]

not exactly what i meant... :S

check out clochette's thread. (http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=118282&page=6) she is AWESOME at what i described, painting over contrasting colors to get a more rich color. see posts 320 (the 3rd pic), and post 331 (the house) as, to me, the best examples. you lay down the opposite color, then paint directly overtop of that. DO NOT add black at all, just paint over that color. if you want something dark, some shadows and stuff, initially lay down a dark shade of the opposite color. i hope i'm explaining it well. keep working hard dude. where's the update?! :)

[iheartmyself]

is this more what you mean? i guess it pops a bit more
but i have no idea if this is better haha, thought id consult before going into further paintings with this method

[purb36]

:ay: :ae: :as: :as: :as: :as: :as: :as: !! !!!!!!

SOOOOOOO much more life in this painting. yes, this is more what i mean. good job, now keep experimenting.

on a side note, i recommend checking out the virtual art academy; they have some really good instruction on drawing and painting. i myself have the composition, observation, and color packages. not TOO expensive for how much they give, and they give REALLY good and pretty expansive explanations for things.

and, i don't feel like i HAVE to help, and that you couldn't get by without me, which you definitely are more than capable of. but trying to help you solidifies some of these things in my mind that i am working out, so by helping you i'm probably helping myself more. that, and i really enjoy helping people improve in things. :) anyway, thx for not taking anything i say too harshly, and thx for being open to crits. that's definitely one thing that will help you improve tons at your art. that and lots of hard work, which you're doing, so keep it up.

also, i think i posted a link to a bunch of free art instruction e-books that Cookiedough posted in a thread somewhere. i think she has the link in her signature, so try to find it. three books i definitely recommend are "The Elements of Drawing and Perspective" (John Ruskin), "Composition" (Arthur Wesley Dow), and "Eye of the Painter" (Andrew Loomis). hope this helps. take care dude, and more more drawings. peace.

[purb36]

hello?

um...so you still need to update dude. where are you?

i hope you're ok.

[Bagg]

hey man your art is so inspiring especially stuff like the pizza box lol anyways keep up the magnificent work :)

[Bagg]

omg last post was ages ago hope too see you round more, please keep posting love your work :)

[Arbinn]

20/08/08
and all in all, it was just an excuse to make this XD
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really fun (and tedious) making it :D

How did you make that? I've made only one "animation" in my whole life and that was a rough messenger smiley done by GIMP. I'd be interested in doing stuff like that sometimes along with normal drawings but I don't think GIMP is the way to do them.

Nothing specific to say. :bashful: Keep it up with your SB. You draw really fast. :)

[iheartmyself]

first things first, sorry for not being around lately
been a crazy couple months
new house, no internet, no scanner
new uni, new course, learn 3ds max,
but anyway, i have kept the drawing up, with lifedrawing every week too
i cant upload now because my internet now is fucking me up
ill try to do some

dear admin : why isnt there a bulk uploader ?

[iheartmyself]

...and heres the life drawing, [sorry for the mass haha]
ps. there is more, i need to remember to bring home my A3 sketchpad aswell
all in A4 [apologies for the camera, my scanner takes about a minute a scan...so when i have a good couple hours on my hands, ill do it properly]
bottom 2, A2 size
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[iheartmyself]

and another, [again, sorry, this is 2 months of work uploading 0_0]
this was a 2 week project, Character Design, we then made sculpey models out of them, within the 2 weeks, so here are my designs + the process etc; ill get a pic of the model soon enough

THIS! IS! SCRUMPTIOUS!

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*cue big sigh of relief* ahhh :D

[iheartmyself]

oh and whilst im still here
Arbinn: i used adobe imageready to make that, made all the limbs etc individually and then really simply tweened them up and down in imageready

you could try your hand at adobe/macromedia flash aswell, thats my favorite for animation

[B]Bagg haha i know, bad isnt it, TWO MONTHS, good to be back

Purb sorry :D im back now anywho, ALOT of shit flying around the room at the same time you know?


