Jeff Learns to Jraw :: and goes to pre-college...

[`king]

For pre college stuff see bottom of page.


Hey guys. My name is Jeff King, hence the screen name, used to have a name that soudned alot better when I was 12, but I'm going to stick with this one. :D
After some epic lurking, I finally decided to post a sketchbook! D:
I'm 15 and in Sydney.
Uhh.. I started I guess in December, as in, stopped with the manga crap (mostly....) and started learning anatomy and stuff.
So. I'm dumping my current sketchbook... It's A3 so pictures will have to do. :( Sorry.

Be honest.

Thanks
j

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[`king]

Edit:
Ok, This post feels useless so I'm going to throw in my English assignment, basically I was meant to create a storyboard for an advertisement to promote some campaign.

So yeah,

edit: How do I move attachments to another post lol.

[`king]

Oki. watched another Hale one.

And some 30 second thingos. I think I'm getting better at these :D. Should do them more often, aye.

[`king]

Yay, third(?) day on this site.
School starts tomorrow, yay.

Some more Hale of the arm.
SoM on feets.
6 - 30 second poses. You can kind of make them out now :D
And a charcoal attempt. It looks better far far away.

Should read more Loomis and stuff, huh.
How does one go about studying Bridgman?

[`king]

77 - 30 second poses.
Hooray for not doing any holiday assignments...

changed grips. weird experience.

[Jordan85]

talented for just 15. keep drawing

[Eiki]

Hey,

some nice work in here!

I like that you are trying some different stuff (style and shading)
but that you focus on the basic anatomy things.

Keep going! :)

[DoubleThink]

there's some great poses in there, try & and put down more & more detail in those posemaniacs studies everytime.

Keep at it :)

[3vil]

This is some great understanding of the anatomy.
Shading is nice,although I think,you should give more thought to the light sources,in order to get your figure looking really pro...
All in all,it's great!Keep it up!

[`king]

Okay, so basically I woke up at 3 a.m. this morning and couldnt go back to sleep.
I checked my SB and was delighted to find posts that weren't mine! I sat there with a huge grin on my face. You guys made my day, seriously. Thank you so much.

@Jordan85
Thanks! :D Never have been called talented before haha.

@Eiki
Thanks :)
That means alot to me.

@DoubleThink
Really? :D
Will do! 30 seconds is just such a short amount of time...

@3vil
Thank you, and yeah I agree. Light sources tends to skip my mind. Will practice more.

edit: hmm it didnt post the rest of my message.

Attached are the poses i did this morning. Not very pretty, haha.
Hm, and a charcoal I started this morning and finished when I got home from school.

Trying to follow Loomis' book on heads, having trouble placing jaw when head is viewed from low angle. help?
semi-manga eyes are also haunting me.

cheers
j

[`king]

Random charcoal thing. From imagination, trying to get light down, not working too well.
More 30 second figures.
Some studies, I guess, mainly the arm, with a different grip.

[`king]

Didn't update yesterday.
Did a study on the pelvis in perspective. Really was having difficulty. Kind of got the hang on it with the help of some of Mentler's stuff.
More 30 seconds.

Today... more 30 seconds. Did one page in pen, just for the heck of it.
worked on the head. shading is bothering me. having trouble with noses and jaws. :/

j

[DStraX]

ey, thanks for comment :D I like your sketches alot! keep drawing

[`king]

Well day 8 I think.
Was at friends house yesterday. Its huge.
Not much done today either. Assessment block is coming up. Studying, kinda.
10 second pose warm up. Moved on to 30 seconds then ended on one minute ones.
Later tried again, but focused on emphasising gesture and rhythm and stuff rather than just copying it.
Random sketch.

Can't wait till I hit day 100. Almost a tenth there, yay.

j

[`king]

Studying math is great fun.
Want to rearrange my room. Impossible.
Want a drawing board, this is an awkward position to be drawing in.

Didn't get to update yesterday.

Will start with SoM-Muscles soon. 2 more Hale lectures to go.
j

[jNeumann]

Nice start man, you're pretty good for 15. One thing I would say is to work on those eyes, I see a big manga influence : P Keep up the good work.

[`king]

@jNeumann
Ahh. Thanks man! And yeah I agree. Not really sure how to go about eyes :P

Oki so, Some eye studies, because I had been putting them off for long enough. Some from imag. Also tried to put them onto a head, and I did a pretty good head! Like holy crap. It was a fluke, though.
Poses from ref
And some 30 seconds.

[`king]

eh. examms. assignments. oh the suffering. woe is me etc etc.



:D

[`king]

Yay update.

Exam block like almost over.

