A dead sketchbook

[SenEnd]

Hello everyone my names Dylan and I'm 19 years old. Thank you for visiting my dead sketchbook! It did not get to live out its first year of life. I negected it to much and thus... died like trash.


-Dylan

[SenEnd]

Thanks for droping by! Just uploaded a few from myoriginal post, it wasnt friendly how many there were and they were all the same things!!!

-Dylan

[Mimesis]

That's quite the initial dump you have made an entrance with. I especially like the black/white/brown conte studies, and the texture. I would advise compressing the files a bit more if you can in the future, there is no reason some of them should be so big (each on 300+ kb and takes forever to load your entire thread). Selecting 'Save for Web and Devices' and photoshop can fix this, and making sure resolution is no more than 75ppi for internet browsing.

Keep up the work, I'll be sure to check back as you update. :)

(ps. Cory)

[SenEnd]

Thanks Cory, I definently will get to compressing the files XD I saved them as 72 DPI each however I must of saved them as full quality jpegs :assspank:

[JJ McKool]

Diggin the pen (?) work on the figures. Lot of character, especially with the faster stuff.

[SenEnd]

JJ McKool: Mmhm I enjoy the looseness of the pen. You bet work on the figures! I've started to go to figure drawing twice a week which is as much as I can on my schedule at this time. However there’s no reason why I can't study from other sources, photographs, anatomy books. Just something about drawing from life, I enjoy it alot more.


Anyways here is my update for today, spent the day working on black and white Gouache paintings, there around 7x10 each. Thought I would try that instead of conte and I'm glad i did!

[SenEnd]

Was a little lazy on Sunday and Saturday night so this is the result, not a large update =( :assspank:

Had fun watching Azumanga Dio though =D Actually I resently foudn out that youtube has a playlist application to it, I'm haveing lots of fun listening to some OST's of some shows I enjoy.

Listening to music helps me get going if no one else is around me drawing! Actually the sketchgroup this week failed as well, no one came =( Maybe next week!

More pencials less brushpen for a while, suck with creating edges! One (four)of the uploads was a project for my drawing class, we had to draw same still life four times in different value keys.

[Genome]

Hey Dylan, I really like what you have going here. You are going to go very far if you keep up this attitude.

Here are some quick crits, Learn perspective in and out. Do it now, because everything we see is effected by our POV (point of view) this can hold us back if we dont know perspective as well as we ought to. Or it can allow us to play with scenes that would normally be cliche.

When sketching people on the street, you seem to be focusing on their features rather than the shapes that represent them. Let me expand on that, all faces are built around a bone structure that provides planes and angles. These angles when mixed with light create the definition and changes in shadow that allow us to understand that what we are looking at is a 3d object. If you focus on the values and planes (tones and basic shapes) of the face then you will not only train your eye but be able to capture the person quicker. This is why pointillism works, because the right blob of paint in the right place at the right value equals what we see. All we can really see are these streak of light that bounce off stuff and into our eyes. Use lines to express the shape and value of what if bounces off of. Sounds complicated and artsy but it isn't :).

I bet you've heard all this before and are actively doing it as i speak but what the heck we can all use reminders once in a while. In the end I think you've got a nice start here and you draw quite well. But attitude and persistency are what matter the most, and you seem to have it in spades. AKA you got it made kid.

[DoubleThink]

Good to see you're eager and want to draw a lot.

Might want to take a step back and actually examine the stuff you're doing first.
Some proportions on your drawings is really messed up.
The loose lines are good, but try & remember the rules of perspective & other whilest doing this.

[SenEnd]

Genome: You bet I'm going to get far because I am going to keep up this attitude =) I'm going to figure drawing twice I week so I hope that will help with my proportional issues because I defiantly see how weird some of the proportions are sometimes.

I decided to when I'm on the train or anywhere really to focus more on the architecture since I really want to get perspective down flat! I hope to be able to design really nice environments along with characters someday =)


DoubleThink: Thank you DoubleThink. Yes I see what you mean, I started drawing only with pencil so I can go back and fix things easier. I really love the looseness of ink but, I think I need to learn to rethink things a little more. Thanks for the cri




Anyways my update, gosh I had a good full couple last days, lots of drawing and painting. Two of these are a project we were assigned in painting 2 weeks ago. Remade one of them yesterday though, I defiantly got a definition of an edge on that one. The other one? Well it's all nebulous in some areas, maybe I should of worked it some more but, not sure. I didn’t *shrug* We were supost to have two that have a change in lighting using a landscape collage we made in a box.


Still listening to my Azumanga Diaoh OST haha! My Mp3 player has been broken for longest time and its past its warranty, so I asked my dad if he had one. Turns out he bought one awhile back on sale but rarely uses it. It's very nice! Goes well with my nearly audiophile head phones!

Wow I'm really excited to where the story in Naruto is heading, I read the darn thing every week for years haha! Never been this good!

[SenEnd]

Hurray! This was our last color chart for my color theory class! I got to admit they do drain me alot, I was working on it for 14 hours yesterday at school thinking. "Oh I can't wait to get home so I can do some drawing. But seriously I got home, ate and I was way too tired to even want to draw. Oh well mixing colors over and over again and comparing them to each other helps alot =) Just a few hours of work on it today so I'm sure I can still draw today :D

The values are off in alot of areas, and I'm not saying my colors were mixed perfectly but they all seem a little cool or warm in some areas. When I scanned it in overall it looked way to cool, thought I would try and correct that by messing around with the channels a tad. I think it worked!

What was the reason the scan looked to cool? I noticed when I make a print of something it tends to look to warm. So perhaps something is happening from the translation from RGB? I'm assuming... I guess prints use CMYK. Can anyone explain this for me? I know I’ve read things before about it but never really looked at it in a way to understand.

[SenEnd]

Lately I've been feeling I should put in the mix some more "finished" looking studies in the mix of my quick stuff. So I was working on a photo study all day yesterday and quite happy with how it's turning out. Went on a little adventure at night taking photographs in the potentially last snowfall of the season. Which was huge!

I'm looking forward to the anime convention in my town this year, only a month a way. I'm seriously considering setting up a vendor table with the idea of drawing portraits of people and such in a more illustrative type fashion. So I better start experimenting, Ill give Bobby Chiu's way of studying other artists a good shot =)

Anyways a tired looking update, sometimes I wonder where all the time goes.

Will be exciting when I get to the point where I'm studying massive amounts during the day! Some of you people on this site are great, I love your hard work =) Kind of funny how people like Algenpflger love to bash them self’s! But hey! It's a source of motivation for the guy! Anyways the drive to always improve is definitely in him and that's very important to us artists. Right guys?

Sometimes I wonder where all the time goes.

[SenEnd]

Fighting with acrilics and color and such, random bus drawing, small sketch of a friend, and figure drawings.

*Thinks about his impending lack of sleep tonight =(

[SenEnd]

So much stuff has been going on in my life, ack it was basically flipped upside down!!! Took awhile to get back up, thank god I did =) I managed some drawing here and there but nothing like from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to sleep... I honestly can't really blame my self but a kick in the ass wouldn't hurt ^_^

[SenEnd]

Beggining to work on tones seriously now since I felt I have a decent grasp on proportion... Though my lines still suck ass HAHAH! Man this stuff hard, oh well it will all come in time =) A shame I was out of it for a few weeks =(

[SenEnd]

Drew my friends playing badminton today at an indoor fitness center -a HUGE one- and some portraits of people. Copied a concept by El Coro since I just love this one, atmosphere, texture, space, figure. All works great =) Fuck didn't give it any justice though, rushed it near the end since it's late and got to get going home! Dont think ill have the motivation to go back into it tomorrow, got other things to draw haha!

[kevinwueste]

Hi Dylan - thanks for your kind words about my sketchbook stuff! i took a look at your work and can see the clear improvements and your hard work (that is paying off). I think Genome above had some good feedback that will serve you well - to think about shapes - the big, basic ones and the planes before you are sorting out the small details. Believe me, I screw this up all the time but when my drawings and paintings work best, it's when they began very very simply and, as Glenn Orbik says: 'you let the details sneak up on you'.. and go easy on them..

I will check back.. thanks again and thanks for asking me to review you work!

cheers, Kevin

[SenEnd]

Just a small update today, didn't go to that figure drawing session after all, @$&#%^ Was working on this. Wanted to fire out a sketch trying to figure out the composition before going into a finished drawing. Which I hope to get a fair amount done tonight. The character was basically made from an image I saw relating to Serial Experiments Lain. I really enjoy that anime =)

[Link] (http://images.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=https://honors.rit.edu/amitraywiki/images/7/7a/Lain5.jpg&imgrefurl=https://honors.rit.edu/amitraywiki/index.php/Anime&usg=__r-DMuvGKnHJ6VWLN9Oq8-1PHFUM=&h=450&w=600&sz=48&hl=en&start=1&tbnid=X0QKzTq8kS7_GM:&tbnh=101&tbnw=135&prev=/images?q=lain&gbv=2&hl=en&sa=G)

I hope to figure out what's missing from it while working on the finished drawing, it's missing something key... I'm not sure what o.o I think the values just need more contrast, it looks very grey, but I'm not sure. Fuck something really bugs me when looking at this, maybe its something so basic as the composition... What ever ill just do it and hope I figure it how to fix it =)

[SenEnd]

Anyways working on that drawing still, trying to make a more finished drawing. Still a long ways to go I just wanted a break from drawing so I thought I would come online and post what I've done so far. I'm... not to sure how I feel about it at the moment. I'm not to sure if I'm just trying to make something look all pretty that's already fundamentally flawed. My minds eye isnt that strong yet XD But I plan to through drawing from my head into the mix of drawing from life now, I feel I'm at the point I need to strengthen my minds eye =)

Oh and a small amount of drawings I did last night on the way home...

-Dylan

[SenEnd]

Anyways working on that drawing still, trying to make a more finished drawing. Still a long ways to go I just wanted a break from drawing so I thought I would come online and post what I've done so far. I'm... not to sure how I feel about it at the moment. I'm not to sure if I'm just trying to make something look all pretty that's already fundamentally flawed. My minds eye isnt that strong yet XD But I plan to through drawing from my head into the mix of drawing from life now, I feel I'm at the point I need to strengthen my minds eye =)

Oh and a small amount of drawings I did last night on the way home...

-Dylan

[Imaginary]

Hey, another studyoholic. :D Great to see you pumping out so much quality stuff! I like the homeless guy (?) a lot, has a neat atmosphere. I think you were right about your drawing needing more contrast between the values btw, looked very gray some post ago, you'r on the right path now though, keep it up! :D

[SenEnd]

Having fun working on this one! Went to a private meeting with my painting teacher today asking about what teachers and courses would be good for what I want out of next year, as well asked her to critique this. She says I have a real good sense of atmosphere and space but I'm not too good and defining things. I agree with her fully.

She suggested instead of going out and doing all these little drawings I sit down with a still life and really try very hard to record what I see. I plan to do that right when I get home, going to take a break from this till Sunday and work on still life’s for next few days =)

Any ideas about the values? There not quite there yet.

-Dylan

[IoDelta]

Hey fellow Calgarian! I'm hoping to go to ACAD in the fall, I'm just waiting to hear how my portfolio did.

I like your brushstrokes on the greyscale paintings near the top, they have a nice texture. And your line work seems really flexible.

Keep it up!

