Sid's Sketchbook

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Welcome to my sketchbook. View, critique, enjoy, and do drop by often :).

[FightingSeraph]

Great stuff, especially the Transformer. As for actual criticism, I have nothing to say.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Digital stuff

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Been working on this one for a few days. Dealing with the background's been a pain. I wanted to close the circle of guys surrounding them, but every attempt looked awful.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Some comics pages

[Quigleyer]

Your ambition and image ideas are working out nicely. You're trying to tackle more complicated images rather than having the guy standing like a log syndrome and that's to be applauded.

I think you could work on your anatomy (as often as it's said, it's true). You've got some really awkward figures in there. Shoot some refs and paint with those.... just really quick ones... it helps so much.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Quigleyer: Thanks! I'll work harder on the anatomy especially, still trying to nail that.

Here's a quick character sheet that my brother asked for. I'm still having a bit of trouble getting materials right.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Cityscape, concept is for a scene just outside the capital city of an empire.

[Trent0090]

I really like the look of the Empire cityscape. I really hope you keep it up and expand on the the concept. I think the gentleman holding his eye open on the top is really well done it conveys emotion with little action very well. Good stuff so far I really hope you keep it up :)

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Thanks, Trent!

Playing around with a golem character design that a friend requested.

[mollymillions]

you've got some good things going with your digital skill but I'll agree with the above statement that your anatomy etc needs more attention. It looks like you just need to be more patient with your line art, which many of us are guilty of.

keep it up!

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Character concept for an emperor. Same guy as the statue in the city piece farther up. I need to do more drapery studies, I know...

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Decided to do my own take on the Hindu God, Shiva. Realized way too late that his torso is turned in a completely weird direction if he's walking towards us. This is why I need to flip the image early instead of at the end.

[Newman101]

Hey Chagan, youve got some nice stuff here. You seem to have a good amount of ability with whatever program you are using. However, your proportions seem to be off on most of your drawings. my suggestion would be to do some studies so you can really nail your proportions.

Still your work is good. Keep it up! :)

[lord_regenschirm]

I'm with Newman in terms of proportion, in addition I would recommend to watch your contrast-values (one thing I'm also handling too cautiously); go for darker darks and lighter lights :^^: and when you do so, fix your lightsource in the beginning. Cool moods though, keep it up!

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Newman and regenschirm, thanks for the comments! Still working on anatomy and proportion, got my big book of Bridgman handy :D. I'll keep the value advice in mind.

Here's some quick forearm stuff, copied from this month's Imagine FX.

[SMILEFACE]

diggz yall sb wanna see some moe

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Random concept art for a cyborg. Tried to get a better grip on painting metal surfaces for the armor and quick implied detail for the gun.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Did a Cyclops redesign. I've been looking at too much Marko stuff.

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Some more character stuff. Sorry for the horrible blurriness, took these with a camera as I dont have a scanner.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Character concept in pencil. Practicing drawing clothes.

[zalxemptyx]

hey dude , i can see progress in your sketchbook, good stuff, but just be careful with ur anatomy. it seems to be a major problem for you now , if you can tackle that down, it be aesthetically more pleasing for your pieces,

hope the holidays been great, take care : )

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Concept art for a Neverwinter Nights 2 module my brother's working on. First the study then the actual painting. The final is an edit of the same piece in my last post- I've done some work on the kneeling guy's anatomy, especially on the back, and warmed the color palette on him to make him fit better into the setting.

Edit: Added some more light to the guy's back based on Man Made God's tip, thanks!

[Man Made God]

Nice, loads of cool ideas here. Your pencils and digitals seem pretty balanced quality wise, looking good. The anatomy is noticeably off on some of the older stuff, looks like you didn't have references, but your finished paintings are all pretty solid. The new one is looking nice and dramatic, but I think the skin may be too purple-ish, I'm not sure. It really depends on how blue your sky or secondary light source is going to be. The guy's back shouldn't be so dark though, there are flames right next to it.

Kinda rambled, but yeah, keep it up. Looking really good so far!

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Man Made God: Thanks for the tips, I tried fixing the lighting on the guy's back. As for anatomy, I'm working on Loomis as we speak :D.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

I have begun drawing from Loomis! Pardons for the feathery lines.. still trying to work on that long, confident stroke thing, especially with the wacom. Really need to put in that felt tip on the pen.

I'm not quite sure who to assign the copyright on sketchbook images like these to, would it go to me or Loomis?

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

More Loomis

[Peetaer]

Thanks for dropping by my SB dude! Keep going on those Loomis studies. Look into Bridgman as well. Another book that I am drawing from right now is one by a guy named Fritz Schider. It's an anatomy book and it's super thorough. I'm learning a shitload from it.

