Farvus' Imaginarium

[Farvus]

Sketchbook I thread
(starts here)
Hi to all,

This is my first post on this forum. I already have some experience beacause I've been drawing since childhood (now I'm 22). Unfortunately there is a disturbing feeling that I stay on the same level all the time. The reason is obvious. I don't draw too often. Here I have perfect ocassion to get encouraged in daily routine in sketching :).
I have problem mainly with stiff, unnatural character poses. My other problem is that sometimes I overdo some drawings. I'll try to draw from life a lot...
Here are first two pages:

[Farvus]

No. 3 - my left and right foot



No. 4 - from some anatomy book



No. 5 - from my head



No. 6 - as above :)

[teyekanik]

are you taking any classes? Sometimes bieng in class forces you to start drawing alot more. Then, even when the class is over you continue to draw more than you did before. I like some of these studies, Hope to see more from you.

[Farvus]

I was taking lessons frequently few years ago. Now I study architecture and once a week there are composition lessons where I mainly paint still nature. I can see the profits of this right now but only in positioning the objects, proportions of picture and so on. My only occasion to improve in drawing right now is sketchbook. I plan to make some still nature model in my room. Maybe some day it will be accomplished :D.
Thanks for encouragement. Of course will be some more...
With next sketches I tried to make lighter values and no chaotic rendering. In opposite do this more linework with varied thickness. It's really hard to draw such flowy lines. I noticed that sometimes a good warm up for this is sketching from some dynamic reference. With next pictures my hand looses a bit this bad habit of this "hay rendering" style. I hope you know what I mean :D.

No. 7 - From life. This was actually made on Composition lesson mentioned above :).

No. 8- Not very satisfying self-portrait.

No. 9 - It is my friend wooden mannikin (from Ikea) that lives on my window-still. He was covered in dust for a long time but now I find him very useful.

No. 10 - Finally some drawing from imagination. At the end I used eraser a lot because of changing my mind few times. Not good. Not good. Too much mess.

PS. Well. Besides drawing I can improve my english here :D.

[Farvus]

Today's sketches. I don't like these paper marks but I can't remove them beacause sketches will loose much of their middle tones.

No. 11 - From life

No. 12 - Characters from Loomis.

No. 13 - Only faces :)

No. 14 - But I don't like Dragonball :D

[Dan1989]

Nice stuff. It's hard to realize improvement sometimes, but the best way to improve is to draw as much as possible. I will tell you from experience that the more time you put in every day, the more you will improve! Good luck and hope to see more from you.

[corky13]

yeah...drawing is like Bodybuilding :) !
And if you really can`t see any improvements than just look at the pitures you`ve done 4-5 months ago...and you will see it ;)

hmmm i definately like your anatomical studies (e.g. the feet) a lot more than your other stuff...don`t draw from instinct if you make somehing without reference. (it seems like you do). Thats something for the moe "high-class" artists that have the knowledge in their flesh ! Draw with a acktive use of your knowledge. Like saying yourself "Hah the Deltoid have to bend this way and connects to the bone of the upper arm...this way it overlaps a bit of the trizeps..." ...or better just think it or people will call you crazy ^^

[Farvus]

Thanks for comments and suggestions. I will try to construct from knowledge more. Today I didn't have good day with drawing. Maybe tomorrow will be better.

No. 15 - My hand study.

No. 16 - Mostly from Loomis.

No. 17 - Something different this time. More like comic style.

[Farvus]

I'm a bit sleepy but I managed to draw something. My trousers and pillow :P

No. 18 - Trowsers and pillow.

No. 19 - Trowsers and pillow again.

[Farvus]

No. 20 - Another self-portrait.

No. 21 - No title...

[Farvus]

No. 22

No. 23 - No life drawing subject for today... :dead:

No. 24

[Cold]

i have the same problem, besides i work to live.. and time is short... how the hell shud you be creative with so much real life hassle? It is easy take your time and search for something that interrests u, then draw and study it...

your art shows progress, but do you really want bad enough to break your limits? il see u soon

[Fellah.]

I see some good stuff here man - nice start.
My advice is to have fun with drawing - instead of pushing your self too hard. Sometimes just draw ugly - i do that a lot. Just let your hand dance on the paper - dont worry about how it looks just enjoy how it feels!
Then when you have danced for a while, slow down take a new paper and do some cool stuff. Use tons of refs and life. Look at poses and lightning and stuff. Draw something you have never drawn before.
Main thing is - have fun while learning!
Good work man.

[Farvus]

Cold, Fellah -> You're both right. It's just that for a first week I wanted to force myself to draw regularly no matter how good will be the result. I got used to it enough and from this point I am also more conscious of many things that I should work on. I think I will slow down a little focus more on quality (and fun :wink: ) than quantity.

I see that sometimes that when I sketch, I don't try to look for some better form. Just finish it very early with thick contour line. Then there is just a bit too fast rendering and I end up with something average. Maybe it's some anxiety of getting too indecisive or chaotic drawing?

Anyway, I will just continue drawing. Thanks a lot for all suggestions.

PS. In first posts I changed from images to direct links so that this thread can load faster.

[Farvus]

No. 25 - I've never really did any mech stuff. This is my first try. One of those junk doodles :P.

[Farvus]

After few days break I'm back on track.

No. 26 - Nothing special this time. Just anatomy from Loomis.

[Farvus]

Random Warmup Doodles. The girl on the left corner is drawn from reference.

No. 27 - Don't know :^^;:

[Farvus]

My first DSG from yesterday - Biomech mermaid/merman

Pencil+PS

[Farvus]

Today I've spent more time on drawing than usually.

Random warmup sketches. There are also thumbnail drawings for my DSG.

Actual DSG - The beautiful tree-lined path.

No. 28 - I'm a big fan of Ghost in the Shell and I decided to make a cyberpunk comic inspired by this anime/manga. Here's one of characters. Maybe I will put ink here.

[Fellah.]

Hi man.
The new stuff looks fine. I saw the mermaid at the DSG -that is a really nice design - would like to se more.

[Farvus]

Thanks Fellah. The picture of bio-mech mermaid was the succesful one.

Sorry if I post only some not refined doodles. I just want to adjust myself to drawing simple forms :P. Most of the sketches here are made on small (A5) format so I fill these pages quickly. Maybe I should post only these more succesful and well designed drawings.

DSG 754: High-seas spectre/ Aquatic wraith. I have learned about some mistakes form this one.

No. 29 - My friend behind computer.

No. 29a - I don't like my hatching/shading so I trained it here.

No. 30 - I tried Mentler's G.R.A.V.I.T.Y drawing method. Not succesful... (but something changed in my drawing)

No. 31 - Here I treated human as a machine. The difference is that I started to construct it with lots of small parts that could exist seperately. At the end these borders between them started to dissapear. I only couldn't convert arms into something simple.

[mentler]

You make progress Grasshopper!!!!!!!!!

[Farvus]

Thanks for comment mentler.

Here are two new pages.

Figures drawn with help of anatomy books.

No. 32 - I started drawing from the teeth and that's what came out.

[Fellah.]

NIce way of starting a drawing dude - with the teeth. Makes room for surprices! She looks so insane - i like :teeth:

[mentler]

It is great to draw regardless how you start ~~~ I start the Domenicus drawings sometimes with teeth, sometimes with a nostril an ear ~~~ I
usually don't even know if I am doing a front view or a profile until I am into them a bit ~~~ when the final bell sounds it is all about what is in the folds in your brain!!