[polipol]

wooa these studies studies, the traditional stuff will help sharpen your drawin, its great to see your drawing a lot from life cause it'll carry over to your imaginative work if you port it i guess........ keep it up dude, keep at it :D

[Imaginary]

Don't have any real suggestions on the values, you might wanna lighten the left side of her coat a bit cause it looks like it's merging with the monster other than that i think it looks good.:D Still lifes is a good idea, has helped me with figuring out some stuff... think i need to way more of em though... think i'll go do one now actually, hehe. ^_^

[Kiera]

hi, cool start, I like your lines very much
some crits on the drawing inspired by Lain: push the values, either make the darkest or the lightest point the most interesting point. Don't be afraid to make the background behind the fat guy either much darker or much lighter to give a contrast to the figures.

Some crits on general technique from what I saw from this small sketchbook:
You mainly work with outlines, a searching line that you draw on the paper by observing and in some of the lifedrawings with a block-in method.
But you don't use a method where you understand the figure in 3d and where you construct the body or the head.
With this a construction technique (building the figure out of forms ) you can give your drawings a much better sense of form, perspective and dimension and additionally another style of lines and movement. It also helps a lot to really understand the figure for shading.
Try out the Loomis book "drawing the head and the hands" or maybe "figure drawing for all it's worth", you can download them for free if you search for them.

thank you for that kickass comment in my sketchbook :D

[Karein]

Great sketchbook you have here so far, Keep those studies coming, the more, the better :)
I can't really say too much, as everyone else has already said it really. Just try to work on your values :) It will help you out in the long run, Keep the work coming :D

[SenEnd]

Man these still lifes take forever and are fustraiting! I guess that's why there good, I'm learning alot ;) What you see here is honestly a whole weekends worth of work. I'm sure if I keep doing this eventually Ill get them to read correctly.

Saw Spectrum 14 today and wow, there all such amazeing artists. It was amazeing looking though it I so want to buy them all now T___T

-Dylan

[Imaginary]

Looking good man, a tip for still lifes is to have strong light coming from a position of your choice, it's kinda hard to tell the shape if there ain't much light like in the middle one. Keep drawing! :D

[SenEnd]

Finally got around to updating! Been working on my final projects for school this week, have not really slept to well. Had some time play some video games tonight, going to now draw a little self portrait for a few hours then head off to bed, I'm exhausted. Excited for tomorrow, get to attend this 9 hour figure drawing session!

[xinranliu]

Hey there, I think that you should save your lines, ie putting down one confident line instead of many unsure lines.

[Imaginary]

Heh huge updates ftw. :D Lovely drapery studies! What are those studies of the same thing for though? Just to study colour or is there some kinda underlying purpose for em? :P

[SenEnd]

Ronald Liu: Hey thanks man I know what you mean, I was talking to this one artist who was a former employee at Bio Ware, he said to draw things more angularly. He scrippled some organic lines on paper, then some angular lines then explained that its harder to correct organic lines when you mess them up, so start more angular and get the realationships right first, then you can make the drawing feel more organic. It was very helpful advice...

Imaginary: To get a sence of space with color :D


Hooray live drawing galore here! Wasn't able to upload everything I did because I no longer have CS3 here XD -Auto align/blend layers FTW-

Talked to two of the models I was drawing, one of the girls was so nice! Hope to see here around sometime, shes awesome to draw and she's a nice happy talkative person =) Like me? Got her email too, said she would hook me up with some leads for live modeling since I'm looking into doing that part time for some money. Great way to meet artists no?

Guess I had a little ulterior motive though, hope to meet her in person some time, that be great =)

Anyways drawings... rats one of them is small ill fix that tommorow...

[Kiera]

wow, massive update, keep on drawing :yayca:

[SenEnd]

Portrait I worked on yesterday afternoon and this morning, generally I think the tones are good however it still could use some more depth =) Ill do better next time! -Likeness is there though yay!-

Finished off Ergo Proxy last night, it's really an amazeing show =) Loved the characters, loved the music, loved the art work, loved the story, loved the experimentation. What else can I ask for from a show?

[Imaginary]

So many figure drawings! And your off to a good start with em, just keep construction in mind though, break the body down into cylinders, cubes and all that shit, really helps. Well does for me anyway. :P

Cool that you'll be doing some modelling btw, you will probably meet a bunch of awesome artists, hehe.

Oh and when you'r painting in Photoshop or whatever application you'r currently using use large brushes and don't go small until you really need to!:D

[SenEnd]

IF YOU WANT TO SEE A WORK OF ART IN THE SENSE OF A VISUAL EXPERIENCE PLEASE DO YOUR SELF A FAVOR AND WATCH DEAD LEAVES

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Is this what you meant by larger brush strokes Imaginary? I decided I should force my self to paint this way with patches of simple tone. Ill learn to blend things nicely latter once I got this basic step down more solid...

I loved how frustrating this one was to make, took several days of redoing it until I got to the point of going "hey this looks good enough to move on now, ill post it!"

And a little sketch from my head, I need to put her with a horde of her friends.

Time to finally indulge my self with some food then get right back to it! Have put that off for several hours ^_^''

[Fricken]

Hey Dylan, This Is Rob- Thanks for checking out my blog:
http://robmillang.blogspot.com
The Portraits look great. You seem very decicated, and you're approaching it all from the right angle.
And you gave me a good excuse to sign on to Concept art.

[amarryth]

you're making some amazing progress here.. always happy to stumble across a fellow canadian

[SenEnd]

Rob: Sweet! Hope to see you around again some time, you been going to the figure drawing at halcourt? I havnt since I saw you last haha. Going to hold off until I get a job. Oh want to some sketching out in public with me sometime?

amarryth: Hehe! Do you go to Sheridain college? I see you live in oakville :O Definently checking out your stuff!

Hmmm I think ill put pump out as many as these quick portrait studies tonight as I can, fighting with that last one for so long definently helped me speed up.

[Imaginary]

Ye, see, cool portraits, large brushstrokes ftw. Blocking in like this is very important apparently, then you go into blending, details and all that stuff im still trying to figure out how to do.:D

So anyway, keep it up, you'r doing great so far. ^_^

[SenEnd]

Wow over 2 months, never to late to start updateing agian right? Stuff from past week.

[jatherip]

hey man!!! id like to see you updates, too, but there arent too many??
WE WANT AN UPDATEEEE!!! :D

[SenEnd]

Jatherips right :D Really doesnt matter though if I just post for a week or so then stop now doe it? Gota make it count =) Was thinking about it and thought I should share my music too. Thought it would make it funner to upload stuff then!

Hear are my drawings from yesterday and and music I've been listneing to lately. The cat girl doodle was fun! But anatomy is wrong =( So lets work on that today!

Telepopmusik - Breathe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Api-CT6pDw

Silent Hill 2 OST - Love Psalm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx1XJycgU4I

The End of Evangelion- Komm, susser Tod　
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i6SdiCsQBM

Black Star - Radiohead (So far everything I've liked from Radiohead)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5ik6u98dNs

Guilty Gear Isuka- Quicksilver (A.B.A Theme)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVKaO75C-1I

[jatherip]

thanks dylan for encouraging me again!! :D
of course youre right, it doesnt matter :)! just do more of these cool life studies and youll master rendering in no time!!!

[SenEnd]

Jatherip: And thank you for encouraging me to be active =) Can't wait to bust out some characters for this weeks Chow and Teen Challenge. Haven'T gone out and life drew in public for a week, I'm dieing to do that, so Ill go do that right now!

Aw shoot I slept in today, got my self up early but then went back to bed! Hmm I had no trouble at all getting my self up to draw when I had a full time job. It was like "Fuck if I don't get up I won't get to draw as much today!" Now that I'm not working I go back to sleep? I gota get my head on straight!

I better start working away from home again as well, I work so much harder if I'm not sitting at my desk. If I'm sitting anywhere else it's like "I'm hear to draw, and nothing else" So I draw and nothing else!

Figures from photos, imagination and life. I seem to have a hard time painting expectually if I try to block things in. Up till now I've been mainly drawing the contour of the things I saw. It wa alot easier but I wasn't really think of what I was seeing then if I was just mainly drawing the contour. Right?

It's a habit I need to break now. :yayca:

[jatherip]

coool update!! man, my pencils really suck compared to yours! REALLy! i like your lines :)
well, its this: i know when i suck. i know when i could have done better. and i know i didnt do better....
and if see other artists work, (imaginary did lots of studies, so what should have recommended, and his pencils are soo waaaaay better than mine....) i always assume that thats the best they can do....so :D
btw thanks for commenting on my teen challenge pic :)

[HerrleerzeichenS]

DYLAAAAAAAAAAAAN , what´s up! seems like you´re doing tons of anatomy work. but you´ll see, it pays to start early with it.anyway-do you want to be an anatomy artist? :D i want to see some faces, some environment. also keep doing still lifes. start with simple things, as you do! that´s good. they are gettin´better and better. you´ll see.
i mention at the moment that some of you´re anatomy sketches are very good, you´re lines are brilliant.
i want you to keep the speed and the updates. conceptart is a much better place than DA, here you get some real nice crit. i´d like to give you some, too. but i´m not really good, as you see :D so i just try to motivate you! GOGOGOGO
cu

[SenEnd]

HerrleerzeichenS: I'm not really sure what I want to be honestly =S Drawings the only thing I've really kept at for this long. In 5 years from now I can see my self working hard to get my foot out the door and be known =) The two guys I look up to most are Yoshitoshi Abe and Bobby Chiu. Both are very well known for going to conventions all over the place and being independent :D

Yoshitoshi Abe isnt too well known outside of Japan however =)

Thanks for the motivation guys ^^ You two want to start a Sketchbook Support Group? It's basically just a small group of people that comment on eachothers sketchbooks and update theres everyday :D

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=42234

Was hanging out with my friends last night, was quite fun went out at night to see the spacestation, and just alot of fooling around. Drew this picture for my friend and we laughed about it for a good 30 min. Another one of my friends drew something, I told him to fucking keep up those studies!
(I was jokeing about CA to them) :yayca:

http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l174/rocketmangrf/CHOW_Sketch_by_Dy_lanea.jpg

http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l174/rocketmangrf/IMG_1073.jpg

[HerrleerzeichenS]

ah there´s the update. i actually wanted to write something much earlier, but i am pinched for time, the last couple of days (last days of vacation *SNIFF*).
So here i am :) first of all nice update, hope to see more.
your bodies are good, but your faces lag. how ybout readig loomis "fun with a pencil" he teaches very good how to draw a head, in 3D. your heads are not bad, but kind of random and nearly the same.

A Sketchbook Support Group? HELL yeah, why not!
if it keeps you drawing-i´d like to do that. i would have commencted here regulary, anyway =)

cheers, hope for the next update :)

[SenEnd]

I slept in way to late yesterday so I decided not to update yesterday, been updateing in the mornings. Today I got up nice and early though. Want to try sleep 4 hours a night while takeing short naps though out the day =)

HerrleerzeichenS: Yeah I think I know what you mean =) I need to draw more faces from reference then from head. If I just draw them from my head then I don't really know what I'm doing! The sketchbook group sounds fun!

