Duq's Sketchbook: You dont have to look, but it would be fun if you did!

[Duq]

2 years later and I'm finally drawing seriously, however. Sadly enough I lost all my old stuff, I will rescan it one day I think. But for now, the images start again at the bottom of page 2. Thank you for visiting :)

[Olof]

Heya :D
Great that you started a sketchbook!
About your sketches, they look good for a start. Try to get a hold of a anatomy book and study the muscles for a while, then try to make the same poses again. I bet that your sketches will improve much! I also recommend you to do life drawing and reference drawing, they will help you (and me) the most.

When you scan or have scanned, try to adjust values with programs. I don't know what freeprograms that can do that, but I'm sure theres some, if not included with the scanner. I assume your sketches have darker values 'irl', if not you should just ignore me ;)

Anyways. I hope to see some updates now, cheers !

[look]

Your site isn't working for me. o.O

[Duq]

@MorteM: thanks for your critics, I already use the bridgeman books at the moment, but not enough. I'm also drawing from a life model every week but my teacher wants to develop how to draw abstract art instead of developping technical skills. I'm already searching for a life drawing group in my area. But no luck so far.

My scans suck hard yeah, I'm able to use Photoshop, but I uploaded 88 images in 2 days so the urge to adjust 88 images isn't really there. But for the rest of the updates I certainly will

@Look: Yeah, it also isn't working for me. I called my host and they blame on the server hardware. But it should be working soon. Bit of a lousy timing to go down now :)

[look]

MorteM said pretty much everything I wanted to say.
I guess I'll just be nip picking a bit. For the guy in the lower half of the second drawing, his lower part of the stomach/torso area needs to be turned toward the viewer more.
And either darken your pencil lines a bit, or use level adjustment to make the lines darker. =)

Now you just have to keep this up and update daily. :P

[dCepT]

Yeah.. what people have said about the contrast/levels :)
You have some very cool ideas! I'm not going to comment on the anatomy, other than the muscles. You've got much of the big musclegroups down, but they're all the same "intensity", like your characters have flexed every muscle in their bodies. Anatomystudies (the everlastin mantra of CA) is the key.

Keep updating!!

d-C

[dogfood]

Something to look at specifically would be the muscular bulgy-ness. Prom gives the subjet a good treatment in his tutorial (http://www.itchstudios.com/psg/art_tut.htm). Pretty cool concepts. I don't see a lot of stuff from ref or faces...

My high school art teacher kept a much higher focus on craft media (sandblasting glass, etc.). It was useless and very frustrating. Look at Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards. It helped me out quite a bit with my line quality, among other things.

[animeidiot]

Post more!

[Duq]

It took some time, but finally I'm back behind my pencils again. So here is some new stuff I did last week. Among some things my first studies from an model, model drawing is the best absolutly love it, and some thinks from reference and from imagination.

Also a nice fella I met today, wich should also be around the forums, suggested me too ditch the pencil for some time and start using a pen for more, so I did. But I'll save that for the next week when I got acces too a scanner again.

Anyway here it is, and crit the hell out of me :)

[Duq]

another pencil page

and the rest are my first pen pages
and as always, crit me :D

Also did my first model sketches today in pen, I had a really hard time with it. But it gets posted tomorrow

[Duq]

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[sve]

Hey, Duq, I like your last update pen sketches a lot. They are beautiful. And you do these very complex poses wonderfully. Hope to see more
Sveta Dudetta

[dCepT]

Good lookin' on the lifedrawing! Very very good practice! No particular crits right now... just wanted to drop by :) Keep 'em coming!

d-C

[Duq]

Thanks for visiting :D

I got a lot of problems with the proportion and perspective in the lifedrawings, but it was just my second session. So I have hopes it will improve :D

anyway a small update today

Some school project stuff with zombies


And a 3d creature try-out

[Duq]

Half a year later, and some updates from the last few days :)

http://community.conceptart.org/gallery/I/2005/01/01/9767.jpg
http://community.conceptart.org/gallery/I/2005/01/01/9770.jpg
http://community.conceptart.org/gallery/I/2005/01/01/9773.jpg
http://community.conceptart.org/gallery/I/2005/01/01/9774.jpg
http://community.conceptart.org/gallery/I/2005/01/01/9775.jpg

[Smitherines]

the studies are looking nice, on your figure work, try to be a lot cleaner in your line

[Duq]

And a massive update again, and finally got my own scanner, so start expecting daily updates :)

Basicly loads of face studies, some stuff from life, and self portraits

I personally feel that my progression was going up quite nicely but then after the two nudies it crashed down. And I cant figure out why, so if someone can shed some light there it would be great :)

[Olof]

Heya!

Try to focus more on the general shapes rather than the details. As in your latest figure drawings, you've added some shadows and details on their faces while leaving the shape of the bodies to single lines.
Look closer at the lines around the bodies, they're not that smooth or straight as you've made them.

I think your faces are suffering from something similar. They would probably look better if you gave them some more basic shape.

Nice that you're working hard! Lot's of sketches = lot's of improvement. Though you could post a bit more often ;)

.peace

[hurricane]

i agree with mortem!

just keep at it, hard work pays off!

cheers!

[Duq]

@Mortem: Thanks for the advice, I will definitly keep it in mind. And I hope you can see I addes some of the advice into todays update. If not I need to work harder :)

@Hurri: I will!

And here ze update: A daily self portrait and some gestures. Some from my mind and some from Bridgeman

[Duq]

And a quickie before going to figure drawing class

another daily self portrait, and some gesture studies. I think I could practice legs a bit more, and general blocking of the masses

[Duq]

Didnt draw for a day and it felt like I fell back hundereds of meters :<

[Duq]

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[Jens]

nice studies duq
try slowing down a little when your starting the shadow, try to understand what makes the images your studying from pop out of the page. Try following the forms while you are shading/hatching. Watch out for proportions, you seem to draw your facial features too big a lot of times.

[Duq]

I tried to use your advice, but it didnt go exactly as planned :)

[Olof]

Sup babe

Updates looking good. I hope to see some colours soon, eh? :)

.peace

[Duq]

JUst one crap page, got home a bit late and did some random face doodling

[Duq]

More faces!

[Onir]

hey nice studies, lots of dedication is present in here. keep pushing the head/face studies, can only keep improving :teeth:

[Duq]

@onir: Thanks mate, I will definitly keep pushing the stuff :)

@mortem: I'm scared of colors ^^

http://sketches.conceptarchives.com/images/gallery/g274.jpg

http://sketches.conceptarchives.com/images/gallery/g275.jpg

[John]

Hi Duq, nice sketchbook you have, good going on the head studies. Some of them are really cool. Just keep going, and don't forget the rest of the body :)
When doing the heads, try to include the neck and shoulders. You'll thank me later :P

[Duq]

@john: Thanks mate, bodies are on their way ;)

And here another craptastic update, just trying to get values in. Without much succes so far, but every drawing is one closer to learning it :)

[Duq]

And another wee update :yayca:

edit: The new title was onionface's idea, beat him senseless :O

[Duq]

And since my GF doesnt want to stop playing WoW, so we can go to bed. Another page with random hair stuff, gonna look for some references tomorrow and work a bit on hair :)

http://sketches.conceptarchives.com/images/gallery/g278.jpg

[elisa]

hi duq! You have improved a lot since the first page! I really like your sketches, nice linework. Keep on drawing!

