Rene's sb, daily updates... so far :P

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Hi everyone ,

I'm Rene, 19, from melbourne, australia and I'm currently studying industrial design (in second year).

I'll be posting primarily studies here, and I'd really like to hear your criticism to help my work :), maybe I can help you too.

Here's some of the stuff I've done over the last few days (most of them were between 40min and an hour), also here's the link to my deviant art with some of my digital stuff if you wanna have a look http://rene-w.deviantart.com/

Hopefully I'll be able to post updates daily and keep it going unlike my first sketchbook thread XD and thanks in advance
Cheers

Oh, and melburnians, show your face, would like to get in touch :P

[liam.c]

wow ! skills !!!!!!! id peopel allways have the best skills ! awesome stuff and 19? wth haha lookign forward to seeing more

[burialchamber]

Cool stuff! Love these enviro sketches. I'd be interested to see what your industrial work looks like too. I hope you do post updates- I'm going to keep an eye on this!

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liam: hah, if only xD
burialchamber: thanks, I might post some of my id stuff soon. Will try my best to keep this going.

Here's today's study, took 3.5 hours :O

[.:WoLf:.]

That skull is amazing!

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Cheers wolf :)

Here's todays, both 40 min, I'm a little disappointed in these tbh though :(

[Eiki]

Wow the skull rocks!

But your enviro studies are great as well! The red one has a nice feeling :)

[jigje]

Bloody Hell. What a way to kick off. Such beautiful enviros - the snow scene and the tower, whoa - and I especially love the skull. Well done, look forward to more.

[Mariusz Kornatka]

Hello there!
Nice studies. I really dig your mountains and skull. Keep it up!

regards,
Mariusz

[dierat]

Great studies so far! I really like the first snowy mountain scene. Great sense of contrast and variation in soft and hard edges. Keep it up!

[zou]

good work and still 19 !

make me feel so dumb , all you posted is very good.
espcially those snow mountain... you could easily become a monster sketcher by doing this daily during a good period of time.

you would gain some stars very very soon

[Lapada]

VAry realistic!

And industrial design? is that like engineering?

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wow, so many replies :)

Eiki: Thanks for the encouragement, much appreciated :)

jigje: thanks, I checked out your sb, youve made great progress already, and youre from melbourne too! :D

Mariusz Kornatka, dierat, zou: Thanks for all the nice words, its all very encouraging, ill do my best not to disappoint lol.

Lapada: Thanks and Industrial Design is pretty much product design so its the art side of engineering in a way. So alot to do with the form and aesthetics of how consumer goods look and work etc. Google will probably explain it better xD


Here's todays, still seems so rough for an hours work :(

[alti]

preety sweet enviro in post 13.

like to see more
-alti

[zou]

keep it

the perspective of the wall (the one going to the left vanishing point and touching the tour) seems a little bit extreme compared to the right one

me too i'm studying industrial design, but in tunisia it's really really weak (i chose it just to force myself to think more as a designer but i know there is no chance to practice really) so i'm interested in how you study there (perhaps post some work)

see ya

so how you're

[YihyoungLi]

Great environment sketches! Great handling of the subtle color/temperature changes.

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Hey guys,

alti: thanks, more coming soon :)

zou: yeh it is a little extreme. Um, we do sketching and cad stuff here, ill post some work soon, just have to get around to scanning it xD.

YihyoungLi: Thanks!


Here's todays, 4 hours work and its still quite flakey, cant say I think I did the photo too much justice. need to get faster :lifedrawing:

Oh, and does anyone have any advice or can point me at a tutorial dealing with skin texture and how to achieve a more painterly style? I'd like to try to get away from the airbrushed look.

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Seems like you guys liked it even less than I did xD

Here's todays, trying to get to a more painterly style, 40 mins each. I did the guy with the pink lips first.

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Hello again,

Here's what I did today, some thumbs that are supposed to be for the EOW 'den of thieves', not really sure you can call them that though hehe. We'll see how it goes, I might get around to doing something finished for it.

cya tomoro:)

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oo, sorry about yesterday, was really off my game because of some submissions for uni, all of those have perspective issues :O .

Anyhow, here's what I did today, took an hour, I'm pretty happy with how it turned out :)

[Bartovan]

Great stuff man! I like the colors. You should post some of your industrial designs too. Keep going!

[Dibujio::Guru]

WOw amazing colors and blending love your realistic castles.Prefect!!

[YihyoungLi]

Your environments blow me away! Maybe incorporating some water bodies in the next ones? I'd be interested in how you approach that.

I think your environments are pretty painterly; you could apply that to the portraits. The faces--esp. the second one--in #19 seem "finished" enough for a painterly style imo. I like this guy's (http://bao22.blogspot.com/) painterly style; might give you some ideas. :)

[burialchamber]

Sweet dude, these are all awesome! It's great to see you pumping out so much work. The castle one in #13 is particularly nice.