[HerrleerzeichenS]

excellent :D
yeah, good to see some faces! i like the drapery studies! nice weight of lines.
what the hell are you doing with the paper? looks like you´ve sat on it :D

http://www.mininova.org/tor/979519 here is loomis fun with a pencil. i learned a lot from him.
bye

[jatherip]

sketchbook support group sounds cool :) im in!!! any idea for a cool name?^^
keep an eye on the form in you pencil rendering!!! the hatching should always follow the form!!!! try it! experiment with it, its actually easy and looks very neat!!!
keep goin, man :)

[SenEnd]

Ah fuck... I hit reply and the page can't load. Guess ill reply to you guys tommrow cuttign my sleep down less then 4 hours wont work! Thank you very much for the advice!

As for a name for the SSB I was thinking "I want in!" or "IwantIn!" "Team I want in!" what you guys think? Any ideas? I was thinking something silly that kind of means "I want to be crazy good!"

[jatherip]

how about "we rule ca.org"? :D i think name doesnt really matter....so iwantin is cool :)
UUUPPDDDAATTTeeeee!

[SenEnd]

Jatherip: Becuase we need to be honest man, were at the bottom (for the time being) ='( We could just name is Egagrwhamnph?

HerrleerzeichanS: Thanks! I checked out Fun with Pencial it was really cool!

Anyways here's the update that I havnt done. I just need to keep drawing at this rate and keep what I'm studying diverse and ill be getting better fast! I get to 18 hours of life drawing a week now too! There is 4 drop in figure drawing sessions I now know of and my class :D
Fuck I'm going to hotlink things now. It's 2000x faster to upload. Any good hotlinking sites that wont go. "Ah shit boobies, *removes image*"

Here is some stuff on A3 paper (love it!)
http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l174/rocketmangrf/IMG_1119-1.jpg
http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l174/rocketmangrf/IMG_1120-1.jpg


And sketchbook

http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l174/rocketmangrf/IMG_1121-1.jpg
http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l174/rocketmangrf/IMG_1122-1.jpg
http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l174/rocketmangrf/IMG_1123-1.jpg
http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l174/rocketmangrf/IMG_1133-1.jpg
http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l174/rocketmangrf/IMG_1131-1.jpg
http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l174/rocketmangrf/IMG_1130-1.jpg
http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l174/rocketmangrf/IMG_1129-1.jpg
http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l174/rocketmangrf/IMG_1128-1.jpg
http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l174/rocketmangrf/IMG_1127-1.jpg
http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l174/rocketmangrf/IMG_1126-1.jpg
http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l174/rocketmangrf/IMG_1125-1.jpg
http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l174/rocketmangrf/IMG_1124-1.jpg

[HerrleerzeichenS]

hey dude, jatherip and me found a name: how about: T.N.T- the "temerarious nude triple"
have something for you in the attachment :-*

good to see you updatin´ regulary! faces are getting better. i guess that some eyestudies would help you a lot.faces are ok, but the eyes are crap!
the first (self???) portrait is cool, but a softer(darker) pencil could have improved the drawing.
nice nice update :)

here´sthe promised attachment, OH damn! jatherip hasn´t given me the picture.
you have to ask him for the "triple" i´m sure, he´ll know what you mean!

[jatherip]

you should work on you rendering! try to do it more proper, always a block of lines following the form.....believe me, that will look awesome :D oh, and the lines will be cool soon :)
btw: ill send you a pm with the triple :)

[SenEnd]

Jatherip: Definently going to start working on my rendering. I'm seeing if I can use some of the casts that my school has and do some longer studies. Also going to be going to these long pose figure drawing sessions as well. Doing one tommorow! 3 hour pose woo!

HerrleerzeichenS: Eyes, ya I think I should do some eyes, I most likely don't really know how the eye loosk yet. Never zoomed in on it to really see.

Anyways I mess up big time! Went to bed with out working on a selfportrait and ontop of that I slept in till 2 in the afternoon. Ugh.... I'M NOT SLEEPING AT ALL TONIGHT.

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[SenEnd]

Here is stuff from today, I get to do my first suspained life drawing pose tonight! 3 Hour pose! Can't wait, the guys really talented to I'm sure he will be able to suggest some things for me. That's 4 days of figure drawing this week, in October I may even get 6 days a week!!

Tons of stuff i want to do today so I better start right away!

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[jatherip]

massive update :D you should (just like me.... :D ) practice line and rendering quality!!!! well, but hard work pays off, and im sure youll fix that soon :)

[jatherip]

WTF IS GOIN ON HERE!!! UPPPPDAATTTEEEE! NOWWW!!! CMON :D
just wanted to motivate you.... :)

[SenEnd]

Jatherip: Here is a digital portraitjust for you <3

Well dad went camping and took the camera so can't take any photographs. As well I lost my Intuos 3 :davi: Was my fault though see I have been leaveing it in this computer room underneither at the other end of the desk by the wall, and it's been there for a few weeks now hah.

Yesterday I go into the computer room after I came back from figure drawing that night and... the whole room was empty, the tables, computers were all gone and was replaced by someones work desk and a cabinet. FUCKKKKKKKKK!!!!

May get it back but I'm not counting on that.

I'm thinking of buying either a Intuos 4 or a Cintiqu 21x (spelling?) Most likely a Intuous 4, I enjoy not seeing my hand :D

In the mean time I dug up my old Graphire :D The portrait looks blurry, blah.

[HerrleerzeichenS]

hey dude, nice updates!
i have an graphire, too :) I want an intuos!!!!!
yep, looks kinda blurry. but all in all it´s too dark! anyway,i like it and good to see some digital stuff again!

[HerrleerzeichenS]

drawandrawanddrawanddrawanddrawandUPDAAAAAAATE!

[SenEnd]

Arg got a little lazy today, watched some anime :geekg: Ugh da'ds back so ill take some photos tommrow morning. jeeeeeeeze that last ones values were tottally wrong.


I'm going to be super intense with the art tommrow. OH BABY!

[jatherip]

looks niiiiccee!! your still not using the whole value range....! no dark greys actually....but i think you brushwork is better than mine... :D
keep goin, dylan!!!

[SenEnd]

Jatherip: Hmmm, well my brush work is better then what I was doing a few months ago ^^


Some figure drawings.
http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l174/rocketmangrf/IMG_1170.jpg
http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l174/rocketmangrf/IMG_1173.jpg


Stuff from photos.
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http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l174/rocketmangrf/awfah.jpg



And a portrait from my head :S
http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l174/rocketmangrf/Untitled-2-5.jpg

[jatherip]

dont rush the portraits anyway....some of the photostudies look a bit messy! i did the same! and i think its a mistake...
keep goin dylan :)

edit: thanks for the personal portrait btw :)

[SenEnd]

Was way to lazy today I spent alot of time doing nothing tonight >=( I better change that, gota keep going hard. Right?! :D

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[jatherip]

yay for portrait studies :) and right, youve gotta keep goin!!! SO LETS GET INTENSE NOW :D (wait...who said that ?)!
btw, i think the value range in the last portrait is still a bit small....you could actually use nearly black grey and nearly white grey :)
good to see you working hard anyway, and you were right: i am still lazy. i am not intense
enough and i spend too much time on the internet...whatever....keep practicing :D
(kinda confusing comment, isnt it? i hope you got what i meant.....my gay mates are annoying me right now.....)

[SenEnd]

Jatherip: You are wise :D


Stuff from today.

I had a cool idea for an event at my school. A 24 hour digital painting marathon in one of the mac labs, 1 painting every hour! We just go nuts on our tablets haha! I like that idea alot I hope I can make the idea pass :)

Values still not there :S

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[The man with no name]

Nice work so far, seem quite busy, I would try push the contrast up (darker darks, lighter lights) it will make your work stand out more I think, keep on posting, your doing great :)

[HerrleerzeichenS]

wohoooo. massive improvement in your self-portraits! keep on working on the values!
portraits are gettin´better, too.! the you hit the features. i think you can draw even darker on the darkest points. however avoid the total darkness!when you have the right values, concentrate on highlights :)
you´re on the good way.
abnd please please keep doing the self portraits. i think self portraits are one of the most helpful things!

gogogo!

[jatherip]

the values on the third one in the last post are awesome. really. the best so far i think!!! bit work on the brushwork and its actually perfect :D
keep goin dylan.
my comment on herrleerzeichenS sketchbook wasnt pure win or anything. it was the truth!!!! :D
keep goin!

[Alexandr Pascenko]

haha nice ones man , and welcome to the NHK! try using a soft brush and a hard brush for the edges will get much better . and don´t be afraid putting in more contrast into the picture!

keep going!

[towy]

really nice stuff

[HentiMastah]

Wut is dis garbage?!
I got moar skill on ms paint than u culd evar wish fer!!11one

I fap to this shit every nite b4 bed!
http://images.encyclopediadramatica.com/images/8/8d/ANIME_PR0NZ_LOLOL0LOL0L0L0L1L0L0LOL.png

Keep up those studies tho!

[SenEnd]

Mastah: Thanks Ian I needed that, ill keep up the studies :'D Wait fuck, let me out, fuck Ian. I want out!

Anyways thanks everyone! I'm doing what I can! I seriously need to start building my portfolio for SHERIDAN!!!! Telling my self ill just do this for abit longer isnt going to get my portfolio ready now is it? I gota do both at same time!

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[SenEnd]

A quick update before heading home. I need to work more from head and work harder and values. Gota really see what's infront of me and exaggerate it a little.

[Dabinyol]

Sweet shit you got going on here, I wish I were more willing to do studies like you, those help a lot I've notice.

Keep it up brah, you're gonna turn out to be a bad ass artist soon and you won't even notice.

Also, i c wut u did thar with the thread title.

[p sage]

Big improvement since the beginning. What's it been? Just 6 months or so? That's inspiring.

When you went away from drawing outside contours, you got much better. Drawing stuff by drawing the outside contour is the hard way to draw. Drawing from an understanding of the volumes, shapes, and construction is much easier. Takes study, though.

Good study of muscles and whatnot there. Love to see those.

Keep workin, you got a good thing going here.

[jatherip]

holy shit, i think you finally understood you values :D
congratz man, next level!

[HerrleerzeichenS]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOP, welcome to the3 next level, you hit the values!
taht´s brillaint. keep rockin´. want to see the next update :)

[SenEnd]

Thanks guys it means alot :D

Yay I tottaly left at 5 in morning today and drew on the train all morning till my figure drawing class :D Though the drawings suck =( I felt tired, but happy that I was up. (Took a few naps)

I let my self get down the past few days with my drawings. I can't let my self be in that frame of mind though, it totally demotivates me to draw... and it's all about your frame of mind!!!

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Lol what a sweet ringtone! <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

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[The man with no name]

Looks like your working quite hard now, nice big update today, the life study looks good, seem to have captured the form very well :) keep with the goods :D

[p sage]

Cool life drawings! You know what you need so you're not down?

Hot models :) I feel for ya :D I've been lucky; all the female models I've drawn recently have been quite... er... nicely put together :)

J/K we know it's all about the drawing when you sit down, and get into it. I would draw a 600 year old elephant if we could get one and get it to pose for us :)

Good work, though. Keep pounding away at it. Something good will happen soon with your work if you keep this up. You'll make a breakthrough and then everything will be peachy. For a while :)

[miycko]

nice progress since page one, the studies are looking better :D keep working on those skills

[jatherip]

man, get your ass off and draw more, you recently seem to be in an improvement-rush (is this proper english? no idea :D) the lines on the most recent ones are so totally better then those a few months ago :)
keep rockin, dylan!

