Beca's new and (hopefully) improved sketchbook.

[Rebecca]

New stuff on the last page

[-sideshowbob-]

welcome to ca O_O :yayca: * waves back *


My god I must have made like, a bizillion mistakes in this one


i still like it - her face looks good too :} :P that jaw could be slightly adjusted to make her face bit thinnner . but its cool anyways .. :teeth:


p0st more ! >_<

:painting:

*waves again* :dur:

[Rebecca]

Thanks for that :rendered:

[Rebecca]

Damn it :O I hate when my yahoo mail pops up in the middle of this window

[Rebecca]

oh yeah, this:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/paintingdad.jpg

[ChaoticKnight]

great work, especially with value and likeness!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/xtuni.jpg
She looks familiar.....

[Rebecca]

thanks she is christina aguilera, the photo I drew it from was just a snapshot of her face so I had to make up the hair :rendered:

[~Faust~]

Great handstudies! From the portraits i like the first one the most, dunno why perhaps its looseness. You certainly have a feeling for anatomy when it comes to drawing from refs. Try to implement that in your other drawings and they'll get a lot better! A very nice start, nonetheless. :)

[hurricane]

nice pictures !

but presonally i dislike the manga pieces, doesnt do anything for me at all :)

but the rest is great !
cheers!!

[Rebecca]

~Faust~ Thanks, thats one of my personal favourites.

[Rebecca]

Another abstract one:

[Rebecca]

loads of sketches here: sorry 'bout the really bad quality

[Badger]

Stop using that flash on your camera becca or i'll come up there! Don't think i wont!
Love the hand studys and you realism, i'm jealous >:{
Good old jimi's eyes are going in different directions
Your pencils have a really lively line going on, i'd like to see some of that carried to the paintings.
I best get back to painting too...
-Badger-

[AndrewLey]

Hi Rebecca - just returning the reply Karma :)

You have a nice drawing style - you get a sense of the characters and feelings of your subjects

Keep it up :)

[Mr.Blonde]

i truly enjoy this (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/xtuni.jpg) portrait, especially the hair, it is rather superb. very nice. I also like this (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/dad.jpg) a lot, the lines are great. I strongly suggest you continue in the direction you took with these two pieces. nice book.

[Rebecca]

yisss sirr :D LOL

[Rebecca]

here's one I finished about 2 minutes ago.

[Rebecca]

Took about 10 minutes!

[MoP]

New one is very cool. The pencils and colouring are both well done.

Some things to watch out for:

- The hairline on our right is a little high, I think, it's making her skull look a bit oddly-shaped.

- Eyes are a little mismatched, the irises could be located more cohesively to make it look more like she's staring at something. Her left eye seems to be looking further to the left than her other eye, which is the wrong way round if she's meant to be focusing on something.

- Her right ear seems much lower than the left.

- The angle of the features like the eyes and ears are implying a different head angle than what the jaw is suggesting - her eyes and nose imply looking to the side and a slight tilt, while the jaw seems to be aimed directly at us.

Nice stuff so far though, I really like the contrast you get with your pencils - I'm always afraid of going that far :\

Keep it up!

-Paul

[Rebecca]

Thanks MoP! That was really helpfull :rendered: I'll keep that in mind.

This is a portrait I dug up, I cant remember doing it, I think I done this when I was 13. Because I only recently learned how to do the jaws properly. Heh heh :bashful:

here it is,
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/oldpic.jpg

[Rebecca]

Heres another sketch----> ditigal thing I made :blah: wasnt very satisfied with this one, but I'll post it anyway:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/redhead.gif

this is the sketch i made it from:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/portrait.jpg

I think it was better left as a sketch :(

[Zergaloth]

:x Impressive hands and faces at this post : May 31st, 2005, 05:53 PM
Really, keep practising them, don't stop drawing them - you'll get better with every face you draw.
And you know what they say about hands, being able to draw them is being able to draw anything.

[Rebecca]

I improved the girl with a tattoo on her face, thanks to the people who replied in the finished section :)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/flowetattoo.jpg

[karma0zero]

i think the highlight on the bottom lip needs to be softened a bit, and the red shadow under the lips looks like smudged lipstick. the reflected light in the eye on the right side of the picture needs softening too, and the thin strand of hair you added doesn't fit with the rest. and a few more highlights further down the hair where it catches the light going down to the neck.

[Rebecca]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/windinherhair.jpg

[Rebecca]

okay, I asked for help on the fabric :er: , so sorry if it doesn't look right :nohope:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/stevo4.jpg

[Rebecca]

Hello Again.

Done this in maths class today, it's my friend Maryham. This will will be her last day in scotland because she is moving back to Pakistan, so I will be giving her this picture to keep. Thought I'd scan it.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/Maryham.jpg

took about 5 minutes. done on a5 paper.

[Rebecca]

this is a doodle i done in modern studies. When I get bored....I begin to doodle
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/modernstudiespic.jpg

[Rebecca]

A doodle in french class. I done two. the other one is on my teacher's wall. I was surprised that she wasn't angry at me fro doodling in class.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/frenchdoodle.jpg

[Rebecca]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/jadewarhol.jpg

[Zergaloth]

Funny, I like those last ones. Remind me of something...let me seeeee....