[Cwn Annwn]

Not bad Duq.

Some of the faces seem skewed and uneven though. Keep an eye out for the symmetry, and keep working from life. Books are good to start with, but all sketches and instructional drawings are "pre-digested". Nothing beats a good sit down with a person/animal/landscape/whatever.

Keep at it!

[Duq]

@cwn awn: Thanks for your reply. I tried to take your advice with me in the next few thingies :)

[Duq]

And a craptastic update :<

[evildisco]

The line quality per-se is not bad, with some more practice it will get better.
On the other hand you need to work a lot harder to nail the anatomy and the correct proportions.
You are on the right track though, keep at it Duq.

[glikster]

great studies... keep going... try to do whole bodies based on the studies (not copying but trying to remember)...

[Duq]

I lost my sketchbook, so I wasted most of my time collecting the energy to find it, so not much from me today.

@ Disco: Thanks for the crit, I will start working on full body anatomy tommorow. Already created a nice library of references for poses so I hope I have some meaningfull next update

@ Mike: Thanks for your critic, gave me a lot to think about. As you see in todays update I spend some time on eyes. Getting their shapes in my head as well as the stuff surrounding it. Cant wait to test some of the new learned things on new heads. Although it is still far from perfect, and really have a problem recognising the planes surrounding the eye.

@Glikster: Thanks for the comment, I will definitly get some more work done on more bodies next couple of days. Right now it feels like my biggest problem area. References are ready, and I'm ready to go :)

[Duq]

And a wee update of some bridgeman fun and some non referenced body experiments

[Carnifex]

lookin good.
try to go for more "swooshy" lines instead of scribbles.
f.ex. that leg on the lower left figure on the last pic looks terribly unstable like this.

[Duq]

@carnifexThanks for the crit Carnifex, I'll try to wrap my head around it. :)

SO far just a page of bridgeman studies, and trying some stuff from mind. But I found that my mental library of gestures is very empty. So if anyone knows a good place for references, please link it :)

[Cookiedough]

Digging the last post. The torso's seem a bit short though. Your faces have improved, but keep working on them.

I like how you draw with these loose strokes. Keep it up.

Now where's my cookie?

[Duq]

Digging the last post. The torso's seem a bit short though. Your faces have improved, but keep working on them.

I like how you draw with these loose strokes. Keep it up.

Now where's my cookie?

Come to the sketch meet tommorow and you get one ;)

[Duq]

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[Duq]

Had a dutch sketch weekend last two days and here some stuff I did.
And here a collab we did with about 8 artists wich ended in my book :D


And now I should get some sleep..

[John]

Hey duq, everything looks nice here. Maybe take your time a bit more when you do sketches. When you draw heads, draw in the construction lines and don't hesitate to erase and correct parts.
Oh and make sure you put hands and wrists on your ppl ... speaking from experience here, the one thing you don't want to slack on is drawing hands :P

[Goodbye..fromthevoid]

It seems you are doing the correct things and are actually (gasp!) learning from them! My only advice would be to draw things other than the human body. I mean all of art isn't just the human body, is it? (Ignore the big ConceptArt banner at the top of the page)

[Duq]

Not much from me for the coming days, need to write loads of stuff for a school project and I barely find time for drawing. Anyway here a quick page, also for the school project. It is 6 heads for a race of pissed of small guys named Inqua

@John: Thanks for the comment mate, Construction is the key and I should do it more. And dont get started on hands ;)

@Goodbye: Thanks for the comment as well :D I still need to do loads of stuff for my school project so objects and envirio's should come this way quite soon :)

[yAdam]

Hey duq, great progress!! Your handling of form seems to have improved quite a bit over the last few updates.. I agree with john about the construction and taking your time... Theres no need to spend hours making a line perfect, but a few good lines in the right places can make all the difference if they are clean and precise.

Keep up the dedication1!!

[J.Peckham]

For my cookie i say watch proportions. there are certain measurements that every person has in common. like the distance between the eyes and eye-to-mouth ratios etc. i lightly draw guidlines sometimes when the perspective looks wonky on a character. or use a reference. anyway, look up facial ratios and see what'cha come up with.

:)for your cookie: i like the trees. and the skulls rock.

[Duq]

WAs planning to go to bed, but wasnt satisfied about the earlier page so 3 more
heads :>

@yadam: Thanks for the suggestions :) I discovered the effect of one good line and I'm definitly going to push that alot in the near future :)

@J.Peckham : Thanks for the comment, sadly enough my gf ate the cookies. Chocolate flavored, you know how that goes ;) I tend to set up a nice guideline and then just ignore in some later phase. Its silly and should gesome more focus on that. As for the facial ratios I think its getting better and better with the more faces I draw. As long as keep it in the back of my head :)

Overall I think I need more studies from life, like the skulls and trees :)

[Duq]

Been way to busy with the school project, and my site seems dead :<

But a good thing, I got my tablet and here trying it out a bit

[Duq]

Spend most of the day playing with my wacom, and another wow character. One day I promised my girl I would make a fan art of her wow character and voila.

Had fun playing with the values, but it took a wee bit to long in my opinion. Then again. Study is study :)

[Duq]

I cant get to drawing, still busy with the school project :( But here a small painting thingy

[Duq]

*stretch*

spend to much time being distracted, and back again. Hooooooooo!

And here is the recent junk, need to get into it again.

[Duq]

and one more page

[Duq]

and a wee update again, lets get those crits in here!

[chaosrocks]

nice sketchies...more faster
chaos

[John]

and a wee update again, lets get those crits in here!
More lifedrawing duq! Your figures show you are inventing a lot of structure where you could rely on actually "knowing" whats there. Try using the plane / masses approach you use now on lifedrawings a bit more - try drawing your classmates or ppl on the bus / train for instance. Keep at it :)

[Neireth]

Good to see you're practicing the basics and mastering them too (something I should go back and do as well), but as John said - more drawing from life! It's great with quick sketches, to nail the proportions and just do it all over and over again.. But I'd love to see some longer studies, where you try out values and such more, trying to capture how the light reflects on the body, etc etc. Would be really nice to see.
And studies of the whole body! More portraits as well, as (yeh, I've mentioned this before to ya, hehe), sometimes they're a bit skew and proportions a bit off. But the last page is looking really great, so just keep at it!

Now you have lots of drawing to do, heheh. Yeh, I know, so do I.

Great stuff Duq.
Cheers ;)

[Duq]

@chaosrocks: Thanks man :D

@John: Followed your advice, and here are some people from the train earlier today. Having a hard time determining the global form of someone though. But just need to do more!

@Neireth: Thanks! And update! ;)

[anymale]

hey,

think ur book is nice, maybe u tend to draw the jaw a little big and too stretched?im coming back
lg

[Duq]

@anymale: Thanks mate, hope to hear more from you!

todays update, more train sketching ! But the people kept moving around. Nic slapped me this morning about wonkieness so tried to apply what he said.

[Duq]

and another update with more faces from photo reference! Should do more other stuff but having to much fun :)

[Duq]

And some unreferenced stuff done while watching Reign of Fire. That movie is kinda bad :o

[Duq]

I should be doing more body work :sadcheerleader:

[Duq]

JUst some crap stuff today :<

[Duq]

And another update, also it doesnt seem like most ca'ers like cookies :(

[Duq]

And more stuff. My xerox skill is terrible, so I think thats something to work on.