[crazy3dman]

Nice start to your sketchbook. Keep it up. Improvement is evident already. :)

[Ashrumm]

Yes I already see Improvements in your last few sketch from earlier keep up the good work man you''ve improved alot great job! Keep crankin em. I really like the mermaid concept and your last sketch keep working with your wacom.

[Farvus]

Thanks. Earlier I was starting drawing character mainly from head. Now the torso is first. Then I can adjust the angle of arms, legs and neck. It's easier to find balanced pose this way.

I made lots of doodles today but they're not worth showing. Instead I'll post my mech. I was inspired by mantis shape. This machine is twice as tall as human. It can run very fast and can even climb walls with it's special arms. There are also small wheels in it's feet so it can skate at very high speed. Apart from machine gun it's armed with hidden mono-wire which can cut through almost anything and has big range (the slash has a radius of about 5 metres). It could be used by army in urban areas.

Pens&Markers + Photoshop

[aan]

nice start, just keep on drawing and you are bound to be even better. Just try to make drawing into a habit...ex. I always draw a few pages in my SB before I go to sleep. I usually start with the head but sometimes I start with the legs/stomach....but they all look messed up haha.

[Farvus]

Thanks for comment aan. Actually I have this habit since the birth of this sketchbook.

No. 37 - I've been drawing few female figures from reference. She is a model posing for Triumph company which sells underwear. The've got nice photos :D.

No. 38 - I watched "I Robot" recently and there was a great fight between two machines. I noticed it was somehow similar to Aikido (stance, moves and so on). That inspired me to draw aikido style robot. The legs were hard to draw but finally I decided to draw his feet in perspective and the rest was just finding the centre of mass (somewhere between feet). Eh. Too much writing :P.

Maybe I'll post more drawings today.

[Farvus]

Today I installed MetaCreations Poser. I doubt if it is good for learning anatomy but it helped me invent some interesting poses :).

Some anatomy studies. Legs are more difficult than arms to me so I practiced drawing them a bit.

No. 39 - Just doodles.

[Farvus]

I didn't put here my latest DSG paintings so I'm doing it now.
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No. 40 - A bit of lineart.

[Fellah.]

Hi man
Hehe stay on this forum long enough and you start drawing robots :teeth:
Nice dude - i like the aikido style robot, nice pose and legs.
Keep em coming

[Farvus]

Thanks. I just haven't drawn machines much so I try it now.

I brought back to my memory all those Rosiński's comics that are still in my collection. "Thorgal" was from the beginnings of my drawing always the greatest inspiration. I decided to analyse more closely how it was made.
(Here are exaple pages - Example1 (http://images.gildia.pl/komiks/komiksy/thorgal/8/skan2/w640/) / Example 2 (http://images.gildia.pl/komiks/komiksy/thorgal/13/skan1/w640/) / Example 3 (http://images.gildia.pl/komiks/komiksy/thorgal/10/skan2/w640/))

I tried Rosinski's style here.


No. 41 - "The explorer". I think I will try more of traditional pen with wooden holder and nib. This was inked with fine point pens.

Edit: Eh, I noticed few problems after finishing this one :\ . This man was supposed to lean his upper part of body forward but to me it rather looks like he's got short torso. The same is about arms. I've got to practice foreshortening more.

[~Faust~]

Hey, nice sketchbook. Nice progres, too! http://img148.echo.cx/img148/9545/dsg067tg.jpg I like the clouds on that one!

You have it definately in you! Keep fighting!

[aan]

keep up the good work and just keep working on anatomy, which goes for me too. Drawing from life helps too.....but it can be boring (at least to me, I slack off too much). I agree with Fellah...I'm starting to get the urge to draw robots.

[Farvus]

Thanks for comments!

I didn't have a chance to post new works recently so here is bigger update.

[Farvus]

I don't have much time today so here are only few doodles.

For next updates I'm make to draw some life drawings.

[deez]

lovin those quick pose sketches
like your dsgs too
try working on your heads and faces...but i shouldn't be talking

[Farvus]

deez - thanks for comment. I'll try to improve in drawing faces.

No. 45 - Today I made life drawing of sea shells that I found at my home. Don't have much time for anything else.

[Fellah.]

Nice to se you drawing so much!
Nice shells, good lines - sketching in ink is cool dude :teeth:

[Farvus]

Fellah. - I think chose bad paper for those ink sketches beacause these ground shadow lines were not fully black.

No. 46 - Drawing from reference. I practiced line economy and shading.

No. 47 - I sketched this while listening to Diablo II soundtrack.

[Fellah.]

The last one looks really nice man!
You can really feel hes ready to fight!
More :)

[OleOlsen]

hey thanks for stepping by in my thread.
I think you really improved too throughout your thread. one can see how your sense for anatomy is getting better and better. especially the last one will come out really cool. what i like else is the dsg sketch. the path with the trees. that has some beautiful coloring i think. So you have to practice more on faces and stuff...something i have problems with too.

[Farvus]

Fellah. - thanks :)

OleOlsen - well, my main problem is that most of my faces look kind of flat. I don't know how to solve this problem. Maybe I'll just do life portraits and studies from Loomis.

Sometimes when I try to construct figure and especially face, it looks stranger than my drawings done by intuition. It's hard for me to combine those two methods.

This is "Vampire knight" (or samurai) done in free program Artrage. Maybe I'll draw something during the night.

[Farvus]

Two people mentioned I should practice faces so I started it. First of all the head interior - skull. It was fun great fun :). I tried also facial muscles and finally I sketched some of self-portraits with different expressions.

At the end some random sketches from imagination - my hand was on fire so the shading is a bit untidy.

You were right Fellah. I started doing warm up before every drawing session and everything looks much better. It helps getting loose strokes.

[Farvus]

I don't have much time to draw today beacause I have to learn for exams. However I tried free version of OpenCanvas and it's fantastic. Here's the result:

This is some imaginary carcass-eating animal that I made for my Pen&Paper conversion of old amiga game - Perihelion: the Prophecy. One of my greatest inspiration.

[Fellah.]

Glad to hear that dude - the skulls is looking fine too :rendered:

[Quinster]

Hey, you're moving along nicely. Work on the faces a bit, I can see alot of potential in the faces. They look pretty good right now, but keep improving and it'll come outgreat :}

[Farvus]

Fellah. , Quinster - thanks. I'll work more on skulls and faces.
I don't know how it happened but I started to draw with my whole arm instead of only wrist. It was always hard for me to do that. Now I could even draw without touching the table with hand.
I think a very good step to do this is to sit high enough above the table. The arm works more from above and it doesn't tire so much.

Few skulls constructed with help of one book and Loomis. I do studies with ink. When I make some mistake, like with the cheekbone on the top-left skull, I remember it and try not to do it in future :). Eraser helps forget many things.

Still have to work on faces.

No. 50 - "Deadly finger" is inspired by Terminator 2 movie :D.

[Farvus]

One skull and faces from one magazine. A applied different light direction to the man's face on the right and to the smiling face on the bottom. It forced me to see it as 3d shape.

No. 51 - Just man with a gun ( while listening to Pulp Fiction Soudtrack 8) )

[Farvus]

http://img245.echo.cx/img245/9967/sk52536bd.jpg

No. 52, 53 - Life drawings of two head scuptures. Must try thighter hatching.