[Rebecca]

loads more:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/thing.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/smeegle.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/sad.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/nicolechristmas.jpg
^My little sister nicole ^

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/nicole.gif
nicole playing ps2

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/mind.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/mental.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/megan.gif
^megan easton^

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/maryanne.gif
^Maryanne Hill^

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/Image20.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/geishagirl.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/freezin.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/eyemusic.gif
eye music

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/doodle.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/dresses.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/different.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/concentrate.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/amsey.jpg

[mentler]

When you are focused you are doing some nice images but there is a real lack of consistency here ~~ try to set aside a time that is your time to draw and pick a space where you are going to do it, then try to do it every day. Block everything else out listen to your favorite music and put your mind into drawing. Pick a subject like bugs or birds or plants and draw them till you feel like your know what you are drawing then move on to something else ~~ to key is to draw everyday.

[Siobhan]

Becca's back and with a new sketchbook! Dang, everyone's making a new sketchbook..it's like a fad..I think I'll make one too!
ANYWAY...You have lots of newness here along with some other faces I recognize from your previous sketchbook.
The new pics are awesome, let me say..(the chick with the crazy bugeyes cracks me up^_^ ) Your faces are great..but what kinda pencil are you using? just curious..But you got some realistic expressions goin on that are hard to capture..keep it up and I'll be back!~~Sio :teeth:

[Rebecca]

Yaay, thanks for the comments :canadian:

mentler Thanks alot for telling me that. I have noticed that I have only been spending about 15 minutes on each sketch, and they usually end up being just line drawings. and because of that I think my rendering skills are actually getting worse!! :$ but I dont know if that can really happen or if that's just me :rendered: . Thanks again. (away to study etc)

Siobhan Yaay Siobhan :} !! So you like the bugeyes, eh?! LOL, it reminds me of smeagle :bashful: Um.. I use 4B's most of the time, but I sometimes use HB, (the reason why the lines are so dark is because I ajusted the contrast in psp. (my scanner was being gay) >:{ )

[deez]

i like the way you draw,
portraits are great but i wanna see some other stuff as well!

[Rebecca]

heres one I finished about 8 minutes ago.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/Treegirl.gif

aaah!.. The Bravery are the best :)

[warmaster]

The shading on your last few look a lot better and neater, but the lines don't seem as consistent at the end.
But dont listen to me I can't draw a portrait anyway. :nohope:

[Rebecca]

yeah

here a painting i finished about half an hour ago. It's my friend Maryanne. I drew the sketch on a moving bus on the way back from a Francis Bacon exhibition,
the painting took about an hour.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/maryannewatercolour.gif

[Rebecca]

oh yeah, heres a sketch I done of her again. problem is, it doesnt really look like her because I started off with a line drawing and i added tone without reference. really hard!!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/maryannevalue.gif

this was a mental sketch i did with leftover paint.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/Imagemaryanne.gif

[Sems]

You have some reallly strong pieces in here, especially the jimmy hendrix and hand studies. You seem to draw really well when you're diong actual people, I liked the one of the olderman sitting looking the oposite way but when you coloured him his hair seems a little detached from his head, keep posting more :)

[Rebecca]

Yeah hair sucks. I hate hair. bah!

pic of moi. being an ass. my hand is manky because of the paint. >:{ omg I remind myself of my DAD ! :x
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/meeagain.jpg

heres anothe painting I did today:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/suntreesilverandshit.jpg

and this is the image I created with the leftover paint:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/Image1.gif

[cretin]

Great work! I like the way you do faces. Those hand studies are good, too. Good stuff, can't wait to see more!

[Rebecca]

Thanks,

I done this in ms paint. from scratch. not the best I can do :^^:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/untitled.bmp

[Rebecca]

hmmm, for some reason the BMP files turn out tiny >:{ :nohope: :\ :O

[Rebecca]

OK here it is JPEG format:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/purplefaces.jpg

[Zergaloth]

Hi. Still checking this.
The BMP looked better when it was small, really, because the pixels are gone.
If you want the same size as in your last post, maybe try working on a GIGANTIC MSpaint canvas... :)
And if it doesn't turn out the way you would've liked it to do, you still learned something. Learning is kickass.

I love this one = June 17th, 2005 07:34 PM but I have to agree with Mentler. Just before you start drawing, you should pause a few seconds and think about what you're going to draw. Otherwise, you'll just end up putting lines on a blanksheet of paper, which will turn into yet another one of those sketches you're always doing. (not being specific here, just trying to make an image... is that correct english?) It's like drawing at the telephone, you're not focussed.
You'll eventually learn from that as well, but one might learn more and faster if one's focussed. Try drawing things you've never drawn before. Or the same things, from a different angle. (try, for example, drawing people from bird's eye or frog perspective) Don't bother about how bad it looks, it's called improving your skills :wink:

But you're doing fine, and you just draw what you want, I'm not here to tell you what to do. Oh and I'm coming to Scotland soon, so where are you? :hatsoff:

[Rebecca]

Herro Zerg!! Thanks.

..and dont WORRY! your english is FINE, It's perfect. It's better that mine!! :dur:
Dont be scared to tell me what to do.I mean your not....! I really appreciate the comments I get here. It's called improving your skills... :wink:

Kirkcaldy, youve probably never heard of it, I didn't untill I moved here. LOL, honesntly :S

Hey, THEE Jack Vettriano grew up here! :O

[flip the master]

dang yo your shadings like Awesomemus!! yeah I like that word. whenever I shaded recently it craped on me and got all smeared :nohope: . keep up the work!

[Zergaloth]

Kirkcaldy.
Pronounced 'kercoddy' meaning 'castle on the hard hill' ... yep :)
Birthplace of THE Adam Smith, famous economist. Don't know him, but then again, I don't know any famous people at all.