This is all my managed to accomplish in that time. shameful. ._.
Now that it's over with I can actually be productive with my time. Exams are so silly.

My grindfest rave etc weekend plans have been _destroyed_ by my brother. or more specifically his friend.

Anyway. That one pose is shocking, you'll see it.

Well, comments are really appreciated :)

[DoubleThink]

Hey man, the poses are looking good.

Try & do a few pages differently, they will help you look at your subject differently:

-Do a few without lifting your pencil from the paper
-Do a few blind, without looking at your paper
-Do a few where you make circles constantly & you press down harder where you think the stress is on the subject.
e.g. the subject is down on his knees, the knees will be almost black & the rest should be lighter.

Keep in mind these are excercices. They probably won't look all that great.
But remember football players have to do excercices that have nothing to do with the game aswell, but those excercices do help them perform better on the field.


Also try some still life's: cubes, cillinders, ... easy geometrical forms & focus on the shadows.

Keep hitting it hard dude ;)

[`king]

@DoubleThink
Thanks man.
Right after I read your comment I got capped :P
Keep forgetting about these. Really should try them. In fact I will!
Next update...

Just going to dump whatever I did in the past... 15 days or so. Uploading when capped is such a pain. Needing more internet.

Unrelated, but I seriously hate a couple teachers that teach art in the school. Soooooo fucking (excuse the potty mouth :P) patronising and arrogant. I don't even do art as an elective!

Anyway, so I scanned a bunch of the pages of doodles that I rip out of my books at school. As you can see, they basically reek of listening-to-my-teacher.
And occasionally I get charming addons or labellings to my doodles, lol.

Anyway! Comments are always greatly appreciated :D

Oh yeah, I'm thinking of taking some classes... and also thinking of where I wanna go for a tertiary education...

[Fumble]

Yea exams sucks. I just had a whole month where i couldn't do art :(

You are really good for a 15 year old. The pose drawings are coming along fine - so keep doing those. The value-study is good as well - is it charcoal?

Cheers :)

[Liz Edwards]

Good stuff, your poses are getting better and your heads are improving fast. Much better than I could do at your age. You better keep it up! :)

[lennon]

Great stuff, but try to get more accurated with the proportions. Perhaps you may try to use cylinders for the limbs and focus in keeping their size.

[`king]

@Fumble
Thanks :) (And yeah. Thank god their over.... Most. pointless. thing. ever.)
And yes, it is charcoal :D

@Liz Edwards
heheh :P Thanks!

@lennon
Thanks. and yeah you're right. I'm annoyed i didn't think of that earlier

Okiedokie. *tried* some of the stuff DoubleThink suggested...
Umm. I filled my sketchbook front-to-back for the first time! Yayyy.
Anyway, didn't get much time to update because of an english assignment (and also partly because I'm rather lazy.) which I've attached. It's meant to be a visual representation of the poem "Dolce et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen. I rushed the coloring. (It was two in the morning!)
And then another page of doodles.

:D

[`king]

Yesterday's update.

Really should do some of my own stuff, like complete works n stuff.
Thinking of attending pre-college online at Academy of Art University :)

Need to learn plane-things of the head.

[`king]

Yay! Attending precollege! :D gonna be heaps fun.
I picked: Intro. to Illustration, Comic Book Illustration, Graphic Design and Figure drawing :)

Anyway, I should update daily but cbf scanning. A pile of crap always seems to build up atop my scanner...
So, just some more 30second poses. I reached 200 Woot.
And a koi. Dunno why. I really need to draw more stuff from imagination.
Oh and a sphere, for the peer project thread..which I'm probably going to end up not posting the thread...

Anyway, comments are always appreciateddddd. :D
Thanks

j

[Jamie Romoser]

Your deffiantly heading in the right direction.
Keep it up! -Omerta

[`king]

@OmertA
Thanks for commenting :)
And that's good to know! : ))))

Yay. So First day of precollege a couple days ago. It's pretty fun.
So, here's what I've done for figure drawing. (cbf going through attachments)

http://i633.photobucket.com/albums/uu55/_king93/precollege/DSC01820.jpghttp://i633.photobucket.com/albums/uu55/_king93/precollege/DSC01821.jpg
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Those were mass gesture...and now linear.. you can see me failing at first lol, and then getting slightly better by the end of it :P

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and stuff.

http://i633.photobucket.com/albums/uu55/_king93/precollege/DSC01835.jpghttp://i633.photobucket.com/albums/uu55/_king93/precollege/DSC01837.jpg
http://i633.photobucket.com/albums/uu55/_king93/precollege/DSC01836.jpg

yeah. mass gesture is totally not my thing.
j

[sanakris]

Your off to a good start man. Gesture drawings are good to learn gesture. I heard somewhere that you learn anatomy like proportions and such from books and your sketchbook. It's good that you have discipline from the start it'll really carry you far. Remember that Perseverance is key. I look forward to seeing more of your posts. Happy drawing :)

I took AAU Pre-college online too last year. :D Helps the growth a lot. And your charcoal renderings have improved vastly and rapidly.

