Lioness' Battlefield [ 4/18/04 ] Attempt to revive my sketchbook +2 new +2 portrait

[PeggyChung]

Hi everyone, Im LadyLioness or Peggy, whichever :P i ll just tell you a little about myself before i post my scratchings :P to start off, im 15 and i recently started taking drawing seriously. It started off when i took 1 figure drawing class at the Art center during this last summer. at first i was a little skeptical about it, not thinking much of it. but after it was over i wanted more. so i decided to move on and learn the human anatomy on my own. so far i know the skelatal structure alright. muscles..well im working on it.

http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/object_of_my_insanity.jpg
First drawing before figure drawing class:http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/firstfigure.jpg
these are a few months after:
http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/references.jpg

http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/nakfig2.jpg
http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/scan0005.jpg

btw sorry for it not showing earlier, it was angelfire saying that i was doing an illegal act. so i went with photobucket.com!

thanks for dropping by :Dhttp://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/nakfig3.jpg

[PeggyChung]

http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/scan0006.jpg
11-29-03-reference sketch from a magazine
http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/Study1.jpg http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/study2.jpg

[Big-Dave]

Looks like these are coming along nicely. The eyes seem a bit weird, but you seem to be improving that in the no excuses pic. Only other suggestions I'd make are to try using a darker pencil or scan darker than this and keep up the practice (something I should be doing too)

[PeggyChung]

hey Big-Dave, thanks for the feedback. oh ya and its light cause im using an HB pencil, i like to use it over a darker pencil cause it doesnt smudge as much :P heres another light drawing :http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/study3.jpg

[obid619]

hey good stuff buddy. just work on the eyes. Take more time into your sketches and it could turn out better :)

[PeggyChung]

Hey obid619, yea bleh i must spend this weekend studying the eyes and etc. also to those last sketches i posted, it was damn hard to draw ppl while them squirming everywhere. but im working on it, i try to spend my free time or time that im bored in class, to sketch ppl. also i did some crap sketches of ppl at lunch time. i never noticed how much ppl moved around when they are simply just sitting or standing. -.-''


btw anyone have tips on doing quick sketches of ppl in public? i could only get a "skelaton" of them. pretty much the way they were standing or sitting and thats it. thanks in advance.


Edit: just scribbled my hand while watching tv.12/4
http://img2.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/handstudy1.jpg

[PeggyChung]

one of my "finals" for my portfolio that im turning in. its a detailed version of one of the drawings above. http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/portfolio1.jpg

C + Cs?

[DragonGX]

Are you taking any drawing classes?

If not, I suggest reading soem anatomy or figure drawing books. If you're on the right track by doing figure drawings, but you really need to draw what you see and not what you think you see. by that, I mean that humans have a tendency to draw too fast and generalize features without actually seeing how they REALLY look. forexample, human eyes, most people draw eyes either by circles or a pointed oval shape, but eyes are much more intricate than that.. you jsut haev to really LOOK at what you're drawing, to make sure that you actually draw it exactly how it is.

Keep practicing, and remember to look more at what you're drawing!

[PeggyChung]

hey dragongx, nope im not taking classes. but ah i have been studyign anatomy. well this just shows how much i suck
-.- yea i had to make up the toes on the feet and the face cuz the picture was too small to see the details. thanks for teh feed back:D

[DragonGX]

Yeah, everyone has to start somewhere! Just keep practicing, and remember waht I said about seeing what you REALLY see and tkaing your time and you should improve alot!

[PeggyChung]

alright guys havent posted in 5 days. heres something i did a few mins ago. ugh its so horrible ! http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/lifesketch1.jpg

[Hedge-o-Matic]

Hey Lioness! Just thought I'd thow in my two cents! I agree with the above statement about drawing what you see. Something I do is take a sketchpad out and go to a Borders or Barnes and Nobles cafe and draw people there. You have endless models there (even if they are wearing clothes, but hey...). It's challenging because the people keep shifting, and moving, and changing. But it's invaluable, I think.

As far as studying on you own, my mother bought me a book when I was around 10 called "The Human Figure" by John Vanderpoel. Even 20+ years ago, she understood where my interests lay, and what the difficulties were. It's still one of the best book on the subject I've ever read. A bit academic, but with very clear, beautiful pencil drawings throughout.

