Just draw ffs! CRITIQUE WANTED! (26/12/2010)

[LORD M]

NEWER STUFF IN THE BACK OF COZ!


UPDATE 01/11 2009 - Ok, I have to take the bull by the horns. I have started realising now that I have been an ignorant fool. I have been too lazy with studies, that's the reason why I haven't progressed much at all (got a rant about me being pathetic on page 2, I will leave it be so I can learn from it). I have to start over from square one. So this is the date, from now on I will study as hard as I fucking can!

Please, bash me, trash me, I want to get better and reach my goals and there's no other way then study and not being lazy as I have been so far. I want to improve and get good at drawing!







Hello, I am 23 years old and I am currently on my fifth year studying Evolutionary Biology at my local university. I have always loved to draw since I was a kid but it have only been a hobby, something I do at the side of my studies. I am hoping that I might after my Bachelor's degree (or Master's degree) that I will pursue 3D and art because if I am going to be honest to myself then there is nothing I would rather do, biology fades in comparison to the world of art.


Right, I guess you want to see some drawings, so here are two I made recently.

The first one is a study I made on Robert Campin's Portrait Of A Woman from the year 1430 which I did with the mouse (original: http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/3847/2094108097b98720cc96.jpg).

The second one is a sketch of an idea I had on some small creatures with masks that have looted a matchlock rifle.


I hope you enjoy, and I would very much appriciate any critique, comments and advise you post. :)

[alesoun]

Beautiful study, Lord M. Thanks for sharing.

[SMILEFACE]

cool bean's an it would be way cool to see those lil' guys rendered out

[kelly x]

Lord M, nice work, on the portrait some clean up and some of the edges are a bit soft... other than that amazing!
I love these crow guys and I'm with Grandma to get working on rendering these out...
You just started a sketchbook? I thought you had one before, well nicely done and I loved the Arthur u-tube, still laughing!

[LORD M]

I thought I would reply to your comments next time I updated my sketchbook so I don't bump it unneseserly, but seeing I haven't yet then I must say I'm sorry for the late replies.

I'm very glad you liked it, alesoun. Thank you.

Grandmassa Mr. Spect, thanks man for checking my sketchbook out. I am thinking on rendering those three guys sometime not too soon I hope.

Thanks for the kind words and your advise, kelly x. As I said to Grandma I will try and get them rendered sometime soon, I'm very glad you both liked them. :)
When I first joined CA I thought that I would someday soon start a sketchbook, but looks like it took a couple of years. And yeah the Arthur u-tube thing is amazing, if you want more of the kind of things in the same spirit, then search for youtube poop - lots of hilarious shit. :P

[tandy1000]

You could certainly use an art degree with biology. The famous James Gurney used his Archeology degree with his arts in order to create... DINOTOPIA! I hope.. I mean that looks like the logical conclusion lol.

[LORD M]

You could certainly use an art degree with biology. The famous James Gurney used his Archeology degree with his arts in order to create... DINOTOPIA! I hope.. I mean that looks like the logical conclusion lol.

Haha that's pretty damn cool to hear! But what will I do with my evolutionary biology degree? Evolutia? :P

Only time will tell if I get something decent out of it, and I don't even know if I'll could ever get an art degree.

[Diphallia]

Najs study hörru!
Ta och posta lite mer snart va?

[clockworksnail]

You did the woman with a mouse? its really good but its even better when you see its done with a mouse, nice one!

[Jaytea]

hfsakdgg MOUSE

seriously wow. Other than the edges thing someone already pointed out, woow. Haha, fantastic job!

By any chance were those little guys inspired by spy vs spy? xD!

[RedSquirrel]

Thanks for dropping by my sb - your the same age as me 8D
on a more relevant note...
You paint very well with a mouse, but I think a Tablet would make your life a little easier ;p
And you need to post us more pictures!

[kelly x]

moe=re pleeease sir!

[LORD M]

Oh I haven't watched my sketchbook since last post, because I thought noone would post in it untill I might have posted something new.


Diphallia - Tackar!
clockworksnail - Thank you!
Shalite - Hehe, thanks man. Nope, they're not inspired by Spy vs Spy, I had to look it up to know what it was. I thought them up on my own, based on a ream I had some years ago.
RedSquirrel - No problem. I try to use my tablet, but it's too small and I always end up using the mouse, but I'll be getting a Cintiq 3 A4 soon. Glad you like it.
kelly x - Glad you want more, so here's some!

[clockworksnail]

I LOVE IT! its so cool :P you should do more of the little adventure mouse man, maybe even make a story or something?

[monstertree]

Nice master study, looks like you learned some stuff there! A little more refining and less sketchy lines would be nice in a couple of these pieces, good start a sketchbook I say!

[Marsch]

man i'm studing evolut.bio. too.
did you ever heard this guy http://nemo-ramjet.deviantart.com/ he combines concept art and especulative evolution, and its awesome

[Asatira]

Very good study, no matter how it's done. Keep it up.

[LORD M]

Sorry for the late replies, guys.


clockworksnail - Thank you, I'm really glad you like it. Oh, btw it's not a mouse it's a squirrel, but I can see why you misstook it, all those scribbly lines everywhere I made.

monstertree - Thanks! Yes, I felt I learned a lot in the study, thinking about making another old medieval painting study sometime soon.

Marsch - High five, man! Very nice to meet someone else that studies biology aswell, especially on a place like this dedicated to art. I hope you wouldn't mind me asking what kind of subject you're planning to digg yourself deeper into?

Oh and thanks a lot for the link, that guys art is truly awesome. Gotta look more into it.

Asatira - Thanks! Even though I did it with my mouse it took too long, and I'm going to try and do it with tablet since it's so faster.








Oh and here's two new thingies from me, both for the current CHOW. Yesterday I painted up the masked guy, but then thought it reminded me a bit of Star Wars somehow, so I scrapped it. Btw, this is my first only tablet drawn/painted piece! Pretty glad how he turned out though. :D

Then I sketched up this undead nun, which I later got to know that I unknowlingly copied from the game Brütal Legend (which I am now planning to buy), so I scrapped it aswell. And then I went back to the first mask guy and thought I might try and work on it a bit and see what I get.

[Marsch]

well to tell the truth, i dont really have decided...

[LORD M]

well to tell the truth, i dont really have decided...

It will come to you sooner or later, it was the same for me untill I stumbled upon an entomology course and got stuck immedietly. :)

[JailHouseRock2]

Hay really good work Lord M!

Love the study at the top of the page, and your sketch in post #13 is awesome!
CHOW's looking good too, nice mood,

Keep em' coming mate,
matt

[SMILEFACE]

how did i miss your updates #13 IS WWWWWWWWAAAY SUPER MEGA COOL' an post #18 is WICKED' thanks for ROCK'N an thanks fer ROCK'N the cheer me up thread!

[LORD M]

JailHouseRock2 - Thanks a lot for your encouraging words and for liking my drawings. :)

Grandmassa Mr. Spect - Thanks man, I'm really glad you are liking the updates, and don't worry, I'll be posting more funny pictures in the thread. I got a huge folder with funny pics. ;)




Oh, by the way, here's an update on my CHOW entry. Still got some stuff left on it.

[LORD M]

Finished my entry. :)

[LORD M]

Real size:


http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/6908/maskd.png

[wanimal]

cool！

[PaulVI]

Cool work, I'll subscribe to this one. Really nice work with those niby things, hope to see more of that kind.

[Solaire007]

I like your art style very enjoyable...I like that they are simple yet complex.

[LORD M]

wanimal - Hey thanks man!

PaulVI - Thanks a lot for your words and the subscription, makes me really happy that someone would want to subscribe to my thread. :)

Solaire007 - Really glad you can enjoy my dooldes. :)





Lately a friend of mine have encouraged me to do some pelvis studies which I did after Gottfried Bammes, Mentler here on CA (check his Book of Bones out, it's amazing) and András Szunoghy. My result so far can be seen in image one. I still have a lot to learn and I want to learn more and get better on drawing the pelvis from mind. I used Mentlers rule of dividing it into squares and then building it up from there. I will later do some ribcage studies when I get more time.

Image two shows a humanoid creature that I based a bit on, mostly the head, the deep sea lizardfish. I kinda see it as a study of making a creature and basing it on human anatomy, I also tried to do some shadow and light studies in it.

Image three shows how I would imagine Pikachu from pokemon if he entered the Mr Universe competition after years of steroid abuse.


I hope you like it. :)

[LORD M]

I was bored, so I decided to make another Pokemon: Cubone.

[SMILEFACE]

POST 25 RRRRRRROOOOCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!! lol an so does the new pokemon great werk!

[LORD M]

Thanks Grandmassa! :D Which pokemon you think I should do next? I got like 151 to choose from and even more if you count the newer versions. :P



Did a little fast something yesterday before I went to sleep.

[Mordus]

I always knew there was more to pokemon. Now do Mew on acid. Please.
Or a sellout Meowth.

[alesoun]

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=760316&stc=1&d=1251113488

I had an art teacher who looked like the one on the left. can't remember his real name now, but we used to call him Catweazle!

[kelly x]

more pokemon for me too!!! Hi LOrdM

[SMILEFACE]

HAHA POKER HER MON ROCK! an YER CHOW ENTRY FER NBC CNN WTF?// NPC DESIGN IS WICKED HAHA I REALLY LICKED THE ONE WITH THE PIPE

[Randis]

i like the red creatures face, that would make a cool mask. :D
Also like the glowing ring with the letters behind the creature.

You should do more human body studies, with a focus on hands, feet and proportions.

[Pigeonkill]

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=655601&stc=1&d=1240695945

Holy crap, you did that with a mouse...your arm must be still hurting.

[LORD M]

Hey guys, I'm really gratefull for your comments so I'm sorry I took so long to rerply on them. Currently studying geology (ooo rock'n'roll!) so I am a bit preoccupied.



Mordus - Good ideas! I drawed Mew, but it turned out to look like some fan-art and I scrapped it, but I'll post it anyways. Gonna do a new try on drawing him on acid.

alesoun - Heh, that's pretty intresting, couldn't believ that my little drawing could remind you of someone in the real world. :)

kelly x - Yo Kelly! Coming right up! Any particular ones?

Grandma - Hey thanks man! Really glad you liked it. :) Your posts always cracks me up, example NBC CNN WTF?// NPC - You're clever man. :P

R a n d i s - Thank you Randis for the critique, really glad to get some so I know what I should focus on. :) I really have neglected studying those you mentioned, I'll slap my face and shuv my head down cold water and shape up.

Pigeonkill -Thank you! Yeah my hands really hurt after painting with only the mouse, but I got my cintic 3 some months ago and now my hands feels much better. Although I would like to do more studies with the mouse, so I wont loose that ability. :P




Thought I post my CHOW entry, and the Mew drawing that didn't turn out as I wanted to, so I scrapped it.

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=777960&stc=1&d=1252945587
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=777964&stc=1&d=1252945774
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=777969&stc=1&d=1252946585

[Mischeviouslittleelf]

Mew looks FREAKY!

-E

[clockworksnail]

Hey, i came back to see your stuff, its still really good :P i kinda guessed it would be.

so anyways, keep 'em coming. they're well good.

[LORD M]

Mischeviouslittleelf - Glad you digg it. :)

clockworksnail - Welcome back! You're free to visit as often as you want. :P Thanks man, I really appriciate it. :)

I think I wont be able to draw for some time now, got an geology exam this thursday, but I'll see if I can get any time over to do some hand, feet, proportion studies going.



Oh and here's another master study (Rubens this time) I did using nothing but the mouse, I do this because I want to see how far I can go before I need to use the tablet, all and all it took maybe 1,5 hours to make so far. I scrapped this one, because I didn't like how it turned out. Original is at left in the paitning, as you obviously can see. :P

[Krato]

push the values with your last one its too flat :D -- however you did pick up the face and clothing well!