[SenEnd]

Thanks alot guys!!!

P Sage: Haha, well I seem to get alot of good looking models anyways, and I always get to talk to them :rocker: But honestly when I'm drawing a model there not really people to me any more. There objects.

Sorry about the scans, the scanner liked to crop the stuff at the top and I didn't think it mattered enough to figure out how to adjust it.

Were stupid and tend to forget what we want to do, so I'm going to make my self a schedule everyday from now on! I guess it's a personal thing but I still feel it's a positive thing to post it. Doesn't feel negative to me at all.

6-7: Wakeup, eat, shower, warm up drawing.
7-9: Study some drawings
9-12: Break for 20, draw from imagination.
12-3: Eat, Figure draw from reference and imagination.
3-5: Break, hand drawings.
5-10: Go out with friends to see Eva 1.0!!! <3 <3 <3 Do some drawing on train.
10-12: Work on character rotation for Sheridan Portfolio.
12-1: Update on Conceptart.org, write schedule
1-6: Fall asleep watching Ranma 1/2, have some awesome dreams!

Been doing life drawing basically every day now, it's helping. :geekg:

Fuck life drawing tomorrow ( :wtf: Did I just say that? ) I'm going out to see Evangelion 1.0 in theaters. <3 <3 <3 <3 (Sorry life drawing)

[p sage]

There's an Evangelion movie?? Seriously, I've been under a rock for a while!

Damn... there's three hours this weekend that won't be dedicated to drawing... lol.

Oh well.

Nice update... good to see you're tackling some real-life life drawings--out in the real world :)

[algenpfleger]

Awesome dedication and great taste as I see! :D Keep going yessssssss and do some more colors! Because they're gonna be harder to learn if you're used to just doing greyscales.

[Naram Sinha]

Very brave lines of your scetches look pretty cool!
Especially i liked your non-stop-bridge-in-color, including that it doesn't look like photoshop)).
Some of your pictures reminded me about Makoto Shinkai...
But i think sometimes you need concentrate your work on details, that would be nice.:sungod:

[jatherip]

wish i had as much time on my hands as you :) the lines are really getting somewhere! its awesome to see you progress....keep goin dylan, and thanks for kicking my ass :)

[The man with no name]

sweet update man, I can taste the win in this SB even more these days :P nice improvement :D

[SenEnd]

Jatherip: Yeah... actually felt bad when I heard that. Most likely isnt the right way to look at it I just felt bad. Ahhhhhhhhhhh!!!! I'm totally going to rock tommrow!!!

The man with no name: Thank you very much, I want to be made of pure win.

p sage: Been doing the life drawing out in public since I started this sketchbook :D Was nerve racking for first few weeks, still is sometimes. But it helped boost my self consciousness ten fold. I used to be alot like Shinji hehe. Most likely why I enjoyed the series so much, it really got inside of Shinji's head.

algenpfleger: Thanks man, I think I should also do more finished stuff as well not just colored sketches, but why is it so hard to do that hah?

Naram Sinha: Haha yeah that was 20 different color combinations of one drawing in acrylic. More detail... I've never really been one for alot of detail but I definitely need more, I need to find a balance. =)

Anyways here is my update, I felt very strange today. 3 of the drawings were done after Yoshitoshi Abe. The movie was totally awesome! I want to re watch the whole series now heh. I'm just going to go to bed early and totally rock tomorrow! Going to keep at the scedual thing everynight.

Decided I want to move out tonight I'm going to look for some work tommrow I'm going to aim for something that woudl allow me to do some drawing on the side.

Here's some Evangelion Music <3

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[p sage]

Cool. I haven't really done that... gone out, sat in a crowd, and drawn... it's usually a lot more controlled--a session with a nude model.

But that's something I hope to find time to do, as well. Not much action at work for drawing; just a cubicle and a computer screen :D :D :D

Anywho... good work here in the latest update.

I would like to see some face studies, though, as I feel the faces you're drawing now lack depth... the features almost seem like decals stuck to a balloon in place of real faces. Hence, the need for face studies :D

(Hence... $1000 word. hehe.)

Good luck! :drinkup:

[The man with no name]

Nice update, seem to be good with graphite,these are done from life? pretty good :P I think I might try that one of these days, keep up the good work :)

[jatherip]

do some work on the line quality man....youv gotten actually good at pencils, but try to draw things with only one pencilsstroke per contour line! its cool and works :) whatever, keep goin, and dont feel bad if i have no time :D its pretty much my fault...kill the interwebz!!!!! youtube sucks :D but im gonna change that....
oh, and more digitals though....
btw, did you know that "komm susser tod" is german (actually its "Komm süßer Tod") and means "come sweet death"? just random....whatever....keep drawing :)

[SenEnd]

The man with no name: It's alot of fun! But I think I've had to unlearn alot of things becuase of it. When I started to get serious with drawing I went out and drew lots of people on the train. However I could not really make any sense of what I was drawing and just drew a bunch of symbols. Well alot of habits were picked up that I persistently try to get away from

Jatherip: Hehhehe were a generation with to much information that can just distract us. Ill work on the lines man, I want really clean awesome lines... I doreally love sketchy stuff though, but only when the person knows what the hell they are doing! I will do some digital stuff but I think I should focus mostly on pencials to boot for now :D

Anyways I didnt draw much of anything today was super unproductive. I slept most the day then just read some old letters to my self and friends. Thought about some things, took a walk. Then went to figure drawing. So please kick my ass hard! Drew the figure free hand and focused on drawing one clean line.

Tommrows going to be a really great day! Ill end today with some room interior drawings :D

Check out Geoffrey Klepeis page please. I can't thank him enough for how much he's been helping me lately with drawing. http://www.geoffreyklepeis.com/

Edit: Oh fuck I forgot, I was having a hard time rendering her butt and abdomen. I kept destroying the depth. Geoffrey erased it and did a demo explaining some concepts. He was explaining how I'm trying to copy what I'm seeing way to much and how I should try more to reconstruct it in my mind and articulate something that just makes sense. That's what the real goal is. Told me not to really worry about mark making, do what's easiest for now since rendering seems to be a weaker point for me. Talked to me about how not to render things to structurally no straight lines, everything will be curved, nothing is parallel. So I have not earned this remarks people! Geoffrey did say the drawing was solid... just my rendering sucks ass!

I'm going to give it my fucking all today!!!!!!!!!! yeahhh boiiiii! Going to render some niceeeee stuff!

[p sage]

Whoa... that is absolutely cool. That drawing looks solid... and by solid I mean 3D. Great job there. You're getting some skillz!

[miycko]

i agree, very well done :teeth: especially on the shading you can clearly tell the light source is & the lady's got a sence of weight to her. you have a lot of drawing on shecdule, wish i had done that when i had the time, glad to see you making the most of it :teeth:

[HerrleerzeichenS]

MAAAAN, you´re gettin´ insane! jatherip is right: you should work on your lines, even they are not bad ;) last one is the best you´ve created i can see so far! hope for more of this stuff.
cheers

[The man with no name]

Nice job! looking nice and 3 dimensional, something I wish I could do, keep up the good work, your improving :)

[SenEnd]

I'm a snowball! I'm a snowball! I just keep building up, just keep snowballing, Just keep getting more intense. If I fall, if I crash oh man I'm getting back up, never going down. I'm a snowball!!!

Thanks for stopping by everyone it means alot to me =)
HerrleerzeichenS: You haven't seen anything yet man! I got so much potential, and so do you! Lets totally go for it! Never give up.

Felt very inspired by Rayk's sketchbook today :O Oh man I want to learn to make environments. So, lets get on with it! http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=67319

I'm going to reenter that girl sitting down again tommrow. I KNOW I can take her farther!!!! Ill do more environment paintings and drawings from photos too since that painting from my head failed! More line drawings too. I need to learn to organize my thumbs better. There not really reading at all.

[jatherip]

look at the girl in grayscale. youll see that the value range is strange!
DIDNT YOU FUCKING READ THE AWESOME TUTORIAL WHICH YOU SHOWED US WHERE WE WERE TOLD THAT THE MOST PART OF A PICTURE SHOULD BE VERY DARK! :D
im sorry, but this had to be said :) studys look cool, keep it up!

[p sage]

Uh oh, spagettios lol... perspective in that room drawing :D

Setting up two point perspective is really pretty easy... you don't even need to put in formal vanishing points... you just have to be aware of it when you do a room like that.

I like the approach in the girl drawing... the water-colory thing.

More like the 3D rendering, though. That showed some improvement. Forget value for now; learn form :)

[Pigeonkill]

Nice gestures. I was about to say be careful about retracing back on your line work or it will get messy. But your lines have gotten so much cleaner by page 4. Great Job.

Hurray for anime!

[miycko]

nice updatd man, i like the sketches of the environments :D & the girl looks like she's coming along well

[SenEnd]

Thank you very much guys, it's so nice to have people constantly telling me what I can work on and droping helpful tips. Not to mention haveing someone even reconize my drawings!

P Sage: Hmmm you saying learn from what makes me happy? Do what I like to do? Yeahhhh!!!

Jatherip: Thanks mang! No really thanks! Some super lighting effect wasnt what I was going for which is what Linron was talking about but. I failed what I was going for soooo :geekg:


Anyways I was planing on updfateing today but I feel a drained after makeing a post in the General Discussion. I will tommrow AND IT's GOING TO BE THE MOST CRAZY INTENSE UPDATE I"VE EVER DONE. I"M GOING CRAZZZZZY I"M GOING TO FUKCING DRAW LIKE A FIEND ALL NIGHT AND DAY. Then colapse for a nice sleep! THEN DRAW LIKE A FIEND SOME MOOOOOO. YEAHHHHHAHAYHA!F I CAN"T WAIT FOR LIFE DRAWING CLASS IN 2 WEEKS AFTER THANKS GIVEING. I"M GOIUNG TO WALK INTO THAT CLASS AND TEAR IT UP AND EVERYONES GOING TO BE LIKE DAMMMN MANG YOU WORKED CRAZY HARD THESE LAST TWO WWEKS NICE IMPROVEMENT!

Hey guys something has been bugging me alot lately and it just would not hurt to get it off my chest. I'm pretty late I never drew at all when I was a kid but I love it now, honestly it's the only thing in my life I can say I've ever stuck to. (Self confidence was horrid as a young one)

Found this site a year ago and began lurking. Seeing all these amazing artists and seeing what they were all doing got it in my mind that if I drew, at the bare minimum just drew. I would get better. Around the same time I started my first year in art college, I made what i could out of it but, I was disenchanted towards it. Mostly because it was just a bad art school in regards to what I WANTED. (For starters they were basically against life drawing)

So I decided I would just go to a different school that would give me more of what i wanted (I remember it being hard for me to even come to this decision frankly I was scared of what it could mean. (?) Decided Sheridan would be a nice choice around 4-5 months ago.

There's a voice in side me though telling me that's not what I really want, regardless of anything I don't want it. It says I would be doing a disservice to my self if I went to school and studied art. I would never be all I want to be if I do.

Accepting this is nerve racking for me, even writing this is emotionally draining but I think that's the beauty of it. I feel there's a big lesson to be learned in moving out and doing this crazy journey on my own. A lesson I would not learn in school, a lesson I'd put off for 4 years and there's no fucking reason to do that. No reason to wait.

