Boodle's stuff (CRITIQUE always welcome!)

[Caboodle]

Oh my god... I am actually posting something here, never thought I would be taking that step...
Anyway, I am a seventeen years student of a school which focuses on art, and try my best to improve and to be honest: To once be able to depicture my ideas just the way they pop up in my mind. Heh, you sure all know that, right? You have this stunning image in your mind, but your depiction of it just makes you bang your head at your desk...
Currently I am working on a webcomic and several other things, but mostly I am just sketching around, trying to get a feeling for figures/anatomy/perspective/colouring etc. etc.


I thought I could join this community because I practically daily drool over the awesome pieces of art that can be found in this forum, and I just think this is the exact place to grow as an artist.
So I joined to receive some new imput, to get critique, to be inspired, and to improve.
So yeah... here I am. :) And I hope I am good enough to be worth looking at, or even good enough not to be laughed at. Heh. ^^°




EDIT: Updated profilepicture


EDIT June 2010: One year gone, so it's time for a résumé....

What have I improved?
- My understanding for anatomy
-My linework (from messy sketchy to a more easily readable style)
- My thumbnails (not quite evident in the sketchbook, but in my work overall)
- My quickness
- The understanding of forms and light and shadow

What do I need to improve?
- Anatomy
- Composition
- colourtheory
- Perspective
- "drawing from imagination"
- All other mediums besides graphitepens
- Free and experimental drawing


What do I need to get rid of?
- My fear of failure
- My arrogance
- "Comfort zones" (aka drawing faces all day long)
- My laziness (I do study, but I could do a lot more)
- The self-destructive thinking


So...I am curious to see how this list will change in June 2011..





And please, feel free to give me critique, after all I want to improve. :)

[Caboodle]

(Not that I want to push my thread up, heh, compared to others this thread should probably be buried anyway. XD )

Kind of overworked the picture of the dryad and the fire.
I didn't like the composition and how stiff and boring it was.

What do you think? Is this one better?
It is also still a WIP, but I am wondering if I should keep the characters shading and colourpalette this way, or if I should work more "realistic" and add a colourgradient of her natural colours to the shading and the light of the fire.
What do you think?
And please criticize, if you find anything weird/out of place :)

[Emil_J.]

Welcome to CA :yayca:
For a 17y/o you are doing really good (i hardly knew what a pencil looked like at 17 :P)
as for your latest pic, maybe you could give the character a blue'ish color? i dunno i really suck a coloring (there is a long list i could go though, but ill just say color for now :P)

btw: your deviantart link is broken

cheers!

[Caboodle]

Hey, thanks, Fumble! :)
(got to take a look on your sketchbook as well! n.n )

Hrmm, yep, you are maybe right... blue could be a good contrast to the mostly yellow fire, so it should work better.. Thanks for the suggestion!
Nah, amen to that. XD I could improve so many things in my art. So much to learn and so little time. :/


And I now fixed the link, hopefully it is working properly now. :)

[maeshanne]

I really like the first one, impressive for 17years old

[lalali]

i agree with fumble, some cooler colors could be used in the characters shadows. good start! and you're definitely on your way to doing well, only being seventeen now ^^

[Caboodle]

Thank you both very much :)
I try hard to improve, both digitally and in traditional media... at least I hope there is some progress visible. *ehem* That's why I came here. I thought this site could provide some new imput and new ideas, a new directory.


And I already worked over the picture with some cooler colours, and it definitely looks more balanced now. Thank you both for the suggestion!
I will post an update of the picture along with some sketches within the next days. - Don't want to spam with only a little overworked WIP. ;)

[Trudy]

hey ^^
(it´s Cheezy in case you´re confused)
sorry I´m so late >_>

so lets start:
I love the feeling of the first one. It´s not technically perfect, but one of those pieces where you just forget about all the technics while looking at it. Somehow it has a feeling of a sunny day o me.

so next the other two wasy ones: the bird is really cute, although I´d maybe like it better without the blue backgrounf directly behind it, or with a background that isn´t echoing it´s form so much.