[Quike Garcia]

Epic mouse skills man...

[Ian Miles]

Excellent portraits man! I´m a bit jeaolusy here :D

[Bengiskhan]

Funny, those freaky bird head monsters make me think of the manga Berserk (by Kentaro Miura, beware : I said the manga not the anime ;) ), great work.

And nice study (even if I do agree with Krato :p)

[LORD M]

Krato - Thankies man! I'll see if I return to it, but if I do I will push the values a bit more ;).

Quike Garcia - Thanks! I would rather have epic talet skills though, less stressfull on the wrists. :P

Ian Miles - Thank you! :)

Bengiskhan - Oh I know what you mean, you're thinking of that dude that had the birdface mask. Well tbh that wasn't very original by the artist, because plague doctors wore these kinda masks during the Black Plague for example. I got inspiration for mine from a weird dream I had. Gotta continue to read Berserk now when you have reminded me! Oh and thanks!

[jatherip]

the rubensstudy looks good :) moooore of them!!!
keep rockin!

[LORD M]

Thank you for the reply, jatherip. I am of course going to do more Ruben studies, but first I wanna do some Rembrant ones. :D


Ok got my computer repaired after my "new" graphics card fan stopped working, so I haven't been able to do any drawings digitaly lately - which was good since I then had to force myself to draw on paper which really improved me I think, since I feel I have now gotten a better understanding of planes and how to shade. Still a LONG road to walk, but I hope I make a leap now and then which suprises me as much as discovering how planes works did to me. :)


Ok, here's some drawings I made lately. The first ones are before I discovered how planes work, and the last two are after I made that "wow" suprise, as my friend insanetk say. :P
Also I think I need a new scanner, this one I am using is 10 years old, and everything turns out gritty and doesn't make the drawings justice, imo. I have to use photoshop to sharpen it up and adjust intensity and so on.


First depicts my character I used in the Art Crusade Headhunter Guild (damn I miss that, it was just so fun and shouldn't have died :() and some other lizard men.
Second one is some head studies trying to understand how to shade.
Third one is after I started discovering how planes work, a dinosaur made up by planes, Polygosaurus. :P
Last one is a doodle I made, trying out the planes and experimenting with shadows.

[clockworksnail]

Hey, back for another visit!
Your still on track, and im still loving your art.
especially that war priest lizard guy....... you should do more like that,
anyways, il be back to see how things go,
cya!

[Irrlaeufer]

OMG that Rubens study is amazing. fuck the values. If I could draw like you, I would fuck the values! srsly.

SUBSCRIBED!!

[LORD M]

Thanks for popping in again, clockworksnail. lad you like the lizard dude, I'm planning to do all kinda units for a lizardman army I am planing to draw. :P

Thank you, Irrlaefur. :D Values are tricky but necessary, I am not sure what I am doing half the time, I need to study more.



Another small update, Dracula WIP for this weeks CHOW!



http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=812294&stc=1&d=1256525865

[SMILEFACE]

HAHA WICKED UPDATES YOUR IMAGINATION WORK IS AS STRONG AS YER STUDIES an lol im glade you get my sense of humor i think most just think im an idiot lol STAY GOOD BROTHER MAN HAHA GOOD SHOW JOLLY GOOD!
EDIT AN THAT WAR PRIEST IS FREAK'N WICKED !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[LORD M]

Ok this is something I just want to get off my chest, a stupid rant, I would lie if I said anything else: I hate my drawings. I try and study and study but I don't see any kind of progress in my drawings, even though I almost study each day. I have no understanding of form or perspective and none of how to shade properly. My goal is to become as good as you guys on MassiveBlack are and be able to draw the human body without using references, like Burne Hogarth does, but I constantly have to look at them because it just doesn't look right when I draw. It's like I have a brain disease or something.

I have known this guy Insanetk on this site for some years, he's a great friend, he have constantly been leaping FAR during 2 years and progressed so much from starting at scratch 2 years ago, much more then I have done in my whole life I feel. And then I look at how much I have progressed these years, not much at all and I feel like shit. He gives me great advise on how to do for becoming better, studtying form, perspective and so on, and he's a great teacher. But I just can't get to the next level, taking it further. It all feels so frustrating and hopeless and sometimes I get depressed and won't draw anything at all.

I just feel so... lost. What am I doing wrong?



I really want to thank R A N D I S and the others who have given me critique on how to get better, I would sooo love to get hard critique, like totally bashing me, because I feel I learn best by that. I really want to progress and get a lot better.

[clockworksnail]

Hey dude,
i know i cant speak for everyone when i say this, but personally, i hate my drawings too. im embarrassed to put them on my sketchbook and my doodles never even make it to the sketchbook.

i think most people hate what they draw. they want perfection and they always feel they could do better, but its not about how you feel, its about how others feel about your work. and personallly, i think your work is awesome. i know people at my school who would kill to be able to draw like you. this site is filled with amazing artists, its disheartening in away because it makes others feel like they are terrible, but its also the best thing you could want for the site. it gives you something to look up to and to motivate yourself. but deep down, i bet even the best artists feel their work is crap.
the trick is to not let anyone else know thats how you feel, that way they see the good points and not the bad points.

try and look for the good points of your work, and instead of focusing on the bad points, find them and decide how you are going to change them.

we learn every day, even when we dont mean to.
you may not think you have improved, but ask the people who visit your SB and im pretty sure you'll find its different.

keep drawing:P
hope i didnt just make a retard out of myself,
cya!

[LORD M]

Starting over from scratch which I really need I realise now.
Gotta study and understand things better, since I have lived a lie so far (artistic life speaking).

Doing bone studiesafter the Bone Doctor Michael Mentler, I want to understand the human proportions and get it right when I draw.
This is my first studies from the start over I am doing from NOW on!
Please, any kind of critique, advice or anything at all will make me gratefull. Bash me! :D


I have also started taking Croquis classes, found out my university got free classes twice a week for students and employes! :D

[LORD M]

Ok here's todays studies, studied the Landmarks of the body after Mentler on here and at www.tsofa.com where I registered. Might do more studies today since I feel I want to, but first I need to study Geology for the uni. :)

[LORD M]

Ok, today's study, the skeleton a bit, and heads. But my friend have pointed out I should think more 3D. So I am doing these grid-3D like studies from now on untill I have mastered dimension, which I have no understanding of.

[LORD M]

Ok, todays studies, trying to understand how dimension works, and get proportions of the head right while doing so. Gotta remember to study my anatomy books tomorrow and see how the skull and the eyes in particular fuction/look like and so. But I am such a slow learner, I hope I'll understand things faster and better in the future.

[LORD M]

Did some horribly squiggly line studies that was completely out of proportion, as they usually are. But I scrapped them and alas I couldn't post them.


Did something else some hours ago, Wolfman quicky.


http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=820883&stc=1&d=1257385048

[chrysshart]

Wow! I can see how much you've progressed! keep it up! I really like the character concepts you've got with the caprines there and the zodiac piece is excellent!

[LORD M]

Thank you, chrysshart. :) Glad you like them, and I'm glad that you think I have progressed, I just want to realise that myself aswell.



Todays studies took a while to do, did it after a list I got from my friend, it said what kind of things I should particulary often study. Studied after Mentler, Bammes, Hogarth and Bridgeman today. I have done more studies today then I have during a couple of months.

[arttorney]

About the wolfman (post 60): it looks like his upper right arm is kind of shorter than the other. Are you going for a foreshortening look like it is sticking out backwards? I want you to finish this. I am just trying to help if I can. (I struggle with foreshortening too). I think you have an above average sense of lighting.

[LORD M]

About the wolfman (post 60): it looks like his upper right arm is kind of shorter than the other. Are you going for a foreshortening look like it is sticking out backwards? I want you to finish this. I am just trying to help if I can. (I struggle with foreshortening too). I think you have an above average sense of lighting.

Thanks for visiting my sketchbook! :D Yeah I was going for foreshortening just as you said and I did realise it didn't look good but I just left it and didn't think more about it. But thanks to your comment I think I will try and finish it, thanks a lot for pointing this out and I am really gratefull for your help. :)

[arttorney]

It's cool. Try to get a second opinion if you can. Like I said I struggle myself with foreshortening. I always think it looks fine and then everybody says it doesn't. Maybe if that elbow was bent more higher the upper arm doesn't have to be any longer.

[DMadd]

Nice work man. So....why are you studying Biology again? LOL :)

[LORD M]

Nice work man. So....why are you studying Biology again? LOL :)

Well, if I am going to be completely honest with you guys, the reason was that I was always told by everyone I knew that there was no money in art and that I wouldn't get a job at all, and I didn't have the self-consciousness to believ that I could make it 4 years ago. My self consciousness was rock-bottom back then when it came to art, but somehow I still drawed. But now when I have been around and discovered how things are and example been here on CA, I realise how wrong I was. If I had really been able to, which I somewhat was, I would instantly had gone for artschool or something, but got scared silent about it by people I know. I have the biggest regrets in my life because of this.

But I do hope there's some way I can maybe combine my art and biology in the future.

[arttorney]

Don't worry. Life is amazing and complicated. I have a BA and MS in biology. My sister, who went into engineering, told me I wouldn't make any money with a Biology degree. I eventually did make good middle class money out of it. I became a patent attorney after adding some legal degrees and now I make money whether I have a job or not. My sister is an unemployed software engineer with no prospects.

Lord M- you have to post either WIPS or links to WIPS in the CHOW finals thread or they will kick you out of the poll. The way I did it was to go into advanced edit mode in my WIP post of the main CHOW thread, copy image tags to my clipboard, and then paste them into my finals thread post. They show up as links there instead of images and I think it helps save CA some bandwidth that way.

[dwinbotp]

Keep at it man, your stuff keeps getting better and better, I wish I can do studies like you do(I'm frickking lazy :(

Thanks for dropping by my book too! :)

[LORD M]

Wow, I feel a bit more relieved after reading that, arttorney - so great thanks for that. Really cool that you're a biologist aswell! :D What kind of biology did you study? Oh and thanks a lot for notifying me of the CHOW WIP, totally forgot about it.


dwinbotp - I really hope I can keep it up like that, but somehow I might hit that meeeeeh point when it might go to hell. Just gotta avoid it as much as I can and atleast do one or two studies per day even if I feel like I don't want to. Also I have stopped eating candy or anything with sugar in it, which infact really makes me lazy and all that meeeeh, tip from my friend. It does help, so stop eating sugar and you might get more studies done. :D

[LORD M]

Tonights studies, havent had that much time for studies lately - but I did some each day atleast, but most got scrapped.

Here's some that survived of tonights studies, studying Bridgemans way to build the body using cubes, and then I thought why not incorporate Hogarths box-wedge into it?

[LORD M]

Oh, I also finished the last CHOW wolfman. Turned out meh, but I like the lightning a bit.


http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=822836&stc=1&d=1257555906
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=824478&stc=1&d=1257712261

[Kayrn]

The amount of studies here is inspiring. I just started my sketchbook, and I hope that I can find the same motivation! All i can say is keep going strong! BTW what books do you study from? Thanks.

[LORD M]

The amount of studies here is inspiring. I just started my sketchbook, and I hope that I can find the same motivation! All i can say is keep going strong! BTW what books do you study from? Thanks.

Heya! Thanks for visiting my sketchbook. :) You can find the same motivation and perhaps even stronger motivation then what I have.

I study after Burne Hogarth - Dynamic Figure Drawing, all the Loomis books, Gottfried Bammes - Der Nackte Mensch (I do speak a little german so I can get some out of the text :P), Bridgman - Constructive Anatomy, Bridgman - The Human Machine. And I also study after Michael Mentler who got several threads here on CA, I recommend him highly - http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=26748

[LORD M]

Tonights pencil diarrhea, didnt get as much studies done as I hoped to. Also drawed a demonic knight and tried to study how light falls and how colours blend.

