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hey guys, this is my second attempt at a sketch book, I hope I can keep this one rolling.


Any advice is welcome of cause.
Also does anyone know anything about drivers from wacom for Win 7 ?

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I was testing out sai, and this came out

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More! :D

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with brush from sharing tread. - thank you M@

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Okay, Im hungrý now.. need food

[bluemonika]

hi there :) i like the minimalism in your background work. maybe for the figure drawings you might try to draw in more fluid lines? good luck with your sketchbook :)

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I almost feel like im spaming :D

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Bluemonika- my fluids are defect :( lol

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and another one
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[Abrodos]

Nice start! At the moment, I think the most you need to work on is composition. Before starting an enviro, try to experiment with different ways of putting it all on the paper. Check out the masters' landscape paintings, lots of them. Composition is difficult to explain but it's rather intuitive, you will soon se which elements fit well in the picture and which don't.
Also, when copying from life or from a photo, try to set all things in the right place and proportions before starting to render. For example, the bald man in your last post has a really small craneum (or really big face), and small eyes compared to nose and mouth.
Anyway, keep posting your work! you've got a good grasp on colours, and your pieces have a lot of potential!
Cheers:)

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Abrodos- thanks! - supposed to be a woman... :P is it that off?

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okay so this is inspired by the song or rap "fuck you lucy" by Atmosphere.
It also basicly expains how i measure faces.

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This concludes my ten hours of drawing for today. Yes im proud of myself.
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Perspective quickie before school

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going to school :D so..
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Back from school, and theater :)

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[The man with no name]

your work is progressing nicely, your hard work is paying off, keep it up :D

[jatherip]

do some environmental studies!!!! it will give your enviros a blast!!!! however, i see improvement :)
keep goin!!!

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The man with no name thank you! best news I can read. :)
jatherip It is unavoidable that I will do more environs, thanks :D for stopping by!

speaking of progress :D

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I made the lava hotter :D
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and then a study! hidden of cause in a vegetable. :)
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This is some perspective training always fun :)
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edit: What the hell?

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Now to ordering pizza.
heres some
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more :)
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Hmmm guess this was warm up for today
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not to happy about this one ... Oh well.
I'd love to read you guys thoughts more.

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some urban style design

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Im having some cpu problems, so this may be the only update today.

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oh and if you're having trouble Identifying color in crome, complemtery, analog, or triad. I may have just the site link for you.

colorschemedesigner.com/ (http://colorschemedesigner.com/)

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cpu's back up :D
so worked abit more
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this is tonights observationals

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more to come

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I was playing with gradient mapping in cs3, Its an awesome tool.
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Here's a theory for ya,
This is also basicly the way every environ starts from me.
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I guess you have no crits?

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hi guys here's yet another study

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this one sucks
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some stuff :)
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This happened when i decided to marry them to eachother :D
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bedtime :)

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This is what good came out of experimenting

[paran0id]

Aaay. Starting to do poses = good. Gestures are always good. ^^

Imho. If you see something is wrong with the picture you did, don't drop it and start a new one. Find what mistakes you did, what you didn't finish. As example those portraits if done with ref, try hard to achieve likeness. If you fail, try tracing.
Maybe try to work in value only. Don't bring color in yet. I personally find it hard.
And, well, studies, studies, studies. The usual drill.

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paran0id- Actually, the only ref work here is the posemanics stuff and the anatomy study, there will be some portraits here eventually and other ref needing stuffs.
Just did some playing around.
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Crit me or 2000 hobos will move into your home!

[Braintree]

Hi, a fellow dane here!

God sketchbook du har gang i her, bliv ved med det. Kan anbefale at tegne meget fra life. F.eks. findes der croquis sessions rundt omkring.

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Got more for you guys!

Braintree- altid nice at tegne fra liv, regner med at kunne vise noget engang i januar.

