Dk_Sketch´s Sketchbook New Thumbnail!!!

[DK_sketch]

First post in this section:D


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[DK_sketch]

the colors didn´t come out to well on this one

[Enydimon]

I think you're muting the colours too much where it becomes muddy and less vibrant. Saturate your colours a little more.

[DK_sketch]

Thanks Enydimon I tried to saturate the girl with the cat and it came out looking a lot better also added a mood background:D

[Niku]

I dunno if that you style or not, but you need to work on the face a lil more, You prolly know how it should go but its not there yet and good going with the colors...

[DK_sketch]

Update :D here is my latest head study.
it was only supposed to be gray scale but i couldn't help myself

[DK_sketch]

Some animal study and color here is a cat skull:D

[DK_sketch]

Some updates:D

1: fantasy portrait

2: A mood painting

3: average conceptart

[DK_sketch]

here are some new quick sketches

[George Abraham]

Nice Geisha, The grey and red is a real emotion amplifier.

Had a dream once of a Geisha visiting a grave to put a lotus or an orchid flower on it.

I was trespassing on sacred ground and had too keep a distance.

The concept went all exaggerated in my mind ever since.

The element of beuty and sadness together just blows my mind into pieces every time..
The idea of having lived a life entertaining someone and ended up loving someone dearly as a servant and how lost that servent is when her master has died, so she ends up serving his momory with the same beuty as before.. Rips me apart.. And the red, being ambiguous between blood(Death) and Beuty with a dash of sacredness(White).

Ever listen to some Vanessa Mae? There is a song of hers that hits that button so hard it makes everything tremor.

Maybe one day I will be able to communicate stuff with that impact.

[DK_sketch]

here is a new one not sure if im gonna take it further

[DK_sketch]

a few quick sketches between 10 and 15 min

[DK_sketch]

here is a new head study

[DK_sketch]

new head study should try and do some other stuff now, hmmm maybe hands next, ah well here it is
crits be welcome:P

[DK_sketch]

Here are some new portraits. Enjoy

[ivars]

Hey, awesome man! Keep rocking those sketches. It's looking better and better for each update. You're making me feel guilty for not sketching enough :p

[DK_sketch]

New on I tried doing and old guy for some practice in doing wrinkles

[DK_sketch]

and here is a new one

[DK_sketch]

one more just before i go home just a quicksketch pose study

[DK_sketch]

some pose studies from posemaniacs.com, plus a few hands

[HerrleerzeichenS]

"well done" would my art-teacher say :)

[DK_sketch]

HerrleerzeichenS: thanks a lot

Got a bit tired of all the pose studies so went back and did something i find a bit more fun, portraits :D
this one is no ref or anything just from my mind

[DK_sketch]

I have been off for a short while working with 3d, but im back and training hard again :D.
I intend to try and make a sketch a day, we´ll see how that will turn out ;)

so here is the latest color study

[DK_sketch]

another one :D.
might have seen it in the finally finished though ;)

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and another one

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a quick color study have to do more of these really fun :D

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more more MOOOOORE :P

[Samuel Gray]

Nice progress so far DK. One thing that stands out the most is having the stylized eyes. If you look at all of the portraits they seem to have all similar eyes. It seems like you are drawing more lemon shapes than actually putting the eye in the eye socket. Get what I am saying? Keep working hard

[DK_sketch]

Thanks a lot Samuel. It was kinda fun I was just starting on practicing eyes cause i thought the eyes i have been doing today looked a bit off, ah well just gotta keep at it :P

[DK_sketch]

and one more color study

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made this one a while ago just didn't like the one i just uploaded so I replaced it :P

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And some eyes

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new color study

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and some eyes and noses.
My scanner sucks I swear it looks better on paper :P

[DK_sketch]

next up.
If you guys see anything that seems like i need to check up on some studies on it please let me now and ill get right on it

Also my thumbnail don´t seem to be working i used the attachment mannager and everything anyone got a clue to how come it doesn´t work ?:(

[DK_sketch]

color study

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And a new color study, dunno about this one had a bit of trouble getting it to look right

[DK_sketch]

and one more study. there is a nice big seam on the right side of the pic, the scanner couldn't take an A3 in one go :(

[tomjones]

Good work on the studies. The most recent eye drawings are the best so far I think, partly because the highlights are helping to make look more spherical. Maybe try giving some identity to some of the eyes now - bigger eye lashes, darker iris, etc?

I really like the small sketch of a woman in your last drawing as well :)

Keep it up!

[DK_sketch]

Thanks a lot tomjones, I was really hoping to get some crit soon wasn't sure if I should drop the eyes and start on something else:(.
Alright some eyes with a personality coming up.
btw the scanner totally fucks up the shading ill be buying a new one soon:)

[DK_sketch]

Here is some more stuff

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A bit of everything

[Noukah]

Nice stuff!
Especially that last study of the headphones.
Do you hang out at Imagine FX? I think I've seen some of your stuff there in the forums if I remeber right :)

[DK_sketch]

Thanks a lot Noukah and yeah you are right I posted some of my more refined stuff in there as well, haven't posted in there for a while now though, hmm ah well I'll post some in there when i get some time to do some proper stuff :P

[DK_sketch]

Here is some sketches from today

[W1r3d]

Awsome progress man :)

what time limit do you set @ posermaniacs?

[DK_sketch]

Thanks W1r3d I usually start out with 45 seconds as a warm up and then i move on to 30 second when i feel i got into the flow. Gonna have to do a n update real soon just a bit busy atm.

[ninyanernel]

man! i've got to do color studies :D

[DK_sketch]

sry for the lack in updates been working and taking it easy for a while but im back and going strong :D
been trying my luck with enviroments since that´s something i am really having trouble with :(

[DK_sketch]

Some random studies from today have to do more really fun and im learning loads from it :D
crits are most welcome

[DK_sketch]

here is one from today no ref used trying to see how mutch i can do from imagination crit is most welcome :)

[alexson]

Hey Lenni sweet stuff! :D what are you up to nowadays? great stuff here keep it up

[Jizu]

you draw some realy nice light effects on your sketches! keep them up!

[ZanteDeschia]

Im amazed/amused with your works, I was looking at the initial post date and realised it had only been almost a year from your past works till the present and yet they are already starting to look so different.
cant wait to see more

[DK_sketch]

alexson: thanks a lot im practising trying to get better with 2d while still doing some 3d to keep it going besides that not mutch really :)

Jizu: thanks and i will

ZanteDeschia: wow motivation:D .
Now i can keep going on the steam of cofee thx :P
Hard for me to see the improvement so it´s really nice hearing :)

Here is some stuff i did in the late hours of the night did this one as a quicksketch earlier and i decided to make a colorstudy out of it

[Spaggen]

BIG improvement since you started this sketchbook. Really nice studies, especially the color studies and the enviros. Keep up the great work!

