Cat in a Box - Felida's Sketchbook

[Felida]

Finally term break started. No I got one month and a half to develope my drawing skills like crazy :D It would be awesome, if you can help me with some contructiv critics.

A little bit about myself: My name' Kathi, I'm 20 years old and I'm from Germany. I currently study communication-design and I aim for becoming an illustrator. Beside this, I love to draw Comics so you'll see some WiPs of my Comic projects here, too.

First of all, I want to spam you with some of my actual drawings. I never limit myself on one drawing style or medium, so I just made a cross-section of my stuff.

This was a "self portrait" for my portfolio.
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/Finish-ITself.jpg

A project from school. The theme was Contemporary Adam and Eve. The original drawing size is 50x65cm. Took me a couple of hours to finish this drawing :D
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/Finish-AdamundEva.jpg

For a drawing competition with the theme "Cherry blossom festival"
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/Finish-CherryBlossomGirl.jpg

The singer and actor Nishikido Ryo, from photo.
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/Finish-Ryo.jpg

Another piece for school. Theme was "Christmas tree ball in a strange surrounding"
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/Finish-Weihnachtskugel.jpg

The Illustration for some writing paper I designed as a present for a friend.
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/Finish-7Okan.jpg

Another writing paper illustration. This time for my sister :D
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/Finish-NEWS.jpg

And the third school piece. Theme "Something same or similar in an arrangement"
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/Finish-Doggies.jpg

My first CHOW entry: "Supervillain self"
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/Finish-CHOW145SupervillainSelf.jpg

And because this here is called a "Sketch"book, some sketches :D
These were the sketches for a commission. My first attempt on Anthro characters D:
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/Sketch-SpaceDancers.jpg

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/Sketch-Hima.jpg

Thanks a lot for taking a look at my drawings :)

[Arne Meyer]

Wow, I got knocked down by color in the first ones!
Great images so far, I know what you meant with lifeless, yours are not.
No real constructive critics here, maybe to use some more discreet colors.
I´m still a beginner, so you have to wait for some experienced artist, to give you some more constructive advice.

Oh, and I miss some environments ;)
I keep watching for more art.


btw, in welcher Stadt studierst du?

[Felida]

Yess~ no environments yet. That's definitely something I have to try (again... already tried to draw some but I was never satisfied).
And I'm a color freak. Should I write a warning in my thread's headline *laughs*?

Augsburg :)

[towy]

really good start :)
i'm not good for critics just keep up ^^

[w84dem2go]

I love your use of vibrant colors; your pieces are awesome.

[Felida]

@Towy & w84dem2go: Thanks a lot :)

I forgot to poste those guys yesterday :D
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/Uglything-Firu.jpg http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/Uglything-Fu.jpg http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/Uglything-Hima.jpg

And here are some sketches I would appreciate CC :D
Forthe recent CHOW: Titania the Fairy Queen
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/Sketch-CHOW146Titania.jpg
And the first sketch for the final illustration
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/CHOW146TitaniaLayoutKopie.jpg
What do you think about the composition? Is the scene clear? Colors are still preally rough but do they fit?

[BlightedArt]

Hey there, welcome to CA.org and thanks for stopping by my sketchbook!

You have some beautiful pieces here. I particularly like the way you've illustrated the values on the elephant in your "christmassy" pic. Very appealing!

I think once you've shown us some gesture studies, more theory based images, then we'll be able to help you out even further with understanding anatomy etc. :)

[loveandasandwich]

Horray! I love that little doublesided creature. :D

I also super love your self portrait! Looking forward to moore!

[Toffeeliz]

gorgeous work! what more is there to say? :D

[Abrodos]

Great use of different tonal varieties in each work, can't wait to see how this queen titania ends! As a suggestion, maybe increasing the contrast in the dogs one would help giving them more presence, as it's all based in the contrast between black and white spots.

Keep up the good work :)

[Mimesis]

You have a fun series of sketches and I can't wait to see more. I can tell you work quite a bit with watercolours, it translates well to your digital, particularly in your last sketch.

[Felida]

Time for an update :D
Thanks a lot for the nice comments.
BlightedArt: I really should do some more studies especially, when it comes to realistic anatomy *laughs*

I'm currently trying to organize my "old-silly-drawings"-box (It's a huge one. I hide everything in it that's older than half a year) and thought: Why not choosing some funny, old character designs and drawings, and redraw them?
I chose 3:

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/WiP-EGirl-alt.jpg
Fun Character design *laughs* I love the idea of the red skin. This drawing is around 6 years old.