[LORD M]

Finished the demonic knight, I think. I am too tired on it and nothing turned out the way I wanted. Also added a lizardman warrior I made yesterday.

I'll do some more studies tonight, I don't even understand anything about how you should draw a face in dimensions so I will do more studies on that.



Also, some music I find inspiring. :)

8h68dCRXMGY

[LORD M]

More shit from tonight, no real studies done...

[Krato]

impressive amount of studies, make sure you transfer what you learned from your studies too you freedrawings. Gj

[LORD M]

Thamks a lot Krato, I'm happy you could visit my sketchbook again. :) I am trying real hard to incorporate what I have learned into my freedrawings, but it's really hard. It's like I forget about it almost instantly after I have studied something or when I have gotten critique, I got the memory of a gold-fish.


Ok tonights studies, didnt have that much time because I got an geology exam next week. :( Tried out how one should really build cubes, after Michael Mentler. I don't know if it went good or bad.

[LORD M]

Some studies I did today. Ribcage after Mentler. Loads of errors, I gotta be more precise and think it through more when I do these next time.

[LORD M]

Did some new ones today. Whoop whoop, tried to do it more detailed and thought through and I think I kinda like the result a small bit, made from memory. Atleast I think it's better then the other ones I did today. :)

[kingkostas]

The anatomy is improving mate and your digitals are nice but i think you must put more values in them.More work and you will understand all of them.Very good improvement.
You have already some very nice concepts, so take the time and work them more :)

Keep up and thnx for stopping by my sketchbook :)

[LORD M]

Thank you, kingkostas! :D Really glad you dropped by. More values you say, that I will do! Yes, I will do lotsa lotsa more work
because I want to understand them aaaaaaall!




My friend InsaneTK showed me a lot yesterday on various things through OC how he build up a drawing of the human body in many various ways, I learned
a lot from that. One particulary great thing he showed me was the Loomis headmethod, starting from a sphere and going from there dividing it up a bit, I
have thanks to that I have now a little better understanding of how 3D work. 1st try is at top left corner, last one is at lowest right corner.

These are some studies I did today after that method, while my friend looked at it and gave me tips, those lips drawn in brown is what he drawed when
he explained lips to me, that they're not flat but cylindricalish (although my dumb mind cannot grasp that any good). I am really gratefull for everything he does
for me and I see him both as a great friend and a great inspiration.

[kingkostas]

The need drugs is great.
Anyway yes do more values and in general work more the characters like the lizardman+ the knight + the last character(you can work the values in these, just put some more work on these)My favorite is the knight and i think it can become an awesome piece :)

Keep up the good work

[Kim_bot]

Really inspiring studies~
I don't go to an art school either, so your studies really make me want to work harder and become better despite the lack of a formal art education...But I find that I have to draw something many, many times before it finally sinks in.
I guess there are no shortcuts though ;)

[LORD M]

Thanks, kingkostas! I will do that. :) I can see this drawing of the knight as some concept for something I can make in the future later on.

High five, Kim_bot. I also have to draw something many many times before it sinks in, it's the only way to learn and remember. And somehow I am a bit glad they're no shortcuts, because the process of learning and evolving in your arts is fascinating and exciting to me aswell. :)




I saw that some people post photos they've taken in their sketchbooks, so I thought I would do the same. :D

I took this pic last year, found an Damsel Bug (order Hemiptera, suborder Heteroptera, family Nabidae, species Nabis limbatus - Marsh Damsel Bug), that I took in and fed with some cassic lemonade, it seemed to like it. :) Afterwards I released it. I will post more photos I have taken throughout the year and years if people want me to, ca't take much on insects right now because it's cold and almost snowy outside, also I got a shitty Sony camera, I want an Canon instead some day. :(

[Holland]

Great work! Very cool characters :) maybe try some environment sketches to go a long with them :)

[Untouched24]

Hey thanks for the comment in my SB. You seem to be on the right track with all your work. A good balance of studies, anatomy, and imaginative stuff. I just wanted to touch on your little rant on page 2 if you're still feeling like that.

Don't be too hard on yourself as far as your current work goes. But its not bad to be tough on yourself when it comes to how much you're working on it. If you're working hard, just keep at it and you will improve. I don't know how long of a time period you're measuring your progress over (since the beginning of the sketchbook? Just over 6 months?) Because I see progress, and its something you'll notice more the longer you keep at it. Don't expect results too quickly and get discouraged.
The other thing is, once you're doing the work, be conscience of what work your doing, and what you need to practice. I see you're doing studies, but make sure you retain the studies and don't overload yourself to the point where you can't remember what you just studied. What I mean by this is say for example you study the anatomy on arms one day. Unless you're already have a strong grasp of anatomy, it wouldn't be too wise to also study legs and the torso on the same day. Really just focus on the arm. Do your studies, then try to repeat them from imagination to test if you retained the information. If you forgot parts, go back and refresh. Always think about your work while you're working. Think about it as if you're solving a problem. Is your approach successful? Why not? What about it isn't working? If it is the rendering for example, do some lighting and rendering studies and really think about how it works.
If you want to be able to do poses from imagination, study different poses from life, or photos if that's all you have. Practice gestures as well and soon you'll be able to get a better feel for how the body moves and what poses you can put it in. If you get stuck or something looks wrong, ref it and see why.
Don't expect to make huge leaps at first, it takes years. Just keep at it and have fun doing it.
There are a few saying I like. I forget what the first is, but I believe it is the 10,000 hour rule. It takes 10,000 hours of practice at something to master it, which if you do the math, comes out to a ballpark of 10ish years depending how many hours you study each day. Another saying is everyone has like 10,000 bad drawings in them, so get the over with as quick as you can. Either way, if you continue practicing and do it in a smart balanced way, you WILL get better. Just give it time, keep with it, and don't get discouraged. All the great artists on this site sucked at one point, and have all racked up a lot of hours to get where they are.

I hope I didn't ramble too much, and this helps at least a bit. Good luck!

[LORD M]

clockworksnail - I'm really sorry I didn't reply to what you said, I didn't mean to ignore your words or you. I was writing an reply back when you wrote that, and firefox crashed and I thought I would rewrite it again later but then forgot about it. I hope you can forgive me.

First of all, I'm really glad you said you like my work. :) Yeah that feeling about getting a bit brought down when browsing through CA and seeing all the amazing artists was a bit dehartening as you put it so good, but now I don't see it like that any longer, I see it as an infinite inspiration and beat those bad thoughts down, if I believ in myself then I can reach my goals. Seeing the good points is kinda a good idea, like digging deep and find those gems you have, and then polish them untill they shine brighter - but I think one need to polish those duller stones aswell and turn them into gems aswell. I know I am a dull stone that might have some gems inside of it, and I want to polish that stone untill they can be seen, turning the stone into a shining gem. I think everyone can do that and become shining bright gem. (lol I know this sounds a bit corny but oh well, it's my own words atleast)

And no, you didn't make a retard out of yourself, I did though, because I forgot replying. :)


Thanks, Hollander. :) Environments sounds like a great idea, havent given much thought about them before, if I'm going to be fully honest I have always been a bit scared of doing environments but what the heck - I'll do some, because it's challenging and challenges are fun! :D


Untouched24 - Thanks for visting my sketchbook! :)

I have started feeling better then when I wrote that rant of mine, but honestly some is still left. I kinda did measure my progress starting like 2 years after I joined this site and my friend had told me about all these great anatomical study books (Hogarth, Loomis and the rest of the gang). My friend started studying intense, and I thought I studied a lot when I infact didn't, just some studies now and then and not much repetition. I got really discouraged during these 2 years when I saw how fast my friend progressed compared to me, it kinda brought me down and made me depressed that I couldn't find the same motivation or stamina as he had, sure I was really happy for him and it was great seeing him progress but it made me hate myself when I looked at my own work. I really was an ignorant fool, didn't take studying serious, he did but I didn't and that's what separated us.

But now I have started over and realised how it really is, and from now on I count November 1st as my start of progress and will measure from there on.

Your tips about how I should study really sounds great and makes lotsa sense, maybe tha's why I got so confused all the time, because I studied more things then I could handle which ended up in me forgetting everything. Your way sounds much better and I will try it out. :) Drawing have actually becomed way more fun now since November 1st, and I am enjoying it again.

Thank you, you have helped a huge amount. :)



Oh and sorry no studies posted today, will post todays studies tomorrow, not much to show. Have been to busy studying for geology exam. :P

[LORD M]

Todays and yesterdays studies. Made the lower arm much longer then the upper arm which is WRONG!!!! I'll do more studies tomorrow on the arm, to get it RIGHT for once.

[LORD M]

For the latest Creature of the Week. Merlins familliar.



http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=833463&stc=1&d=1258656094
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=833464&stc=1&d=1258656141

[Quike Garcia]

Man, you've been doing a lot of studies and they're paying off :) This Merlin's familiar looks quite natural :)

[LORD M]

Quike Garcia - Hey thanks man! :D




Some progress on the Merlin Familiar. Removed the tail because it fucked everything up and didn't look natural, tried like 100 different tail poses and all looked crap - which lead to that I removed the tail after I got some advice from my friend.



http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=835343&stc=1&d=1258858696

[LORD M]

Finished my COW entry. Even though the tail doesn't fit that good, I felt the creature needed his tail and decided to go with the first tail I made for it. Got 2 versions, one entry version and one "book" version. :)


http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=836710&stc=1&d=1258999661

[LORD M]

Tonights studies. Not much done but better then nothing. Everything from memory except the muscles.

[arttorney]

You're working hard, I see.
That'll pay off in the end.

[LORD M]

Thanks arttourney! :) I really really want it to pay off.


Tonights studies after Michael Mentler Mind Games, building a figure, made ribcage too small and too roundish as my friend pointed out to me. Gotta stop doing these things.

[LORD M]

Ok another one from tonight. Measured the angles of the ribcage, side and front view. Then drawed and filled in lines after the angles, turned out better then I thought it would.

[Krato]

do some color studies it would help allot for when you do things like the wizard and muffins the purple squirrel. Do paintings from real life of objects and do studies from photos.

keep it up

[LORD M]

Thanks for visiting again Kratos and thanks for the advice on doing more from life and doing colour studies (which I as you can see I have hardly done, will try and walk out some day and draw buildings in my beautifull town. :)


Ok, tonights studies, didnt have time for doing that much, have to make ready for my birthday tomorrow and clean the house a bit. Focused on the ribcage, as yesterday I tried looking at photos and anatomical drawings to get the form more correct. Contrary to my previous belif it is not roundish, but more squareish. This time I did them from memory only to see what I had learned.

[Jesus Food]

thats a big azzz!

[LORD M]

thats a big azzz!

Wow, you're right! That really looks grotesque. What was I thinking? I gotta do more ass-studies, so tomorrow I'll devote my day to look at asses and draw asses. :P

[LORD M]

Todays studies, tried to make the torso. Having the "skewed egg" shape of the ribcage in mind. Must do more pelvis studies since my pelvises suck. From memory, except 2.

[LORD M]

One more thing I did today, drawing the skeleton from imagination.

[Krato]

nice drawing im not sure if you have the ulna and radius down correctly where hes holding the skull, i might be wrong but i think the way you drew it was when the hand is flipped around.

good work though :)

[serio]

oh man whan I've read that you are studying biology I fall of from my chair. Why? May You ask..Well becouse I've studing biology as well for 5 long years. I finished my studies now and I'm working as a flash designer/animator but also working hard on my skill level in illustration. Well I feel now that those studies was super cool etc (also hard) but it wasn't what I want to do for rest of my life. My parents have their plan for me but I've decided to go my own way. I never be at art school or something like that. Everything I toughen up by myself etc. Well probably I would choose different way back then but It was hard times. Anyway Good hard effort in Your sketchbook. I like your traditional exercisers and some of Your creature concepts looks very strong. The advise I can tell you is that to draw EVERYDAY and results will follow very very soon. So take care and bye.