Crits would be nice, as always

[Mr-Joe]

Nice studies mate,

what program did you use to make this guy?
http://sketches.conceptarchives.com/images/gallery/g247.jpg

and how did you get the smooth white background?

[nineself]

Hey Duq,

Your bridgeman studies are really sweet and you've been showing great improvement on heads, especially facial features. Just keep in mind the depth of the skull, your heads are looking quite tall and thin.

Keep it up, man!

[Duq]

@Mr-Joe: Thanks mate, I just modeled it in 3ds max and rendered it with radiosity. I think 5 or 8 bounces for the light.

@nineself: Thanks for visiting and critting. I should definitly do some more bridgeman soon. I noticed the tall and skinnyness of the heads myself, it is a shape I naturally draw I think. I'm trying to find out where I make the error in my progress and get rid of it :)


And the update, just some latenight doodle/sketching. Nothing fancy

[asoir]

Keep doing heads, you're getting good at them, man!
Nice job

[Duq]

@Asoir: Thanks man!

Here a new update, a bit late but had a school project wich took way much time. Going to get a nice steady flow of practice again from now on.

[hurricane]

niiiice !
keep on sharing and creating !

i like !

cheers!

[Olof]

Mista duq. more updates please or I'll come lick you in the face!

Lay of the faces for a while and do some full figure studies, just a tip

.cheers

[Duq]

*shoves the rock aside

[Duq]

Attack of the stick figures!

[Cookiedough]

Krijg nou wat! Je leeft nog!

Stickfigures zijn leuk. Begint al vloeiend te worden. Je hebt nog steeds issues met gezichten. Je verdeelt de features niet goed. Je komt dan tekort bij de kin. Maak de neus niet te lang en je hoeft niet elke plooi aan te duiden. Lijndikte kan ook verschil maken. Nou, hoppa, snel weer updaten, ok?

[Funny_Jedi]

Hey man i love seeing progress in one place, and this has it in spades. One thing that bothers me though is that you seem to go very quick with your Self portraits. If you dont please dont be offended, but i think you should spend more time on a single Self portrait.

By more time i mean alot of time try hours 2-4 is nice, but longer is best. You dont have to do every SP like this but it will send you closer to your goal (which i assume do to all the faces around in the sketchbook is excellent portraits) Also try to work on a large piece of paper( I like to use 11" X 14"= 27.9X35.6cm), using your arm insted of your wrist. This will help point out the places that are not just like what you see in the mirror, and it also makes it so that if you want to add detail or something cool at the rendering stage you can do so with out a magnifying glass :)

Start out with lines (as you usually do :confident) but make sure you measure. What i like to use is my eye, because it is one of the easier to identify placement on your face. Take your time, truly see yourself in the mirror. If you measure yourself correctly you should start to almost go into a state where your mind can see your face on the page in front of you. Now when you have your lines down and your happy with them get up and do something else.
This will give your mind a chance to refresh and when you return you will more than likely find something wrong (happens to everyone) before you start rendering. So this gives you a chance to fix it. This is something that should be done with everything you are taking as a serious piece of art.

Btw keep doing what your doing, your on the right path to greatness.

[Duq]

Cookie: Jawohl! Ben verschrikkelijk druk geweest met school en kwam gewoon niet meer toe aan CA :(

En bedankt voor het advies ^^

Funny_Jedi:: Thanks for the huge text wall of help :O, and you are right when I do a SP I tend to do them way to fast, not taking the time for reference. It just tends to tick me off because my observation skills arent ok yet, and I just get annoyed if I dont get a likeliness. But thanks for your great advice I will definitly keep it in mind for future work!

And todays update, just wanted to try and make something out of the stuff I have been learning. So I came with a very cliche elf :confident

[Duq]

:davi:

[John]

Things are looking good here. Never stop!

[Duq]

And a small update.

The Knights are inspired by some thumbs Hurri once did.

[Duq]

rawr!

[Gilead]

You've got some strong stuff here. That troll guy looks solid. Keep posting...Keep drawing!

[Duq]

Thanks for dropping by! And I will keep burning my pencils for years to come. I hope :wink:

Todays update, just been playing around with values, thingies, and photoshop. Something I dont nearly do enough. And this is what came out of it. The dog/wolf looks a bit retarded, but oh well.

[Duq]

And a wip of a thingy I'm working on right now. And I have no idea how I'm doing it, but it seems to go oke ^^

[Duq]

and an update of the thingy! Having loads of fun with it, although I doubt the anatomy at some spots.

[Duq]

And done, I think I learned quite alot during this one ^^

[Duq]

boob!

[Duq]

Trying to work from reference a bit, any advices would be greatly appreciated. Doesnt look like the ref one bit :D

[Duq]

and another small page, just playing around a bit

[Duq]

Just some boring doodles

[Duq]

One crap page, after wich I decided to refresh my memory abit about proportions and made the second page

[Duq]

not much to say, then just some warmups

[Duq]

wiee 100 posts.

Also I'm trying some things with pencil rendering, but I have no clue what I'm doing. I'm not getting the tones how I would like them, I'm not even sure if I'm holding my pencil right. So some pointers would be nice :)

[Stark]

Not bad stuff here at all...You kinda let your proportions get the best of you and you go wayward with them...try to keep them tight. You can experiment with a different style, but it should more or less be around the same for each sketch you attempt....

[Duq]

thanks for the comment ^^ At times I just stop thinking and then the stuff gets bad :(

[markey2d]

really nice studies and i really like the night elf looking picture.

thnx for the crits on my page

[Duq]

Thanks for the comment :)


Just trying the shading thing again, its a mess once again. Maybe less is more?

[Duq]

My mortal enemy, hands. And some silly stuff

[squidmonk3j]

you've got some loose and confident strokes, which is nice....but there are structural problems - nothing anatomical studies won't solve, tho:)

keep it up!

[chaosrocks]

duQ
you are waay too much in a hurry,,,, believe me I understand
(look at my SB)
I find that when I slow down I am more accurate
but I loose a lot of spirit and life. So finding the balance between totall ADD
and actual slick finished work is hard
Id like to see you put some though and practiuce intot compositon
learn something from squid

keep it up you are definately making progress
c

[Wasker]

Cool looking faces and hands, keep studying anatomy till you know how to place those features by heart.

[Duq]

squid: Thanks for your comment!

Chaos: yeah I totally see where you are coming from, I should spend some more time on just finishing up stuff. Thanks for the comment :D

Wasker: Thanks man! More studies, here I come :p

Todays update, someone once said to me that if you want to learn how to draw hands, you should make a batch of 100 hands. So I did :)

[Mr-Joe]

Hah! Thats awesome, can you draw hands now with out looking at reference?

A suggestion for the portrait a bunch of posts up,, Try flipping both the images and looking at them real real good before you start laying in some pain, look for differences between yours and the original, not similarities. Look for the differences of values in small sections of the painting and how they relate to each other in yours and in the ref.

Good works man.

[Duq]

Hey, well kinda. It is still hard but got some of the basics down I think :). And thanks for the advice on the portrait :D

After last update, I went home for some day and didnt get drawing. So did some stuff today, mostly crap though.