You got some nice old buildings there, but theyre messing it up by planting those huge things right in the middle of the 'Lang Toun'. Too bad. Ooh and it's on the Firth of Forth, I've been IN that water! Woo.
Ah here it is, just above Edinburgh. Been there too. Amazing castle. And the gunshot. Yay. Holiday memories.

Well, I'm heading that way again this summer, I'll surely pass by Edinburgh again, so beware.

[Pixeldragoon]

Not sure this has been said, but Ithink you need to focus a bit more on Facial structure.That one pic you rendewred looks good, but you have solid black outlines which make it look weird. It also seems you might need some work on Facial planes themselves. Try sometimes to draw what you know instead of waht you see, because your eyes are never 100% reliable.

[dadu]

hey, lovin the ones you posted on may 31
i would suggest blocking in big shapes before you start goin into detail and rendering
but ya know, just keep pencil and hand and its all good

[Zergaloth]

A little something on the rendering. My teacher told me that I have the same problem as you, black outlines on faces make it look quite flat. A little trick to get it more round is to draw the outline of the head rather soft, and things like the nose, lips, eyebrows and chin (which are closer to the viewer) harder. It works like a photograph, if the nose is sharp, the ears will be a little blurry.
It works, you know. Also get your shading to follow the direction and curves of the skin. Skin doesn't go straight upwards from the eyelid to the eyebrow, there's a lot of little curves there. And cheekbones come out better if you draw the shading like it's the skin stretched over those bones.

First one on Juny 15th is super, btw, didn't notice be4.

[Dan1989]

Nice sketchbook! I would like to see more variety, most of the drawings here seem to be of female faces (not that there's anything wrong with that), just try drawing people of different ages/gender/ethnicity.
Try sometimes to draw what you know instead of waht you see, because your eyes are never 100% reliable. Sorry, but I strongly disagree with that. If this were true, wouldn't we just say "screw drawing from ref or anatomy, I'll draw only from imagination"? You have to train your eyes to see correctly and translate that into a drawing. Besides, it encourages the use of preconceived notions and symbolism which is a basic fault that is hard for many artists to overcome anyway. Feel free to kick me if you think I'm being too harsh =P

[Rebecca]

Dan1989 Yeah, Youre right I do need more variety. The only reason I draw just faces, is because I -really- bad at figure. I mostly draw females, because I'm -really- bad at drawing males :( I need to study, like you, so I can be as good as you :bashful: ta for thee comments.

ZergalothYaay! you know it!! Heee! I mean of course you know it :wink: (duh!) *slap* J/K.
The Adam Smith Theatre is a good place. well my Bro was in a play there. he sucked..paah! :}
And yeah, I've been in the forth too :nohope: convinced me that I needed swimming lessons...badly.
I can see edinburgh from here, "Hello Edinburgh! :teeth: "
And yeah thanks for the comments on shading also! I need to work a bit more on the face. I haven't been learning anything latley, just been ...drawing them .

dadu Glad you like em! :teeth: :) I 've tried that blocking in thing before, didn't like it , too messy. hmm.. Thanks anyway.

Pixeldragoon Yeah, thats a good Idea about the facial planes. will try that soon. But when you said I should draw with my mind instead of exactly whats infront of me. I have to agree wioth Dan1989 on that one. :blah: I think the only time you should start doing that is when youve mastered everything about facial anatomy, perspective etc. And believe me, I am a LONG way from that. :dur:

Well thanks to al the helpfull comments I've been recieveing, I decided to try somthing different.:)

here a tree from my back garden:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/tree.gif

and another womans face :S :nohope: I done this while watching Revenge of the Sith. I know it doesent look at all conected to the film.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/starwars.jpg

[Jokisalo]

You've got really nice start down here. You are good for that age, way better than i did on your age so keep bushing!
Good luck with that stuff, remember to keep it.

[bumskee]

hi, good start.. You make me feel old. :) , I agree with inconsistancy though, some of work is absolutely amazing like the hand studies and the faces in the first post. but sort of slacks off slightly. You obivously are very skilled and it shows. So look forward to seeing more and oh also agree with dan1989, I thought it was "draw what you see not what you know" :)

cheers,

Min

[Rebecca]

heres some stuff I did from the media colouring book thread:

from Yaso Kuuhl's lines:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/wizard.jpg

from Dave the Original's lines
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/army.jpg

from Wotton's lines:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/roboduude.jpg

from CiaPet's lines:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/deadduuude.jpg

THANKS FOR YOUR LINES EVERYONE!!!! :teeth:

[Rebecca]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/alien.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/loneley.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/guitarman.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/poorguy.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/smallshoulder.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/weelassie.gif

[Badger]

Dont' make me come up there! Your studys are solid, but your mind keeps making obvious mistakes... try drawing just the shadow of an object, it will make you get a better idea of form... infact when you are drawing from your mind add some tone... Oh i dunno.... I'm just a fuzzy lil badger.
But draw out the major forms... before sketching the details.
Great stuff apart from that. Your colouring onthis (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/army.jpg) shirt is impressive.
-B-

[Rebecca]

Fankoo Badger babe :teeth: yeah I really need to practice shading, I can't do it no more! aaauurhg,

well those last pics were for the media colouring book, so I might ad some tone later, thanks for thee advice :^^:

[Barts]

Hey there

Kirk Hammett! you drew kurk, that is so kewl
nice work one thing i think u need to work on
which is somthing i do all the time is not to make
your lines really thick because in real life some things dont
have definite lines, like eyes and lips, it tends to really
flatten them, but yeh stay focus enjoy your drawing keep
the good work up.