[DK_sketch]

Spaggen : thanks a lot, damm im getting insanly motivated from you guys:D

Here is a new one i just did today hope you like it

[DK_sketch]

Okay her is a little update with some random stuff i fiddled around with the one i posted yesterday changed the colors and some minor detail work the rest are quicksketches

[LMK]

Hi Dk, I really enjoyed viewing your sketch book, and the colour studies are wonderful, my fav has to be the snowy mountain environment which is great. Keep going;)

[DK_sketch]

LMK thanks alot the snowy mountain was one of my first attempts so I used way more time on that than i would normally when doing studies :P

Here are some quick sketches no ref just fun :)

[W1r3d]

Wow! just wow! awsome updates dude. You are an inspiration

[DK_sketch]

W1r3d: Thanks alot man looking forward to seing some updates from you aswell :)

Here is an attempt at a portrait from imagination hop you like it

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aaaaaaand a new enviroment spend a bit more time on this one than usual
crits and comments are most welcome :)

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and a quicksketch enviroment

[Arrowroot]

You have a wonderful understanding of colour, the glass studies were incredible especially the first one, it was very realistic. I also loved the headphones study.

Your work is coming along really strong even over just 3 pages, the progress you made on the eye studies is also really awesome ;3 keep working!

[DK_sketch]

OOOOkaay it´s been a while since i updated :(, but i´s not like i have been sitting on my ase doing nothing.
I have been doing studies on bridgeman, loomis, and hogarth over the last few months.
Trying to improve my antomical knowledge and my lineart.
It´s been rather hard to go back and take it from scratch i seem to have developed something of a block towards loomis :(

Well here they are, or at least some of them gonna upload more later.

crits are most welcome(more like please give some crit:P)

Okay first up is posemaniacs

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some studies in rendering my shoes
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these are no my mothers shoes the loked interesting and i had a pencil.....:)
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some random stuff two selfportraits attempts in there (bottom two)
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random
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Selfportrait probably the best so far
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more random
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[DK_sketch]

aaaand here is some more stuff there is a lot so im not gonna explain what or why :P

[DK_sketch]

and here is some grayscale studies
had a really fun time doing these i tried out some diffrent brush settings.
learned tons:)
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This one is an attempted selfportrait
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[DK_sketch]

and here is some 10 mi colorstudies form terragalleria.com

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and here is some value studies

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A slefportrait from picture

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The steps if anyone cares :)

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[mike butkus]

You have some wonderful studies here, keep up the good work!

[Benjy]

Nice studies, the one old asian guy with the cigarette is great!

[alexson]

Dude you're back :O and you got an awesome beard! Great updates man, this last one looks great!

[DK_sketch]

some more stuff the horrible pencil sketches in the beginning are croquis sketches

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A study on Craig Mullins. He is awsome :)
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Some crappy attempt at a portrait form head :(
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Some 10 min studies
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[AChipps]

I have a question.
When something don't look right do you, go find out what it really looks like so you can draw it, or do you quit and start something else?

[DK_sketch]

Oops sorry i forgot to respond last time :( sorry about that

@mike butkus: Thanks a lot and i will :)

@Benjy: Thanks glad you like it :) I tried fooling around with the brush settings on that one.

@alexson: Hehe yep im back and and going strong.
No i just shaved it off was hard to do the selfportrait´s with that thing:P

@AChipps: interesting quistion. I generally attempt to get it to look as close as possible to the image or still life, but i usually fiddle around with the saturation to get to look a bit more interesting, espicially on the 10 min studies.
I never just quit i may admit that it was premature for me to do a study and decide to do something related but not as difficult:).
Hope this answers youre quistion.

some more stuff....

[DK_sketch]

Been a slow day today.
Just can´t seems to gather any energy or motivation:(
Anyway here is some stuff

First up is a selfportrait
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some crappy envio from imagination trying out some diffrent approaches
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another quick envio from imagination was looking at som of Algenpfleger´s stuff while doing this:)
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and some more colorstudies im still having trouble getting the colors and depth
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[DK_sketch]

Spend an entire day on this one blah:(

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[DK_sketch]

oooookay here is some more:)
the router seems to be having a fun time kicking me off when i have uploaded around 10 pics wich i slightly aggrivating. Hope it works this time XD

erhm the statue is from a museum here in copenhage called glyptoteket. Was really fun drawing, unfortunatly the scanner doesn´t really
do it much justice:(.

The rest..... what you see is what you get;)

oh btw the two portraits are heavely inspired by algenpfleger

[DK_sketch]

here are some more studies and quick-sketches:)
i think im starting to get the hang of the skintones though i still need to do more anatomy studies

[DK_sketch]

hoooooooly...... This page is taking forever to load:(.
And this probably won´t help. Update :D
erhm haven´t really touch a pencil in some time so i think theese will be some of the last didgis in a while.... maybe :P.
crit´s and comment´s are most welcome :)

a crappy greyscale portrait
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from life
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aaaaaand the usual 10 min colorstudies i think they are starting to get better:D
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some quick enviroment´s
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i did this one while looking at on of algenpfleger´s enviroment´s. trying to figure out the lighting and how he uses it
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some random stuff from head
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uuhh shiny :)
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[jskotte]

Great stuff :)

[DK_sketch]

okay that´s it im dead haven´t slept for 37 hours been to croquis tonight and decided to pull an all nighter to do some pencil stuff.

Im not gonna explain these im just gonna go into a coma:)

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Today I was totally burned out couldn´t seem to gater myself to do anything and when i finally managed to start drawing everything turned out like crap:(

not a lot of stuff, but here it is

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an attempted selfportrait didn´t go to well :(
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[DK_sketch]

here is some more studies. Been focusing on skintones and faces trying to get the portrait´s look more alive (less crappy).

did this one on open canvas. I was painting with a friend from sweden :)
we set a theme wich was to paint from a movie. dunno if you can reconize wich one ?
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these two are form head trying to use what i have learned
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In case you couldn´t reconise the movie screenshot painting... it was from the illusionist. Great movie actually :D

[DK_sketch]

erhm didn´t get a lot of stuff done today tried to spend some more time on a few studies to get better at rendering :)

only two the second one took quite a while and didn´t come out to my satisaction so i left it like that gonna do some more tomorrow.

crit and comment´s are as always most welcome anything to improve :)

[Dr poPcoRN]

great variety :) really nice set of work you have here, keep posting! :D

[DK_sketch]

@ Dr poPcoRN: thanks a lot man, and sure will do :D

okay not a lot of stuff i know but these still´s do take a bit of time for me to get done ... well halfway done :P.

I decided to do some hardsurface study since i´ve always been kinda horrible at it. I´ve learned ton´s from the still´s i´ve done and now it´s time i try and make use of what i have leaned :)

well here is the latest still tokk about 6 hours i know 6 hours for that :O. but im not that good yet so bear with me

[Emil_]

Very nice studies and those last few life drawing are great.

[jskotte]

Great still life, so funny, I just did the same coffe what-ever termokande, but not as good as yours.
Are you from around copenhagen, I was just wondering if you know any places for life drawing?
HAve a great easter :)

[DK_sketch]

Soooooo... i´ve been a bit lazy lately, haven´t updated as frequently as i had hoped to, buuut that has to change and it will:).

