Sketchbook

[mir]

Hi everybody,
I decided to start my own thread .I will be very thankful if you critique my drawings as I want to improve.
So these are for now.
I try to arrange some objects and draw them:

http://n.1asphost.com/flowerchild/d3.jpg
This is a life drawing:
http://n.1asphost.com/flowerchild/c1.jpg
And this is from photo reference
http://n.1asphost.com/flowerchild/other1.jpg
Bye for now !
And I forgot to tell that this forum is a great inspiration for me...

[MrFrost]

i think you forgot the most important thing here....THE DRAWINGS!!!! :D

[Jokisalo]

mm.. cant see any of pics -_-

[mir]

Sorry, I messed up the things but I fixed them.

[MrFrost]

ah good ol e'or....you rendered that well. very warm and cozy feel to it.

[Eew]

hi there !
wow you render realy good !!! uhmm... show more ??? :bashful:

ps: you made 2 same threads .... :er:

[mir]

Thanks for the nice replies Eew and MrFrost :)

This is a sketch that I made looking from my window:
http://n.1asphost.com/flowerchild/Sketch1.jpg
And some things:
http://n.1asphost.com/flowerchild/Sketch2.jpg
http://n.1asphost.com/flowerchild/Sketch3.jpg
I plan to draw more this weekend cause I won't be at work :).
So bye for now !

[maldrin]

heartbeat:

hello! - nice drawings, I especially like the frida kahlo pic. you are -so- in the right place to grow this talent. I think i've already seen you posting in fredflickstone's anatomy studies and such, which is great! you're doing the right thing trying to learn all that you can.

the ideas you just posted recently are also very interesting. I'd love to see more! the more you share, the more people can offer assistance and see where your strong points are and where you've got growth potential.

keep working and keep posting!

best,

maldrin

[mir]

Thank you Maldrin for your words :)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/eye.jpg

[Bojee]

Heartbeat- Great start, we just need some more. :) :) Keep them coming. :)

[mir]

Well,Thanks Bojee :)
I decided to add some cast drawings and the last is an experiment
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/Cast1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/Cast2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/Cast3.jpg

[mir]

Long time no post.
Well these are some gestures.Each 15 minutes.I am not sure if they are gestures if not done for shorter time.
These fast drawings are harder to me so any advices will be welcome

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/gestures1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/gestures2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/gestures3.jpg

[Smith Wesen]

I have fallen in love with that eye.

[mir]

Thank you this was nice to hear :)
Some more:
My hands:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/Hands1.jpg
Loomis:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/Hands2Loomis.jpg
And again mine:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/Hands3.jpg
A slice of bread from life and my shoe also from life(lots of hours):
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/slice.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/shoe.jpg

[DeNyed]

I really like the last picture of the shoe, very good shading skills and has dark to very light values. I really like the studies you have working on, it helps alot to get proportions and everything right.

Keep up the good work!

[mir]

DeNyed: Thanks.My long drawings turn out better than the quick ones.
So these are more hand studies :
after Loomis and drawing my hand

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/Hands4LoomisMine.jpg

my hand

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/Hands5.jpg

and again after Loomis and drawing my hand

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/Hands5LoomisMy.jpg

These two are for an hour each from life -messed up perspective

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/sketchtwo.jpg

and this is digital from mind

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/bear.jpg

[mir]

Some studies of the planes from references

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/planes.jpg

And this is from life

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/LifeSketch1.jpg

:^^:

[mir]

I follow some exercises on the net which someone mentioned on the FINE ARTS, STUDIES, & DISCOVERY thread .So these are for construction:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/construction1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/construction2.jpg

And some more drawings of my hand:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/Hands7.jpg

And these are quick from life:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/qiuck1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/quick2.jpg

[yAdam]

Just checking out your improvement in drawing your hand! Good work... I like the slice of bread too. :) Keep practicing! and keep posting!!

[mir]

Thank you for checking out.I will keep my hand studies and will keep posting.

Two studies from life:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/LifeSketch2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/LifeSketch3.jpg

[Jtoons]

great studies here, keep'em going. cheers

[joiton]

Nice drawings and studies!!
Love the blue girl with green hair, and the very detailed studyes froom life (the shoe, the fork...)
Keep em coming ...girl?

[draw]

I Love drawings and pple whom draw

Keep Drawing!!

[mir]

Jtoons: Thank you :)

joiton: Thank's.My longer studies turn better and the shoe was one of those.

draw: Thank you for looking.I will surely keep drawing :^^:


This a study of a picture from Norman Rockwell.He is one of my favourite:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/N.jpg

And just a doodle:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/something.jpg

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[mir]

Hands after Loomis and some quick sketches which are not good but I suppose there is no other way to learn

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/Hands8Loomis.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/LifeSketch4.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/LifeSketch5.jpg

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[mir]

This is from life.I knew it was askew but when I finished it and flipped it ,it was more askew than I thought.Also the values seem very close.