[ditchman]

your studies seem to be on track, nice to see!
those symmetrical face/patterns turned out nice too

[miycko]

keep up those studies man :D i like that last painting

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Look at it! Look at it!
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Miycko - thank you
Ditchman - glad you like 'em, gonna do more soon

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So I did this symbolic piece of a white and black man, In gray-scale, hope it gets across.

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took about 45 mins, I really love doing desert type stuff :)

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[Sandmadame]

Go on man °o°! It's great that you make so many studies. They are so helfull.

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I know... meh

more will com later today :), I have to go to school.

[Nightblue]

Nice studies! One small suggestion is when doing quick gesture drawings (like the ones you did from pose maniac,) try to use fluid lines and capture the pose rather than using careful, short strokes to try to capture the outline of the each limb. Don't be afraid to add cross-contour lines around joints to help yourself understand how the body occupy space, or draw "through" something that's breaking a continuous line to make sure the line stays, well, continuous ;) Some people also find indicating where the ribcage and pelvis is helpful. Personally I understand the pose better if I draw a straight line connecting the shoulders and another through the width of the pelvis, it helps me understand how a body balances itself.

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Some more stuff

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NB- will do that irl right after bacon eggs :D NOM NOM NOM!

Edit: done irl

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Big rock!

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I have been trying to follow you peeps advice about poses.

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the Time of Troubles:Tablet :( :(

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it works again! :d

[Black Spot]

It's very sketchy here. Can you do something with more detail? Doesn't have to be big, but push it a lot further.

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Blackspot- Yes I can. and Im going to start making something now.

Here's the start of the picture

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I would like some crits on this please
- im putting in some sort of podium or stair to the bed
Ideas welcome aswell
here's where I am so far
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Edit: NOOO BlueScreen death!

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So I blocked in some color

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Its slowly coming along :)

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[Bendragon]

Hey man! Those anatomy studies are looking promising, keep them going! I find that studies like these can be hard to get into your head sometimes. You have to avoid making a 'copy' of the reference and instead do a 'study' of it. What I mean is, dont look at the reference and draw a line and look at the reference and rely on it too much. Try looking at it, memories parts of it and try drawing it without reference, or draw it as a copy and then try draw it again without reference. That way it helps to sink it into your memory. Keep rocking!!!!

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Bendragon- I get what you're saying, I have tendencies to great you stopped by.

Im of soon to the Danish championships in breakdance 1 on 1, so this is likely to be the only update today :)

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[Black Spot]

That is one mega-huge bed. Either the people have to be bigger or the bed smaller. The lighting needs to be darker on the right.

Good luck with the breakdancing contest. Pics please.

[The man with no name]

Cool update, looks like day is breaking, keep posting away, oh and goodluck with the breakdancing comp.

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about the breakdance, let me clarify I was there to support my old crew I was a spectator.
I stopped break dancing 5 or 6 months ago... I can get footage of the event tho.

also.

Sorry about the no update yesterday, it was a combination of school and bluescreen that kept me. I'll try and make up for it today.

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more! :D

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[Black Spot]

Nice moonlit environment.

The bed is still big, but the figure has helped to ground it. If he had a harem, he might need a bed that big. Great excuse to draw lots of lovelies.

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Black spot there's always an excuse for drawing boobies, but I dont wanna have to slap a nsfw badge on the thread yet.
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bedtime i am going to be so tired at school tomorrow.

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Roar!
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-this post Is number 66 from me and this thread has 666 view, awesome

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[The man with no name]

Cool, nice updates, good to see your working hard, I like the skull, and the last enviro looks good too, keep on pushing yourself :)

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The man: Thank youuu.

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[miycko]

Great environment painting in post #74 I also like the painting of the harbour a lot :teeth: i suck at environments so the .gif is very helpful :D keep up man

[miycko]

Great environment painting in post #74 I also like the painting of the harbour a lot :teeth: i suck at environments so the .gif is very helpful :D keep up those studies man

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Miycko- glad it helped and thanks for dropping by!

