Sketchbook pages...

[brokencow]

http://www.brokencow.net/artbox/cowshit/sketchbook1.jpg
http://www.brokencow.net/artbox/cowshit/sketchbook2.jpg
http://www.brokencow.net/artbox/cowshit/sketchbook3.jpg
http://www.brokencow.net/artbox/cowshit/sketchbook4.jpg
http://www.brokencow.net/artbox/cowshit/sketchbook5.jpg
http://www.brokencow.net/artbox/cowshit/sketchbook6.jpg
http://www.brokencow.net/artbox/cowshit/sketchbook7.jpg
http://www.brokencow.net/artbox/cowshit/sketchbook8.jpg
http://www.brokencow.net/artbox/cowshit/sketchbook9.jpg

the zoo, and some spy drawings and some from my head.

[DragonGX]

Awesome. Which Zoo did you draw those from? Have you been to Mote Aquarium? they have some crazy stuff you can draw there..

[weapon82]

rock on. lines are looking sweet.

Jungle gardens is nice too...

[BadMange]

Very nice! you're especially good at expressive eyes!

-Bad Mange

[clayrodery v.03]

thats too friggin cool! that last one is amazing

[Android]

I think you should get looser, some of these drawings look too tight like if you droped a line they would fall appart. they are wonderfull drawings but they feel stiff and a little to premeditated like you are thinking too much and your afraid to make a mistake, sketchbooks are the best places to make mistakes, the more mistakes you make the faster you will learn.

[brokencow]

Andrew, you know what. Your absolutely right.
I remember being all up close with them and having a fit with lines and shit like that. Expect a change and improvement.
Though a few of them you can see i was a bit loose.

WORKING ON IT NOW!!!

[AmadorL]

Brok'en, can you tell me if you smeared the first sketches?
I am tring to figure out how to get those tones the way you show them. I hope you understand my question.

A

[brokencow]

no, it's all cross hatching. From pressing hard or just overlaying alot of strokes.

I hope that helped.

[Android]

when you are crosshatching try to avoid perpindicular hatch marks, it really disrupts the flow of the eye. and you can also make more efficant use of your marks by having them follow the contour of the from, that way you are defining light, shaddow, and volume all at onene.

[AmadorL]

thanks for the replies Broken and Android I guess i have to work more and harder on cross hatching/shading/contour lines. I don't like the idea of smearing but i have been told that it can help the drawinging some times. I personaly will try to avoid it. I have been studying cross hatching to show tone and have so far concluded that i have to realy take my time to get the effect i want. I started tring to work to fast and ended up just giving up because i didn'e get the effect i wanted. i am taking a drawing class to set me up for the life drawing one i want to take so when i feel confident enought to post something i will. thanks again...

Oh yeah Android I have been wanting to post something to promote your site in school I don't know if this is something you may want or not but if this site is here for people to learn and exchage ideas i it would be worth a try. Let me know what you think about this, I know it wouldn't be hard for someone to come up with a nice flyer.

A

[benzo]

Brokencow
I think you need to draw more three dimesionally by "drawing through" more, as Glenn Vilppu puts it. Most of your work is very well done, but flat because you rely so much on contour line. When Android mentioned cross hatching flowing with the form, its kind of what I mean. If its a leg, indicated the cylinder inside, ect. Don't be afraid to draw through and dissect the drawing with these important structural marks. Look at Vilppu's or KChen's work and you'll see what I mean.
btw- lets go to the zoo again this weekend