[clockworksnail]

hey man, you've been busy. ive not bin on for awhile, yours is one of the first sketchbooks i re-visited when i came back. youve improved loads.

i think you should keep doing what your doing, its obviously working. ive just bin messing about with different media, have you used watercoloures much? i rekon you should try them. for some reason i just feel they'd work well for you.

anyways, keep it up. its lookin good!

[LORD M]

Krato - Yes you're completely right, I completely fucked up the lower-arm. :P

serio - Highfive, fellow biologist. I also feel like I don't want to keep doing this for the rest of my life, I feel it is not my thing, and it is kinda for you as it is for me with our parents, a bit annoying. I looked through your sketchbook and you got some great skills, great job on being self-taught! I'll comment in it ASAP. Thanks a lot for your encouraging words. :)

clockworksnail - Hey welcome back and thanks for re-visiting! :D Nope, I have never used water colours, except in kindergarten if that now counts. :P





Here are some colour studies I made today. My friend told me a lot and explained really well how the hue works and change, and how colour goes from warm to cold and how they relate to eachother and creates effects.

First image is a Bulbasaur I made before my awesome friend told me how colour theory works, he even recorded a video showing me how it worked picking out colours in Painter and making them darker by making the colour itself darker as he changed the hue - or making it brighter kinda the same way.

[LORD M]

Porlpe alien. Colour study. Turned out better then I thought it would, but I don't like the red light coming from beneath though.

[LORD M]

Some more colour studies. Don't know yet how to make the colours harmonize or look anything near natural.

[kingkostas]

nice mate i really like how you studying.Thats the research spirit :P
Anyway keep thinking of everything as 3d as you did with the skeleton etc.
The last couple with these creatures is not interesting as the other things.I guess its part of the experiments so its ok.Keep up as you do :)

[LORD M]

Thanks a bunch, kingkostas. :) Thinking in 3D is sometimes hard for me, but I am doing my best. I agree on the last ones, I still don't really know how to make it "pop" and look intresting, but I hope I'll discover that. :D


Fast sketch made from memory without reference.

[LORD M]

Something Silent Hill inspired. I fucked up perspective, direction of light, composition and other things as well. Thought I would post it anyways. Mainly it was an colour experiment, but that is no excuse for fucking it up this royaly.

[jcpahl]

Fuck yes, skeletons. I really like how you're approaching figure-drawing, and I can see it's paying off for you.

I think your colored-stuff would be improved by reserving those super-saturated colors for the focal areas or other special occasions; they're looking a little garish as it is. Also, remember to think about the temperature of the light source! Cool light = warmer shadows, warm light = cooler shadows. It looks like you're just making your shadows darker and more saturated variances of the local color, but if you remember to include the temperature differences, you'll hit a much better level of realism.

[LORD M]

jcpahl - Nice you notice how I am trying to go in my anatomy studies, my friend gave me the tip to study anatomy down at the core, and there's no deeper fundamental core in the human body then the skeleton. SO I will first study the skeleton, then build muscles upon it and then put on skin. That's kinda how I imagined going, roughly.

Great thanks aswell on the feedback on my colouring stuff, I never even thought of how much temperature differences could add/subtract to the image. This post I will cherish a lot. :yayca:






:party: Yay! I am now celebratin 1 month anneversary after starting to study for real one month ago, 1st november.:party:

Celebrating by studying something I know jack shit off: perspective! Posting a crappy post here of some Loomis stuff. Also i celebrated it by buying myself a new monitor and taking this old CRT I use away to the bin. Gotten myself an Dell Ultrasharp U2410. :D

[LORD M]

Start of todays perspective studies, I realise I should have learnt this ages ago, oh well, better late then never. :P

[LORD M]

Second study for the day, creating a building Loomis-style.

[LORD M]

Some more unintressting shit perspective studies. Also my horrible attempts at drawing straight lines. Also did some traditional perspective studies, will upload when scanned.

[LORD M]

Tonights studies, after Michael Mentler, a bit on the pelvis and some on the ass-muscles. Haven't really had tme today, been out partying all day it feels like.

[LORD M]

Todays studies, continued on the Pelvis, after Gottfried Bammes. Gona do more pelvis studies tonight, building my own from memory aswell as drawing them in space.

C&C are welcomed as always. :)

[kingkostas]

dont worry researcher mate.You are already improving your understanding by doing this great studies.
Keep going !!!!!!!!!

[LORD M]

Thanks Kingkostas!!!!! I am actually thinking I have an better understanding of how things work now. Always happy when you drop by, mate. :D






Here's something I wanted to share for anyone checking my sketchbook out, I also posted this in the Cheer Me Up Thread.

New Silent Hill game is coming this spring, even if the game turns out shit (hopefully not) it also means new music by Akira Yamaoka feat Mary Elizabeth McGlynn! Akira Yamaoka composes the music magnificent and plays the guitar superbly and Elizabeth McGlynn got an amazing voice. There's something special about the music made by those two, typical Silent Hill-ish music. I don't know about you guys but I am totally sold on the Silent Hill soundtracks, and this song When You're Gone cheers me up. :)

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Did some more pelvis studies tonight, with the help of this music, after Bammes again (gods I love that book). Started by observing the poses Bammes had made for detailed pelvises, then I adopted what I had learned previously today and put in the simplified pelvis and made it more complex. Think it turned out pretty ok. :)

[Krato]

good pelvis studies try to incorporate that in your next character drawing :)

[kingkostas]

yep you seem like you simplified in a very nice way(i am sure you will simplify it more later even if you dont think of it :P)
If you apply it to a character full pose, the only thing you have to keep in mind(and fix if goes wrong) will be the proportion in comparison with the other elements of the body.So see how smaller or how bigger than something else, after what muscle it starts etc etc. throwing ideas :D
Good night mate

[LORD M]

Thanks Krato. :) I did sorta a character, a skeleton torso and head here which was done with no reference, realise I need to do lotsa more pelvis studies which will be fun! :D

Also did arms and hands (after Burne Hogarth) for the 400 hands challenge, but now I will mostly do them traditionaly for this challenge.

[Krato]

nice studies the skeleton looks pretty good to ;)

[LORD M]

Those are some really good advice, kingkostas. Simplifying seems to be the key. Nice of you throwing ideas like that, thanks mate. :)


51 out of 400 done, 349 left to do. I hope I'll make it in time untill next sunday. :/

Most are studies of Hogarth, Loomis, Bammes - I tried to understand how they did it in order to understand better myself. And some are my own hand and some are out of imagination without reference, easy to spot those. :P

[Two Listen]

Well you seem pretty comfortable with your pencil and your studies. What it seems like you need to work on most is your presentation, getting a good read on your paintings. Anatomy studies, while nice to keep your brain fresh, will not assist you in your painting techniques and presentation therein.

Which maybe does not matter to you right now.

But from an efficiency standpoint, I think you could really stand to work on some more digital. Perhaps experiment more with some custom brushes, and just let loose really trying to get a good 3D read on some things. Your studies are great, but while you might be able to get a properly proportioned individual into a painting, making that painting look stellar is something completely different.

Might want to start with something big. Large forms are typically easier to get a feel for than thin forms, it helped me out in the beginning.

Just a suggestion, keep it up regardless of where you head next. My suggestion certainly wouldn't help you with your 400 hands.

[kingkostas]

great, you are doing great
Keep up like this

[LORD M]

Two Listen - I fully understand what you're saying, I do admitt I don't know much about how to present something I make. Poses, colour, and all that is pretty unfamiliar to me. I have never studied them before, real study that is, I have though started to understand how colours work - but still only taking my first steps. :)

Now when you mentioned that I should use different brushes, I realise that I have only used 3 brushes all this time. Maybe I should aswell try and create some of my own aswell.
Your suggestions will help me in the 400 hands challenge, because I will do some digitally and coloured I have now decided, just to break the pattern and becoming more exploring.

Thanks a lot, Two Listen!





Thanks kingkostas! I really appriciate your support and advice. :)






My friend mentioned to me that I didn't pay attention to that the middlefinger is as long as half of the hand. Gotta pay attention to the 1/2 hand/finger value. :nohope:
Just to not making this day unproductive then what it already have been (idiot hydrology project about a river in Africa) I thought I would post 3 doodles I made fast, with no reference, being as critical as I could towards my self.



And I am going to try and order some col-erase pencils aswell soon, my friend have been nagging at me for over a year to get them, but god I am lazy. :P

[Krato]

try to repeat studies too, it will help you memorize and thus be able to recreate the hand as is or with some variation. keep it up.

[LORD M]

Krato - Yeah I am repeating the studies afterwards by memory so I can see how much I learned, so far the hands have gone pretty good.
Although I didn't know the challenge was for this sunday, thought it was the next. I had way too much to do in the university to been able to get it done this sunday anyway.
I'll just set next sunday as my goal. :)

So far 81 out of 400 - these 30 are todays and yesterdays studies. Only used my hand as reference, and some I did from memory. The the lowest number ones I made before the ones with higher number,
but I think you already have figured that out. :P

[kingkostas]

these are definitely paying off.Great dedication
keep going

[SMILEFACE]

haha LORD DOCTOR M IS IN THE BUILDING NOW THATS WHAT I LIKE TO SEE!!!

[LORD M]

Thanks kingkostas for checking in again. :)


Heya Grandma! :D Long time since I saw ya posting on CA, good to hear from ya again.




Been a bit lazy lately with the hands, been trying to do 3D modeling. Anyways I did a study after a photo of a nude woman, this was mainly a try at using other brushes and experimenting a little more. Ops, that makes my thread NSFW. :devil: Tried to make her into a simplified skeleton first and then built on the flesh after the photo. Then I coloured and made shadows from my imagination, trying to see the forms.

Note: Originaly she was caucasian on the photo, don't know what happened to my drawing but I like the final result. :P

[Krato]

cool man she is too shiny though her eyes are little pesky. just keep doing studies ;)

[LORD M]

Hey thanks Krato. I didn't notice how shiney she were untill you told me. It's like some visual Freudian slip or something. :P





Ok, been too lazy, havent done many hand studies and I'll positively fail my 400 hands challenge (goddammit). Anyways, here' some stuff I made for the recent Creature Of the Week.



http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=857130&stc=1&d=1261010187

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=857131&stc=1&d=1261010224

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=857186&stc=1&d=1261015210

[Krato]

cool stuff man the creature is too blurry though, interesting design though. Also simplify your hands even more.

[LORD M]

cool stuff man the creature is too blurry though, interesting design though. Also simplify your hands even more.

Yes sir! I really gotta start simplifying more, I still subconsciously look at the details in first hand. :P

Thanks a lot, Krato. :)

[Koto]

Your studies and hard work is inspiring, awesome stuff. Keep pushing the digitals!

[SMILEFACE]

HIGH 5S ON THE HAND STUDIES * an DIG THE MONSTER THUMBS* HAHA KEEP W/ THE GOODS

[LORD M]

Koto - Thanks for your words and for stopping by. :)

Grandma - High five man, glad you like it. :)



Handstudy failure. I only did 133 out of 400, in 2 weeks. Posting them here anyays. Freakin horrible, I just couldn't take it. I just got so unmotivated after a while that I didn't draw anything for several days, and the days I drawed there were hardly any drawings at all. I think this might not be my kind of method, maybe I am just not dedicated enough, I already know my dicipline is pretty bad.