Cheers, tyler

[Rebecca]

yeah, I'm a 'tallica fan :tihi:

loads and loads of people have mentioned that out line thing in the past, thanks for the comment, I shall practise not doing that later :wink:

[Zergaloth]

More Metallica-pics please.
MORE!

[Rebecca]

they are on the way peeps, cool zerg, U like 'em too? :bashful:

okay, heres a few fast portraits I done, from life.

self portrait: I didn't have the confidence to add tone to the fabric of my shirt :nohope:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/selfportrait.gif

and my lil' sis jade, sleeping, she was really sleeping here, This drawing is HEEUUUUAGE!! so it was really difficult.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/jadeportrait.gif

[Pesmerga]

Hi Rebecca. I like your last piece, it has a nice feel to it.

[Rebecca]

A rather pathetic self portrait. really doesent' look like me. It looks like someone I know, but not me. the eyes are too big and the shape of my face is wrong.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/me.gif

doodled this whilst playing tombraider, the hand was hard to do.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/lara.gif

a self portrait I done today, I like how it turned out, It looks like me a bit, I think the eyes are too close together though, but I managed to get my hair perfect here. I'm glad. :rendered:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/selfportrit.gif

I changed the colours on this one, just to make it look cool. I just changed the colour esspecially for my avatar, but I decided to post the full image here.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/flowrtattoo.jpg

[Dan1989]

I like your new avatar ;) and don't feel bad about some of your self-portraits, atleast you're doing them pretty early on. I can tell you are trying to make the self portraits look like YOU, but sometimes that can work against us, we start drawing what we think we look like instead of what we really see. The most beautiful head/figure is a correctly drawn one, focus on getting the shapes and form correct, and likeness/beauty will fall into place.

[syris]

ay becca, nice pieces, i think your self portraits are improving alot up till the last one, that one is really nice. keep up the good work!

[Sems]

your really going good here, but ive noticed on some on the first page you keep making the same mistake, when your drawing portraits no straight forward or straight to the side but inbetween you seem to be making the cheekbone furthest away come out too much (if that makes sence) but your going really good :)

[Deathwish]

this is a doodle i done in modern studies. When I get bored....I begin to doodle

Don´t we all? :P
Well anywho, some of your drawings look really good, some need more work thou..
but you´ll get the hang of it soon, hopefully me to some day..
*keep up*

[Rebecca]

Deathwish yeah, I doodle during exams as well, I need to stop that.

Sems thanks 4 replying, I think the cheekbone is what is stopping it look like me :$ and also because I moved whilst drawing that, so the cheek bone stuck out more after leaning my head forward slightly, so all the proportions were fucked up. :upset: . welp, thanks again for your comment!

syris thanks a lot, man

Dan1989
heee ^__^ thanks for your reply. I have been doing a lot of sp's latley, it's good practise. I can see I am improving, :bashful: .

och.. I'm so jealous dan1989. you were born on the same year as me, so we are exactly the same age, and your sketchbook is pure genius. makes me want to study some more (like I have EVER studied :blahblah: lol )

wel thanx..
------------
I have done few more self portraits, the first one looks A LOT like me, I can't believe it. I done it on a5, so I held it up infront of my face, and my cousin took a picture of me. it looks weird. hee hee. I cant scan it right now, it's past midnight so every ones in their kip. I'll post it tomorrow. night night everybody, ^_______^

[Car2nist]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/dad.jpg

this one stands out most to me... i like this style.

just clean it up a bit, and it'll be a very nice style.

[Rebecca]

hee thanks, I think a lot of people like that one, i'm glad :teeth:

[bumskee]

Hey, I really like the self portrait, the one where you got your hair right. Nice lines. keep going. :)

[Siobhan]

wow gurl, you've been workin on your shading! It's hard to get interesting shading. You keep on improving! Bravo! my fav is the self portrait from the 8th. I'd like to see that one colored! I'll be back!~Sio

[Rebecca]

Hehe... thanks a lot people :)

this is another sp. the eyes are small, and I moved so my mouth is wierd. em the shadow underneath my eye is the wrong shape. That happened because the light in my cousins vivarium came on and changed the whole light.

but it looks a lot more like me, I can see my brother in there :teeth:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/spme.gif

[Rebecca]

oh and I forgot this funny sp :P

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/mytougne.gif

[Rebecca]

Damn I really should include all my images in one post :$

anyway, just a quick outline:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/linear.jpg

[OleOlsen]

hey ja...very nice!!

i really like the colored sp of you which you are using as your avatar...this has really some outstanding colors....so just go on and practice every day..i do too ;)
greetz!

[Rebecca]

thanks! My avatar looks like me?! :teeth: cool, its not me actually, it's no one, lol, but thanks anyway

[Rebecca]

OKAY! I have practised a bit form loomis' books:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/Moreloomis.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/Loomismanakin.gif

there is more, just my scanner is packed in again >:|

[grisalisan]

hi there!
I like your latest girl-sketches, especially the last where you only drew the outline was great! it´s good to see that you are progressing!
keep on drawing!

[Rebecca]

thanks grisalisan :teeth:

heres a quick drawing. I always weem to get the eyes wrong in this, aaaurhg :^^
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/girlwithapearlearing.gif
took about ten minutes

[mentler]

You go girl ÓÓÓÓÓÓΦLoomis is a good place to start <><> never could get to excited about those disk pelvises °‡°‡°‡°Φbut the stick figure approach is really good practice and rewarding in terms of understanding action!!!