I'll post more drawings today.

[Gloominati]

Hi!
I like your last post quite much , although neck looks really loooong to me, I don´t know if you drew it that way on purpose.
In general: Try to keep your lines and your hatching clean, they will look much more loose that if you do it that way. just an advice but keep on practicing man!!

[hurricane]

very nice stuff! some of the pencil stuff is better than the others, i feel like sometime you squish the heads proportions too much, so they get a wide face... a critique or tip would be check head shapes while you draw them...

keep on fighting, you're showing progress!!

cheers !

[Fellah.]

Maybe the neck were long on the plasterheads :confident
The hatching is looking good but maybe use it more to define the form and strukture of the heads? nice work dude.

[Farvus]

Gloominati - actually this sculpture had such long neck :). I'll try to improve my hatching. It may take some time though. Thanks for dropping in.

Hurricane - Sure. I'll give more attention to heads.

Fellah. - Thanks!

No. 54 - Self portrait. It was getting dark and I couldn't turn on the light beacause I'd have to change my my drawing. Done under quite hard conditions.

I don't have time for more today and my hands are cold :dead:
New update tomorrow. I'll continue anatomy studies I think.

[Farvus]

I took one of "Thorgal" comics and draw some poses from there as mannikins (like those in Loomis). Then I put muscles on them and at the end checked if the body shape looks the same or similar as in the comic.

No. 55 - Arghh... >:{ Don't like this one. I chose A5 format again and I couldn't draw more detailed shadows or anything. Enough! I will draw on bigger paper next time.

[Farvus]

Some time ago I found Burne Hogarth's "Dynamic Figure Drawing" book on the internet. Today I sketched from one third of it's pages. Amazing book.

One fragment done with pencil is my pose studies from "Thorgal" comic.

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At the end I sketched some gladiator from imagination. Not very original design but I'm satisfied.

[Fellah.]

Very nice last studies.
The gladiator might have a tad short legs maybe? When i draw fullfigure i start with the legs first to avoid that, but well sometimes i hit the top of the paper when its time to do the head so... :wink: Some fast light lines to get the proportions right before the heavy drawing beginings mignt be a good idea. I gotta remember that advice myself, hehe.
I remember Thorgal - those books were pretty cool.

[Farvus]

Thank's Fellah (for being my regular guest too). This time measured a bit to find the knee positon and it helps enough.

About 4-5 years ago I have drawn differently. I used put more shading. The problem to me was that after so intense tight hatching figures were like clay statues without any motion. The contour lines dissapeared under the planes of shadow and there was no dynamism (apart from anatomy problems). Right now I try to concentrate on lines more than on planes and reduce shading to minimum. Reduce to some "critical" areas of drawing. If some lines are a bit less tight, they show more easily direction of surface. On the other way it's not easy to fut them in that way.

Meanwhile. Something from today.

Studies from Hogarth. Sorry it looks messy but I concetrate more on constructing than making it clean. I have to practice hands more.

No. 57 - Kind of cyborg assassin.

[aan]

very nice anatomy studies....I really like the skull. I really see improvements in your newer stuff. I think the cape on the last one should show more folds so that it reads more like cloth. That reminds me.....I gotta do more clothing studies. Keep on drawing and posting =)

[Farvus]

Thanks aan. Folds are difficult. I will propably draw some clothes from reference.

No. 58 - Reptiloid and insectoid.

I started to save images with 72 dpi (not 150) so they will load faster, I think.

[Fellah.]

Heh - i hate folds :tihi: I like the cyborg assassin and the old drawing with the barscene is nice dude! Why do you link them? I pretty much always jump past links, which of course is my bad really.
Draw draw draw :^^:

[Farvus]

Fellah - Thanks. When I finish my exams it will be just Draw or Die ;)
I linked these images beacause the whole thread page would load for long.

I haven't got time today so after short warmup and few ugly doodles I sketched only this. I think I bought some bad graphite for my mechanical pencil. It broke all the time. I also included 3B pencil to my tool set for some softer shadows.

No. 59

[Cbird]

Though you have quite a good grasp of anatomy I think you need to work on your monster character design. Try to be more organic with your lines and not so geometrical some of the time especially with those eyes and teeth.

[Farvus]

Cbird - these portaits were actually supposed something between half-alien form so I wanted to leave some human parts. Anyway, thanks for comment. I'll try more organic things next time.

No. 60 - Inspired by first scene in "Gladiator" movie.

[Cbird]

Good form but is it just me or is that ear a little out of place?

[Farvus]

Cbird - hmm... maybe a little :yawn:. Thanks for comment

http://img209.echo.cx/img209/5839/sk61a0de.jpg

Legs from Hogarth.

http://img209.echo.cx/img209/2994/sk617kq.jpg

No. 61 - I didn't have any idea for drawing so this one was totally improvised.

[Farvus]

http://img107.echo.cx/img107/592/sk623ev.jpg

No. 62 - Space-man :)

[Fellah.]

hehe nice space man - i dig the duck
The improvised drawing is looking nice man! keep doing that :}

[Farvus]

Fellah - thanks. Improvisation can make picture ugly but it's a good way to invent something new.

I did short warmup and finally sketched this one.

No. 63 - It's character concept for my Pen&Paper RPG, fully based on Perihelion computer game. It's a mix of cyberpunk and postnuclear world with a bit of fantasy atmosphere :).

[Farvus]

http://img10.echo.cx/img10/7494/sk641aq.jpg

No. 64 - Middle of the night. I sketched something fast after reading Bilal comics.

[Main Loop]

i think you have good ideas and imagination, just work on perspective more.. i think thats whats most obviously lacking..

[~Faust~]

You're doing very good, dude. Great anatomystudies :) reminds me of going back to draw some more...

[Farvus]

Main Loop, Faust - Thanks.

I haven't posted for a while beacause of exams. Right now I have holidays so I can draw all the time :).

No. 65 - Evil druid :)

[Ashrumm]

I like what i see here your work has improved keep up the good work, my only suggestion is to do less shading and more sketching or practicing of the form and anatomy and try doing some cloth studies i'm in the same boat as do i need to do the same.

Keep working

[Teigrob]

You've improved a lot - especially in the faces. Keep studying those - remember contour! If it's a three quarter view of the head, the eye should look like a ball, with the eyelid wrapping around it. Also - easy tip on keeping proportions between length of legs and torso - and this is what my Figure Construction teacher taught me, by the way...the groin is the 'center of the universe'. Wherever you draw it, measure with your fingers from there to the top of the head or to the feet. The distance should be exactly the same either way. Of course, that only works if the figure is standing...but you can't have everything. Nice work! Your shading lines have really improved too.

[Farvus]

Thanks everyone.
I'm going to practice drawing perspective a bit. Maybe even right now.

For today something unusual. I tried ZBrush2, made few tutorials and here is some old man's head.

[buzzz3d]

Interesting designs you have here.
Keep it up!

[Farvus]

buzzz3d: thanks

I have updated my sketchbook long time ago. I must force myself to draw every day again.
Here are my two illustrations for some text.

[Farvus]

No. 66 - perspective fun :)

[Farvus]

Sorry for such poor update but I don't have time for something better today.

No. 67 - Evil? :bashful:

[Farvus]

No. 68 - Another perspective fun - interior. This time more complicated.