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/cup.jpg

[mir]

Just a bottle from life:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/bottle.jpg

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[mir]

Some studies of planes,some Loomis,some selfportraits and doodling:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/planes1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/Selfportraits1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/doodle1.jpg

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[mir]

A jar which is quite askew and that's why I am doing construction:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/jar.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/construction3.jpg

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[Zaknafain]

Looks nice. I can see that you are progressing in your drawings.
That last painting lacks value. Make it b/w in photoshop and then check your valuerange. It's tiny.

Post more :)

[mir]

Zaknafain thank you, I had already done this and saw that the values are not good.I should read about colors and practise.

Some constructions:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/construction5.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/construction4.jpg

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[mir]

More hand studies :

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/Hands09.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/Hands11.jpg

and a sketch:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/doodle2.jpg

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[mir]

This is a pear from life the first one longer and the second for less time and I think it's worse.I turned them in grayscale after ended them to chek the values and it seems that the value range is not so good again.And the colors are different from the real thing.I also tend to take more time for details than for the big shape which is more important.And somehow the edges make it flat.


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/pear1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/pear2.jpg

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[johnny78]

The cast drawings and the hands come out very well. Keep them coming.

[bumskee]

Hey heartbeat,

Pears!! hehe, nice. I did mine yesterday too. A great sketchbook, nice mix of studies and medium. I am quite in love with your hand studies and still lifes. Love the computer desk one, the values on the cup and the pen is spot on, looks very real. Though I must admit the shape and stuff looks a little skewed as you mentioned, but we all know how hard a mug is even though it looks simple enough. Though I wish there were some more highlights to give it a shine and a bit more contrast.

:) beautiful studies and keep them coming. cheers,

[mir]

johnny78 - Thank you , I will :)

bumskee - thanks a lot for your comment :rendered: , I appreciate it.
I should get more acquainted with colours.But drawing is also
important.

I did this little copy of Honore Daumier for about 20 minutes.He has very interesting lighting:


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/daumier.jpg

More hands after Loomis:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/Hands13Loomis.jpg

And studies of the manikin after Loomis.I intend to make more and than to try to do them without reference to help me get used to proportions of the human body:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/loomismanikin.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/loomismanikin1.jpg

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[mir]

One more after Daumier.Again for about 20 minutes just to catch the values:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/honoredaumier.jpg

More hands(my hand):

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/Hands12.jpg


This is from reference-tomorrow going to work more on the constractuion and then maybe will add shading:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/woman.jpg

And in this trying the Gaboartpage method -copying without lifting up the pen(in the three at the bottom of the page):

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/sketch.jpg

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[SirGreenSock]

Nice, everything in here looks great! I particularly like the hands and constructions!

There's a lot of effort evident, keep it up! :)

[mir]

Thank you SirGreenSock :^^:

Trying to do some longer observations -drawing on them little every day.
So - another shoe:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/shoe2.jpg

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[bumskee]

:) love the pen studies! the shoes is nicely done, though i think you could use some highlights here and there. Awsome nonetheless, keep it going.

[mir]

Thank you, bumskee for commenting, it seems that I should pay attention to my highlights.I didn't notice the lack of some.May be there should be on those parts which are from metal. Thanks :)

Something without reference:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/leaf.jpg

Some quite awful from life:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/life.jpg

From refernces:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/line.jpg

And trying to draw the mannikin without refernce:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/imaginemannikin1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/imaginemannikin2.jpg

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[mir]

Some more hands with my hand as a model :)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/Hands14.jpg

And these are from life in my lunch break:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/stilllife.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/people.jpg

Some mannikins from imagination and then some drawings with refs:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/imaginemannikin3.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/line1.jpg

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[mir]

Today in the park there were no people sitting but this is anyway:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/16park1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/16park2.jpg

And some from life drawing.It was a bit frustrating.All the peolpe were quite young :\ and also all of them were drawing on large sheets of paper like A3 A2,and I was drawing on some smal lists A4 .I wonder do you know what is the reason to draw on such big papers ?


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/16life1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/16life2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/16life3.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/16life4.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/16life5.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/16life6.jpg

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[jtheanswer]

Your stuff is really cool, and your effort is inspiring! You got skills, keep on posting.

[mir]

Thanks , jtheanswer :)

Well more life drawings, I still could not get the real approach of doing this:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/17life01.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/17life3.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/17life02.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/17life04.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/17life05.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/17life06.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/17life07.jpg

And from my lunch break.Some people at quite a distance.I am thinking where to find more sitting people who I can draw without disturbing

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/17sketch01.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/17sketch02.jpg

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[mir]

This is longer study.Now after I scanned it I see that the stool looks broken :



http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/aubergine.jpg

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[young paddy1]

looking at this page from top to bottom an obvious and marked improvement has been made, your skills have grown fantastically over the last year and a bit. I really like your nude studies but you seem to have the same problem I do, you feather your lines when drawing quickly, try to make sweeping single gestural lines instead of breaking curves down into lots of little lines.