I really like the subject material that you're fleshing out here, but like others have mentioned before, crank out a ton of those anatomy studies (something I'm doing myself). Also, do life drawings regularly. Right now I'm averaging twice a week. Hopefully soon it'll be three times a week.

Anyways, keep rocking the artwork dude! You definitely made the right decision to pursue art for the rest of your life!

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Thanks Peetaer! Definitely keeping up the Loomis/Bridgman, and I'll look into Schider. I'm also learning a lot from the Ron Lemen tutorials I see all over the place, he explains things very clearly. As for life drawing, I'm starting school again later this month and will be life drawing at least twice a week. Can't wait to get back to it, that's probably what i miss most from my undergrad years!

Anyways, kicking off the year with some silhouettes! These are fun.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

More Loomis. The next few will be in pencil I think, since trying to do them digitally will tax my sanity to the limit.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Quick portrait of a character.

EDIT: Replaced with an updated version. Fixed some things based on feedback received here and in the Critique Center http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=146548.

[Swordhand]

Your silhouettes are really wicked. I hope to see some more of those. One thing that might help in your most recent character portrait would be to review the angle of the left shoulder. Along with the position of that head, that shoulder is not working at all. A more established light source could help too... right now light apears to be coming from many directions at once.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Practicing some figures based off Loomis. Also tried to recreate the pose from this artist (http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=146748) with some of Loomis' lessons applied.

[Peetaer]

Whoa dude. Those Loomis studies are already showing tremendous results. I need to get into Loomis real soon! Rock on dude!

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Thanks Peetaer :P.

More Loomis practice. Had some more but the photo files were corrupted, I'll upload them after retaking the pictures tomorrow.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

More crap from the sketchbook. Most of it is Loomis stuff, the kneeling guy and walking woman are just practice from imagination. Again, sorry for the bad photos.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

More Loomis

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Did a figure drawing from this photo (http://mjranum.deviantart.com/art/Relaxed-43325996) and tried to keep what I've learned from Andrew Loomis and Ron Lemen in mind. Got an early stage and a later one. Hope it looks good.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Some studies for a piece I'm going to start doing digitally soon. Miracleman vs. Kid Miracleman!

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Digital version of the Miracleman drawing.

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Environment piece that was supposed to be a speedpaint but took a bit longer than intended.

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More sketches and a character design.

[Madfishmonger]

Your anatomy stuff is awesome! I need to do more of it, it seems to have worked for you.
That self-portrait is brilliant.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Homework for Drawing from Imagination class, which I started at the Academy of Art in San Francisco on Monday. I have never put this many perspective lines in one drawing.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Academy of Art, Week 1. Work from Figure Studio and Head Drawing.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Master copy in charcoal, of Caravaggio's cupid painting.

[SMILEFACE]

madd digz killer paints an studies thanks for all your help

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

New charcoal life drawing from class. This is probably the best figure I've ever done- still got all semester left!

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

More stuff from head drawing

[Dravloc25]

Love your charcoal work, it shows you are getting a better idea of the anatomy. Cant wait to see some more digital.

SketchBook
http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=148322

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Thanks, Dravloc! I've been swamped with school and work, but hopefully I'll get some digital stuff up again soon!

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Master copy of a Prud'hon drawing

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Finished version of the one-point perspective drawing for class, along with a picture of all the lines and constructions used to make it.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

New drawing from figure studio. Trying to push the values a bit, although it came out scratchier than I would have liked.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

This week's head drawing work.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Master copy of a Bouguereau painting. Obviously needed to spend more time on the drawing, since the likeness is off.

[Blue Severin]

charcoal studies looking good. The perspective drawing has a lot of work put into it, but it looks like you've got multiple vanishing points with no measure points to figure out the depth of things. The doors look about 20 feet wide, same with windows, and truck is 100 feet long, etc.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

charcoal studies looking good. The perspective drawing has a lot of work put into it, but it looks like you've got multiple vanishing points with no measure points to figure out the depth of things. The doors look about 20 feet wide, same with windows, and truck is 100 feet long, etc.

Thanks for the feedback, I see what you mean about the measure points- I'll pay attention to that next time. I've only got 1 vanishing point in there though, and a minor one for the uphill part of the road. The rest were all for the light source and base points for shadows.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Figure drawing, week 4

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Week 4 of head drawing. a 20 minute and then 2 40 minute poses.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Assignment in two point perspective. Sorry for the horrible photo, I'll try to get a scan of it soon.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

This one (http://conceptart.org/forums/showpost.php?p=2136361&postcount=57) didn't turn out so well, so I redid it. Also did a very quick figure exercise in Photoshop, focusing on colors. I recently got James Kei's figure painting video, picked up a few things that I hope to apply to my work soon.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Colored the pencil drawing a few posts up. Also, a 10 minute figure study.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Week 5 of figure studio and head drawing

[spaztastic]

You have got some very nice progression going on here, keep it up.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Head study from this week's figure drawing class, and a work in progress shot for an illustration assignment. Robots in 3-point!