Honestly common sense tells me going to school is a great idea for almost anyone. But it's just not for me. Anybody relate to this? Any stories? I want some closure :asspat:

[jatherip]

i totally hate school. i have to go there from 8 am til 5 pm, and i hate it! at least i can draw abit in my lessons :D i always look froward to the weekend ^^. i think you should stay in school, i even heard that education is an andvantage for creating art...not sure about that, but being educated is a good think. and think of it again: how long do you think your gonna live and which tiny part of this time will you be in school (i know, my english sucks too much to explain this properly.....)...i hope you got what i meant!

[p sage]

I had the same type of thoughts back when I was considering even GOING to art school several years ago. (And I do mean SEVERAL XD)

So guess what? I didn't go. And many years later, I'm not sure it was the right decision.

On the one hand, I didn't get the art training I wished I could have had up to this point. On the other hand, it really hasn't hurt me in terms of what I ultimately want(ed) to do. At this point, I want to become an animator. And honestly, I see a window of opportunity to become one... with my computer/3D skills and some improved drawing/draughtmanship... in a relative short amount of time, now.

I went to school for Computer Science, which in a strange way has opened windows into the arts (drawing) for me. I will be studying at an atelier of sorts beginning in January... and see where that takes me. I may be still years away from being any sort of "good" at drawing, but the opportunity is there.

I guess what I want to tell you is--don't worry about the opportunities. As long as you continue your studies, you will find them.

And yes, I hate school too :) It's a draining experience, but it definitely gives you a leg up.

[SenEnd]

Jatherip: I understand what you mean, art school is a wonderful place trust me! You can make alot ut of it! :) I hated high school too ='( Sadly I didnt draw at all in highschool so it was even worse.

P sage: Thanks for the advice it means alot. Here is my crazyist, biggest most amazeing dream right now. I want to make something new, something refreshing. A comic, a moive a show. I don't know. I want to play a large roll in the art department though. I also want to teach people, I really want to know my craft inside out and be able to give back alot of knowledge to people. I want people to reconize me as an artist and know my name. A happy, passionate, down to earth artist. Basically everything all the people I look up to are.

The cool thing is I can be that last part right now!

Thanks you two, I was freaking out a little bit last night. I'm learning not to do this because it's never a good thing and just stresses me out! But when things mean alot to me or are affecting me greatly I sometimes forget to relax.


I decided I will make my portfolio and apply just to keep my doors open for now. Ill stay liveing at home for now though, it does give me alot of oppertunity to draw all day. Like today! I just chilled out all day and drew, looked for photos, looked at artists, browsed CA, listened to music. I decided to just upload what I did today and this week end for the long pose figure drawing =) Im takeing an online course for character design with Steven Silver. It's realllly good and helpful! I'm working out my first assignment but hmm ill figure it out, I don't like it at all yet.

All in all a great day and tommrows going to be just as productive and awesome =)

I'm really enjoying the Haibane Renmei OST expetually the off vocal version of Blue Flow.
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The vocal version is just as good!
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[The man with no name]

Nice BIG update, plenty of good stuff I see, you seem pretty commited, keep working hard, it will pay off in no time :)

[jatherip]

KICKASS LEEEEEGGS! uber awesome! u officially inspired me. btw just read that a guy broke in a zoo and was nearly killed by a tiger....was that you? :D whatver ,keep rockin!

[Hanny Honeymoon]

really nice sketches in here! the legs looks awesome! keep on!
nice greetz
hanny ♥

[Bendragon]

Nice man! Keep up the range of different drawing practices and draw from life as much as you can and other studies. It looks like they are helping. Keep this up! I like how much you have been drawing! :)
Heh,a Lain fan I see! :P

[p sage]

Nice life drawings. I like how loose you've kept them

[SenEnd]

Jatherip: I inspire? That made me really happy man thank you! I really like watching you tear stuff up. As much as you don't wish to admit the improvement you have made and the work you have done gets me pumped. We both could totally work harder though! What's stopping us mannn!?!

Bendragon: Thanks man, I need to start mixing up alot more environment drawings as well though. I love drawing characters, but it's totally great to draw characters inside an environment. Bet it's even better to see your drawings move, inside an environment :O

Yes... I love SEL, meant alot to me, enough I decided I wanted to play it into my own name online :geekg: Can't wait for the series Despera. It's being made from all the same big guys that made SEL

P Sage: Wooo ya! I love loose drawings! Maybe that's partly why I'm not getting cleaner? I don't want it enough :steph: All I need to do is learn to clean up my loose drawings, not necessarily draw clean to begin with. Sketching is just ideas and fun, I don't need to just be able to drawing amazing things effortlessly. Lets fight and wrestle the drawings!

Hanny: Thanks!!!! The studies help greatly <3

Today I figured out that pupils dialate and there's alot of stuff to that... One interesting fact is it's generally more attractive when another persons pupils are dialated. Pupils dialate and contract due to a number of emotions, drugs or amount of light entering the eye. Yeah some stimple thigns but I never really considered it!

Starting to figure out my chracter more for Steven Silvers first project and I decided I want to travel down to Los Angeles Nov 20-22 to attend the CTNexpo. I'm going to draw as freaking much as possible in my sketchbook and soak up as much knowledge between now and then becuase I want to show a bunch of people my drawings, meet some professtionals, get as much insight out of them as I can, maybe make some more art friends? I'm guessing it would cost over $1000 USD for one weekend but I don't care, seems like an amazeing opertuinity. XD

[p sage]

I agree with everything in your post, except for the trailing "XD"... that was certainly uncalled for :nohope:

It's good to see you doing more life drawing (as always)... make sure to take care with proportion. I know; it's my battleground right now, too. It helps to see the body as a series of overlapping shapes. Foreshortening, overlapping shapes, and flow seem to be able to bring the figure together best--and it's hard (at first) to coordinate the three. When you do, you have a figure that's proportional and that looks right.

Hope you can scrape together the required funds for L.A.

Oh yeah. And XD to you too

:tihi:

[The man with no name]

Hey, thanks for stopping by my SB, I updated with something half decent this time :P, nice work today, cool life drawing, maybe you should throw in the occasional study, perhaps skeletal, might help with understanding the form, keep up the good work :)

[miycko]

the BIG ART DUMG is quite inspirering :teeth: glad to see you're producing so much stuff & drawing daily. soon enough you'll be seeing even greater improvements in your work :D

[SenEnd]

P Sage: Does XD means a happy laugh to me, is it the same thing to you? Becuase I'm confused.

Miycko: Thanks! Not as much today though :O

The man with no name: No problem, thank you for stoping by your self =)

Got preety sick lately and I've been sleeping non stop, I'm feeling better nowthough =D A portrait of my friend and my father. I tottaly messed my friend up she's way prettier then this :nohope: Lets see how I do tommrow.

I'm going to try going about this sketchs from my head differently, need to experiment more.


Tried painting something from my head again :blah:

[jatherip]

man, those two pencil portraits kick my ass, the values in this digital thing look pretty good( well, i think you should try to define the lightsource more) and i like the greenish matrix look :D
keep kickin butt, dylan!

[miycko]

still a lot more than i've done :P very nice work on those faces :teeth:

[Bendragon]

Looking good! The painting is looking good, keep at it! Same with the figures though watch out for the proportions. They seem to be stretched somewhat!

[Crass]

Nice going, you seem to be taking things seriously. I see that you listen to Silent Hill music, that's cool. For some reason the 3 and 4 soundtracks have become like my theme music when I draw, and I haven't even played the games.

[towy]

nice sketchbook on here, and i think it's better now than the page 2for your sketch! continue, i can feel the life in your drawing ; don't stop

[drd]

Thanks man! Great work you have here.

http://images.tmuscle.com/forum_images/fullSize/f/7/f7944_ORIG-i_am_monitoring_this_thread.jpg

[p sage]

LOL.

I was just being tongue-in-cheek, man. This whole "XD" thing all the kids are doing... the internet and everything... I think it's just great :)

Oh, and get better. You need to feel good for your L.A. trip.

[SenEnd]

P Sage: We are crazy I know...


Thanks for the comments everyone. Alright I've been down for past few days, not only sick but just feeling empty, only doing some bare minimum things that are really easy for me to do. Doesnt even feel like a work out just like a walk in the park everyday. Some life drawing... some doodles... then a whole lot of nothing productive.

I just hate to see my self giveing in to these empty emotions that go round inside my head time and time again. It's not just me though, it's so many people that feel this way and only do what's the easiest becuase motivation is just gone, it's drained.

I'm snaping out of it right naOoooOOWWWW, I control my self I can push my self to do what's hard and work my butt off. To make it even better I'm working my butt off for the sack of doing the things I want to do, to life the life I want to live and you can do it to! So let's do it! Let's all rock our tablets and our paints and our sketchbooks and let's all do it together!

Going to be a big update tommrow :mod:

[The man with no name]

I like the update, the colour piece is good, the perspective on his leg looks a little off though, like the lighting too, hope your feeling better, I have those days too,some are easier to snap out of but some keep you down,guess life wasn't meant to be easy though, music really loud seems to cure my woes to an extent, looking forward to your next update :)

[miycko]

BRING ON THE BBBIIIGGGGGG UPDATE :teeth:

[SenEnd]

Thanks guys, sorry that it's late, hey this isnt huge >=( Kick my ass!

Still fighting off this flu and sleeping alot but I feel much better mentally. :bashful: Have a bunch of family members comeing over for Thanksgiveing today, so ill be drawing lots of portraits and stuff!!!

[jatherip]

hey, great update! figuuuurreeesss! :D
no something else....you did alot, but!!!!
now close conceptart.org and get a pencil, and then draw until your fingers bleed!!!!

[drd]

Dude that's bigger than my usual one page deal (I hope to change that soon).

Good work on your studies, you're way more dedicated than me. Just know that all the hard work you put in will pay off big time!

[Kim_bot]

Looking good here!
The figure studies are looking really nice! The only thing though is that your lines tend to be a little messy looking. Try not to shade using zigzags and more with straight lines while lifting up the pencil after each stroke.
Oh, and Haibane Renmei was such a good show...
Have you ever seen Texhnolyze? It also has character designs by Yoshitoshi Abe, but it was a little strange from what I can remember. O_O

[SenEnd]

Jatherip: Dude that's the spirit!!!!! All that matters is that we draw. Once this flu is gone I'm going totally crazy. I have too!!!

drd: You can :D You can get dedicated too, just find it in you! I need to find it in me to go even more!

Kim_bot: My lines are messy, it's a lack of confidense and control. Alot of the times I'm trying to go over lines because either I think they are right and I want to darken them some more, or I'm unsure about the drawing and ill get it all messy. Ill try to shade that way, it's hard but looks so much more organized!

I actually have not watched Haibane Renmai or Texnolyze yet completly. I tottally plan to! I absolutely loved SEL though. I can't wait, the main crew that made SEL is makeing a new anime at the moment which is in pre production called "Despera"


Man it's a strange feeling when you basically completely missed a day. I've been sleeping on and off with short episodes of wakefulness for last 18 hours. I told my self yesterday I should focus on getting better so I can go crazy again. But figure drawing is tonight so I have to go to that!! Ill be doodeling on the way there and back too. Want to fill up all the pages in my sketchbook that I feel are a little pointless and empty right now. There is a few.

Damn I forgot to take a photo of my little cousin that I drew yesterday. Ill be seeing them tommrow though so ill just get it then.