[Farvus]

No. 69 - perspective fun. I developed a method for two-points perspective where vanishing points are not visible and I don't have to add strips of paper.
It's like:
I plan to make this method even simplier and faster.

[SirGreenSock]

I like your designs and perspective work. There's a lot of potential in there. I'd like to see some more life studies.

[Farvus]

SirGreenSock - You're right. I haven't done much studies recently. I'll have to change this.

No. 70 - This time it's still something from imagination. I feel that I have to work on design. I have no ideas and it's not original at all.

[Farvus]

No. 71 - Improvisation.

[Farvus]

I'm still not satisfied of my drawings. I have also no time for searching any models :\ . Instead I sketched what stays on shelf in my room.

http://img307.imageshack.us/img307/2104/sk722hd.jpg

No. 72 - Panasonic.

[SirGreenSock]

Cool stuff. i like the simplicity of the pencil line in the last one.

[thirdeye]

Hej Farvus. Nie trzeba zawsze rysowac z zywych modeli(-ek) - zdjecie tez nie jest zle. Co prawda lepiej z "zywca" ale jak nie mozna to zdjecie tez ujdzie. Takie cwiczenia z rysowaniem tego co sie widzi w pokoju tez sa potrzebne. Mozna troche perspektywe pocwiczyc, kreske - np. tak jak z ksiazkami tutaj - probowac je narysowac jedna pewna linia. Widac ze w rysunkach postaci twoje kreski nie sa takie pewne.

Podrawiam :)

[Farvus]

SirGreenSock - I decided to give more importance to lines in my drawings. No eraser used in this one so some mistakes are visible.

thirdeye - Ciężko mi jest się przekonać do rysowania z fotografii ale masz rację. Lepsze to niż nic.

No. 73 - Another life drawing from my room.

No. 74 - Photo referenced drawing.

[gibsini]

nice thread your definitley improving with each post, keepit up an keep the posts comin..................... cheers

[Farvus]

gibsini - I'm glad to hear that. Thanks.

Today only photo referenced drawings.

No. 75 - 76

No. 77 - 78

[Farvus]

No. 79, 80 - From fashion magazine photo ref.

No. 81 - From photo / No. 82 - From one painting.

[Farvus]

No. 83 - Thumbnail figures from some book about architectural ilustration.

No. 84, 85 - Paintings studies.

[~Faust~]

Just dropping by and taking a look :)

As pointed out earlier, your perspective studies are really good! I like them. I like the thumbnail figures, also.

Overal I'd say you developed a good eye through your studies already. A few anatomical issues with the last 2 posts but that'll come with time, too. I'd just suggest that you work some more on your faces, though. Right now, they look like you throw the features (Eyes, nose, mouth) on them like they are painted there. I'd like to see that you include them more into the skull, then you'll get much better at that, too.

You're getting better! Post more :)

[Farvus]

~Faust~ - Thanks for advices. The main problem is the size of the drawing. The face was so small that I couldn't make it look 3d :\

No. 86 - I used painting as reference - Gerard von Honthorst "Laughing violinist" (http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/news/jeromack/Images/jeromack8-4-9.jpg)

No. 87, 88 - Head sketches from imagination. I've got more problems with female faces.

[Farvus]

No. 89 - Paintings studies. / No. 90 - I have problem in drawing lower part of the body and connection between torso and legs so here are some studies.

No. 91 - Self portrait with no shading.

[yAdam]

Some good stuff in here man. I like no.70. loose lines and pretty decent form. I prefer work like that, but like other people have said, you have some good perspective studies. Keep working on it and you'll improve in no time.

[D.Labruyere]

you have really good stuff going on here, and even better, you are like improving with each and every post you make, though keep in mind that every line should have a meaning, in your more early posts, they sometimes get a bit messy, but that is getting better and better with each post, so you'll get there :)

show us more :)

[~Faust~]

Female faces have the problem that, unlike mans faces, the more detail you put in them, the more ugly they become. At least, when you don't do it absolutely right. I think you should do some studies of the features separately like eyes, nose etc. That is to truly understand the structure of them. Right now, most eyes you draw are ellipses. In reality, eyes are circles, embedded into the skull.

Whatever, looking good so far keep pushing :)

[Farvus]

yAdam - To me No.70 has too loose lines. I prefer more detailed and clean drawings.

Haldor - Thanks.

~Faust~ - It's good that you reminded me this. I'll work on that. Thanks for feedback :).

No. 92 - Eye studies.

No. 93, 94 - My right hand studies.

No. 95 - Some quick perspective.

PS. I had some serious problems with uploading to imageshack. I hope it will work better in next days.

[Farvus]

I'm tired today so I made only one drawing from reference (Book "Gnomes" (http://tania.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/gnomes.jpg)). It was mainly shading practice.

No. 96 - The gnome.

[thirdeye]

Hey buddy :) Doing great. Your sketches are improving with every update :)

Widac duze postepy. Fajny autoportret - narysowany pewniejsza kreska, studia anatomii tez niezle. Perspektywy miejscami za mocno rysowane - szczegolnie jesli chodzi o niektore linie konstrukcyjne i pomocnicze. Powstaje za duzo tzw. siana (np na rys 69) - wiem ze nie latwo tak rysowac ale najlepiej robic to jedna linia :)

Gnom to juz smakolyk :) - ladnie narysowany, czysto i schludnie, odpowiednia ilosc linii itp. ladnie widac forme - dobrze wycieniowany. Fajny rysuek. Sprobuj robic wlasne rysunki tak zeby mialy taka jakosc.

Jak masz problemy z imageshack to sprobuj z www.photobucket.com ja mam 2 konta - tylko dzieki temu nie mam dead linkow.

[Farvus]

thirdeye - jeśli chodzi o gnoma to naszkicowałem go lekko twardym ołówkiem i potem bardziej miękkim pogrubiłem niektóre linie, dlatego tak czysto wygląda.
Czasami jednak wolę przedłożyć szkicowość nad wysoką jakość. Dzięki za spory komentarz :D.

No. 97 - Life drawings.

No. 98 - Heads from imagination. I'm still not satisfied :[.

[armando]

My criticism for your self portrait from Oct 16 is you made yourself look middle aged, but you were born in 83. The reasons for this are thin lips, stressed naso-labial fold, hanging earlobes, and the hair line. Realize that this drawing wasn't a failure though, and use these types of features when drawing other middle aged people. My other advice would be to study ellipses, you're kinda just freehanding them in perspective, a trick to remember is that the long axis of the ellips is always perpendicular to it's vanishing point. Once you get comfortable with this your head construction will improve.

[van]

Studies are looking great, Farv. Keep rockin!

[Farvus]

armando - Yes. I look old on this selfportrait. I plan to do new one. Thanks for suggestion.

van - thanks.

Recently I've been practicing some animation. I know this is forum if for conceptart but I'll post some here.

No. 99 - Here I made few illustrations for my small RPG game. These were supposed to look cartoon-like and I'm quite satisfied.

[Farvus]

Nothing interesting today. Just male anatomy study.

No. 100 !!!! - Anatomy study.

[Farvus]

http://img437.imageshack.us/img437/4130/sk1018pa.jpg

No. 101 - some imagination drawings

[Farvus]

My last DSG - Portrait of an alien family.

No. 102 - Figure studies.

No. 103 - Leg studies.

[Farvus]

I don't have time for drawing today so I post some not so old digital paintings for internet RPG fanzine.