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/WiP-EGirl.jpg
Same color scheme. I think, I try to color it like the illustration for a superhero comic or something *__*

Next one:
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/WiP-stellaalt.jpg
This one's even older. Maybe 7 or 8 years (Haha... I'm so old)

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/WiP-stellaol.jpg
I'll definitely change the colors. Like the lineart.

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/WiP-niemalt.jpg
This one's around 4 years old. Horrible drawing style I don't know, what I thought. But I like the design of the coat a lot.

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/WiP-niemol.jpg
He changed a little bit ;D

Plus, a random Speedpaint:
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/WiP-AsianBeauty.jpg

Now I should work on my Titania, but my Labtop's a bitch D: Too slow to work properly, I really hope, I can fix that.

Bye bye
felida

[Janos]

Hey there,
You are great woth colour and I like your comic stuff. The proportion on teh second to last pic seem off. And please finish your titania.

[Flashback]

Thanks for commenting in my Sketch Book.

I like your art.

[Felida]

Flashback: You're welcome :D
Janos: Thanks for the comment. What exactly seem off in the proportions?

I finally finished my Titania D: I'm not really happy with the details but I finished it *proud*
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/CHOW146_felida.jpg

And I took photos of some of my sketchbook pages (it's a really tiny one):
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/SN853053.jpg http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/SN853057.jpg http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/SN853058.jpg http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/SN853061.jpg http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/SN853062.jpg http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/SN853063.jpg http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/SN853068.jpg http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/SN853070.jpg

[Giorge]

haha nice like the orange one on #6

[Arne Meyer]

Great updates!
This smoking, orange "thing" in post 6 is really cute.
I like the costume design of your Titania piece.
The facial expression of the fox is also very lovely.
You have a awesome style, very imaginative.
Keep it coming!

[Felida]

It's definitely time for a new entry. It's not that I'm too lazy to draw, I'm too lazy to scan my stuff and to upload everything :geekg:

First, my entry for CHOW #148, E.G. Brownstone, P.I.
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/kCHOW148-OLs.jpg http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/CHOW148EGBrownstoneColoStep1.jpg http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/CHOW148EGBrownstoneColoStep2.jpg http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/CHOW148_Felida.jpg

And the final coloration of one of my "old to new" drawings :)
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/kStellacolo.jpg

[areve]

oh nice updates, I like how you coloured CHOW 148 very nice :)
and I love the colours in the last one, makes me think of summer and sun, which is something I miss here where I live hehe

[Felida]

areve: Thanks a lot for the nice comment :D I wish we would have some sunshine here, too. But at the moment, everything's grey and wet V__V may I ask, where you actually come from?

First try with Alchemy and that's what I made with this really odd programm:
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/Untitled.jpg

And that's what I made with Photoshop out of it:
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/Finish-AlienPrince.jpg
Odd as Alchemy *lol*

[Hexism]

amg! I love your colors..I particularly like your titania sketches and that Red blob mirrored creature. /love

[the ANGRY filipino]

This SB looks like its promising to be a nice place to visit often.
I like how you posted some older works and their redrawn versions.
Nothing much to crit for now, just keep on posting and show us how you progress!

[Felida]

I started to work on my Comic project for a German Comic competition. The whole thing is going to have 14 pages + Cover.
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/CharacterSheet.jpg

Two pages fromthe middle :D
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/1sketchKopie.jpg

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/2sketchKopie.jpg

[areve]

I'm from Sweden ^^
oh the comic thing looks cool

[Blythe]

I love your stuff, the colors are lots of fun!

One crit though, especially if you are going to do comics, is you need to spend some time working on feet and how they work when interacting witht he ground. You seem to have arms and hands and upper bodies quite well and then your characters stand with splayed feet . . .

Studies! Lets see some feet studies!

