Githistle Sketchbook

[githistle]

Well here is my online sketch journal to mark my progress and skill. At the time of this post, I have only been drawing a little over two years. Any critiques would be appreciated.

Thanks

[githistle]

I thought I'd post the assignments from CA Academy since it maybe awhile before getting a crit there.

Self-portrait

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v648/githistle/selfportrait.jpg

Still Life #1 - Books poorly done without ruler for perspective

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v648/githistle/StillLife_01.jpg

Still Life #2 - Pencil sharperner - perspecitve slightly off

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v648/githistle/StillLife_02.jpg

Person drawn from memory - porportions are off

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v648/githistle/MemoryPerson.jpg

Next post assignment 1.

[githistle]

Line weight assignment.

Not bad for chosing something with difficult forshortening. Used Loomis for reference.

Loomis Reference (http://www.saveloomis.org/FigureDrawing/20.htm)

My attempt.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v648/githistle/assignment_01.jpg

More to come.

[githistle]

Master copy - Vilppu

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v648/githistle/03feb05.jpg

[githistle]

Master Copies - Vilppu

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v648/githistle/08feb05.jpg

[githistle]

Figured it was time to try the line weight assignment. It was tough, especially since my hands kept shaking with the tombo brush pen.

Reference Used for assignment (http://www.domai.com/pics/big/sabrina22.jpg)

Blue Pencil Line Drawing

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v648/githistle/01LineWeightA.jpg

Ink Drawing

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v648/githistle/01LineWeightB.jpg

Total time: 1 hour 5 minutes

Thoughts:
1. Even using construction lines it seems that I still lost volume.
2. Inking could have been better. Lines are jagged since I did not use long continuous strokes
3. Proportions for the most part are accurate, just not a good representation of model.
4. Need to work more on massing out highlights and shadows in hair.

[-sideshowbob-]

nice stuff :D

drawing simple is a good way to understand proportions and volume much faster.. and it saves time

try to subdevide the body into easy geometrie.. like spheres cubes and cylinders.. its also good to draw bodys made out of cubes adn stuff to grasp proportions .. i do this very otten to get a feeling for my shapes perspctive volume and their orientation in 3D space*orbit

think about :

::: perspective
::: vanishing point
::: dynamic
::: symmetrie
::: foreshortening

keep drawing ! :dur:

[githistle]

Master Copy - Vilppu

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v648/githistle/09feb05.jpg

Reference Study - Paleolithic Russian Cave Bear Skull

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v648/githistle/09feb05Skulls.jpg

Life Drawings - 1 minute studies

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v648/githistle/09feb05-lifedrawingA.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v648/githistle/09feb05-lifedrawingB.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v648/githistle/09feb05-lifedrawingC.jpg

Life Drawing - 3 minute Studies

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v648/githistle/09feb05-lifedrawingD.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v648/githistle/09feb05-lifedrawingE.jpg

Sideshow: Thanks for the advice and encouragement.

I feel fairly comfortable with gestures, but getting volume is difficult even using shapes. With time I think I'll get it figured out. Right now, I'm just trying to get those 1000 - 5000 bad drawings out of me.

I should have some lifedrawing this week to give you an idea of where my skills lie when not copying from images and books.

[Shylone_Breath]

nice stuff !
your copies master from villpuu are excellent..
You studies from life is good, try to be more loose. :)
Above all (new word that i ve learn in my english :):) )
keep drawing !

[-sideshowbob-]

yaay :) no probi dude :D i like to help :perv:

keep the third dimension in mind.. the volume.. well.. take a look at a simple cube.. its the easiest volume.. the effect and the result u see is because the angles.. these angles make the cube appear as a 3Dimensional shape

draw bodys like cubes.. and legs and arms like cylinders its a good way to learn about the third dimension and to get a feeling for volume and perspective :)



nice gesture drawings man :D keep up :^^:


draw /m\ :^^: /m\

[githistle]

Shylone: Thanks for the encouragement. I tried going looser in life drawing, but I feel like I failed to capture the gestures.

Sideshowbob: Based on your advice and Lim's I'm going to go look at Loomis's work for drawing basic shapes.

As for today's life drawing sessions, I know it was worth it to go, but the frustration today was more than I could stand. So after doing these 1 minute gestures, I decided that I'd go and study anatomy and basic shapes and see what happens with next week's life drawing sessions.