[PeggyChung]

12-13-03 lion studies

http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/lion_sketch1.jpg

[chudzta]

Hey nice works. One thing i think may help. Unless its just your scanner u seem to lack a full scale of colors. Even when u gave urself the three shades to apply to the study .. i still didnt see a dark black. if one of them is and the scanner made it pale then my apologies. But try to get a darker range. I see alot of whitespace and gray shading with only black contour to define the silhouette. Keep up the devotion. Piece - CHudds

[character]

good improvement! keep up the sketching. i really dig your style. that final with the guy on the chair is really nice. i love the head too. i love that little sketch next to the hand. the one with the figure silouhetted(sp?) against the bg. nice touch. i just have one suggestion and that is to lossen up your lines a bit. instead of going *skitch*skitch*skitch, go sssssskitch, ssssskitch. make long countour lines for the base drawing. get the gesture line and body placement as fast as possible. 10 seconds is pretty good but 30 is fun too. just something i learned from my life drawing classes and thought i'd pass along =)

[PeggyChung]

hey Chudzta, thanks for the reply. yea your right, i havent been daring enough to go darker, plus i think i need to use a 2b more, i started using HB for a while. i ll try to take a stab at it the next time around :D

Hi character, thanks for dropping by :D ack i thought the head of the guy with the chair was horrible -.-'' well his face was haha. on the one with the siouhette (dont know how ti spell it also :P) it was actually originally to sharpen my pencil cause i was too lazy to use sandpaper :P but hey if i could get it to look liek it was there purposely then good :D

btw i have style? *glee*

12-14-03
http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/scribbles.jpg


btw im turning in my portfolio tomorrow, ack goodluck to myself. well either way if they could give me constructive crit. then i ll be happy. i think im just relying that not a lot of other highschool kids do them. ah well

[Angela]

Sup peg... i seroiusly think you are improving.. that totally inspires me as well!!! keep up the great work.. and ill see you someday in art center ;) haha if i make it that is! well keep drawing.. and i dig your motivated style babe~ :D :chug:

[PeggyChung]

another lioness study 12-14-03:
http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/lion_sketch2.jpg

12-17-03:
http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/study.jpg

[Angela]

Peg, I hope you keep it up! You are increasingly gettin alot better! dang girl! you inspire me!!! Great job~!

[S51]

These are coming along very nicely, I only have one minor crit with regards to your value studies. Something I usually forget and have to remind myself about is that, even in shadows, there will be some reflected light on a surface. Therefore, the darkest shadow will fall a little bit in from the edge, not on the edge. Hope that makes sense, keep up the good work.

[PeggyChung]

thanks Ang.

hey s51, yea i know what you mean, thanks :D

[Famboozled]

You have a very strong start, a lot of your work looks awesome. Just one suggestion, you might want to play around with value a bit more in the value studies, other than that everything looks awesome!

[DragonGX]

I'm glad to see you've been taking my advice! Your drawings are getting noticably better! Keep it up and keep practicing!

[DragonGX]

Oh yeah, if you want to learn to get better values in your drawings I suggest getting an "Ebony" pencil. Its basically an 8B pencil. You can get a full range of values out of it, and it'll help you learn to control the values you put down on the paper. I wish I could scan in a drawing I have that I did with an Ebony, it has very dark darks and very light lights.

Don't be afraid to draw darker, just sketch in the basic drawing first and then darken it with a darker pencil (or like I said, use an 8B and jsut draw very light at first) As long as you make sure you have the right proportions, etc in your drawing, it'll be no problem!

[PeggyChung]

Hey Famboozled, yep i know, i have a whole 2 weeks free so i will be working on it a lot more. thanks for dropping by :D

Hows it going dragonGx?, thank you, i try to practice more instead of browsing online drooling over great artists art

:p btw im now trying to use a 5b or 6b i have lying around. as soon as i can go to the art store im geting a new load of graphite!

12-18-03
Spanish class, i didnt have my trusty pencil or 5b pencil so i had to do with these colorpencils :P :
http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/study4.jpg

[Angela]

Keep them coming! i can see the improvement in your work and i can see how motivated you are! great job! keep it up!

