| Skotchbok

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Latest Work (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=141309&page=999)


I'm always looking for critiques of my work, even if you feel the tiniest urge to tell me something, post it up :)

Thanks for stopping by.

[Dorkthrone]

Nice start. The first and last pictures are really nicely detailed.
I'd recommend doing more studies of the face. I find that the more you draw, the more you get the hang of it.

Can't wait to see more from you.

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Here's some tiny micromini more

plus an anatomy study of the deltoid muscle (you can see the rest from the "series" in my ebook (see sig))


I'm also doing these 45 second studies of the human body from the posemaniacs website, there's lots of pages of poses so it'll take a while to scan, upload etc.

till tomorrow

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it's tomorrow already, so here's the update

sorry about the massive image - its the 45 second drawings I was talking about before.
I do these twice a day, about 20 mins per A4 page.
I think I've improved a tiny bit, need to do more of them - to fill up the entire sketchbook.

also my other daily drawing: human anatomy, this time brachialis and biceps.

[andrea.bianco]

Insects are such a fascinating subject, and I really like your sketches and studies. Thanks for sharing!

[Mr.Juicy]

I suggest you to stop painting heads with all it's features, first of all try to draw the basic forms (don't know what source you use for studing heads) while it will be a really close to original. As it's written in Loomis books, patience is the key to succses. So pick your pencils and draw! :) It really helps.
and keep sharing your stuff.

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andrea.bianco:
Drawing insects is very fascinating. I drew those without magnification, unless you count a pile of books magnification. I was gonna draw a shield bug, but it was too small I think, and starting to crumble a bit.

Mr.Juicy:
Thanks, I did have a brief go at drawing featureless heads from spheres and still use that technique. However I'll take your advice and draw some more mannequin-esque heads. Plus I'll get my hands on some Loomis, Bridgman, and / or Hogarth books in the January sales I think.


Here are some more anatomy drawings, I've got a new weekend project on the go: painting my dog in acrylics. I'll be back to head studies and more of these during the week.

[Meilin]

Hey your insect studies are amazing. You seem really good at rendering and drawing what you see, so just keep at them anatomy studies and you'll be drawing humans in no time.

[PsiBug]

Your linework on the muscle fibers is really beautiful and effective!

On heads I think you have a tendency to shrink the back of the skull a little.

Your sketchbook is looking very good, thanks for sharing these drawings.

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Meilin:
Thanks, hopefully I can draw more of them during next spring/summer

PsiBug:
I really need to focus on the head more, I'm thinking of drawing skulls at different angles - thanks for the advice

Here's the next update, terrrible planning with the axilla study yesterday... I just rushed in without measuring angles with a tiny pencil, so today with the lower arm study I used my mechanical pencil... Gonna keep using it I think.

[Kfeeras]

heyy the bader-meinhof -movieposter!! sweet. great studies and sketches! great rendering on the large insect.

keep UP!

cheers

[serio]

The anatomy, and life drawing are very cool however You must practise more with face studies. But I'm sure You will make it.Keep going.

[Arbinn]

The insects are awesome and the anatomy studies look really clean and good. What kind of pencils do you use? I use normal HB-B & mechanical pencils and my studies are all dirty. :@ Guess I just use them wrong.

The faces need some work though but I'm sure you'll learn in no time. :)

[Nettle_Mountain]

one minute or minute and half posemaniacs next, you have time to look out for muscle shapes

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Kfeeras
I'll try to keep up, thanks! :)

serio
Ay, more drawing of the heads - I need to get quicker too, thanks for the
encouragment

Arbinn
Hey thanks. For materials I use a 0.5mm HB mechanical pencil, a rubber
pencil thing plus a soft rubber. Yeppo, more facial studies to come.

Nettle_Mountain
Thanks, I'll try that out


And here's yet another update. First are more of the usual anatomy
studies (the book is focusing on the arm currently).
Next are some face studies from this tutorial (http://www.anticz.com/heads.htm).
As you can see this page has horrible line enconomy and is entirely from
ref, but I'll produce these with different angles hopefully, in combination
with quick line studies from mags. Thats the idea anyway.

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Large update this time.

Heres the lower arm with its multitude of muscles and the posterior border of the Ulna when the arm is supinated and pronated.

I also painted my dog Harry on A3 in acrylics, the reference should be below it. The bricks are all off and his snout and closer leg is too thin, however I think the colours are ok.