No. 104

No. 105

[Farvus]

No. 106 - Self portrait wih minor mistakes. As you can see I don't have happy face today.

[Farvus]

I will propably draw more with ballpoint pen. I'm fed up of pencil (for a while at least)

http://img336.imageshack.us/img336/3859/sk107108jpg4ly.jpg

No. 107, 108 - Studies from Hogarth.

[Farvus]

Are my studies boring or what? :upset:
Something different this time.

No. 109

No. 110

[ManiakS]

Niezly szkicownik. Widac, ze duzo pracujesz. Jesli nie czytales jeszcze ksiazek Loomisa to polecam wszystkie 5. Jesli przejdziesz przez nie z olowkiem (pedzlem) w reku progres bedzie olbrzymi, zapewniam :muscle: I duzo podgladaj innych :D
Pozdrawiam

[van]

Studies are not boring at all. :) Looking good, my friend.

[thirdeye]

Niezle, ciesze sie ze jestes nadal aktywny. Update'y sa regularne a to sie chwali, efekty twojej pracy juz widac. Co do studioow to rzeczywiscie moga byc nudnawe i pewnie nie bedziesz mial tyle odpowidzi na nie jak na inne rysunki ale i tak trzeba je robic. Mysle ze to wazna czesc nauki.
Pozdrawiam.

[Farvus]

whoami - mam książki Loomisa w formie elektronicznej. Najprzydatniejsze fragmenty wydrukowałem więc wygodnie jest z tego korzystać :). Dzięki za komentarz.

van - thanks

thirdeye - oczywiście będe robił dalej studia anatomii, perspektywy itd. Być może jednak powinienem tu tylko same wyczesane prace podsyłać.

I haven't posted for few days beacause I make website with my gallery and it takes lots of time. It's still unfinished. Meanwhile I made with ballpen some quick gestures.

No. 111

No. 112 - I started drawing wooden mannikin from imagination and noticed that it's much easier and faster to draw figure by constructing it from seperate and quite simple elements. While drawing I can always distort them to make the pose more dynamic. It's not a very big discovery but I didn't like to draw those Loomis' mannikins with very thin legs. It's more comfourtable when limbs have some volume. In the middle of process I can always convert some parts into more anatomically correct body.

[Farvus]

http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/3672/sk1133ay.jpg

No. 113 - My practice on drawing faces. These are done with soft pencil from some photos.

[Farvus]

Today everything from imagination and improvisation.

No. 114 - Doodles.

[Farvus]

No. 115 - Some anatomy studies.

[SirGreenSock]

There is a lot of improvement evident here. The last 3-4 updates especially look good. The faces and anatomy studies are especially strong. Did you use ref for the anatomy studies?
Keep at it!

[liam.c]

coming along nicely man !!!!!!

[Farvus]

SirGreenSock - thanks! These anatomy studies are from Burne Hogarth's "Dynamic figure drawing"
liam.c - thanks man!

I'm too tired for refined drawings so today posted some fast & random SF stuff.

No. 116

[Farvus]

http://img426.imageshack.us/img426/6916/sk1179gk.jpg

No. 117 - All from imagination. On the top there is thumbnail sketch for my E.O.W - Fungal Tunnel.

[Farvus]

My EOW entry - Fungal Tunnel.

No. 118 - Another studies from Hogarth's "Dynamic figure drawing".

[Blahm]

awsome to see another hogarth fan!! he is the man. Brigman is not worthy of kissing his feet haha. great no ref studies. it good practise for me if i try and draw a million faces in a multitude of positions Then studie some facial references. Then go back to using no reference for a while. Good work, keep it up!

[Fellah.]

Very nice studies man! Oh yeah good old Hoggy! Keep it up!

[Farvus]

Blahm - I'm learning from Hogarth a lot. I'll draw everything from this book soon :P.

Fellah. - hehe. If only I could hug this Hoggy :^^: for this book.

Back to basics.

No. 119 - No ruler of course :).

No. 120

[Alday.J]

Hi, Farvus ! Lot of good studies, here ! I dig the stance of your characters, in a general way. It's energic, I think ! You study from Hogarth ? Congrats for that, you're courageous ! Or I'm lazzy (laughs). :P
Cheers, dude !

[hamb6960]

WOW. . . Your figures are really comming along man. Good stuff!

[Farvus]

Alday.J, hamb6960 - thanks.

I want to improve my line control so I started to draw this geometric stuff. I have to be careful beacause there are parallel lines all the time. In addition lots of ellipses and different kinds of curves.

No. 121 - Third part of constructing. I didn't put much thought into it. These might look like some industrial areas from bird view :P

[Shinryu]

hey dude you got some nice stuff, keep working at it, alot of variety and improvment going on, more life drawing might help with your line control and stuff

cheers

[Farvus]

Shinryu - You're right. More life drawing. Thanks for visiting my crappy sketchbook :).

http://img428.imageshack.us/img428/3889/sk1228dx.jpg

No. 122 - Still life.

http://img428.imageshack.us/img428/9016/sk1234uz.jpg

No. 123 - Another still life from different views.

http://img428.imageshack.us/img428/8263/sk1247cm.jpg

No. 124 - Another Hoggy drawing. Arms studies.

[armando]

The no ruler perspectives are pretty accurate. Figure drawings are coming along nicely, just remember to draw some females too.

[mayshing]

Some lovely drawings on the figures. I like your perspective studies too.

[Farvus]

armando, mayshing - thanks.

I changed my mechanical pencil. New one is much lighter and I feel the grain of the paper while drawing with it. It helped a bit :)

No. 125 - Self-portrait.

No. 126 - Random doodles.

[Farvus]

I wanted to put back tablet till I get good at natural tools but I think I'll never be fully satisfied. That's why I decided to regularly post single speedpainting along with some pencil sketches (and I hope that I will be able to stick to it :^^;: )

http://img481.imageshack.us/img481/2290/sk1274vm.jpg

No. 127

http://farvus.republika.pl/speedpainting/sp13.jpg

Speedpainting. 13 - Alien

[Farvus]

No. 128 - Figure studies from Hogarth's book. I have only few pages left. When I finish them, I'll do more female drawings.

Speedpainting. 14 - It was over an hour and the result is terrible :S

[Hypronost]

what I love about CA.org sketchbook forum is how you can see an artist grow in skill.
It's very motivating to see these evolutions.

In your work Farvus it's very noticable. Great improvements.
One of the better sketches so far is the one on the top of this page, with the roman fellah.

Keep on postin.

[seth1]

Seeing lots of progress within these pages! keep on rocking....

[Farvus]

Hypronost - Wow. I'm glad that all the hard work pays back. I like the roman fellah too :).
Seth1 - Thanks. I will.

I did't post anything in recent days beacause I was learning a lot for driving licence exams and doing some urban planning for my architecture studies.

http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/3299/sk1292wh.jpg

No. 129

[Farvus]

No. 130 - Head, nose and eye studies done with dip pen. I can't get used to this tool so it looks terrible.

[Farvus]

I think I will minimalise amount of shading in my next drawings. What I'm trying to find all the time is compromise between 3d rendered form and lightness/freshness. It's something like in THIS (http://www.artchive.com/artchive/i/ingres/ingres_nogarola.jpg) fantastic Ingres' drawing.
For now I also try to avoid any comic-like stylisation. It's nice but I would rather experiment later when I know that I can always go back to more "traditional" style (if such exists).