[Jamie Romoser]

keep up the hard work

[Chompo]

15? Great motivation at a young age!
Just keep up with the studying and..imaginating(?) (:
you're doing great

[Helioth]

Hey King Jeff,
interesting posts, keep it up,
you'll be glad you did when you're my age ;D

[`king]

What the random bump? lol

sanakris: Thanks man! :D You took pre-college too? That's really awesome! What subjects(? courses?) did you take?
OmertA: Thanks! :) And thanks for commenting again
Chompo: hahah thank you :) :yayca:
Helioth: heheh, I'm sure I will. Thanks for commenting (:<

Oki so just dumping the assignments i've done. cbf attachment manager lol.

http://i633.photobucket.com/albums/uu55/_king93/precollege/1_1_King-2.jpg
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[DazDaryl]

wow, i really like what your doing and where your going.

you have a bright future ahead of you.

Good one Jeff!!

[sanakris]

O.O Dang you really did improve a lot from the classes from just a few weeks. I'm impressed with the perspective and figure drawing. Wow really stay with it.

I took like you Figure Drawing, Graphic Design, Comic Book Illustration and Still Life Painting. If you have a chance Still Life is a good class for learning about color and observation.

[`king]

DazDaryl: Thanks! :) I rally appreciate your comments

sanakris: Dang. I was totally thinking of doing still life painting - it was a toss up between that and graphic design. Though it's still fun. and thanks for commenting again! :D I really appreciate your encouraging words :))

Small update:
http://i633.photobucket.com/albums/uu55/_king93/precollege/5_1_King.jpg
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http://i633.photobucket.com/albums/uu55/_king93/precollege/5_1_King-1.jpg
http://i633.photobucket.com/albums/uu55/_king93/precollege/4_2_King.jpg

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[ImaGEEnation]

Keep doing what you're doing, man! You're going places! :)

[`king]

ImaGEEnation: I will, heh >:) Thanks for commenting

Some more assignments and stuff. And bridgman... I really should do more.
Comments, crits whatever are really appreciated! :)
j


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[sanakris]

Awesome man :D Your studies are really paying off. Keep at it. Don't slow down with your progress.

[`king]

sanakris: Awesomee! thanks for commenting and your constant support! Really appreciate it man.

The Like Minds Collective was fun - heaps scary. Fail life drawing, lol. Met some AWESOME people.

Anyway. Pre college dump.
http://i633.photobucket.com/albums/uu55/_king93/precollege/8_1_King-1.jpg
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[Fumble]

you got some really nice life drawings. How long did this (http://i633.photobucket.com/albums/uu55/_king93/precollege/8_1_King.jpg) one take you? charcoal?

[`king]

Fumble: Hey, thanks for commenting. :) Um, about an hour or more, I dunno, and yep, charcoal.

Not much of an update:

http://i633.photobucket.com/albums/uu55/_king93/precollege/10_1_King-1.jpghttp://i633.photobucket.com/albums/uu55/_king93/precollege/9_2_King-1.jpghttp://i633.photobucket.com/albums/uu55/_king93/precollege/10_1_King.jpg

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[`king]

Haha. I decided to mess around in photoshop, the result didn't completely suck, which was a surprise...
I should start practicing with photoshop...

j

http://i633.photobucket.com/albums/uu55/_king93/face.jpg

[`king]

Well thats the end of pre-college... Back to studiesss...

http://i633.photobucket.com/albums/uu55/_king93/precollege/12_1_King.jpg
http://i633.photobucket.com/albums/uu55/_king93/precollege/M12_logo_King.jpg
http://i633.photobucket.com/albums/uu55/_king93/precollege/12_1_King-1.jpg ew.

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[jigje]

What a fantastic start to what Ill bet becomes a great book 'king. Its so varied, I guess thats school forcing you to do different things but its marvelous to see. I look forward to more man.

[sanakris]

Amazing man, your really improving. Remember the foundations from AAU, it'll really take you far. You've improved so much in a 6 week period.

For your digital portrait. It's really good for some practice. Remember your proportions. All of your proportions are correct, except the lips. Just make them a little bigger. Besides that it's way better than my first digital painting.

The figure drawings are really taking off. You should look for some local drawing groups or something.

As always keep on drawing from imagination and life. Your really doing an awesome job. :)