HOPE EVERYONE ENJOYED THE SCROLL DOWN HERE :)

[iheartmyself]

and heres the scans for my A3 sketchbook of life drawing
also a shoddy picture of my model, booo



crits appreciated

[sinneart]

good stuff - its really interesting to see your thought process. Thanks for sharing!

[iheartmyself]

thanks sinneart, it was more forced to do this long laborious process, but none the less i think it came out alright
there was just no inspiration behind the project, and plus ive only just came back to this place, i could have churned out x4 the amount that i did, if i consulted everyone here haha
nevermind eh
anyway, a very quick *waiting for googlemail to respond* ps study..more no colours than anything else, trying to give some life to my paint

[purb36]

glad to have you back. veeeery nice. good face, i don't see any black anymore => great! the sculpture has some balance issues, but nice translation of what you've done. will be watching, so keep on bein' here, ya hearrrrrrd?! :)

[iheartmyself]

got ya haha, i dont plan on going anywhere anytime soon
our projects are going to be very mechanical/technical until after christmas, so ill need to let off creative steam somewhere XD
and yes, the sculpture had some balance problems, definately the last time im making it that hard for myself, he was on tip-toes aswell...*sigh*

[sinneart]

That last portrait is lookin pretty damn good - loads of character and life in that face! It appears as though your skin tone palette is full of only warm hues - I'd suggest throwing in a complimentary cool colour in there somewhere to make those warms really pop!

Great stuff!

[iheartmyself]

some things from "life drawing"
Our life drawing model decided not to turn up [bitch] so we had to draw each other instead
boo

[iheartmyself]

howdy, another poo update
just some scribbles from today

oh and
I FUCKING HATE THE NEW "COPYRIGHT INFO" OPTION ON THE UPLOADER ARGHH!!! I DONT GIVE A SHIT!(c)
its very annoying and tempting to go back to using photobucket..grr
:)
also a little ps study, trying out skin tone and light? i guess...crits very welcome as always

[l0stinth0ughts]

hey nice work, good studies!
Would like to see some finished work. As for the digitals go, very use of you imagination, and the gruesome zombie like creatures. anyways love to see more creatures and guts :P keep em comin :rocker:

[Fraz]

Keep working on the colour studies. Nice figure studies.

I reckon you could improve your faces, just keep drawing!

[iheartmyself]

2 lil sketches from my a5 moleskine..
and to bed..:D

...bleh, roll on christmas, santas bringing me a new scanner

[Nibras]

Great dedication
Your doing some awesome stuff
All i gots to say is keep it up
and thanks for the crits :D

[iheartmyself]

just a bit of a dump of latest life drawing - all i seem to have time for :S
anyway
and apologies in advance if you cant make them out, waiting on a new scanner
ps these are all a2 size

[purb36]

dang, man, if those are all a2, how big's your scanner gonna be?
keep working that anatomy dude, some of these lines are looking REALLY nice!

did a paintover for you, hope it helps. :)

[iheartmyself]

oh sweet, thanks alot man

haha nahh the scanners gonna be a4. but i can photoshop some sort of arrangement better than with a shitty camera phone

and yes it helps. anything constructive is the nuts

now i must proceed to animating an....egg...with a leg
;D

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note: the emphasis of this project is on the animation, not the modelling
were concentrating on physics and basic rigging, so just ignore how ugly it is, as hard as it may be XD

oh and itd be interesting if anybody has any cool ideas on how to make this as decent and original as possible, so any animation ideas or tips would be fantastic

[iheartmyself]

yello all
uhm..been a long time again..grr, this animation stuff is really time consuming..
anyways, ive got plans for a couple canvas's and a quick idea, itll probably be done with oils, havent used em in years, so should be good practicee



and heres a push animation, anyone with some crits would be coo'

[kuroart]

hey, thanks for dropping by the sketchbook. I hear ya, there isn't too much animation going on, but it's nice to see the occasional posts.
With the push, I think you've got good timing down. Tho the poses I dont think convey the amount of energy needed to push the box. I think by the time the box finally moves, his spine should be stretched to give a strong line of action. Here's a little example of what I mean.
Alot of progress with every post, keep it up!