1 minute poses

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v648/githistle/12feb05-lifedrawingA.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v648/githistle/12feb05-lifedrawingB.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v648/githistle/12feb05-lifedrawingC.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v648/githistle/12feb05-lifedrawingD.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v648/githistle/12feb05-lifedrawingE.jpg

Went back to do one last attempt. This was a 20-minute pose (last one for the model) that I only had 5 minutes to do. Guess that is what I get for going back so late.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v648/githistle/12feb05-lifedrawingF.jpg

[githistle]

Loomis

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v648/githistle/12feb05-loomis.jpg

Mucha

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v648/githistle/12feb05-mucha.jpg

[githistle]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v648/githistle/13feb05.jpg

[githistle]

Well it's that time of the year where everything is pink and full of hearts. I couldn't resist the urge to make my girlfriend into a Valentine. So here's the roughs to the final.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v648/githistle/loveA.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v648/githistle/love.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v648/githistle/loveB.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v648/githistle/valentine2005b.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v648/githistle/wantedvalentine2005b.jpg

[oomgawa]

Hey you, Faye and I are looking at this together in the workroom and we are both smiling! You most definitely doing the right stuff and thinking things through.

You've come a long way baby, don't stop now!
:cheerleader: :cheerleader:
oomgawa

[githistle]

Hey you, Faye and I are looking at this together in the workroom and we are both smiling! You most definitely doing the right stuff and thinking things through.

Oomgawa: Thanks. I've been pushing harder this month than I usually do. I've been given a challenge of 6 months before my next "breakthrough" and I'm trying to break it early by drawing 2 - 4 hours a day.


Self Portrait (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?p=407868#post407868) from ferry ride back to the city.

[githistle]

CA Assignment 03 - Self Portrait (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?p=409724#post409724)

[githistle]

Master Copy - Jeno Barcsay

Scapula

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v648/githistle/scapula-01.jpg

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Life Drawing Session

1 minutes to 5 minutes

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v648/githistle/19feb05-lifedrawingA.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v648/githistle/19feb05-lifedrawingB.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v648/githistle/19feb05-lifedrawingC.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v648/githistle/19feb05-lifedrawingD.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v648/githistle/19feb05-lifedrawingE.jpg

[-sideshowbob-]

nice studies.. and nice self portraits .. keep up !

thers a way to get things in heads faster... i mean.. theres a way u can draw all things simple without loosing any controle about perspective details orientation viewpoint volume 3Dness ..
when we see things.. we achieve 1000 of diffrent informations about what we see - we just cant handle - but our subconsciousness knows it all -

when u know how to find the lines u need to get the result u want .. drawing things will be much easier.. i found it very very helpfull to draw simplified and doing observation studies - finding information about perspective proportions 3Dness

each partcel of things u wanna draw can be indicated with one line... i draw my simplified heads with less then 25 lines .. a cube has 9 lines my heads are very simple then.. but detailed enough to see how its oriented and alligned next steo is .. i add more details to my shapes and i add other features

i made 2 crapy tuts about this -> hope link works
http://www.fragtasia.de/bob/2dstuff/_sketchbook/tuts.zip
inside the zip is a txt-file - read it

here are some more tuts about almost evrything *but not that detailed*

http://www.polykarbon.com/tutorials/index.htm

cube and cylinder drawing is also an excelent exercise to train the mind


when u got some more questions.. pm me :)

[Jokisalo]

you are improving and that good, just keep pushing. take a look everyday at other artist pics, copy some of those you like and you are definetely getting good and with fast. good luck pal :)

[githistle]

Sideshowbob: Thank you for the info and tutorials. I'll work through them sometime this week. After doing those, then perhaps I'll have questions (most likely). :wink:

Jokisalo: Thank you for the encouragement. I have to admit that for awhile there I didn't think I was improving. It seemed like I would make progress one day and fall back the next. As for pushing, that's what I'm doing now. I was told that I'm about 6 months away from the next "breakthrough" and I want to see if I can break it sooner.

Well here is my first attempt at the daily sketch group. Perspective made life difficult. At least the idea is sort of conveyed.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v648/githistle/dsg666.jpg

Blue Penciled
1.5 hours

[githistle]

Probably not what most people would think a war scene is....

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v648/githistle/dsg667-WarScene.jpg

Blue Pencil followed by 2B.

Good:
1. Perspective of buildings is accurate.
2. 1.5 hrs and slowly improving for speed.

Bad:
1. Nothing really rendered.
2. Line weight is too even.

Ugly:
1. Need more figure / anatomy studies.

[githistle]

blue pencil 1.5 hrs.
ink pen .25 hrs.

Need lots of help doing hard objects in perspective.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v648/githistle/dsg668-ScoutRobot.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v648/githistle/dsg668-ScoutRobotInked.jpg


Influence: Mars Rover


Think I'll go back to anatomy studies and such....

[githistle]

Not a lot this past week. I mostly slept and did these few pages of life drawing with one SP.

3 minute poses

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v648/githistle/24feb05-lifedrawingA.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v648/githistle/24feb05-lifedrawingB.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v648/githistle/24feb05-lifedrawingC.jpg

[corky13]

Keep studiing...its the best way to technical improvement ;)

[githistle]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v648/githistle/dsg670.jpg

1.5 hrs with lots of interuptions. [That's what I get for working in the school lab.]

blue pencil

Corky: I do on just about an everyday basis. I study to the point of not doing anything imaginative. Makes me glad that there is a DSG to get the old synapes to fire.