[bumskee]

hey heartbeat, some of images aren't loading by the way. :) nice eggplant.. and quik sketches. The cloth seems a little like it's carved in though. but u probably knew that already. keep it going!!

[mir]

young paddy1 , thank you I think my progress is not quite big but I stopped drawing somwhere in the middle of that period but hope I'll have progress in the future :).About my lines I am a little afraid what it would like if I put all down bravely so I guess that's why those little lines show up.And also I didn't use eraser.

bumskee, thank you for coming :),I see all the images don't know what is wrong.I saw that the cloth didn't look ok, but didn't know why.It is always useful when someone else tells you.So thank you :)

This one from reference:


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/oldlady_donkey.jpg

And this just trying to work on idea:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/faceyour.jpg

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[mir]

More life drawings from the evening.Those little lines are there again and lots of things that I see and I suppose a lot that I can't see but the life drawing was pleasant :) :

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/22life01.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/22life02.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/22life03.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/22life04.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/22life05.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/22life06.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/22life07.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/22life08.jpg

These are some very quick hands with my hand as ref:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/22sketch02.jpg

And this was from friday, today was very cold and snowing so I should think of some other place where I can draw in my lunch break:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/22sketch01.jpg

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[mir]

Life drawing from today and some sketchbook doodle:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/23life01.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/23life02.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/23life03.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/23life04.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/23life05.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/23sketch.jpg

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[jtheanswer]

Nice updates, the rendering on #46 is really cool! :teeth:

[marioucci]

Heartbeat,

The single line sketches, the quick hand sketches and the last cast experiment are among my favourite sketches on this forum. If i could just decide what you must focus on i would say go with the fast, spontaneous works cos you shine on those.

Keep it up mate.

from your new regular

Mario

[mir]

jtheanswer thanks for coming back :)

marioucci , thank you for the warm words :).I am happy that you like those
single lines and quick hands cause I thought they are my
weakest and I am a little afraid of them but recently I found that
they are very pleasnat to do so I continue.And thank you for
giving me advices cause I think I need some.

So these are some life drawings from wednesday with which I am not happy:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/28life01.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/28life02.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/28life03.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/28life04.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/28life05.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/28life06.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/28life07.jpg

And some sketchbookness :)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/28sketch01.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/28sketch02.jpg

These are frome some references

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[mir]

Here is a still life.The little cup was torturing me with its ellipses.And as a whole I didn't quite finish this drawing:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/cups.jpg

And some quick sketches from outside:


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/02sketch01.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/02sketch02.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/02sketch03.jpg

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[mir]

Some life drawings 15 minutes each still look the same like the previous:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/30life01.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/30life02.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/30life03.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/30life04.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/30life05.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/30life06.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/30life07.jpg

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[mir]

Some life drawings

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/01life01.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/01life02.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/01life03.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/01life04.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/01life05.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/01life06.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/01life07.jpg

And other things:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/05sketch01.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/05sketch02.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/05sketch03.jpg

Some smiles

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/05sketch04.jpg

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[mir]

Again life drawings:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/05life01.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/05life02.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/05life03.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/05life04.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/05life05.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/05life06.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/05life07.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/05life08.jpg

And some snowmen :)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/05sketch05.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/05sketch06.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/05sketch07.jpg

That's it for now

M.

[bumskee]

Hey heartbeat!! :) good going with the life drawings, lines are little messy but it's still good. just keep at it. How long do these take?

Love the christmas stuff, reminds me that I need to do a similar hehe.. the angel ones are very cute. would love to see them developed further, you know like for cards and stuff.

have you checked out loomis books? it can seriously compliment your life drawings. :) keep it going!

[mir]

Long time no post but I am here again,
Thanks, bumskee for the comments,I should do some anatomy studies,in fact now I am doing some from Bames for the center of gravity in human figures.I should do studies of the separate parts of the body I think they will help but the main problem in the moment for me is that I still can't get the proportions right.And I am also trying to stress the gesture part ,not that it works :) but I am trying.
So some life figures ,sketchbook stuff and a still life for now:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_04.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_05.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_06.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_07.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/SL_01.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/SB_01.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/SB_03.jpg

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[mir]

A head study from life about 3 1/2 hours

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/Head01.jpg

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[mir]

Some sketches from the bus from yesterday:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/SB_06.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/SB_07.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/SB_08.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/SB_09.jpg

ife drawing about 15 minutes:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_08.jpg

And to sketches from ref for the CGTalk Sketchathon:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/15_10.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/15_11.jpg

M.

