Mime's sketchbook (update 11/06) [Archive]

mime

February 15th, 2003, 11:07 AM

Hya everyone, ok i will stop to bother you with thousands of new threads everytime i have 2 life drawing to show ... and i will have this one thread for life drawings and everyday sketches ...

http://mimetic.free.fr/crob7.jpg http://mimetic.free.fr/crob8.jpg
http://mimetic.free.fr/crob9.jpg http://mimetic.free.fr/crob10.jpg
http://mimetic.free.fr/crob12.jpg

http://mimetic.free.fr/crob3.jpg http://mimetic.free.fr/crob11.jpg
http://mimetic.free.fr/crob4.jpg http://mimetic.free.fr/crob2.jpg
http://mimetic.free.fr/crob5.jpg http://mimetic.free.fr/crob6.jpg

the 3 first sketches are older (more than 1 week)
i am heavily trying to have a more personal approach in my drawings ... in my lines, in the general "style" even if i know that i must still learn to draw in a realistic way ...
But when i look at the 3 first drawings, i think "well thats quite boring"
i need to think more when drawing, to think about the proportions, to think about where i want the line to go, to think about what i want the drawing to tell, etc ...
thats hard !

well i only realized that after i did this life drawing last week :
http://mimetic.free.fr/life_1202_1.jpg
it had much more life, even if the lines were maybe less accurate ... and it was more "my drawing" than anything else i had done.

well i am rambling, i guess this thread is made for that :)

so anyone, tell anything you want to tell, everything is good to hear.

I.was.ink

February 15th, 2003, 03:34 PM

I know you will learn a lot from doing this. I know I did with my sketchbook thread. I will be there along with you to help you out and share our knowledge. I hope you don't give up and don't update.

Please update regularly
:D

mime

February 15th, 2003, 03:50 PM

Thanxs Iwasink

here is somethign new
a scanned sketch and some photoshop work over it

http://mimetic.free.fr/drunken%20angel.jpg

translation of the text :
alcohol we can all fall into it

i am quite happy with this image ... i wanted to do some sort of anti alcohol ad, but with a personal approach into it ...

Atmospheria

February 15th, 2003, 05:32 PM

You have a real potential...it seems you're working so hard to improve your self.if you go like this we'le adore to your works...keep it up and do more...

mime

February 16th, 2003, 06:22 PM

some new things

i dont really like the realisation of this one, the idea might be nice ...
http://mimetic.free.fr/crobard2.jpg

I quite like this page, those are research for an illustration i am working on
http://mimetic.free.fr/crobard3.jpg

here is the rough for this illustration
http://mimetic.free.fr/crobard1.jpg

http://mimetic.free.fr/crobard4.jpg
http://mimetic.free.fr/crobard5.jpg
http://mimetic.free.fr/crobard6.jpg

jester

February 17th, 2003, 12:54 PM

Mime - I'm glad that you started your own virtual sketchbook. :) Like iwasink says, it's great to learn! Keep posting!

(Real comments from me at a later time, just bought silicon and plaster to make my own cast...!)

:p

Jester

I.was.ink

February 17th, 2003, 02:51 PM

These are nice mime. I like simplicity of the alcohol piece. Did you do that on cardboard? very resourceful...

I like the little girl sketches, and am interested in what the illustration is about. Mind filling us in?;)

Good to see you updating!

mime

February 17th, 2003, 05:16 PM

Thank you Jester and Iwasink

In fact i am working hard now, and the next three monthes, because i will try to enter an art school in my town next year, I can try to enter it right in the 3rd year (it is a 5 year school) because of the years i already did before in a graphic design school.
But of course i have to prove myself in an "interview" (is that roght ?) with the school staff, and show my work and motivation.

so i am trying to create more "personnal" works before this deadline. Life drawings is of course a good thing to show, but i also have to show my creativity, and my "world".