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Work in progress shots for a value study for class. Going to copy this (http://vemfanelaurapalmer.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/1218430832jyep4s3.jpg) awesome photo as exactly as possible in charcoal.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Week 6 of head drawing

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Progress on the Clint Eastwood, and some heads in perspective for illustration class. Not so happy with those.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Annnnnnd here's the last two WIPs of the Clint Eastwood copy, and the final. Unless I make more changes later in the week.

[SMILEFACE]

yeah ! that Clint Eastwood is wicked

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Spect, thanks for the cheer!

Here's this week's figure drawing, and a copy of a George Hurrell photo done as a value study over 3 weeks.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Some work from week 7 of head drawing, this time lit from under. Also, a self portrait, and then the same self portrait aged. The aging thing was fun.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Piece I made for someone's birthday.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Quick color study at the local Barnes and Noble. Kind of a fail, but I learned from it. Other one's a quick drawing of Jake Kobrin.

[Jacob Kobryn]

And if the dam breaks open many years too soon
And if there is no room upon the hill
And if your head explodes with dark forebodings too
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon.

[AlexTooth]

First thanks for my comment in SB.

Second, WOW your faces are increeedible :) Rate up here dude, I think you're gonna be completely awesome. There are some nice ideas in your digitals, you're deffo going in the right direction, but I think your charcoal stuff is out ahead at the moment. Wow I wish I had those skills, you must have a great teacher!

Take it easy man, I will check in again!

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Alex: Thanks man! We've really been hitting the charcoal at school, and yeah, I really lucked out with my teachers. They've all been awesome so far.

Jake: Hehe, took me a while to get that- I haven't actually heard much Floyd :P. *ducks thrown objects*

Anywho, here's a new self portrait. The eyes were a pain in the ass and by themselves added 2 or 3 hours to what should have been a relatively quick study.

[amianna]

Wow, that is a great self portrait, I'm going to aim for that quality of work with my next one. I'm glad you spent the extra time on the eyes because thats what makes this piece special. Great job.

I'm still learning how to do tones right and you already got it really well. I love the aging SP as well. I have to try that too, my only crits would be that when you age the nose should get a bit bigger and the lips will loose most of the fullness, and making the cheekbones show more as well. Other than that , great sketchbook , I'll be watching since you do a lot of work with charcoal too where Ive only just begun working with.

[amianna]

Oh I can see that the right pupil is a little bit to low, I think you need to add more white under, or it's the left one that's too high. Not sure :< But they still look good :)

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Thanks for the comments, amianna!

Here's this week's homework for illustration class. Had to do a nude from imagination in 2 point, 2 point vertical and 3 point.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Rembrandt copy in charcoal for figure drawing class.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Just playing around with poses and such, need to come up with a fighting stance that encompasses the entire figure. Will probably go with number 4. I did a lot more than these, but most of them got erased :P.

Also posting an update on that robot drawing. Haven't worked on it in quite a while, hopefully it'll be finished sometime soonish.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Week 8 of figure studio, and of drawing from the imagination. This week we had to draw two nude figures fighting. Next week we'll be adding clothes to them, and the week after that we stick them in an environment.

[AlexTooth]

Great updates Sid. That Rembrandt is one of the best charcoal pieces I've ever seen. And the life drawin guy above looks pretty amazing too. Oh and the one from imagination is pretty amazing also. Skills!

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Thanks Alex :D!

Here's this week's head drawing work, followed by some quick sketches from the last few weeks of head drawing and figure studio.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Some quick sketches from the first night at Reverie and a quick face I did afterward.

[localfatheaded]

keep drawing everything is looking good, the clint eastwood drawing is fantastic

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

localfathead: Thanks!

Here's another set of figure drawings from Reverie, from when Android was projecting colorful shapes straight on to the model. I missed the long pose because I got distracted by Marko's corner :\.

Second one is an attempt at pulling an environment out of abstract shapes. Tried to apply what I picked up by watching Mikko Kinnunen draw for 3 hours. Not too successful, but it's a step up from my previous environments.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Sketchbook stuff from the Dallas trip.