[Goog]

fantastic environments! If you keep this up you will be amaaaaaaaaaazing.

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Hello again

Bartovan: Thanks! I'll post some of my ID stuff soon enough ;), you's might find it a bit boring though.

Gorilla@Attack: Thanks, so motivating :)

YihyoungLi: Did some water in this one, though its quite still, will get around to doing some streams/beaches soon i think. Thanks for the link too, funny thing is that I have a friend with the exact same name, Bao Pham, though he does'nt paint cool stuff like that xD.

burialchamber/Goog: Thanks, I'll do my best to keep going as long as possible.


Here's todays, took me an hour, was hard to push myself to do this after 9 hours at uni, and got some more homework to do after this too :O. This one was quite difficult as well, the value shifts in the fore to mid ground on the left side were almost non-existant. All the nice comments really help though!

[Brushcommander]

Sick studies, mate.

[Arthe Xavier]

Wow - what a lovely start. :) I love... Absolutely *love* the Natalie Portman -portrait. Great job!

[Darkside]

wow, nice paintings man :) keep up the good stuff.

[Pizza Party!]

Wow! Stunning! The windmill looks awesome.

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Hey CA!

Tugelbend/Pizza Party: thanks :)

Arthe Xavier: hehe, I liked it at the start too, but everytime I look at it now, it gets more plasticy xD

Darkside: thanks, will do my best


Here's today's guys, I decided to revisit the portrait of the guy with the pink lips from a few posts up, seemed so crappy and inaccurate for 40 mins. So I spent about 2 hours on this one, 40 mins was far too short I think, I'm still too newb to do any decent anatomy stuff in such a short time xD. I like the result of todays, though I'll probably hate it in a day or two :O .

I also did a line sketch beforehand to use as a guide, but it seems like a waste of time as I don't really end up using it too much. It's too hard to see/confusing when I start applying paint so I just ended up hiding it pretty early on. Maybe it's best to just mark in the landmarks instead of doing a full line sketch, opinions?

[YihyoungLi]

The extra hour really paid off. When I blur my eyes, the delicious colors meld together very well--the face is quite realistic. I think some areas could be cleaned up though, especially the neck. Although the portrait is painterly, it is also kinda messy.

I haven't done this myself, but it may help to reference some of Sargent's paintings. He's supposedly known for being a "virtuoso" at painting: not only are his outcomes good, but he's also a performer when he paints. His brushstrokes are masterfully applied: less is the best so to say.

[Sublimus]

Yeah dude! nice works!

[dU5K]

wow. this sketchbook is off to an awesome start. your environments are amazing. keep up the great work

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Hello ppl!

YihyoungLi: Yeh, youre right stroke economy is far from great. Though for myself, I've found that line quality has improved with experience on the subject matter. Thanks for the sargent tip, I'll check his stuff out.

Sublimus/DU5K: Thanks :)


Anyhow, another long day, just finished today's study took me about an hour and it's 1am now :O . Decided to do a cloud, I've had trouble with these in the past when doing non-refed enviro stuff, even hard to draw them with ref :O anyone have any tips or know effective approaches?

[Samuel Gray]

Seems like you can already render things nicely. Try to use multiple references at once and see if you can create some type of image to illustrate a story.

[YihyoungLi]

Steven Stahlberg has a pretty good Cloud Tutorial: http://www.androidblues.com/cloudtut.html I think it can get too tedious for quick sketches, but it's an effective way to think about painting the clouds.

I think creating a custom brush with random shape-outcomes might help out too. That way the result won't look contrived.

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Hi

Samuel Gray: Thanks, will do when uni calms down a little, barely get the time to squeeze these in atm.

YihyoungLi: Thanks alot, I'll try that out the next cloud study I do. And, yeh I've got a few cloud brushes but they don't help when you want to actually shade the clouds.

Here's todays, ~60 minutes. That mountain in the bg was giving me a headache xD

[.:WoLf:.]

Amazing job for 60 min!

Looks almost like photo

[Trashy]

Not bad man you got some nice work. I like that environment piece alot, the water was painted really nicely. In terms of work on the face I think you improved that a lot from the previous page. Yeah, people have there own approaches to faces, I personally like doing a under painting beneath the lines first and then gradually painting over the lines. If you like the approach you did go for it and I say just look closely at how everyone else do faces and experiment with those methods as well to find what best suites you. Try as many methods as possible I say. Anyway man keep up the good work!

[Stefefef]

I love your bold brushstrokes and your use of colour!

[SirensKiss]

You have some INSANE talent. Especially some of the landscapes and the skull, I really thought it was a photograph. I am definitely hoping to see more from you.

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Hi again.

:WoLf:., Stefefef, SirensKiss: Thanks all :)

Trashy : Thanks, will try to do that!

Here's today's, felt like doing something less serious, so went for the thieves den again, im sorta stumped with this though... spent 60 minutes without ref, will hopefully have some better ideas of what to do with it by tomoro. Also I've never done any nighttime studies, so I was sorta just guessing with this

[jordyskateboardy]

Woow Rene U rock! Really like how you handle texture in your environments! Really awesome man. Big improvement over how I used to know you. And the skill is really wicked man. THat's pretty quick for 4 hours. I don't reckon ur slow at all. Keep the awesome shizzle up man.

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Thanks Jordy :) You've gotten alot better too.

Ok, so I know you guys are probably wondering wtf he's bailed out after 2 weeks already xD . Not true though lol. I went out of town for a few days to a friends place, but I brought my laptop! So I did all my studies for the last, what 4 days I haven't posted? Unfortunately today when I was finishing the last one to post for today, I overwrote the study that I did over the middle two days... I clicked on the name to get the day22~60min but forgot to change the day so it overwrote :O Spent like 2 hours trying to recover it with no luck :(

So I was supposed to have a portrait of this guy http://screencrave.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/mcqueen_horn1.jpg as well. But now I've only got these two to show :( Both of these were 60 min. So yeh, will be back to normal daily updates now!

[Mischeviouslittleelf]

Beautifull studies here mate! Love the light and the softness of the brush strokes!

-E

[pathos]

excellent stuff man, which uni are you studying industrial design at and how are you finding it? im currently looking into courses in melb at the moment.

[Jaytea]

wow, I really admire your persistence. The enviro studies are really great!

[Diabolique]

The color in the eye sockets of the skull is impressive, awesomely subtle.

[americanheadcharge]

Nice work! Great landscapes.

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Hi,

Mischeviouslittleelf: Thanks, your stuff is awesome!

pathos: Hey there, I'm studying at RMIT Uni, I'm finding it quite good, though that's not saying much cus I haven't been to any of the other unis that offer ID (monash and swinburne) I think. I hear that swinburne isn't too good. Monash is supposed to be really good if you wanna do automotive, though its about an hour out of town afaik, RMIT's defenetly got the best location, it's right in the city. As to the course content, it's good, it's got a bit of technical stuff, but not enough to detract, and good facilities/lecturers.

Jaytea, Diabolique,americanheadcharge : thanks :)

Here's what I did today, started on a new painting (spent about 1.5 hours on this), probably gonna keep working on it and finish it over the next couple days. Painting with no ref has gotten harder for me lol, become so reliant on ref from all these studies xD.

[arsanik]

dude.... that skull? seriously - shut the fuck up. amazing.

[pathos]

oh ok awesome thanks mate, what was the reason behind choosing industrial design? if you dont mind me asking

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arsanik: hehe, thanks

pathos: hmm, not really sure tbh, I've actually been wondering why I chose it lately. Not saying that I'm bad at it, im probably better than I am at painting really. I like it though, always thought itd be cool to see something I designed in a shop, or meeting someone and then seeing that they've got something you've designed. It's quite a fascinating field once you're over the technical stuff, really looking forward to getting a job and designing something for real, as opposed to these 'simulations' xD. In a nutshell, if youre good at problem solving/like it and also like to design sexy and functional products its for you ;)


Anyhow, here's what I did today, a friend told me that the compo sucks on that last piece so I started again. About 2 hours into this one now, and didnt want to stop, unfortunately h/w awaits :(

[pathos]

ah thats brilliant, thanks heaps man! you've really helped me define where i want to head towards and a better idea of what im after. keep the posts coming you got some killer stuff and good luck with the rest of your course! :)

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No problem pathos, good luck too ;)

Another 1 hour or so in, liking how this is turning out. Still heaps more to do.

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heya, here's some more spur of the moment no ref stuff, felt like doing some heads. hour or so :D
Not where id like to be but defenetely better than last time i tried this. Just watched one of the andrew jones videos lol
Was working far too low res, so sorry for the small size.

Also going away again for mid semester break to a friends to finish some work. Will be back in a week, taking my laptop again so will have all the work uploaded in bulk here. See you soon ;)

[knoxie]

Hey Rene,

Not sure if you are around the city this weekend, but :

IT ON!!!!!

First rule of gra-FIGHT CLUB, you do not stop drawing. second rule of gra-FIGHT CLUB, you DO NOT STOP DRAWING! and if this is your first at gra-FIGHT CLUB, you have to draw.

This sunday, 11am, 22nd of Nov, meet at the corner of Bourke and Elisabeth st on the steps right next to the large Marble Purse and tram stop.

My phone number is 0408 409 909. sms me day or night... I'm always awake drawing.

Carl. :P