Oh I fotgot to mention, some of these are after reference, like great drawings and art and some from photos, but the wast majority are from my own hand and some of them are made from memory (easily distinguishable).

[drd]

Dude, nice work on all of these. You'll get better super fast if you keep this up.

[Krato]

well, you are the only one who can make you work hard, glad to see your doing studies and trying to learn though i see allot of people who for some reason cant grasp the idea that doing studies helps.. :/

Suggestions i would make is move on from the pelvis/bone studies start doing body studies and stuff. Also simplify your hands even more.

Keep it up :)

[Bendragon]

Nice studies! Try to incorporate them into your concepts and draw a lot from life too! Keep it up!

[LORD M]

Hey sorry for the late replies guys. Been taking a break from drawing, felt I really needed it. Started again yesterday doing something else then studies, but I will continue doing studies soon though. :)




drd - Thanks a bunch for visiting and for your encouraging words! :D I will keep it up, I am stonehard determined to do it!

Krato - Yeah I know, and I also know I am way too lazy - still. Hopefully I will change that, I want to. I thought before that doing tudies didn't help, but now I see that it really does help. Just from doing all these hands I feel I got a better understanding on how to draw a hand, atleast on the right track to doing so. :P

I will take your advice and moving on from pelvis/bone and doing more body studies, although I feel I still need to do bone studies aswell, but I will tone it down and leave more room for more fleshy studies. And ye, hands MUST become more simplified. Thanks a lot, mate. :)

Bendragon - Hey thanks man. Although I do have some problem with drawing from life, but that can be solved. My university arranges a free life drawing course on 6 hours each week with a model and everything, I went once - but I don't know why I didn't continue going. I know it is really dumb by me for not ceasing the opportunity as I should, I wanted to go but then again I didn't want to. But next time I will go, atleast try.



Here's some stuff I did today and yesterday. First is a sketch on my art Crusade - Headhunters Guild character I made over a year ago, talked with Krato over this crusade and got nostalgic, the art crusades were great fun and I thought I would bring this character of mine back from the dead (so far only bones and part of the head.

The second one is Snorlax from Pokemon, still working on it, sorry for raping your childhood. :P

[Krato]

nice update the fat guy looks cool and the hands look improved as well!

[Cris_1207]

very interesting studies! keep it up!

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Anatomy studies are looking mighty fine! That stuff's going to really show through when you do some life drawings, any of those coming up?

[Janos]

Hey, just wanted to drop by and pay my Respects. YOu are really inspiring.
I also hate stuff I draw and though i feel comfortable with some things I really need to start learning some of the basics, like you are doing. Hands, feet, arms, legs... fuck it. Just generally anatomy, and get comfortable with it, so that I can just start drawing and like it. I hope we can keep this up together. Anyways, I am subscribing and if you keep up your pace... there really is no reason why you shouldn't be on top one day. You do NEED to keep up studying though, otherwise you are just fucking with yourself. So, basically I wanted to say:
KEEP. POSTING!

[Koto]

Lots of great studies again! I'd like to see you point some of that hard work at some head studies! everything looks solid but your heads are lookin' a little small I feel. Keep it up :)

[LORD M]

Sorry for the late replies guys, I'm gonna reply to them and visit your sketchbooks ASAP. :)


Krato - Hey thanks man! Yeah those hand-studies actually payed of a bit haha! I gotta do this with some other anatomic parts. :D

Cris_1207 - Thanks a bunch, mate! :)

Sidharth Chaturvedi - Thankies! Eh... the life drawing stufff... yeah. Uhm, that might take a while, since I have no idea when the course starts again or if it's still available. We'll see how it goes. :)

Janos - Wow thanks, Janos! Never thought I could be inspiring to someone, hehe. Yes I know what you say, although I have found a solution to the boredom that can strike between studies. I'll just do some kind of big drawing once in a while when I am about to get bored out of my intestines. Making a big drawing and drawing exactly what you want to draw while at the same time doing studies for this drawing kinda makes you excel in your studies and you pay extra attention to what you're doing compared to when you're doing something you find slightly boring. :)
Thanks a lot for your subscription and your words! And I have absolute no intentions of stoping my posting which as you very well said, I would just fuck myself.

Koto - Hey thanks for visiting again! :D Very good critique, I always thought something looked very odd with my heads bt I am very bad at giving self critique. I will do headstudies as you said, laying as much time on them as I did on my hand studies. :)






Ok here's some stuff from the previous days.First some Vanderpoel (yay bought the book! It's great!) leg studies and then I thought I would continue on the Lizardman Female I created some time ago for the Art Crusades here on CA (it might come back said chaosrocks! :D). I realised that the legs I had thought out looked like crap so I did some dinosaur legs studies, I only found front photos of allosaurus and tyrannosaurus rex legs (which I thought was best, maybe I'll throw in a bit Gallimimus there) so I had to try and recreate myself how they might have looked like from behind. I am going to design her some armour/clothes later on.

Any critique is more then welcomed. :)

[SMILEFACE]

haha THE BIRD MAN RRROCKKKKKKKKKKSSSSSSSSS THE STUDIES REALLY PAY OFF

[Krato]

hm i would say move on from the bird guy his pelvis looks great (not surprising hehe) do human/animal studies, whatever floats your boat will be fine. I mean unless your really connected to this piece then i suggest moving on and collecting more knowledge.

[Dorkthrone]

I'm digging the bird man. The mix of human and animal anatomy really pays off on it, in my opinion.

[kingkostas]

also nice lines in this one :)
graet studies mate, keep up :)

[LORD M]

Thanks for your replies and advice, guys! It's too late here and I must sleep I feel, so I'll comment back tomorrow. :)


Todays crap. Continued on Lizardman woman, I kinda feel I want to finish this piece as good as I can with what I have learnt so far. Added legs I modified after the studies I made on carnivourus bipedal digitigrade dinosaur feet. I will probably change the swordarm, looks like crap I now see.


As usual, any critique and comments is very welcomed. :)

[LORD M]

Thanks, Grandmassa! :D

Krato - Yeah I know I probably should move on to the next drawing, but I feel I want to do a complete drawing testing what I have learnt so far, I want to finish this one as good as I can, with paint and all that. :P

ninjacat11 - Hey thanks a lot! I hope too it will pay off. :P

kingkostas - Kalomesimeri. :) (hope it's spelled right so I don't make a fool out of myself. :P)

[SMILEFACE]

haha those legs are look'n MADD POWERFULL I REALLY DIG THE WHOLE STRUCTURE FROM THE RIB CAGE TO THE FEET ESPECIALLY THE PELVIS KEEP UP THE GOODS!

[cdejong]

Hey LordM... it's sebbonaparta from FP, but I permabanned myself there because the site is a waste of time! I've been kicking up the gears in my book and studying as well, but your work gives me some ideas on studying. Nice grasp on a lot of this stuff, I think your paintings suffer from a lack of value and color studies though. You are good enough that you should also be allotting time to photo studies and still lives, in digital color! Keep going though, it's inspiring stuff.

[Greywoods]

Dude I read page 1 and 2. Looked at your rant. And now skipped on to page 6. I can now tell you that just from these few drawings on this page i can see that you have gotten a MUCH better understanding of shape. You have gained a pretty confident line. You are on the right track.
Ps: you did that front page picture with a mouse? What the hell? :S Mindblowing.

[LORD M]

Grandma - Thanks! Glad you like it! Your post always cheers me up, they're so RRRRRROOOOOCCCKKKKKIIIIIIIINNNNGG. :P

cdejong - Hey I do remember you sebbonaparta and your awesome art-threads! :) Yes I do agree that that shitty hell-hole for a site is nothing but utter dog-vomit, one is just pissing in a sea of piss as mikfoz put it so wonderfully. Although I still visit because of the lmao pics thread and the creationism corner, some nice people still there, and I am hoping I can inspire people to start studying art and anatomy.

Thank you for your critique and advice, and I fully agree with you on that my paintings suffer from a lack of value and color studies. I really need to get going on those more, I'm so fucking lazy lol. I have hardly done any photo studies or still lifes, but now I will!

Greywoods - Wow thanks a lot for those words, I don't know if I'm blind to my own progress or just simply deluded, although I can see some improvement. I know it sounds dumb, but that's how I feel. :/

Yeah I did the front one with mouse, glad you like it. :) Altough I used reference so it brings it all down. :P Maybe I can make more.




Wow! I just saw that someone had rated me 4 stars! :D Thank you whoever did that, although I am not sure I deserve that high of a ranking, but thanks. :)


Been lazy lately, must stop that. Been fixing up the anatomy a bit on the Lizardwoman. Changed hand holding the severed head and the arm and hand holding the sword which I also remade. Kinda like it a bit better now.
I am not sure how I want the head, so I experimented a bit. I don't know what style of head I want, if it gonna be a realistic looking dinosaurish head or something more cartoonish or something in between or whatever. And trying to make an animal face look feminime is almost impossible! I want the face to be able to be able to have facial expressions, and with the current one it's impossible. So out of the tests I did I kinda like the lowest left one. I know it's pretty much to the furry style, but I like it. Might put that head on if I don't come up with anything better.

[cdejong]

Ok cool, you do remember me :). Yea I was basically hanging around there the last few months for the same reason, but then after recommending studying, Bridgman, Loomis, studying photos and drawing from life, you just get the same crap with people not listening to your advice and continuing to produce bad work. And then on top of that all of my threads were for the most part ignored, while really crappy doodles got amazing responses. It's almost like a mini DA in that respect. I just made a banme thread so that I would have no reason to ever go back, better to just use that time on my own studying and for people here who want the critiques.

Right now in this piece, I'm iffy about the head. It looks rather cartoony, but if that's what you like, by all means stick by it. There are some things in the arms that are bothering me though, I think you're not taking full advantage of the rhythms available to you. One thing I've been learning more and more is that you can use anatomy to make figures more appealing not just because the muscles are realistic, but because the inward and outward swoop of the lines has a nice feel to it at the most basic level. I think you should maybe look into bringing that more into your work, since everything is already very solid.

Also a quick tip with painting... the darker your colors are (as in value), the more desaturated they should get, and the brighter they get, the more saturated they should be. Don't overdo it though but looking at your stuff I think this may help your work immediately if you play around with it a bit.

Oh you definitely deserve those 4 stars... they've been there for a while, but I just added my own rating to it too :). Keep going and studying, it's paying off!

[LORD M]

Wow thanks for the feedback, cdejong! Extremely helpfull, and thanks for the rating! :D

The colouring values are a little hard to understand, but that must be mainly due to my lack of studies. Although I am not so sure I understand fully what you mean with the arms and the rythms, sorry I am dumb. :/




I didn't do any anatomy studies today which I had planned to do, did a Leonardo da Vinci study. Trying to understand how he used colours and values aswell as how he used light in this painting. Painted only with mouse this time in Painter X, no tracing of course :P. Original posted first.

[cdejong]

Figure rhythm is very important. Here's a good video from Sheldon, he's a former student of Vilppu and a great figure drawing instructor: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYVNHvOvtAo . Do you see how beautiful the interlocking of the muscles is? It's because the shape and direction of the muscles leads the eye through swooping patterns throughout the figure, it's very very pleasing to the eye, and it's integral to powerful figure drawing. I was suggesting that you emphasize the rhythm in your figure, because although it is solid, rhythm will really pull the pieces together in the arm to make it look jointed and full of power.

You should try doing some straight value studies too man, just pick a figure drawing (this one looks alright, it's from character designs: http://www.characterdesigns.com/bandaid/content/photosets/2751/2798/Photoset_030_047.jpg) and turn it to grayscale in painter or photoshop and just copy it as best as you can. It really helps with understanding how values relate... it's surprising how difficult it is to see values correctly.