So no facial studies - think I'm gonna do some of those tomorrow.

[Mischeviouslittleelf]

Areit, some pretty good and solid studies here, I really like the anatomy stuff, and it is great to see you putting time into the pose maniacs facility and all that! It is quite interesting to see that when you study things that you seemingly have a limited prior relationship with (formwise) you do these amazing, objectional studies, clean and all, and then you try to put on a face, and all of a sudden you start with the abstractions that you have built up to represent, par example: noses ears and so forth, study more faces:)

Good dedication here anyways, so keep active and keep working:)

-E

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Mischeviouslittleelf:
Thanks for your encouragement - I think with the anatomy studies it's literally a matter of time applied, I spend about 5 hours per study! So they're a strange class of a study, they're like a warm up after a 5 year hiatus. Also its sort of a project of mine to go through the book - and I'm learning all these interesting things about the body. I'll comment in your sketchbook, thanks again :)

Now - some faces. Also some semi-famous british "portraits" I've been drawing on the side over a few days - Rolf Harris, Tony Hart, Tom Jenkinson and Bogdan Raczynski. Today I ravaged a copy of the Sunday Times for heads, and just a few minutes ago some skull studies with my tablet.

C&C very welcome :)

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Distinct lack of heads here, instead there's hands.

And a planet. I'll be back with a what-i've-learned-about-heads tablet sketch later on. Peas

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Somewhat later on [sic]:

here's that study (not from reference), and the on going anatomy book studies - hands are finished now.

Any comments at all are very welcome :)

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Had a couple of days break, mostly to focus on facial construction, plus my first model sheet for a random character. However tomorrow I'm back on track for anatomy - learning about legs, something I know nothing about so it'll be fun :yum:

[juczpen]

Very interesting, one thing I'd like to mention is that you take a closer look at proportions on the face and on the body, but overall I like your sketchbook :) http://seoagora.com/img/589/d08l1104oulu/smiley2.gifhttp://seoagora.com/img/308/s08e1024rvou/champagne.gif

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Wow its been a while, but I've been thinking about Education of late -
spent a day researching colleges/universities, found a bunch of very good
information including a close by Life Drawing class, a few Art Foundation
courses and Open Days for next year.

However I got some anatomy done, as per usual - its so bloody hard trying
to catch natural sunlight this time of year, and without throwing distracting
shadows everywhere. The urge to sleep....

And many thanks juczpen for your input, i do have great difficulty with
proportions, its something I can maybe tackle with beginner orientated art
books I'll be buying in the January sales hopefully. :D

Tomorrow I'm off to see a friend who's back from Uni studying illustration,
we'll get some interesting drawing done i think... my first attempts at comicing no less

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Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to everyone!

I didn't get a whole lot done, but I made some very rough decisions on a
Scott McCloud exercise in one of his books.
Basicly I had to divide a film down into 16 key moments, and I chose Aliens.
Its all from reference however I introduced some new camera angles,
rearranged scenes etc.


Sorry for any spoilers!

[Ghostbrush]

YEH! nice solid studies you have here.

Gotta say you must be after my heart by doing alien in 16 frames ha ha!

good luck

Alex

[Ghostbrush]

YEH! nice solid studies you have here.

Gotta say you must be after my heart by doing alien in 16 frames ha ha!

good luck

Alex

[Eddieee]

Definitely keep doing more faces, I see some nice improvement. Take the same time and care with them with them as your muscle studies, as your heads seem kinda rushed. Keep it up!

[DiR3Kt]

Hi nice start! Anatomy studies are good.

A little trick for the faces: Try to find the line of symetry and align the features on it.

[Abrodos]

Sweet anatomy studies, and Amazing insect drawngs! In your faces you've got the tendency to elongate the lower part (nose and mouth) too much. Keep in mind that the eyes are approx at the center of the entire head length.
Anyway, good work! Keep it up:)

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Thank you so much everyone for the encouragement and good words :)

Next is a small update.

Another thing, how do I edit my sketchbooks title? I need to add NSFW or "Contains Nudity" or something. I have some life drawing to post up.

Thanks!

[Aberzheim]

Nice work on these recent digis, and the storyboard studies! and your dog portraits are really cute =) keep up the good work, and happy painting as always!

