Sketch Book - PR

[pauloricardo]

Dears,

I am starting my sketch book on conceptart.org. As I am still a beginner, I would like to receive many suggestions and criticism as possible. I have decided to do this illustration some time ago, while watching some old horror movies. Behind the box, there were a picture of the original movie poster, which I have used as a reference. Thus, I added some details as the scars and putrid marks in the face. Also, I choose not giving so much details on his clothes.

To start it, I am posting an image I made some time ago just to trainning the use of graphite, and to use as a bassis to paint it digitally.

Cheers!

[Hansel]

Nice start man! :)
I love the skin on that one. Looks oily and unhealthy.

Post some more stuff!

[nurraymjo]

Well, judging by your single post I'd say you have a pretty good grasp on tones and such. As anyone else would say though if you want to improve on your skills and what not, just practice and draw a lot from life. It's kind of tough to say if there's anything that you need to work on, you should post some more of your work, some of your rough sketches and drafts. Then more could be offered in terms of advice and all. From your first post though, I'd say it's pretty damn good though. Keep it up.

[NakedZergling]

looking good..i just posted an update that has a frankie in it too...but cartoony.

[pauloricardo]

I am adding this piece, I have made it some time ago, using pen and ink

[Glebz]

nice light spots...

[pauloricardo]

Some works I have done before, for a chivalry story, using pen and ink

[pauloricardo]

Another graphite work I have done some time ago, using a sixties cover comic book of Conan as reference.

[pauloricardo]

Dears,

I am posting a new work I have done today, training mi abilities with pen & ink.

[pauloricardo]

Two new exercises with pen & ink

[Sean McClain]

great sketchbook, my favorite is the knight on the cliff, I really liked that one:)

[pauloricardo]

Dears,

I am posting a work using pen & ink, which I finished today. It is just a study to make a draw using a coloured painting or illustrations as reference. My choices were a painting of Renoir, and a painted cover of Marvel comics.

I am waiting for your comments.

Best regards

[pauloricardo]

I am posting a graphite work I made some time ago.... I hope you enjoy it... crits are always welcome.... :wink:

meanwhile... I continue :lifedrawing: next days I will update it....

best regards

[prsnsweeney]

wow i love your new stuff looks great keep up the work on the faces and head your getting better and i love using ink as well but none of my stuff is as clean as yours

my sb http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=183262

[Sean McClain]

that last one is very nice, your stuff reminds me a of Gustave Dore, (http://dore.artpassions.net/)
I will look out for you on IM.
Cheers!

[pauloricardo]

prsnsweeney and darknight, thanks a lot for the visit and comments, I hope you return more times to it ;)

[oren90]

great B&W and the graphite one look really good :), keep it up

[Jordan85]

Great work! I can't see any major problems you have. You are really improving with your rendering. Practise more and more and try to do more drawings from memory because when you get it right by yourself it sticks with you. :)

[pauloricardo]

Oren90 and Jordan85,

Thanks a lot for your visit and comments... I will try to update here ASAP... I hope to see you both again ;)

[MrWhiskey]

like it :D very good inks : )
but a little tip start focusing on the anomaly a bit
i'm not saying u have it wrong but push it .just play with it
the only thing i like about my school is the anatomy class its the real practical knowledge that u get there .art is mainly intuitive not many rules but anatomy is one of them so star loving it :D

just keep up the good work ;)

[curvestudios]

Pauloricardo:

Thanks for the comments on my work! Just a few on yours if you like constructive criticism. I think the drawing of Jesus and Mary is pretty good...what size and how long did it take you? If you are going for realism in your drawings then you cant miss any detail. Aside from the ones outside your skill level but even then try to do side thumbnail sketches to get it down before comitting to your piece. Try to push the darks and lights a little more...I continually struggle with that but my latest piece shows how I have been progressing. Use charcoal on really dark areas. The inks are nice but again they seem to be flat. Keep pushing it and lets see more work. Ill post more of mine soon.

[pauloricardo]

Hello curvestudios,

About the piece of Pieta and Jesus, I took about 9 hours to do that in a A3 size paper. I used a picture as reference, and I choose to not make a perfect copy of the statue. Because of it, I changed the facial expression of Mary and I let an aura surrounding Jesus head, but as the picture I took from the drawing was too dark, I manipulated it in Photoshop and some of these details were lost. Anyway... I like realism paiting, and as you said, I lost some details because a little bit of impatience.

Regarding to the ink works, some time ago, I noticed that the faces were flat... thus... I am doing some studies about it, but it is not in my SB...

I keep updating here, I hope you continue visiting my SB and give your constructive cristicisms.... thanks a lot

[masoume]

very cool work my friend.keep the best
thanks for visit

[Sean McClain]

hey are you alright?, sorry I actually forgot my password for IM:S lol,.

[pauloricardo]

Hello all, I have not updated it for a long time.

I would like to share with you some exercises I am doing. The images below are drawings I have made between 2 and 3 minutes. To do it, I used magazine pictures and comic books. For the last image, I made the same exercise while I was in a hospital some days ago, from this day, I have more pictures, but today, just this, with the babies is available, I intend to post more in next days.

Construtive crits are always needed and I appreciate it a lot.

maosume, thanks for your visit and comments.

Sean, I sent you a message, did you got it?

[AChipps]

You art on art 3000 looks finished. Is this a second place to put your art.

[pauloricardo]

Hello AChipps,

thanks for the visit....

the other site is just for finished works. Here, I use to improve my skills with opinion from other artists... It is being very usefull to me.

best regards

Paulo

[Star Eater]

Wow, I'm glad I stopped by here, hope you will be putting up some more work soon.

[pauloricardo]

Hello Stareater, thanks a lot for your visit and comments...