the nude one is a good practise. I like the contrast. it´s lines are a bit wobbly but I don´t know how much effort you wanted to put into it- and brushes are everyones own choice. ;)
I prefer bold ones at the moment, and not too thin ones...

the second one (+ 2nd version): hmm... I´m not very sure about it. all in all they have very different mood for me.
the first version: as you probably noted yourself it´s lacking contrast (you corrected it in the second one)
I like the composition more - but thats only personal I think because I can´t tell you why. Waht I see is, that theres an anatomy problem in her neck-area. Its looks strange maybe a bit too wide, because her neck and head nearly have one line >_> it´s really hard to explain. I think a bit of a longer chin and proper shadow would solve much.

I painted over it a bit - because I always tend to see whats wrong while painting: so here the outcome I hope you don´t mind *hides*

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y16/Grinsekatze/ferthyn_changed.jpg

and I just found this one wich proves, that maybe her left shoulder is too long ... I don´t know I´m no genious either ...
click (http://images.google.de/imgres?imgurl=http://images.inmagine.com/img/inmagineasia/ins036/ins036001.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.inmagine.com/ins036/ins036001-photo&usg=__takG7LcO0pAR9kcujnLRVVQDspE=&h=400&w=267&sz=32&hl=de&start=25&um=1&tbnid=F3gX1ssLD_XFUM:&tbnh=124&tbnw=83&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dhuman%2Blooking%2Bdown%26ndsp%3D20%26 hl%3Dde%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:de:official%26sa%3DN%26start %3D20%26um%3D1)
second version:
I like the expression it gives. she really looks sad. and I can see that without much seeing her face so great bodylanguage :) - and she really looks like shes walking. I envy your feeling for the body here.
but what I can see of her face so far looks not all too well. her mouth is too much in the left (from my viewpoint) and the angle of her nose is strange. also her headshape especially how much you see of her forehead and tophead is bugging me... but I have great problems with such angles on my own so I´m not sure at all. it could be just me...

an advice I can give you to this version is : think out carefully about the color.

while in the first on its pretty cold for a burning environment - it´s all over warm in the second. Now the difference is: in the first on you have more values to play with in my opinion while the siluette you can only see of her limits those when you want to keep it somewhat realistic. so to get her as a viewpiont apart from the background maybe you can give her some darkish cooler shadows.
^^"

so to conclusion I want to save my head by saying that it´s of course just all my personal opinion and my eyes are as imperfect as my artistic skill. (as my english lol)

bye *waves*

[Caboodle]

Hey, thanks a lot for stopping by, Trudy! :D

And also thanks for the critique so far!
Your comment about the first version makes me feel like developing it further. I almost tossed it away again, but why not finish both? Could be a good practice. :)
Thank you also for the suggestions anatomywise. - I only disagree with your edits at her head.
It seems like the nervousness made me forget mentioning things like that again, but the character is not human, and has some altered features.
The dryads, as I designed them, are very androgynous. The females don't even have breasts.
Also they are a bit smaller than common humans, and their heads are very oval-shaped, and because of it's heaviness the neck is more muscular and thicker, their eyes (without iris, just pupils) are further apart which makes the nosebridge a bit wider. Also their noses are very underdeveloped.
Furthermore their chins are drawn back, almost sunken in.
Also they only have four fingers/toes and are tatooed over the whole body.

(That's kinda a rough sketch to show the form of the head in profile:
------> http://i43.tinypic.com/eiwk6.jpg


Jeez, I know how this sounds now... as if I would be making that up just to elude critique, and it's kind of awkward that I overlooked that the whole time... but well.. such things happen... ^^°
But nevermind: I thank you very much for your patience and the time you put in to give me a proper critique: I value it, really!
And I am going to take a look at the things you mentioned about the first and the second piece, and try to overwork it. :)


Thanks again!

[Trudy]

don´t worry >_>
it´s a good parctise for me. I often see that something is wrong - but I find it hard to figure out what...

and with their headshape explained everything looks well ^____^ of course
I´m looking forward to see more.

