Pages from the Sketchbook

[mrbo18]

Some things i've been doodling latelly. Trying to mess around with some new things and work on adding more stuff to my characters clothes. Crits are very very welcome.

http://img3.photobucket.com/albums/v12/mrbo18/Flamerthrower1.jpg

http://img3.photobucket.com/albums/v12/mrbo18/Radioman1.jpg

http://img3.photobucket.com/albums/v12/mrbo18/robot3.jpg

http://img3.photobucket.com/albums/v12/mrbo18/Robot2.jpg

http://img3.photobucket.com/albums/v12/mrbo18/medic.jpg

http://img3.photobucket.com/albums/v12/mrbo18/Ship1.jpg

http://img3.photobucket.com/albums/v12/mrbo18/mainchar.jpg

http://img3.photobucket.com/albums/v12/mrbo18/Ninja.jpg

I hardly ever sing beer drinking songs.... or draw ninjas. But that one was fun.

[Pichuerca]

Great stuff!

By the way be carefull with your line work. The pencil has to move smoothly, not hardly. Your anatomy is not bad but keep learning a few more. Draw hands hands...and more hands. Try other compositions, your drawings are very static for my point of view..


Remember.. when draw dont do anything else than draw. Keep your mind in the paper. Dont run!. Smoothly.... Do your best in the minimun details.


Well hope that you undertand that i try to say you. Bye

[mrbo18]

Thank you for your reply. Hands i've been trying to work on but i still find myself falling into the same old tendancies of ignoring them. My sketches are very rough and choppy; i scribbed like crazy when i draw them and try to smooth them out later, but rarelly do. Just got to take my time more with my stuff and keep practicing, but thanks for your opinion.
I've also got a few sketches of more dynamic poses but my atanomy and costumes get shot all to hell when i try them, so they're just really rough gestures and figures. Are there any sites online, or good books that i could take a look at to get a better feel for that?

[Pichuerca]

I recomend Loomis´s books of course. Someone, i dont remember his name, put a new book of loomis in the lounge section of this forum. Look for it.

Search in google, for example, Loomis. In one of these links there are a few books of him to download for free.

(Saveloomis.com or loonisrevival.com, .. i dont remember exactly. )

PD. Keep your characters design and other stuffs down for some period of time and do a lot of life drawings or references drawings.Sometimes, I do this when i am without draw much time. It will help you alot, you will learn to see and trace with more sense.

Bye