Pezzle's Necrosketchikon [November 2011 ]

[Pezz]

Just thought I'd get one of these started up... :) Just a bunch of pages from my Moleskine for now. Last one is an experiment with some of those Derwent Inktense pencils. Know a lot of it is exercises and just contour-ish doodles, but I promise I'll post some studies soon.



KLAATU... VERADA... :an::ae::ac::ak::at::ai::ae:... Nectar... Nickel...

[magnut]

You know, I never knew you had this sketchbook going! I would have posted here much earlier.

Nice work I see you've done so far. I understand how you're busy with other things and haven't been able to post since November. Especially gearing up for art school, which I think you'll do very well at.

I do like your work. You're off to a great start!

[Pezz]

Here are some more sketches from my Moleskine. There are a few pages of planning perspective grids out in between these two pages but they're in light pencil and kind of worthless by themselves, it was the closest sketch paper I had to me in class at the time.

If you couldn't tell... I like Beholders. For some reason It's all I want to draw. So now instead of telling myself it's bad and nobody wants to see Beholders, fuck you brain, I'm drawing Beholders.

And as for the second page, I drew those on a bus from Trenton, NJ to Philadelphia, PA and man do I suck at drawing on buses. :yayca: Was a good way to pass the time though. We went to see the Cezanne and Beyond exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and it was fantastic. After the exhibit showing, I stayed a lot in the Arms and Armor room, but I hadn't taken my sketchbook in, thinking they wouldnt let me bring things into the museum. I was wrong, and I will be taking another trip there to do some European Armor studies.

[vayne108]

Interesting work so far post more!!!

[Joce]

do anatomy studies. many many anatomy studies

[Pezz]

do anatomy studies. many many anatomy studies

This much can be said yes, but I am going through a phase where I've said fuck all for a few days and wanted to draw stupid crap. It makes me feel better in between my course work at school, lmao. :lifedrawing: All this darned non-objective assignment has me itching to draw silly things like beholders.

I'll be getting back into life drawing more in the summer. believe me. I'm re-taking the course for personal benefit.

[Pezz]

So I felt like drawing my hand last night (right page). I like the lighting that my boyfriends fluorescent reading light gives off. The shadow on the right of the hand is cast from my moleskine.

[vayne108]

That hand is not that bad, you just need to up the darks in the shading to define more form and structure. and you could thicken the line thickset in some places. You kind of started to it on the pinky finger.

[Pezz]

So here's another one from when I was awake at 2 AM. Doing some lion studies, mostly for a character I'm creating but they're beautiful creatures.

[Pezz]

Just got back from a charity hockey game that our sporting goods store sponsored. I brought my sketchbook and got some really quick n' sloppy gestures of the players. It was tough to capture anything, because if you've ever played or watched hockey you know that they stop and hold a position for maybe a maximum of 5 seconds, if you're lucky.

The refined sketches were from the bench or from the bored goalie that never seemed to have the puck enter his zone (it was a pretty one sided game lol).

[maldrin]

Howdy. The action sketching during the hockey game was a great idea, and you did really well with it. You got some pretty good gestures on those. Also, I like the nicely rendered hand - it's really good! And the beholders, yeah, those are good any time. You can never go wrong with beholders.

keep it up!

maldrin

[Pezz]

Just two sketches, one from yesterday and one from today. The one from today was brainstorming the basis for my D&D Character. I have to add his Efreeti details now, though, as he is half!

I think I liked him better bald -shakes head- Drew him all hunched up on a hardwood floor, he he.

First pic is x-posted to my Lion Race thread in CCenter.

@maldrin: I agree. Nobody can EVER go wrong, ANYWHERE with Beholders. Unless you're fighting them, in which case it kind of sucks, but they're so cool. I want to play the Reverse Dungeon module or something like it where you can play AS Them.

I'll check your sketchbook out soon.

[Pezz]

Let's round her off for the evening with another lion study or two. Been working on my 40k figs, maybe I'll post them sometime.