[mir]

More life drawings:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_10.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_20.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_21.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_37.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_36.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_35.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_34.jpg

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[mir]

Here are some studies after Bammes :

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/SB_10.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/SB_11.jpg

And these are quickies from life:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/SB_12.jpg

I have also made an excersice from life the first is finding the tone of the objects then separating them in light and shadow and in the end adding the highlights or reflected light or halftone :

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/SL_02.jpg

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[Darktwin]

From viewing your drawings from life and your figure drawings you can see very well. Your renders in your still life drawings are amazing. I would only say that the line quality from your still lives and figure drawings are quite different. With your figure drawings try making bolder lines when your contructiing the the form of the body. maybe experiment with loose gestures. Just get crazy with it don't hold back. I struggle with this also. great stuff

[katsgod]

Very nice work

[mir]

Darktwin , you are absolutely right I am trying to improve my line quality but I think it will come eith time maybe.Thank you

katsgod , thanks for visiting my sketchbook

Here is a quick still life I did not quite much for the shadows but to devide the planes
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/SL_03.jpg

This is from life:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/Head02.jpg

These are from references for the CGTalk Sketchathon:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/15_17.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/15_23.jpg

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[mir]

Some more from me:

This is a still life I am working on.I won't do it with shading
but with strokes along the form of the objects.The strokes will be
spaced evenly so the objects will distinguish one from another
only through the direction of the strokes:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/SL_04.jpg
A head from life with wich I am not happy:er: .The structure is missing:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/Head03.jpg
Some hands from life :
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/Hands_01.jpg
and something from ref:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/SB_13.jpg
I decided to try gouache after doing the spheres for the Peer project
and then read the explanation from quietadrian from his thread in the
FINE ARTS, STUDIES, & DISCOVERY part of the forum but I got to details
very soon.It is still not finished but next time I will
do something only for the big shapes
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/Gouache_01.jpg
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[mir]

More life drawings :
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_33.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_32.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_31.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_13.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_14.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_15.jpg

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[mir]

So this is the finished still life :

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/SL_05.jpg

Some value studies from Loomis :
And now I am workin on a simple still life with the same objects in different lights which is not ready yet
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/SB_14.jpg

And some figure drawings:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_24.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_25.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_26.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_27.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_29.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_30.jpg

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[mir]

I did these value studies after Loomis for different intensity and treatment of light:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/SB_16.jpg

And then this, using a photo ref.I'll try to make it again in another intensity of light:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/SB_17.jpg

Some other things:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/SB_15.jpg

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[mir]

More of the value studies.Trying to make them in different keys

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/SB_18.jpg (http://photobucket.com)

And other things:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/SB_19.jpg (http://photobucket.com)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_41.jpg (http://photobucket.com)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_40.jpg (http://photobucket.com)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_39.jpg (http://photobucket.com)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_38.jpg (http://photobucket.com)

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[Darktwin]

wow you've been really busy and I can see a definite improvement on your line quality. another really good thing your doing is mixing up what you draw instead of drawing the same thing over again, like I tend to do. wow keep em coming, they're looking great

[mir]

Darktwin,
Thanks for coming back :)
I recently started using larger sheets of paper and it somehow helps me to draw less lines :).I try to think more about drawing not just copy.

So another gouache study face and a sphere.I flipped the face and it's not good again .I should do one with only general forms without any small details:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/Gouache_02.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/SB_21.jpg

And the value studies I made:
This is just before it was dark:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/SB_22.jpg
This with direct artificial light:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/SB_23.jpg
In artificial light:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/SB_24.jpg
Daylight:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/SB_25.jpg

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[mir]

I tried gouache again,this time with color , using a photo ref.I am looking for the values.And that is for now.It was very pleasant :) although for now I don't understand all the color things .May be I'll finish it tomorrow

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/Gouache_04.jpg

Some studies for values.I am reading Loomis and trying to figure out the things:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/SB_27.jpg

A sketch from life:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/SB_26.jpg

Life drawings:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_46.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_45.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_44.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_43.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_42.jpg

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[Jens]

Mayby a tip when you are painting. Before you start, find the lightest spot on the subject. A lot of times there's only one brightest spot. You have to conserve your lightest value for that. Another thing you can do before you start is try seperating the shadow side from the light side. There's a pretty big distiction between the two, especially when you're working with a strong spotlight.

for example in this image
http://www.seancheetham.com/alla%20prima/alexis-web.jpg

[mir]

Jens,thank you for the advice .I am also trying to do this when I am drawing cause I find myself shading more just by looking at the object and not always thinking where the light source comes from which is my darkest part ,how dark it is compared to other parts and things like this.So thank you.
I added some more value to the bear ,it is not separeted like it should be in values but next time I will try to do this from the begining:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/Gouache_05.jpg

Also here is a head from last sunday.About 3 hours .I was looking for some head planes and such things and trying to imply them.I was also trying not to put unnecessary values cause I tend to do this:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/Head05.jpg

Life drawings:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_69.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_67.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_66.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_65.jpg

And eyes studies from Loomis:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/SB_28.jpg

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[mir]

Just some life drawings for today:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_60.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_72.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_55.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_58.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_71.jpg

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[mir]

Some studies from life:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/SB_31.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/SB_32.jpg

These are from references trying to feel the form:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/SB_29.jpg

And a lemon which doesn't look like a lemon:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/SL_06.jpg

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[SirGreenSock]

Been keeping really busy I see, improving lots, too.
Your form and value are really improving, the life studies look great.
The lemon might now exactly feel like a lemon, but it has very good form, it reads well.
One area you should pay a bit more attention to is the direction of your hatching, try to follow the form more closely. If you just follow the form, it will read correctly throughout. Even with correct values in place going in a single direction or just not following the form can really flatten a surface.