As for the Da Vinci study, it could maybe have had a little bit paler and more yellow skin. Although it's slightly damaged, underneath the crap I don't think the colors are quite as rich as you painted them. Make sure to copy the paintings as exact as possible, that way you learn the most :)

Keep going man, and don't take all my critiques too hard, I like to critique tough since often people will be too nice and not say anything, when I could have learned something from their critique. But I like your work and you're good so just keep going and improving!

[Janos]

Nine colour study. The ONLY thing I can pick on , and trust me I had to search long for that, is that the view of the nose is a tad from too low. The allignment of nose and mouth look wrong atm. Change that up and its good to go.

[LORD M]

Figure rhythm is very important. Here's a good video from Sheldon, he's a former student of Vilppu and a great figure drawing instructor: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYVNHvOvtAo . Do you see how beautiful the interlocking of the muscles is? It's because the shape and direction of the muscles leads the eye through swooping patterns throughout the figure, it's very very pleasing to the eye, and it's integral to powerful figure drawing. I was suggesting that you emphasize the rhythm in your figure, because although it is solid, rhythm will really pull the pieces together in the arm to make it look jointed and full of power.

You should try doing some straight value studies too man, just pick a figure drawing (this one looks alright, it's from character designs: http://www.characterdesigns.com/bandaid/content/photosets/2751/2798/Photoset_030_047.jpg) and turn it to grayscale in painter or photoshop and just copy it as best as you can. It really helps with understanding how values relate... it's surprising how difficult it is to see values correctly.

As for the Da Vinci study, it could maybe have had a little bit paler and more yellow skin. Although it's slightly damaged, underneath the crap I don't think the colors are quite as rich as you painted them. Make sure to copy the paintings as exact as possible, that way you learn the most :)

Keep going man, and don't take all my critiques too hard, I like to critique tough since often people will be too nice and not say anything, when I could have learned something from their critique. But I like your work and you're good so just keep going and improving!

cdejong - Man, thank you x 1000, I now finaly understand what rythm in drawing means. Never did before now. That video showed exactly what I needed to see. Now I feel I can finaly begin to tackle this! :D

Straight value studies sound really good, haven't done any serious studies like that before. And yeah, values are really tricky.

Thanks aswell for your critique on the da Vinci study, although I don't think I will continue on it anymore, feel I can just aswell start over using only the tablet, and next time I will copy as exactly as I can.

I also like to give critique and help people out whenever I can, but it's hard because there's so many talented people here and sometimes it's very hard to find anything to critique on if you know what I mean. :P


Janos - Hey tanks a lot for your critique! Although I don't know if I will continue this one, better to start over with a new one I feel, using the tablet only.




Continued on the Lizardwoman. Applied a new head that I think might work. Tried to have rythm in mind, although I am not yet sure on how I should apply it and if I am doing right. I should probably do some rythm studies instead, but I wanna finish this one before I do that.

[cdejong]

Definitely do some rhythm studies, really just gestures with a focus on rhythm is the best way to learn about it. This is already looking a lot better though, keep going keep going! :D

[LORD M]

cdejong - Yeah I am doing rythm studies now. :) Read some about it and looked at examples, although I haven't drawn that many studies yet. Thanks a lot!



Been really lame lately, shaped up a bit today. Went to a building in my university that contained several ancient classical greek and roman styled statues. Did an studie on one for over an hour, on the bus there I drawed an old man siting, but I think he noticed me drawing so I didn't want to pester him so I did an imaginary face aswell. Yesterday I tried drawing on an esel for the first time, practicing using my whole arm, from shoulder to the wrist, later ate the study objects. Today I also went and fetched my col-erase pencils from the postal service! :D Been drawing a lot with them, man they're fun! The only rythm studie so far is the woman with the hair, tried making the shading and the hair go into 2 spirals colliding, her right --> eye being the center of the spiral, if I now understood rythm properly that is.


Also, I need a new scanner, quality is too grainy.

[dan liimatta]

Hey, you have done some really good studies of hands and bones - I'm very impressed with the accuracy and the expression. Now I by far do these worse than you, but you don't seem to really take in what your learnt to your pieces, yet ~ I suggest that you might want to have a heart concept/reference for what you want to achieve style wise, render wise and so on, on the screen, or close to, while you work, so you can see how your ideal works with soft/hard edges, light/shadow, colour and line.

Because clearly you can produce the lines you need, and in the colour study also paint and use colours well :)

& i post #23, ser inte lejonets bakdel lite ut som ett ollon? :3 3==D------

[Nightblue]

wow Lord M, you've really improved since I last saw your work! The lizard man is coming along really nicely. Strangely, I like the previous angle of the head better - it turns a different way from the body, which gives the pose more dynamism. The structure of the leg is really good. The head still looks a bit cartoony comparing to the body. I suggest looking for some lizard reference, as well as lizard skull reference. Maybe make the eyes smaller and less human-like, in particular.

Your studies look nice, but lack the same level of attention you gave to the lizard man. Slow down, treat every subject seriously, try to understand it in the same level as your attempt to understand the body of the lizard man, even if it's just a still-life of a banana. Use your line carefully and avoid fuzziness. Do more head studies, and avoid making the eyes too large. Paying a bit extra attention to the eye region in your studies may help.

As for colors, here's a really quick and general rule for color theory: if the light is cool, the shadow would be warmer, vise-versa. Play with this and push it - but sometimes even some slight hue shift works great, especially in cases of natural light. Also, on saturation, the most saturated part of an object is often its "middle tone" area - the light bits get a bit washed out, while the shadows tend to be less saturated. Doing still life paintings and plein air paintings helped me tremendously in color, and I would highly recommend doing them as well as keep up your current master studies.

[Bendragon]

Lord M!!!! Those studies looks fucking good!!!! Keep doing them loaddddsssssssss! No fear man!!!!!! Try doing some studies and then after a lot, try some from imagination, and that will test if you are really looking at what you studied and helps you to apply them into your work. Keep rocking and rolling!

[LORD M]

dan liimatta - Thanks man for visiting! Yeah I feel too that I am not fully yet learnt how to take in what I have learnt into my pieces. Should find another way to study. If I were to put up something like a hearth concept of some style I want to master, then I know I might sound pretentious, but I would like to be able to do things like Da Vinci did. Especially the poses he dd in his Battle of Anghiari.

Neeeeeej! Lejonets bak ser inte ut some ett ollon! :P


Nightblue - Thanks for your words and for stopping by my sketchbook! :) I do realise the head might be a bit cartoony and that the eyes are a bit too human, but I do kinda like it and I think I will use this as the final. I might give it a try though, making the head a bit more realistic as you suggest, using skulls and photos for reference. Good ideas.

I didn't realise I made the eyes too big untill you now told me, since then I have kinda caught myself doing too big eyes when drawing still-life of statues. And yes, I must give more attention and thinking to what I draw, I never thought that still-lifes demanded that, but now I know! :)

These colour tips are just what I needed! Thanks! :D


Bendragon - Thanks man! Thanks a lot for the study tip, really appriciate it! Must try it ASAP. :P



Some stuff I did the last days, first is poses out of mind trying to understand rythm, second one is recreating the skeleton from mind after a nude photo. And I also did more statue studies and some anatomy studies which I will post when scanned.

Continued on the Lizardwoman aswell, but this is just the thumb for coming up with an armour design I like. I think I will go with this style.

[cdejong]

Wooooot Lord M that last painting of the lizardwoman looks way cool already! Great studies too :).

[kingkostas]

Really great new things mate.I love the construction and the whole analyze you did in your lizard character.(i think it have some positioning problem in the torso(because the basic guide line was a little more curved).
The anatomy studies are great as always :).Keep pushing the rendering

see ya

[SMILEFACE]

HAHA I REALLY LIKE THE ANATOMY STUDIES i gota try that an the blue pencil sketchs are RAD an the lizard woman RRRRRRRROOOCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKSSSSSSSSSSSS

[LORD M]

cdejong - Thanks a lot man! :)

kingkostas - Hey thanks! Ye I realise now that before I'm gonna make some drawing I want to spend a lot of time on and make as good as possible, I should do studies like I did for this one, instead of starting right away on it as I used to before.

Grandma - Thanks dude. Glad to see ya pop in. :)





Did head studies as you guys have told me, maaaan my heads are horrible when drawing them from memory. I simply can't draw heads. :P Gonna have a goal to make 200 heads untill next sunday, and since I completely failed epicly at the 400 hands for one week I don't want to set too high goals after that. Also included a linestudy I came up with, practising to draw curved lines.

And there's some statue studies I made this week aswell first two were made days ago and the last one was made yesterday. My rendering and shading using pencils is really bad, just sketchy and unstructured, and I must look for new ways to do it. I used col-erase pencils on A5 sketchpad, and my friend told me it shouldn't look like that when using col-erase and that the quality of the paper I use is rubbish. So I guess I will look for better paper as soon as possible. :P

[LORD M]

Some inspirational music.

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Went to life-drawing class this wednesday! :D They got it each wednesday, and might even include the thursday aswell. I will go each time.

Here's my horrible tries at life-drawing.

[kingkostas]

nice flow on the lines.The head seem to have nice structure.Thats nice.I see you start understanding everything in 3d.The life figures are not bad.Actually they have a lot of "motion" and they seem fast and quite accurate.The mistakes will fade away mate.Just keep up the good work :)

Btw i saw that you right kalo mesimeri hehehehe :)
Thnx mate.We say that when we are close to eat lunch somewhere around 1-5 :)

[Janos]

Nice going, haven't really got a lot to say atm. :D

[SMILEFACE]

Haha wicked werks my friend an i quite enjoy yer life drawing some are ok an some are fantastic awesome rockkkkkkkkk just keep going you have what you need just to sharp'n now great job an wicked music insperation i have like 10 tracks added to my yt playlist from yer posts in the cmu thread haha

[LORD M]

Hey thanks for the replies guys! :D I am about to jump into bed and I feel too zombie to answer them without falling asleep in the middle of some sentence.
I am not updating as often as I should, must start updating daily again.



I have been drawing heads, hopefully I will make it with 200 untill sunday, will scan asap. The zoological museum right beside my university have opened, so I will be going there and draw animals and skeletons each chanse I get. And I also continued on the lizardwoman, pushing the rendering as far as I can. Not that much done on the unconvinsing armour yet, most on the skin. redid hand that sucked and replaced head with sword. Critiques and comments are as always welcomed. :)

[Eddieee]

Hey man keep up the good work! Looks like you spent a lot of time working with the anatomy of the lizard man (especially looking at page 6). That level of attention is great!

[kingkostas]

Great i am glad you still working on this piece mate.It goes really nice.Just keep rendering now.The needed adjudgments will be obvious after that part :)
see ya :)

[Koto]

Nice studies on the last page, those spiral ones are really interesting! Keep doing the statue studies, it's where you can test stuff out like pencil rendering.

[Sir Cam]

Your studies are coming out great, I don't know how you have the patients to do all that. Keep it up.

[LORD M]

Kostas - Thanks a lot for your support! :) Heh, drawing from life is way different then drawing from a photo.
And it's pretty intresting that you have several different Thank You for specific times of the day.

Thankies Janos! :D

Hey thanksGrandma! More posts will come. :P

Eddieee - Heya! Glad you visited my sketchbook and thanks for the encouragement! :) I think I must do lotsa studies like this infor some drawing I intend spending lot of time on. I got the idea when I saw all the studies Leonardo Da Vinci did before his drawings (my hero and idol lol).

Thanks Koto! Ye I hoped I would get better curves by doing it, just like I did those Yoitsi studies with lines. Must do LOADS more statue studies!

Hello Sir Cam, thanks a lot for stopping by my sketchy-crap-book. :) I used to not have the patiens for studies untill I realised how much I sucked and my lack of undertanding of anything at all abhorred me so much I decided that I wanted to get a lot better. And after finding inspirational individuals such as MindCandyMan and my friend insanetk here on CA, I finaly realised that it was possible to reach my goals.