@ Emil_: thanks a lot the still´s were hard and took quite a while so im glad you like them :)

@ jskotte: hehe odd we both chose to do the same coffee pot wich has an annoying shape to define... but it looks nice :D.
yeah i live in the outskirts of copenhagen and the best place for life drawing i know is in valby. http://www.croquis-tegning.dk
it´s also the cheapest :D.
thanks alot for stopping by hope you have a great easter aswell :D

well here is what i managed to scrape together for today.

[DK_sketch]

so here is some stuff from today and some from yesterday i think... can´t really keep track of it:)

first some pencil studies some from head some from ref.
then some digi screen shot painting from lord of the rings :)

oh yeah top one is an attempted selfportrait

[clifFroth]

Are the color studies done in painter or photoshop?

[DK_sketch]

@ clifFroth: all the color studies are done in photoshop, tried painter for a while but it has an annoying tendency of crashing without warning :(

uhm kinda a small update but here is stuff:)
I have started to time my work to see how fast or indeed slow im working

first up is some lord of the rings screenshot painting 40 min
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quick life study just over 20 min
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and 2 10 min studies
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20 min on this one
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[DK_sketch]

some more stuff :)

colorstudies between 15 and 20 min each
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Master study of John singer sargent´s work 2 hours and 20 min
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[Greywoods]

Fede studies, dude (excuse mit halvt english halvt danish)!

Jeg skal skal sku også sætte min røv i frigear og lave nogle af de her. Ser ud som om dine stærkeste sider so far er lys, values og farver. Virkelig godt. :)

[cgaddict]

Those are some really impressive studies, especially your line work. Very crisp and clean, and you handle faces exceptionally well. I really like how you handle your shading as well.

Nice speedpaintings too, very loose brushwork which I dig. As for critiques, I'd say be a bit more careful on nailing the shapes for your speedpaintings at an early stage, then work on the values/colors later on - I think that will make it a bit easier to render.

Other than that, you're doing great with these studies.

[jskotte]

Great studies, the top eye is very pretty. I like the lord of the rings paintings.

[Metal Fingers]

Nice studies mate, your progress is really showing through in these last couple posts. Keep it up, your making good color observations.

[Genius_Malignus]

Nice studies - Especially the environments. Your command of colour and shapes is good, and I can see clear improvement from page 1 - keep it up!

Btw; Jeg er med i en fælles SB kaldet 'A Sketch A Day' - som kun består af danskere. Du er velkommen til at deltage, hvis du har lyst.

[DK_sketch]

@ Greywoods: Thanks alot man :) ja det er bare om at komme i gang og blive ved !! :P.

@ cgaddict: Thanks a bunch, and yeah you are totally right i use most of my time painting correcting errors i did early on :(.
I´ll start doing some more pencil studies and antomy studies to correct that. Thanks a lot for pointin that out:D.

@ jskotte: Thanks im glad you like them :D

@ Metal Fingers: Thanks a lot it´s really nice to hear that you can see progress. And yes i will keep it up :D

@ Genius_Malignus: Thanks man glad you like the envio´s i´ll try and make some more :). Glad you can see improvement, and yeah i´ll definitely keep it up :D
yeah sure i´ll swing by the a sketch a day sb. sounds like fun :D

Holy shit so much motivation im overflowing just gonna post this and then get back to the screen/paper :).

Again thanks a lot everyone

[DK_sketch]

erhm been a bit off colour lately so i haven´t posted as frequenly as i wanted, but im all good now.

soooo anyway here is some stuff i did today

First some pencils.... trying to improve my line quality and anatomy knowledge some from ref and some from head
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And some quick life studies.
First up is Bethoven got the bust yesterday. Been really eager to start so here is the first of many :)
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and an ultra quick one. Trying to get it down right of the bat 10 min on this one
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aaand one more 20 min for this one
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[clifFroth]

Nice updates. Are the gesture drawings from life or reference?

[DK_sketch]

@ clifFroth: a bit of a mix some a from posemaniacs (the really quick ones), some are from ref found on the internet and some are from head. Thanks for swinging by :D

A bit of a lazy update but that´s all i got done today :(

first up is a failed self portrait... I will keep at it til I get it right :)
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Bridgeman studies
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and some heads from imagination
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another quick study of bethoven really fun to paint. I think he disagrees the way he´s scowling at me:P 40 min
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quick life study mechanical pencil and.... i dunno what it is but i like the shape :) 20 min
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portrait from head 30 min fail
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[DK_sketch]

Here is a bit of a weak update



I actually did this one three times cause im a moron and managed to press the same keyboard shortcut twice ctr+w and pressed no as a reflex :(
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here is another bethoven didn´t work out that well and i gave it up as a bad job after half an hour or so
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[Vatsel]

whats with the amount of studies?? D: you're putting me to shame
aslo great use of hues and chroma

nothing to add except I suggest you do one "hyper polished" study from life and another one from imagination

[cgaddict]

Nice updates, you sketches are getting better and better, as your paintings. Keep it up!

[DK_sketch]

@ Vatsel: Thanks alot. well it´s been a bit slow lately but i´ll try and get some more motivation to continue with updating with as many studies and sketches as i can:P.
And yeah you´re right I really should do some more polished studies, and I will just need some more quikies to get some confinence to refine them.
Thanks for stopping by

@ cgaddict: thanks man and yeah i will just been a bit low on motivation lately but I gotta keep it going and I will :D

a bit of a pathetic update but yeah that´s all i got done today:(

an attempt at a portrait that got out of hand..... but it was fun :P
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and anothwe still the cobber was insanely hard to paint and i didn´t get it right in the end anyway. gonna do some more studies on cobber
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[cgaddict]

Nice updates, your values seem to be improving, keep doing those monochrome studies, they're definitely helping you improve from what I can see. Keep it going!

[DK_sketch]

@ cgaddict: thanks man. You just gave me some more motivation to work with :D

okay I missed yesterday´s update so this is from yesterday and today :)

some posemaniacs
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some pencil doodles from head
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aaaand a bunch of colorstudies 10 min each
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a geryscale portrait from head around 20 min
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and one from ref 17 min
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and the obligatory still life.
Been trying to win the battle against cobber, it´s hard but im getting the hang of it now:). really learned alot from this one 40 min
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[DK_sketch]

and here is some more stuff.
The life drawings in charcoal where done last monday but I didn´t have any protective spray so i couldn´t scan them till i bought some wich I have now done :)

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Beethoven or it´s supposed to be anyway :P
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just doodling around and this is what i got
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and a black on black life study. This one defeated me, but i´ll have my revenge :)
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[Vatsel]

damn dude - you sure know how to kick my ass :D
still lifes and pencil skills are awesome!

.....aaaaand I'm still waiting for that polished stuff :P

keep up

[Istmin52]

I really like your painting and drawing studies. It would be great to see some more work totally from imagination. When you create work from your head, it helps you figure out what you are lacking or what you might not know how to do.

[clifFroth]

Great updates. I feel like a slacker now.....

[Seraph Fawkes]

Hey mate, nice studies and sweet lines. Probably, when you doing digits, you should try to pay more time into defining edges, and smoothing transitions (smudge tool with textured brush applied). Anyway, keep it up )

[Malakuko]

awesome SB! I love to see quick studies that arent interested in the look of the line or anything but just how that color or tone lies on the image, which is what I got from some of your studies :D really nice stuuffff

[Nkristian]

NICE!