[PeggyChung]

another blah sketch today, eh trying to use hatching for shading now a days. so far its looking messy -.-

12-20-03:
http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/study6.jpg

[garg]

bleah nothing :)

you are seriously improving! keep it up!

keep concentrating on anatomy..

also test with bolder strokes and darker shades :)

[Angela]

haha how gay i accidently messed up on the post.. anyways cool job! Keep it up! :fruit:

[PeggyChung]

thanks for the words guys :P alright so heres some stuff from yesterday, ahh its getting messy

12-21-03:

http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/study7.jpg http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/study5.jpg

12-22-03
went on a drawing rampage today, heres decent ones of what i did today, i did a load.
http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/study8.jpg
http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/study9.jpg

[-The Swift-]

this is good work, your anatomy is looking good. keep it up. you should try using different mediums to experiment and stuff, it kinda breaks the cycle aswell. nice work!:D

[Angela]

Sup peg! :rolleyes: like im totally jealous of your improving ness! *rolls eyes again* Well im off :fruit: :chug: cya sucka! keep it coming!

[PeggyChung]

Hey -the swift- thanks for checking my thread :D for now im just working with graphite, pen and charcole. im the kind of person that woul get all flustered if i started using somethign else.

Angela thanks for always give me kind comments after each of my posts :D and HEY u need to update ur thread!

well i hoped u guys all had a nice holiday, i know i did. we celebrated it on x mas eve instead so today i spent most of my time just drawing up a mess of these :

12-25-03
http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/study10.jpg
http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/study11.jpg


im sort of working backwards, lung gave me the idea of checking out the loomis book. kinda good because i started getting lost of what to study. i might be going back and forth because im getting the bridgeman book as soon as i can *shakes from excitement* happy holidays!

12-30-03

allllrighty finally got my bridgeman book *drool* :Q here are some studies
http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/study12.jpg

12-31-03
a messy self portrait butttt i ll try to do one everyday or even more :P
http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/SP1.jpg

[PeggyChung]

1-1-04 just another self portrait of the day and some head doodles http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/study13.jpg
http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/sp2.jpg

bleh you might me see more than often wearing a hood, keeps my ears warm unless i have my beanie


btw anyone have other methods of drawing heads in perspective? i have been going crazy trying to work with bridgeman's method but im not liking it. Loomis' is a little better but i still dont know how to mark where the underside of a chin starts. thanks.

[Iseedeadpeople]

keep on going. There is definitely improvement. You have some nice anatomy stuff here.

[xia]

Whao, someone is working/studying hard over here. Good analysis anatomy break down practice. Keep it up!

[PeggyChung]

@Iseedeadpeople thanks :D

@xia Eh im not working hard enough is all i know -.- thanks for dropping by (:

1-2-04 -4:11 am
well here are some doodles of heads today, had a few pages more but these are the somewhat less crappier ones (:http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/study15.jpg http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/study14.jpg

and here are my self portraitshttp://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/sp3n4.jpg
i hate how i see all the things wrong after i scan it. i had a lot of fun though making them (:

1-2-04-4:51 am

i couldnt resist to do another one, they are so fun to do. ahh this took me about hmm 5 mins or less? bleh i was inspired by the great digital ones everyone else does...bleh i ll try again with markers!

all i have to say is that i over shadowed this one and many other problems but hey i had fun. C + C would be nice :P

http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/sp5.jpg

[killing.people]

more more

[PeggyChung]

yep killing.people im going to post everyday...dun dun dun! alrighty heres another slab of sp for the day...ughh i realy dont like this one but i ll do another later on tonight
http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/sp6.jpg

[endregan]

good to see you working at it.

for sps i can tell you-

for lips dont do such a hard outline, the lips blend into the skin and almost are invisible if u look closely.. its the same tone. i struggle with lips mostly myself, they are hard! tricky :)

the best thing that helped me out was to use not just lines, but use your whole side of the pencil instead of the point. it gets fast and better gestures, with easier room to correct.

instead of sketchiness try to use broad strokes that define the shape of your head, then measure. the use of the tip of the pencil is not necessary always!

shading is hard, im struggling with it myself so its good to leave it alone, for now. but study shading in your spare time for sure.

Keep it up!