-and yep, I have the same Louise Gordon books, and did the exact same studies before, but not to the level of detail you achieved in your drawings :D the rendering's really good in them, can really feel the form in the studies

[Koto]

Solid studies here, dude, you're gona eat up LARA!

16 frames Aliens is brilliant :D would love to see you do more.

Catch you soon.

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Drawn at the V&A yesterday.

[DoktorNo]

On the second sketch the nose is out of proportion on the close-up, I think... BTW: for what "V&A" stands for? :)

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DoktorNo
I got lazy and was tired :/
V&A is the Victoria and Albert museum in London

[DoktorNo]

DoktorNo
I got lazy and was tired :/
V&A is the Victoria and Albert museum in London

Good to know. :)

Anyway, excellent studies. :)

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2-3 hour study of Charlotte Casiraghi and a concept for a stormtrooper, loosely based on the original one by Ralph McQuarrie.

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New stuff!

My time at the London Atelier of Representational Art:

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/picture.php?albumid=2926&pictureid=16355
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/picture.php?albumid=2926&pictureid=16353
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/picture.php?albumid=2926&pictureid=16354

And some life drawing
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/picture.php?albumid=2927&pictureid=16357
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/picture.php?albumid=2927&pictureid=16356

[Ian Barker]

Nice studies! That portrait looks great :)

[Abrodos]

Amazing progress since I last visited. Love the princess portrait, the only thing I'd say is that both cheek's glare might be a little too white. Also, those pencil pieces are really sweet.
Keep working, you're definitely improving!

[JiR]

your studys of the human bones are very clean

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Liffey
Thanks! I need to do more of those

Abrodos
Thank you, in the photo there's a fair bit of highlight on the brow and cheeks, but now you say this I see there's a little patch of dark midtone missing on her left cheek. And probably more mistakes.

JiR
Ty :)

Bit of an update now: I followed Loomis' instructions with the 'variations on ideal proportions', turn out ok i think.
And some concepts for a star wars comic.

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/picture.php?albumid=3475&pictureid=19897

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/picture.php?albumid=3475&pictureid=19896

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/picture.php?albumid=3475&pictureid=19895

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/picture.php?albumid=3474&pictureid=19894

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/picture.php?albumid=3474&pictureid=19893

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End of another term at LARA. First is a cast of Saint Benedict (or so I reckon), and some 4 week life drawings. I also drew people on the train to the school, so there's a selection of the best. Finally there's a random concept influenced by a sci-fi novel I read ages ago.

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alo andy
that cast drawing of beardyman is really nice, it looked great all cut out and framed. your figure drawings have also come a long way, ill just reiterate what i said before about value transitions on skin, it is usually good practise to downplay them for various reasons. but your developing a good sensitivity for it

on the commuting portraits, it feels like ur perhaps breaking down the forms too much at the expense of naturalism. eg the third face on the first row, the nose is almost a completely straight line, you also simplify the eyebrows into straight lines a lot of the time, bear in mind that eyebrows follow the changing contours of the head, which means that the way you draw them will also convey quite a lot about the angle and form of the portrait.
lookie here, since i know u luv loomis
http://fineart.sk/photos/figure/162.JPG
see column in the middle, and bottom left. even from an isolated eye you know exactly what angle the heads at, because the eyebrows tell u the form of the head they're on

the angles ur using feel a bit forced, the eyebrows are a part of that - like the second head on the second row. the head seems especially square. remember the angles are there to break down what you're seeing to make it easier to draw, like curves etc. dont impose the angles if they arent helping u see something. i think this style is more appropriate for static subjects like models,casts, portraits personally

on the metal head thing: be wary about drawing things flat on like that. the symmetry is hard to pull off n compromises form. it seems weird to me that the helmet is face on but the tube at the front protrudes at an angle, and i dont understand where the eye things are sitting in terms of depth. youve drawn them with completely flat edges, which suggests that they just stick out sideway from the eye which is kinda awkward. would have been nice to see more variety in the line and some shading to make part of the eye panel recede

well keep it up man. youve come a long way since the start of lara, keep me updated!

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sean
Thanks for the help, I see how the eyebrows can really help find the shape of the forehead. Each face in the commuting portraits are about 5 mins or less though, so I felt I could only block them in. I guess it was a warm up to the approach at lara each morning... But yeah I should get quicker, and remember the details of the faces.