I am posting some recent images from my SB.

I would like to hear your crits and suggets...

see you ;)

[wooden mango]

Nice stuff so far but I think some life studies would definitely be of help.

[Jclark333]

Super heroes are sweet! I'm in love with your Pieta piece. It's phenomenal!

[pauloricardo]

Hello wodeen mango and Jclark333,

Thanks a lot for your visit and comments, I will be for your return as soon as I updated here....

see you

[bish0p2004]

You have a really good sketchbook here. Your sketches are really good and inspire me to do more work in pencil.

I also took a look at your webpage and it seems we are both big fans of Alex Ross' works.

Keep up the good work.

[pauloricardo]

Hello bishOp2004

you are right, I am a big fan of Alex Ross art as well some realistic painters... I usually do skecths in pencil because it is what I always have near me... :) , but I really love this art...

thank you for the visit

by now.... some skecthes I did.... I hope you enjoy

[shiNIN]

Oh. You have more skills I imagined (though I became suspicious when you redrew that face in CC and he got a decent nose and mouth). You are totally not used to digital media yet, it seems. You mix soft rendering with scribbly lines (wolf), draw a totally not descriptive, form showing pic using soft brush, scribbly lines and heavy strokes (girl face. it's very odd)... The guy is the best regarding the choice of tools you use, it's consistent. The anatomy part aren't that bad (though the eyes are too big) but you need to understand lighting more. I probably wrote about this in the Critique Center...
Choose some good, properly lit reference where form is well shown :) Think about how light reach planes and maybe about cast shadows as well. If you don't use a reference (it may be too early if you wish to get good results but you can use a reference for the lighting but draw a somewhat different face.. but a _very_ different head has different planes, therefore, values), decide your light source and think carefully about your values.
(..or not, I'm really not the one to talk.)

I'm sorry, I'm unwell right now (I got a too high dose of scorching sun today) and can't think clearly anymore, I hope you understand my sentences at least partially.

[pauloricardo]

hello ShiNIN,

thanks for the visit and you are sure, I am not totally used for digital media, I am still studying it... in this moment, I try to apply the same process I use for other medias in digital... also, I am trying to understand better digital tools.... in a few days, I update the guy paintng..

best regards

[shiNIN]

I'm looking forward to it ;)
The basics are the same for traditional and digital media but the latter has its own difficulties, I experienced that. Keep practicing, I can't say anything else.

Meanwhile, I totally didn't do the overpaint I planned/promised but better late than never, right? I'm sure I said that before, I plan a mostly own portrait based on the head I saw in your original one, totally a selfish act that not necessarily helps.

Good luck :)

[liquidjack]

The woman smiling really caught my eye. Nice work on the gesture. The shading on your previous page is very well done. The Conan especially even though the horse's mane is too linear and too many dark lines to show the hair "path".

Good stuff

[pauloricardo]

shinin and liquidjack, thanks for the visit comments, I hope to see you back here...

meanwhile, I am uploading a skecth I made to train colour theory...

best regards for all

[ianessom]

Dears,

I am starting my sketch book on conceptart.org. As I am still a beginner, I would like to receive many suggestions and criticism as possible. I have decided to do this illustration some time ago, while watching some old horror movies. Behind the box, there were a picture of the original movie poster, which I have used as a reference. Thus, I added some details as the scars and putrid marks in the face. Also, I choose not giving so much details on his clothes.

To start it, I am posting an image I made some time ago just to trainning the use of graphite, and to use as a bassis to paint it digitally.

Cheers!

wats this crap?

[pauloricardo]

wats this crap?

this kind of comments from a person like you can be considered as an apraise, since I am a student and you consider yourself as a professional...

[stycotl]

this kind of comments from a person like you can be considered as an apraise, since I am a student and you consider yourself as a professional...

he's definitely not a professional. just a sourpuss that can't give or take critiques at all. the fact that you are eager to learn still means that you will leave him in the dust in no time, and he will never understand why he can't get any better.

some of your quicker stuff sometimes looks too quick to me. it doesn't seem to mesh with the higher polish stuff like your pieta piece, which is extremely nice. i'm not sure if i am making any sense here, but i don't see a transition. or much of one anyway.

i suppose what i would recommend would be to spend a bit more time on the quicker sketchbook pieces, or find a medium like chalk or pastel or something, where it can still be really quick, but can also give you more polished results.

this isn't as big an issue with your newer stuff, but it might help.

either way, nice sketchbook so far. you should definitely upload some of those fully rendered pieces from your other website here.

aaron.

[pauloricardo]

some of your quicker stuff sometimes looks too quick to me. it doesn't seem to mesh with the higher polish stuff like your pieta piece, which is extremely nice. i'm not sure if i am making any sense here, but i don't see a transition. or much of one anyway.

i suppose what i would recommend would be to spend a bit more time on the quicker sketchbook pieces, or find a medium like chalk or pastel or something, where it can still be really quick, but can also give you more polished results.

this isn't as big an issue with your newer stuff, but it might help.

either way, nice sketchbook so far. you should definitely upload some of those fully rendered pieces from your other website here.

aaron.

Hello Aaron, thanks for the visit...

After checking his work, I just tried to be sarcastic in my answer, in a case he would return to read it.

in this SB section, I posted some mix of works in very differe steps...

Pieta is a sample of a finished piece, but most of the others are just ideas that I not developed a simple draft yet, but I put that in my real SB... but you gave me a good point, because I don't work too much the transitions of the ideas to generate a final composition... but the SB could be a good tool to that... I will try to make it... thanks for the advice.

best regards,

Paulo

[pauloricardo]

Hello dears,

Some studies I have done.... I hope you enjoy it and I would like to hear from you crits and comments...

best regards