[PeggyChung]

Hey endregan, thanks for the idea, i did sort of do what ya suggested. somewhat...bleh here we go
http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/sp16.jpg

and this was a doodle from earlier int he day...hmm im thinking somewhere around 5 am
http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/PegEYE.jpg

[Signature]

Self Portrait #7 is great! The best so far IMO.
Try to be that accurate when you do studies! :)

Maybe the right eye is slightly too high?
In cases like that I always move features around digitally :D

But seriously I think it's a good idea to do this from time to time.
(Trying to fix images when you mess up proportions slightly)

Somehow it looks as if the right ear is very high.
But I guess it's not actually the ear that I see there?
Kinda makes the image look as if your face is pointing to the ground.
Especially when I cover up the left half.

[PeggyChung]

whats up Signature, yep your right, i didnt notice the right ear thing and wow now i could really see it. and yea my face was pointed toward the ground just a little. also i just remembered that for sp#7 i sat in front of a full length mirror instead of my normal 4x5 one lol. thanks again for dropping by (:


1-3-04 - 9:53pm
okiiie dokie heres a new one for now, it was made for the thread i made "guest sp: animal + you hybrid" looks crosseyed blehhhh...but i will make another more morphed into me
http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/ASP1.jpg

1-4-04 - 2:31


http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/Jan04_03.jpg http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/sp8.jpg


just a note that i didnt copy the pic for this one...eh sorta obvious i guess

1-6-04

ugh a couple of failure sps, but i will work on it!

http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/sp9.jpg
http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/sp10.jpg

[PeggyChung]

1-19-04

alright wow havent updated in forever, here are some self portraits, ugh i havent been keeping consistant. also i notice all of them always look so different. here we go

http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/sp14.jpg

http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/sp15.jpg

http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/spp16.jpg

http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/scribbles1.jpg

and here is a car, request from a friend. ugh it looks so bad, but its a start, ive never drawn cars before.
http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/car1.jpg

[Angela]

haha peg, i see the improvement! keep it up! =) and i love all your work!


:fruit:

[-The Swift-]

self portraits are improving all the time! keep it!!!!

nice car too:D

[talmir]

I might be wrong but I think you're using blunt pencils most of the time.. Usually I sharpen it regularly.. once every ten, twenty max minutes. They give crisper cleaner lines.. Look at my sketchbook to see what I mean.

But I see some serious improvement there.. keep it up.

[PeggyChung]

@-the swift- thanks, i gotta do more though.

@talmir oh ya, the reason is that i hold the pencil underhand, though i will try to make them look cleaner the next time. thanks for dropping by.

@angela damn it u need to update ur work! rawr



EDIT: 1-24-04 Selfportrait forget to make it cleaner LOL here we go

http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/sp17.jpg

1-25-04

some head scribbles from a mag, i havent done this in a while and they look a lil better than before since studying the head more.

http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/scribbles3.jpg
http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/scribbles2.jpg

1-28-04

http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/scribbles4.jpg
http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/scribbles5.jpg

[PeggyChung]

February 1, 2004

http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/sp18.jpg

yes this one is very wavery and fuzzy. my portraits always differ so much from each other, i have to draw more daily for it to be more consistant.

http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/scribbles6.jpg

these are some sketches from magazines.

http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/lil_vik_48-50_Ladylioness.jpg http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/lil_vik_51-53_ladylioness.jpg

my lame part of the comic for conceptart's storyboard

[lavhoes]

You're improving at a rapid pace =D

Your dedication to your studies is admirable. You're putting in a lot of good work and getting the results you deserve.

How much time a day do you spend on art?

[PeggyChung]

@ lavhoes thanks a bunch.

"How much time a day do you spend on art?"

lets just say, not enough! not even an hour a day for a while. for now, i ll be trying to draw more often, since finals are over and such :D freedom !

2-1-04
http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/scribbles7.jpg

[-The Swift-]

great improvement, keep practicing those self portraits!-they're looking good. the room objects are cool too, nice shading!:)

[PeggyChung]

@ -the swift- great :D hey hey you havent updated in a while :mad:

2-2-04
http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/scribbles8.jpg

2-2-04
http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/scribbles9.jpg

[-The Swift-]

hey ladyliones, i've updated now, sorry, i don't have access to a scaner for long periods of time!

if i could see your work, i'd comment, but i'm getting red x's! might just be my computer!
i'll be back when i can see it!