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Week 9 of figure studio. Not very happy with this one, I went wayyyy too dark with some of the shadows and I can now see that the edges are too sharp nearly everywhere. I'll post the quick sketches from class later on.

[RBeek]

I can see your figure drawing is getting stronger and stronger :)
Keep it up, life drawing class must be awsome! :) (jeleous...)

[GaussianRaider]

Hi there...your work show a high rate of improvement, I can see volumes/poses/line quality getting stronger.
You're doing pretty well with traditional mediums...not so much with your digitals but I think if you keep studying like this it's just a matter of time before those skills translate into your digital projects as well.
See ya! :D

EDIT: maybe i wasn't clear, didn't mean the digital stuff is not good, i meant is not as good as the traditional!!

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Week 10 of figure drawing. Big relief getting it to look how I wanted it to after last week's stunning fail (http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=636546&stc=1&d=1238746685) :P.

Rogerb and GaussianRaider- Thanks for the comments! Guassian, no worries, I got your meaning and you're very, very right. I'm working on a new digital piece that'll be posted by Sunday though, so hopefully that'll show some marked improvement :D.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Week 10 of head drawing, followed by a lot of quick sketches from figure studio and head drawing.

[RoboBobo]

I didn't realize how many figures you draw. Man you should've showed this to Chris and I. Those head studies are lookin great.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

New digital piece for illustration class.

[Main Loop]

academy student eh? hehe

[Verehin]

Nice studies man)

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

academy student eh? hehe

Main Loop: Yup, first semester. Like it quite a bit :). And damn your gouache studies are awesome O_O.
Verehin: Thanks!

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Just got my new large intuos 4 and played around with it a little while. Big size + rough surface = lines I didn't know you could get this clean digitally.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Quick doodle in PS. I love the intuos4.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

2 crappy self portraits for head drawing class that were done in a rush. I liked the challenge with the lighting and think I did well in that respect, but good GOD I botched the construction...

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Week 12 of head drawing, complete with warmup sketches.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

This week's illustration homework. We were given a short passage to illustrate (girl kneels in front of mirror, puts wedding cake piece through wedding ring, sees future husband in mirror), the point being to construct the reflection in the mirror. The rest are just random sketchbook pages.

[bharat]

cool study of anotomy n life.... !

[Mischeviouslittleelf]

Very nice life studies going down here, specially like some of the earlier stuff like the woman in the contraposti. Very well done, just don´t slack of and keep on posting and you will see improvement sonn enough^^

-E

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Homework for figure studio. Had to do a line copy of a Prud'hon with visible construction, and then do another copy with full rendering.

[Anup1]

Nice work sidharth. Hope to see much more... Keep it up

[EKOes]

very great work on ironmen and this last copy rocks dude!!

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Bharat, Mischeviouslittleelf, Anup1 and EKOes, thanks so much for the compliments!

Here are this week's pose and sketches from figure studio. I'm actually really happy with how this came out. I didn't have to spend as long constructing, and I took what I learned from the Prud'hon copy to design it a little, thought about the shapes more than the modeling. It still ended up a little more rendered than I wanted it to, but I guess I need to learn when to stop drawing.

[Artangela]

nice head and figure sketches! Definitely looking forward to seeing more :)

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

I learned something today... applying Prud'hon figure lessons to composing a head drawing doesn't work so well. This was one of my much less successful head drawing classes, although I kind of like the second one (which took like 15 minutes to make).

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Starting our final assignments in illustration class, this week we need to draw up 2 concepts for some blokes running from zombies in a crypt. This is one of them.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

And here's the other one.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Some pages from the sketchbook. Copying a Marko drawing at the moment, as you can see. Really helping a lot with figuring out pencil rendering. Sorry for the crappy picture quality as usual, the pencils look much worse here than on paper.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Week 12 of figure studio. Not such a successful drawing, but it was good practice for edges.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Sketches and long poses from head drawing and figure studio. Also some tiny sketches of me making faces, homework for the next 2 weeks will be making proper drawings out of the 3 of them.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Mostly complete line art for final illustration project.
Failed drawing of a bush that turned into a creature design.
Character design.

[Helioth]

Sidharth, good stuff here man, I sent you a mail from Glenn Loomis email account by accident when I was over in San Fran.

Really does seem like you're making a lot of progress.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Thanks, Helioth! Sorry I missed you during your visit, maybe next time :).

Here's stuff from today's figure studio class. Also a new character sketch where I made the legs comically too small, but I was focusing on back anatomy anyway. I've been reading and copying from Hale's "Anatomy Lessons from the Great Masters" and was trying to see how much I could do from imagination afterward.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Head drawing class work and illustration final project.