It's winter!!! Snow is awesome. I remeber wakeing up late last night and seeing all the snow falling with the light that the falkes caught from the street lamps. It was pretty.

[p sage]

Winter?? It's not supposed to be winter yet! What about autumn? You crazy Canucks and your October winters :canadian:

Tremendous work is still needed in the faces. I would work on either bodies or faces but not both at this point. You need to isolate these activities in order to understand them.

But some of the things I'm learning right now at the school (while I'm here) would suggest that you start doing studies on how to create two-D forms on a page, and then 3-D forms before moving into figure drawing.

My approach in my thread will change significantly because of just these last two days at this school.

Hope you're feeling better and that the weather up there doesn't spoil your mood :)

[jatherip]

man, i hate our rainy, grey days......im jealous :D
i think in some of your studies youve done look really "rythmic", as loomis would say^^
keep at it :)

[Krato]

YO, check out the sketches on wesburts website and look at how he sketches faces, it would really help you understanding how to do it for your own! :)

[Bendragon]

Snowed in! More reasons to draw! :P Good to see you drawing a lot of figures. Keep studying from life, maybe it might be good to also study other artists too and figure out how they solve a problem like drawing the figure.

[miycko]

THAT'S THE SPIRIT :teeth: keep drawing though you're sick :) we don't have snow in my country, i'm jelous :P

[Helaine]

Dylaan~ I got your link from gaiaonline XDD


You've got nice stuff here, I think I need to do more life drawing too XDDD


Keep on posting! :)

[p sage]

XDD

That guy has two mouths! :$

XDDD

THAT guy has THREE!! :jawdrop:

[Ian Miles]

I like your ink sketches the most. They are very bold and honest. Way to go! :D

[The man with no name]

Nice update, the snnow looks amazing :D, it never snoows down here :( well not in the streets, cool updat looks like your busy as always, to me it looks as if you are getting more confident with graphite, have you tried doing some digital stuff recently, would make for a nice contrast, keep up the good work :D

[SenEnd]

I was at this sports store the other day getting some ski pants and I noticed the girl who was at the cashier's name was "Dylanea". I realized "Hey that's my name on the internet! .... :D"

I guess that super long sleep cured me. Was hanging out with my little cousins family yesterday, got some drawing in, came home and some how I ended up watching the last 15 episodes of Evangelion.

I gota work harder though, I need to work alot harder. I useally update when I feel I have 8-9 hours of work to show at least and lately I've been updateing every 2 days. I know it my sound crazy to you but I think the only people that are working hard are working 12-16 hours a day. Doesnt need to be drawing, but they are working.

Occationally ill hit a day or two where I work like this, and I pat my self on the back when I do, but it needs to be consistent.

Jatherip: I'm going to draw like mad just for you (well mostly for me), thanks for kicking me in the ass when I need it T___T

P Sage: Thanks P sage, I'd say I'm focusing alot more on faces these days it's alot of fun actually. Ill ask my family and friends to pose for me while I draw them. Sometimes they say yes and will move a ton but I try my best to draw them hah! Hehe I'd like to build up the nerve to ask people in public if I can draw them. What I nice way to tal to some girls.

Personally though I wouldnt be able to 100% focus on one thing though. Drawing just would not be fun for me if I were just drawing one thing. Actually I'd say what I enjoy drawing jumps around everywhere.

Helaine: Hey I think I actually reconize that name from Gaia, it's a fun site to post on sometimes but I enjoy CA much more =) I check out your sketchbook :D

Ian Miles: Thanks

The Man With No Name: Thanks, yeah I like the snow alot! I can see a little more confidense in my strokes too.

Miycko: That tottally is ther spirt! I want my spirts to go way beyond what they are now though, it's hard :S

Krato: WOW!!! Thank you so much this guys crazy!! Now he can draw :D Hey... He's from Massive Black

[p sage]

Congrats on getting a lot of stuff drawn. That always feels good.

Good update. It's evident that the anatomy stuff you're doing is sinking in more and more.

[jatherip]

lets try it another way^^:

way too little stuff. im very disappointed. hah, you actually visit ca.org in order to upload these tiny twenty sketches? haha, thats kinda FUCKING SAD! now get off and show us more stuff, otherwise im gonna flag your account, so it will be deleted!
whatever^^ keep drawing!

oh btw, herrleerzeichenS (which btw means mister space character S^^) has to do a lot for school, hes on his way to a levels, so hes having a hard time doin art. actually he told me, that he would be back today :)

[KingElvis]

hey, nice progress in here!
Maybe you wanna draw a little slower and see what happens. I noticed that looking at your portrait/head drawings. Maybe take out the speed and really observe the form, the contours and maybe find small spots that can make the drawing more interesting. Like where the hair crosses the contour of the head or smth. Hope you know what i mean^^ btw, the same can be applied to shading, no need rushing thru.
cheers!

[SenEnd]

Jatherip: I failed again, ahh w/e I'm tottaly feeling today. Actually this is second day in a row I've managed to go to bed at 1:30-2:00 and wake up at 6:00 AM which makes me happy. I want to train y self to sleep 4-5 hours a night takeing some naps when my body tells me I need it.

I've noticed that when I get my self up when I want to are the days I really feel for. I gota learn to feel everyday!!!

P Sage: Thanks :D I feel it got somewhere too but it's time to do lots of life drawing like I used to now!

KingElvis: Thanks I need to learn to do a bit of both. Actually was takeing my time with a few yesterday.

Here is my small update. Lots of doodles. I've never actually doodled this much before, since last time I've just been doodleing. Getting a little boreing actually. Think it's time to start doing some more serious studies!

Going to international airport today to draw people, never done that before but something I've wanted to try.

[Krato]

nice doodles, take your time though, those look like they were rushed, also try to shade by following the form of the object :D

[The man with no name]

Nice stuff, your working much harder than I :D I also like the manga-esque feel of your work, might just be because I love anime though, keep working hard :)

[andres333]

Hi i can see that you're doing an effort and you've improved a lot since the first pages and i think you could get even better results by studying structure it has truly helped me, and it will work with you too!!

[jatherip]

love the update! mooore digitals plz!

[Pigeonkill]

That's a good idea to take some of those pose and dress them up with your own concepts like you did here:

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=802022&stc=1&d=1255476047

You have snow in your area? Time to make snowman! Hope your flu will go away.

[p sage]

Hopefully you had fun drawing people at the airport.

The faces though, man. Really brutal :embarrassed: ... sorry to say. (sorry if that sounds harsh)

Big shapes first... then smaller stuff.

"The amateur is tyrannized by detail." - Barnstone

I guess what I mean by that (if it sounds cryptic) is to make sure the big shapes are right first.

I try to think about it like this: If I get at least the shape and dimension of the head right, and the planes of the head and face right... it's going to look about 85 percent right, no matter how crappily I draw the face.

At that point, I just have to do a good job of rendering the forms on the skull, and then (finally) go in and try to get the details right.

I think you know what eyes and noses and mouths should look like; it's the whole that I'm talking about.

[jatherip]

well then why dont you UUPPPDATTTEEE?^^

[SenEnd]

Was going to update but my father has his camera in their bedroom and there still asleep so I guess ill hold off on that till tonight or something.

Last few days have been good and I'm tottally in the groove again! For last 3 days I've gotten my self up after sleeping for 4 hours fairly easily. Ill crash later on in the day though but ill just need a quick nap to get my energy back :rocker: Lots of drawing yay!

P sage: Figured out this morning that I havea hard time drawing a sphere with contruction lines wraping around it and going though it. I'm guessing that's a large reason why alot of my stuff sucks. I need to work on STRUCTURE!!! :O

Krato: I try to do that all the time, I just suck! :D

Jatherip: Teheheh, we will see... I kind of fell out of my I love digital phase. I`m in I love drawing in my sektchbook phase.

PigeonKill : Thanks! It`s actually gone the snow melted since it`s summer again 8)

[Adrian Wilkins]

your studies look like you havent taken enough time, really spend time on understand for and how it contribute to lines! and I wnna see some fundamental studies!! :D keep on track your going the right way :)

[p sage]

Yes, yes! To Obi Wan you listen!


Er... Adrian!

[Kim_bot]

Hey, thanks for dropping by my SB!

I think I'm already seeing improvement in your sketches! What I would like to see more of though is some really detailed complete drawings; you do a lot of quick studies, but I wanna see you do some drawings (or paintings) where you just sit with it, spend a hell of a lot of time on it, and just carry it through and make it as realistic as possible.

I'm not saying that studies and quick sketches are bad...but for me, they're kind of like homework. They help me learn the basics (proportion, anatomy, etc), but the complete drawings are where you actually utilize knowledge that you pick up while doing your studies- they're a bit like exams if you will. And I think that you need both to really complete your knowledge (though I'm not a fan of tests IRL, especially essay ones)

Anyways, keep up the good work!

[SenEnd]

Kim_Bot: Thank you for stoping by =) I can feel a longer drawing comeing up. I only do those ever so often when I feel the inspiration. I do studies that are 140 min in length but I've never gone so far as like 8 hours. I should I should.

P Sage: Yay structure drawings. Lets actaully learn to contruct the head first!!!!!!

Adrian: Thanks Your right I havnt been doing consturction enough.

Seems like such a long time since I've updated. I havnt been sleeping much though, had a day where I didnt sleep and the rest have been 3-4 hours of sleep a night. Ill nap during the day when I crash though. Afternoon naps are the best.

I litterally passed out on the bus on the way home yesterday. I've always woken up when I nap on bus but this time I overslept my stop 10 min. Was interesting, I close my eyes and the world shuts off for 20 min I wake up and I'm 10 min past my stop. Was like on off switch.

It's honestly not really much but I felt very proud with this gesture I did in class yesterday so I thought I would share it =)

[p sage]

Good head/shape studies and really good figure drawing stuff. I'm still seeing the wonk-face stuff there; seems to be a disconnect between the head studies and the portrait studies.

But one of these days, the light switch will click on and you'll have a big improvement there. Just keep studying it. Understanding is coming.

A lot of good work there. A LOT of mileage in this last update. Thumbs up.

[KingElvis]

i really like the clothed people in there! You do em well.

[jatherip]

last update is good! the structure is getting really goood! your hands are way better than mine ò.ó well, i mean the drawn ones ^^
we want loomis!

[Bendragon]

You guys have quite a hard working sketch group going on! Brilliant to see! As you probably read in my sketchbook, I looked back on my drawings from 2006 and man... they suck.... HARD! I would say the key to improving is to draw a lot of course and keep drawing as you are... and think hard as in analyze your work. If you can always identify things you need to work on, you can always rely on yourself for crits and that'll mean you can keep developing.
Anyway... some crits from me... I think some of your characters are a bit stiff. So you could try some gestural drawings. Dont think about details with this, try get motion into your pose. These might be little thumbnail squiggles but the key is giving the pose balance and movement so it looks natural and not stiff.

[Krato]

wow look at all that work :U it must have been as difficult scanning all those as it was doing them lol -- i mean that in a good way

keep it up, you have some really great stuff!

[drd]

Bendragon...3/4ths is hard working...*shifts feet*

Ima change that though!!