My excuse is im hungover


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[Bendragon]

Nice to see these studies. And YES!!!! More studies from reference! Tons should I say! Its a big big help I promise you. It would be nice to mix up studies and some imaginary work but ideally much more studies since the more you do of them, the faster you accelerate!
Something a friend of mine (he's an awesome artist) advised me on doing is spend 2 months on solidly busting out studies. You should find yourself much better at the end of it. Not saying you should follow that regime but the point is... MORE MORE MORE :)

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And more you shall have.
this is my first portrait ref work in the digital medium in about 9 months,
Im pretty pleased... I might work more on it.
this will be the last for today

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I was going for a sort of Black frogian look
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[The man with no name]

Cool stuff, like the bridge piece, has some good atmosphere, keep up the good work, your going great :D

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mwnn- thanks

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[Black Spot]

I think you'd benefit from doing more value work. Maybe have a copy of your reference in grey scale or sepia just to check, especially on the cheeks.

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I have been drawing tons irl today, so you'll have to be patient.

here's one
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blackspot- I see what you mean, perhaps I'll try it out tomorrow.

[miycko]

great to see you're workin hard man :D some advice i was given was not to paint on a white background but instead fill the canvas with a neautral colour as a base cuz white affects your colour & values as you paint

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totally forgot to do that

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Eow entry progress

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[Bendragon]

Maybe try some simpler references, Things like the city might be too complicated to look at and analyze ever detail. How about an apple? And spend some time getting it reallly accurately.
Also, another exercise that will help you look at things.. take a simple linedrawing from another artist (often a Picasso drawing is used ive seen of a seated man) and flip it upside down and draw that! Upsidedown! That way you are not looking at the figure and thinking 'its an eye, I know how that looks like' and draw what you think, instead you should look and see just lines (it doesnt matter if it is an eye, its just lines) and you draw what you really see.

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Bendragon- thanks for the advice I'll try and get some simpler studies done.

I did this glas study of glas fruits surprising amounts of pure white. :)
I think I'm gonna do more fruit.

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Okay an update on my Eow entry
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[Nix707]

Seeing progress here, good work, maybe try more sketches with pencils
keep praticing en maybe then go back to your tablet (only a suggestion ;))
keep it up!

EDIT: i like your Eow entry

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I am drawing with pencil everyday- I just dont have scanning capabilities :P
If you make it to the workshop I will show you my pencils. Thanks for stopping by!

[miycko]

the fruits are nicely done, i'm sure they'll come out great when rendered :) i think the Eow entry looks really good so far :D one thing, though i'm sure you'll fix it later is the perspective on the wall on the right, it seems a little off. i like where the image is going :teeth:

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miycko- those fruits are done, I'm not doing more on them now. thanks for the heads up on the wall hadn't noticed it :)

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Do you like my fruit?

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I have such a thing for women with piercings :D
I love that shit

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[Bombur]

Nice man, i like your fruit :D Keep going.

[miycko]

nice pearcing's :D a little too dark under the eye's though, waiting to see what you do with her :wink:

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Miycko - oh you dont -really- wanna know what I do with her haha :P

I played a little with color and I hope you like these. :P

one red
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:D Succes!

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[Jaytea]

hey man, it's cool to see you going back to simple stuff and getting those down first. What I noticed about your girl portrait is that the edges are a little wacky--try trimming the side of the face to a firmer edge to make it really pop! Don't be afraid either to use hard-edged brushes for blending or soft shading. Keep it up man!

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My first digital Self Portrait, look how pretty and bold I was in February. Getting ready for 1st November.


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Jaytea - Could you clarify about the brushes? I like to keep to one brush, to push my self as far as I can. I usually keep to one layer when studying, well except for speed paintings. the non-ref above she's supposed to be a little fuzzy.