Edit: Updated the illustration piece, I wasn't happy with the color and wanted to eliminate the lines.
Also, YES! I have finally figured out how to stop the color from washing out when I upload these.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

A head drawing from today using only an HB charcoal pencil. No vine in this one!
Another Prud'hon study and its line drawing
2 self portraits with expression.
A lot of sketchbook pages full of sketches of classmates, a purse, Bridgman hands and some stuff from Barbara Bradley's book.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Final week of figure studio. This one was done in graphite, roughly 5 hour pose.

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Work from the final week of head drawing, and a lot more copies from Bradley's book.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Entry for CHOW158. I mostly managed to draw what was in my head, save for things with the pose that I just couldn't get right. I really wanted to emphasize the hand clutching the chest, like he's got a weak heart from a long life, and wanted the gun to look heavy in his hand. Guess I need to get into the character more next time.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

CHOW entry, colored in Photoshop. Somehow watching Greg Manchess' tutorial really helped with my digital painting.

[animosapien]

Hi Sid,

saw your post in Jason manley's thread 'caucasian female portraits...great to see a desi on board again...
went throuh your entire sketch thread and your works in the site..
it must have been really great to study in an academy rite..
I have a lot of respect to all those who have got the chance to study in a schol ...especially art and design,
it means a lot for soembody like me who have struggled my way through..

saw your shiva,,
nice work. the action silhouettes are cool too..
ive got a sketchthread as well..
feel free to barge in...down below..feel free to comment..and once again honoured to meet you !!
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[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Thanks for the comments, aminosapien!

Here's my entry for CHOW#160. Took much longer than expected, and I'm not happy with the skin color. Need to do a lot of studies of skin under cool light.

[animosapien]

Thanks for being at my sketchbook sid..
saw ure CHOW entry...liked it

Sad to say..yes.. im self taught.
but happy to say cause that keeps me so greedy to learn more.
and i shouldnt be partial in saying that im just self taught.
you and all the other at CA keeps giving input..
thats something no school can afford..

keep visiting and lemme see how i can keep up with the pace
chow..
and all the best for CHOW..:)

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

This week's COW topic, Shadow and Flame.

[Jaytea]

Wicked perspective on this last one. :0 Your portraits are very amazing~

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

My first oil painting in more than a year. The last time I used this stuff my ability was beyond crap. Reading Alla Prima and watching the downloads by Greg Manchess and Shawn Barber really helped in the meantime.

[seetsy]

hey cool stuff man, ur charcoals are awesome such good grasp of the lighting.. keep posting!

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

A previous character design, orthogonal view

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Biiiiig update. Haven't uploaded sketchbook pages in a while, and I've got some creature designs.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Fail. This just took too damn long because of the colors- I tried sticking to an earth palette but that went out the window after a while, so I've used some cadmiums as well. How did those old guys paint apples?? Some Chardin studies are in order! I'm also really not happy with the edges.

On the bright side, there was a glass of orange juice waiting for me at the end.

[donalfall]

Good going! You're working hard and it shows. Those SB pages are sweet. I feel your paints are too soft edged everywhere, could do with a bit of sharpness and definition to them here and there.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Thanks for all the comments, everyone!

New painting from last night. A lot of the shadow colors ended up much cooler than I wanted, and for the life of me I can't seem to get a good photo of this, so sorry for the ugly glare.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

First day of Clothed Figure Drawing with Lisa Berrett.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Day 1 of Figurative Painting. We have another day left of this pose, it'll mostly be monochrome. Probably should've used Burnt Umber instead of Sienna. The class is taught by this guy (http://www.zhaomingu.com), which is awesome.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Day 2 of Clothed figure drawing.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Oh my freaking God this came out a train wreck. I made the foolish decision to try adding burnt umber to bring out the darks, and the color temperature went haywire. Spent 5 hours fighting with it trying to make it look good to no avail. I may go back and retool this over the weekend.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

More sketchbook pages. Doing some copies from Charles Hu's thread.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Concepts for Newborn!

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Day 1 of 2 on a new pose in figurative painting.

[Untouched24]

Really nice collection of work and studies you got here. Looks like your work is pretty well balanced and you're on the right track. Keep it up.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Stuff from Clothed Figure Drawing, more concepts for Newborn, and some portrait practice from imagination. From here on I'm not going to upload absolutely everything in my sketchbooks because it's a pain in the ass and I'm sure the servers have better things to load :P.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

This week's finished painting from figurative painting. Mainly stuck to the earth palette and threw in some cadmiums right at the end. I don't hate it :).

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

I haven't had much time/inclination to photograph my work lately, so updates have been slow. Here's some stuff from clothed figure drawing and a quick character concept for my Newborn painting. I'll try to get some pictures of my oil work tomorrow.