[Luk999]

Nice job. I like the colors studies

[alexson]

Oh Lenni yous so sexi. Why is this not on the first page? well now i is.

[oren90]

wooow man awasome studies and work you got here, I have pretty much nothing to say now :)

[DK_sketch]

@ Vatsel: well then kick back:P. Thanks alot mate, and yeas i know some polished still coming up soon haven´t done any still´s today but tomorrow i will and i´ll try and make it finished if i can get my lazy ass moving :)

@ Istmin52: I totally agree. I haven´t done alot of stuff from head resently and i could tell when started doing some today:(.
I really should try and balance it more thanks for pointing that out and thanks for visiting :)

@ clifFroth: Thanks alot man. from what i can see in youre sb you aren´t exactly a slacker keep it up :)

@ Seraph Fawkes: damm you hit my achilles heel spot on im having real trouble with the transsitions but i think it´s because im doing everyting as fast as possible:(.
Thanks for the hint about the smudge tool i´ll try that out.

@ Malakuko: thanks alot. Yeah im trying to seperate the line and the colorstudies (paper for line ps for colors) that way i can give my full attention to colors or lines :)

@ Nkristian: thanks :)

@ Luk999: Thansk alot im glad you like them :D

Wow motivational boos :D thansk alot guys

here is some stuff from today

First up is some pencils some from ref some from head
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Beethoven in charcoal
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Two 10 min studies
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face study 30 min fail
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grayscale study 20 min
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two quick envio´s from head between 20 and 30 min min each
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a portrait from head 40 min
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[Junpei]

wow, judging from the first page to now, your sense of color has improved dramatically, what was the turning point? :O

[DK_sketch]

@ Junpei: Thanks man. erhm im not really sure, I think it was taking the studies more seriously to begin with. and the lifestudies and the 10 min colorstudies really helps :D

so today i went to lifedrawing (croquis) and got a bunch of drawing done:)
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Selfportrait attempts didn´t go to well :(
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a crappy still I failed:(. Im in the middle of doing a more polished still will probably finish that up tomorrow :)
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[Vatsel]

WICKED lighting on that pot mate

keep killin it! I want more!

(that 2nd face's perspective is kinda dodgy though)

[oren90]

the drawing from life looks great man, and you got the metal surface of the pot really good it looks fantastic :).
the selfportraits look nice as well but you should refine them a bit more.

cheers

[jskotte]

Life drawing looks really good and the metal kettle looks awesome, metal is so hard to get right. I like the top self portrait better.

[DK_sketch]

@ Vatsel: hehe Thanks man and hell yeah here is more:P

@ oren90: thanks alot, and you are right about the sp´s I really should try and spent more time on them.

@ oren90: oh double post:O then i think double thanks is in order :P

@ jskotte: thanks and yeah it´s quite difficult especialy cobber:(, but im slowly getting the hang of it :).
hehe yeah the top one looks more human :P

okay time for an update :D

first a drapery study never been any good at drawing clothes sooo i figured i should do some studies on it :)
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Just got a haircut today and figured i should do a selfportrait. Would have done one in digital but my still life setup was in the way:(
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Two quick studies from life around 15 min each
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A cute girl:) 40 min
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an enviroment from head didn´t time this one but around 1 hour and 30 min
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[oren90]

cool studies man :) loved the cute girl and enviro :)

[DK_sketch]

@ oren90: Thanks im glad you like them :)

erhm a tiny update, but that´s all i got :P

ended up hating this one. It´s done with skylighting, wich with the skitzofrenic weather we have been having was a bad idea :(
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2 quikies :) 20 min on the first and 12 on the second
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Almost forgot. My portfolio is up and running take a peek and tell me what you think :)

[Malakuko]

thumbs up for ponytails and facial hair! :D
Man I dont know why your hatin your studies, they look good to me
but its funny I was just thinking that like I think they look good because I feel I dont have enough saturation in my work, but maybe you feel like you have too much. Meaning I love your stuff but you hate it haha, wana trade? :P

[MIKETAYLOR]

Good sketchbook man!! Keep going the color studies fron life. The color sence is nice!!
May be need more anatomy studies. :)

[LostFayth]

First up, thanks for posting in my sketchbook! :D

aaaw man...those are some great color studies, mate :D I think I'm gonna do some color studies digitally as well. The way you nail them is just so much fun to see.

Just a piece of advice; Try to work on a piece for at least 4 hours for some variety. You do a lot of quick studies, but finish one piece up. You'll see how much you've learned and you'll take the time to polish everything up ;)

[oren90]

the still life are looking cool man, in the first the pot looks awasome you captured the metal surface on both the pot and the can really good.
in the second one the porcelain could use more refinment as it is a very smooth metrial and the surface is usually very uniform so as a quickie it looks great, you managed to get the feel right as utself without regarding the time it could use more blending on the porcelain as I already said :)
keep it up

[DK_sketch]

@ Malakuko: thanks man. Well it´s not really the saturation that bothers me it´s more the rendering that im not sattisfied with, but I just have to work harder :)

@ MIKETAYLOR: thanks. yeah I will keep doing those :). yeah i gotta do more anatomy studies I will get right on that.

@ LostFayth: thanks and yeah try it out it´s really fun :D.
4 hours :O ooooh god that´s gonna be hard, but im trying to work on that patience thing;)

@ oren90: thanks. yeah the blending is kinda my weakness :(

pencils. some knees (my own)
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sp
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and a digital sp this came out pretty okay :)
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an enviroment from head
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random girl from head
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aaaaaand a lemon from life
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[Vatsel]

mmmmmmm... I like the smell of fresh updates in the mornin'!

[oren90]

awasome work dude, the lemon and girl look great :)

[DK_sketch]

@ Vatsel: hehe yeah smell´s like lemon :P

@ oren90: Thanks.
when i read it first I thought you said lemongirl. Great idea :)


stuff
A bust I drew at the glyptotek (museum) They have no airconditioner in there so it was like 40 degrees in there :(
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some heads from head :)
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croquis
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still life shoe 30 min. Was really fun :)
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[oren90]

lemongirl, that made me lol for a minute hehe, great figures man but the bust eyes are too close together besides that I can see anything else' well it's 2 am right now so I don't know.
ahhh the shoe there is always a point that all artists face and that is the shoe, it's looking good :D

[DK_sketch]

@ oren90: thanks man. yeah i realized the bust looked kinda retardet but by that time it was too late ( no eraser:( ).
Yeah everyone has to face their shoes at some point :)

soooo here is stuff:)

some pencils from head
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SP
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random doodles
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aaaand a quick life study
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[oren90]

great update man the faces look great the only one that doesn't seem right is the most top left one which is too wide but it's excellent that only one out of a dozen or so isn't good :)
the SP looks nice you're getting better with them :) but the face give the impression that you saw a sad movie or something like that hehe
I just love your random doodles, they're always very vibrant, definitly liked the jumping cat "put your hands in the air or we'll shoot" haha it made me lol for a minute, oh and I have the exact same pencil sharpener i also painted it :D
keep it up :)

cheers

[jskotte]

wow, so many really cool updates, how do you have time for this. The still life studies are awesome, and I really like how you fill the pages in your sketchbook with the pencils. You environments from heads and random doodles are great, you use the textures brushes very well and I like the colors.