[ditchman]

that looks quite good! the green shadows look a bit light though - looks a bit like green eye shadow.
I think you should try making longer strokes with the brushes too.

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Ditchman- this is the reference (me) Its green actually light, I had color pick abit...

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and some inspired morning work :P got inspired by atmosphere again

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[Jaytea]

Hey man, thanks for stopping by my SB!

Ah, I should have read this before, but I painted over the girlie to show you what I meant by hard-edged [or hard round. everyone calls it a "hard round brush"].

I'm not really that pro, but I put down a couple pointers that I think will help.

Hope this helps!

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Jaytea - aw man that's awesome, I knew most that stuff but it's super nice of you. I made some obvious shading mistakes you made apparent, :P I love getting paint overs for the very reason it makes me aware of mistakes i keep making. Thanks for it dude.

So I wanted to do something less boring than studies, and not an enviro this time, and I haven't done to many full body things here, so an angel is in order.
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[miycko]

love that glass study :teeth: on the piercings chick maybe reduce the saturation a little on those colours & cool self portrait :D

[Bombur]

Nice anatomy and design on the last painting. The skin tones are looking kinda dull though. Study skin tones! It will definitely help make your paintings more interesting. You're doin good man, keep it up :)

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Bombur - Cheers! yeah I guess that's a pretty good idea :P
miycko - Glad you like them here's another sp, this one has a little more spunk. :P

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"I'll make you smile only because I'm good at it, I'll make you smile so I can sit there and look at it!"

hope you like it
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more glass, this brush confuses me.
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But women is his weakness
Speaking at the mirror trying to hear my reflection,
Gave up my sense of direction for some affection
-the Ocean, Atmosphere


I am really busy so I wont be posting tommorrow

[miycko]

great to see so many updates man :D cool self portrait & i like the flying chick with wings :teeth:

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miycku - still working on the angel. Thanks for giving the stuff a view.

The selfie for the 1st november is in Progress :P
take a look

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[Bombur]

Hah, nice angle on that last selfie. I don't have much to add really, just keep going :teeth:

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Update!
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Im just adding to it again

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[Icecold]

Hey mate thanks for stoppin' by at mt book.

I think that you should leave the digital studies as for now, grab a pencil or vine charcoal and focus on construction, observe try to draw things in 3d, you have to learn to actually construcy objects.
Anyhoot it's starting to look better tons of hard work and it'll be good ;]

But hey noone ever said learning art is going to be fast and easy, art is about doing the difficultt stuff simple, and thats the most difficult! ;D

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Hey icecold thanks for stopping by. Actually I am working on pencils everyday, I just dont have a scanner.

Actually on that note thats why there wont be any update to day.

[miycko]

"my face here" , LOL that very funny dude :teeth: i like the self portrait, itching to see the final :D

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miycko-It's not gonna happen i think. Im way to lazy to finish it ... :/

so here's my crap again, absolutly obvious mistakes in there.
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[miycko]

maybe you can get back to it later on :) nice work on the background :D the good thing is that any & all mistakes can be fixed in photoshop :teeth: & just remember that practice, practice, PRACTICE makes PERFECT & all that jazz :)

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Miycko- yeah I know what you mean... so let the practice commence

what do you know, today was pretty productive

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[Black Spot]

It’s been a while since I’ve been here and I can see you’re working hard. I like the EOW and the fruit are coming on. The angel’s legs are different lengths or the foreshortening is wrong. Filtering the glass is sort of lazy, but we’ve all done it. As you can see glass does have some very dark colours in it. Now finish that SP – it would be even better if you did one from a mirror, so you have to look hard at yourself and be honest.

The forum is being changed and sometimes it throws a glitch.

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hey Blackspot thanks for stopping by, let me say YES MAM! (to most of it) - on the angel I think the foreshortening is behaving weird because I didnt define the knee enough.

I'll show you how I did the self portraits soon cant have people thinking I cheated.