Ok, thought I would post some from my life drawing class yesterday. :) Different time on poses and different mediums used, from 1 to 10 minute poses (too bad not longer) and from pen to ink to charcoal. I will do lotsa more using charcoal from now on, it was the most fun to use and I got imo best result! :D

[LORD M]

Ok here's some stuff from this week, all in order from the earliest (some days ago) to the latest (2 hours ago) with varying time in between. Some were done on the bus, might be the reason to the uneven lines. Last two are studies after a photo of a statue and if you don't recognize the last one then either shame on you for not recognizing it or shame on me for doing it too bad. :P I tried my absolute best on rendering these two.

[LORD M]

Failed my daily update, but I will be better on it.


Ok here's some stuff from today and yesterday, spent a lot of time trying to understand how Mentler studied masterstudies and built up a face. I shamefully copied it so I could understand and then tried it out on a Da Vinci painting (in the 3rd pic to the left). And then I tried to using it to create faces on my own, which didn't turn out that well. I got critique from my friend that I draw the same shape all the time on mouths and noses. I realise now that I must do nose, mouth, eyes and ears studies before I go on to more faces.

[Janos]

Nice studies. You sir are really coming along and I will be back!

[Fumble]

You are doing a good amount of studies- keep that up!
And i see that you are attending life-drawing classes, that i good becuase i learn a lot by drawing from life so i hope you do too :)

[LORD M]

Janos - Thanks a lot dude for your current and future support for coming back! :D

Fumble - Hey thanks for visiting my little sketchbook. :) Ye I hope I learn a lot from them aswell, although I currently feel I cannot incorporate that knowledge into my drawings yet. I don't know if it should be instant or how long it will take, I guess it differs from person to person.




I have realised I do way too generic shit poses that make no challenge whatsoever. I MUST start doing more complex 3D-ish poses, every god damn pose in my sketchbook is the same pose! I will start incorprating that into my anatomy studies. And I am not even close to doing as many studies as I should be doing per day, didn't do any at all today, only worked on the lizardwoman. Damn I have slacked off.

Been working on the Lizardwoman character a bit more, refined the rendering on the skin and started rendering the "armour" (typical unconvincing fantasy armour lol).

[LORD M]

Some inspiring music from the greatest pianoplayer ever, Franz Liszt.

goeOUTRy2es







Statue study from life, took around 1 hour less or more I think. Been lazy today with the studies, as usual.

[LORD M]

Another quick thingie before bed. A quick clour study from mind. A bit related to that I am now studying a plant-course, The Evolution and Diversity of Plants. I want to start drawing plants aswell, so I thought since they're so colourfull then they're perfect for colour-studies. :P

[GoGoJojo]

Hey I saw what you wrote about art in the lounge. If you just switch biology for geology, it's the exact same situation with me. Hoping you make it!

[LORD M]

GoGoJojo - Yeah, it's a pretty complex situation for us both. Thanks for cheering me on, and I want you to know that I also hope you will make it aswell. :)

Hehe, I got to hear from my student counselour that there were many biologists and geologists particulary who wanted to do stuff related to art instead of what they were studying.



Quick more complex pose of a skeleton made from memory. Had to look at Mentler to get the pelvis right, and it still ain't right. mst do more pelvis studies and lol just noticed that I made the spine too long.

[LORD M]

Latest horrible-anatomy-horrible-pose crap I got out, for the current CHOW. Got to hear from Krato that the biceps was completely off and that the limbs and the pose is too stiff. Thanks Krato.

Gotta do arm-studies, I suck at arms, badly.


http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=890528&stc=1&d=1264643959

[Nettle_Mountain]

keep up with those anatomy studies definitely, it will pay off

nice rendering on that blue lizardess btw, is it finished?

[dan liimatta]

I don't think you should find a new way, it just takes time to incooperate the soloutions from the study into the final pieces - if you learn how to draw a foot in a certain position and light, with a certain character; but haven't done enough to really master feet (and I haven't, I hate feet) - you will only really be able to use that small piece of information (yet really knowledge) and that will hardly ever come up in one of your own pieces. Instead you always have to learn and learn, thus the value of the studies you are doing - they are great btw - once you gain a good understanding of cloth as a whole making cloth from the mind is no issue, but you need to get their by drawing & painting like crazy.

& you are, så se högt och jobba vidare.

[GHill]

Great work, LORD M! You've got an awesome work ethic, very inspiring.

[krel]

Read your rant on page 2 and..good seeing those studies, man! Just keep em coming. :)

Dont really understand your obsession with the bird/beak-guy thou. It might have looked like an awesome idea at some point but I dont think it really is.

[LORD M]

Hey guys, I have to apologise for not replying to your sketchbooks for a while. I have had so much to do lately in the uni and privately. I will do better.



Nettle_Mountain - Thanks for checking my sketchbook out! Glad you like the rednering of the lizardess (lol funny word I must use that one from now on :P), it's not yet done, still have some small tweaking left to do.

dan liimatta - Big thanks for your encouraging wise words. :) Yeah it is tricky with stuff like the feet as you talked about. My friend insanetk told me that I should instead of copying a Burne Hogarth drawing, as I have done untill now, I should draw it from another angle or multiple angles and thereby I will understand the form much better then I will from just copying the drawing.

And yes I must do cloth studies as you told me, haven't done any at all, but I will change that! Tack så mycket!

GHill - Thanks for visiting my sketchbook and thanks a lot for your comment! Although I feel my work ethic is horrible, I am not doing ner as many studies as I should be doing and I am mostly being lazy and browse dumb sites instead of doing something productive. I need a kick in the ass. :P

krel - Haha! What I am not obsessed with any bird/beak guy. Haven't drawed anything with a beak for ages, might do that now though. :) Thanks a bunch!






Some crap from last week, first some Hogarth "studies" where I mindlessly copied his drawings and learned shit. No more copying poses like that. Did some heads from my mind aswell, nothing important, accidentaly drawed Obama lol. Last ones from #6 and down are some statue studies I did from life yesterday and the day before that.

MUST. WORK. HARDER.

[mariusz]

nice studies, keep it up

[kingkostas]

Great studies.You hard worker, i really love all of these.You are building a great fundamental base here and that will pay you really really soon.Just keep up the great work mate :)

[Sean McClain]

wow great studies of anatomy,... I should be doing those :).

[LORD M]

Great studies.You hard worker, i really love all of these.You are building a great fundamental base here and that will pay you really really soon.Just keep up the great work mate :)

mariusz - Thanks man.

kingkostas - Thanks a lot for your continued support! I will sure as hell keep it up! :D

darknight - Hey thanks, glad you like em. :)



Here's some stuff from wednesdays life-drawing class. #11 though is from memory. From 12 - 17 I used a long bamboo pencil and stood as far as I could from the easel, it was great fun and I am planning to do it more often. :P

[LORD M]

A bit of update on the lizardwoman or "lizardess" lol. Got some details and tweaking left to do, but in whole it is kinda finished.

[Krato]

cool stuff, the tail on the lizard looks a little big.

[Janos]

Nice rendering. It is looking too squeeky clean to me though. Experiment with textures, brushes, different colours (especially on the skin) and just try to get loose.
I would suggest you just finish her off and take her file and just go comletely binkers and experiment with everything you can find on her. Post that one and I will comment again! ;)

[Janos]

Nice rendering. It is looking too squeeky clean to me though. Experiment with textures, brushes, different colours (especially on the skin) and just try to get loose.
I would suggest you just finish her off and take her file and just go comletely binkers and experiment with everything you can find on her. Post that one and I will comment again! ;)

[kingkostas]

Great.You worked so much on this and i am sure you already unlocked new understandings.Even if it is in the need of texture work and such(even if it can be used already on the way you rendered it) i think its great.
Now keep your achievements and go for the next and try to do it faster (and from the first basic construction try to[avoid easily seen proportion errors].And if you make it faster you will not be bored enough to step in the next level playing with textures,different shadings, etc etc

Keep going :)

[LORD M]

Hey thanks Krato, I kinda like the tal that big, gives it imo a bit more "dinosaurish" impression. :P

Janos - Thankies dude! Yes I fully agree with you on it being a bit too clean. You got an really good idea there about going completely experimentaly nuts with brushes, textures and colours on her when I have finished her. Ye I will post it ASAP! :D

kingkostas - Hehe, I'm really gratefull for your comment, and ye I feel I have kinda "leveled up" a bit thanks to this one. :) Very good advice, although I think I'll first go bananas on her as Janos adviced me to, and after that I will do as you said. I am feeling very tempted using your thumbnail tutorial on my next one. :P Thanks man!




Quick something for today. Skeleton fighting, from memory.

[LORD M]

I am doing studies on basic stuff again, I don't understand foreshortening almost anything at all, so I realllllly have to work on it. Some studies from today after trying to understand Hogarth by NOT COPYING his drawings but first reading what he say thouroughly and then try it on my own. Did this insectoid humanoid as a test on foreshortening. Doing more studies tomorrow.

[ZhouPeng]

good study of the characters~
i think i will also learn the construction of people~~~
your sketches inspired me something~~
any way, keep it~
best wishes~~~

[LORD M]

ZhouPeng - Hey thanks a lot for your kind words! I'm glad my little stuff can be inspiring to someone. :)



I've been thinging a bit now, maybe I should like set up a schedule over what to study over the week. Like monday I study the head all day, tuesday the torso, wednesday the arms, thursday the hands (they're important and should have a day for themselves), friday the legs, and on saturday I can do whatever I like (it's like saturday candy-day :P) and on sunday I'll do poses which will be as complex and challenging as possible. What you think about this, is it a good schedule or should I take away or add something else? Would be really happy to get some thoughts on this. :)

Here's crap I have done since the last time I updated. I know... not much at all... I will be going to Tenerif with my class for 8 days or so, I will try and draw some there, maybe landscapes.

First 3 are statue and architecture studies from life. Then one from memory, the 5th till the 8th are Hogarth studies (damn I copied), then one Warhammer thing, and at last some I copied from an painting but drawed in other angles (this painting: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/SiegeOfAcre1291.jpg)

[SMILEFACE]

HAHA WICKED STUDIES THE ANATOMY AN VALUES RRRRROCKKKKKKKK ma favs are the skeleton push the other one down an the guy riding the beast is just WICKED AWESOME RAD!!!!!!!

[LORD M]

Hey thanks Grandma. :)


Here's a quick one I did before heading off to the Canarie Islands. WIll be going in some hours, so see ya guys!

[kingkostas]

Thats the thing i like most about you mate.Your studies are definitely full of thought and not simply copying and such.And thats why you improve very fast.Keep up everything you do.
The schedule is great as long as you keep going :)

[Janos]

Some one has been busy. I like the Khorne guys. I think you treat the images you do generelly too similar in different areas. Try different saturation, value, sharpness, edges to guide the eye more!

[LORD M]

Hey guys, back from Tenerif and the Canarie Islands, it was amazing. :D Hardly did any drawings there, I will post the few I made later.


kingkostas - Hey thanks man! I really appriciate your words and the support! :)

Janos - Thank you, those are some very good advices. I feel I get really snow-inned on some parts as you say. :/




Shit I did today from imagination, later realised how bad it was when my friend pointed out that the pose was impossible and that the flow was broken in the pelvis, and all the other misstakes as you can see. He suggested I would study the muscles that goes from the pelvis to the ribcage and study them in movement aswell - so that I will do today.

[J-P Nihtinen]

im still not that good artist but.. heres my opinions:

I like this last one, but consider taking more time and focus on your work, think what you are doing. "take a step further" as you have done here before ^^ you have done some progress.

keep it up ^^

-J-P

[LORD M]

J-P Nihtinen - Kiitos! :) Yes I fully agree, I have like stopped thinking when I am drawing. Taking it a step further is really hard, I am not sure how I'll be able to do that right now, seems almost like I am taking a step back at the moment.