[Eva K]

good studies and interesting designs you have here. Plus you have lions *love* ^^
Keep up the good work =)

[Pezz]

So another quickie from Wednesday night. I apologize for not updating more but I've been very busy trying to do other art projects + studying for finals + doing final speeches, so yeah that sucks. I have far more studio classes next semester, and will therefore have lots of painting and sculpting ness to show!

This is a 15 min Beholder from my imagination.

Also yeah the red is blood. I use an xacto to sharpen my pencils and as I was shoving a mechanical pencil back into its slot without looking I kind of stabbed my thumb. It still hurts and its kind of tingly where I punctured myself.

I ended up making the blood amusing eyestalk beams >.<

[Quike Garcia]

The beauty is in the eye of the beholder,..

the rest of the group is usually in it's stomach... :P

Great Lion studies :)

[SMILEFACE]

i really dig the lions an the southern style poses are great keep ROCK'N

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Nice work here Pezzle, and always great to see some studies going on. Love the lion character design :D. Also, hooray for Beholders, now I'm remembering Baldur's Gate fondly.

[Pezz]

Hey thanks Sidarth. I don't post in this enough; After DWIV I will.

[TASmith]

This goes without saying, but I just wanted you to know, you're much, much better than Chauncey, and your crit of his work was spot on. Post some more work in here, it'd be great to see what you working on now.

[Pezz]

This goes without saying, but I just wanted you to know, you're much, much better than Chauncey, and your crit of his work was spot on. Post some more work in here, it'd be great to see what you working on now.

Now I'm doing a set of drawings for my Sifu (kung fu teacher) for our school t-shirts. I can post them in here since they are kind of boring for the WIP forum. Now that Dominance War IV has ended (well, I turned my stuff in amidst the Database Errors, heh) I can focus on many other things until the semester kicks up again. Wahoo! :geekg:

[Pezz]

Not much interesting today. Some other sketches from my lion character and the rough brainstorms I'm doing for my hockey team's logo (Bristol Bandits). But it should be posted, anyway.

[Pezz]

Party's still split in D&D tonight, but my creativity is starting to take off on an absolute tear... and I'm embracing it. God how I missed it... welcome back, me. I did a bit of observational drawing and blind contour drawing though too many likenesses didn't come out right :( need practice! My drawing frequency and creativity kicks are starting to get to where they were before such terrible things befell me.. I've beaten you, jerkoff.

All done in my most favorite V5 Rollerball fine point pen, it glides across that nice creamy moleskine paper.

[Pezz]

So we have some eye studies I am doing as a part of the Molten Core workshop in the Community Activities forum. I was told to try more rendering my sketches and studies, so this is my attempt - and they were right. I am learning quite a bit more doing finer rendering.

Everything else is fairly loose and quick. My moleskine tends to be a place of quick thoughts that I just let flow out of my hand before they leave my head, so it seems... it's like playing word association with lines.

PS: 3rd loose sketch is one of my bigger ideas for the "Newborn" contest I was playing with and let evolve.

[Pezz]

Two more for you guys today... an Astral Dreadnought (Drawn from Manual of the Planes Cover) and a 30 min sketch I found from a life drawing class I had a year ago.

[Pezz]

Hopped a plane to Kentucky this weekend for a wedding reception and did quite a bit of drawing.

So now for you I have some terminals n' airplanes n' zombies, delicious zombies.

[NanoBlack]

Keep practicing!

In particular I really like the eyes, keep doing small, detailed sketches like that and your skill with skyrocket!

Apart from that, It's good to do a number of quick, loose sketches. Nice to see you experimenting with form, though I'd really like to see some colour in your work. Keep working as you are, and develop that talent.

[Kiera]

sweet! I looked in here earlier but the sketchbook always seemed so empty.. but now you filled it with sketchy goodness and I love it! The newest post is especially fun to look at, the zombies are very characteristic (the fat one is cool), the inside of the plane has a good sense of space, the sketch with the airport has a good overall composition and the quick gestures are accurate and I like the person on the toilet.. I could go on like this with your other posts but I leave it like that and say: post moar :O

[Pezz]

sweet! I looked in here earlier but the sketchbook always seemed so empty.. but now you filled it with sketchy goodness and I love it! The newest post is especially fun to look at, the zombies are very characteristic (the fat one is cool), the inside of the plane has a good sense of space, the sketch with the airport has a good overall composition and the quick gestures are accurate and I like the person on the toilet.. I could go on like this with your other posts but I leave it like that and say: post moar :O

Hey, thanks for the comments all! I am trying to draw and study a lot more in between doing miniature painting for others. I don't think my minis belong in my sketchbook, lol.