[miycko]

great work man i like those heads :D now all you have to do is keep up the pace so the rest of us watch the improvement :teeth:

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[miycko]

cool thumnails man :D certainly a lot better than mine and i like the face, the nostirl on the left side of the image probably shouldn't show as much though & i think her skin colour is a little saturated too. othewise awesome work man :)

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Miycko- You're right couldn't make the nose work, somehow it kept annoying me

welcome to the morning FACE!

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Possible Eow entry... thought it was cool to make it be a walker prison

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These heads are even better than the last batch :D infact looking at them i realise i make the top of the head too small :( i thinks it's great that we can see the underlying skull structure, i should try that as well :) cool Eow entry, looks great so far :teeth:

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walker prison is looking good!

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ditchman- Glad you like it!

Miycko- thats super!

warm up

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avoid seismic activity, that so common to T-33. WP-11 "Kryztalis" was made untraceable, to make sure
prisoners wasn't sprung by the pirate clans that was becoming more
and more powerful, Kryztalis was home to some of the most deadly individuals in Terran space/"

[Black Spot]

I like the prison as well. The faces aren't doing as well. Get a reference using the same angle and lay it over turning down the opacity to see where the differences are in the planes of the face.

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great tip black spot :)

wanted to do a girl with more of a east block look.
not to happy about the colors
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[Bendragon]

The recent heads and hands stuff are looking good! Good going!

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Bendragon - Nice, awesome you be dropped by again. :P

I like the first one tha most

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[jatherip]

the first one in the last post has like really good values!!! its pretty deep, and the design looks kewl, too! more values studies would make it even better :)
keep it up!

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jatherip- more value study roger!

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[no87]

your doing good man! was gona say you need more values studies but jatherip seems to have mentioned it already. when doing them tho make sure you use all the tones from dark blacks through to light greys. will help you keep depth in your work. anyways keep it up man! :D

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no57- Values next :) thanks for the advice!

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dont know how or why this was such a succes :P

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[ditchman]

your grey-scale environments seem to be the most successful at the moment.
looking at your 'skull from memory' I see you need to study skull structure a little more - also you have a similar problem to me, I have trouble maintaining symmetry - remember to keep flipping your image as you work, also a simple vertical line drawn down the centre can really help.

[Danny_K]

you are progressing nicely, my suggestion to you do more photo/ life studies and less from Imagination. once you do tens and even hundreds of life/photo studies the imagination will not be constrained by technique and at some point you will see improvement from painting to painting.

so what are you waiting for? hit those reference sites! :)

http://www.pbase.com/
http://www.terragalleria.com/
http://www.yunphoto.net/en/

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Danny k- roger more Reference!
ditchman- yeah I saw the faults... But I only spent about 5 mins on it ... Guess hard work is the only way forward.

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[Bendragon]

That beach is looking great! Follow that track! These last few enviroments are looking promising! Keep it going!

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Thanks man

heres another before breakfearst... lol it's 2.30 pm

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[Bombur]

The beach painting looks great. So do the black and white enviros. Keep up the hard work dude, it's paying off. :)

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Bombur I agree with that, im pretty happy about where im headed artwise.

TIGER!!!

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naw, not crap... maybe it could use a few more vivid colours - the white fur looks a bit grey. good stuff though.

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well thanks man

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"Now I’m straining, striving, trying to find the ocean
I'm riding, I’m driving, I'm trying to make it to the ocean
Picking up every shell and holding it up to my ear
I'm want to hear the ocean, I got to see the ocean
I’m straining, striving, trying to find the ocean
I’m riding, I’m driving, I’m trying to make it to the ocean
Picking up every shell and holding it up to my ear
I want to hear the ocean, I got to feel the ocean"

[Bombur]

Niiiice. You colors are really starting to look good. No crits, just keep it up. :)

[miycko]

Your environments really rroooccckkkk dude :D the beach scenes are especially great looking. on the blonde chick, i think her nose is too long which has caused the lower part of her face to be a bit buched up. just watch out for that. your skulls from imagination are waayy better than mine, i should practice those as well :)

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Some great progress in here. Definately paying off. The last environment has some really neat colours! IN your coloured pieces your values tend to be alittle off and you're licking contrast. Contrary to your greyscale stuff. Try making an adjustmant layer where you set the saturation to totally grey so you can toggle it on and off so you can check how your image looks in greyscale and in this way work in color but you are able to check your values. Hope that helps a bit. Anyhoot keep going you're doing great!