[wondergod]

you last batch of life drawings are looking great, also i really like that you have mass amounts of pictures! see yah!

[iheartmyself]

some pigs for a "4 legged" animation project

[iheartmyself]

some eagle shizz for same project, swap legs for 2 wings etc blugh
ps aswell, some are just shitty thumbs, i dont even know why im posting half of them

[purb36]

very cool man. can't wait to see how this comes out. course...i'll have to. :P

[iheartmyself]

kuroart: i know its quite annoying, youd think thered be more love for them haha, never mind. cheers
wondergod: mass is good ;)
purb: haha, i will post it here, im trying to post the last project, but it decided to crash through upload so i havent bothered, its on vimeo though, under

http://images.vimeo.com/26/76/21/267621005/267621005_200.jpg
http://www.vimeo.com/groups/atrium/videos/2991837

also played with zbrush, did a pigs head
http://images.vimeo.com/26/85/50/268550345/268550345_200.jpg
http://www.vimeo.com/3000476

[kingkostas]

Very nice understanding on the anatomy of these animals.Try to make the same approach for humans.You going forward , keep this up!!!
see ya and thnx for stopping by my sketchbook :D

[kuroart]

hey, I took a look at the group of animations. You have a good basic walk. The spine is a little stiff though. The lift: I think his left leg should step out farther because his spine bends over enough that he would fall over without that stability. Keep updating with animations, I definitely want to see more.
The animal studies are looking great also.
Keep it up!

[iheartmyself]

got some life drawing - had a man this time...
and a couple doodles
cheers

[iheartmyself]

sigh, need to draw more, gonna pick up a brown paper pad tomorrow, see if that inspires me a bit more than now. Animating an Eagle is proving to be a bit of a c u nt BEH

[iheartmyself]

and im going to bed lul
xx

[iheartmyself]

wagwan
im not drawing as much as id like to, but on that note im going to the museum tomorrow to do some sort of "life" drawing...probably drawing stuffed animals.. sigh
anyway
heres a quick doodle
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and im asking for a bit of help
for my life drawing module i need to look at artists, mainly artists that were strong in human anatomy etc, and then im meant to try the style etc
anyone got some ideas?
cheers
xx

[iheartmyself]

went to the museum, "draw people in -situ," whatever's

[purb36]

norman rockwell, john singer sargent, davinci, george bridgman, glenn vilppu

some i could think of off hand. g'luck with the assignment, and with the eagle too.

nice life drawing.

[iheartmyself]

purb, cheers man, im terrible with theory and art history haha
theyll be a huge help
never heard of norman rockwell, his stuff is niiice
ill be posting some "inspired" work later in the week or something, i had a distinction in my life drawing
heres some eagely's and a pig
i know nobody will look at these, but hey, its a post! I AM WORKING I SWEARZZES

ps excuse the crudeness of the models, we had to make them using bones and bipeds...again, concentrating on the animation rather than what it looks like, any tips at all would be a great deal of help
cheers
x

Eagle - Flight
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Eagle - Land
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Pig - Walk Cycle
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[iheartmyself]

Some blutterly non appropriate imagery
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and a test of watercolours...more of the scan than anything, my old scanner couldnt scan watercolours for shit
anyway, here we go
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[iheartmyself]

couple scans from life drawing


enjoi

[P]

Awesome pencils.I like the variations. LOL (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=598428&d=1235139628) :D

[iheartmyself]

more life drawing..seems all i have time for within this project aha

next project after friday : CHARACTER EXPLORATION WUP WUP
so lot'za drawings :D *cheeses*

oh and i have a good 6 or so pages more of life drawing...just cant scan em [a1/a2] and cant find my camera lead.. boo

[iheartmyself]

and the rest from lifedrawing
sorry about pants quality...camera pics are never as nice as scans

[purb36]

there was this one pencil shading tutorial (http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=14035) that i think would be good for you in helping to define form more. i notice you tend to shade kinda willy-nilly (i do that too, i notice), which gives (y)our objects less of that 3d-ness which we all admire. these things can also be applied to paint, which will help bring out the form through that medium as well. glad you're working hard, keep at it dude. :)

*edit - found the tut; check the link above.