So update time, first up are some concepts for a comic:
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Some figure drawing from imagination:
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And Andrew Loomis studies on my A6 tablet. I'm just straight copying these (spending ages on each figure too :/) until I get to the "caped mannequin". From then on I'm gonna spend a couple of weeks drawing that caped guy...
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Update time again - quite a large one, sorry about that.

Each day I start off with a Posemaniacs warm up. This is the most recent:
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Then I go on to Andrew Loomis studies, gonna start his Mannikin exercises soon.
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This one failed because I treated the bounding boxes as perfect squares, which they weren't. So everything is a little distorted inside them, dohoho.
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Next up is a bunch of Mall Galleries life drawings, using Bristol Board.
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Some studies I made at Dulwich Picture Gallery. The guy on the right is from a Salvator Rosa about some guards gambling. The other guards are from another painting, can't remember who did that....
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Sneakily drawing people in my new moleskin
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Later on in the day I draw figures from my imagination.
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Or the occasional concept.
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[sleep]

hey improving leaps and bounds,
http://attachments.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1040683&d=1281734545
this ones especially successful . ur imagination figures are coming along too but careful with the midsection, ur obliques are looking mighty long, and ur nipping ur waists in a lot. strong foundations though just keep building on this by collecting ref pics and drawing from them a lot

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Smaller update.
Been kinda lax lately :/ Playing computer games, Minecraft FTW!

Cheers for the advice Sean, it is always very very much appreciated, even when I forget to Thank comment posts.

First up is the usual Andrew Loomis, getting to the mannikin, I can almost reach it.
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Another Star Wars character
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And a Sargent study from the Tate Britain (thank you Sean!).
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[B-zilla]

Woo nice updates! I like those Loomis studies. They're spot on and definitely well worth the practice.

Also, in addition to what Sean said, re: your imagination drawings, I think the chests are a little deflated and could do with more volume.

Keep it up! I'm going to do some loomis studies too now! :D

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More. I need to update more often. Need less images per post.

The usual Loomis
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Studies of a JS Sargent and Bejamin West at the Tate Britain, <3 that place
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and Costas Sneak Drawing
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Crit's and Comments welcome

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Belindi
Thanks you! I can see what you say about the chests, needs to barrel out more.

Some more gubbins:

V&A sketch of Pandora by John Gibson
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tone study of Alun Armstrong from the fabulous movie Krull
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[Vatsel]

You seem to work in the right direction :)

Don't forget to include color and work from imagination to your schedule though.

[tehmeh]

great tone study and lara stuff, more art please!

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tehmeh
aww thanks man, more incoming!

Vatsel
Thanks, there's some imagination pieces scattered about, but its taking a back seat at the moment. I bought the Colour and Light Theory vid recently, plus Harold Speed's Oil Painting Techniques so I'll get to it.

Trip to the Hunterian
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St. George at the V&A - the cast courts are now fully open!
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[Aberzheim]

heya andrew,

those loomis studies are going great, and so are your tonal studies (+1 for the Krull studies, watched that again over the summer). Also, your figures are less stiff, and the amount of studies youre doing is great, nice to see yer studies at hunterian on sat

however, in your quicker work and studies, there is a tendency for your proportions and construction to slide somewhat (some overlong facial proportions). I'd keep what sean said about some of your drawings looking too angular, try being more loose and gestural in your sketches, introduce some softer lines in your subway sketches and watch for the torsos in your imaginative figures

p.s. Harold Speed's da bomb, the step-by-step portrait demo is gold, have post-its by the pile and highlight the shit outta that book :D

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Thank you Brandon :)
Just getting into the main parts of the book, the beginning echoes some of the areas in the drawing book. But its getting meaty now. I want to memorise both of them :O


Finally finished this concept sketch, spent way too long on it and went OTT on the rendering... never doing that again in a sketchbook.
EDIT: The middle guy is from reference (http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/File:Raith_Sienar_NEGTC.jpg) , so credit goes to Michael Sutfin for the original. Everything else is from imagination.
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And I went back and rendered St. George at the V&A, only to do a sketchy block in of a statue of Diana. I'll have to go back and finish it :>
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Just some figures from imagination today
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[Koto]

Leaps and bounds, dude. Your imagination stuff is definitely improving. Keep it up!

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Hey thanks for dropping by Koto! The imagination stuff has been lacking a bit lately, probably because I've been shifting the viewing angles around.