*hugs*

[Caboodle]

Trudy: Well, I appreciate the critique - So just feel free to criticize my pictures whenever you feel like there is something wrong. :) *rehug* n.n




Little spamupdate!
But without the WIP of the dryad, because I kinda forgot to transfer it to the laptop. So it is stuck at home while I am now here in my own flat for schoollife. Heh, happens all the time!

Anyway, nothing of great interest, just some studies I scribbled during school of my classmates/one teacher when they weren't looking. Much fun!

And then a bit older feet-study, the "3d - turnaround" - foot of posemaniacs.com, and a ribcage drawn from an awesome anatomy-book of Louise Gordon, also a bit out of date. ;)


Maybe I'll come up with some better sketches the next days :D

[Caboodle]

Thought I could post a few things.... I haven't been here for a horribly long time. :)


I tried to practice as much as I was able to... especially human anatomy, but I plan to refresh my perspective-knowledge as well, also get a better grasp at colourtheory and the dramaturgy of a picture... gnargh, so much to learn and so little time...


First pic are two torso studies, a portrait I drew, and a redesign of the dryad I've been showing off earlier.

Second one are simple clothing studies I drew from some free style-magazine...

Third picture are some sketches I did while sitting in the bus on my way home... took me six minutes in total, I think...

Fourth one are two veeeery quick studies I did in a coffeeshop. 40 seconds each? Maybe a minute for the left one...


Last picture is a speedpainting I did within two hours.
Oh look, her hair is on colour... :P

[ilmenhin]

I love the last batch of sketches you've posted- particularly the redesign of your dryad and the girl in the bottom right corner of your clothing study. I think your forms are coming along great- I have had so much problems with anatomy and proportions at 17- but I never really bothered until I found CA. ^^; Keep updating~

[Caboodle]

Oh god, my updates are amazingly slow, aren't they? ._.


Anyway... just turned eighteen yesterday (yay!), and looking ahead for year 2010, promised myself to practice a whole lot more after a very long creativity/motivation-gap that still feels very comfortable in my mind, and just won't go away. Nah, I guess all of you have such times, don't you? :)
But at least I was amused that I managed to fill a 100 pages sketchbook within three/four months. Only schoolscribbles, though.


Anyway... I hereby swear to update this sketchbook weekly. - It's about time.

And now restarting with a bunch of new sketches.

First one are characterstudies of a project of mine,

Second one are simple clothing studies.

Third one are movementstudies, posemaniacs.com.

Fourth one are two little sketches I did in school, the right one kind of being a portrait of a classmate of mine..

Fifth one is me being geeky about "Assassins Creed". Malik is awesome, great characterdesign. Wanted to draw some "constrained emotion" - expression. Was fun.

[Caboodle]

And the next installment...

nothing too spectacular today, I didn't have much time for drawing this week. But I do have a week off now, so I can finally take some time to actually draw and work and not only sketching around.


So only studies of gestures and poses. Some are from posemaniacs.org (30 sec drawings) and some are from movies we watched in school. (For each pose I only head about four seconds of reference - So it was only to loosely sketch down a pose ^^°)

Oh, and two hands, because in school we FINALLY began to work on human anatomy, and we did some handstudies. Maybe I'll get those as well and load them up...
Just a real pity that we do not learn any proper anatomy... as much as I like my school, theory isn't really one of their major topics. We don't learn how to recognize and break down the proportions and geometrical forms of the body, or how to place light and shadow properly. They just let us draw some of the most difficult parts, like hands and face from observation, without any build-up, any tips on how to sketch and categorize.
Most of the outcomes are horrid.... and it's sad, really. I've seen facestudies from some of the higher classes (I'm in the second year, btw) and I was shocked. Looked like the drawings I did when I was ten...

Guys... those are the moments in which I love this site... so much material, information, tutorials, inspiration.. it helps me everytime I take up a pencil. :)



Anyway... back to the sketches, sorry for the rant.... Kind of had to get it out of my head, probably.