Dylan, so much stuff in here, it's crazy. If I worked like you I'd run out of money buying paper ;)

[Lyno]

Great update Dy.laneA, for your gestures to work on, this collection of handouts of Walt Stanchfield: "Gesture drawing for animation" (link to pdf!) (http://www.floobynooby.com/pdfs/gesturedrawingforanimation.pdf) really got me thinking about it. You should really give it a try :).

[HerrleerzeichenS]

WOHOOOOOO dylan! fuckin´ improvement. i´ve just not been here for a week and now the quality of your lines and faces (of course the rest, too) raised about 250 %.
keep going :)

[Helaine]

Wow... what massive updates!


After all these studies, I really want to see your finished art... a colored one!


Keep on going, man!



:yayca:

[jatherip]

are you dead? D:

[SenEnd]

Dy.laneA: :assspank: Lazy asshole! :assspank:

Worked on gestures yesterday. The library is a great place to draw, was just sitting at a table with a bunch of magazines drawing people waiting in line to sign some books out and drawing photos :O

[p sage]

Wow. THAT many people play tennis at the library?? LOL.

Cool. I think your life drawing is getting better... you're taking better care with faces, too.

Draw draw draw! Damn Canadian and your frozen-off fingers :canadian:

[jatherip]

those movements....i love them....wow :D btw how do you lifedraw moving people? :D

[drd]

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=815574&stc=1&d=1256917107
Nice man, work those gestures! Lots of gestures really add vitality to your other drawings, no matter what they are.

[Dubu]

Man looking through your progress makes me realize how much I've been slacking off.. I should start getting sketching lol. Good Work!

[danlambert]

Love the angles in your life drawings and portraits,
love the character pages and poses,
love that big red gesture.
Would love to see something more finished from you, a portrait, a figure study, anything!
Keep up the stellar work my friend!

Oh, and track down that girl

Peace
Dan

[Junpei]

wow lots of studies, keep it up!

[SenEnd]

Everyone must come battle me in the THUNDERDOME now! It rocks your socks!

http://thetdchannel.blogspot.com/

Wow lots of nice comments. Was about to come here and say I lost interest in updateing this sketchbook but, NO!!! Ill just update Sunday evenings or something like that. With some of the things I thought were cool that I did during the week.

Anyways again please check out the THUNDERDOME! We want lots more people in there.

http://thetdchannel.blogspot.com/
http://thetdchannel.blogspot.com/
http://thetdchannel.blogspot.com/
http://thetdchannel.blogspot.com/
http://thetdchannel.blogspot.com/

[p sage]

Wow lots of nice comments. Was about to come here and say I lost interest in updateing this sketchbook but, NO!!! Ill just update Sunday evenings or something like that. With some of the things I thought were cool that I did during the week.

I look at it this way:

I'm glad to have CA.org and the support people provide.

That said, if CA disappeared (lord forbid) I would not lose a single smidge of desire to learn how to actually do this "magic" we call drawing.

A CA sketchbook, to me, is a great resource for plotting progress and keeping track of what is learned. Being able to interface with all you knowledgeable people is really a bonus and a treat as well... the feedback can really be very helpful.

One thing I will never do is allow the liveliness of my little SB dictate my desire to continue. I've been away from the board for two days, but not being able to draw for those last two days has been like someone holding my head underwater.

Hopefully you haven't lost your desire to draw, and we'll continue to be able to support you.

Have fun with that blog! But keep drawing!

[Crass]

Just stopping by to check up on you, too bad you don't feel like updating your SB anymore. Doing what feels right is the most important thing though, keep working man!

[SenEnd]

Bendragon yelled at me for not updateing. Same with Jatherip, actually found out the secret to Jatherip's name today it's clever :) Thought I would just throw an update out there since I did say I would on Sunday! What happened?

Anyways been getting away from internet alot lately becuase I seriously spend 30% of my time browseing useless things. When there is no reason to be online for more then 30 min a day if that. And where did all my crazyness go? What is this sleeping 7-9 hours a night? Ill set my alarm every night to wake me up after 4 hours but I always end up going back to sleep becuase I'm tired.

I need someone to slap me across the face and tell me how it is!

Here is a oil painting from this weekend and figures from yesterday. Working on drawing from my memory. Ill draw something from reference then try to recall it from memory! Can't wait till I can actually do it well.

[p sage]

actually found out the secret to Jatherip's name today it's clever :)

You mean jacktheripper? ;)

Wow what did you do? You've improved, my man. Look at that oil. LOVE the brush strokes. Did you go out and buy a talent? :D

The rendered figure drawings look very very slick. You've been working hard and not updating! :assspank:

[jatherip]

Did you go out and buy a talent? :D



TELL US WHERE OR IM GONNA RIP YOU!
lovely update :) keep it up, and if you were posting more often id be please to invite you to our sketchgroup ;), its because were HYPERACTIVE!

[HerrleerzeichenS]

hey, dylan :) long time ago since i´ve been here :D
i´m very impressend , amazing improvement! nice update.
see ya ;)

[jatherip]

dylan, you make me cry. sereously.

[blexano]

Looking goood Dylan! :)
Keep it up!

[Pigeonkill]

The oil painting is coming out great. The feet and hands are a little mushy. Like the board strokes and color added into the shadow.

[jatherip]

i read something on my facebook page, came in here, and man, im FUCKING angry!!!!
again i have to yell at you for not updating....

[SenEnd]

Jathrip: I feel the anger it's getting me pumped, thanks for always encourageing me man. YOUR THE BEST!!! It just always kills me inside when I update and I know I didnt work hard. And I wasnt working hard for past month so I don't update... Really really unbearably sad. Number one reason that I even post on this site is to show people my hard WORK. Next reason is to talk with other artists! Third reason is to just show my drawings to everyone and get crits.

P Sage: No man I've been drawing everyday but I've been way to fucking lazy!!! Like a 5 hours a day. I've been crazy the last few days though so lets make that last.



Anyways a drawing a did for chiustream yesterday he wanted somethigng funny. Spent 7 hours drawing it, I gota study anatomy so much more I don't know that stuff yet! Then the quick coloring job I did.

[SenEnd]

Some stuff from today. Did a few pages of pencil studies as well but I think ill just through them into the pile tommorow. I don't feel like documenting them right now. Shoot I rushed that girl doodle to much, I could of taken it farther... Idk I just noticed I kept mesisng around with it and over working it so I thought I should move on.

Digital is great, it takes me a few min to update now. Cheers

[HerrleerzeichenS]

i´d suggest do go muuuuch more into detail, you stop to fast. especially on still-lifes take your time ;)

cu

[jatherip]

keep studying :D these look good, herrleerzeichen is right though....

[SenEnd]

Man today went by fast! And honestly other then some cleaning up I virtually sat at my desk all day and drew my butt off! Did two pages of figure drawings butman I don't feel like documenting them just like last night hah.

Redueing the mermaid for the chiu stream, she was horrible first time around. I'm REALLY takeing my time with this line art. Gota just get it as nice as I possibely can before I move onto suggesting some of the form. I'm gona try and be very simple but effective... Last one I did wasnt to EFFECTIVE!

The robot I painted LIVE on the CHILLSTREAMMMM was tons of fun talking to everyone and painting. But man hard to consintrate.

[Mischeviouslittleelf]

Nice studies! I think you are doing good, and you are obviously quite hard working. You may do well to do some longer studies though, to try and work out some more rendering issues:)

-E

[007-r0b3r7]

wow great stuff! your figure studies have improved so much since the first couple of pages :)
try to refine some of your studies a little bit. make them more finished, you know?

keep up the great work!

[SenEnd]

Well it's time to buckle down and start spending the time that's needed on some things. I have developed some habits from my quick stuff that I need to break. Need to learn to develop new ways of thinking, new ways of working. New sensabilities I guess.

Meh I didnt like my stuff today. Mannnn I`m gona ROCKKKK tommrow! Reworked the mermaid like 5 times. I need to learn to think though, I just went in circlesss. PROCESS!

[SenEnd]

My stuff from today. Going to get onboard with something that Bobby Chiu calls the "artist workout". You basicalyl study an artist everyday. First you study there image, then you try working form a photograph in same way, then from life, then your imagination.

[SenEnd]

Success on some levels today failer on others. Was doing the Chiuster's artist work out. Broke my record spent 9 hours on the first study. Re did it 4 times, but I didnt finish the artists work out! I started messing around and didnt even finish the second study! The skeleton looks like I didnt even care =/

Ill just rock tommrow, yayaya!

[jatherip]

damn those studies seem to help! your digitals are gettin better every post....haha....ive gotta do more long studies D: and quit skewl.....
edit: epic avatar btw ;)

[Bendragon]

Wow! I missed quite a number of updates! Youre doing good. Good to see your studies mixed with some imaginary work too. Keep at it is all I can say!

[SenEnd]

Thanks for stoping by guys :)

Ill have to figure out a way to scan in my A3 sized paper since that is what I started useing for my studies. A3's just nice to work on some how, I just cut a A0 size pad of bond into forths. I'm exited to share actually. I'm quirte happy that my gestures arnt looking that stiff anymore.

For now ill just update with a messlely 15 min digi sketch I did during class break yesterday. It's wrong hah, I should sleep.

[jatherip]

niceeee blues on the suit are wrong,reds arent good, values and skin tones are not reaaaallyyy neat! that was harsh, lol, but its for your best :)
something general:
practice color vision or however its called.
keep an eye on the structure
keep an eye on the proportions (check the negative space!)
keep an eye on the values!
FUCKING TAKE YOUR TIME :D
keep it up, digitals are massively improving!

[SenEnd]

Jatherip: Thanks Jaripper! I'm gona work on finished drawings today :D

Wasnt as focused today as I should of been. I'm gona REALLY push it tommrow. Anyways about to head out for my morning life drawing at this train station, gona try my best to make some good drawings :D It's great, I get to draw all the people rushing to work from 6-9 while they stand there waiting for the train :)

[jatherip]

nice stuff. BUT FUCKING TAKE YOUR TIME!
man, i just learnt that, so do the sammeee :D
keep it up and do some stuff from head afterwards.

[SenEnd]

Jathrip: You bet I am dude!

I'm very happy and exited to see that my gestures are begining to do what gestures should do :D Come round next year ill be doing some nice solid gestures for sure just gota keep the 6-9 in morning gesture drawing at train staion habitual. Gestures from head and life.

And was working on a more finished drawing last night, still figureing it out, not happy with the characters yet, there both not doing exactly what I want them to be doing yet. I'm gona take this idea to the end and try to make something look as profetional as I can.

[Parsakoira]

Wow the amount of stuff in each page is astounding! I can see youre devoted to this art thing :) Looking good, especially with the studies. Ive got nothing to crit now, so keep on drawing!

[SenEnd]

Listened to the wrong voices today didnt do all that much and ended up not doing my morning lifedrawing thing, so this is all I really got to show. Decided to take out the other character, still need to refine the composition more, not balanced yet. Want it to feel silent and airy.

[Jamie Romoser]

Nice sketchbook :rocker:
have a good one
-Jamie

[Pigeonkill]

In the last few post there is renewed motivation but feel they seem a bit rushed as if you wanted to catch up for lost time?

I agree with jatherip by throwing out some longer studies in the mix. I do see some improvement in your figurative work. :assspank:

Here is some inspiration for your top drawing that might help. The girl in the picture seems to be in the search something, wandering and lost:
http://erwinsart.deviantart.com/art/River-Crossing-81516331
http://erwinsart.deviantart.com/art/The-Journey-81516704

[p sage]

Hi Dylan


I'm not sure why people study from photographs; I'm especially unsure after what I learned from Mentler.