this illustration is just a personnal thing
a little girl is hunting butterflies, it is quite dark (night) so she has a lantern. Everything is normal, until one of the butterflies casts a very strange and frightening shadow on a tree nearby ...
thats all =)
it is just that i quite like butterflies, they are pretty, but i also find that they can be scary , and i want to make a picture that can show that, or something like that.

mime

February 17th, 2003, 08:38 PM

experimentation under illustrator for the lines of the illustration

http://mimetic.free.fr/crobard2.gif

i will rework the hands, the errrr thing she holds in her hand to catch the buterflies

and i think i wont rework much, i want to keep the nervous and spontaneous aspect in the lines

i am pretty happy with this "first test" with illustrator for sketch/lines

share your comments please :)

mime

February 20th, 2003, 09:46 PM

just some little crappy sketches ... i will show you updates on the pic above tomorrow i guess.

http://mimetic.free.fr/djeunz.gif

I.was.ink

February 20th, 2003, 11:26 PM

I like the drawing of the little girl with the butterflies. good to see you are thinking of drawing people. But remember proportions,proportions,proportions.

Keep on posting!:)

mime

February 21st, 2003, 09:27 PM

some speed paintings

http://mimetic.free.fr/nuke%20desert.JPG

http://mimetic.free.fr/etudiant%20bozar%202.JPG
Thats my view on the stereotype of art student

http://mimetic.free.fr/speed3.JPG

i have some sketchbook pages to scan too, i will show them tomorrow i guess, and i am soing some building sketches, for the assignment.

mime

February 22nd, 2003, 11:54 AM

a self portrait

http://mimetic.free.fr/spod12.jpg

mime

February 23rd, 2003, 09:12 PM

some various new stuff

anatomy study (copy from books)
http://mimetic.free.fr/anatimie-main-1.jpg

http://mimetic.free.fr/dessin-objets-1.jpg
object studies, ink (no pencil sketch ... maybe a mistake ...)

http://mimetic.free.fr/gamin-tabass%e9.jpg
and some random ink sketch

jester

February 24th, 2003, 06:54 AM

mime - what really impresses me is the variety of style you show in your works. As iwasink says: remember proportions!

Jester

mime

February 24th, 2003, 09:55 AM

Thanxs jester
i'm not sure if it is a quality or a bad thing, this variety ...
But thats mostly one of my biggest concern ... i would like to evolve to a line quality and a "style" that would fit me, but it is also a bit early for that, i am still learning the basics, learning realistic drawing, etc ...
thats why there is so many different styles, i am searching, exploring every ways i can discover, etc ...

there is some new things that i discovered thay i like, for example the line "quality" in my sketch for the little girl drawing, and the style of some character heads i did recently ... but I might be wrong

i would love to hear from any of you what you think interesting in every thing i post, and what is worthless ....

I am in a twist in my "art life" where i start to think also about what i want to say/show instead of just thinking about the technical parts .... and it is scary and very frustrating =)

Vader

February 24th, 2003, 10:53 AM

Hey theres some real nice works you got there, i think the anti alcohol poster is pretty cool, keep it up its inspiring.

mime

February 24th, 2003, 11:19 PM

some new sketch

just doodling thinking more about anatomy and proportions (but it is much less personal ... ill have to find a way to combine both proportions and personality in the end)

http://mimetic.free.fr/crob-24-4.jpg

Ian Mack

February 24th, 2003, 11:57 PM

looking good man ! I think I'll start a skecthbook thread of my own...

anyway, I love the art student pic. it's quite in line with my own idea of an art student. and is that a scripto lighter ? Those lighters are awesome.