[iheartmyself]

611555
Animating Animals CLICKY (http://vimeo.com/3476643)

check it out, past 5 ish weeks of animation, bup...please click, id like some opinion on them, thanks

ill upload all my design sheets etc later, to work!

purb cheers for the link, yeah thats what i do XD..i guess its down to my knowledge of anatomy...near non existent haha
its tempting to just let it slip but it shows pretty bad amongst everyone on this site haha...

[Initial_D]

Im finally on here, happy now?!

[iheartmyself]

Life Drawing from monday
...seems all i upload now haha
ill upload my current project in a whiz...
cheers
any crits for my technique etc would be sexy

[iheartmyself]

current uni project : character exploration
basically he's a nutter running around a sewers, his own kingdom so to speak...
cheers
x

[Nibras]

Hey man
Loving the loose look and the flowing lines
You got some really interesting stuff in here.
The watercolour build up is really sweet
keep at it!

[iheartmyself]

lackoupdates etc, doing 3d not enough for drawing blah blah blah
heres my work from the past etc weeks/days/wehh
could i get some requests of what people would like to see more of, im running low on some ideas/inspiration, cheers

[purb36]

hey dude, sorry i've been away for so long. i just spent two AWESOME weeks in spain, doing and teaching art stuff. good to see you still very productive. anatomy is getting BUNCHES better. i think what can help the next step is doing lots of studies of individual body sections as well, which would help when you bring them together with the whole body. i would also check out glenn orbik, kevin chen's studies, and some pages on here that studied/study under these teachers and i'm learning a lot from:
AztecFireFlower (http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=81093)
Kevin Wueste (http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=147839)
SFA (http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=120385)

hope these help. hows the animation projects and stuff going? take care dude!

[Cheeseitnow!!!]

Awesome studies dude keep it going

[iheartmyself]

couple of door "art" things me and my house mates did...

the house was looking a little bland so we decided itd be best if we added some culture to the doors

hahaaha

[iheartmyself]

so
been doing alot of animation lately, which is fitting considering that IS the course im attending..
anyway

please check them out, any help and tips would be massively appreciated
theres some walks, some actions and a lil bit of lip sync in there at the end

Walk from start
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Walk Cycle
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Trait One
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Trait Two
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Lip Sync
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some render samples too

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[purb36]

no tips, but, that's pretty cool man! good job!

so when's the film come out? :)


btw, how did you embed the vimeo videos? i can never get that stuff to work. :(

[psantha]

Haha, you are sick! :D
Still dig your stuff Mate!

[iheartmyself]

seems like a very pointless post..

...and after so long!
with nothing to show for it haha. nevermind

here we go

oh and i never did post the link to the final rendered version of that animation did i

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[iheartmyself]

bleh did a drawing
this is what happened

need to get back into this

[iheartmyself]

i found that i sucked dick at legs and foreshortening, so i had a bash at some studies

ALSO

does anyone have any decent reference sites/images for foreshortening human figures...not really alot i could find

[iheartmyself]

heres the rest of the body of the lil project im working on

...3dwork!omgno!

:]

[purb36]

cool 3d models man!

as for foreshortening reference...you DO make 3d models...you don't have any figures lying around that you can use as foreshortening ref?

i would also suggest bridgman studies...figure out the structure, or even just work on the basic forms, and do some foreshortening from the mind...it won't be pretty at first, but you need mileage...it'll come. if you draw it, it will come.

more later. peace!