I'd like to work in color too, but I don't know just what I should use on the go for color, I'm simply terrible with and don't know how to control colored pencils. I'd like to learn and practice sometime, though. I'd REALLY like to take paints on the go, but I can't see myself mixing up washes on an airplane (especially since you can only have 3 oz of gel or liquid!) :P

[Quike Garcia]

Hey, thanks for the comments all! I am trying to draw and study a lot more in between doing miniature painting for others. I don't think my minis belong in my sketchbook, lol.


The good part abou a sketchbook is that everything fits :P

I really like your eyes for molten core... and the zombies.. those are really funny :)

The aircraft looks like drawn with a wide angle, but I'm not sure how small are canadir cabins, so probably this is a quite accurate representation :)

Will you show the drawings for your Shi Fu? Looks like you're studying Wu Xing :)

[Pezz]

Will you show the drawings for your Shi Fu? Looks like you're studying Wu Xing :)

Wow, I sure will. Not studying Wu Xing but I'm certain there are many similarities. I am studying mainly the system "Hung Ga". I actually study the Five Animal (Tiger - Crane - Leopard - Snake - Dragon) / Five Family System (Hung, Mok, Fut, Lee, Choy) (Ark Y Wong) but we also do the full on traditional Hung Ga system as well as quite a few other things - Bagua and San Shou to boot. I love it all.

[Pezz]

Alright more sketches for you; I vegged out for a week and didn't do anything but play Final Fantasy VII for some strange reason, but it felt good and I'm back in da' groove as they say.

:rocker:

I <3 my demons. Drawing them makes me feel a' soo gooood. If anyone can guess what the D&D monster is on the 2nd page, cake for you (though I drew it based on 2nd hand description alone so it's not perfect).

[kikindaface]

Hey dude, really nice stuff ! I like the lion's sketches, and your eyes studies ! Don't forge to draw a lot from life to improve your skills ! Keep it up !

[Pezz]

Just a few more for you tonight... I've experimented with all 12 of the Prismacolor Pencils I dug up in the attic... Not so great though! Hope to learn more about this portable, vibrant medium. I just kind of let my hand go and made shapes with a pen, then went back over them with colored pencil.

Also, a sketch I thoroughly enjoyed and want to refine into an actual piece; The Forest Guardian!

I think my torso anatomy is improving much, but still also needs much work. I used some muscle diagrams as a guideline for his chest.

[Quike Garcia]

I really like the forest guardian concept.. a bit of further refnement would be great :)

[Pezz]

Just throwing in an example of my "warm up" pages, courtesy of what I've learned from my mentor in ID, VogelA and Imagine FX articles. Gets my hand loose, my brain over-flownig, and helps reinforce muscle memory.

[AUG]

Nice SB. I like the different point of view sketches that you tackled in post# 26. Your linear work has lots of energy but have you considered making studies with a broad brush or charcoal stick? I only ask this because I noticed that switching from one method to another shakes things up a bit and helps with planar and tonal analysis.

[Hookswords]

Right on! Cool to know there is another Hung Gar practitioner on the forum. I really like looking at your sketches too. Looks like you're getting your moneys worth from that moleskine.

[gutss]

owhhowwhh no more updates! your lines have wicked form, and I love all your wonderful demonic monster concepts. they look so cool and your lion and eye studies from the previous page are brilliant. I look forward to the next update (whenever it may beeee) so I can feed my brain

[Pezz]

Sorry!! I took up a second job and have been really busy, but I'm going to have them cut me back; borderline quitting. It's so funny, so many are unemployed but I somehow manage to land a 2nd retail job ;|

Here's a 5 minute sketch (somehow I didn't get to the feet on time, I'm scared to draw them; I'm going to work on that next week...) that turned into a structural study from class on Wednesday. 9B Pencil

[Pezz]

Some more from live models, Chalk/Pastel Pencil (White, Charcoal/Negro... I also have Sanguine and Sepia tones for my creamy papers) on 9x12 Canson Mi-Tientes. Longest pose was the horizontal one, 30 mins.