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jordyskateboardy- tried making a adjustment layer on the bunny, did it work?

miycko- thanks man, one of my lituanian friends have similar face structure

Bombur-YaAAaaY!

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edit: just noticed how many wind directions i have in there oh god

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Cookie!

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[Son44]

Cookie ftw!

Looks really good, i would like to see it in colour

[Black Spot]

Your animals and environments are coming on - faces still need work. They need some colout other than brown to give them life. Have a good look at the colour of skin and marvel in myriad of colours that make it up.

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Black spot- December is going to be portraite month for me, there's about 16 portraits I have to do, so plenty of faces. :)

:Edit I never got around to doing 16... something I regret deeply

Son44- color ey? Maybe sometime... thanks for stopping by dude


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[ditchman]

nice colours on that last one.

[miycko]

cute bunny dude :D & the guy that's been "incinerated" looks cool (except for the girly position his right hand is in :P ) cookie is a great value study :D i really like the antlers, the bottom of the mouth could use some more detailing though & the fish looks really good, very nice colours there :D maybe work on it some more and see how far you can take it? just a suggestion :)

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There will be no updates today, my computer stopped working.

miycko- about that time again huh? :) I'll get right on that when my computer is up and running again. Thanks for the crits man

ditchman- thanks man

[Black Spot]

It sucks when that happens. My son's died the other week - there is a really nasty virus going around.

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thanks guys

black spot- that there is

Edit: Wasn't sure how to respond to her sons death

remember the championships i went to weeks ago?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60XxUpakl_c


Man thumbs

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[miycko]

GREAT to see you back on the forums :yayca: cool "man thumbs" :D for some crit the lower legs look a little short & they all seem to be sort of - half kneeling, also the hands are a little short, especially in the upper arm area. hehe, the third guy looks like he's gonna hit the guy below him with that baseball bat :P

[Black Spot]

That competition looked like fun. Glad your computer is okay, now you have no excuse for slacking.

Arms are a bit short - elbows should be near the waist.

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thanks for the crits you guys, it was a half hour rush job.
I was just so glad to have back my machine.

Miycko- great to be back. The knees are supposed to be bent because originaly the first guy was puking

black spot- work work.
homework kicked my ass still...

MAN DOLL
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[Incinerated]

I'm gonna resume the reference training tomorrow.

here's todays doo, hope you like it.
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[miycko]

cool updates dude :D i think man doll looked better before he the nipples :P his upper arms are short as well & his light source is a bit vague, maybe you could draw an arrow indicating where the light source is then place the shadows on the opposing side of his body. i like the hooded guy on the cliff, nice work :D the portrait's really good, here eyes are bit small though & her forehead's short. MOAR :D

[Bombur]

Been a long time since I was in here! I really like the hooded dude. Reminds me of the hunter from Left 4 Dead :) You should do some hardcore Bridgman, Loomis and Hogarth studying though. Attack that anatomy!

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So guys, I'm really really sick (H1N1), just my luck, hopefully I can get back to updating soon.

[miycko]

That's too bad dude :( just be glad you're not living zambia, our goverment only baught 1000 viles of the antidote in a country with a population of eleven million. Get well soon dude :)

cheers

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[Bombur]

In terms of likeness it's really good but dude I think you should use a bigger brush. It's looking a bit scratchy. Keep it up though, you're really improving.