[iheartmyself]

did a quick portrait [using actual paint!] of Prince Charles...just a warm up exercise for a bigger canvas I have...needed to know if i could stilll paint haha :D
anyway
Crits appreciated
cheers

[iheartmyself]

........edit

[iheartmyself]

score, massive break between posts again, yay!
usual shit with uni etc
we have a module this year which includes environment drawing and concept art, so should be visiting bit more...hopefully



rest are from location drawing...
cheers

[iheartmyself]

some stuff from location drawing, encouraged to concentrate more so on the environment than people

[iheartmyself]

Chii from Chobits. anyway, need to get on with 3d shit...blehh, need to visit here more often, i miss it!

[purb36]

hey man, long time.

3d stuff's looking good. how're you enjoying classes?

rendering, painting materials and stuff, i recommend "Basic Rendering", by Robert W Gill (http://www.amazon.com/Basic-Rendering-Effective-Designers-Illustrators/dp/050027634X). best, most complete book on rending i've seen to date. besides that, do some drapery studies man! the journey of 1000 miles begins with a single step. even if that step is towards a plane. :P

also...arm studies! your forearms are looking rubbery. it's just positioning and memory, so do some studies of forearms in different positions, and REEEEEALLY pay attention to the silhouette in those positions.

g'luck dude; keep at it. :)

[purb36]

" need to submit a fair few pages of hand/forearm anatomy so ill be cracking on with that over today/tomorrow...i will update TONIGHT"

a-HEM... ;)

[iheartmyself]

no good making excuses haha, ive been lazy! XD
okay okay, im gonna dedicate this hour [maybe 2] to forearm and hands..and i will post what i draw straight afterwards [whether they are shit or bleh]
HERE GOES...

*EDIT* okay timed myself an hour, scanning now and will upload very shortly...oh boy... 0_0

[iheartmyself]

OKay, an hours worth of doodles, did em with a biro so i wouldnt be tempted to fiddle, uhm...
yeah i feel better now 0_0 haha *wipes brow*
nice exercise, may do this semi-daily if i get chance to

[purb36]

YAAAAAAAAY!!!! :cheerleader:

looking good, dude! next step is to do them from memory, that way you cement it in. what you mess up, go over it again. ink is a good idea; it's ok to have mistakes, as long as you learn from them. keep it up!

[iheartmyself]

couple arms from memory, legs and stuff from reference
all in ink, although it looks like pencil, i could have sworn it was a blue pen..hell knows whats going on in reality
need to keep this up now haha..soo lazyyy recently XD

[purb36]

looking MUUUUUUUUCH better than before. so do more like that!

[iheartmyself]

went to a Cathedral today, did mainly continuous line drawings, the size/height of the building was pretty overwhelming to take in to do some in detail. Ended up lying down and looking up to do some of the pics..as i sad, mainly continuous line, some are meh, but fuck it..

[iheartmyself]

last thursdays location drawings, bit late, bleh
will post my current workings from over in 3d land later

[iheartmyself]

A self portrait, couple hours
havent done digi painting in freaking ages! forgot most of the techniques :|
this was more of a value jobber than anything
i know theres a million and one things wrong with it, but ill leave that up to anyone who feels the need to comment on it, cheers
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[purb36]

looking MUUUUUUUCH improved, dude! where's the light source?

hope you're well. :)

[ryan mcshane]

wow, your work is very inspirational! thanks for looking at my sketchbook (:

[iheartmyself]

purb: it was almost from eyelevel, just slightly below, looks a bit strange i know haha
pandah: cheers, no problem haha :D

uhm, not been doing too many drawings
was meant to do location doodling today, but its very hard to do when your passed out on the sofa 0_0

anyway, heres a duck
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and a couple things im working on atm for uni
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cheers

[iheartmyself]

wip working on at the moment, to bed!