[Duq]

and another fast wee update, I suck at rendering, but cookie forced me :(

[Duq]

yesterday we had an dutch sketch meet, and somehow I always end with drawing weird stuff, oh well. A boobmonster, ancient beer drinker, and some stuff

[Stark]

I was looking at some of the faces in these last few updates, and it seems to me that you are accidentally "stretching" the face. Some parts of the face looks like they are just sliding away and that is a "NO-NO". Try to do just heads and the then work on doing just the side of the head with whatever helmet or head gear you want to put on it. Once you do that, switch to the other side and repeat it. This should help you work on making the faces fit accurately and keep you away from sliding.

Also, it would also help to work on different angles/faces (1/2, 3/4, full, etc)

[Duq]

first of a very large update

[Duq]

second of a very large update

[Duq]

third update!

[Duq]

fourth!

[Duq]

fifth

[Duq]

and the last one!

[squidmonk3j]

good update! the last scans have nice tendencies, but i'll echo john in that u seem to be making a lot of assumptions in your structures. there is a lack of unity in your anatomies...weight displacement and direction seems uncertain. keep up the studies...and also: try to consider ur charas as more than just lines on paper. keep in mind that you are drawing a person. your ability to focus and understand what you are doing is reflected only in the level of integrity of your art. i realize that these are sketches / studies, but still...there's a vagueness in ur approach u need to overcome - a slight shift mentality might do wonders for you:)

rawr!

[White Rose]

wow :3 thats alot of pictures. question.. the one with the fashion. is that referenced :3. anywho I hope to see more ^_^

[Duq]

squid: Thanks for the comment, I'm planning to go downtown and just draw some bar people for awhile, if I get money. And I hope that will give me a bit more insight

Whiterose: Thanks for visiting, and yeah those are referenced :D

Todays update, a bit lacking, but silly robots.

[hurricane]

you're doing great!
there is some gems in there :P

just keep at it and when you least expect it you'll see some progress. it's always hard to see it yourself but just give it time!

cheers!

[Duq]

Thanks for the comment Hurri. Not being able to see progress is one of the hardest walls I have hit so far on my journey I think. But dealing with it better and better (not going back to WoW for example)

anyway update.

A company that invited me for an internship interview asked me to do a workflow for a simple creature from concept to model. I didnt get it finished but they where happy with the result, since I only had like 2 days :)

For the rest, train sketches. The sketches arent the best, but didnt sketch in a while and needed to warm up I guess, the last few faces came out nice though I think.

And I started doing the Peer Project excercises. Again, Idiot Apathy you rock, learning heaps <3

[Oliebol]

I think I know you from the old zeldafront! :p
Anyway, nothing constructive from me atm, just had to leave a comment.

The figure studies are shaping up nicely, keep at it.

[Loolarge]

I find your sketchbook very nice. Sometimes your sketches are a bit wonky but most of them are really great. I just received my own copy of the Bridgman book and i see you are using it alot as well :)

[NicoRaven]

Your Work is very good. I like your new direction "Industrial"

It was enjoyable to look at. I'll have to follow your lead.

[Duq]

@oliebol: Yeah I used to come there, you guys seen my first work :o Already PM'ed you ;)

@Loolarge: Thanks man :D One of the things I learned is that wonky stuff just always happens. The only thing that changed over time is that it less frequent then it used to be ^^

@Nicoraver: Thanks!

Todays update, had terrible muscle aches over the weekend so didnt do alot. Only some peer project excercises really. So here they are. I think I learned alot while doing these, and had loads of fun as well ^_^

[Loolarge]

I am the king of wonkiness myself, which forgot to mention last time :) Looking forward to the next update!

[Duq]

hehe, yeah just draw alot and I think you should lose it one day ^^ But I think no matter how good you get, you will always make something wonky ^^

Update! More peer project and 2 SB pages. Tried to work abit on line confidence with the last one, and the first page is just warm up crap since I havent drew anything in the ye olde book for two whole days...

[Duq]

boring stuff

[Duq]

IRC TD challenge: a monster that eats john's space marine

[Dreamworker]

Nice pencils and good ideas! I see some good progresses from the first page especially in the digital stuff!
Ciao

[Duq]

Thanks for commenting Dreamworker :D

Todays update, two more digital thingies. One Bandito chicken, and just a doodle thingy. I'm trying to get some more pen control in PS and get rid of my odd little habits when using the tablet. I tend to lean my head in the direction of my strokes, so I tend to skew everything and mess proportions.

[Duq]

A page of reffed faces. Its a 25% zoom of the size i work in. So they are actually quite big when at 100%. I'm working more on measuring, perspective etc, failing horribly I think. And I tend to pat with my wacom pen, wich I really really hate.

[Duq]

some gesture from ref, and some from imagination

[Cwn Annwn]

Hey Duq, good to see improvements from your first page. Keep working on the bodily proportions, some of your people seem to have squished up torsos and/or very stumpy thick legs.

Hope to see more!

[Duq]

I started an artist internship! Yay! :D It basicly means I have to travel in public transit 4 hours a day, wich gives me alot of time for lifedrawing! And I draw all day long for the studio! And since John keeps doing !ssb Duq in IRC, and never sees an update. I will update some of the life stuff, its alot of bad crap really, and some less crap, but meh..

And thanks for posting CWN!

[Cwn Annwn]

Nice to see you working at it!

Just one thing about the head studies, be careful not chop off the back and tops of peoples skulls. Just noticed it in some of the studies. Post more nub!!! ;)

[DeJakhalz]

Good stuff man! But try to experiment more, I would say.

[Duq]

cwn: yeah I noticed it now as well. I'm watching out for it now in my studies ( wich I didnt scan! moehahaha) and Ir posting moarz!

DeJakhalz: thanks man for visiting :) I'm experimenting more at my internship, but all that stuff is NDA'ed sadly enough :(

rawr update, spartan camp stuff. Gestures and a vale studies. And the first few thumbs for an school project that was supposed to be finished a year ago... Oh well better late then never I guess

[Slither Astray]

Hey you,
This is awesome stuff. unfortunatly I can't see your posts in the first pages, probably because they weren't attached? That totally reminds me I should attach my images from now on too.
But anyways, what I like about your sketches is some of em have this distorted thing going on, but still they look right.. more then right even. But I kinda got the feeling that wasn't a conscious choice, but just you going with the flow of the drawing and making it work.
Might be a bit bold and sort of none of my business but I encourage you to explore that more and be more conscious of it, if you arn't already.
I like where your skills are going, looking forward to seeing more.
laters!

[Duq]

Time for an update! All of this from last week I believe.

We start with plus minus 40 studies of the chest area then 160 gestures (i thought they where 200 but miscounted >_>). Then some scans from my lovely moleskine wich are all done in the public transit. And as last the last week Chow, Heavy gunner, that I never finished.

And thanks for commenting :D And I'm trying to get more loose, its something that has been haunting me for ages now, and I hope that doing gestures will get me out of it one day :)

[Dan.v.D.]

nice stuff!!

your avatar pwnz everything but your art comes close:P

[bumskee]

Duq.. :D you know why I am here... zoom
heheh (http://www.minart.net/temp/retardmx9.jpg)
*subscribe* keep scribbling dude! :)

[Hive_minD]

I must say, I like your anatomy-studies. Did you use any ref?
Which ones if I may ask... I need more anatomy practice!
I'll pop by again surely!