[Rebecca]

Thanks Mentler :) Yeah, Loomis is great, he makes it seem so easy :er:

anyhoo, some more:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/walkandmeditate.gif
tried a walking girl. I am quite please with it. *hugs Loomis Book* couldn't have done it with out you, man! :}

now you can really see how gay my scanner is being :upset:

[MUNIZ]

Very nice work. The study of the Vermeer piece is genius! Keep on posting your work, it's inspiring to see someone work so hard. I need to get off my bum and do exactly the same!

Great Work
Muniz

[Rebecca]

Thanks!

heres another SP, i am actually quite proud of this one, It looks like me for a change, I love my expression on this, I didnt notice it untill I seen it in the drawing, but here:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/selfportgif.gif

and heres a begining of a doodle, wasn't going anywhere, so I gave up..... :blah:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/hooojeye.gif

[Cernew]

Hey, was looking through your sketchbook, and I really like a lot of you fasion style drawings (the ones with only a few defined lines and stuff), but you should really start getting away from such thick outlines of faces and try not to sign you name so big (like in your latest self portrait), its destracting. But good luck! I like your stuf!

[Rebecca]

LOL, I was just trying that out,

heres another loomis thing:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/girlwithagun.gif

the self portrait from before...now with TONE!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/selfportraid.jpg

I gave up on this sp:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/selfmess.gif

uuum......yeah :(
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/pissedoff.gif
screw the world

[Rebecca]

here, i tried hard with this, i can see that there are a million and one mistakes in this >:|
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/success.gif

[Sopor+Aeternus]

hey improved indeed, totaly dig your avatar pic :)
keep it up!
:cheerleader:

[Gloominati]

Hm, I looked through your sketchbook and noticed one thing at once. I have the impression, that you feel quite uncomfortable with your pencil. Some of your lines are lookin very unconfidently and drawn reeeaaallly slooowllly.
My advice: keep cool, make the pencil your friend, try to trust your instincts. Maybe you should study more anatomy, so that you can be sure that what you're doin is right. There are many rules concerning anatomy, if you lern and pay attention to them, the stuff you draw will 1st look good and 2nd more loose, and the people who see your stuff will know that the artist who drew that knows what he does.
If I am wrong with my speculation, just ignore me :) .
Draw, draw, draw! There are many good ideas in your sketchbook, just work on your technique, keep at it and you will do it!
good luck!

[Crane]

hey! thought i'd get outta bed for once and do some commenting.
*yawn* tired... back hurts..bah

Well i'm seeing lots of improvement or your getting someone else to draw them... which one is it? hu hu...

I have some crits. learn hand anatomy more than anything. in that pic that says I am so pissed off, you have the thumbs the wrong way round....hehe. but i agree with screw the world. good choice of words.
I love the eye on its own somewhere up there. jealous! looks pro lol

you should do animal portraits!! or ninja ones!...can't believe badger still hasn't posted my ninja badger..psh...who does he think he is defying me...
well i'm off to draw.. got a good pic going, complete with anatomy! gasp!!

[SicFrost]

nice drawings, but i think the best way to fix/work on your proportion is to block or grid the parts, such as face, divide it up in to the most basic parts, starting from halfway through...eyeline...nose...chin...and so on, use more anatomical refference(anatomy books, bridgeman)

...it helped me a bunch :blahblah:

[Zergaloth]

I think it's important not only to point out one's failures but also one's improvements so... keep drawing at this speed, Rebecca! Really, that's where I always fail, I don't draw as much as I should, maybe even not as much as I would like to, though it's completely in my own hands.

Keep going on those self-portraits. It's a very good subject, as you always have it with you (in the reflection of a train window, in a puddle on the street, in a mirror at home...) and because it is you (and we all think we're ugly), you'll look better than when you'd be drawing someone else.

Lips and eyes are the parts of the head which make it look realistic, and you're doing great on them. Your eye-doodle is splendid! Draw lots of loose light lines, and then take a darker pencil and go over the right line again. You'll get the feel of the "right line".

Oh and if you look like this and like Metallica, I'd (bloody) marry you. :bashful:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/selfportrit.gif

[Rebecca]

Zergaloth Awww! :teeth: . well, My self portraits don't look much like me, lol, and I have kinda went off Metallica, and moved onto Alice in chains! But thanks for the advice.

SicFrost are you talking about faces? LOL, it helped me a bunch too, thanks

Black:neon:Chaos
LOL, i did notice the thumbs, just didn't expect any crits on that one, heehee. thanks for the advice, I was thinking about drawing a ninja yesterday, but I changed my mind, I love ninja movies too! :) thanks

Gloominati my drawings look as they have been drawn slowly? hmmm, thats not true, I shall practice anatomy some more soon, thankyou.

Sopor+Aeternus Thanks alot :teeth:

I am away to do practise some MORE loomis. :teeth:

[Badger]

you should do animal portraits!! or ninja ones!...can't believe badger still hasn't posted my ninja badger..psh...who does he think he is defying me...
well i'm off to draw.. got a good pic going, complete with anatomy! gasp!!

Quiet Tony... don't make me come over there! I'm smaller than you!

And i'm smaller than you rebecca!

But i shall attempt to crit despite my height.
Right, i think you should try working in pen, it gives you much more confidence when putting down lines. Also try grabbing a permanent marker and drawing only the shade of something you see. At the moment your drawings don't seem to have a huge amount of mass and weight.
Nice work on bodys you got going.
Keep it up!

NICE EYE

-B-

[Cobi]

You have incredible talent! There's been so much improvement in your faces since you started your sketchbook. You're already way better than me!! Can't wait to see what else you do ! :)

ps, cute picture. goof! :dur:

[Rebecca]

Badger I am only taller than you by a few inches!! lol. thanks for the idea, I will try that..right now actually! :star: thanks for the mammalian reply.