[DK_sketch]

@ oren90: thanks alot. yeah the first page didn´t come out to good :P, but im starting to have more fun doing pencil sketches so there will be more coming :)
hahaha yeah i agree about the sp my eyes do look a bit watery.
the best doodles are the mindless ones:P
lol you have the same pencilsharpener small world eh? :)

@ jskotte: Thanks well since most of what i do is quick sketches it doesn´t require that much time :P.
whoa thanks im glad you like it:)

erhm i have been having major migrane the last couple of days so i haven´t been doing that much but here is some quick life studies :)
the 2 first are like 15 min
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30 min or something didn´t go to well with this one
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[oren90]

they look fantastic for 15 min, you sure are good at capturing the essence of the shapes quickly :), try to do a refined one once in a while and keep it up

[Vatsel]

damnnn you're rockin these still lifes!
c'mon dude, do something else, you're making us all look bad D:

I do spot problems with the head construction though (HA! take that you prodigy!)
keep it up mateee

[fluro-K]

I adore the kettle and the pink candle, it looks real at a squint :D awesome stuff.

[Pixie Trick]

My goodness! So much work. :) I love that ps sketch of the room with light coming in the windows. I'm going to have to agree with Vatsel!

I think you could do with slowing down a little, and checking proportions a bit more. Just as an example, check the lengths of the vertical sides of the pencil sharpener in your study. The back ones are longer! Slowing down can also apply to brushwork. Make one stroke count for what you're using three for right now. Using traditional paints really helps cement this into your brain.

Awesome work mate. Looking forward to seeing more! :sungod:

[DK_sketch]

@ oren90: thanks man and yeah some more refined stuff, im really trying, but the attention span thing is hard to work around :P gonna do one by tomorrow I swear:).

@ Vatsel: hehe thanks, though prodigy might be a bit generous, my old drawings would make you´re eyes bleed :P.
Hmm the heads you say better fix that:)

@ fluro-K: Thanks man really glad you like them :)

@ Pixie Trick: You are interely right, didn´t notice that damm. Well i´ll hit the books gonna do some bridgeman and probably some perspective studies(gonna be messy:P).
Im gonna hold of the traditional painting for a little while, or at least untill i can get the colors somewhat right in digital :)

sooo here is stuff:).
beethoven yet again keep messing him up :(
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and an onion I know the plate is f..... but I just couldn´t get it to look right. might do some studies on porcelain :(
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aaaand another onion tried to spend a little longer on this one :)
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random doodle from head
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[oren90]

awasome stuff as always :) great onion studies, and the doodle looks great like a mad scientist laboratory.

[Joce]

wow nice

[JoeS]

hey thanks for visiting my sb, Nice studies especially the faces and the environments are looking great aswell :)

[Vatsel]

good as always mate

[matty_mcmullen]

great studies, you capture light so well. my only crit is your tendency to get really saturated in your colours, not a big issue just something to be carefull with.

[Pixie Trick]

Lovely work on the onions! I personally think the one on the plate is better because you got the values more correct. If you squint at the second the lighter area by the front really flattens it.

[DK_sketch]

@ oren90: thanks man im glad you like it:)

@ Joce: thanks alot

@ JoeS: thanks alot im gald you like them :)

@ Vatsel: thanks man keep rocking you´re studies :)

@ matty_mcmullen: thanks man, and yeah i´ll watch out for it a bit of a habbit for me :P

@ Pixie Trick: argh you are right, damm didn´t see it till you said it :( ah well there is always next time :).
thanks man.

uuhm yeah didn´t go to well with these studies kept making mistakes in the beginning and couldn´t concentrate too well.
was supposed to do croquis today aswell but i forgot:(
Anyway here is some stuff

some bridgeman legs
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pencil SP
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a crappy doodle portrait from head
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aand life studies
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[jskotte]

great legs :)
As for the portrait without ref, I think the neck needs to be angled forward a bit more, at the moment it sort of looks like she is pulling in her chin. Great thermos, and salt and pepper set, I have them as well, maybe I should give them a try as well :)

[DK_sketch]

@ jskotte: takker:) yeah that one came out a bit odd i see what you mean. Gotta practise more.


okay a bit of a pathetic update but i didn´t have that much time on my hands so this will have to do.... for now :)

some pencil studies from life, first some onions
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then an SP
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hands
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quick skintone studies
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edit: forgot these. 2 really quick still´s
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and a portrait from head
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[jskotte]

Nice onions and that last portrait from head came out really nice.

[Cameli]

Hey man really nice updates!i love the last portrait it really nice rendered!I also like ur life studies, nice brushstrockes. cheers man!

[DK_sketch]

@ jskotte: tusind tak :)

@ Cameli:thanks alot, glad you like the portrait tried a diffrent approach:)

[Fiddzy]

Great anatomy and colour studies. Your rending is looking great, especailly in the last few images. Keep up the hard work.

[Pixie Trick]

You have gorgeous colors dontcha you know?

A few notes on post 155- Watch the form of the onions. You have the onion shininess down pat, bit in a few places it supersedes the form. Try the whole squinting trial. Also watch the highlight on the girl's jaw. By making it one even highlight, you're not showing how the jaw curves and recedes.

The next post just awesomeness! Keep up the work and making me feel like a lazy bugger.

[jskotte]

Great legs :) and I really like the way you capture the colors in the stills.

Lige et spørgsmål, går du til croquis ude i Valby om mandagen? Jeg skulle have været på deres intro kursus, men det blev aflyst, så er der nogen underviser om mandagen eller tror jeg ellers ville få noget ud af det uden?

[oren90]

great work on the anatomy studies and selfportraits they're always looking good, and the still lifes always so vibrant, looking great as always :)

[DK_sketch]

@ Fiddzy: thanks alot:).

@ Pixie Trick: hehe thanks im glad you like:). thanks for the tip about squinting forgot to do that:P.

@ jskotte: why thanks you:P
yep stort set hver mandag. der er ikke nogen der underviser om mandagen men folk er mega hjælpsomme derinde så du behøver ikke kurset, desuden har du trænet posemaniacs og fremgangsmåden er stort set det samme:).
Jeg tror reelt du vil få mere ud af det uden kurset da de fleste tegner med deres egen stil og det er ikke noget du kan lære.

@ oren90: thanks alot man a boost of motivation:)

soooo update :)

bridgeman pencils
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quick color study. damm it´s hard getting skintones right
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from imagination
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aaaand the usual still life:)
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[prsnsweeney]

your still lifes look pretty awsome keep those up i also like your anatomy studies dont really have any crits for just keep workin at it

[Vatsel]

hmm those faces look flat mate, not in terms of lighting, but in the construction and placement of the features, do some line work (no shading) to work on that.