Some of these will be going into my transfer portfolio, along with some 18x24s. They want observational? By god, they've got it. I have this class for 2 hours twice a week, and Im going to start going to the 4 hour one on Tuesday nights for extra model time (Got permission from the division)


Also, I love drawing on Kraft Pad paper, but I dont want to post that drawing up yet til I'm done. Got carried away with it

Tune in next time for: Pezzle draws feet!

[Quike Garcia]

A big wow at those life studies.. keep them coming!! :)

[Pezz]

Some more... 9/23 - 9/28. From life, except for the one on brown paper. At least, one would hope that isn't from life!! Maybe undeath? Was experimenting with sepia, dark sepia and red chalks from Koh-I-Noor and Conte. Just bought a set of very cheap and basic chalk pastels from Loew Cornell, but want to experiment with Schminkes or something far nicer and toxic.

[Pezz]

More life study, though not much to show this time around. Gonna go fool around with some walnut ink now..

[Pezz]

Feels like I produced crappy results in today's session, I don't wanna show the full figure drawing I did :(.

This gem came out of it tho...still trying to learn how to marry the red chalk and negro koh-i-noor pencil into a darker value of red. Was only working in 9x12 though so getting sharp details was tough, so his eye looks a bit funky to the left. Alas, next time...

[TASmith]

That's a good drawing, but the nose is too long, and too narrow. There should be that magical eye distance between his eyes, and the bottom of his nose should roughly line up with that.

[Pezz]

That's a good drawing, but the nose is too long, and too narrow. There should be that magical eye distance between his eyes, and the bottom of his nose should roughly line up with that.

Yeah, thinking about his face now I realize that that nubby ball on the end of his nose should've been a little higher up. I hope I get better in time! :) I don't think it's too narrow from the bridge down, but more or less too narrow around where the flared portions of the nostrils are, correct? If so, then I agree with you.

[Pezz]

Another dump from me... don't know, a lot of it isn't me at my best, some of it is experimentation (flat part of a sanguine conte crayon... walnut ink etc). A lot of these were done in class when I was totally sick with a sinus infection and couldn't seem to function right - not getting enough sleep at all, my heads been swimming.

[Steffler]

I see a noticeable improvement in your last two posts. Without knowing what your drawing from when you practice I would ask how are you measuring your proportions?

You mentioned picking up a second job and that other students are unemployed.
Think of how many hours you have available in any given day. Your young so you can survive on 4 or 5 hours of sleep indefinitely it may seem. If your an average art student you might draw or work on gen ed work for 4 hours a day. If you give the rest of your time out for retail work youll gain some spending money but you also slow your journey to art independence.
Consider this article on how to master a skill in stages.

http://www.lifeclever.com/five-steps-to-skill-mastery/

Dont get me wrong work if you must but imagine yourself as a working artist upon graduation. If you have to repay loans youll need to be making a fair wage. Visualize how you can work with the locals and still be learning art with that time so that when you get your degree youve already got your foot in the door. I met our state senator while volunteering at the city art festival (if only i were prepared to show him my work).

I wish I had all the success to back up what I just said but Im like you just getting started. But since I have made time my first priority I have become a more productive person 10 fold. If you apply the logic that it takes 10000 hours to master a skill and if I want to be pretty bad ass by 2012 then I need to draw 6-8 hours a day...

Good work so far keep experimenting.
Cheers

EDITED short story; Dont let trivial things get in the way of you becoming awsome

[Pezz]

I see a noticeable improvement in your last two posts. Without knowing what your drawing from when you practice I would ask how are you measuring your proportions?


I kind of spot measure instead of drawing lines on the paper constructive-like since I have a time limit in life drawing class. I'm drawing directly from live models. I use heads and just try to make relative measurements (checking length of thighs VS torsos, lining up flare of nostril to corner of eye etc)


You mentioned picking up a second job and that other students are unemployed.
Think of how many hours you have available in any given day. Your young so you can survive on 4 or 5 hours of sleep indefinitely it may seem. If your an average art student you might draw or work on gen ed work for 4 hours a day. If you give the rest of your time out for retail work youll gain some spending money but you also slow your journey to art independence.

Dont get me wrong work if you must but imagine yourself as a working artist upon graduation. If you have to repay loans youll need to be making a fair wage. Visualize how you can work with the locals and still be learning art with that time so that when you get your degree youve already got your foot in the door. I met our state senator while volunteering at the city art festival (if only i were prepared to show him my work).


I fully agree. I just gave my two weeks notice on Wednesday, because I realize how much it's holding me back now. I hate it because all I can see now is lost time. I can't wait, last day is November 4th... I'll have all the time in the world to work on my art. On the days I have totally off, I plan to draw all day with some physical activity in between... because, well, I need exercise. I like to put 2-6 hrs a week into hockey :P



Good work so far keep experimenting.
Cheers

EDITED short story; Dont let trivial things get in the way of you becoming awsome

Thanks, I'm enjoying the ride and I won't let shit stand in my way anymore. Thanks for the visit and inspirational words

[Pezz]

Need to update this thing a lot more.

Experimentation is the name of the game right now. Trying new things with conte, chalk and ways to render in graphite.

EDIT: Kind of funny to see the model's hair grow through the semester.

[fionkell]

Hey Pezzle, nice to meet another ballpoint pen scribbler :)

From what I can see you're focusing on human anatomy more at the moment, which is good and your progress from figures in your first post is definitely showing. At the moment I'd suggest breaking down the figure into blockier or more basic forms more in a lot of studies, to get a feel for the shape of the human form as a general idea - its planes, parts, and how it all fits together.
If you've got access to any books by George Bridgman, he's very good at this (the drawings are blocky but they provide the underlying structure of the human form, edges and all). He's got a few books out but you can find his "Complete Guide to Drawing From Life" pretty easily now, sticks them all into one handy big book. Got mine cheaps off eBay :)

Also another guy is Burne Hogarth; now, he's kind of exaggerative in his forms, but he does have some good ideas on construction of the body, most importantly hands and feet. If you can find "Dynamic Anatomy" anywhere I'd say it's worth a look in comparison.

Keep up with your perspective practice and try some more value studies from life, and don't be afraid to branch out into animals too. I found that by studying various animal anatomy this year I gained a better understanding of how muscles and the body as a whole coordinate, and also their similarities and differences to the human form.

And more demons :p

[Pezz]

Hey Pezzle, nice to meet another ballpoint pen scribbler :)

Also another guy is Burne Hogarth; now, he's kind of exaggerative in his forms, but he does have some good ideas on construction of the body, most importantly hands and feet. If you can find "Dynamic Anatomy" anywhere I'd say it's worth a look in comparison.

Keep up with your perspective practice and try some more value studies from life, and don't be afraid to branch out into animals too. I found that by studying various animal anatomy this year I gained a better understanding of how muscles and the body as a whole coordinate, and also their similarities and differences to the human form.

And more demons :p

You know what's cool, ImagineFX did a series of Tutorials on Animal Anatomy... I have been wanting to go through those. When it gets nicer out, I'd like to go to the zoo and sketch from life. Good idea!

I have the Hogarth/Bridgman/Goldstein/Bammes/Loomis collection, I guess I'm afraid to do some studies right now and am focusing on slightly more polished pieces because Im trying to compile a portfolio to get into a different school. Maybe the would want to see my studies? :) To be honest I've been so nervous and uptight about what I'm producing lately. Everything for the past few posts have been nothing but art dumps from my life drawing class.

And yes, ballpoint pen scribbles are the best. Demons are better, MUAHAHA!

And I'll update soon, just really sleepy. I'll get a scan in before bed.

[cw]

life studies look great, studies in general looking good!

nice to see you in ssg15, it should be fun.

I wish I can find hung gar near me, it is a great style! :D

[Pezz]

Hey, sorry for the slow updates so far - the end of the semester approaches quickly, which means it's final project crunch - pretty much all of my time is devoted to class assignments right now. So I'll post some of this school stuff!

Just a bit of an art dump. Two sort of free and loose sketches (tiger warrior and Kadmos facing the dragon), an ink brush study attacked by skulls, a study of the human pelvis and an oil painting I'm working on (struggling with actually, but I'm learning in great strides).

Can't wait til semester over... will have so much more... ugh.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Good start on that oil painting, Brittany! Drawing wise it's working fairly well, the proportions are good and you're keeping the shadows simple and transparent. The main problem right now is uniformly hard edges. It looks like you're inching your strokes towards each other in order to stay within the lines, and that's something that shows instantly. Don't be afraid to lose the drawing in places temporarily- paints strokes into each other. Background into hair, hair into background, and remeasure when needed to recover the drawing. It's extremely harrowing at first, yes, but it'll give you a wonderful edge quality and will let you choose when to make a hard edge. Look up notes on Sargent's approach, they're floating around the net and talk about this sort of thing.

[Onnophris]

Hi Pezzle:) Anatomy stuff coming along, your proportions are looking good. Nice start on that painting. I agree with Sidharth about the edges especially that long hard edge on the hair that's going on. Also noticed that when you shade your stuff you bring the shadow all the way to the edge. Try and get some reflected light in there kind of like what you got going on in the forearm of that last painting. It will help give the illusion of form. keep it up!

[fionkell]

Keep up yer good studies. I've never used oils so can't help you with anything there heh, Sidharth has some great pointers though.

[aadi]

keep going on great

[Pezz]

Sorry about such lax updates. Preparing my portfolio and running around with this and that to get into art school was time consuming but worth it - I have been accepted! With all going as planned, I should start in September.

On to sketches! Basically just brick-a-brak, assorted sketches, thumbnail/idea pages turned into sketch tangents and studies. The horned warrior guy near the end of this cluster is embarrassing - it's what happens when you idly draw while completely concentrating on something else, lol.

[Raoul Duke]

You seem to be heavy handed in the early stages of your process. Like most of us your working detail before you get the big picture right. Just work out the basic form and proportions first. Then work up to those minuscule details segment by segment. You may find them unnecessary in the end.

[Pezz]

You seem to be heavy handed in the early stages of your process. Like most of us your working detail before you get the big picture right. Just work out the basic form and proportions first. Then work up to those minuscule details segment by segment. You may find them unnecessary in the end.

Yeah I'm struggling with it. I hope I can get it down soon :(

Do you think it would help to theme my sketchbooks, by the way? I just seem to sketch randomly whatever comes to mind in my moleskine... I was wondering if it might benefit me to reserve one for study, one for gesture and one for the imagination so everything's easy to look back up.

[Strela]

What I want to see is more beholder studies. Become the Michaelangelo of beholders.

[Raoul Duke]

Yeah I'm struggling with it. I hope I can get it down soon :(

Do you think it would help to theme my sketchbooks, by the way? I just seem to sketch randomly whatever comes to mind in my moleskine... I was wondering if it might benefit me to reserve one for study, one for gesture and one for the imagination so everything's easy to look back up.

Yeah go ahead and try to keep a theme going. Buy sketchbooks with different surfaces, weight and sized. Don't rule out stuff from your local stationary shop either. Try card stock, it's just like bristol paper, only reasonably priced. Get one of those clipboards with a compartment to hold your materials. Don't worry as much about themes as materials. Some SBs will not handle some media and some will flourish.

[Pezz]

You can tell I raised my drawing hand a little when I referenced it... lol

[Nezumi Works]

Absolutely wicked, inspiring stuff here. Got nothin' to say for critique, just marvelling on a sketchbook used the way it should be. Absolutely mad stuff.

[Pezz]

First the boring pages of me trying to pass the time at the store on a boring, slow memorial day... then the fun stuff! Necrotic flesh! Festering eyeball boils! Badly executed cheap Reeves colored pencils!

The funny part is Mr. Pustulent there wasn't intended to be so... jovial. He just sort of evolved that way.

I know I should be doing studies and stuff but fuck I think I just need to draw what comes out sometimes. Everything scanned all warm and too bright : <

[fionkell]

Observational drawings for the win!

Ah I wish I knew how to let my drawings flow more like yours, hehe, I think I worry too much whilst drawing.

[Pezz]

Don't really want to make a separate crit thread for it so here's a master copy I did of a Salviati drawing in red chalk. Sorry it's not the greatest photograph - I wish I had a scanner that could do 12x16

[Pezz]

Absolutely wicked, inspiring stuff here. Got nothin' to say for critique, just marvelling on a sketchbook used the way it should be. Absolutely mad stuff.

Thanks Nezumi. I try to do studies like a good student but at the same time I feel like my little sketchbook is the place for all my spontaneous ideas and random drawings to go. The thing is small and fits in my purse so I can just pull it out and sketch whenever the mood hits me.

Observational drawings for the win!

Ah I wish I knew how to let my drawings flow more like yours, hehe, I think I worry too much whilst drawing.

I wish I knew how too! Lol. Honestly I just kind of make a shape and let more shapes feed off of that shape until I see patterns. Other times I randomly come up with an idea and attempt to execute it.

[Pezz]

Remember when you said I should become the Michelangelo of Beholders (and Beholder-Kin)?

Here we go.

Page left empty at the bottom right for more Beholder goodness.

Soon: Beholder anatomy study as copied from the inside of I, Tyrant. Do I get bonus points if I do it in red chalk or silverpoint?

[surus]

Thanks for sharing the master study and your boxing photographs! I drew one of them today. Keep on posting!

[Pezz]

More random stuff I drew on the beach and lounging around at my friend's house, with guest appearances from my friends Arthur and Natasha. Oh yes, and Pokemon.

[equilerex]

The red chalk master is real tight! you've captured it pretty well :)
And liking the detail and strokes on the eyeball monster... seems like pretty simple to color with rendering like that ^^

[andres333]

great drawing really impressing

[Pezz]

Did some sketching, esp my beloved Star Wars. Then I tried some colors in Photoshop etc, trying to get comfortable with it.

The last one is a creature based on a Musk Ox... a dear friend of mine died and he photographed Musk Oxen quite a bit on his adventures. It reminds me of him.

[gutss]

Your colours look nice! Keep working at that photoshop, I'm sure you'll get it (and congratulations on your acceptance into the Joe Kubert school. well deserved, your drawings are cracking)

[Pezz]

Some more sketches and quick 30 min / 1 hr thunderdome like drawings + enviro wip + Website Layout

[Onnophris]

Hey pezzle. Nice colors going on especially like that lava enviro one. Wait your going to the Joe kubert school??? Awesome!!! I love comics. Looking forward to seeing yours:)

[Pezz]

Life drawing dump from Joe Kubert School Figure Drawing class - September 30, 2010

[Pezz]

Hey pezzle. Nice colors going on especially like that lava enviro one. Wait your going to the Joe kubert school??? Awesome!!! I love comics. Looking forward to seeing yours:)

Hey Onnophris! Sure am. I just finished my third week there and boy am I having a great time... My hand was cramping up the first week and I was like "man what the hell when will it get better?" Then I learned about Ub Iwwerks and how he drew 700 pictures in a night sometimes to create Plane Crazy.

[deerinheadlights]

Nice Studies! Her head seems a little small though, she's looking 10-11 heads tall there. I was looking at your post in the porfolio thread, did you go to MCCC for those figure drawings in there? Because I was scrolling down and was like "holy crap I recognize those models".

[Pezz]

Nice Studies! Her head seems a little small though, she's looking 10-11 heads tall there. I was looking at your post in the porfolio thread, did you go to MCCC for those figure drawings in there? Because I was scrolling down and was like "holy crap I recognize those models".

Yeah her head looks a little small in one of the more loose unfinished ones, however I count about 7 1/2 from tip of skull to bottom of chin in most of the others that are full figures. It could be that my camera lens is distorting them, I have to photograph them on the wall hehe.

And YES I did go to MCCC! I've taken figure drawing there a few times.

[Pezz]

Just a few sketches for character development for a "Sunday Strip" project. I'll photograph my recent life drawings and foot studies soon!

[Quigleyer]

well your artwork has certainly improved from the last time I saw it. And now you're going to the Kubert school? Good job!

Well hell- good for you. I'm really glad things worked out well for you and I look forward to seeing more of your art in the future.

[Pezz]

More life studies from my classes. I am behind on keeping these up to date online so these are a few weeks old but there will be more :)

[Pezz]

Some randomness from today.. Anatomy Study and a fun 1 hr paint with some 10 minute embellishments. Oh, Pokemon.

[Jamie Romoser]

Ello Pezzle :) I'm diggin that your learning your construction I need to get back to studying that aswell. Theres a good progression in your updates :D
keep it up and keep having fun
till next time
-Jamie

[Pezz]

Another smattering of sketchbook-worthy pieces. I still keep forgetting to photograph all my big life drawings >>;

[Pezz]

Quick 20 min sketch... 'when you wanna' ride...'

[Pezz]

Just some fun comps I didn't feel needed their own thread. ... 3x childrens book riddles for class + 1x Adventure Time Art Nouveau. We have more than amild obsession with Adventure Time at the Joe Kubert School

[MaFeng]

So many great pencil work here.Your work show you are relax when you drawing.I can see you are a kind and hard man.Keep post then I can learn more thing here.

[TheGeek]

More than your beautiful sketches, it is your visible improvement that are great !

keep working !

[wooden mango]

Nice pencils. Really great ideas and it's good to see that you are studying hard aswell as also having fun with doodles and such. Keep it up! :)

[Gobi]

hey, thank you for jinglein around ma sketchbook! :D
i like your style and have to say: the more zombies, the better the sketchbook ;)
keep it up :>

[Pezz]

Always forget to update this thing. Mostly cause' I do so many 'throwaway' sketches I don't have the thought process to scan them in or anything.

So have some pelvis sketches from the skeleton in our room:

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And my weird way of remembering the back muscles:

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It looks like a Walrus King.

[Trixtar]

...From the name of your SB I actually expected a lot of demons and zombies and overall gorish content... Don't worry, I'm not disappointed, just doing some soul searching here on why the hell I always get drawn towards the Dark Side.

I like what you have made regardless of life or death :)

[Pezz]

...From the name of your SB I actually expected a lot of demons and zombies and overall gorish content... Don't worry, I'm not disappointed, just doing some soul searching here on why the hell I always get drawn towards the Dark Side.

I like what you have made regardless of life or death :)

Oh hey I like to post plenty of that! Fiiine, I'll do more scary death zombies :yum:

[lazicoliver]

Cool drawings. You do have an eye for dynamics. Keep up!

[Pezz]

Mesoamerican face study from the movie Apocalypto.

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[Pezz]

Some studies for my Anatomy class.

Male Pelvis Study
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Male Pelvis Study w/ Overlay
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Male Arm Study
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Arm Study w/ Muscle Overlay
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I'm not quite happy with the overlay on the arm studies yet. I am having a hard time understanding the forearm muscles existing in 3D space. Will have to do some Bridgman/Lemen studies to crack that one open later.

[Pezz]

Life drawing dump from today. Still in class, more to come.

[Broderick]

I love how you reflect here that you sketch everything and anything, it is something I need to take a lesson from as I need to do a lot more life sketching than I currently do.

[Pezz]

I love how you reflect here that you sketch everything and anything, it is something I need to take a lesson from as I need to do a lot more life sketching than I currently do.

May be weird coming from someone who has a bit of a daily struggle trying to convince themselves that it's worth their time to get out of bed in the morning Buuuut... Let me just say... sketch away. Sketch to your hearts content... anything that comes to mind, anything you observe and admire :)

[rem92]

i like the anatomy studies.. some are a bit exaggerated though.. thats not good

[Pezz]

i like the anatomy studies.. some are a bit exaggerated though.. thats not good

Could you be a little less vague? The latest batch of these were done directly from life so I'm afraid I can't supply reference for you to cross check. I have 4 newsprint pads filled with these studies but I don't feel like photographing them all for the ol' SB. Also pray tell how exaggeration is bad? Exaggeration can work in one's favor. The sterility of constant anatomical study feels... stale.