Chris

[Duq]

dan.v.D: Thanks for dropping by :D and cute bunnies will one day take over the world!

bumskee: :sadcheerleader:

Hive_minD: Hey thanks man :D. It varies alot, in the last post all the gestures where done from imagination. The chest studies was a variety of stuff from loomis/bridgeman, Arnold Schwarchenegger bodybuilding and 300. The faces are just fast scribbles in the train I do. Hope to see you again :D

Todays update, just boring stuff. 9 studies of the pelvis bone. And after that 20 gestures from ref, trying to apply what I learned from the pelvis. I got nothing fun in my moleskine, so no updates from that this time :) And I was just generally lazy this week....

[Cwn Annwn]

Whoa Duqface...

Those pelvis bones are starting to get there, maybe a wee bit wonky but you are definitely improving!!! Keep working at those proportions. :D

Keep it up!

[Coinpurse]

Nice dynamics!
Make more cookies :)

[bumskee]

pelvis studies are looking great! i think it's mostly overlooked part.. so important tho.. :) good, wish u had shown the backbone and where the leg bone actually starts.. (whatever that's called...)

gestures also looking very good, it's nice to try and simplify a photo and study off it. I notice you are being too obsessive with boobies :P yeah we all do I guess but try and focus on the rib cage rather than boobies. they can be added easily after.. make sure u get those feet in, they can be painful if u keep overlooking them. :)

looking good bro! catch u on msn

[Duq]

cwnface: Thanks again! Its a hard piece of bone, but slowly getting there ^^

BOOM!: Thanks :D

bumskee: The femur, and boobies are nice and deserve study :(

This week's update! Overall I think I had a worse week, when reevaluating I feel a bit meh about it all. Studies of the pelvis with muscles, moar gestures, and some awfull moleskine train sketching :(. Nextweek, less slacking in IRC and more attention to what I'm doing!

[Duq]

Some studies, of the chest and pelvis masses. Still trying to grasp that area. Hopefully it will show some progress in the gestures for this weekend.

Ehm some moleskine stuff, random people on the train as always. And a giant robot also done in the train. Wich remembered me, that it isnt smart to think about lightning when you dont have an eraser and you have been shading for 20 minutes already. Oh well, better luck best time.

edit: And yay 3 starts :cheer

[Duq]

just some gestures. Mainly focussing on the main action line and leaving the arms out of it for a while.

[Cwn Annwn]

nice studies! Just be careful not to lose the neck into the shoulder muscles! :D

[Mr-Joe]

Wow lots of gestures, Big improvement Duq. Where are you getting the reference for the gestures?

and this is too funny: http://www.minart.net/temp/retardmx9.jpg

[MattGamer]

Coly Hrap! I'm your fan now. Thank you for making my sb look like a dump in the toilet, you gesture studier! ARGGGGGGG I want to do gesture studies as awesome as you. Wow!!!!

[Duq]

Cwn: thanks! Min already put me on practicing the neck muscles and told me to take extra care of them in the next set off gestures.

Joe: Thanks man! Cool to see you again :D Already send you links and stuff by PM :)

Matt: They are mostly from ref, the once from imagination will suck so hard coming weekend :( And your sketchbook is still better... ;)

TOdays update, several studies on different topics. Some closer look to what the muscles do when the leg rotates. I redid some of the last update because of the proportions, I think I'm still off and should just find a reliable way of measurement. Also a started on the neck, still wonky but that will go away with some more studies over the next week I hope. And moleskine stuff, one more robot inspired by WARMACHINE and random train doodles.

Thats about it ^^

[MattGamer]

DUQ! It doesn't matter if you are better than so-and-so. It matters if you are learning and progressing. Because no matter how good you are, there is always something to be learned.

Looking good on the studies, mate. Keep them going forever!! Don't stop and don't lose hope when you do miss a day of drawing. Just start it up again. Cheers!

[Viking Raider]

I love the chest studies. You can tell real quick how the anatomy sketches have helped the overall look of your figures. I just looked at your sketchbook from the beginning and there's a marked improvement. Keep it up!

[Cwn Annwn]

Starting to look solid there Duq!!! :D
Matt has very good advice. I know it's hard not being emo sometimes. :(

^_\\\

[Coinpurse]

hey nice gestures!
quick crit: some of your forms appear to have smaller legs then torso's or vice versa. Keep those up, but make sure you give as much attention to the life studies.

Great stuff in here,
~Mickey

[Whitevillage]

Cool sketchbook you got there. Keep up the studies, they look promising.

[.max]

Hey Duq, the anatomy studies look really good, you seem to be confident about them. Really love those figures!

[Ashrumm]

Hey Dug i'm lovin the anatomy studies keep these studies are reinforcing your art foundation. Keep up the good work man bridgeman is the man and like .max stated your figure work is coming along quite nicely as well keep up the good work!!!

[Duq]

Matt: its just the way I'm wired. I need to make rivals for myself to keep going :) I think the studies are still off way to much. So will do them again for this weeks studies. Thanks for commenting!

Cwn: ^_\\

Boom: Thanks for visiting! My proportions tend to go weird at times. But slowly getting better at I think.

Whitevillage, Viking_raider, .max, ashrumm : Thanks for visiting and commenting guys :D

=\\=

Update! Just gestures, first two from references. And the third one is from imagination, tried to play with perspective, but failing. So thats something I need to work on for next week.

[Duq]

Doodles!

[Stark]

I like what I'm seeing here. In IRC I thought you were an ass most of the time, but the skills I see in here are almost kinda validating it. Though min and Hurri are pretty humble/modest. Anyway, keep at it and I'll catch up too you in no time.

Been awe

[Duq]

Stark: I would love to give you some witty reply, but I'm just dead tired. So I will keep it at: I love you man ;)

This week, studies of the shoulder and part of the arm. And some gestures. The first 20 from life and the rest from imagination. It keeps feeling like I'm going backwards, but I dont get why. Also I'm totally exhausted, so maybe I should take a break of 2 days or so.

[Duq]

Waaah, more boring stuff. Some loomis studies, and the rest is from imagination. I really need to work on my imaginative work

[Duq]

***

Hans got a job! His mum got him to work for the butcher where he would be in the freezer, preparing the meat to go into the store. When his mum was done telling about his new job, she pulled out a small little present. Hans quickly unwrapped the shiny paper and found the cutest little bunny keychain you ever saw. Hans quickly ran off to the shed in the backyard, found a large nail and a hammer, and bam! He nailed the keychain in his hand. That way he would never loose the bunny, since he is so clumsy.

The next morning he ran to the butcher’s shop. Eagerly to get to work he bursts inside, only to meet the confused look of the butcher. After a brief moment of silence the butcher blinked his eyes and said “Boy, where are your pants?”

***

A short story wich I made up while sketching on the train. Just trying to get some more experience with writing, I’m a sucky writer with my own language and doing it in English will make it worse. But I think it is a skill I need to practice, so expect more little stories from me ^^

[MattGamer]

Heads are a bit distorted. Though I bet you know this. It all comes in time and practice. You are getting there, mate!

Remember it matters what you see and know that creates the image that you are making. And your style isn't something to be afraid of.

Keep drawling and keep at it! We will be pros in a year if we keep this up at this pace. ;) <3 :pirate:

[Duq]

Matt: Yeah, distorted heads is something that has been hunting me for months now :D Slowly I think they are getting better though. Very slowly ^^ Thanks for commenting again! And we will definitly be pro's or near it in a year! HU HA!

Todays update, more arm studies and gestures! HU HA! First pages of gestures are from imagination, the rest is reffed. I think I'm slowing down though, so definitly needs to work harder next week.