[DK_sketch]

@ prsnsweeney: thanks alot man :)

@ Vatsel: allready on it :P thanks man

okaaay a bit of a delay on the update but here is some stuff
croquis, did way more but it came out really bad, guess it wasn´t my day:P
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bridgeman feet
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aaand some more still´s
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[Joce]

nice man. i like how your rendering. im still trying to learn to render so nice and clean like you. any tips you can give me?

[Pixie Trick]

These still lifes are looking better and better. These also look like they've had a bit more work put in and it shows! :)

[jskotte]

I agree with PixieTrick, these still life's are looking very good and nice feat.
Tak for info, jeg prøver at komme på mandag, havde lidt travlt i denne i denne uge.

[DK_sketch]

@ Joce: thanks:). hmm tips now there is a difficult one i usually start with just blocking in the color with a normal round brush with the hardness at 100 % and the opacity slider to a 100 as well. then i apply shadow and highlight and then some texture brushes for detail if needed.
Not sure if it helps. I can make a step by step for a new one?

@ Pixie Trick: hehe yeah the shoe took a while longer but it was worth it:).
the second one was a bir more rushed, cheated and used texture brushes right of the bat for the garlic:(.

@ jskotte: thanks alot, it´s actually starting to get fun doing those feet :P
Så får jeg at se om selvportrætterne er korrekte:P. ser frem til det.

erhm soooo... this has gotta be my worst post ever, but i have been really busy:(. Sooo let´s swiftly forget this crap and say it´s just for documentational purposes:P.

yeeaa I know they suck but....., okay i got nothing:P
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perspective got all skewed on this one
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too much wrong to bother pointing it out:(
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[oren90]

cool work as always, delicious looking vegtables :),keep it up

[Scimok]

Very nice work, I especially like the newest still-lives.

[Metal Fingers]

coooooooooooool stuff man, I've been doing lots of drawing but all those still life's are making me feeeeeeeeeeeel lazy. Lovely colors though, I'd like to see some that are more refined though, spend a little extra time in the initial drawing stage to get all the proportions hammered down then render the shit out of it.

[jskotte]

I wouldn't call that nothing, looks good, really like the colors in the sunglasses.

Jeg har desværre fået noget der minder noget om en golfalbue i løbet af den sidste uges tid, så har ikke rigtigt kunne tegne :( Håber at være klar i næste uge, er begyndt lidt med venstre hånd, men det er vist ikke lige klar til croquis.

[Seraph Fawkes]

I see what you doing... ) Really hard work. Doing lifestudies is hard, but it really helps. Just don't forget to do environments too. View from window and stuff. You'll get the idea of global lighting. Btw really good digi girl portraits.

Keep up good work mate )

[DK_sketch]

@ oren90: thanks man :)

@ Scimok: wuhuu improvement:) thanks alot.

@ Metal Fingers: thanks man:). Yeah you are right, and im slowly working towards the more rendered stuff just gotta keep myself interested:P

@ jskotte: thanks alot:)
Golfalbue det lyder ret trist, især det med at skulle tegne med venstre hånd må være mega svært?:(.
Håber du får det bedre:)

@ Seraph Fawkes: thanks a lot mate, I just did some envio doodles and you are totally right I have been neglecting the enviroment studies and thus my enviromet paintings are sufferin:(.
Gotta study harder.

so here is a bit of a delayed update, but i guess better late than never right?:P
some croquis sketches
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An sp from life
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Aaaaand a study from life.
Remembered to save the steps this time if anyone cares:P
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[Pixie Trick]

You're poor plant. :( It looks like it's had a hard life. :P

Nice work mate! I particularly like the plane in the hangar. It has a very nice contrast of warms and cools. All the images in post 170 are quite nice too!

I don't want to harp on this, but I really think working on brushstroke economy could really help you. The studies and imaginary ps sketches alike either use a lot of lower opacity layers, or a lot of small brushstrokes where one would do the job. Like you mentioned yourself, doing some 10 min studies would help with this. Actually, looking at the progress shots of the last study makes me think that you build up a base colour and then paint over most of it with your values. Just blocking in the base colour with a higher opacity brush could probably save you a nice chunk of time.

Meh, don't listen if you don't want. :) You're doing lovely work. :sungod:

[Seraph Fawkes]

Btw girl from the head, in 155 - like in some asian enviro - she looks like Sarah Lancaster, from Chuck )

[DK_sketch]

@ Pixie Trick: Yes indeed. Im very bad at remembering to water my plants, keep forgetting:(.
hehe dont mind, just keep giving crit since that´s how i´ll improve:).
it´s a bid odd though cause i work with one layer only and my brush is set to 100% permanently but I guess I should try and work without a base color and just putting down the colors i see:).
Thanks alot pixie.

@ Seraph Fawkes: lol you are right, never seen the movie but i just googled it:)
thanks man:).

sooo here is a little update:)

reworked the potted plant a bit with a diffren aproach, looks better i think?
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A greyscale life study just making sure to train values as well:)
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doodle from head
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[oren90]

let's see, what have we got here, for starters the plant still life could use the smudge tool in a less in the face manner and more of a subbtle approach.
secondly regarding the pieces of work in general is you need to add more areas where the edges are are softer to balance out all the hard edges you have there, refine them more and make them have a more finished look rather than just a speedpainting, although you're showing great skills in quickies and speedies you need to work on the finished side too.
other than that the girl need to have wider shoulders it looks like someone squised her from the sides, overall her face looks great the soft edges and all, her eyes look great as individual ones but together they seem a bit off they're line isn't unified each has one of their own, the greyscale still is looking good in terms of general values but it looks a bit of a mess other than that your work and studies look awasome :)

[Eddieee]

The imaginary portrait and those still lifes are nice man! :)

[Trutze]

ok, figured some people said that before, but have to point it out again too, your life studies are really awesome!
The black and white huging figures, are they for salt and pepper or is it "just" decoration?
(you have them on page 5 or 6 and in another still in a composition)

[Seraph Fawkes]

I like girl in post 179, though there is a differences in the eye level and eyelids closed differently. But i like how you can already do quite abstract and fast painting, but very definitive.

Also an advice - try to do still lifes faster. I mean spend about hour-two and then stop. First of all, by putting yourself in such limits you'll be able to paint fasterm and the second - you'll gain ability to analize what you see faster, and when that happens - you'll understand light\shadow and will be able to render "from the head" with a good quality level.

[DK_sketch]

@ oren90: Wow dude alot of crit, me like:)
yeah you are right i might have gone a bit overboard with the smudge, havent really used it before so im just playing around figuring out how to use it best:P.
Soft edges: already on it:)
yeah her shoulders are slanting rather alot, and those goddamm eyes:(
thanks for the crit man it´l help alot:)

@ Eddieee: thanks alot:)

@ Trutze: Thanks im glad you like them:D
well apparently the are for salt and pepper never been used for that though :/

@ Seraph Fawkes: hehe yeah oren90 mentioned that aswell seems i messed those eyes up good and well:P
Lol now im really liking you most people say i should slow down and finish things up:D, but yeah i agree with you on the good points of speed painting from life and studies in general:)
thanks for stopping by.