[mir]

SirGreenSock,
Thanks ,I should pay more attention to the direction of hatching,I even draw without hatching which I suppose is not good.I haven't done very long studies recently cause I tend to render and I need more drawing I think
Color try in gouache from a living apple :)
Well,I turned it now into gray scale and the value range is not quite good.And while I was doing it I didn't know how to build the higlights.I tried in different ways but it didn't work.Also while trying to make more dark and light parts the color became muddy:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/Gouache_06.jpg

This is from a book with selfportraits .I try to see the planes:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/SB_33.jpg

And life drawings:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_63.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_61.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_59.jpg

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[mir]

I made another gouache study of a strange apple ,it turned out worse .I read the tutorial from E.M.Geist and understood I should do some color charts.Now I am trying to mix just on the paper.And also I realized I must have clear idea in my mind of what the values are otherwise it won't work:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/Gouache_07.jpg

Then did these:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/SB_34.jpg

And life drawings:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_51.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_54.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_52.jpg

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[mir]

Some life drawings:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_64.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_73.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_68.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_70.jpg

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[mir]

Life drawings again:


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_48.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_47.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_49.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_50.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_53.jpg

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[mir]

Some quickies from life:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_89.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_81.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_80.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_79.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_78.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_77.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_76.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_75.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_74.jpg

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[Chichigo]

Great improvement since the beginning, gosh this forum really is very inspiring for my own work.

Back near the beginning of the thread you asked why people tend to use larger sheets of paper for life drawing, I believe its because its easier for your hand to flow across the paper. When you draw on A4, your hand movement is very cramped, so for gestural drawings, i personally find the best results are using large newsprint.

How do you find gouache?? How is it different than acryllic?? More difficult>??

[mir]

Chichigo,
Thank you for reading through my thread and thanks for the explanation,I now use larger paper and it feels better the only problem is with scanning :[ .
About gouache -I haven't used acryllics so I can't make a comparison,sorry.
But I find gouache very nice medium,not that I have used it alot only a little.But when it is dry you can again make transitions with a wet brush .At least I didn't know this and I was a little surprised.

Two head studies from life.I looked at the drawings of people from watts atelier and reminded myself to look for the whole and to find hard and soft edges but it need more practice:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/Head08.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/Head09.jpg

This is with ink:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/SB_35.jpg

And life drawings,some are cut -sorry:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_90.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_104.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_103.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_102.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_101.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_100.jpg

And some very quick sketches:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_91.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_92.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_93.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_94.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_95.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_96.jpg

that's for now

M.

[mir]

Some more life drawings and the rest of the quick sketches from a public place:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_115.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_116.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_114.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_112.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_111.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_110.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_109.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_97.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_98.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_117.jpg

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[Matt Smith]

I like where you are heading with your sketches. There is some nice movement in some of these. Perhaps some more anatomy studies would help alittle or some master copies.

[mir]

Matt Smith,thank you I should do anatomy studies soon,I concentrated on trying not to come out with stick figures ,don't know if it works but now I really feel I need some anatomy :)
Today I tried watercolors .This was a beautiful grapefruit:x .
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/Watercolor_01.jpg

Life drawings:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_118.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_108.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_107.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_106.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_105.jpg

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[mir]

Another watercolor grapefruit which looks like an apple:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/Watercolor_02.jpg

This is blind countour,I looked down several times to place my pencil but it's a little frightening :S

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/BC_01.jpg

And again life drawings:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_119.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_120.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_121.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_122.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_123.jpg

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[bumskee]

:) hey looking good, I alway envy those who go into water colour. It looks so hectic, yeah it does look a little like an apple. Love the figures, they are coming along nicely, just watch the shading on the chick bone, you seem to place excessive amount without treating other areas. cheers

[warlock1234]

the gouche and watercolors are very well done....i'd suggest working now more so on environmental sketches...so that you don't get bored with what your doing....i can see a lot of improvement in what you've done so far...keep going :android:

[mir]

Hey bumskee ,thanks for coming . Watercolor is confusing to me for now but interesting.about the figures - I sometimes concentrate only on some part of the figure may be I should do it on stages .

warlock1234,thanks for the suggestion ,drawing should be pleasure :teeth: .I'll try to do some environments may be from outside.