[MattGamer]

Woo, yes don't slack. Keep drawing and keep loving electronica music! :) Haha

First page is looking good. Now just think, last week could you have drawn those gestures that well? I think NOT, because you have advanced!!! Chairs!

[Duq]

Matt: Whoo I advanced! I trust you in this, since I dont see it ;)

Today! 2 pages with reffed gestures, some imagination gestures. And being silly in the train!

edit: Fixed the nov - dec 2005 posts on the first page!

[MattGamer]

The faces on the right side of this (http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=200854&stc=1&d=1189543234) page are really nice. I can see you are using your eyes rather than your hand to draw.

Bleeding while erasing is a sign that you are working hard at art! Good job! >:D

[Duq]

Matt: Its about time I started doing that though, icons are bad :D And the bleeding stopped! Woo :D

And small update, I speedpainted. I dont do that alot, so it was kinda scary. But its okish I guess, should do alot more though I think. Oh and I abused m@'s brushes :bashful:

[Duq]

Update! Some more gestures, as always. Trying out what I learned about arms. I went to the zoo and tried to draw there, wich jus showed how terrible I am at drawing stuff fast from life :D And some train people as well. Oh and some sprites I made!

[funfetus]

I love all those figure studies you've been doing! That's what it's all about -- repetition. Do a thousand of em, and you can't help but improve. You're already improving; I can see it -- the improvement from the early pages is amazing. Keep it up!

[Duq]

Funfetus: Thanks for posting man :D I will definitly keep it up, to much fun to stop doing it ^^

This weeks studies, and thingies! First 3 images are imaginary gestures, then 2 reffed, and studies for the lower leg and knee. And till next week I guess ^^

[MattGamer]

They are really shaping up (the figures) and the leg studies are always fun to see. I also can see that your lines are getting so much better even though you erase 202934802398 billion times. Ha ha.

Draw and stop watching YouTube. :D

[Sirio_Brozzi]

Hey Duq, really awesome job on all those studies, really tight stuff. (and awesome bunny icon :3)

[Duq]

mattgamer: Thanks Matt! Still, I really dont like erasing :( Everything gets so messy, and it is so annoying to not do it right with the first line :(

Sirio_Brozzi: Thanks! Bunnies are the best ^^


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Woo new page! And these weeks update, more studies! 30 to be exact. And 20 gestures, but I rushed them and they generally suck :(

[Duq]

Its been a while, but here are my latest studies! yay for more exciting bodies!

First 5 from ref, rest from imagination.

[RandAlThor]

Hey dug, wow, really liking the gesture pieces, some of them have really hit the lines (so to speak). Keep up the dedication man :-)

[MattGamer]

Yay! I have drawn these (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=210940&stc=1&d=1191223134) legs so many times! Ha ha!

Ahh porn references! Looking good on those pelvises! The gestures look like they have clothes on, because of the dark outlines. Though I love the way your moving the pencil/pen. :) W00t!

[Hyver]

great spirit in here!

be mindful of too short legs and too big heads, in those gestures

[tensai]

great figures man. great to see lively posing combined with solid anatomy in one. love those bulbous leggies (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=210940&stc=1&d=1191223134).
je weet toch.

[zweiDee]

awsome studys!

[Slither Astray]

Loving the male muscled legs!!! Very cool studies, your motivation totally inspires me. So don't stop drawing!

[bumskee]

u are soo lazy duq.. and a tosser..
:P
good good keep it going dude!! :)

[Gilles]

Great studies! I like the ones of the knee.
Progress every time I visit your sketchbook.

Cheers.

[Duq]

Randalthor: Thanks! Will try to :D
Matt: yay for Hogarth legs! Wasn't really looking forward to do them, but I actually enjoyed them :D
Hyver: Thanks for the advice Hyv! I used to draw way to small heads on my gestures, so trying to find out where I'm going wrong. Its a bit annoying though that I cant see my proportion mistakes right away, always takes some time :(
Tensai: Ey man, cool to see you here. ^^
Zweidee: Thanks!
Nadia:Thanks! Not intending on stopping anytime soon :D
Min: I know :(
Gilles: Thanks :D. Especially coming from you, since you are one of those people that saw my stuff more then a year ago :o Should reupload some of the weird stuff we made at that meeting ^^

-// -

Today's update! Was a but hesistant about wheter I should upload or not. Not really a good one, but in the end I think this will be like a notes of my entire journey, and you cant censure the best away. Well you can, but still :D

[portal]

[Duq]

vrooom! More boring gestures. Well Min promised me we will get started on values and clothing soon. So hopefully this sketchbook will get a bit interesster the coming weeks :D

[Duq]

Its been a while, but here some more boring gestures. :D

Also I landed my first freelance job as a game artist, or first job as an artist in general :D

About the update, the first one is from the life, the rest from imagination. Its slowly getting better although I think I'm making heads to small en legs to long again. I think I'm slowly loosing the stiffness in them, so thats good I guess :)

[Duq]

Just a bit of messing around in PS today

[Sorknes]

Wow, great studies there. And seems that you're getting the heads better proportioned in the last ones as well. :) And sweet hips.

Really like the last girl in the last update, especially the headstuff. The first one looks to me like it has a little too small face again though. :)

*mumbles something about needing to get back on track on her own studies*

Props, keep working. :)

[Duq]

Thanks for commenting Sork :D Yeah small faces keep hunting me :( Sometimes it goes alright, and some times they are suddenly back. Right now I'm trying to draw the chest and pelvis first and then the head. Maybe it helps ;)

Moar gestures! And gonna try to sketch some original things in PS later today

[Duq]

woot bump

[Lad]

Very solid gestures Duq! You should think about giving the Spartan Training Camp a try with all those gestures you pump out.

On a different note I would like to see some creatures or some environments, something just to change up drawings a bit

Cheers!

[Duq]

Thanks for visiting Lad :D Yeah I should try some more stuff, I have no clue if I can actually draw envirioments or creatures to be honest. So a bit scared perhaps, but cant let that stop me ^^

But for now, more gestures!

[yoitisi]

Hey thanks for stopping by in my sketchbook :)

I was going to say something very contructive here about proportions (heads too small, arms to long or short sometimes etc) but in your last post you seem to have solved most of those things :) Your studies remind me of the things I should do a lot more of :P Do you use any reference for them? And if so, what reference?

And I agree, it would be nice to see you tackle environments and such as well, it's sometimes good to get out of your comfort zone now and again.

[Duq]

Thanks for stopping by Yoitsi :D

Thanks or the crit about tiny heads, and the arms. Although the last post had less of it, I'm sure it will be back :p All the ones in the last post are digital, I do less from life then I should really...

And yeah I should get out of my comfort zone, although I'm still not sure if I should go toward creatures or envirioments right now. I still have so much to learn about cloth, armor, and more dynamic poses. But I'm doodling alot more, so who knows where that will go :D

=//=

Tonights update, did some lifedrawing, studies etc today. And just wanted to unwind a bit. I was checking some Moebius stuff, had Daft Punk playing on iTunes and this is the result I guess :D

edit: seeing some perspective problems, and clothing errors now :<. But oh well bedtime ;(

[dCepT]

Nice! Good to see such output on gestures!! I should totally do like tons of thumbnails and such as well! :) Thanks for the inspiration!

