-Jebus' Soldiers are at ease, study first!-

[Jebus]

Hello,

Welcome to what is to be my lifework:p
To Improve my drawing skills, I thought up this project of drawing 1000 soldiers! I think I can learn alot from it, especially anatomy things and clothing stuff. I will try to make 2 soldiers a week at least. This is gonna be long :D

Ok so this is the first one. It is also my first experience with drawing "realistic" and the first time I drew something from a picture. It was kinda hard because I had no experience, and because the picture had bad lighting. Not blaming the photographer, because it was war :D And the hand looks a bit odd, because he was holding the phone kinda weird. Anyways C&C heavily welcome:

Soldier 1:
http://img3.photobucket.com/albums/v12/sigma_atf/Soldaat_1.jpg

[Phuzion]

It's a great idea! But you're going to have to push yourself harder than that. One soldier a day at least. Seriously... better even 2 or 3 a day... just my 2 cents. Peace

[Jebus]

you're right, but I don't have that much time. However, holiday's are coming so then i'll have plenty of free time.

[chudzta]

oo neat goal. i recently did a drawing in class with soldiers.. my first 4 in my concentration for the ap exam involve 4 views of a trench warfare scene. so hey.. anxious to see future progressions. - take care - chudds

[PeggyChung]

hey Jebus, looks good so far. but
interesting goal, why soldiers?

[-The Swift-]

so far so good, considering this is your first one too. keep it up( i guess your gonna have to!):D

[Jebus]

@lioness: I dunno why soldiers, I guess there where so many types of them, and I did'nt feel like drawing nude models all the time, and each soldiers has his own feel.

So here is my number 2 man, his name..... nr.2 He had is face painted black, was a member of the 101st airborne squad. Beats me why he had the number 23 sign. I did this one much quicker than the first cuz of time issues. Which is noticable, but i'm quite happy with the results. Weird lightning again.
http://img3.photobucket.com/albums/v12/sigma_atf/soldaat_2.jpg

998 to go !

[talmir]

I like the ones you already drew, this should be interesting.. I'll be back.

[Jebus]

Not exactly a soldier, but hey.

Herr Rommel, a German General

http://img3.photobucket.com/albums/v12/sigma_atf/soldaat_3.jpg

997 soldiers on the wall.....

[OLSEN]

It's looking good, 1000, that's a lot of soldiers.

Are you going to do them all in pencil or can we expect some other medias too? And will they all be ww2, or is any soldier acceptable? Just curious.

[Jebus]

@OLSEN: I will do a wide variety of soldiers, from starshiptroopers to roman warriors, done with a different mediums, these are just to get a hang on.

Till now, I've only used Photoshop to resize my images :p , but now I tried to color my first image with it, I did'nt spent an awfull lot of time on it, but i got a first grip on the whole coloring thing with mouse.

http://img3.photobucket.com/albums/v12/sigma_atf/Soldaat_5.jpg

Further experimented a bit with Photoshop:

http://img3.photobucket.com/albums/v12/sigma_atf/soldaat_4.jpg

[prawda]

so far they look nice but are u sure that 1000 arent too many?? what about starting with 100... i cant believe that u wud have fun when u are drawing your 400th or something like that ...

[Jebus]

Maybe later I'll put like 250 on a battlefield :D

[Jebus]

A general with a Heihachi look

http://img3.photobucket.com/albums/v12/sigma_atf/soldaat4.jpg

[-The Swift-]

wow, i'm liking the evil vibes! i can see it's gonna take a while for you to get 1000! oh well, i'm with you all the way!

[Jebus]

I've colored it, al least, tried to. Anyone here has a tip on how to color the hair?

http://img3.photobucket.com/albums/v12/sigma_atf/Soldaat4kleur2.jpg

[-The Swift-]

looks better colured, good job! how many to go?

[Jebus]

Phew it's been 4 months but I'm back, and I'm accepted to an art school in the netherlands :D From now on i'm gonna post more again, did'nt had the time. But my motivation/time is back and more than ever! Ok as i'm more serious now, i am going to do some studies, before I do more soldiers (believe me they WILL come :D )

These are the first stills I ever did. First one is a wire cutter, I was hard because of the chromed surface, and the handle was some see through plastic stuff. http://img3.photobucket.com/albums/v12/sigma_atf/wirecutter.jpg

the second one is an ink potion. I also considered this one hard because of the glass with a black fluid in it. I should have done the letters more accurate. http://img3.photobucket.com/albums/v12/sigma_atf/inktpotje.jpg

The last is a more loose one of a girl. For some reason I always tend to spend a very long time on the jawline, I never get that right. And I see now the eye is way off http://img3.photobucket.com/albums/v12/sigma_atf/vr1.jpg

C&C welcome as always :) http://images.fok.nl/s/static.gif

[Jebus]

Done some practice... Man I really need to upgrade my anatomy before I finally get my hands on a wacom next week :P http://img3.photobucket.com/albums/v12/sigma_atf/doodle.jpg

[Jebus]

Four sorta robots

http://img3.photobucket.com/albums/v12/sigma_atf/wearezerobots.jpg

Wanabe Shinkawa :P

http://img3.photobucket.com/albums/v12/sigma_atf/Bikkel.jpg

and another sketchpage

http://img3.photobucket.com/albums/v12/sigma_atf/doodle2.jpg

[Vader]

Nice work but a 1000! thats a little crazy i think you should start with a smaller number. Oh and by the way the first soldier is the best so far.

[Brian Flockhart]

hey, those ww2 illustrations look really familiar...