Again life drawings:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_126.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_127.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_128.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_129.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/G_131.jpg

Some anatomy from Bridgman:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/At_01.jpg

Making some figures and trying my new ink :)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/SB_36.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/SB_40.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/Im_01.jpg

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[mir]

Watercolor is difficult :x .I should be more clear of how to mix paints

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/Watercolor_03.jpg
Study after caravaggio:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/SB_41.jpg
This is looking from a drawing of a book cover :
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/SB_37.jpg
And some more Bridgman studies:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/At_02.jpg

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[mir]

Another gouache try from life .It was strange to do this colors ,they are beautiful and these look like different:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/Gouache_09.jpg

Watercolor from reference.It was not in color only brownish :

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/15_36.jpg

Making some figures and anatomy from Loomis:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/SB_39.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/SB_38.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/SB_44.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/SB_45.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/At_03.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/At_04.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Mishkata/SB_42.jpg

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[mir]

I did another watercolor from black and white reference.Her eyes are awfuly misplaced.I saw it afterwards .I should be more careful

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/Watercolor_04.jpg

And this is a quick copy of Sargent.I've been looking at his paintings for some time his watercolors are so nice :}
This turned out quite wrong in proportions:

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/SB_46.jpg

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[mir]

Some quick sketches for today and a little Bridgman anatomy:

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/SB_47.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/SP_05.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/SB_48.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/SP_06.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/At_05.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/SP_07.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/SP_08.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/SP_09.jpg

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[mir]

These are some life drawings from last weeks I just scanned them now . There are some more which I will scan later:

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/G_134.jpg
http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/G_133.jpg
http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/G_132.jpg
http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/G_135.jpg
http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/G_136.jpg
http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/G_137.jpg
http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/G_138.jpg
http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/G_139.jpg
http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/G_140.jpg
http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/G_141.jpg
http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/G_142.jpg
http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/G_143.jpg
Two heads from life :

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/Head10.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/Head11.jpg
A still life which I was doing from time to time .I am not happy with it but...

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/SL_07.jpg

Also I tried oils (from reference):

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/Oil_01.jpg

M.

[mir]

I scanned the life drawings very ugly in parts so I'll try to take pictures of them .For now this is a picture after Zorn. I wanted to make it carefully in tiles but from the beginning I rashed the things and also I did'n want to make it smooth but I made it and the main thing is that again I displaced the features:

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/Gouache_10.jpg

And a quick sketch from reference

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/SB_49.jpg

M.

[mir]

Some sketchbook pages:

After Norman Rockwell and quick hands
http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/SB_54.jpg
After Zorn:
http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/SB_53.jpg
Bridgman studies
http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/SB_52.jpg
Other things:
http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/SB_51.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/SB_50.jpg

M.

[mir]

Again just some studies of Loomis,Homer,Rockwell and a little quick hands:
http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/SB_63.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/SB_62.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/SB_61.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/SB_60.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/SB_59.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/SB_58.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/SB_57.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/SB_56.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/SB_55.jpg

M.

[TheGnoll]

jeez took me ages to load all these pics.Loads of stuff, and good stuff.This is the way to improve and you are, quite fast too.Keep on posting

(by the way, i see a lot of "x"s in the last post)

ciao

[mir]

TheGnoll,Thank you for the comment :).I'll try to make the next page with less loading time

Some not so serious things-sketches ,life drawings,selfportrait in which the eyes are wrong but I saw it later when I stopped staring at it :blah:

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/SB_64.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/SB_65.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/SP_11.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/G_144.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/G_145.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/G_146.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/G_148.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/G_147.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/G_149.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/G_150.jpg

M.

[mir]

Life drawings:

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/G_153.jpg

M.

[mir]

For the next page I should definetely make my pictures smaller .
Here are some sketches from ref.The first two references are from the cgtalk sketchatoon:

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/SB_67.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/SB_66.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/SB_69.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/SB_68.jpg

And this without ref:

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/SB_70.jpg

I notice I always make the construction of the head askew and not symetrical.I should work on this more

M.

[mir]

I should pay more attention to the construction of heads.Always distort them :x .So trying to think more ;) of the process -construction -whether the features are at their place and not to rush to fast in values

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/SB_74.jpg

Loomis and some pictures:

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/SB_76.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/SB_73.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/SB_72.jpg

And this trying without reference :nohope: :

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/SB_71.jpg

M.

[mir]

Life drawings for now.I decided to group them so not to upload so much images:

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/G_155.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/G_154.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/G_152.jpg

8)
M.

[mir]

Some messy watercolors.I start with the thought to make them clear and then just lost the idea
Reference from internet .I sanned it in two parts that's why there is a line in the middle and the hand I know it seems like a finger is missing :bashful:

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/Watercolor_06.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/Watercolor_05.jpg

And this is a study from ref. ,after reading kincept tutorial although the pictures can't be seen , the information is quite good.I should read it again an practice more.I was trying to limit myself to less values but when color appear it becomes a little messy so without smudging at least and some more thought in it compared to the watercolors:

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/Color%20Study_01.jpg

M.