[iheartmyself]

another WIP
am enjoying these..ill try some more different things, ideas are difficult to come up with nowadays, anyway
crits welcome as usual
cheers
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[Mischeviouslittleelf]

Goood stuff, I like the 3d stuff. I need to learn how on earth to do that stuff:D

-E

[iheartmyself]

Gonna start my final major project soon, deciding on the director strand of my course, which consists of making a short film...so if i post anything, its going to be with that, enviros, props and char designs will be the main bulk, ill possibly make a blog to go with it
anyway, heres a random girl...again...0_0 these are being cooked out fairly quick, im finding female figures are far more interesting to draw [not in a pervy way]....my final major main character is a decrepit old man...so these may be my counteraction to being art sick XD
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and the only thing i worked on for more than 10 minutes
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crits and comments etc welcome as per usual

[iheartmyself]

uhm a less sexy update, started my initial designs of an arctic explorer character for my final major...enjoy
gone rather quiet around here lately
cheers
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[iheartmyself]

been checking out some environment stuff for my major project, mine is going to rely heavily on snow/Arctic etc, uhm, any help on these would be awesome
These are all speedies, about 5-10 mins each
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Cheers

[Brahimpag]

nice studies

[iheartmyself]

Hey, long time no posty...seems the only time I get to draw lately is when my current project requires me to...Managing CG models and drawing is difficult, meh.

[iheartmyself]

Hey fecks, gonna dump a ton of junk on you...
wish there were more hours in the day to draw, but alas, this is never the case.
Made my mind up couple years ago to go with the CG artist path and while thats rewarding in its way [ive learnt so much about 3d modelling, texturing, scuplting] i still wish i could double the days and fucking draw the shit out of everything.
I tried to tell myself "ahh youll still draw when youre not working on cg".. but im always working on cg. seems the only time i get to draw these days is when designing a character for a modelling/scuplting project
anyway, heres the past couple months in a few posts
Cheers guys, whoever is still around

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ygaZJKoTNys/TNR_MqFuTVI/AAAAAAAAAK0/SIL9FJN3zxU/s1600/Untitled-1resize.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ygaZJKoTNys/TNR_MNrwHTI/AAAAAAAAAKk/5kpBKX5mYmE/s1600/Untitled-2-withoutresize.jpg

[iheartmyself]

post 2...

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ygaZJKoTNys/TOG_4OPQcjI/AAAAAAAAALk/MxdWEwvtgP0/s1600/Untitled-1%2Bcopy.jpg

mudbox project, from the concept above, changed it quite a bit along the way
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[iheartmyself]

Current Project, punk racer character. Concept ---> Build

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ygaZJKoTNys/TN7BJcOdcaI/AAAAAAAAALU/tMGH5zmPI0E/s1600/07.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ygaZJKoTNys/TNC04svGclI/AAAAAAAAAKE/NsIwnYDqP4c/s1600/Untitled-23+copy.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ygaZJKoTNys/TTidfWcLXsI/AAAAAAAAAMQ/Spgdjge0UAI/s1600/Untitled-1.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ygaZJKoTNys/TTidflMryOI/AAAAAAAAAMY/WBkamu-Mwz4/s1600/Untitled-3.jpg

[iheartmyself]

some more misc rubbish,

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[iheartmyself]

newpageplease...

[iheartmyself]

some misc shit

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ygaZJKoTNys/TUFj_nby7vI/AAAAAAAAAMg/TFPjvnQHLpY/s1600/melf.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ygaZJKoTNys/TQau3DzfryI/AAAAAAAAAME/6E-CDT0j2aM/s1600/Untitled-3%2Bresize.jpg

and im done, see you in another year...XD!

[iheartmyself]

http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/048/a/d/aquacious_by_iheartmyself-d39qzmi.jpg


plenty to fix on this, but no time to do it
spent a large part of this morning working on this,
but now i need to get on with some work that will actually benefit my career XD

[AliceA]

love love love #211, and your loose lines <3

[weashell]

lies lies lies! u work too hard too :D dude 3d is rock >.< i want too

[Jesus Food]

great sketchbook man, i think maybe in ur last post the only thing i can point out is theres too much white under one of her eyes, making it look kinda droopy. i agree with aliceA great lines :)

[George Abraham]

I really like the individuality and freedom in your work. You have a great skill for developing characters.

Thanx for the heads up.

[jbrown67]

gorgeous stuff there man! I can't wait to see more progress, just keep going! It's inspiring to see progress.