Anyway, some works, a small study of Frank Lampard from this picture (http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0qxzUGRyZJw/SJ7Crl8_QdI/AAAAAAAAAAU/xWA6ysJ8giw/s400/chelsea_narrowweb__300x337,0.jpg). I'm digital painting the rest of it, giving myself until Friday to finish.
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And a Sargent study at the National Portrait Gallery from last Friday.
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[tehmeh]

AWww yeah the skulls

good Sargent study, I must go find that painting!

[Koto]

Sargent study is tight! How long did you spend on it?

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Koto
That's 2 and a half hours, standing, my legs were killing me!

tehmeh
The room next has another sargent painting, a bunch of WWI generals standing around, which I drew last friday.
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And better figs. from imagination. Need to capture that natural standing.
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[Koto]

Great values on the footie study and the statue figure, where did you sketch it?

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Thanks Koto, means a lot to me :) colour is very soon should you want to know....
The statue is at the NPG, its at the start of the hall way with all the busts.

So tired today just organising stuff, but here's an update:

Gonna be using 2B for my 2mm mechanical pencil from now on
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The theme; politicians, podiums, speeches
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hello friends!

A colour study!! It's a Patrick Nagel study, I've liked his work for a couple of years now and I got a really hi-res piece off the net.
The reason I chose this one is the pose, she's standing so I can get figure drawing and colour in one study. The downside with it is I spent around 10 hours on this (I think?). So I need to speed up.
Here's the original http://tminx.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/nagel1.jpg
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And heres a little process bit for ya
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The next one will be a brown school study of some kind. Possibly Velazquez.

Also some more figure drawing from imagination, the theme is office people.
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[Aberzheim]

the Patrick Nagel's study is good, you got the shapes reading well
footie study's looking great as well (reminds me of Michaelangelo's Pieta for some reason :D )
your recent sketches and figures are looking much more improved- id still say that using some references can be helpful at times to avoid your imagination sketches from having too similar a pose at times, theyre still looking a bit stiff and have that 'idealised anatomy' look

keep up the paintings, looking forward to see some oils and colours soon!

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Thank you Brandon, I've used ref for a recent character sketch in Photoshop, just for inspiration to get gesture, not directly copying. Works really well thanks. :)

Aaaand my first Landscape (ever!) and proper colour study. Took 2 hours ~ I'm kinda pleased with it, but the foreground isn't too great.
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And this unoriginal scientist concept from imagination. Switching to photoshop for imaginative gestures from now on due to poor lighting.
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[Vatsel]

notice how you shade the transition between the nose and the eyebrows, the shaded area of the nose doesn't really connect with the eyebrows most of the time, and not in your lighting situation.
also the eyes are too close

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Hey thanks for the crit Mark, but I'm having some trouble comprehending the first part of it. The primary light source is coming from her right, so the shadows are located on her left hand side, where there is no (or much weaker) light. Her facial structure is such that the light can't reach the left side of her nose, and is therefore in some shadow. Please do give examples of what you mean though.
But yeah, I agree the eyes are too close >_<

Update tiem. A 2 hour landscape, need to do more, get quicker.
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And a style study for this Star Wars comic. I personally think its good, I'm gonna use this style. Yes it is very similar to Patrick Nagels.
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Oh yes, is it better with or without the armour?

[Aberzheim]

landscapes! yay! :) great to see youre having alot of confidence tackling colour

as for the character design, if youre introducing another colour into the pallette, i'd say the armoured version looks better

[Vatsel]

grr about that last crit, idk if it's worth explaining,

moving on to your new work - I love how it's clean, i think this style works well :)

[Koto]

Latest landscape is ace! Don't worry about speed too much, you'll get faster the more you do.

Armour chick FTW.

I think Vatsel is saying the shadow makes it look like the nose plane goes straight into the forehead, it kinda appears the plane at the top of the nose is missing?

http://i54.tinypic.com/2qujdjb.jpg

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Aberzheim
More landscapes on their way. Yes I totally see that adding an extra colour might help with bits of the clothing. I don't want the colour scheme to get too complex though.

Vatsel
Thanks, using this style puts more emotional emphasis on the subject, as in theory it leaves your mind to fill in the bits of detail. Suggestive in a way.