CobiThanks!! :} . Are you talking about the tough picture?! LOL. thanks

[OBX]

Great stuff. Better than some of the things i was drawing wen i was ur age. Dont stop... and try to make ur lines flow more. Think about everyline u draw... take the time to go through an entire drawing but do it slowly, try ghosting a line b4 u put it down to build ur confidence (ghosting is drawing the line without touching the paper). Ur at the stage that just takes time... but wen u start to hit things that u really like it'll be sooo worth it! U have a sense for shadows too, i can see the use of core shadow and highlight quite well... something i myself have yet to understand completely. Wen u do a figure. Try and draw the whole thing without picking up ur pencil and then erase out the lines that dont feel right. Just let it flow. The basics may seen boring... but get them down pat, its worth it. And keep up the life drawing... its like ur loading ammunition into ur mind that u can recall and fire onto the paper for later drawings. keep it up.

[Dan1989]

Great stuff becca, your vermeer study is great, that one is hard, I've been working on copying it for about a week and haven't finished yet >.< Alot of people are complaining about your line quality, it could be better, but for the most part it's decent, trust me I've seen worse. The one with you shooting the rod made me laugh out loud (sorry ;) ) We all feel like that sometimes, keep up the good work!

[Rebecca]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/elfinthewoods.gif

'twas made for the DSG

[Kondor]

the last post is awesome!!

[Rebecca]

Thankyoo!

heres a really small doodle I done with a mouse in psp. really quick!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/lilguy.gif

[OleOlsen]

heyja!!!

i took a quick look at your thread again. just wanted to say that your potraits look really keen... but maybe u need some more practice in drawing from imagination. but who does not? i also like your colors and the last creature is really a cutie!
greetings

[t e m p i s t ~]

I really like your last two pics That little monster is totally adorable!

haha, almost looks like he got scared and wet himself!
The forest pic has a great choice of colors, that one really caught my eye... i'm just going crazy 'cause her arm is so tiny, just had to mention it. Just got to expand it and get rid of the space between her inner arm and her body.

Other than that it looks great :D

keep it up, you're really progressing!
MORE!!!

[Rebecca]

t e m p i s t ~ Hehe, thanks a lot, he is cute isn't he, I was going to add tears and make it look as if he was crying, but I suppose it looks even more adorable without! heee ^_____^

and oh..I Improved the arm, the sniper, added more sun, colour, and made the hair finer. thanks for the advice on the arm, I wouldn't have noticed it before!

OleOlsen thanks pal! I shall try and do some imagination drawing once my scanner is fixed! see ya :)

heres the new version:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/elfinthewoods2.gif

...is there any more crits on this? I really want to make the most out of this pic, I enjoy making it. cheerrio

[princeofhappiness]

nice sketches, keep em coming, i especially like the girl with the pearl earing, nice shading on the earing!! and your self portraits are well drawn. I recommend practicing sketching very sorta wildly letting the pencil move freely, without losing direction or shade. Its important to lessen the stiffness, and to conquer the pencil. Most important of all, dont stop :D

[Danilo]

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y149/recevic/nouse.jpg

here ya go

[sly's hand]

As far as the girl being hunted is concerned I like it but, and I would not be critical if you didnt ask , the neck and the face as they are conected to the top of the torso does not appear natural. The face is looking right along with the neck but the body is facing strait causing both parts to not look attached when I noticed it anyway. I do like the composition and the light from the trees could be limited to the background depending how you want it set up.so that the black shadows and the laser stand out more and so that the light does not seem to go where the laser is pointing. Uhhh ....hell i think that is it ... I saw some characters with guns in the background and I think that this part of the reference section could greatly help (Guns have anatomy too :P )

http://www.wgcshop.com/
http://www.impactguns.com/

if you want to continue drawing guns anyway. Before i begin ranting... too late, I'll say it looks like you have fun with what you do keep it up.

sly
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"The only thing more accurate than incoming enemy fire is incoming friendly fire." Testers mentality and Muphy's law.

[MAD WILL]

Ilike your post, you need studies a little things like me, but you have a good stuff.

[Magic Man]

Ah, this sketchbook disaster isn't so disasterous after all - maybe a little sporadic but definitely improving.

I know i sound like a broken train, but I'm glad you're heading towards the realism and understanding value and the fact that in real life, seldom are things determined by lineweight, but by the contrast between light and darkness with a fill color - a thing find myself doing now more than ever is looking at things all around me and thinking "what are the midtones, higlights and shadow hues?", you can define a lot wit just value.

I'd personally say a couple of areas you really wanna lock down are lineweight and anatomical proportion and correct anatomy. Good luck with it!

m

[Jokisalo]

nice portraits i definetely love 'em!
keep fighting rebecca, looking nice :)

[Malavon Despana]

Plunged through your sketchbook throroughly and I see that improvement has occured since the first line of work ;) . You have tried many interesting aspects and drawings from life which is great indeed. Much potential to be seen here, I assure you.

Faces tend to have problems in their shape and eyes also, but they will be perfected as you push further ;) . Confidence is of the essence, eh?

You have sense of coloring, absolutely so, glad to see colored stuff here along with the black&white works. As for the last picture, it's awesome! There's good feeling in it and the shady form with the weapon pointing at the great looking girl gives alot more of the overall feel to the whole work. Great stuff!!
More works like that and you are sure to transcend to something exquisite, I'll wager ;) .

Keep it up!