In a photograph it is all too easy to NOT see the third dimension, because a camera is not designed to depict the third dimension. In fact, it is expressly designed to take (what amounts to) a distorted view from a single point in space and project it onto a flat surface.

When we see with our eyes, we have depth perception; it's automatic. Therefore, what we see with our eyes is much different than what we see in a photograph... but it's our mind that interprets the photograph as dimensional.

When copying the photograph--if done without thinking about volumes--that sense of depth is easily lost, because you're copying lines, blobs of color, etc.

You almost need another layer between yourself and the photograph; you need to be conscious of the difference between the photograph and what your mind is perceiving. That way, you can take cues from the photograph (reference) and build the structure on the paper just as if you were drawing from life.

This is why Mentler suggests trying to "flip" the image (horizonallly) in your mind when working from photos--it forces you to take that step and actually think about the volumes in space. Otherwise, it's too easy to miss that stuff and your drawings look stiff and distorted.

In other words--there are more steps to working with photographs than the typical beginner/intermediate student will do to work with a photograph correctly. You may see Vilppu working from photos; but don't underestimate the importance of HOW he works with them; he builds up forms after laying in the action lines.... he uses boxes that show the forms in space. He's thinking dimensionally when using photos.

I think that it's MUCH too easy to (when working mostly from photos) miss the step of thinking dimensionally, and going straight toward trying to make an accurate copy--using lines, measuring angles, etc.

With a painting or another person's drawing (master works usually) there's not the problem of distortion (unless it is intentional...) that the camera gives you. So it's much easier to learn (IMO) from master works than from the camera.

[SenEnd]

Still pluging away at this ones design. I can see fairly clearly where I want this to go. Gona finish this sketch then move onto I think the last sketch? Planing on getting a friend to pose for some reference. I'm not sure about the cast shadow going over her though, it's a little obsure and awkward but ill try my best to make it work. The idea of haveing some snow piled up over her in such a way that would suggest some time has gone by.

[SenEnd]

Some stuff from today. Spent a few hours makeing a wallpaper for my desktop weee :D I'm thinking of subing my gestures for just studying the figure though. Like overlaying the mucles over top of figure drawings and stuff =)

Gona redue this Corot study tommrow. It's really poorly drawn.

[badass]

i love your gestures. the portriats are impressive too. i would say you are lacking in structure though, everything could be more refined. by that i just mean you get the pose/proportions down but dont add enough "final lines" if that makes sense. Darks and defining the masses mostly.

keep up the hard work :)

[SenEnd]

Snow Lion: Thanks for stoping by, yes I think I know what you mean. Everybodys been saying it =)


Some poop from today. Ill do better tommorow.

[SenEnd]

Got lazy yesterday after 9 hours of work and my productiveity just fell though the roof. NOT FUKCING TODAY THOUGH.

[SenEnd]

About to go out for the night can't wait to get back and do some studies since I havnt got around to that today :( Ill through what ever I do tonight into my update tommrow. Here is more work put into my Corot study and a line drawing of my liveing room which was quite hard for me actually. I NEED to study perspective everyday from now on. Color, anatomy, figures, imagination drawing and perspective. Gota work on all of that!!!

[SenEnd]

Dec13

[BlackDelphin]

you have some nice traditional studies going on here! :D your traditional painting seems like it will have a really nice end result :)
your anatomy and figure studies are quite awesome too and from the looks of that wallpaper you did, your perspective is quite good too! :D :D
a bit more colour study -theory seems all that needs some extra polishing up in my opinion, or just be careful with those saturation levels of yours :meow:

good luck onwards!

[chibimeli]

i like your drawing in post#215, the shading is quite nice and even :DDDDDDD

[SenEnd]

Some more stuff

[SenEnd]

Stuff from today

[SenEnd]

Shit was lazy today, ill remedy that by makeing my hands bleed from drawing tommorow.

[drd]

Cool stuff dude. You've got good dedication, but I don't want you to get too complacent!

Great colours in this still life, reminds me of the pallets Shelly Wan uses.

[Bendragon]

Nice studies. Cool oil paints. Nice to read your time table too :P Merry Christmas!

[My57]

I like the improvement and dedication in this thread! keep it going!!

[SenEnd]

I need to work on being more realiable. If I say I'm gona stick to something I gota do it :D I mean when I run away for days at a time people lose trust in me! They want to see big updates everyday, and it makes everyone happy when they see those kind of people! I know it makes me happy looking at those kind of people.

Here is just some random stuff from past few days. I need to work more on painting,

[SenEnd]

Cheer's to a day with out dicking around! Think I can see where I want my character I'm designing to go. Some life drawing. A shitty doodle and I began doing some animation today to ball drop :D But not done so no point showing.

[andres333]

Gesture studies are looking great keep it up!!
By the way something in this thread remembers me "Paranoia Agent" Damn what a twisted and mad series

[SenEnd]

Andres: Thanks man, dude I loved that series, it made me wana animate..

Forgot my pencils at school so ill do that tomorrow. Here is stuff.

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[Imaginary]

Hey, nice to see someone else has been active while i wasn't, you'r doing great man. I see life-drawing is really helping you with the shapes there huh? I should take some classes too. Anyway, i kinda see your point about improving more if you paint too, dunno why i didn't think of that. Have been feeling that i'm getting a bit too comfortable actually... which, needless to say, is not a good thing.

Do i see some Ghibli stuff btw? Haha, i love their movies, especially Mononoke-hime. =D

[Bendragon]

Yo man! You are back! No more dicking around OK?!?!?!? Keep up the pace cause it will pay off big time, believe me! Someone has been watching the ChiuStream lol :P I recognize the study!
On your animation... the start is very slow, it looks like its floating too much and it stretches in mid air. That can work for really fast movements but not here. You want to use the stretch after the ball squashes on the floor. See Richard William's Animators Survival Kit book for all your animation needs (seriously good book). So dont stretch the ball in mid air. Try keep it a regular ball shape when not many forces is pulling/ stretching it big time (eg/ in mid air). A trick is to stretch the ball just when it contacts with the floor, this is a trick to help sell the 'contact.' Then you get the squash... anticipate it and hold it for a few frames on the ground before the ball is off again and when it flies off again, give it a stretch but then when its off in the air again... keep it a regular shape.

[witcrack]

Hey there, Dylan! Thanks for visited my sketchbook. You have a nice thread here, yourself (and much more active :D)! Keep doing the studies, you're improving much. I see your lines are much more thoughtful this time. Proportions are getting better and your digital stuffs are doing great also :)

Keep this thread up, will ya? ;)
Cheers.

[Scribble King]

I have to agree with some of the others and say slow down, pay attention to what you're doing and retain what you've learned. You have a lot of potential, so it's time to stop fartin' around and take your skills to the next level. There's some really nice work in here, but since this sketchbook is nearing its first anniversary, the overall improvement should be more evident. C'mon man, show us what you can REALLY do! ;)

[AlexTooth]

Hey Dylan, good work matey! Miyazaki? Hot hot hot! My favourite. Life drawing's look amazing!! Keep it up :) +stars!

[doncam]

Nice SB mate, thanks for dropping in and checking mine. As everyone says, keep at it, keep trucking. That bloody cold there right now, beats me you can even hold a pencil or brush. Cheers from downunder.

[SenEnd]

Doncam: Hah thanks man! It's actually a few degrees above freezeing right now and I find that kind of weather wonderful. It can get very cold but right now something called a "chinook" which is a warm wind from the mountains is blowing makeing it warm!

Alextooth: Thanks bud!!!

Scribble King: I agree to. I think I am on the right track with what I'm doing for the time being. I mean I do spend 3 hours on these painting belive it or not haha! Just will take some work before I can take them farther.

Witcrack: Thank you very much I will keep this thread up, see you again!

Bendragon: Thanks for the encouragement man makes me feel very good! NO MORE DICKING AROUND FFF-YAAAA. I hit up Richard Williams stuff yesterday also pirated his DVD's hehe. I'm gona study it very closely.

Imaginary: Hey thanks man, don`t worry you may have not kept it up but dude you can always start right now and just keep on going. I mean Randis on this site said there was a time in his life where he completely stoped drawing and painting for a whole freaking year. Talk about loseing it! But he`s back and just keeps going and going.

Here is my update for today and yesterday was gona update yesterday but decided to just mush it all into tonight

I drew a portrait today of the same black women I did a lifedrawing last week that I was VERY happy with actually can`t wait to show you all tommrow :D 2 more studies and a fail study that I gave up on of the bust. Some drawings and more animation :D

Cheers!







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[AlexTooth]

Ah the classic ball bounce - never done it in 2d drawn before - in Maya it's easy as hell lol - Nice start though :)

[Bendragon]

Im liking the studies bro! Theresa few odd anatomy but thats why you gotta keep doing them! The ball is looking better. Though I think towards the end you should vary the timing more. The first two bounces is timed well but then the last ones feels like they should have less frames in there. Think of the ball containing 'X' amount of energy and each time it bounces it looses more energy and so cant move as much and overcome gravity. So towards the ball should bounce quicker exponentially until it stops.
And if you want it to feel really bouncy, try squashing the ball more and stretching it when it just makes contact with the floor and when it leaves the floor. What I meant before about keeping the shape regular applies for when its in mid-air and not having a physical object affecting its shape.

[SenEnd]

Alextooth: Thanks, can't wait to see how it turns out.

Bendragon: Thanks for pointing that out I did not see it. Thought I would try drawing a non rubbery ball this time just something moderatly hard.

Hooray we are now off that horrible page that is page 8 to much stuff on there to load. Here is a life drawing I worked on this weekend. I'm quite happy with it.

[SenEnd]

I'm gona work on my gesture drawing and anatomy heavily for next few weeks. Did some today but they suck to much I dont wana show them. Gona animate another ball tommrow too this time a big ball :D

Yay no class tommrow too!



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[jatherip]

hey, your digitals are getting good (keep an eye on the edges) :) just keep at it.....
and well...the pencils....haha youre so much better than me i guess :D
cya :)

[SenEnd]

Jatherip: The hero returns alive! :D

Stuff.

[Bendragon]

Awesome studies bro! Keep that up! With the last ball bounce, I think it spends too much time in contact with the floor. You could take a few frames out of that. Maybe put some of those on one frames.

[SenEnd]

Bendragon: Ya I actually didnt think of shooting it on ones actually. Ill keep that in mind next time.

A small update but I haven't been lazy which is good! Just havnt documented anything really, been oil painting again woo ill get onto photographing that... Been pushing my self alot harder now. I'm not on alot of sleep.

A girl I'm designing for a very short cut out animation. And a painting I did of the girl before I came to this. I thought she was to young in the painting.

And another ball animation. Did this in photoshop. Gota do it again it looks weird how fast its falling after the first contact. As well I have no idea where that dot came from couldn't find it in my layers.

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[Bendragon]

Nice! The animation is looking better! Im noticing your characters are looking a bit the same. Not sure if you are drawing the same person but their faces look quite similar. Maybe try some studies of faces to break out of the stylization.

[SenEnd]

Bendragon: I agree man. The last two were the same person though. But still I agree. My faces are bkahhh :sungod:


Ahhh.... I need to study more, studying is good. If you not studying, that's nooo good!