[iheartmyself]

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DyTJUgKrz-M/TZuNUYp1mtI/AAAAAAAAANg/sEd-CPmKJX8/s1600/luls1%2Bcopy.jpg

^Takes over the page :D nevermind eh
Here he is so far, still loads to fix, but no harm in showing a WIP

[ryan mcshane]

iheartyou too bro
i like this last guy, i dont know shit about 3D so i can't crit, but cool character design and tattooing! cool lines in these girls too
keep it up!

[Ludic]

Cute girlies, the shoulders on the 3d one looks a bit too far apart, otherwise it looks really cool.

[iheartmyself]

Cheers Ryanoir, XD

Cute girlies, the shoulders on the 3d one looks a bit too far apart, otherwise it looks really cool.

ayee, didnt have much control over the proportions of him, he had to fit inside a pre built rig [the Unreal tournament rig] which, if you know of it, has silly proportions
the plus side is that all pre-made animations in the game engine will fit him perfectly, downside, wierd shapes, I can live with the latter XD

and ill just leave this here..
IWqp-mfn2EQ

this is free mo-cap data I found, which made me notice that some of the extremes are a bit messed up, specifically the skinning on the back
wont be to strenuous to sort out though :)
this isnt ever gonna be used, just wanted to see how the rig would hold up with stupid animation haha

[iheartmyself]

http://th07.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/f/2011/147/2/3/yumadtho__by_iheartmyself-d3hbv33.png

free time, finished uni, = ^
trying out foreshortening again, Getting there, it fries my fucking brain right out. yay, brains.

*edit* just realised how messy her "fill" looks against a brown background, heh, no biggie XD

oh and been trying to get back into 30 sec studies, [45 actually, so it gives me 10 seconds to start a new layer and hide the previous one in photoshop] heres what happened when i turned them all on haha, i kinda liked it

[Saara_]

First off I love the title of your sketchbook. It just looks so WTF in the middle of all the other SB titles ;).

I absolutely love that animation with the guy jumping around - it really cracked me up :D. #183 is fantastic as well, it looks good in a weird way. Weird is nice ;P. As a little crit though, your faces tend to look similar despite some differences in the freatures - the proportions and shape of the face are what does it, I think. They're very similar in all of them, even men.

How do you do that foreshortening thing, by the way? Do you just feel it or do you have some kind of a method? It's something I have trouble with. :heart:

[iheartmyself]

did some more 30 second rubbish, cant be arsed to lay them all out, humph. Ill do some paper ones tomorree or something, maybe. also did a couple of longer ones, last time im doing that, ill find better reference than a shit model textured with shit muscle groups. they are good for quick poses, but thats about their mileage

[Saara_]

Yeah, I agree with the posemaniacs comment. They are just textures and muscles slapped onto a figure but they really have no movement - they could do a handstand but the muscles won't show any strain. Or the boobs. The female figures can crawl on the ground and do a barrel roll or whatever the hell they feel like doing but the boobs are hard as rock and won't move an inch (a very important point...). They're good for warmup though. Anyway, I somehow like the last one despite all the chaos in there ;P. It's nice how you discover some figures every here and there, lol.

[The_Flying_Dutchman]

Great sketches on post #224. Keep up the loose work, it's the best exercise.

[iheartmyself]

http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/214/e/a/head_study___textured_man_bust_by_iheartmyself-d42mk3u.jpg

Another Zbrush quickie, been meaning to try out textured faces for a while, and found an interesting looking guy face [no homo]

[iheartmyself]

http://th03.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/f/2011/216/2/e/head_study__bust_02_by_iheartmyself-d45arpu.jpg

have another

[NickyBeats]

some damn fine 3d work man!! i just got into zbrush myself. trying to find some good brushes, and a decent work flow. the program is very intimidating at first though, even more so than photoshop or painter was for me. but ive been watching lots of youtube videos. the company that makes z brush (pixelogic) has some cool tutorials on there. do you have any good tips, or know of any other good tutorials online?