I will be watching, keep it up ^^

[Felida]

Wow--- I'm really sorry for not posting for such a long time D: I worked hard on my Comic project and finished it in time (sadly, I can't show it yet) and now school started again ;__; So my next posts are probably filled with a lot of school stuff D: I hope, I can also work on some private drawings from time to time >:

First of all: I went figure drawing. Here are my two favorite drawings :)

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/kAkt15-04-092.jpg http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/kAkt15-04-091.jpg
I try to visit the voluntary figure drawing class this term as much as possible O:

Well, in drawing class, we started with skulls in every form and color *bored*
Here are the highlights:

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/kSkull3.jpg
I colored this one with pastel chalks and color pencils. Definitely one of my favorite coloration tool combinations.

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/kskull2.jpg
This one is done with watercolor.

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/kskull1.jpg
Ball-pen, blue color pencil and pink neon marker :)

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/kSkull4.jpg
Acrylic colors. I don't like working with opaque colors ;__;

And finally: A few Skribbels, we had to do in Visual communication class. We got some written instructions and tried to illustrate them without any references. Around 10 minutes each:
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/kSkribbel1-Schweinchen.jpg
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/kSkribbel2-PipiLangstrumpf.jpg
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/kSkribbel3-Schildkrte.jpg
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/kSkribbel4-Kaktus.jpg
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/kSkribbel6-Grafitti.jpg
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/kSkribbel5-Spieler.jpg

I hope you like it :geekg:
bye bye
felida

[Kiyo Karma]

omg deine skizzen und bilder sind großartig! die ganze fantasie die darin steckt! ich bin völlig aus dem häuschen! wo nimmst du all die ideen her?
bist du auch bei mexx angemeldet? weiter so :)
behalte dich im auge!
liebe grüße
kiyo

[LostFayth]

You have a nice and appealing style. I like your illustrations :D

[Pixie Trick]

Beautiful work. Some of it tends to get a bit busy at times, but still very nice. I love the use of colour.

[psantha]

Oh my! Your art ROCKS! A french Bulldog next to a penguin? Instant 5 stars! :)
Really, I love your stuff!!!

[Felida]

I would love to post more (and if I just could do some more sketches and practice more) but school's eating me up *sadface* So finally, I was able to collect enough drawings for a new post :)

Thanks a lot for all the nice and encouraging comments till now :yayca:

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/IMG_2985.jpg
Geometric pug for school...

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/IMG_2986.jpg
And a pug study :D

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/Cover.jpg
Comic cover! I posted some sketches of the comic a few weeks ago. Are you interested in reading it?

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/kthebride.jpg
Lively skull... again for school. Was a lot of fun.

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/IMG_2987.jpg
Hatching practice. Just only finished the face because the rest looked really crappy...

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/IMG_2992.jpg
Second try. This time I finished the whole lineart... I'm currently trying to color it but no time ;___;

Hope you like it :D
bye felida
(oh--- only traditional stuff this time <3)

[Felida]

I'm so tired ;___;

For this Weeks CHOW. The subjct's so awesome I had at least to try to participate...
My hometown as a human. OK *laugh* Do you know which city it could be ;)
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/Munichnewstep1.jpg

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/Munichnewstep2.jpg
(Well... If you don't want to guess, just take a look at the file's name...) ;)

[Felida]

Beware of the random D:

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/IMG_3381.jpg
I was bored... somehow *laughs*

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/bokuranoyuuki.jpg
A picture fo a comic project inspired by a Japanese drama called "Bokura no Yuuki" (Yes, the dog looks like he had a horrible accident D:)

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/sephishendrik.jpg
A character sheet for this project

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/sephisgabriel.jpg
Another character sheet- not really finished yet

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/sephisnewversionKopie.jpg http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/sephisnewversion.jpg
The main character :)

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/kmajosaibanthinktwice.jpg
Another japanese-drama fanart. this time "Majo Saiban"

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/IMG_2989.jpg http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/IMG_2990.jpg http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/IMG_2991.jpg
3 times random *lol* don't ask my, why I scanned these things O__o

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/h.jpg
Study for drawing class

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/g.jpg
sketch for my bride-picture from one of the last posts

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/f.jpg
Skribbel for Visual Communication class

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/e.jpg
Strange something. I like the peaceful mood

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/Sketchbook/d.jpg
And another strange something...

Oh... what a messy post *laughs*
I'm currently producing drawings like crazy but without any direction...

Bye
felida

[Felida]

:)

I'm hardworking:
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/LJ%20Layout/DSC00241.jpg

[Felida]

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/felida99/DigitalArtForum/CHOWkkTheblackRiverCrew.jpg
I decided to give this week's CHOW a try :D