Here's what I've done for today:

:right: Self portrait archive (http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=56803) (my last post) - Another self portrait. It's in my new thread for SP's

No. 132 - No ref doodles.

[Farvus]

No. 133 - Life drawing from bathroom.

No.134 - My right hand study.

[SirGreenSock]

Recent sketches look great, you left handed?
The bathroom study has a couple of skewed areas, but otherwise looks good.

[Farvus]

SirGreenSock - Thanks for comment!!! Yes, I'm left handed.

Can't reply without some sketch so here's new one. I tried ChrisMayernik's method of practice (it's in his sketchbook (http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=46634)). Used standard windows screensaver with images slideshow. 2 minutes for every photo (in screensaver settings) and 15 files in the folder which gave me half of hour for constant drawing. I had to concetrate on most important shapes. No details and great challange. I think I will try again next time :).

No. 135 & 136 - Ugly but I like experiments :P.

[D.Labruyere]

nice heads, very good for just 2 minutes :)

I like your hand studies, they really look like hands :)

[Gloominati]

uhh, that's a cool excercide, man!! Do many many of these faces and you'll improve faster than you think!! Well watch the proportions and the correct placement of features. If I were you I wouldn't care as much about if for example the eyes look the same way like on the photo but I'll definitely try to put the features in the right place as quickly as possible since this is what makes a face look "right".
Good luck mate, I am really excited to see more of this excercise

[dCepT]

Hey, man! Thanks for dropping by my sb :)

Good lookin' on your studies, man! The handstuies are nice! Clean lines!

Keep 'em coming!

d-C

[Farvus]

Haldor - Thnx!

Gloominati - Eyes are herdest thing to draw when I have only 2 minutes so a just mark their position :tihi:.

dCepT - Thanks. Clean lines is one of things that I'm practicing all the time.

No. 137 & 138 - New screensaver session. This time 18 photos / 36 minutes.

No. 139 - I wanted to slow down a bit so here is life drawing - wooden manikin.

[mull77]

Love the head and hand studies.....you can already see how much you've improved over the last couple of pages.

I liked the look of those industrial enviroments you started sketching. Thinking about taking them any further??

[Farvus]

mull77 - Thanks. Industrial enviroments are waiting in long queue for their turn :D.

No. 140 - Fast archi-doodle.

No. 141 - Life drawing of my shoes.

No. 142 - Screensaver session - 9 faces and 18 minutes.

[D.Labruyere]

ghehe, those screensaver sessions really are cool to look at :)

[Farvus]

Haldor - Thanks.

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No. 143 - New update in Self portrait archive (http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=56803)

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http://img421.imageshack.us/img421/7518/sk1445cs.jpg

No. 144 - No ref sketches. Maybe I'm too carerful while drawing... I don't know

[Farvus]

No. 145 & 146 - Female poses from Loomis.

[Farvus]

No. 147 - From Loomis.

No. 148 - No ref. I have problem with drawing clothes :P. EDIT: I changed "Levels" for this drawing. I didn't want shades to be so heavy :( (It's one of my bad old habits. Too much dark and everything blends in shadow. Then I darken countours and it looks even more heavy)

[thirdeye]

Damn I've missed those beautiful ladies you've drawn :) Really nice job with the Loomis referenced stuff in both recent updates. Yeah the clothes are a bitch. I have huge problems with drawing folds and wrinkles too. Understanding their physics halps a lot - they're always strained between some points etc.

[Farvus]

No. 149 - Mindless doodles. I think I should work on imagination (or is it rather desing) :P

I have a problem. After putting shades the whole drawing looses it's dynamism and feeling of lightness. In this one I tried less dense hatching but I don't know if it is good solution. Mabye I should avoid too much dark gray's beacause they hide contour lines?

[D.Labruyere]

those female poses are really great!

can't help you on your qeustion, sorry, but am no star in it myself :)

I like the doodles. When you start to draw aliens behind a keyboard I think you have plenty of imagination :)

[Farvus]

Haldor - Thanks for comment :).

No. 150 - Life drawing of clothes shop female mannikin. I won't use ballpen again. It's not very good for drawing.

[Farvus]

No. 151 - I tried to loosen up so - loose doodles.

[nightmare]

i like the looseness of your sketches, they show you are improving. keep on drawing (somethig i should consider myself).

[Farvus]

nightmare - I just didn't care if I draw ugly and the result was my last post :)

No. 152 - Some crappy perspective in ink.

[Farvus]

No. 153 - 3 Point perspective (fun)

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No.154 - New update in Self portrait archive (http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=56803)

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No. 155 - From photos. I don't have patience today :/.

[blkn]

nice, looks like you're getting a handle on things.. that lower right pose is excellent.

[Farvus]

blkn - thanks.

No. 156 - Another perspective.

[van]

Very nice perspective work, man. :)

[Farvus]

van - thanks! I'm trying to make every new perspective richer.

No. 157 - Industrial perspective. At the beginning I wanted it to be on the surface but some factory in huge cave looks more exciting :).

No. 158 - Anatomy studies from different photos.

[Hypronost]

Perspective studies are really nice.
I really like the Industrial perspective image in your last post.
Great job there. Lovely stuff, bring us more.

[Droopy]

the prespective studies good.
with those black and lighter lines.

there realy something

[Farvus]

Hypronost - thanks man.
Droopy - thanks.

http://img421.imageshack.us/img421/5391/sk1595sb.jpg

No. 159 - My hand is on fire... only no ruler perspective. I didn't know what place I'd like to draw so this one is a litte abstract.

[Farvus]

No. 160 - Not very succesful perspective. At least good warm up :P.

No. 161 - Heads and neck muscle studies.

[Farvus]

No. 162 - I have problems with head proportions all the time. I wonder if I ever learn how to draw them. Here is some Loomis study.

[mentler]

It is important to tackle one weak areas <> sometimes they are not really weak we just want them to be better and before long they are <> it is hard for most to focus on their problem areas so you are half way there

[Farvus]

mentler - I will do everything from Loomis about heads and I hope that I'll discover some small little (but important) things that I haven't noticed before. Thanks for encouragement.

No. 163 - Practicing head construction from ball. I have problems with finding right placement and angle for cheekbones.

[Fellah.]

Great studies, man - seeing your Industrial perspectives reminds how much i need to get into that. Cheers, dude - keep it up!

[Farvus]

Fellah. - thanks. I will do something else now.

No. 164 - Heads.

No. 165 - These are Guido Reni's paintings and drawings study.

[hamb6960]

Farvus man your stuff is looking so good! To me it really feels like you are developing more control. looks great! Can't wait to see more!

[Dan1989]

Those perspective studies really kick ass, anatomy stuff looks great, keep studying!

[yAdam]

Yeah man! Looks like you have been doing well, there is definately a lot of improvement since may... I like the reni studies you just posted. Keep it going!!! 8)

[Bennett]

Great looking loomis studies... a tip about yoru cheekbone problem, don't draw a hard cheekbone angle. 9.9 times out of 10 you never see them on anyone's face/head, just the implied plane shift from eye socket to cheekbone. My head studies started improving when I kept a few pages of actual heads lying around to use to keep myself honest w/ head anatomy, yet still using the loomis method of construction... hope that helps. keep it up.