[Pesmerga]

You're improving girl. I hope you're not feeling pissed off anymore :$

[peterhurman]

your self portraits seem to be getting better. keep up with them, id say i learned as much from self portraits as anything else.

[Calle_]

i really like that stylish stuff, huge lashes tatoos etc. love to see more =)

[Crane]

what.... what?!?! whats everyone on about... shes a noob... a NOOB!!

*backhands badger* shutup furball *backhands him again*
yeah.. thats right! don't mess with the black neon! I have rage!

-------------------------------------------------------

this is very hard for me to say....but great progress... there i said it... god..

I got some crits on the last pic, tho its looking very nice, especially the hair.
well you obviously gotta make the trees more solid and the ground more ground like.
I dunno if thats her hair or a head band, but if its hair make it less shiny, and from seeing where the light is coming from her ear shouldn't have highlights, and overall her skin needs some texture and not look like silk.
that thing on her face, looks like a cut, so if it is make it more cut like lol add a little dirty red, maybe some blood down the face. and prob some more cuts over her body as it would add to the fact his trying to get away from the laser dude.
and bring the collar bone back from the shoulder just a little bit.

I suck at crits i know.. but i did it! :nohope:

[Rebecca]

Black:neon:chaos Ah shurrup Tony! Dont make me slap you again! >:{ and thankyou for the crits, and yes, I agree............you do suck ;) I tried to make the light come from all directions, beacuse there will be some light poking through the branches of trees etc. hence the pointless highlights here and there. And yes that a hair band

Calle_ Thankyou :)

oven g love hee ^_^ my self portraits dont really look like me that much, but thanks !

Pesmerga
yes, I am still feeling a bit pissed off, beware!! :wink: :dur:

Malavon Despana Thankyou so much!

Jokisalo Cheers

Magic Man I'm working on it, and thanks ;)

MAD WILL yes, I do :S ! and thanks for replying

sly's hand Thanks alot for the help! Guns can make very interesting situations in a picture :^^: cheers

Danilo ah, yes, those pics have motivated me to study some more :) ta

princeofhappiness
thanks! I have tried very hard to let the pencil move freely, I find it hard, :S but I'm practising. Thanks for the motivation :)

[Frank the Ninja]

Nice! I love your girls. I would like to see them more finished though, or at least shaded. I think that helps you learn the countors of the face. Keep it up.

[rollb82]

i like the route you are going, but my only advice is to worry more about the structure of what you are drawing. try to work on getting gestures before putting down solid lines. keep up the great work.

[Rebecca]

HELLLLLOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

after a very long time without posting, or drawing, I SEEN TO HAVE WENT OFF DRAWING, REALLY GETTING ME DOWN :( but I think its all coming back.....


this is what I have scanned so far...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/MuiMui.gif
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/MuiMuidetail.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/piratekids.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/smeagain.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/selfp.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/funnyrobot.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/madtree.gif

[jharford]

hey nice updates,
especially liking the mia girl picture.
definately seeing an improvement in your work.

[Rebecca]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/Loomishead1.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/Loomishead2.gif

sketchbook crapola:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/pointlesscrap1.gif

[Rebecca]

cartoon A2 stuff

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/dbz.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/jullietteandzeelicks.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/ginger.jpg

[FL0]

wow, i love ur shading. this last girl with the micro is very cool. the studies are good too..

[Rebecca]

Oh, and...

FL0 Thankyooo! You think MY studies are good? really?? :}..cheers

rollb82
Merci! yes, I really find studies difficult..but I have been inspired by dan1989 :) thanks

Frank the Ninja Yeah...I went through a stage of just not shading in..but I am hopefully making a bit more of an effort now :) thankyou

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[Rebecca]

sketchy randomness....

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/astudy2.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/astudy1.gif

[Aether]

Nice work , those last studies are just great! keep it up!

The ear on that last one looks a tad too small otherwise i like it

[Rebecca]

Ta, Aether :rendered:

BAM!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/madmancloseup.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/madman.jpg
^^Inspired by another artist's drawing on CA.org. Anyone know? It looks annoyingly like it :er:

and sketch crap:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/doodle2.jpg
^^some starwars, neverwinter nights and el coro influences in there.

[Rebecca]

((Bump))

Is is OK to ''bump'' your own thread?????? :$

[van]

((Bump))

Is is OK to ''bump'' your own thread?????? :$

No..it's not! Don't do that...or the sketchbook police will get you. Seriously, it is against the FAQ.

So, anyway, you have some great studies in here...great work all together. I just want to see more. Draw. Go!

[Pierre]

Yo, Rebecca, don't bump your thread! Just keep on working hard on your drawings and you'll see a progress. I would say you should work on your anatomy - get Bridgeman he's really good and you'll unterstand really quick by his lectures how the body works and is held together. Also try to work on your lines. Imagine while drawing as if you were sculpturing. You have parts coming closer to you and other that are far more behind - this affects the line quality as well. As far as that I like what you're doing here. Keep us updated and have fun!

Pierre

[dCepT]

The studies are great! You just gotta remember them when you do your own sketches and doodles.. Take the faces on the two male persons in this one (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/doodle2.jpg), their facial features are a bit messy... you could maybe start with a study and do one on your own with the same pose, and check for errors after.. Just to help your eye :)

Just two cents...

On another note, your rendering is pretty darn good! I like this one (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/smeagain.gif) alot!

Keep 'em coming!

d-C

[B-Man]

So I like this and just as said before, by smart talented people, your studies are good. And theres something with line art that i dig!