Stuff
Started doing timed studies again:)
Envio from head
1hour 30 min
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from life 30 min
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from life 20 min
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[oren90]

great stuff man liked the enviro a lot and the pine apple too, one thing to say is that you need to do a study without regarding the time but the compeltion of the study, your quick ones are already quite good and you handle them well, but your finished work need more attention, get out of your comfort zone and break the routine of only doing quick studies, hope this helps :)

cheers

[jskotte]

I like that top enviro, great atmosphere. Good to see personal work, also have to train your imagination. But I have to agree with Oren90, it would be really great seeing some more finished personal images not just speedpaints, they are really good already :)

[Pixie Trick]

Ditto what Oren and jskotte said. :) The pineapple does look pretty awesome! (I'm having a bit of difficulty figuring out what the first still life is though! :P )

You consistently make me feel like a lazy bum :geekg: That's a good thing! Keep it up mat. :sungod:

[Seraph Fawkes]

If it's truly 15-20 minutes, than it's a good work mate. Enviro looks strange... Probably not shaped out well. When you doing some straitgh structures hold down shift button. Also, if you looking out for an idea try to play with Alchemy programm - I bet it will boost your imagination )

[DK_sketch]

@ oren90: thanks oren :)

@ jskotte: thanks a lot

@ Pixie Trick: thanks and yeah the first still was a bit heavy on the texture:P

@ Seraph Fawkes: thanks man already tried alchemy out, im not sure how much i like it though:P

okay it´s been a while since i updated:(
but here is some studies I managed to thow down and yeah i know they aren´t completly finished im working on it:).

from imagination
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rest is form life.
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this one came out worse the more i worked on it:(
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[Seraph Fawkes]

Nice man, I really like the lighting in the boat piece. Good work!

Btw, why not - some stars - you deserved it!

[alexson]

Galna dansk!

[Vatsel]

look whos getting even better

great hueshifts mate

[jskotte]

I like this top one a lot, colors and atmosphere are so good. The best still life is the top one, great reflection.

[Myllys]

Hi there DK sketch.

This is first time i've seen your sketch book. You've made amazing process! It's cool to see how much studies you've done and how enormously they've helped you. It's very inspiring. Now I feel I also have to start making more still life studies. At the first glimps can't find anything to crit. Just keep it up!

[Fetsch]

Very cool works man, stilllifes look great.

[Gthm/death]

bad ass sketchbook you've got here, man......... I really liked your works from imagination.......... I'll be visiting you sketch book every once in a while for inspiration....

[Architaylor]

Damn man, so good so fast :O I would maybe suggest steering away from using Algenpflegers stuff as reference but to be honest you seem to be doing that anyway :D Your colour stuff is just crazy man I love the really saturated tones some really lovely pieces :) do you use different blending modes like overlay ect much?

Keep it up man!

[Pixie Trick]

Very nice work. You seem to be being more careful of the bgs and it really makes the entire piece look more finished. I also really like the boat painting! The use of complimentary orange and blue is well done. :)

[DK_sketch]

@ Seraph Fawkes: wuhuuu stars:) thx man. Glad you like the boat piece, im gonna start doing more from imagination now :)

@ alexson: hehe nice to see you are still going on strong alex:)

@ Vatsel: thx man :)

@ jskotte: thanks glad you like it:). I actually ended up dislikeing that still i thought the reflections came out a bit to strong :/

@ Myllys: In that case welcome to Myllys :). thanks a lot, and yeah just get down and dirty with some still´s :P

@ Fetsch: thanks, glad you like them:)

@ Gthm/death: thanks a lot man, glad you gain inspiration from it :)

@ Architaylor: thanks man, and yeah I use overlay, but as a brush rather than the layers. I always work on one layer :)
I only use the overlay brush to make fixups in the end though, so you have a good eye to spot it:)

@ Pixie Trick: thanks alot pixie, im trying to get the still´s to look more finished so i guess it´s working out:D
glad you like the boat piece :)

okay update time gonna start having some more time on my hands now so expect more regular updates:)

doodle thingy
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and some chili
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banana
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and nectarine again though this one is a bit less ripe
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[oren90]

yummy looking still lifes :), loved the work from imagination, keep it up

[jatherip]

youve got a nice style, i love those tiny strokes, they give a lot of texture. if i look at your "doodle thing"-portrait, i think you should study some heads and stuff. the face looks good, but it doesnt connect well with the head......

[Benjy]

Love your still life studies. Great colours. I think I shall have to try a few again.

[Greywoods]

Awesome studies. You really have a sense of color, dude. Great environments too.

[Pixie Trick]

:ilaekae::cheerleader::cheerleader::cheerleader:

[JoeS]

Hey DK sketch thanks for regular visits on my sb :) http://attachments.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=988230 - I dig that, some really nice atmospheric values and light, awesome :ninja:

[ivars]

Awesome updates man. Nice still lifes, and that boat is looking sweet.

Great start on that new character. But the angle on the head and the jawline looks slightly off...

We should do some OC-painting some day.

[Fumble]

Really great environments :O and the still life looks good aswell. You are on your way to mastery, keep going!!

[Metal Fingers]

Man, I'm really digging your colors a lot, all the hard edges add a REALLY nice quality to them. Cheers.

[Sebestian]

Nice environments. :)

[alexson]

update gogo!

[RandAlThor]

Loving your style with these, keep posting ;-)

[Cameli]

YAy nice updates!Still life looking good as always and the environments are awesome,very nice atmosphere!keep it up!

[DK_sketch]

sooo update time at long last been insanely busy trying to scrape together some money, been scraping the bottom of my account sooooo... work work work :)
gonna have to work real hard for a while but i´ll try and get some more updates in, ( shpuldn´t be that har looking at how long it´s been since last:P)


oren90: thanks alot :)

jatherip: I see what you mean about the head it looks a bit off :(. thanks alot i will do some head studies:)

Benjy: definetly man they help a ton and are quite fun doing :)

Greywoods: thanks man.

Pixie Trick: thanks a lot and yeah im gonna kick myself back in gear now:P

JoeS: glad you like it was just playing around when it started to look like something :)

wuhu Ivar my man great to see you back :D
yeah the head seems to be a bit well.. fucked :P
thanks a lot man, looking forward to the oc :)

Fumble: thanks man glad you like em. it´s a looong road but im gonna keep at it :)

Metal Fingers: thanks man im really glad you like my colors it´s about the only thing i got going for a style:P

Sebestian: thanks man :)

alexson: yes yes :)

RandAlThor: thanks man. Alright if you insist :P

Cameli: thanks alot, and yeah i will :)

Thanks alot for the nice words and crit everyone :)

First up is some moleskine. Just started it :)
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random study
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bethoven
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some heads from imagination
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and the usual still´s
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not much this time but i´ll try and make some more interesting ones next time:)

[JoeS]

oh man these stills look really good and I dig the lines on the bethoven, really fluid and minimal, cool stuff :) and he is wearing headphones :rocker: makes me wonder what classical musicians would be like if they had mixing desks and sub woofers lol

[Pixie Trick]

These still lifes are quite a high notch above anything you've done before! Awesommmmeee. :D

[Caio Monteiro]

great studies man!

[aLDoDarK]

keep up a good work, you really have a nice study! I like your colour =D

[Fumble]

lovely still-lives, the first one especially caught my eye.