[bumskee]

woah... busy sketchbook. :) it's still loading.. so much work! it's very nice to see you are doing so many important studies.. I really like your loomis studies, you know I recently revisited loomis after few months... I hated myself for not going back to it earlier, he's got so many wonderful stuff in there. So keep going back to him, he's gold. :) love the still lifes, cheers!

[mir]

bumskee, thanks for stopping here :),I will defenitely go back to Loomis.I find that with time I understand some things that I haven't before.This is the same with some tutorials .Maybe because I need to know something before going to another :teeth:

Here some more drawings from life.I also bought a brushpen today it is really very cool :)

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/G_161.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/G_162.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/G_160.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/G_159.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/G_158.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/G_157.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/G_156.jpg

M.

[archipelago]

woa, lots of hard work here! you seem to be doing the right things and your work has definently improved. All I can say is that you should follow the form more with your rendering strokes, You are getting better at better at it, but sometimes it seems flat, especialy at edges of shapes.Try to think of the strokes as a sheet covering the object, and in perspective... kind of hard to explain I guess but I hope you understand :P Your renderings definently not bad though, its just those hard edges that need to be smoothed.
Keep up all the hard work!

[mir]

archipelago,thanks for the advice,I am thinking of edges recently .I should somehow implement these thoughts.I just don't have some order of doing that life drawings just going for the gesture first and than thinking of the other stuff.

Here some things from these days or weeks and later should scan some more.I am doing some sketches in the park trying to get comfortable with it.
Sorry for the big download time I should reduce it a lot :


http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/At_07.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/Doo.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/At_06.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/G_163.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/G_164.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/Park_01.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/Park_02_.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/Park_02.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/G_165.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/G_166.jpg

M.

[DannySketch]

hey there is some truely awesome stuff in here, from the amount of studies you do and the amount of time you spend on each one you can tell your really dedicated, theres some great effort here and an amazing skill progressing well done

[mir]

DannySketch,thanks for the kind words :)

Some more things.Now I am doing some anatomy studies from Bammes but he is hard to read at least for me.Loomis' stuff are put in a more user friendly way :).Anyway these are the other things for now:
This is from ref from CgTalk Sketchatoon thread:
http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/SB_77.jpg

Life drawings:
http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/G_168.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/SB_78.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/G_167.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/G_169.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/G_170.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/Park_03.jpg

Bought two copic markers <3
http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/Park_04.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/Park_05.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/Park_06.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/Park_07.jpg

M.

[mir]

Just two referenced things .I am thinking of doing a Bargue copy soon but a simple one cause I began one earliler and started doing it in the wrong way.At least I learned that it was wrong

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/SB_80.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/SB_79.jpg

M.

[mir]

Just a lil bit update:

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/SB_83.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/SB_82.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/G_173.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/G_172.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/G_171.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/SB_81.jpg

M.

[mir]

Not quite different things :

Selfportrait - late in the evening:

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/SP_12.jpg
A little bit of anatomy.I bought a cheap sketchbook so now I am not worried about wasting the sheets:
http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/At_10.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/At_09.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/At_08.jpg
And some rabbits:
http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/SB_84.jpg

M.

[mir]

Doodle and life drawings:

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/SB_85.jpg

]http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/G_180.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/G_179.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/G_177.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/G_176.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/G_175.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/G_174.jpg

:rendered: M.

[Tigermilk]

hum, I can't see the latest updates.. weird haha, but in any case, this is quite a nice SB you've got here, I really like all the life drawings, definately, a huge step in the right direction. Very nice lines. The rendering seems a bit "slopy" from times, but that'll come to you. Remember that shadow dousn't allways shape the whole "body" when rendering, light allso shapes, why it can be a good idea to leave some areas untouched when rendering the face, for example.
http://www.dmalonefineart.com/images/art/Portrait-Study-Black-and-white-pencil-25x19-450-MED.jpg
:)

You've progresses since the beginning, keep us updated!
/tigermilk

[SirGreenSock]

Love the life drawings! Very sensitive, but with a great sense of volume and mass!

Your images are quite large file sizes, 100-200 kbs each. Saving for web in PS would make this book load way faster! Each pic could be easily lowered to about 30 kb without any apparent loss of quality.

[Ashrumm]

Lots of life drawing here, very good stuff cannot wait to see more keep it up it will only help you develop faster.

[mir]

Tigermilk, the pictures are quite large so they are loading slowly. That's why the last once don't load sometimes but I will fix it in this 3rd page :).Thank you for the advice :)

SirGreenSock, I am glad you like the life drawings cause it seems I am doing mostly them recently which I should change anyway.Thank you:).And for the pictures I made the last once smaller

ashrumm , Thank you :)

Some life drawings value study from the peer project and color study also from the same thread:

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/G_185.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/G_186.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/G_189.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/G_184.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/G_183.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/G_182.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/G_181.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/SB_86.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/Color%20Study_02.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/value_01.jpg

M.