You have good lines in alot of your pics, and you're very good @ drawing the human face...maybe drawing a variety of faces ? I've learned from life drawing class that there is almost limitless possibilities for a person's face. : )

Keep up the sketches, i've been doing studies of hands myself and I find it's helped out alot.

mime

March 1st, 2003, 05:29 AM

hey we have our own sub forum, thats great =)

here are some new doodlings ....

http://mimetic.free.fr/crob-25-1.jpg http://mimetic.free.fr/crob-25-2.jpg
http://mimetic.free.fr/crob-25-3.jpg
http://mimetic.free.fr/crob-25-4.jpg http://mimetic.free.fr/crob-25-5.jpg
http://mimetic.free.fr/crob-25-7.jpg http://mimetic.free.fr/crob-25-8.jpg
http://mimetic.free.fr/crob-25-9.jpg http://mimetic.free.fr/crob-25-10.jpg
http://mimetic.free.fr/crob-25-16.jpg

Avetice

March 2nd, 2003, 10:23 AM

just one thing to keep in mind also while drawing, don't worry about style, your style will come just from drawing from life. Forget style period right now, just concentrate on honing your eyes and mind to work together to see rather than to see what you think you know. Once you study from life and get your skills down that way(which takes a while) then you can start to distort proportions and stylize your work if you wish to. One of my teachers gave some great advice, and ill use the example of comicbooks (i do like comicbooks and i like to draw that way too) learning to draw from comics is not too good because your just learning what that artist has learned
from life and translated into his own style. He is able to build that style off of what he knows from drawing from life. It is the same with any artist. So your journey is to see and put down what you see on paper and discount what your mind thinks it knows. Once you can do that then begin analyzing what your drawing and by that I mean analyze why it is the way it is, see how it could be changed yet still keep that part of it that makes it what it is.

whew that was long winded hehe i hope it isn't too confusing as i have a hard time translating what i feel to words.

chudzta

March 2nd, 2003, 10:47 AM

hey mime, keep drawing, ur ata nice pace, i just wanted to say the inked lighter a few posts up was really cool.. kinda sux that our sub forum now doesnt get nearly as much traffic.. almost makes me want to just post individually in the main forum.. anywho, keep drawing _ry

mime

March 2nd, 2003, 11:58 AM

Thanxs Avetice for the nice words

I am not really looking for a style right now, I know it will come in time after tons and tons of drawing. But i am still trying to think about the way i draw things when i draw from imagination, when i am drawing from life of course i am not thinking about style, just about values, shapes, proportions ...

And i must admit i am much much stronger in observation drawing that in imagination drawing, its easier, you see and you draw what you see.
I am sketching lot of different things from life, in order to build a mental database, i know it is too much easy to fall into the "comic book" style and to hide his lacks with some sort of "style"
and i dont want that :)

mime

March 2nd, 2003, 04:17 PM

update on my butterfly pic

the "finished" black and white

http://mimetic.free.fr/crobard%20petite%20fille%20papillon%206.gif

and a first quick color test

http://mimetic.free.fr/papillon.jpg

KayCustomz

March 2nd, 2003, 04:34 PM

What kind of scanner you gotz?

mime

March 2nd, 2003, 04:40 PM

a shitty agfa scanner

if you are asking that because of the "quality" of this last drawing ... i did not scan it, it is an illustrator drawing :)

PandaWhipper

March 3rd, 2003, 12:58 AM

Mime, I really like this color version, its very magical :). Nice professional quality to it as well. All these daily sketchbook threads have inpired me to post my own!

I.was.ink

March 3rd, 2003, 06:00 PM

Very good color test! I want to see the finished version. I can see this on the cover of a childrens book.

jester

March 3rd, 2003, 06:35 PM

You managed to achieve an interesting atmosphere in your colour test - but I think it's a bit too flat in certain areas (eg. at the roots of the tree trunk)

Jester

2kre8

March 5th, 2003, 02:12 PM

wow that is really nice love the colors and perspective, keep it up

StephenC

March 10th, 2003, 05:13 AM

the butterfly pic is coming along wel

mime

April 11th, 2003, 07:52 AM

héhé long time i didnt post anything here, sorry :)

here is some stuff i did

http://mimetic.free.fr/tombe2.jpg

http://mimetic.free.fr/test-cv5-big.jpg

http://mimetic.free.fr/spod.jpg

http://mimetic.free.fr/tetechelou3.JPG

not really sketchbook, but digital sketches ... :)

killing.people

April 12th, 2003, 06:13 PM

cool sketches.