Koto
Thanks, but i wanna get fasterrr. I see what you're getting at with the loomis head, but that's also a man. Women (generalising heavily here) have less of a "dip" mid eyebrows. But anyway i dunno why i'm still defending that piece



Finally finished this sculp after 3 goes, stretched over 3 months (took 9 hours?) :/
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Thought it'd be good to include the original photo.
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[Koto]

Worth every hour you put into that sculp study, progress has been made, oh yes.

MORE.

[tehmeh]

Don't know why I didn't check in earlier, scary good progress man, like I mentioned with your sketchbook - lines and shapes have gotten a lot better. The studies at the top are wicked

i would start trying new brushes for the environments, even just studies. nearly everything in a scene like that is a gradient when you have vast open ground and atmospheric perspective, and suggesting forms of the grass in the foreground will also help work in that needed depth

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Koto
Thanks, here's an update finally

tehmeh
Not as scary as your sketchbook HAHA! But thanks dude :)
I did experiment with some brushes recently, need to get refined with that. I'll probably reduce the hardness a fair bit in the next landscape.

First this sculpture is at the RA. I didn't bank on the area being so crowded so its gonna stay unfinished:
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And this Sororitas I did for someones Dark Heresy character:
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[aefx]

Great progress Andy. If could give a crit, I would say your figures looked stretched out. This world has gravity in it, things need to push up from the ground. Perhaps picture a person as a structure. If you can keep this in mind when thinking about how the upper body connects to the lower part at the hips then this may help.

[Dope Fiend]

^ Agreed. some of the figures look slightly elongated, it adds to the style, but are not proportionally correct.

You're def improving in great strides, however, I'd like to see more studies from imagination, the values on your imagine drawing show this, so I'd say keep pushing those studies as well

keep posting, it's looking good! :yayca:

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aefx
Thanks for the advice mate. I think its a compromise between having a figure rooted to the ground by gravity but also that dynamism of potential movement via gesture. Working from the ground up in a figure might be worth a shot though.

Dope Fiend
I've always tended to elongate everything I draw, it verges on the stylistic I guess. I'm not sure whether to completely expunge that from my work or not.
Imagination studies will be around. Thanks :)


Ok finally this damn star fighter for the comic. There are earlier attempts at getting it right from orthographic views but I gave up and made it in sketchup.
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And this skeleton from the Hunterian museum, Charles Byrne the Irish giant, 7 ft 7.
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[Call0ps]

great studies! love specially the casts =D who needs schools when you have V&A? =p seems that when you doing characters from imagination you "avoid" using references... dont!!! pose your self, use the same light ( if possible ) that you want your character to be under, etc...
also great work with sketchup!!! that's a fine star fighter :D

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Thanks Call0ps! Not only the V&A but also the British Museum! You'll have to see the Hunterian too at some point.
I've been using reference a lot more now. I used to look at others works here asking myself is that purely from imagination or reference? Now I know its sometimes just a crazy mix of both.

So: Loomis and character study.

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[tehmeh]

good stuff, and good progress still! good forms on the skeleton and the statue study, liking that tie fighter too - glad to see you are also enjoying sketchup

keep it up man!

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loldoublepost

Thanks tehmeh, the fighter is the only thing I'm making in sketchup for a while, I could get very carried away with that program...

'Nother update

"Imagination" character studies
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15 thousand years in photoshop and James Caviezel, nice face
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[Vatsel]

eya

your heads are squished horizontally


aaaaaand
mega-awesome photo study!

[B-zilla]

Hey man, long time no see!!
Some real solid studies going on here. The forms on your figures are coming along very nicely and that study of James Caviezel is luverly! Nice face idd!! <3

[aefx]

god damn man, amazing progress in this sketch book. Great work thus far, looking forward to seeing more :)

[Aberzheim]

The head study is well done, as are the figure concepts- the poses are looking more naturalistic

good to see your progress both in digitals and in your sketchbooks, i'll say just keep up the consistent quality posts, and hope to see your oil paintings/studies up soon!

[Koto]

Your progression...so awesome. Figures and studies are improving at a geometric rate!

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Vatsel
Thank you. I was concentrating on the bodies mostly as opposed to the faces, but yeah there's some head squishing going on there. Thanks for the pointer

Belindi
Thanks! I haven't seen you in ages? Pop down to the Mall sometime

aefx
Sorry its been a little delayed

Aberzheim
Thanks dude I think the Loomis is really helping me. Oil painting might still be a little ways off though but it will happen.