[Smitherines]

I know rendering is the fun part, but when it comes to life drawing, try your best to nail down the inital drawing first before you get to rendering. Rendering will not save a drawing from propotion errors ect....If you render an area nicely, and you know its wrong, you aren't going to want to fix it later. Also try to break your figures down in more simplified shapes.

[Matt Smith]

I like how your sketches are starting to get neater, just keep at it. Keep up the good work.

[mir]

Thank you both of you :) for the comments
Smitherins thanks for the critique.You just caught me with that rendering thing.I am trying recently to stay away from it.May be more knowledge in anatomy will help to make better figures .Sometimes it seems to me I am trying to prettify the things which distracts me from my goal,so may be it will help to have a clear idea what is the purpose of the thing I am doing

Math Smith - thank you :)

This is after Sargent

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/SB_87.jpg

Some knee studies

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/At_11.jpg

These are from reference

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/Color _02.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/Color _03.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/Womandressdot1.jpg

Selfportrait

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/SP_13.jpg

Sketches from the park and other

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/Park_08.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/Park_09.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/Park_10.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/Park_11.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/SB_88.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/Park_12.jpg

M.

[mir]

Some more for yesterday
from refs:

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/SB_89.jpg

Trying without

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/SB_92.jpg

from life

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/SB_91.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/SB_90.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room20/521305/SP_14.jpg

M.

[mir]

Some more studies from photos and drawings and without reference.
Tha last figure drawing will be this friday :( and then there is now place where I can figuredraw. Of course there are parks but it is not quite the same.Well in the autumn I will go again.I will post figures next time,I will have to scan some.
And the shoes are a still life I am drawing at the moment

[mir]

So these are the shoes.I feel I am drawing in some wrong way.May be I am concentrating too much on little things.Somehow I want to make the closer shoe in a different value than the other one in order to make it stand out but looking at them they seem like this.May be I should do some still lifes with only construction and then just 4 values.

[mir]

Heads from CGtalk and sketchbook things:

[mir]

Holiday sketches

[mir]

Referenced things except for the last one:

[mir]

A head from reference and the color is from the peer project I think I should do it again.The colors of the scan are a little different

[mir]

This is my second attempt for the same project and the grayscales which show that the second try is worse.And other sribbles.Some of them I forgot to post earlier

[mir]

Some update :rolleyes:

[jkior]

whoa hey thanks for posting in my thread - it's always nice to know people are watching!

hmmm if I had a critique it would be to watch your proportions, particularly in faces. An easy way to check these is to use the length of the nose, the forehead plane from top to bottom, and the distance from the bottom of the nose to the bottom of the chin as your three basic measurements. . .if there's a drawing error in a face checking these in relation to each other will usually reveal it.

hope this helps, we're all here to get better. . .thanks again!

wups sorry. . .I also wanted to say that you're waaaay better at fast sketches and gestures than me. . .and doing master studies like you have here to augment sketching practice is a REALLY good idea - I personally think master copies are the strongest and fastest foundation to build in your art studies. Very cool to see someone working on them!

[mir]

jkior- Thank you very much for the comment :).I will watch out for proportions.I need to watch for them not only in faces though.And my quick gestures and drawings are quite shaky and hesitant I must get rid of my fear

I messed the perspective of the still life when i started the rendering but I saw it when I flipped it at the end.
The flower is from life and the blue pen from my head well...

[mir]

The portraits are after Frans Hals except for the one at the bottom right corner and the other page is full of wrong elipses from around

[mir]

Drawings from zoo and other things

[mir]

From life

[Lee W]

nice sketchbook :) I like the recent animal sketchs .. keep it up :)

[mir]

OldNoobie-Thanks :)

Some life drawings.The first is a quick digital.And the other are in gouache .I made myself something like a value scale to avoid painting in the middle range values but yet I did it somehow.

[mir]

Kchen studies and other things

[mir]

something like an update
:er:

[Lee W]

haven't visited for a while now ...

really nice hand studies :) on the gouache pieces, you can add accents of darker tones and brighter highlights in certain areas to increase the contrast. Before actually doing it, run it by PS before committing to it.

[mir]

OldNoobie, thank you for visiting again.As for the gouaches, I made a scale and wanted to use only the light and dark parts of it but in the process I failed.I should try again maybe.
Life drawings.I am posting them in other thread for more critiques so here I am repeating one or two for the record.And some other stuff:
http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=47879&stc=1&d=1163240354

[Lee W]

the life drawing is looking really good :) and the elephant is great, though the legs can be a bit thicker in my opinion

[Bard]

Awesome stuff! Heartbeat!
I enjoyed scrolling down your thread it's very diverse and some whimsical stuff that's nice.
Happy holidays!