[The man with no name]

this is a wonderful SB, suprised more people haven't commented, the studies are great, sackboy with axe is very creative, keep up the good work :teeth:

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

the man with no name: thanks for the comment :). The sack drawings were fun, it's actually an assignment we get in clothed figure drawing at school

Here are today's drawings from clothed figure and some figure paintings. I am still miserable at color and oil painting in general

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

3 hour color study at Starbucks.

[courtyard]

Lovely studies...the drapery and skin tones are excellent. Great observations in the Starbucks study, too. The only crit the jumps out is edge control...using softer edges on the tables and chairs and the harder edges on the pick-up counter might make those parts of the image read a bit more clearly. Minor stuff, though. Your work ethic is inspiring. :)

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Thanks, courtyard!

Here's another color study, half an hour on this one.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Here's an alla prima portrait of my fiance, around 3 hours of work. First time I've really gone crazy with the greens in a painting. Coro's tutorial is amazing. Yes, I see the embarrassing drawing errors under the nose and on the mouth. They will haunt me forever.

Followed by another half-hour color study.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Some stuff from clothed figure drawing. Not as happy with the drawings as last week, but still learned a lot.

[MattGamer]

mmmm hmmm studies are yummy. why didn't you fill in the n64
cartridge! i wanna know what game you were playing?!

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Thanks Matt! I was just drawing, my friends and fiance were playing Mario Party :P.

Here's the 3 day figure painting that we finished today. 5 day pose is up next.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

40 minute color study at close to noon.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Cheesecake! Took a bit over an hour.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

3 hour portrait of my fiance. This did not go well at all.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Drapery study for clothed figure drawing, and 2 work in progress shots from figure painting. This was the first day of a 5 day pose.

[The man with no name]

Great update :D, nice study, this last painting turned out amazing, oh and love the red haired pin up girl :teeth: oh and the portrait in your previous post turned out really nice, still supries this SB doesn't get much traffic, well your SB rocks :)

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Some stuff from clothed figure drawing, and the progress on the figure painting (day 2 of 5).

[Wasker]

The oil is coming along nicely, i have a feeling that the photo doesnt do it justice though.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Day 3 of 5 on the figure painting, a 3 hour alla prima portrait, and a 20 minute color study of my fiance.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Completed Newborn entry.

[Vaejoun]

Coming along really nice. I totally love that boogey-bag in post 150 (or so) ^^
Your worked out pencil drawings look really good and your life or book sketches are nice too.

How could I help... Do you know posemaniacs and the 30-seconds drawings ?
http://www.posemaniacs.com/
If you dont know it, try it out ^^

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

A piece from clothed figure drawing.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

First painting is from photo reference. The second is the finished 5 day figure painting.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Color study

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Color study around 4:30PM.

[jigje]

I only looked at the last 2 pages but this is such a nice book. The drapery in your works and in studies is especially fatastic. Thanks Sid.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Thanks Jigje!

Here's another quick color study from today.

[DeeStar]

Nice sketchbook, I'm really enjoying your figurative pencil work.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Color Study, bit less than an hour

[Jesus Food]

very nice studies, i dont feel worthy of giving u advice and it looks like ur on the right road to greatness, so GJ

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Jesus Food and Deestar, thanks for the comments!

Here's my entry for CHOW#169, killer prom queen.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Color study at 6PM

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

3 hour painting at Lake Merced. I didn't get the value range I wanted, so it's hard to read. Should probably do color charts. Also, the photo is crappy.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Color study in oil in front of my house. This was at around 5:30PM.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Some pages from the sketchbook. Poor photo quality.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Sketchbook pages, including copies of a Velazquez's "Mars" and a Greg Manchess character; a thumbnail and a sketch made for the current CHOW, Napoleonic War Hero; and today's alla prima portrait of my fiance, which took around 4 hours. Only used an earth palette.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Some progress shots of my CHOW painting- pencil drawing on 16X20 canvas board, digital color study, and a poor quality photo of the progress on the painting itself.

Following that, 3 color studies. The first one was at 3PM, the next one at 11AM. The third one is the same as the second, but overpainted one hour later at noon. Amazing how much the color changes in such a short amount of time.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Completely forgot to post this, I started a color study a few weeks ago in a hallway at SFSU and never got to finish it. Oh well.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Alla prima still life from a few weeks ago, and the final CHOW painting.

[jcpahl]

Lots of great grinding, and I can see it paying off. Keep doing what you're doing; I think it's working.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

jcpahl, thanks!

Some sketchbook pages.