[PeggyChung]

hey swifty, alright i ll take a gander at your sketchbook later :P

dsg, i have more sketches but they are mostly head studies like the latest one i did

2-6-04
http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/dsg345.jpg

[DragonGX]

You're doing good! I can see some very good improvement! A few of your shapes are still kind of skewed, so jsut remember to really pay attention to what you are drawing (as far as when drawing from life) It's 100x more difficult to draw WELL from your imagination, but if you keep drawing from life, you will get good at drawing from your imagination!

Keep it up and keep improving! :D

[-The Swift-]

head studies are looking really good! constantly improving! DSG thing's looking pretty cool too! just keep the SPs up, and the anatomy work.

good work though!:)

[Tully]

You show some good progression with these. Try to simplify the lines... hatching is for shading, not outline.

Keep it up!

[obid619]

nice. I see very good progress. I like how your lighting and shading is coming up. Keep up your work on anatomy. ;)

[PeggyChung]

i know i always repeat myself, but thanks for the encouraging words guys :D

2-8-04

got some eggs here, its all smudged shading, #2 is the best and #3 is lopsided and #1 needed to be pushed darker
http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/scribbles10.jpg

and im still working on these

http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/scribbles11.jpg

edit: more eggs, with different style of shading:
http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/scribbles12.jpg

eeeessh heres my freak face again! :
http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/sp19.jpg

annnddd a couple of figure drawings, they are very off i know -.-'' im working on it!
http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/scribbles14.jpg
http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/scribbles13.jpg

[jarvis2824]

Lioness,

Keep at it. You're progressing quite well. Those drawings of inanimate objects are very nicely rendered. Also, I liked those studies of head structure you did recently. One other thing I'd suggest is to do gesture drawings of people at cafes and such. How you do that is to give yourself a goal when drawing quickly, usually less than two minutes per drawing, to draw the figure with as few lines as possible. Another thing to try and catch with those gestures is the movement of the figure. It tends to take a bit to get used to, but it helped my drawings incredibly to get that energy on the page before I started shading.

Good luck and have fun.

Sincerely,
Chris

[PeggyChung]

@Jarvis2824 hey thanks for dropping by, yes yes i must do more gesture drawings, ahh so long have i not done them.


2-21-04

sp #20 from 2/12 with charcoal, its every slanted with the eyes and the head. but its always improving :D will have one done tomorrow.

http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/sp20.jpg

[-The Swift-]

this is the best one so far! charcoal seems to work well for you, keep it up, it's looking good!:)

[PeggyChung]

Hey swift, yea your sp is looking good, much better than mines! heres my latest ones :

3/5/04

http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/sp22.jpg
http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/sp23.jpg

[bhuddistmonk]

hey, very nice work! your improving constantly! That last sp (# 23) is very nice, glad to see some really nice, those studies help. I would suggest that you use a darker pencil, i use a 2B for lines and a 5B for shading and works great for me because i can really get much more depth from the drawing. great work, keep it up!

[-The Swift-]

good work lioness! ditto to bhuddistmonk, darker pencils are a lot better for shading and giving your skeyches depth. i normally use a graphite stick/pencil of about 4B,

good work though, keep it coming!:)

[PeggyChung]

hey swift and buddhist, yea i tried to push my shading for once, here it is:

http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/scribs1.jpg

http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/scribblesnstuff.jpg

both references from a mag. i will push my shading today when i do my self portrait. later guys

[PeggyChung]

a day at the park with friends, decided to take some notes on ducks and swans while there.

http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/3-12_ducks.jpg
http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/3-12_swan.jpg

3-18-04

http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/sp24.jpg

[PeggyChung]

Hey guys, ughh havnet updated in a while but im starting to draw more often. heres some items over the course of a few days (theyre a little big but the quality looked so crappy when sized down smaller)


http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/dood6.jpg
http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/dood5.jpg
http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/dood4.jpg
http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/dood3.jpg
http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/dood2.jpg
http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/dood1.jpg
http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/dood7.jpg
http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/dood9.jpg
http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/dood8.jpg
http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/dood12.jpg

i will be updating tonight!

[-The Swift-]

Good studies ladylioness!!!!! solid studies, the light bulbs were looking cool! just keep at it, you ARE improving.

:)

[afklamer]

nice work
your improvement makes me wanna sketch more =)
keep it going

[PeggyChung]

@swift haha thanks for the support
@Nagasch thx, have 3 new ones today

3-30-04
http://img2.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/ske3.jpg
http://img2.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/ske2.jpg

and a little concept junk, pretty plain but wow have i not done one of these in the longest time, still not done but just a little sketch...ignore his leg
http://img2.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/ske1.jpg

[-The Swift-]

good life studies, i gotta do more of them! the concepts are good too! it's always good to a random concept now again!

keep posting!:)

[PeggyChung]

@swift yep trying to scan a few drawings every two days.

3-31-04

http://img2.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/ske5.jpg
http://img2.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/ske4.jpg
http://img2.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/sp27.jpg

crits and comments would be great guys!

[-The Swift-]

great self portrait lioness! thats one of the best so far! tghe shading looks really good on it! the poses are cool to, and the faces lookes like fun!

nice:)

[steak-tron]

nice portraits, I can see the development, just keep at it.
anatomy and object studies are especially good

[ChaosEidolon]

Hey ladylioness! Just wanted to drop by and compliment you on this thread. All artists need the kind of perseverence youre showing here. =)
I can already see improvement from the beginning to the end of the sketchbook and from looking at the way you are studying anatomy and focusing on getting things right, it looks like yorue on the right track.
One thing i have a suggestion about if your line and shading. It seems to me like youre style is leaning more towards line, in which case you should try and keep your lines crisp. Try and keep that pencil sharp, of even try using mechanical pencil. I saw that youre already practising your hatching technique, which is fantastic. Once you get the hang of it you can fly through doing simple shading, without getting your drawings looking muddy.

keep up the good work!

[PeggyChung]

@swift thanks as always for dropping by :D
@steak-tron thank you, trying to keep this updated more often
@chaosleidolon hey thanks, yea i always have problems with my shading being all here and there.

4-3-04
heres some today, from a painting and figure drawing class that i tagged along to at artcenter (drool) from my kind friend Angela. thanks again angela!

well they are fuzzy cause it was rough paper bleh.

http://img2.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/ske12.jpg
http://img2.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/ske10.jpg
http://img2.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/ske11.jpg
http://img2.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/ske8.jpg
http://img2.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/ske9.jpg

roar i shall be working on my shading and rendering of the head. i know the shading on these guys are very light ):

[PeggyChung]

3-5-04

sp 30
i had a lot of fun with this one, intentionaly it was supposed ot be a whatever portrait and i gave up in the middle pic so i started one on the left then on the right. they are all out of proportion and has many flaws but the watercolours made it a lot of fun.

http://img2.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/sp29.jpg

thanks.

[PeggyChung]

4-11-04

http://img2.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/scrib1.jpg
http://img2.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/scrib3.jpg
http://img2.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/scrib2.jpg

[chunder]

Hey Lady, your progress is encouraging. I have a suggestion: look at the last drawing of the controller, see how you just basically wrote "SONY" on it, it doesnt look right, looks like you just...wrote it on there. An excellent way to practice really drawing the actual shapes and contours you see (instead of just drawing your brain's symbol for the idea) is to try to draw letters without really focusing on them being letters, just think of them as abstract shapes and draw those, they'll end up looking way more accurate and natural. Just a little tip that you might find some value in...keep pushing!!

[Osmus]

i agree that you've grown a lot since you started the sketchbook. do you draw more than you post? and i agree about the sony lettering. i think you already know what we're talking about though and just got lazy. keep it up!

[PeggyChung]

@Chunder & Osmus , thanks, i rewrote the sony.
btw yea i do do more drawings then what i post up Osmus, its just most of it is messy,scribbly and boring so i dont post all.
3-15-04

a self portrait made into a pirate of myself because i couldnt draw my right eye and arm studies

http://img2.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/sp30.jpg

http://img2.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/scrib4.jpg

[PeggyChung]

4-18-04
http://img2.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/MyOnlyEscape.jpg
http://img2.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/sp31.jpg
http://img2.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/scrib5.jpg
http://img2.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ladylioness/sp32.jpg