UnstableProtagonist's Sketchbook Diaries

[UnstableProtagonist]

Salutations, everyone! My name is Demeterius and I will like to share countless items from my various sketchbooks. As you will see, I am solely a pencil artist, but I am practicing well with pen and color. Having seeing most of the artists in this forum, I still have a LONG way to go, but I'll practice as much as I can to become a better artist and hopefully, my work will translate to that.

[UnstableProtagonist]

The following are a couple of 5-10 minute sketches of an action figure and a mannequin. The premise of this exercise is to focus on the gesture of the figure while integrating the values of shadows and highlights.

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These are a few of many gesture drawings I currently have in stock. I'm planning on saving a couple of pages for my portfolio thread.

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This is a digital painting composition completed using Adobe Photoshop CS4. This is a concept design for a main character of a graphic novel that I have planned (hopefully, I might add). I am more inclined with Corel Painter as it gives me more leniency with the blending tools and variety of brushes, but this was a decent attempt yet not the best by any means. I make good use of the blending modes to give the impression of shadow and tonality.

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Here are more practices with Photoshop, basically blocking out the base colors for the characters and the background.

Fun fact: I utilized this particular drawings for a motion graphics piece.

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This is a master copy of one of my favorite artists in the world, Burne Hogarth. I'd likely preferred doing this with pastel, but it's fine.

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I stood up late Saturday night drawing this.

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More concepts for my comic book idea.

[Hamsta]

Thanks for dropping by the sketchbook. Make a link to your's in your signature.

You really have a thing for women with six packs, eh? :teeth:
You are jumping ahead of yourself. Shortcuts don't work.
You need to do life drawings, and lots of them, starting with simple still lifes.
If you want to be a comic book artist you are going to need to draw everything from the wrestlers, to the ring they are in, to a pen a judge might hold.

[Bentley]

Post life studies and then people will have a better concept on how far you have to go.

[UnstableProtagonist]

Hamsta: I appreciate your advice on drawing from life more often. It's difficult drawing two things at a time in one composition, so I thought I'd focus on the human figure first before I draw organic or mechanical objects. Also, I am afraid I may have the perspective of the environment incorrect or misaligned.

Bentley: I appreciate your advice as well and I most certainly will draw more frequently.

[YungiBear]

Mmm, try to use bolder lines when you draw, it'll help with movement and it also helps with keeping everything nice and clean. Nice work so far, keep at it! C:

[UnstableProtagonist]

I've been practicing with solid graphite and actually had some decent results. I'm still testing it out, though.

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This is a concept portrait for a compositing assignment. I took a scanned sketch into Photoshop, played with the level, transport the image into Corel Painter for painting before taking it back to Photoshop for retouching. As a bonus, I applied a radial gradient for a dramatic effect.

I wish to have more life drawing course, so that my knowledge of the human anatomy (especially with the head) become well-versed.

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Wanna guess the following subjects of the following portraits?

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Several more caricature portraits from my collection.