Tom tries drawing! (Some Nudity)

[Teamoose]

Hello, I'm Thomas, a 15 year old living in the grand capital of Australia that is Canberra. I've been drawing for a few years now, but only became serious about a year ago. Recently I've become even more dedicated to improving my artwork, and have begun working on it for more than the hour a day I used to spend. I've also been lurking on ConceptArt for a few months now, and have often intended to create a sketchbook, but have always shied away from doing so.

So I've finally worked up the courage create one here. If I'm going to get any further in my art, I think I'll actually have to get some critique and advice from artists more skilled than me, lest I end up muddling around in mediocrity for the rest of my artistic career.

To kick things off, I suppose I'll start with some recent Posemaniacs drawings (Apologies for the poor quality)

[Teamoose]

Some perspective and still life.

[Bartovan]

Hi Tom, good start! Great to see you started with basic perspective exercises. They are the foundation of everything you will draw. It might be a good idea to draw the invisible lines of the objects as well: they are very useful for the construction of complicated objects. Keep going!

[Teamoose]

I do draw the invisible lines, it's just they're so light my camera doesn't catch them. I have a scanner but it's connected to an old hulk of a computer that takes ages to do anything, so I don't use it much.

Edit, I'm a twit, I see what you mean. I'll start adding them in.

[miycko]

cool start man :D seen a couple issues but the one that stands out the most is proportion. just keep doing those studies & improve :)

[Teamoose]

Some drawings from the back yard, some groggy posemaniacs drawings and some from life.

[Teamoose]

Some hastily done drapery studies, some Bridgman, posemaniacs ands some more perspective.

[Teamoose]

Please pardon my necromancy, I've had a bit of schoolwork and some exams to study for. I've been studying Proportion from a few sources, and have started studying the underlying bits of the body (the skull comes from this thread: http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=168512

[Slothboy3000]

Those posemaniacs with the Bridgeman proportions are good!
I'd suggest doing a much longer study, though. You learn alot about anatomy if you try and consciously take in what you can from doing one. :)

[Teamoose]

Thanks for the tip, I'll try to supplement my studies with a longer pose.I've been consciously trying to slow down and be more careful, but I occasionally lapse.

[Teamoose]

Some Bridgman studies and another skull from the that thread. I also took Slothboy3000's advice and spent a bit more time on a pose, which I got from Character Designs. com (Set 26, Photo 20)

[Teamoose]

I spent about 40 minutes on this picture, and while I can see I went wrong in places, I still feel pretty proud. The figure is from set 26, photo 120, while the skull is from the thread in references and inspirations.

[Teamoose]

Had a nice, productive weekend spent drawing figures.
The reference for this is Character Designs, Set 27, Photo 96.

[Jasonai]

It's good to see you drawing from reference. Try to draw from life sometimes if you can, rather than just photos. I found it to really be a good practice! It's good to hear that you are working on your art as much as you can, it'll only set you that much farther ahead.

[Teamoose]

Character Designs, Set 23, Photo 135

[Teamoose]

Character Designs isn't the only reference I use, but its the only one I can consistently refer to.

The bones are taken from Bridgman and Artistic Anatomy.

[Teamoose]

Going back to Perspective study.

[Teamoose]

This was difficult, but fun to do, although it's not entirely correct in proportion and perspective-wise.

[Twan]

great studies here!
Now you can switch to other aspects: portrait, hands, still life,...
you can also study anatomy with Bridgman, Loomis and Kchen
keep it up !

[Teamoose]

Ohhhh it's been a while. The first term rush of school interfered too much, so all I've been doing is some perspective for the past few months. I'm free now to start drawing again, so I hope I can start posting more consistently.

The skull's pretty awkward on reflection; the jaw is on a different plane to the cranium. Oops.

[Teamoose]

Hello!

I concentrated on the mandible and teeth today. References are Artistic Anatomy and Gray's Anatomy.

[Teamoose]

Some more work on the mandible, seeing how much I can remember.

[Teamoose]

Moving upwards to the mandible.

[Teamoose]

Just been working steadily on the Facial Skeleton and Mandible. This one is to see how it looks when the mandible is wide open.

[Teamoose]

Worked a a bit more on layering the shading, but inadvertently spent less time on the form of the skull, so it looks awkward in some places.

[Teamoose]

This skull was great fun to draw! I tried to be a bit more careful in the construction stage, layering in with blue pencil and then outlining it lightly with lead.