[alexson]

OOOh your pencils are looking hot! And your still lifes too! That first one, the tomato or what it is I really like! Keep it up!

[vatteh]

The still life looks great.

[Seraph Fawkes]

Your stills getting amazingly better! (love tomato btw) Would've be nice to see some imaginery digis with applied knowledge ) Pencils are ok, but some heads have too low jawbone imo,

Cheers!

[jskotte]

Hi, been a while since I was here last, but things are looking great, especially that last still life, it has a nice oily feel to it.

[Greywoods]

Good to see you posting again. :P You really have colors down man. Gj.

Your Beethoven looks pretty good too, great face. A bit half-assed bottom part, but hey we all do it :D

You still lack a bit of confidence and symmetry when it comes to non referenced human faces though. So keep up the great work dude. Who needs money anyways. :P

[jskotte]

hoping to see an update from you soon :)

[DK_sketch]

@JoeS: hehe thanks alot man:)

@Pixie Trick: tanks pixie it´s nice to know that im improving:)

@Caio Monteiro:Thanks

@aLDoDarK: thanks. Im glad you like my colours

@Fumble: thanks man glad you like them:)

@alexson: thanks alex glad and yeah it´s a tomato:P

@vatteh: thanks man

@Seraph Fawkes: thanks man and yeah you are right i should do more form
imagination, gonna be more from head next time:)

@jskotte: thanks alot. Hehe i thought it felt a bit fry at the end but it´s nice if it has an oily feel:)

@HAHA yeah money bah who need´s it :P
yeah im still pactising faces amongst other things hopefully they will start looking better soon :)

@jskotte: hehe i better comply :P



Okay been away for more time than i would like to so I managed to kick myself in the ass and stayed up late to get some more studies and doodles done:)

First some greyscale studies from ref
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then a failed sp in color
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random doodle
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quick envio
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and the usual
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and another in 12 min
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[alexson]

Nice stuff! More!:O

[jskotte]

nice update, good to see you posting again. fruits looking very good and so does the enviro, but maybe a bit darker values in the foreground to separate it a bit from the middleground.

[Pixie Trick]

Looking nice! :) I especially like the enviro- lots of nice juicy atmosphere. I think you really should start working on your brushwork a bit more though.

[DK_sketch]

@alexson: thx man here is more:)

@jskotte: haha yeah you are interely right i noticed that when i came back with some coffee and saw it from a distance but i had already decided it was finished:(
thanks and yeah i better make more regular updates now:)

@Pixie Trick: thanks pixie. erhm you mean trying and do more finished peices or making fewer strokes or...:(.
i´ll try working on it:)

Okay update time:)
Sooo i have been dancing around trying not to study faces and skintones because i suck at it:(, but i have decided to just plow through and hope it´ll turn out okay:)

some greyscales
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and colors good i suck :(
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I know, no still´s!! :O

[Anti-11]

all that fruit is making me hungry but overall I like your still life and the yellow lizard

[jskotte]

Yeah I know that feeling :) Nice value studies and the bottom color one looks really great. Nu er jeg ellers klar til Croqius, forsøgte at komme i mandags, stod på Jægersborg st og ventede på toget i 10 min og så meddelte de at der først kom et om 30-40 min og så droppede jeg det altså, men regner med at være der på mandag :)

[alexson]

Woo those photo studies are dope, man. I wanna see more pencil stuff too!

[maeshanne]

those fruits are great, i love the portrait from post25

[Joce]

really dig that lizard!

[DK_sketch]

@Anti-11: thanks man glad you like them:)

@jskotte: thx alot the bottom one was really fun doing:)
så ses vi på mandag:)

@alexson: thanks man. Sorry you will have to wait with the pencils don´t have enough to show:(

@maeshanne: thanks, I think fruit´s a becomming my special or something:)
Glad you like the portrait

@Joce: hehe and i was just thinking about changing the sketchbook avatar:/


soome 10 min studies
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from life turned out like shit though:(
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and a greyscale portrait from head
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[alexson]

10min?! Holy crap! Looks great man, so does the lifestudy. keeeep it uuuuup

[jskotte]

!0 min enviros look really great, wish I could paint them so fast. Still life looks good as well and so does the portrait. One suggestion, maybe do some enviros where you spend longer as well and really try and make the look like the photo.

[crown]

Wicked speedpaints, very very impressive, but I'd love to see what you could make on longer paintings, maybe an hour or so? Keep it up!

[DK_sketch]

@alexson: thanks man I will:)

@jskotte: Thanks. Yeah I have been looking at some diffrent photos to figure out witch one I wanna take all the way:)

@crown: thanks man I did a portrait thingy witch i spend a couple of hours on today:)


wen´t to croquis today:)
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some from head and some from ref
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and a portrait stopped looking at the time when i crossed the 2 hour mark but im guessing at 4 hours or so:/
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[jskotte]

croquis looks great, specially the gray paper ones :)
Really nice work on this last portrait, skin and skin tones look great, but maybe the corner of the lips seem a bit too colorful and hard edged.

[N E X T]

the environment studies are just great.

[DK_sketch]

@jskotte: thanks, hehe yeah i just looked at it again and i see what you mean:)

@N E X T: the 10 min ones ? thanks man:)



soo a tiny update today but i was out buying paper and stopped to get some coffee and look around:/
Tomorrow work is back on the menue so I won´t be able to make the updates as regular:(


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Started out just doodling and got this:)
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spent a good deal of time on the face soo a close-up
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[surfandsnow]

just flipped through your sketchbook, lots of improvement especially in those last few posts. The still lifes look great especially the colors and edges. The face faces and figures are also coming along well and you can definitely see the influence of algens work on them. if you didnt already know about it janna and him did a interview on crimson daggers a while ago http://www.livestream.com/fuckinartwithmrdelicious/video?clipId=flv_ea0f0709-24fe-45c9-8411-d1a0c9765711

Id also agree that you should do a few longer studies. not much more to say, just keep it up!

[jskotte]

I'm still amazed you can get so much color variation and life into these to minutes enviros. What resolution do you paint these at?
And that doodle is pretty great. I would maybe add a few more higher values on the girl, to really make her stand out a bit more, but the face looks really great.

[pamukluprenses]

The progress in your values is impressive.. Looks like your traditional sketches improved your lines also in digital too.. And proportions and other stuff like color, environments etc. seems allright, so keep sketching!

[Nibras]

Really liking that last painting, it has a lot of potential and already looks good. Keep working on it and finish it off because it'll be great.
I am really liking your book so far, really enjoyable to go through. A lot of Algen's influence but I guess that will always change into your own style as you progress so no worries

Take care :) looking forward to more

[Pixie Trick]

I meant just watching to make sure that most of your brushstrokes served a purpose before you but them down, ie. less brushstrokes. :) Even more lovely work I see. Keep at it. :sungod:

[Zat]

hmm nice sb
really like the life studies
great job keep it up :)

[alexson]

Maan this latest one is awesome. You doing straight color? Looking hoooooot

[Joce]

wow kool envir study's. and the one with the girl with her legs up is super! do you smudge your paint?