The last one looks hella sweet! Gonna throw in some values in there as well?

keep rockin'!

d-C

[MattGamer]

You can do anything if you practice it! Really nice line work on the last one. The hands/face look superb! Practice things that are unfamiliar to you everyday. If you think one thing is really hard to draw, draw it! Don't be afraid, you'd be surprised at what you can do with dedication.

[Texahol]

oh man i can def see some serious MINfluence in these latest works :)

your gestures and anatomy have gotten loads better since you started getting mentored. lines are looking better too. how about some value studying soon! [omg master copies! weeee]
seeing your progress is great, looking forward to more :)

[Duq]

dCept: Thanks for visiting again :D I dont think I'll throw in values, gonna get some value studies done with mastercopies first I think :D Tex gave me some awesome Boeugeaureau (what a name) stuff from artrenewal that I can play with :D

mattGamer: Yeah Matt! We can! Roar! Been trying alot more dynamic gestures lately, and backsides! And more cloth!

Tex: Thanks tex, I take the MINfluence as a compliment for now ;) Mastercopies weeeeeee! Gonne start with that Cherub one I think... Seems hard though

=//=

Update! Just some silly sketching stuff. I tried to draw stuff fast, like thumbnails. But I failed and still spend way to much time on it, I guess I'm overthinking stuff like armor.
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[Hyver]

holy progress batman!

goe bezig man... kiep it up :)

[Duq]

Thanks Hyv :D Ge bent tof!

=//= More stuff, trying to get fasterm and more "spontanous" with my shapes. I think it worked for some, and some just went awefull. I guess that maybe because I started kinda late with drawing I lack any real scribble skills, as far as that is a skill :D

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[MattGamer]

looking uber nice! let that creativity flow! Woo!!

[wookiedabo]

wahey, all that gesture practice seems to be paying off in those character sketches.

[bumskee]

*craks whip* :) good stuff duq.. more studies tho.. more!! you can always dip into designs soon.. I notice your facial features are often too off, more so the head.. some designs came out really good.. some too clunky and too busy.. but we'll get into them later I guess.. anyways.. talk more about things later. :)

[roidvoid]

pretty nice stuff
very good gestures and actions.
i noticed that you often have the proportion of the legs off. you could elongate the fibula/tibula and your figures would look much better

careful on the min influence. i too am hugely influenced by him and i love his work to death but you have to be able to set yourself apart.

[dCepT]

Damn... having bumskee whip ya like that is paying off... just scrolled through page 7 again, and the amount of studies put me to shame... I'mma have to work harder.. hehe...
Thanks for visiting my SB!

d

[plaasjapie]

your studies look very interesting. This is something I always recommend to people who ask me about drawing: practice practice practice!! Live models are best.
I love your noses!! are your facial studies taken from real life references, or fantasy? (sorry about the ignorant comment, but my eyes are so tired I can hardly see what everybody has written so far).
How often do you do studies?...still have to check out your other stuff :) Liking your style so far ;)

[Duq]

matt; thanks buddy!

wookiedabo: Thanks :D Thats whay I do them for, although it tends to get boring at times :D

Bumskee: thanks Min ^^ Yeah we havent really touched designing yet, so just trying to find my own ways at times. I know you dont mind ^^. Thanks for the crit about the faces, I didnt see it a month ago, but ouch.

Roidvoid: Thanks for visiting. Yeah, I'm still having a hard time getting everything I learned together, so proportions tend to vary, alot. The minfluence is something that is hard to avoid at the moment, he does teach me after all. We have a different cultural upbringing though, so when I grow up and actually do some design works you will prolly see a difference in subjects and design choices.

dcept: haha yeah, his whipping is far worse on msn then here though :D Thanks for dropping by !

Plaasjapie: Yeah practice practice! The faces tend to vary way to much, looking back at some of them I really dont know anymore wich was from life and wich from imagination :D I try to practice atleast 2 hours a day, and at most, all my free time. Thanks for visiting :D

=//=

wiee update, had some crunchtime at work, so didnt had alot of drawing time. I did actually went to an atelier passed month for lifedrawing, and did alot of rhythm studies, or well trying to get some feeling for it.

Right now Min and me are focussing on quickness in the gestures. Foremost trying to not lift my pen so much, wich is damn hard... Oh well a page from today with gestures, wich still took to much time :p

[yoitisi]

Studies coming along nicely. You're getting educated by Bumskee? Sweet :P

With those character designs, don't forget the anatomy underneath all the cloths and stuff.

[Olof]

Whoa! Amazing progress!
Your gestures and charactersketches are really sweet. Keep sketching! If I had to crit, I'd say more hands. And maybe more colours.

Overall. You're heading the right way :)

subscribed to you, mr!

.peace

[Duq]

yoitsi: Thanks! yeah he has me drawing all those gestures actually. For clothing, I still need to practice that alot!

Mortem: Thanks for commenting! Yeah hands are awfull, but I gave them small bits of attention after reading your post! Colors will come in time, gonna focus on value first.

=//=

Update! Just some small thumbs to find shapes and stuff for my grad project. I kinda abused Mr Blondes video a bit though, and I need to get used to my dark values on my tablet pc. These are alot darker then I expected them to be :o

[deadred]

awesome boobie machine in your latest update :} you've been improving crazily, killer studies in the last few pages

[MattGamer]

awesome studies man!

your work is paying off! you
can see from your first post
till now that you have improved
like 110%! and it's,

"NEVER SURRENDER, NEVER GIVE UP!"

pwnd :) :p

[Duq]

deadred: Thanks Michelle! I could have expected you would love that one :D

MattGamer: NEVER GIVE UP, NEVER SURRENDER SOUNDS better :(. You are such a meanie matt :(

=//=

Yay update, just some quick digital sketches. I wish I had some more to show you, but my room is being renovated right now, so no scanner or wacom, or general working space :( Just some quick thumbs trying to find shapes etc. Still got some problems wrapping shapes around the gestures, but its slowly improving I hope :)

edit: And I need to do some fatguy studies :O

[StarbonesCoffin]

\o greetings from MY.Cool quick sketches.

[Duq]

\o Greetings from NL and thanks for visiting :D

=//=

Just a few gestures. I'm just fed up with not getting the same rhythm in my digital sketches that I have in my pencil ones. And the fact that it takes so long :(. So from now on, I will do ten digital a day! Till I get the pen under control!

[openanewworld]

I haven't been here for ages but sure you have done so many great exercises, and you have improved huge, I can see huge amount of influence from bumskee which is another great thing, my only suggestion is drawing more male character which give you better understanding about muscel and weight and when you put design on characters don't do too random and too rough one, think about more how custome and weapon interact with the character's weight even in thumbnail stage, but definately you are aiming really right direction keep up the great works.

[MattGamer]

dude totally not yours.

APRILFOOLS yeah i know..
you're not that good. :p

[Texahol]

only 10?

[Cavematty]

Hey mate!
Excellent work. Admiring your dedication, and feeling very inspired to just draw draw draw!
I don't know how you convinced a great like bumskee to tutor you, but good wheedling. And by posting it all up here we can all learn a little from the process.
I'm at a similar point to you I think, tho a bunch older! Been working as a freelance animator for some time, and want to make the shift across to character/concept design. Have been surprised in the last few weeks of working at it, just how hard it is! So much learning to do. But your work reminds me to just keep at it :)

This last page of gestures is definitely the best. Keep on keepin on bud!