mime

May 30th, 2003, 11:38 AM

huuuuuuuuuuuuuge update
sorry for the large DL time, but i had not updated this thread since monthes :)

well, mostly anatomy studies, and random sketches, nothing really exciting, but im learning :)

http://www.mimezu.com/images/temp/anat1.jpg

http://www.mimezu.com/images/temp/anat2.jpg

http://www.mimezu.com/images/temp/anat3.jpg

http://www.mimezu.com/images/temp/anat4.jpg

http://www.mimezu.com/images/temp/anat5.jpg

http://www.mimezu.com/images/temp/aquarelle.jpg

http://www.mimezu.com/images/temp/crob2.jpg

mime

May 30th, 2003, 11:39 AM

http://www.mimezu.com/images/temp/crob3.jpg

http://www.mimezu.com/images/temp/crob4.jpg

http://www.mimezu.com/images/temp/crob5.jpg

http://www.mimezu.com/images/temp/crob6.jpg

http://www.mimezu.com/images/temp/crob7a.jpg

http://www.mimezu.com/images/temp/crob8.jpg

http://www.mimezu.com/images/temp/crob9.jpg

mime

May 30th, 2003, 11:40 AM

http://www.mimezu.com/images/temp/crob11.jpg

http://www.mimezu.com/images/temp/crob12.jpg

http://www.mimezu.com/images/temp/crob13.jpg

http://www.mimezu.com/images/temp/crob14.jpg

http://www.mimezu.com/images/temp/crob15.jpg

http://www.mimezu.com/images/temp/crob16.jpg

adien

May 30th, 2003, 04:56 PM

nice work mime. the muscular studies are well done. it looks like you've been working hard in the month and a half since the previous update. :)

mime

May 30th, 2003, 06:58 PM

thanxs adien
i am trying ... (to work hard) but sketching from imagination has always been my main weakness (among others things :)) and i really need to work work work work :)

here is a new thing i just did (with photo ref :/ )

a test with water soluble graphite pencils (i really like them :))
http://www.mimezu.com/images/temp/lavis1.jpg

Pheep

May 30th, 2003, 10:42 PM

I just found this subforum and I think I like this better than just looking at finished works. Really because sketches are for the person sketching, but most of the time you are finishing something so someone will like it. Did you get in le troisieme eleve de votre ecole? Oh, and are you ever going to finish the little butterfly girl? Just wondering because i liked it.

mime

May 31st, 2003, 07:26 AM

thanxs for the nice words pheep

i completely forgot to show the final picture for the little girl, i will post it in the finished art forum

mime

June 2nd, 2003, 09:55 PM

some new things

http://www.mimezu.com/images/temp/lavis2.jpg

http://www.mimezu.com/images/temp/lavis3.jpg

http://www.mimezu.com/images/temp/crob_arbre.jpg

mime

June 8th, 2003, 04:12 PM

some new things
the four first pictures are really quick sketches

the last two are more thinked and more work on them :)

http://www.mimezu.com/images/temp/crob17.jpg

http://www.mimezu.com/images/temp/crob18.jpg

http://www.mimezu.com/images/temp/crob19.jpg

http://www.mimezu.com/images/temp/crob22.jpg

http://www.mimezu.com/images/temp/crob21.jpg

http://www.mimezu.com/images/temp/crob20.jpg

mime

June 11th, 2003, 12:07 PM

new things
4 firsts are from life (5/10 mins each)
last one is a wip sketch/illustration (about 2 hours work on it)

some comments anyone ? :)

http://www.mimezu.com/images/temp/crob26.jpg
http://www.mimezu.com/images/temp/crob27.jpg
http://www.mimezu.com/images/temp/crob28.jpg
http://www.mimezu.com/images/temp/crob29.jpg
http://www.mimezu.com/images/temp/crob30.jpg