Cheers, Caboodle

[Caboodle]

Sorry for the triple - post.

I really don't mean to bump the thread or anything, just felt so motivated I sketched around like I haven't in weeks. - YAY!
I'm also going to take up a "rough-painting-per-day"-policy... because I was too lazy the last weeks and have to change that!

So, here's something to celebrate this:

Everything has been referenced by photos of this awesome site --> http://www.paulcava.com/index.html

First one is a little gouache-practice, because I am trying to do what my professor suggested and work with other media than pencils. So - Lots of traditional work in the future!

Second one should be obvious. Loved the pose.

[Osau]

Nice stuff in here! Your figures have already had a nice leap in correctness. Obviously keep doing them. And definitely get more into traditional medium. That water colour blue jay at the beginning especially caught my eye. Great stuff, keep it coming!

[Caboodle]

Thanks a lot , Osau :)
I'm really looking forward to next year, when my class will work with actual nude models. I've never drawn nude from real life. - It will be awesome! :D
But until then I'll keep practicing from photos. :)


Anyway... keeping my word, doing a rough painting a day.
My very first portrait - Yay! Suggestions? Critique?

[Caboodle]

...and I just keep drawing like a maniac. D:

Had a very good day, practically all I did the whole day long were headstudies, the Loomis-way, and also the Louis Gordon-style. - Mucho funo!
Still need a lot of practice, but I took a good step forward from the last time I worked with Loomis' book... it's a start. :)

Also my... not so finished daily painting, because I ran out of motivation right in the middle. (Hey, I sketched around from 12:20 until 18:40 with almost no breaks... ._.)
I am kind of at a loss with her outfit. I'm still unsure about the colours... thoughts?

[Caboodle]

...and another round.
Still staying true to the "one painting a day" - policy. But I am not going to post everything I scrapped together...

Good news: I finally bought a flash card for my digicam. - Now I can shoot lots and lots of reference photos - YAY!
Already collected some, and did a rough speedpainting of one of them.


Second one is another "paint a day"-thing, another colourstudy.

Third one are some poses I did.

[Caboodle]

Another update!

So I have watched some livestreams on vimeo of leventes (?) speedpaintings and wanted to give it a try. Mine are not half as good, but hey - Practice is practice.

First one took me about 1 hour and 30 minutes, second one 45 minutes. Dancing woman, and a Zombie guy? Just wanted to play around with colours.

The rest are schoolsketches/studies. I am trying to loosen up my sketches, I tend to do too much strokes, too thick lines, and mess around too long with one line. That needs to change.

[Caboodle]

... and it just goes on and on.

Trying to get a loose sketchstyle. - And it's finally warm enough for me to go outside and do some lifedrawing. Oh how I missed that during the winter months. :(


Two "drawings per day", and sketches.

[Caboodle]

...yet another update.

Good news: I talked with my professor about certain things that bothered me, especially that I'm not challenged enough, and missed critique in his courses ... and the outcome was that he invited me to his current lifedrawing-classes! :D
Had my first session last friday, and drew two poses of a man with charcoal on toned paper. I would have posted it, but the format was a bit too big to take it home with me.... I'll take photos as soon as I can. :)
It was great, and I really look forward to the next session!

Oh, and I managed to fill my last sketchbook within three months. - Go me!





Anyway... I didn't have much time to work and draw, thanks to a maths - and a geography-test, and some other things that kept me busy.
So, just a little update for now.



Some acrylic-practice... one of the better of the horrible bunch I've painted. I solely focused on blocking out light and shadow, and to use planes to define forms... I need practice, lots of practice.

Second are poses I did from posemaniacs, with the very simplified basics of the human figure, because I felt my figures lacked consistency and form, and now I try to rectify that.