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I just relapsed to being sick again. FUCK!

[Natzuur-JK]

Sorry to hear your sick , Damn swine flu's! I just broswed through your book man, good stuff! Your def getting a good grasp on painting, I think some dynamic poses and gestures would help you improve your human likeness a lot!

Inmagine.com (http://www.inmagine.com) is a great reference site, just type in something like "female, movement, action" and you'll find some great images to study. You may have to register to get full size images tho. But worth it.

[Janos]

Hey there, hope you get better soon. Bigger brushes are a must. What are you planning on doing?

[koolkate]

your drawing was awesome.... how i wish i could do the same thing.... i could only draw using a pencil,,,

[miycko]

great work dude :D though her lips are a little small compared to the photo, can't wait to see this progress :D & get well soon

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Bombur: I tried using a bigger brush

Miycko: did some work around the lips

Janos: can you be more specifik? do mean plans for chrismas? or just art plan?

Koolkate: stop whining and work on it. Everybody can do atleast as good as I can If they practice.

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[Black Spot]

The shadow on the bridge of the nose needs tweaking, otherwise it's looking good. Hope you're up to full strength soon - Christmas is just around the corner and you're going to need it.

[Janos]

Heyo
Its getting better. One tip I would suggest is that you should try to intergrate the eyes and mouth better into the face. Let the skin wrap around the eyeball, and the mouth is basically skin as well, so just let it flow together better. But the most important point is to actually interpret the foto and not just copy it, otherwise, as harsh and as hard as it might sound, you could basically give a foto of herself. Let there be something of you as a person in the present. I hop you understand what I mean.

Cheers

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Black spot: yeah chrismas sure got alot more busy for me.

Janos: don't worry I can handle a crit and I understand perfectly :P I am trying not to copy, and get more of a feel for it, Its just hard you know... anyway thanks for the crit man.

okay fixed the nose bridge (I think :) ), Made the dark darker, and light ... you get the picture... Basicly reworked the entire image. Get critting!


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ps: it says: "I love you mom"

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so I kinda started a new one. my step dads present :P

he looks like a super hero right ? think its the chin.

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so this is where I am with the project

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[miycko]

The painting of your mom looks great :D i think it would be cool if you got in there with a SMALL brush & really defined things like her eyelashes & those tiny little wrinkles (yes i know i'm a render freak :P ) , also her shirt could use some more shadows to show her hand placement :)

for the latest image that's some SWEET rendering man, your shadows are a little darker than the photo (i'm sure you've already seen that), & you made his nose a little smaller. Great stuff man :)

[C-CLANCY]

great stuff dude, last two portraits are really sweet....

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Miycko I will come back to It if i have time and do the details, of cause I'm going to fix the frame.

C-Clancy thanks man.

Okay so here's all I have time for today, this is my sister and her boyfriend. I've been neglecting my friends lately, plus the sickness this week didn't help. so today Im spending the day playing borderlands with a friend.
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god damn my sister is hard to draw. like what the hell! Frustration

have a look

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[Incinerated]

Hey guys no update today, Im very sorry. I'm totally beat, been writing synopsis for school /chrismas shopping.

merry x-mas guys

[Black Spot]

It's the shadows on the noses, making it not quite right. Have fun shopping. Did you get me anything nice?

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Blackspot: of cause! a clay ashtray, I made it myself :P

finally figured out what was wrong! the boyfriend! so I edited him out ... He was giving me trouble with his un-paintable face of his. Of course this gives me a big gray area to fill out hmm...

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less flat:

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update!
First one doesnt feel done, please crit away on it
second one is a done deal, unless you spot a catastrophe.

Again this is my lil' sis and my step dad.

They will be printed on 250g paper sheets, approximate size will be about the same as an A4 sheet.