Koto
Cheers, no maths was involved


Now, just some oldish imagination sketches, no ref:

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some concepts I did for an eclipse phase game that never took off n_n

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yes the old dude is extremely elongated (on purpose!)

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some sculpture from the british museum and v&a
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about half a year late for the self portrait day heh heh. Charcoal on toned paper with white conte sticks. The fixative killed off the conte a little bit :<
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[Koto]

Love the sculpture studies :D

The self portrait has some great lighting in it, and well done on capturing your own face! although the neck is a little off, perhaps too wide?..I should know since I'm an expert in other people's neck (it says so on my C.V. too). Chin edge looks a little too sharp? All good stuff sir! How goes the assimilation of Loomis?

[flurry]

Thanks Koto :)

Really good crits on the s-p, I think I rushed it to the end. I can see some edges are maybe too sharp or too soft, perhaps the fixative blew some of the charcoal off (excuses, excuses!).

My main worry is the eyes and glasses feel a tad wonky like the perspective is slightly too exaggerated... My neck is relatively wide if i do say so myself, but perhaps it could've been a little narrower.


Have some Loomis!

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[Koto]

It's still amazing for your first sp! (it's your first, right?)

Ahh those delicious Loomis studies, I'm inspired to keep a Loomis sketchbook like you now, try and make them as neat and accurate as yours are!

Have a good bank holiday weekend!

[flurry]

Nope, its my 3rd, not including my crummy avatar.
& accurrate? PAH
Cheers bud

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This was meant to be a speed paint.

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The perspective's off on the flying bus thing, here's the original (http://images.wikia.com/starwars/images/c/c8/RMQ-CloudCityPolice.jpg) by Ralph McQuarrie.

[Koto]

Concept is look in good, the Loomis studies are paying off!

Good fashion study too, nice edges on the creases/folds.

[flurry]

Thanks Koto, there's more to come.

Starting to oil paint today, kinda unsure what process i'm going to use. Anyway here's some character sketches for the sw comic.

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Oils~

This didn't turn out so great, the thin layer of midtone oil underneath (scumble) dried quicker than I expected, so I didn't get to experience the effect of the paints mixing.
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And a Plein Air, I should have painted a little thicker and covered the canvas more.
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just some pencils on bristol board


sculpture at the V&A
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burlesque life drawing
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[Aberzheim]

Your rendering is much more improved, those Loomis studies seem to help also judging from the quality of your block-ins at the life drawing, keep up the daily art routine!

that said, I'd still recommend practicing handling, both in how you draw with paint (look at Harold Speed's brush chart to see edge quality) and drawing in general with pencil and charcoal- looking forward to seeing you post the still lifes in progress!

[tehmeh]

I'm not one to comment but that oil still life is looking successful so far to me. nice to see the self portrait too!

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Aberzheim
I LOVE LOOMIS, that said, I hope to get to grips with handling with time. I dunno if there are any specific exercises I can try. I'm not a fan of that continuous hard line style...

tehmeh
Thanks! The oil had a good block in so the proportions are ok, it's just the specific technique for that painting failed because it dried as I left it too long :/


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Plein Air in the field outside the back garden
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[Koto]

That last plein air is solid, trees are crazy hard to pain.

Your block-ins are looking great, you seem to nail the proportions really well.

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newest oils

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Koto
Cheers :D I want to get more gesture though, time to read Walt Stanchfield.

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6 hour pose
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yer a hizard warry (v&a sculpture)
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[tehmeh]

Wicked update, don't think i saw the final version of that last statue. The 6 hour drawing is tight too!

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Thanks Tehmeh, thats the good ole V&A. Shame about the last 6 hour pose :/

Some oils, a still life (the light was changing a lot that day):
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And a plein air... can you spot the water?
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Mall Galleries life drawing portrait in charcoal with white conte highlights, 2 hours
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This is the new house I'll be moving into, drawn from photo ref and then inked.
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[Koto]

Lots of grinding and levelling up going on here! Your life drawings have gotten better in a short time and now you're tackling ink, oils chalk etc?! slowwwww doooown you're making the rest of us look bad ;)

Actually, keep rocking it!

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Yep, gotta keep pushin it. Anyway, you need to update your sketchbook/blog. DO EEET. :)


Mega update time, I'm going to be offline for a little bit and then very busy after that, so here's a few pieces:


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This is my first portrait/bust in oil. Unfortunately the model left half way through so this is 3 hours instead of 6.


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Painted 5 mins walk from my house. Pure burnt sienna for those plants in the foreground, my folks say they're seeding docks(?).


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Went to tehmeh's back yard and painted this.


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Drawn from the actual painting while at the Wallace Collection.


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And charcoal train guy.

[Koto]

You need a better camera or scanner, these look much better in person!

Here's those gesture/quick sketch websites I mentioned:
http://lovecastle.org/draw/
http://www.pixelovely.com/gesture/figuredrawing.php

[Koto]

Holding back on the updates!! Jesus would not be pleased.

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i "finished" Figure Drawing For all it's Worth, so I thought why not do some studies of his paintings?

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Yeah it's quite a wide head, but I wanted to capture the feel of the first (i think) charcoal block-in. Here's original: http://farm1.staticflickr.com/202/491242518_febbcfea98_o.jpg

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Original: http://s55.radikal.ru/i148/1108/f0/ee7c192b9f73.jpg

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Added reversed skin tones from a b&w photo, it's a skin reference for a character.
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Thank god for blu-ray Star Wars.
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[Koto]

Wow dude, your digitals have improved a ton, love the Loomis studies.

How are you doing these studies, side by side? with a Grid?

[flurry]

Thanks mate, I might do some other Loomis studies, his other works I have are more complicated though.

I do digital studies side by side at the same resolution. I start off zoomed out and get progressively closer in. So you could call it Photoshop sight size - I sometimes measure down or across with the pen depending how the things laid out.
As to using a grid I've never tried it.

So to update - this is supposedly an Area 51 bunker:
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Just for fun this next one I painted on my phone in a library from a book on John William Waterhouse:
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[tehmeh]

solid stuff man, I like that bunker but i'm itching to see more original paintings!

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Thanks tehmeh, here's some more~

I've been doing various character portrait requests lately, giving myself an hour on each.

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Plein air in the FREEZING SNOW
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I decided to get a little looser with my charcoal pieces and go for an "impressionistic" approach.
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[tehmeh]

those two last alla prima pieces kick ass man

[Call0ps]

beautiful oils mate!!!
see you Wednesday ;)

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Tehmeh: Thanks mate
Call0ps: You're too kind! Man your uni piece is amazing! :)

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[Koto]

Still no stars?!

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I guess so Koto! Would be good to see you sometime :)

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[Koto]

Splendid form on that last one! Where was that done?

THIS SKETCHBOOK NEEDS STARS!

[Raffix]

hi dude hows it going -- recent updates are looking great!
you've already heard it enough but the plein air in the snow is awesome.
hope 2 see you around in london some time soon man

[SemperOne]

Some really strong studies, looking good! :)

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Koto: It's at the V&A! beyond the sculpture hall, before the cast courts.
Raffix: Thanks, awesome atelier work your end. :)
SemperOne: Thank you! I occassionally do concepts too...

I had a commission to copy a hare from another artist (so it's not an original.)
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I need to explore more digital brushes and paint with more red :/
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[flurry]

Just some studies, been playing around with the default brushes in ps, mostly the wet media brush set, using the "Flat Fan Thick Stiff Wet Edge" and "Brush on Light Weave".

Anders Zorn. I still need to push the reds.
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A still life with entirely warm (orange/red) objects.
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[Call0ps]

mate, just a "friendly" warning ... tomorrow you might get stabbed as consequence of your improvement! =D
also, lol at doing the super warm still life after so many studies without enough reds =p

great job and i hope to see more mech and tech stuff along side with the studies

[Frostelle]

Incredible work! I admire your most recent study. You've achieved great realism with very few brushstrokes and your colors are great.

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Call0ps:
Haha, you owned that plein air trip. Tech stuff's on it's way~

Frostelle:
Thanks! You're too kind :)

Some Waterhouse:
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And FAC drapery:
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[Big Orange]

You're very good at copying art manuals!

[Little-Maiden]

thanks for droppin by! I couldn't agree more with your crit of my tendency to oversaturate. I consider myself "better" at dealing with single subjects but I totally suck with enviro work :P

By all means take as many leaves from my book as you want :P its an honour, although ill be depressed cause you'll kick my butt around the park ^^;;

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You've got some fantastic traditional work here, I love the plein air studies and the most recent work is very sharp in comparison to the other things posted. Nevertheless you're miles ahead of me in skill! Hopefully I can do similar in a couple of years.