Chris Bate's Sketch Book

[Chris Bate]

Hi, I start this online sketch book in order to keep a record of my progression and, hopefully, receive frank advice on my sketches to push me forward.

My current skills are childlike and erratic, and my first aim is to be able to accurately sketch an object or person cleanly and realistically.

Thank you to anyone who helps me out :)

[t.m0]

Welcome to conceptart.org chris!

anything to show so far??

cheers.t

[Crunch]

post some work up and we would be happy to help ;)

[Chris Bate]

Life Drawing 11/11/04

Subject: Middle Aged Man


http://www.chrisbate.com/Sketches/111104/3MinMan1.jpg
3 Mins

http://www.chrisbate.com/Sketches/111104/3MinMan2.jpg
3 Mins

http://www.chrisbate.com/Sketches/111104/10MinMan1.jpg
10 Mins

http://www.chrisbate.com/Sketches/111104/10MinMan2.jpg
10 Mins

http://www.chrisbate.com/Sketches/111104/10MinMan3.jpg
10 Mins

http://www.chrisbate.com/Sketches/111104/15MinMan1.jpg
15 Mins

Sorry for the quality of my scans, the pencil drawings are quite light and my scanner quite rubbish :)

[Xaya]

Welcome Chris!

It would be nice if you could fill out your profile so that i find out more about you.


Your sketches are not so bad.
The proportions are quite right.
If you really want to draw human beings in a realistic way
you have to learn the bone structure and where and how the muscles interact.
Have a look at books by Loomis.
So just practise and take you time to draw lines.
(i myself become a bit more skilled after 200 sketches and drawings... ;) )

Xaya

[Chris Bate]

Photo Ref 12/11/04

http://www.chrisbate.com/Sketches/121104/Ref1.jpg

Really not that great (worse than yesterdays) but I used a black pen to go around the outline which i kinda like.

The photo refs i am using are quite small, does anyone know where there are some good photos of people for drawing practice?

[Chris Bate]

Life Drawing 18/11/04

This session went kind of bad today. I decided half way through to have a go at drawing in stright lines then smoothing them after, which worked out quite well.

Then my last drawing (after a break) went quite well. It took 3 attempts to start, but I am quite happy with the end result.

The subject this week was an early 30s woman

http://www.chrisbate.com/Sketches/181104/40minLifeDraw.jpg
40 mins

If anyone is intrested, i can upload the complete sketches for this session, but this is the best one by far

[Chris Bate]

Photo Ref: Kasper Salto 1
Date: 20/11/04

I have decided to spend my drawing time this week (or until i get bored) drawing the same portrait over and over, so a quick search on google found my subject.

http://www.chrisbate.com/Sketches/kaspersalto/PORTRAITsmall.jpg

Attempt 1

http://www.chrisbate.com/Sketches/kaspersalto/Kasper1.jpg
7 Mins

I am drawing this quite late at night, just before i go to bed, I think i will start the day with drawing rather than ending it, as I am always too tired to do anything apart from look at forums ;)

As always, any advice welcome :)

[PHATandy]

Hey man thats not a bad first attemp at all.

If ure doing faces one good way is to split the phot up into small sqaures in a grid like form. Then draw the grid the same on ure paper and go through each box making sure there faces/head and features are positioned right within in the boxes etc etc. That way u can make it so uve got pretty much the right proportions as the picture, and all the fetures in the right spots.

Also try to take more time with ure lines, there very sketchy and make some of the forms look not very smooth.

Good work though man and keep it up.

[prostate sunrise]

keep an eye out for your line quality, a line can convey many things, ie weight, volume, emotion, etc, but not if it is broken to point where it becomes a mess. use more arm and less wrist action, continuous line contor drawing can help too. not to worry it is a phase, just keep on drawing.


peace.