[Trudy]

wow you´re really getting better :) keep practising I will stalk you here from time to time.

many greetings Cheezy

[Caboodle]

@Trudy - Hey! Great to hear something from you again. :) I've followed your work on dA, lovely as always! Pity we kind of lost contact after I left dA... we should change that. ;)

And thanks a lot, I try my best. :)


Another update!
I have been messing around with acrylics a lot in the past week, because this is my absolute weakest media, and the one I dislike the most. So I condemned it to be my favourite one and practiced. Most of the stuff I produced looked horrible, but I'll upload one piece that shows some improvement. At least I am starting to become a bit more comfortable with acrylics. It's a start.
It's Anthony Hopkins, I painted it after a screenshot of "Wolfman".
The rest are studies I did, and musclebreakdowns.

Have a nice day!

[Caboodle]

Another update!

Didn't have much time this week. School is keeping me busy!

Tried to be productive anyway...

Handstudies for the spartan camp, a study of my PC-mouse in three different techniques (pencil, watercolour, digital) Painting is still my weakest medium.
30 min. study from characterdesign, and a selfportrait.

Now... I wouldn't normally upload a selfportrait. But I was baffled by the outcome of the whole practice, so I thought I should post it.
After finishing it I asked my sister if it resembled me and she told me it didn't, and pointed out why. She was right of course, but she made me realize that I emphasized all the parts of my face I dislike. Which is a solid case of drawing what I think I see instead of drawing what I am actually seeing.
I'm in an age where most girls practically hate their whole appearance and I'm no exception, its a phase we all go through sooner or later. I just found it curious that this perception would even carry over to my art.
The human psyche is puzzling...

[sketchibo]

Keep studying! They're coming along well.

[Trudy]

wow you make me feel lazy *haha*
I hate acrlics too - mainly because they dry so fast and mixing colors isn´t as far as easy as it is in ps ^^"
But it´s great you atleast try to work with them.

[Caboodle]

@sketchibo: Thanks a lot! I'm trying my best. :)

@Trudy - Thank you! Figured I should practice as much as I can, especially traditionally. Just wish I could do more. :/

I had one hell of a week... if I wasn't in school I had to learn for school or work on school-projects or fought back a nasty virus that overstrains its welcome. - Absolutely no time for any artrelated studies. I don't think I actually ever managed NOT to draw one week straight. (well.. except for the occasional very, very quick schoolsketch) I feel funny now.

However I did manage to splash around with some ink and gouache on simple cardboard this weekend. Not much however. Stress is keeping me busy.


Hope your coming weeks will be better than mine!

[Caboodle]

Stresslevel is not going down... next week will be the worst to come, because of an impending maths-test I have to study for. Maths and I don't get along too well, I fear.

Didn't manage to draw much this week. Though I began reading a bit of Bridgman's books. Hopefully I can start working with them after the test.

I miss daily practice and drawing.




EDIT: GNARGH - sorry, forgot one speeddrawing of twenty minutes. I have this strange urge to draw women in dresses whenever I don't know what to draw. It's weird.

[Ivan Turcin]

You are doing good. Studying anatomy, drawing gestures and digital painting.
I know you say you do not have much time, but try to draw at least 15 minutes a day, before you go to bad, or at lunch time. 15 minutes is better than nothing :)
keep posting!

[Caboodle]

@Ivan: Thank you very much for stopping by and taking the time to comment - Really appreciated! :)
Very true, that's why I always have my trusted sketchbook at hand. It's just sometimes hard to find the energy to sit down and draw after a hard day. But we all know that, right?


Finally all exams and tests are done and passed. I've got some time to focus on art again. I missed it a lot during the past weeks.

For reactivating this thread I'll post some sketches and researches I did for a small commission. Obviously, the motive is an elephant.
All are referenced. Maybe I'll post more later.



EDIT: Oh my, finally two pages. I thought page one would never end!

['da]

Hey Caboodle,
long time not spoken!