Matty

[Duq]

openanewworld: Thanks man! I'm glad you can see some improvement ^^ We already talked bits about it on msn, and I will definitly keep your advice in mind :D

MattGamer: :(

Texahol : Yeah, well I will prolly do more...

Cavematty: Thanks man :D Well I just talked with Bumskee in IRC, and kinda asked him after a while, so it was just that easy really ^^. Keep on going dude :D

=/// Just got back from the Workshop in germany, and this is what I did basicly :o

[yoitisi]

Just dropping in to say Hi and thanks for the ride :) Great to meet fellow dutchies at last.

[Jabo]

Damn, Duq. I totally missed your figure drawings. That's some awesome stuff. Hope to see you next time :)

[Soja]

HEY DUQ!!!
Here's DUC AKA Soja!! Was really great meeting u!! Was nice chatting with u!!
Ur gestures are awesome and kicked my ass!! Man i hope will improoovveee fassst dude!! Cause i think u gonna do some crazy stuff later!!!
Hope I can make it to Netherlands in Summer if there's gonna be another sketchmeet!! Take it easy and work hard dude!!

[Duq]

yoitsi: Ey man, yeah was great meeting you, we should definitly hangout some more :D

jabo: Dont be so drunk next time! Crazy german guything

Duc: EYa! Hahaha, would be nice to actually do some crazy stuff ^^ Just got to keep on drawing, and who knows what will happen! Hope to see you on the next meeting, you are in germany so really have no excuse to not make it ;)

=//= Something else for an update. I worked on a game for XBLA several months ago, and accidently something leaked to the internetz and got on Kotaku. Since the stuff is public now anyway, I might as well post the screenies that got leaked. Its an awesome feeling btw to read the reactions on a normal forum/blog about your first official game, makes me all warm and fuzzy inside :D

http://kotaku.com/378109/rockets-riots-yeah-this-is-a-rocket-riot

What did I do? Some level designs, all the character designs, and alot of props.

http://www.coin-op.nl/images/rocketriot/rrscreen4.png
http://www.coin-op.nl/images/rocketriot/rrscreen2.png
http://www.coin-op.nl/images/rocketriot/rrscreen3.png

[foobarwith]

Thanks for sharing such a nice move:)

[Duq]

foobarwith: Thanks for sharing the porn dude! I'm honored that your first post was dedicated to enlighten me!

=//=

yeah studies, of Vilppu. Trying to get a bit more of a hold on cubes. If you would go through my sketchbook, you might notice I barely ever did any, so far its being a revelation for me. And it feels I might be getting some better understanding about volume in 3d space. Still my analyzing skills are way off at times :(

[chaosrocks]

studies are obviously helping your anatomy and ability to draw dynamic forms... I always hated the squares my self
, they feel so unnatural and awkward. now you have a handle on these studies lets see you do some thing with em! I particularly think the draperis show progress. now do a finished piece. Some thing simple. yet showing all the these new skillz yyouve been building!

crx

[Soja]

Mhhh yeeess Vilppu!!!
U got the magic Duq!!
I have to figure out how to get kind of gestures like u!
Try to spent each day one hour outside and draw people from
life! All i can do at the moment!
No critique for u only that i would love to see a finished character
of urs! Take one of the great gestures and paint over it dude!!!

[Frank Gressie]

hey a dutch guy!
This is a promising sketchbook!, i can definitly see the improvement, too bad the pictures on page 1 won't show. The studies / gestures looks good!
I personally (began with bridgman) find burne hogarth super to studie anatomy, although its a bit more exagurated. Keep this going!

cheers,
frank

[humanNature6115]

Vilpuu is the way.....
“no rules, just tools

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http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=120761

[Buckster]

hey man, you got some pretty cool stuff in here mate ^^I really enjoy those studies and your anatomy is getting good. It seems to me like you need to work some more on your faces and expressions. Try working like you are with your body studies.

Keep it up man, cheers

[Duq]

chaosrocks: Thanks ^^ definitly going to work on some finished works soon. I got my grad project deadline coming close, and I need to draw quite alot of stuff for that

Soja: Hahaha, its easy. Do a zillion of gestures :D Yeah finished stuff, soon I hope :D

Frank: Hey dutch guy, thanks for visiting :D Yeah also started with Bridgman and still use him at times. I found him to be a bit advanced when I started though, but now his teachings are becomming better and better.

humanNature6115: Vilppu = <3

Buckster: Hey man, yeah you are definitly right. I got like this standard expression that I use for everything, its getting a bit boring. But I do think my faces are still off, so it will prolly be the next thing that I will put some hardcore study time if my mentor will be satisfied with the gestures.

=//=

Just a small update, because I'm to lazy to scan. I tried to do a digital study from life. My first as well, so was kinda tough,hopefully I will have some time to do more soon :D Second image is an early sketch for my project, there is a link in my signature. If you have some time check it out!

[Eugie]

That game looks kick ass, also nice gestures. Did you use any references for them?

[MattGamer]

sweet study man for your first from life!
remember in only 2 years we will be awesome! :)

[squidmonk3j]

nice lighting on the study, duq...you've achieved a good sense of material / texture!

oh and those screenshots from the game actually made me wanna try it = sucess!:)

[Neireth]

Hey Duq, I love your dedication to anatomy studies (can I have some of it? :tihi: ), and the improvement really shows. They're balanced and the weight is where it should be. Although I know you love to draw the female form, I'd like to see some male studies as well, and focus on the different muscle groups and the bone structure, and more how it works with the whole figure, and not only in parts. Like you've done lately with your female studies and concepts. I hope I'm not too incoherent and you get what I'm trying to say. (way too much coffee today)
And oh, more faces! (Because it was some time ago, no?) With values! And lots of varying shapes and forms. And more than just small head thumbnails. Draw big. ;> Maybe even go a step further/deeper, and do eye/mouth/nose, etc studies. And well, just make the faces more interesting to look at, even though the shape, sex and so on varies, they somehow tend to look the same.
And you already know since yesterday what I think about environment studies, so I don't need to say it again, do I? Hehe. Plus I need the company.

Nah, but really, awesome, awesome improvement, and that last life study is really great, nice work with the colours.

Keep it up, this is really starting to look amazing. :) :asspat:

[Farin]

great studies...i enjoyed looking through your small figure studies
seems to be an useful exercise and you did it really good

very cool sb

[Soja]

A Zillion???? ok i try do a zillion and one ;)!!!
Nice studys with sweet colors!! And I wanna see more updates man!!

[Duq]

Eugie: Thanks man, it should be out soon on a XBLA near you! Most of the gestures are from imagination, but I also do a great deal from ref. Kinda depends on the mood :D

MattGamer: Only 2 years to go! Woooo!

squidmonk3j: Thanks Skweed <3

Neireth: Male ones are comming up!

Farin: Thanks man :D

Soja: Yeah me to! Well you already found the project, so most of my time will go there for the next two months. Hopefully loads of arts when I get to asset creation :D

=//=

Just some thumbnails of the project. Check the link in the sig if you want to know more!

[Duq]

tried to take some ideas of the thumbs, and ended with this

[Tec]

i really adore your gesture and figurative drawings.......
every one of them looks dynamic and kinda sensitive. you improved a lot over the past year......so keep it up

unfortunatly we talked only a few minutes at the end of the german sketchmeet....hope to see you soon in hellmouth :steph: