Pezzle's Necrosketchikon [December 10, 2009]

[Pezzle]

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!

[Pezzle]

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

[Pezzle]

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.

[Pezzle]

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.

[Pezzle]

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.

[Pezzle]

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

[Pezzle]

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.

[Pezzle]

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 =)

[Pezzle]

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 :)

[Grandmassa Mr. Spect]

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.

[Pezzle]

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.

[Pezzle]

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:

[Pezzle]

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.

[Pezzle]

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.

[Pezzle]

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.

[Pezzle]

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.

[Pezzle]

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

[Pezzle]

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 :)

[Pezzle]

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.

[Pezzle]

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 !

[Pezzle]

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 :)

[Pezzle]

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

[Pezzle]

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

[Pezzle]

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!! :)

[Pezzle]

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.

[Pezzle]

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

[Pezzle]

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.

[Pezzle]

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.

[Pezzle]

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

[Pezzle]

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

[Pezzle]

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.

[iolarnula]

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

[Pezzle]

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

[Pezzle]

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!

[iolarnula]

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.