I looked through your sketchbook from time to time and have to say, you taught yourself a good-looking, loose sketching style. You can capture the most important characteristics of your motive, like the elephant here, in only few pencil strokes. I look forward for more :)

'da aka. Hunter ;)

[Caboodle]

Hey Hunter - My, I haven't heard from you in a looong while. Though I've been following your dA-page. :)
Thank you so much for leaving a comment, I'm really taken aback that you took the time to simply come over and write. We all haven't heard from each other since I've left dA... seems like an eternity now.
Good luck on your comic btw, it's coming along wonderfully. :)


Back to the art... I have been going through some rough times in the past weeks, so I wasn't really motivated to draw. Hopefully I can sort out things as soon as possible.
Though I started to work a bit with Bridgman, watched the free TAD-online class and worked myself through half a dozen of those ImagineFX-tutorials, so there was at least a bit of theory in my studies.

So here are some Bridgman-handstudies, and some screenshots I "copied" from Framefilter. I like drawing from those screenshots, gives an interesting perspective to the construction of scenes, expressions, and moods. I'll do some coloured ones too in near future. First I have to finish the elephant-commission, though.

[Caboodle]

There will be a prolonged weekend so I'm updating the sketchbook two days ahead. Surprise!

Anyway, I finished the commission of the elephant, and the commissioner was pretty happy about the final result, as was I. So, everybody wins, right?
I did it with inks, which was a whole lot of fun and sparked my interest for working with inks. There will be more to come for sure.

I will upload the final result of the commission tomorrow, and if I'm lucky along with some pieces I did in school.


Until then:
Expressions in ink. Haha... I'm full of bad puns today, sorry.
I love drawing expressions, which I kind of overlooked in the past months to focus more on studying anatomy etc. As a result my drawings lacked emotion and energy, which is a bad thing.
To get myself going again I drew some expressive faces from Framefilter, in ink. I find it amazing how the simplest changes of muscle-movement can create such a broad number of different expressions.

Also there's Frankenstein's Monster.

['da]

I'd say you did a good job portraying some different faces types and expressions with ink. Must have been hard not to be able to use an eraser, so that every stroke must be correct - or the expression would have turned out really different. They were always one of the aspects I admired of your art the most :)

I like the man's expression in the mirror the most of your new updates, btw. It's kind of ... daunting.
---
And thank you so much for your nice words about my comic! I wish I could have done it better so far, but I have no practise drawing humans and certain different things. But I practise something new with each page n_n

[Caboodle]

Thanks again for the nice words, Hunter! :)
I actually enjoy this aspects of ink. With pens I tend to overuse the option of erasing and therefore often end up ruining a piece which had the potential of looking okay-ish. Ink is more unforgiving and forces you to think about your strokes before you set them. It's a great way of practice in my opinion.


And considering your comic, you're doing good so far. Sure there are some flaws here and there, but it doesn't ruin the overall theme. And the most important thing is that you enjoy what you do and learn as you go. - And in this regard conceptart.org is a great resource of referencematerial, downloadable books, tips, tricks and inspiration.
I'm sure you'll do wonderfully. :)




Sooo... as I promised, here's the finished commission of the elephant. It was a lot of fun and I am actually pretty content about the outcome. I learned quite a bit about working with inks, and studied some inksketches/works of some masters in this field, which helped a lot. I had some minor references for the pose, but I mostly did it from imagination.
It's a bit of a bad photo, but the format was A2 and a good friend of mine held it up for me so I could take a quick shot before handing it to the commissioner. Sorry for the quality.

['da]

Welcome!
I’m actually a bit afraid of using inks, because I’d ruin my whole picture with one wrong stroke only, but on the other hand, it sounds … challenging. I use way too many uneccessary lines! But as you said, you have to think about every new stroke and learn, which lines are important and which you can omit. Hm, guess what I want to try in future, thanks ;)

And at first I was a bit unsure about registering at CA, but the more threads I visit, the more I get the feeling that I should start my own sketchbook to improve my comic. I had a LJ but I neglected it … Anyway.