[scorpion007]

Holy moly! You have improved a lot from your first page! Very impressive stuff here :)

[Fuseboy]

Very encouraging to see so much improvement!

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Scorpion007 and Fuseboy, thanks!

Sketchbook pages, and some work on this week's CHOW.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

CHOW entry

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

I'm currently doing a copy of Velazquez's Juan de Pareja. There are some drawing problems already on the head, and on the whole it's a bit too dark. Will try to fix that stuff when I can get back to the studio. This is also the first time I'm using a lead white (Winsor & Newton Cren Mitz). Handles nicely, but I can't believe how much of that stuff you need to use to lighten the paint :P.

[corza334]

That last paintings looking swell man, can't wait too see it finished

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

First homework assignment from figure studio class, we were given some plates to copy accurately. It took forever. Also, an update on my copy of Juan de Pareja.

[Movenski]

man.. that Velazquez study is FANTASTIC!! can't wait to see you glaze that head into color!

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Thanks Movenski :). With any luck it'll be done by this weekend.

Today was the first portrait painting class. We're pretty much going to be working with grisaille the entire semester, so any alla prima work I do wont be for school.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Progress on the Velazquez, I spent several hours just trying to get the face to work (opaque paintover). Still problems, especially with that eye, but I'll fix.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Another 2 hours in. This is not going well :|.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

First drawing from figure studio. Technically a 2 week pose, but we only got to work on it for like 6 hours. I'm not happy with it. It looked a lot better before I dropped that cast shadow behind her.

Also, some progress on the Velazquez, it's very slowly starting to work, although I'm still seeing some drawing issues. I'm also trying to figure out how to get the saturation around the face up. This may call for some glazing.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

First painting from still life class.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Today's painting from portrait class, and a copy of some painting of a girl. I'm not sure what it's called or who made it.

[Cranberry]

Great progress! Nice chow as well btw :)

Keep it up!
& come have a look at my sketchy if you like :)

[BalrogKitty]

Awesome SB! I love your figure work as well as the digital pieces. One thing that threw me off though was the killer prom queen CHOW- her legs seem to be connected below her hips, instead of at her hips.

[Liffey]

Great sketches, and I can see that your facial studies have come a long way from just a year ago. Keep it up. :)

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Liffey, BalrogKitty and Cranberry, thanks a lot!

Some more copies of the Academie Julian plates.

[Rushlord]

Hey Sid. I've been watching you for a while and your progress is amazing. Keep it up. I love your recent paintings and drawings.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Rushlord, thank you very much :D.

Here are-

My entry for Battle of the Sexes 2, based on the topic "Faded Beauty Still Shines." Digital piece done in grayscale and then colored in layers.

Homework for still life class, around 2 and a half hours in oil.

Classwork in still life class, 4-5 hours in oil.

Copy of one of the characters in Rubens' "Two Satyrs."

The finished copy of Juan de Pareja. It's come about as far as I can take it and it definitely has problems. I'll need to redo this one someday, probably after I get to see it in the Met... whenever that is.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Today's portrait.

[Demo]

Wow the last portrait is just stunning.
and those copies of the Academie Julian plates really look like they
payed off on the portrait.
If i could say one thing the drapery really dosent really seem to get there for me.
It Looks like your faces get a great amount of attention to the small little subtle changes of value, hue, and saturation, but then the drapery really seems to get a little muddy and a flat middle tone. The 2 im seeing this the most in is the study of Juan de Pareja, and your battle of the sexes piece.

Umm btw Did the battle of the sexes thing start i haven't seen anything about it yet???

[bodjietron]

nice work. i saw the changes. amazing men. nice. im astonished

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Demo, thanks a lot! I'll keep an eye on the drapery. Battle of the sexes started quite a while ago and has actually ended, voting's over in the challenges forum. For some reason everyone was really quiet about it this time, not even much participation.

Bodjitron, thanks!

I'm starting a charcoal copy of one of Orson Welles' portrait pictures, here's the construction.

[The man with no name]

your portraits are wonderful, you have a solid foundation in graphite too, great work up to this point, guess it can only get better from here (if that is at all possibe) keep up the good work :teeth:

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

The man with no name, thanks :D.

Drawing from figure studio. Technically a 2 week pose, but I dont think we got to work on it for more than 6 hours total. Bummer.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Two paintings for still life class, and a 2.5 oil sketch from imagination.

[cw]

your oils look lush! great sketchbook too, I am loving the tradtitional stuff all over. :) really inspiring to see.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

cw, thanks! :)

Here's today's still life, limited palette of titanium white, yellow ochre, terra rosa and ivory black.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

30 minute color study at around 2PM, did it with a hard round brush and then softened the edges later on.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Portrait from imagination, wanted to see how the grissaille method we've been doing in class translates over into digital.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Today's portrait, and a work in progress of a master copy of Velazquez's portrait of Juan Martinez Montanes.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Progress on the Velazquez copy, and this week's work in figure studio. We'll be continuing the pose next week.

[Frank Gressie]

looking great man! can't wait to see that velazquez finished :)
did velazquez use grissaille?

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

looking great man! can't wait to see that velazquez finished :)
did velazquez use grissaille?

Thanks man! Nah, as far as I know he didn't use grissaille, but the class assignments calls for doing this the way Rembrandt would have. Helps me solve some drawing issues beforehand anyway, later on I'll be going over the head with an opaque color layer.

[Peetaer]

There's some awesome fine art here. I'm currently doing a lot of fine art myself. I'm attending a classical realist atelier right now and I've been learning a helluva lot. It's cool to see some more fine art on here (not to say that I don't love the digital stuff either).

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Still life homework, still using the limited palette.

[Peetaer]

Love this portrait: Girl (http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=722635&stc=1&d=1247469859)

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Color studies of the corner of my room starting just at the end of sunset, immediately after, and just before dark. All 3 were done consecutively in about 30 minutes.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

This week's classwork from still life and portrait painting.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Progress on the Orson Welles copy, and a one hour alla prima portrait done with a limited palette, using Titanium White, Burnt Sienna and Ultramarine Blue.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Even more progress on the Orson Welles copy, and a head drawing from figure studio.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Finished Orson Welles copy, progress on Velazquez copy, still life using cad yellow pale/yellow ochre/terra rosa/alizarin/ivory black, and today's portrait.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

New still life (may work on it more) and a few hours into a new oil illustration. I'll upload sketches I did for it tomorrow.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Today's still life, and a tiny bit of progress on the girl with the umbrella.

[Ninjac]

Sidharth Chaturvedi great traditional works! I love how you handle your oil paint. Keep it up!

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Thanks Joshua!

Portrait from Wednesday, and a figure drawing, probably 8 or 9 hours of work.

[TASmith]

There are so many good studies here. Let's see if I can't bump you up a star... tadaa!!!

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Thanks TAS! :D

Here's a very bad photo of the progress on the latest painting, the digital study I did for it, and a photo of one corner of my messy studio at school.

[KonnA]

That very last image makes all your hard work look so very impressive!

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Thanks KonnA :).

We're FINALLY getting to add color to the Velazquez copy, so here's the progress on it. The grissaille is completely covered up and I'm enjoying working on it now :P.

I also scraped off whatever I'd done on the girl in my umbrella painting yesterday and redid it, so here's a shot.

[Lakka]

Everything is looking tight here, really is..

I dig alot

[Bombur]

Great sketchbook. I really like the girl with the umbrella :)

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Lakka - Thanks!
Bambur - Glad you like it! Hopefully it'll be done some time soon.

Here's today's still life. I'm reworking one of my digital pieces from March after a critique by Jason Manley and John English, so I should have that done soon. I'm reworking the two figures in it mainly, here's the outline. I still need to work on the girl. Also, I'll have sketchbook photos soon, promise!

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

I haven't even doodled anything for 3 days. Been down with the worst fever since I was maybe 14 years old and already missed a figure drawing class. Got a lot of catching up to do. Keeping myself occupied with Donato's awesome download though :).

Anyway, here's the portrait from Wednesday. I've kept the paint as thin as I could manage, so a lot of the panel is showing through. We'll be doing a color pass of the same pose next week.

[andres333]

The last one is the work of a genius! I'm impressed

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Thanks andres :).

Blaugh, still sick. Fever's stopped, now I can't breathe. Anyway, it's Nov 1st, so here's my self-portrait! I may revisit this one to blend a bit more, clean it up, etc, as it stands there's around 3-4 hours of work in it. Built it up very slowly and tried not to hit the features too fast. I really like how I'm starting to treat my digital work like oils.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Continuation of last week's pose in portrait class, added color today. Also some more progress on the Velazquez copy- I've finally gotten the skin color down to its real, grayish tone, it's been too red until now. The third one's a charcoal copy after Rubens, just started it this week. And finally, the oh-so-slow progress on the catacombs image. Redoing those poses has been a pretty aggravating process, although I think I've got what I want now.

[Yautja892]

Great Portraits and Still Lifes!

[Rushlord]

The newest digital painting looks awesome. I wonder why you don't have more viewers in here :(

[Gloominati]

woah shit, what a beautiful sketchbook thread!!! Awesome stuff all the way!! mooore please^^