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final mommy

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[Fumble]

You have been doing some good progress since that start of you sketchbook. The photostudies are a really good way of learning (i find it a good way at least :P) keep it up.

klø' på :)

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Fumble: skal nok :) tak fordi du droppede forbi

Made my sister better :P
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[Black Spot]

You sister is very pretty, but mind the front teeth; they're looking a bit too toothy.

Thanks for the clay ashtray. It looks great on my desk.

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Black spot- Merry chrismas!

Guess who got a scanner!

character for my book:
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Ballpoint experiment:
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Still button television Ref
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Measurement Training
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First panel evar!
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/first Irl Batch

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:P more

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[Fumble]

Nice studies! i think you should look into studying the planes of the face - just to make the planes more visible in you portraits. Look at loomies way of drawing heads or just search for "planes of the face" in google.

happy drawing :D

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Fumble- Plains of Face will wait a little I have a ton of anatomy to go through still

from my learning book
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another skull study
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[Black Spot]

Congtrats on your new scanner. Now we get to see all your studies.

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Thanks Spotty

Nose
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Note: top measurement is supposed to be 1/8th


Body type study- gotta do more of this, should be pretty significant, if I
ever want to design characters
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[Incinerated]

i was doing thunderdome with slash topic was "sexist"
you can hate me now :D

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[Black Spot]

Her head is not quite central on those shoulders. Also look how limbs (arms) attach to the body.

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Spotty I know I'm actually a bit Ashamed of that one

I skipped massive amounts of homework to bring you this be happy
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[miycko]

SOOOO MAAAANNNNY STUDIES :O there's some proportional issues with the pencil studies but lots of practice should fix most of that, keep this up and we'll be seeing so much progress in little time :D

the enviroment looks awesome can't wait to see it progress :)

[Black Spot]

Nice sense of space and atmosphere.

I'm happy if you're learning and enjoying it at the same time.

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Miycko- ah! you're back, actually I'm so busy these days so there should be way more. thanks for dropping by dude

Black spot- right you are ! values are a bit "drowned" in the color tho

Believe it or not this actually started as a construction practice...
oh well anyway I'm also experimenting with a new color tech which involves four layers of gradient mapping, main problem is it washes out the deep values. so far I'm convinced this could be an incredible way of coloring

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[Craz]

Fumble- Plains of Face will wait a little I have a ton of anatomy to go through still


Don't wait. All that anatomy is going to mean nothing unless you understand form. Anatomy and form should be learned in tandem. The form tells you what to sculpt and build your anatomy into and onto, and the anatomy tells you the nature and nuances of the forms. They are both important. They compliment each other.
You can know every muscle, bone and piece of cartilage in the head and that will not enable you to construct one. Knowing the basic three dimensional mannequin version will.

My advice is not to put this off- get them both down at the same time and get used to thinking about them in tandem.

[miycko]

Cool experiment dude, though a snail that big would scare the crap outta me :P nice colours :D

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alright I did it ... here's your damn planes of face execise, the scan is terrible. ;P

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30 min speed paint -
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[miycko]

it's great that you started those loomis studies i'm doing them as well, they're very informative & helpful :D great looking speedpaint too man :teeth:

[Incinerated]

yeah man ^^

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:d

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[tylervoartist]

Your animals and environments are coming on - faces still need work. They need some colout other than brown to give them life. Have a good look at the colour of skin and marvel in myriad of colours that make it up.

[miycko]

Awesome environment study dude :teeth: really like the way you painted the rocks, they could be a little sharper though. i'd like to see what it would look like if you pushed it to a finish :) Sweet banana boat dude & nice work on the studies :)

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tylervoartist roger!

miycko More work on the desert... hmm i am not sure but maybe we'll see, what do you mean sharper? less blurry? or as in pointy, deadly, more texture?

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I used an image of Kristin kreuk as reference, and then I changed her in a number of ways. oh and i made up a New signature.

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I think this is the last push unless you have something major.

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[LAL]

I like this girl, it is beautiful!