Soooo much I missunderstood about the ribcage and spine. I have to do this before starting on the abdominal muscles and the schedule. The spine is way thicker then I thought, especially at the base. And my friend pointed out to me that I have completely fucked up on the ribcage when using the cranium-cube method.

[tariqart]

Love the lycan pic man. If you take down the sharpness of the moon and the clouds, it'll really pop out the character. That being said I reall dig your SB. it shows ups and downs but that is what an artists SB is all about. We all need to go through times of inspiration and faliure. Faliure is imperrative as we learn by our mistakes and strive to do better and thus improve. This is the journey of an artist so don't get yourself down. It is awesome to see you are back on the wagon..;)
Keep drawing man your work ROCKS! Kudos,
T.

[Lander]

oj! On the way to greatness. I have rarely seen such dedication to anatomy studies. And you are doing it with a systematic approach that sure will cut corners in the long run. You are doing great. It's such a ride to go from page one to eight. Keep it up.

[LORD M]

tariqart - Wow thanks man, really kind words. :) Yeah I guess it's just a part of the journey, without downs I guess one wouldn't appriciate the ups as much. :P

Lander - Tackar! Uppskattar verkligen det du säger. I will keep it up!




Here's some crap I did today from memory, not good enough. Pose is just awfull.

[kingkostas]

i dont know if you understand it or no but with that things or to say it better with the way you choosed to approach progress you develop a very strong weapon that i already see in your works.Dont say more things on that other than just keep up using your head and your research.
keep up the good work

[SMILEFACE]

Haha your badly posed:ap::ao::aw: HAHA MADE MA DAY great perspectives keep up the GOODS BROTHER :D:D:D

[strange1900]

Your skeletons remind me so much of the sketches using a simplified human form by some Italian renaissance artist my art teacher showed me. It's gonna bug me all day trying to figure out which one XD but your sketch book is amazing so that should make up for the irritation caused by this little brain teaser :P Oh, I was really fascinated by what you did with two point perspective to help you blocking in the ribcage in that study. It really captures the idea of 'constructing' the human form when you think about perspective having been rediscovered in order to do accurate architectural drawings. There's nothing for it, I'll just have to make your sketchbook into a bookmark now XD.

[LORD M]

kingkostas - Yes you're right, on the spot. I had the wrong mood when I made these and I think I got frustrated and forgott to have fun as one should do. Thanks a lot man, I appriciate it.

Grandmaaaaaa - Hehe thanks dude. Glad for having your support. :)

strange1900 - Wow that is a big compliment, thank you! :D If I'm going to be honest I learned this method when I studied the art teacher Mentler here on conceptart.org, he kinda approaches anatomy studies in a way the old masters of the reniscanse did, and he have studied them a lot. I really recommend for everyone to check out his thread "Book of Bones":
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=26748





I have been doing head studies all day yesterday (mainly female because I discovered I am worse at doing female faces then male faces which is a bit of a handicap), will post them later tonight if I'm not too lazy to scan them :P, so in the meanwhile I'll post 2 things I did today:

Zaxzr is now 264 and4 demimoonds old, look how happy Zaxzr got by the suprise party his friends at Dryxf 10 put up for him. Speedpainting (kinda) took 2 hours I think.

2nd one is something I thought up when eating breakfast (maybe it was that tune that caused it...), a mermaid accidentaly being caught by a group of fishermen. Sketchy stage and I will continue it, I mainly went for facial gestures in this and tried to only work from mind. Any comments or critique is more then welcomed. :)

[kingkostas]

interesting composition.This would probably need a strong enviro, cause horizontal canvas gives more depth and there is a need to fill the depth here :)
The mermaid seems bigger than the other persons and its like i see a mermaid with some dwarves pulling her out or something.If thats what you want then ok, if not, just select and make the mermaid smaller or something.
Lol i saw my previous post and i must say that sometimes i laugh with how bad i write in english now and then.Maybe i was drunk again.

[PermaN00b]

Lord M thanks for dropping by my sketchbook, and thanks for the great advice! wow, there is a LOT of great work here. you are definately doing it right. your paintings are looking really good. you seem to have a pretty decent grasp of color. keep up with the anatomy studies, they are are definately paying off for you. i can really notice your lines becoming much more natural and fluid in the later posts. also, your shading on some of the later pencil sketches is REALLY beginning to take shape. it has a graphic quality that i like. i would be interested to see some of that stuff finished up and inked. i think your bird creatures are pretty cool. keep working them cause they are some of your strongest OC. i wish i could give some good advice but i dont think that i am very qualified! lol. so ill just say keep cracking away at the anatomy and keep up the hard work. also i think that pencil is one of your stronger mediums, so keep them coming!

[RedSquirrel]

Looks like your hard at work studying, those muscles up there look really good. All your energy makes me feel incredibly lazy!

[Helltroll]

Keep laying the hammer down on those anatomy studies!
Minor crit: Some of the studies look wonkily weighted, like the pecs and biceps are rather large in comparison to the abs, which look like they taper inward somewhat. Definitely work on the face too, I can't wait to see what you'll be pumping out in a month or two! I've seen a bit of improvement from the beginning to the end of this page alone!

[LORD M]

kingkostas - Hey thanks a lot on the feedback! :) Ye I agree now when you say it, she's like twice as tall as them. :P I dunno, I kinda like that idea now when I think about it, a really tall mermaid. But how would I achieve that illusion, if I want the men to look normal sized? Maybe the props I will place in the scene can help if I do them the right size.

PermaN00b - Hehe, thanks YOU for popping in here aswell and for the kind words. :) Ye I like the birdcreatures a lot, I will do many more of them. :P Everyone is qualified giving advice to one degree or another, and you gave good advice I think. Thanks!

RedSquirrel - Hey thanks a lot! :D

Helltroll - Thanks a lot for the critique and kindness, dude! :D I know I am bad with weighting, and how mass should be placed aswell. I am not really sure how I should study that, from photos?



These are some drawings I made when I ws on my trip to Tenerif, Canarie Islands west of Africa. First are some Vanderpooel eye-studies. Then stuff from memory and a still-life drawing of a crab using my colouring pencil (col-erase).
Also, Krato gave me some really good critique on the heads I draw - I make bubbleheads. :P And when he pointed it out, I could see it everywhere, so now I gotta really FOCUS on what I am doing and not just dick around like a tard. And I should draw more from photos, which I hardly ever do.

[LORD M]

Ok some more stuff from the this week. Went to lifedrawing again, did head-studies and leg-studies, also some statue studies focusing on the head. The last one is something I did to test what I have learned, drawn from memory.

Right now I prioriate head-studies a bit, because my heads are looking quite terrible. I know how to make them in profile but not in 3D space. I also have been slacking with the digital art, gonna continue on the mermaid pic I think, then start on something new. :)

[LORD M]

Ok another small thing before going to bed. Trying out studying some vehicle design, perspective, shinyness and colours. :P

[kingkostas]

hello mate.keep up the studies you do.
About the previous piece, i think the dwarven feature can be found in their legs.Maybe making them longer or something.Dunno try and see, or go on with another thing.The multiple person composition already gave you experience at some point, its up to you now

(EDIT: oo some very nice elements in the last one.Its obvious that your rendering is advanced after doing you lizard character)

[Krato]

aye yo no more bubble heads haha thats good, keep it that way :P on your last piece bring the purple and some reds out so they are under the plane, it would help you see it allot better.. as of now its conflicting with the equally dark background.

[LORD M]

kingkostas - Thanks for the advice man, I did a quick elongating of the legs and it instantly looked better. Thanks! :)

Krato - Hehe, Silent Hill bubble head nurses is following me, I just gotta beat them with the steel-pipe. :v And thank a lot for the advice, I thought it ooked a bit strange somehow but couldn't put my finger on it.



Here's some quick crap I crapped out in Painter. Some stuff from memory and practising mechanical stuff, I want to get better at drawing vehicles and such.

[Krato]

nice update but its looking a little flat in the first piece

[SMILEFACE]

haha happy bithday to zaxrz for the WIN HAHA an AWESOME STUDIES AN THE LAST ENVIRO A THE CYBORGS RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKK K!!!!!!!!!!

[Janos]

Nice studies as always. Your noses in the portraits seem a little large at times, but that is better then them being miniscule.
I am eager to see you develop even more!

[kingkostas]

hello mate.Check the functionality in some of the parts of your last chars.Some parts seems strange to function.
You can now have the confidence to work in more things.Very nice mate, keep going

[kingkostas]

hello mate.Check the functionality in some of the parts of your last chars.Some parts seems strange to function.
You can now have the confidence to work in more things.Very nice mate, keep going

[LORD M]

Krato - Note taken, gotta focus harder and stop slacking off, thanks for the critique and your support! :)

Grandma - Haha thanks a lot dude! Your posts always cheers me up. :D

Janos - Yo thanks for coming back! I didn't realise the noses were like that, I should do nose studies. Infact I haven't really done any proper nose/mouth/ear studies at all. And ye I am also quite eager too see if I can get somewhere in the future! :)

kingkostas - Ye, I gotta get a better understanding of how mechanical stuff really works. Thanks a lot for the critique and the support. :)



Been working on project report today and the last weeks, me and my lab-partner are the first in the world to sequence Salvia brussonetii - and we got result aswell WOHO!!! So not much time for drawing actually but I must pump out something, so here's a rat-man or something - I think I'll scrap the mermaid drawing, I feel it have gone so long since last time I worked on it. Inspired by Freia in Final Fantasy IX, I kinda like these anthromorphic characters in games and such - and it's quite fun to combine human and animal anatomy. Especially since I have gone pretty many animal anatomy courses and cut up seals and bambi and everything. :P

[LORD M]

Continued a bit on the above piece, decided to make it into a busy street full of strange people and creatures, bartering and selling stuff. As kingkostas said, it is good if I start working with big environments with lots of people in it. So far I haven't used any references and done everything from mind because I want to train that. although I do admitt that I looked up the arm on the rat-guy that is facing the wiever, took a look in Bammes book but I still feel very unsure about it and it looks a bit off somehow. Gotta find some reference maybe for that.

Also I am sorry for not replying to sketchbooks so fast, the uni gene sequencing project is killing me, but now we finished the first version of it and handed in, so I will get a small break to draw and such. :P

[Krato]

looks good, and less cheesy as well :P

[JeffX99]

Hey Lord M - thanks for stopping by my SB - thought I'd return the favor! I love the characterized stealth/jet (maybe not the background but...). Do you know how hard it is to A) design a decent stealth that seems believable and isn't a direct rip of current tech B) make an anthropomorphic plane?! Let alone do both! Anyway - good job!

[LORD M]

Haha, thanks Krato! :P

JeffX99 - Thanks for returning the favour! :D Yeah I really need to work on the environments, a lot. And I'm glad you liked the design. :)



Oh and I recently saw the movie Cloudy with a chanse of meatballs, I really loved it, it was so well done and the humour and story was amazing. :) Another thing that I really liked that uplifted the movie a lot was the soundtrack, thought I would post a part here, really inspiring when drawing.

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Krato have told me I should do more studies after photo reference. So here's one I did, it's infact my first "painting after reference colour study", made in Corel Painter. I will do more pencil and paper after photo reference, and I will try and upload my drawings from this weeks life drawing session, but I am so LAAAAAZZZZYYYYYY!

[LORD M]

Haven't done anything really productive today, blargh. Although I tried some character creation, creates this guy I named Baronco, he doesn't like wearing shoes. I didn't pay much attention to anatomy and wow, it got completely fucked up at many parts haha.