Zeph's book, sketch!

[Zeph]

Hey guys, I was directed to this site not too long ago by someone on another forum, and I absolutely love it here. Right now I've just started reading Loomis books, as well as many other suggested ones. I'm currently taking a semester off from school (I had surgery in June), and figured this place and you all could hopefully help me improve! I'm a Ringling hopeful as well, but not until at least 2010.

Anyway, right now I'm stuck with an Iphone camera, but I intend to get a good scanner/camera relatively soon, so my apologies for the less-than-perfect picture quality.

I'll be adding past work I deem worthy as well as work I do now. Thanks for your input in advance!

Edited for topic avatar. See second post for old images.

[Zeph]

From top to bottom:
1. Taken from this month's Juxtapoz, Mac. The shading is smoother in person, I swear.
2. Self-portrait done in pastel last semester.
3. Line-based design done with ink last semester.
4. Digital painting of a peach.
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[adammelo]

Nice start, alot of people recommend fruits as a start, good lighting and color :) Keep it up!


Sketch back if you'd like...

[Jaytea]

Really like that peach. : D keep it up!

[Zeph]

Beast of an update here, I've been lurking around, but haven't updated my sketchbook here lately with what I've been doing. Figured since I'm working towards Ringling in 2010, the more feedback, the better.

Just a few notes:
-Some of the hands are Bridgman studies. Should be obvious which.
-The charcoal figure near the end was done with burned wood from the fireplace, in order for me to get out of my comfort zone a little.
-The eye was done in acrylic, I -just- started learning acrylic (2-3 sessions with an artist I know), this was done after the first session, so it's not perfect by any means.

Thanks for stopping by/hopefully commenting!

[jderooij]

Really like the depth from the hands! Good sketches

[Zeph]

These were just a couple of quick brainstormed environments. I'm pretty new at environment creating, so they still lack a bit.

[Zeph]

Another hand, more gestures (that aren't my best, unfortunately), and a quick from-imagination sketch.

[Zeph]

More stuff! I really should update here more regularly so I can get some good crit's. Been on a bit of an ink trip lately. Appreciate any and all input, so please, if you like anything of what you see, let me know!

Let's see..
A. A crow and a raven! Never drawn birds before, see lots of birds done rather well in ink around here, so figured I'd try my hand at it.
B. A quick self-portrait. I wanted to use a minimal amount of lines throughout the sketch and try and still maintain the definition of the image.
C. Just a hand with a bit of hatching/shading with ink.
D. My take on some Reiley method stuff I ran across on a blog.
E & F. Random rock poses, tried to capture a bit of energy rather than define form. For D, I didn't want to even define hands, which I thought ended up looking pretty good.
G. Random hand, was waiting for a class.
H. Recent idea for defining form based on topographical maps and a few pieces I caught wind of at an art school inside a classroom. Came to my attention thanks to a sharp-eye'd crit that I should probably pull it back on the finger tips to not make them appear pointy.