[Farvus]

Wow. I didn't have so many comments before. Without you people I wouldn't draw so much as I do now. :yayca:

hamb6960 - With more control I can do better studies. With better studies my anatomy is better. With better anatomy my imagination stuff is better :). Thanks for comment.
Dan1989 - Thanks! Perspectives are fun.
yAdam - Reni is my new master :^^: . I wish I could have bigger reproductions of his paintings.
Benett - Thanks a lot! I will try it.

No. 166 - I have set a small still life. It's only chair + white sheet + dark pot but it can be in hundrets of combinations. I'll draw it as often as possible.

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No. 167 - New self portrait. It's in Self portait archive (http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?p=686657)

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No. 168 - Alien?

[Farvus]

Arghhhh.... I feel so sleepy all day :dead:. Coffee didn't work at all.

No. 169 - I took dip pen, "National geographic" magazine and sketched a bit from photos. To me it looks like total crap. Maybe it might improve my line economy or something :\

[osgoon]

nice. i like your figure studies a few pages back. and i like your life study above. good work. keep drawing!

[Magic Man]

Some good studies in here, continue on with these and you'll have no other way to go but up! Good going on those perspective studies, too few people give this important area real effort.

[Farvus]

osgoon - Thanks! I will do lots of figure studies soon.
Magic Man - Thanks a lot. Pespectives always helped me improve my three-dimensions sense so I do lot's of them.

No. 170 - Yesteday I was so sleepy that I went straight to bed. However I there was some small A6 notebook and red pen close to me. I thought that blue grid might look nice with red lines so sketched on two pages :P.

No. 171 - Morning doodle with still life. There was very poor light condition so I decided to do only linear drawing.

Merry Christmas :)

[thirdeye]

Hey buddy, damn I've missed the last few updates - you're still doing better with every update. The last still life looks great - doing line drawings only is also a great exercise. Keep it up !

Wesołych Swiat i szczesliwego Nowego - rysunkowego - Roku :)

[Farvus]

thirdeye - Thanks for dropping by. I think I start to like pure line drawings.

I'm going to draw some characters from XVII century (like the musketeers) so I played a costume movie "Cyrano de Bergerac" to take a closer look how everything looked back then. Then I started to pause in interesting moments and draw fast sketches of characters. There are even some fencing moves (but it was hard to pause on good ones).
If you feel that I should post only more finished drawings, tell me :P.

No 172, 173, 174

[Taj]

These quick lines are pretty sweet, keep it up.

[tullie]

Nice studies - your studies show a lot of attention detail. Look forward to seeing more.

[Farvus]

Taj, tullie - thanks!

Today some more finished piece.

[Farvus]

http://img439.imageshack.us/img439/5369/sk1756vd.jpg

No. 175 - Space station interior perspective. This time I sketched it with pencil and inked. Ruler used only to set up main lines.

[Fellah.]

Nice updates, man! All the musketeer stuff is looking really good! Cool line work! Keep it up!

[Farvus]

Fellah. - Thanks, man! I'll keep it up.

No. 176 - New perspective.

[Farvus]

http://img435.imageshack.us/img435/6530/sk177.jpg

No. 177 - Studies of some ancient greek statues :P

http://img435.imageshack.us/img435/94/sk178.jpg

No. 178 - Head planes from Loomis.

http://img435.imageshack.us/img435/2126/sk179.jpg

No. 179 - Here I used Loomis head planes to construct faces from photos.

[tullie]

OMG, how do you do it, I had ago at those loomis planes and gave up, haha. They were too difficult.

[taxman]

Great book you have there Farvus, you´ve been workin´ hard. I tried to give these Loomis head planes a go myself, but never really managed them. Well done. :)

[shyamshriram]

Great going mate :) keep it up ! its nice to see that u r doing head studies..its my fav. subject :)

[SirGreenSock]

Awesome work dude, your perspective and environment works are incredible!
Digging the plane studies, plan on doing some myself in the near future.
Your linework is clean and confident, I like that. Hatching could be tightened up a bit more, just try taking more time to create smoother gradients.

[Farvus]

tullie - I didn't notice that they are difficult :). Maybe perspective practice helped in this. Thanks for dropping by.
taxman - Thanks.
shyamishriram - I start to like head studies too. Thanks.
SirGreenSock - I'll try tighter hatchink. Thanks for advise.

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No. 180 - New update in Self portrait archive (http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=56803)

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No. 181, 182 - Head planes, skulls and a bit of face muscles.

Happy New Year!

[Farvus]

No. 183 - Today I didn't know what to draw so I started sketching some random shapes. This is the result :).

[Farvus]

I have new sketchbook. It has less grainy paper and it's very sensitive to graphite. That's why my drawings will look a little different :P.

No. 184 - Torso studies from different photos of sculptures.

Here are also still life paintings done in PS. I made them for Digital painting in PS (http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=47859) thread.

[Farvus]

No. 185 - Doodles. There is something in them that I always disliked in my sketches. I almost feel like I'm back to the beginning :(. Maybe it's bad day. I don't know.

[Miau]

hey farvus
thx for droping a comment in my sb.

you are doing great studies! i like the pen studies a lot.
keep posting, that looks promising

[Farvus]

Miau - Thanks. I plan to use only pen for longer time.

No. 186 - Morning doodle

[Isobel]

When I finaly was through your sketchbook(never been here before), I came to a conclusion....
I like it! Keep on doing al of this.
ande see ya around.
Kisses Liz
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My sketchbook (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=52786)

[Farvus]

Isobel - Thanks :)

No. 187 - Hand study again.

[brokk]

Cool stuff! The perspective drawings and quick sketches look really cool. Watch the proportions and placements in the hand studies, I dont know if you're using "Drawing the Head and Hands" by A. Loomis but its a really good book and the hand plans there are great.

Cheers!

[Farvus]

bRØk3n_sPiRiT - Thanks. I'm using "Drawing the Head and Hands" but I haven't reached hands chapter yet :).

No. 188 - Wooden manikin life drawings in blue ink (I changed it to grayscale). I'm very distracted today so you can see lot's of proportion mistakes :P

[hurricane]

awesome studies man !!

alot of progress, thats great!
i admire the drive!

cheers

[Farvus]

hurricane - thanks for comment :)

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No. 189 - New update in self portrait archive (http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=56803)

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No. 190 & 191 - Some anatomy studies.

[Farvus]

No. 192 - Life drawings of shop window dummies. I think I overdone the second one :P

No. 193 - Drawings from photos (fashion magazine)

[Farvus]

Two days ago my hard drive stopped working (beacause of age I think) and I lost almost everything :(. Hopefully before this bad day I saved all my gfx and documents on CD. I have also new bigger disk.

No. 194 - Crappy still life.

[thirdeye]

Sorry to hear about you HD.

Nice fashion magazine drawings.The still life looks a bit odd. I think you rushed it too much. Can't really say what I'm looking at :)

[Farvus]

thirdeye - thanks man. You're right about the still life. Sometimes I loose patience and start to make doodles instead of refined drawings. It's my weak point :P. However I returned to doing warmups and it helps.

No. 195 - I watched everything on sparth's gallery and here are some inspired sketches. Machines mainly.

[Farvus]

No. 196 - Some self portrait.

No. 197 - Organic perspective :).

[Farvus]

Yesterday I found at home four very old albums about olimpics. They all have lots of Black&White photos with sportsmen in action. Some are bad average quality but it's enough for fast gesture drawings.