Your elephant commission came out very good! Though I’d shaded its legs a bit more, since the head seems to be way darker – or is it just the photography? -, but overall, you did a good job. The head and the trunk are high detailed, you gave attention to the muscles and the pose looks naturally also. And what I also like much is the background ;)

[Caboodle]

@Hunter: I know exactly what you mean, this fear of failure regarding my pictures overcomes me on a regular basic... but it's hindering, and it drives artists into comfort zones. Which is a bad thing, as we all know.
But if don't feel bold enough to try it out, you could study some inkstudies of "masters" first, try to copy their technique, learn from them. It helps a lot. :)

And yeah, go on and start a sketchbook! It's really motivating and a wonderful overview of progress, or the lack thereof... And no need to worry, we all start out little, it's just the discipline and enthusiasm that makes a great artist. :)

And also thanks for your comment on the elephant! And yes, the original piece is not as dark around the upper part, it's the photo and some too quick altering in photoshop. Heh...



I'll try to update twice a week now, Monday and Thursday. Let's see how this works out...



Okay, some musclesstudies from Bridgman, one loose (referenced) inkdrawing, and a very, very bad speedpainting of a young dragon.

The speedpainting is bad, I know... but I now as well know what to avoid the next time... I won't rush it, keep more attention on light/shadow, and to work less sketchy, and to work with more broader brushes and more solid strokes.
I as well should just practice blocking out forms while painting, digitally and in real media.

[Caboodle]

Just a small update, because I am again a bit busy with school, and wasn't able to sleep the past nights, so I am pretty much a walking pudding in the moment. Haha!

Good news: I got myself a 10x10 cm sketchbook - Sweeet.
I bought a DVD about "the masters of form/light/colour
(including Caravaggio, Rubens, Velazquez, Rembrandt and
Vermeer)
.... and a book about the work and life of Caravaggio



Two quick 20 minutes - things, one from a National Geographic photoseries about deep sea - creatures and the other one is for the Daily Sketchgroup.

Wish you all a nice weekend!

[Caboodle]

Didn't manage to do much the past days. Still feeling like a pudding because of sleepdeprivation. Fun times! Heh...

Anyway, a study of one of Caravaggio's earlier works, "Bacchus". 1 1/2 hours.
Caravaggio is truly fascinating, his works look utterly revolutionary for his timeperiod and his choice of composition, dramaturgy and lighting are superb.
Plus his biography reads like an Actionmovie/Hollywood-script, which is real fun in itself.

I just wanted to see his choice of values in greyscale and to understand them, next time I'll try to repaint a piece of him into greyscale without altering the original one. I'm curious to see how that will work out.

In the end I learned quite a bit about studying his work so far. I have a different view on lighting and dramaturgy now, as well as bodylanguage. I'll try to pay a lot more attention to certain details, like hands, eyes and postures. As well as the mood within a picture and the choice of lightsource. :)

[Caboodle]

Sorry for the lacking updates, having a busy, busy time again.

Not much to show this day, and there probably won't be any update on next Thursday and Monday. God, how I hate the days before the final grades are determined.


So here a bunch of sketches I did in school, the two on top are partly referenced or inspired by my classmates, the other two sketches are directly referenced.

[Caboodle]

Little something I drew while I should have learned for my impending maths-test, which I passed by the way. :)
Everything regarding school is now finished and a thing of the past. FREETIME!


Have a nice day, everybody!

[Caboodle]

Hey! Sorry for the long absence, but life kept me busy...

I went to an austrian summer-artacadamy, "hortus niger", and visited a "crashcourse" about art. - Two days stilllife, one day drawing a model and two days environmental painting. Our teacher was the austrian/american artist Joseph Schützenhöfer, a very nice, commited artist with a great expressive style and very interesting projects. It was a blast learning from him!

Today and next monday I'll upload most of the work I've done during this week. - Then I'll begin to post two times a week again. - My little artpause needs to end, finally. :)


First one is from the first day, we had to study a chair that was covered with some sheet. The main objective was to understand the flow of the folds and the three main values. Acrylic and graphite pens.

Second one is another still life, several objects. Again the objective was to understand the colours and their values. Sadly I wasn't able to finish the colourstudy, because I worked with the wrong paper. :/



See you on Monday!

['da]

It's been some time since you uploaded the last sketch. I was curious and want to know, how you're doing now? :)