No. 198, 199 - Gesture drawings. I concentrate here on dynamism so these are drawn quite fast.

[Farvus]

http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/1465/sk2006ij.jpg

No. 200 !!! - I'm beggining to love ink :).

[guggemmaneuver]

wow man... makes me wanna do some! (http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/1465/sk2006ij.jpg)

great studies on here... glad to see another ink-slangin fiend!

-joel

[Farvus]

guggenmaneuver - thanks. I'm drawing in ink to get more line confidence.

No. 201 - The bigger guy's arms are too long but I can't erase ink so I will watch out next time :P. I'm still not confident with anatomy (too many construction lines) but I have some idea for learning this. Just have to buy A3 paper.

[thirdeye]

I think that his legs are too short rather than his arms too long. Try drawing with one line or at least with less lines than now when working with inks. I think that when it comes to inks - the rule "less is more" applies :)

[Farvus]

thirdeye - thanks for advice. I have bad habit of drawing thousands of construction lines and after few minutes the character looks unclear and dark. I'm going to work on that.

Today I don't have time for long studies beacause of work. I sketched quickly what I saw behind my window.

No. 202 - A car, birds on the chimney (sea-gulls propably) and some old woman (she was walking fast so I barely measured the proportions :P )

[Jokisalo]

Ahh lovely, ohh i mean SIck sketchbook!!
I love your lines and figures. Lotsa goodies here man, those face studys, love 'em!!
More please?

[Farvus]

Jokisalo - thanks for encouragement!

No. 203 - Life drawing. Small cast of some cherub and empty cup. The composition isn't good beacause I decided to add lower part later :P.

[jtheanswer]

Hey, thkx for visiting my SB. I like your perspectives man, they r wicked! Your loomis studies remind me that I need to get back into it, and improve :[ Inks are really cool as well. I dont have any crits at d moment.

I will keep on visiting. :bashful:

[Farvus]

jtheanswer - thanks!

Here's some recent openCanvas madness.

[Farvus]

No. 204 - My cat.

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No. 205 - New update in Self portrait archive (http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=56803)
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[Farvus]

No. 206, 207, 208 - Sketches from olimpics photosh.

No. 209, 210 - Leg studies (Kchen demos).

[jtheanswer]

Sorry Farvus, can u explain me whats open canvas?? Thkx!

[Farvus]

jtheanswer - openCanvas is japanese digital painting program (although you can change language to english). First version is free for download. From HERE (http://davivsjapan.com/oC11b72.exe) for example. In openCanvas you can save your painting to event file (WPE file) so that anybody can import it to his OC and see your work from the beggining to end. There is also networking option which allows you to draw with other person on one canvas through the internet.

http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/3889/sk2112128lg.jpg

No. 211, 212 - I sketched quickly few chatacters with all my knowledge of anatomy and it looks like I still know only a little. The notes and marks here show the weakest areas that I found:
1. Stiff shoulders (or just strange).
2. Neck in unnatural position. Doesn't look twisted.
3. There is no purpose in arms position. Too straight so veery boring.
4. The shape of abdomen is unclear.
5. Too much construction lines.
6. Something is wrong with elbow edge.

I'd be grateful if someone could find more mistakes :). Meanwhile I'm going to draw some perspectives.

[Farvus]

Eh. No perspective. I almost can't sleep beacause of this anatomy today. I think I'd better learn it by drawing imagination drawings but with help of different references. I quickly forget most of the details after conventional study...
I will go back to pencil after some time.

[Farvus]

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[dCepT]

Damn man! You really push hard! I admire your dedication!

The musketeer piece rocks!

Keep 'em coming!

d-C

[Farvus]

dCepT - thanks man! I like musketeers painting too :).

Perpspectives. Quite improvised.

[Mindflaw]

Hey you're really going strong here with good exercises and studies :confident

5. Too much construction lines.

As a humble suggestion: Try to start out with pencil doing all the constructions lines and such and then go clean with the ink. Then erase then you'll see how much/ or little the contruction lines do for the sense of volume and direction. Thus you could plan a strategy to be able to draw with less construction lines from the beginning and while still keeping the full sense of volume direction etc.

[Farvus]

Mindflaw - Thanks for advice. I recently noticed that athough I study muscles at different poses, I can barely draw main proportions of body. Especially from different angles. Torso can be too thin or have strange shape and so on. That's why I'm going back to simple tube & box construction of body. Dynamic lines can be added later but when the pose is not interesting, they don't help at all. It's still just stiff character.

I don't have time for any studies for today so here's just small sketch. It a bit "shy" but I managed to concentrate on many aspects of figure drawing :).

[Shinryu]

hey mate, hows it going, alot of good stuff, great progression as usual, I really like the "Perpspectives. Quite improvised." batch, real nice feel, be cool to see more like that

cheers

[Farvus]

Shinryu - Thanks. I'll make more perspectives.

Another no-ruler perspective.

[Farvus]

OpenCanvas doodles

Pen sketches from reference.

[Farvus]

I draw only with pen to increase my line confidence. It may look worse than pencil drawings but I hope I'll improve fast.

Skull-man.

[tullie]

Wow, more people should comment in your sb, you got impressive work here. Sketching with a pen is a good idea, and daring. Those quick gesture drawings in your last post are looking good, will be interesting to see how they change the more you do them. Im really liking some of the lines as well.

These gesture drawing will highlight some of the weaker areas - like hands and feet. I find that really focusing on one area for a while can really help with this.

Your work from memory needs some more work. But I m sure you have picked up on that; like the face on the man you did in the recent post - his face looks a little too long - mainly the gap betweens is nose and mouth. Also, I just noticed that in you gestures you may need to focus more on the neck region.

Keep at it.
--Tullie

[thirdeye]

Nice ladies, you're getting better and better with the pen - keep it up :)

[Farvus]

tullie - thanks. I have to work seriously on hands and feet. Neck studies is also a good idea :)
thirdeye - I'm starting to like normal pen. It's much better than fine point pen.

From photos. Bigger drawings this time.

Loose inspiration from Thorgal comics.

Some enviroment.

[gmags]

Wow, your sketchbook is sweeet farvus. Those perspective sketch are so nice. Your going to be an awesome inker. Keep postin. :yayca:

[Farvus]

gmags - thanks!

Figure drawings from photos.

[blacky]

Nice improvement!
Thx for stoping by my sb
Dig your architectural scetches a lot, they are always interesting, have a neat composition and a cool style to them.
Was wondering if the musketierpicture from last page was going to get finished sometime, cuz its a nice subject.
I also like the way you captured torso of this (http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/6181/sk3002zw.jpg) guy. Keep em coming, would also like to see some architecural works taken to some more finished state.
So long...

[Farvus]

blacky - thanks! I study architecture but from time to time I like to construct something without much thinking. Just mindless perspective doodle :P
I'm not going finish painting with musketeers but I might make new one...

I have lot's of crayons at home so I decided to make some use of them. Here's some enviroment.

[glikster]

Ok, great stuff in here!
Seriously sweet pen sketches...wow...
That kneeling guy in the 2nd to last post looks like he has a really long/large arm. I'm guessing a bodybuilder, but it still seems too long....
...and.....
The last crayon environment really doesn't seem to work. I think it's lacking a color harmony, if that's the right word for it.

wow, in this SSG, I'm way out of my league.