[Rebecca]

EEEK! Sorry :(

and thanks all :)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/avril.gif

Well, this drawing is for a friend, I'm not really a fan, but she's quite fun to draw :) unsure of what i'm going to do for the background, maybe add some cool watercolours or somthing.

[van]

That one is looking really nice. :)

[noiion]

Hey these Pictures are really nice! I can see you've come a long way from when you've started. The improvements are quite amazing. You are really strong with the faces. My only suggestion is to concetrate a little more on the rest of the body. Unless ofcourse, all you like to do is face portriates. There's nothing wrong with that. Thanks for commenting on my stuff. Keep it up.

[Rebecca]

Thankyou Van, Noiion! :)

okay, a couple of arm studies on A3
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/astudy.gif

[mentler]

Nice portrait <> pretty girl <> arm study is and arm study <> try to concentrate on the mechanics more and the rendering less <> draw, draw, draw and let the rendering happen where it is needed <> I love to get involved in the little stuff myself <> the problem is my brain stops <> when that happens I know if is time for me to move on to something else

[maknien]

You have cool stuff here.
Really nice shadings. That portrait for your friend is really good looking. It has good depth on contrast. Those shoulders look just a bit boxy, but it's a face portrait right :P .
Also that MiuMiu girl truly catched my eye. It is soo pretty. Great face, but when you look at the hands and arms, you should maybe spot something to fix.
Most of the head studies are looking good also. Draw more more more!

Keep on.

[Rebecca]

maknien Hee, thanks! Yeah... I had erased that hard a million times, couldn't get it right, so I just left it. And thanks alot :)

mentlerAaahh! Funny I was just looking through your thread there, It inspired me to do this:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/astudy3.gif

thanks !!

[rollb82]

i like the studies you started postings and i can definitely already see a change in your work and how you are going about drawing things. keep up the good work.

[Rebecca]

Thanks Roll :)

DONT CRIT THESE 'CAUSE THEY ARE OLD :tihi:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/jadelilies.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/aredhairgirl.gif


this one is recent, so you can crit
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/hands.gif

[Craig Houghton]

The drawing of your friend from yesterday is so frigging good it stopped me dead in my scrolling and I just stared. I love the nose, lips hair.. I'm not so keen on the way you shaded the lower face/jaw (the upper border of the shaded area doesn't seem to follow facial contours in the way I would expect it to), but everything else looks fantastic.

Awesome!

-Craig

[camilografix]

you got a great sketch book here and your only 15. keep it up your gonna be great! damn im getting so old.

[shyamshriram]

Nice Sketchbook ! u r imprvoing ! keep it up!

Thanx for ur kind words on my Sketchbook :)

[Badger]

Damn you bectica!
Your rate of improvement is increasing...
But i'm still manlier! he he
Nice stuff recently, try and feel round the shapes, sculpt them, if thats not too arty.
Catch ya later sweety.
-B-

[Rebecca]

Badger Heee thanks Badger! I replied to ure book :blah: and your more manly than me? Huh?....thank god! :P

shyamshriramNo problem mate, and cheers

camilografix thankyou

Craig Houghtonthanks for the advice pal

[dadamafia]

i am really impressed by the attention to detail you put in your work. ill be in here more often.

[Crane]

But i'm still manlier! he he

-B-

wa-....WAT!?!?!?... you... manlier, thats funny.. no seriously, you should be a stand up comic... wow.. my sides are splitting.

how about i get the ancient aztec god of shut the hell up, huh!

and yea yea.. your stuffs getting good... there i said it.. quit bugging me...

[Saise]

Witam (Hey) :D Nice, very nice & atmospheric concept arts and a lot of anatomy study (so popular in CA Sketchbooks :D) Good arts.
Greetingz.

[Rebecca]

Saise aww thankyou :)

Black:Neon ARE you a giant stone head? ARE YOU?...ARE YOU? (pmsl!!) and thankyou!

heres a small cartoon doodle, i have done more studies etc, just been busy with exams, i havent had time to scan them all, but after the exams there will be a shitload of images for yous. I am supposed to be studying Abortion Ethics right now, so sSHHHHH!

here:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/Sadcouple.jpg

[Rebecca]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/Sadcouple-halfcoloured.jpg

[Rebecca]

new sp from ref...DAMN! why does my scanner have to suck so much, >:{
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/anotherspofme.jpg

[Inkfish]

creative pictures here, i wish you would update more often :)

[Rebecca]

Thankyou Inkfish, so do I, so do I :)

heres a colour practise thing, its from one of Idiotapathy's threads, you colour in a square with nothing but the clolours that you associate with the four seasons, heres my shot:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/theseasonscolours.gif

[broken lizard]

As Told By Ginger? You're fifteen and you watch that? And do fanart? and on another note, go study.

[Rebecca]

Broken Lizard, I dont watch it, I watched it when I was little, and I don't do fanart, I just done ONE single drawing that was copied it from a pic, and i'm not a fan, oh my god, why do you just assume stuff like that? I do one one drawing of Ginger, and now I watch it, and do fanart?!

and incase you havent noticed, i said i have done some more studies, but I have spent all day doing etchics in nursing practise, and french vocabulary. And on another note, go study. :O

[Rebecca]

heres a sp from the sketch above that looks NOTHING like me at all. :)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/paintingofme.jpg

[bumskee]

nice stuff you are progressing nicely! I had a smile on my face after seeing the dragonball sketch.. hehe, meh been so long since i last saw anything from it. Keep up the studies and the SPs. :bashful:

[Rebecca]

Thankyou bumskee, My dad asked me to do that, I was getting a bit upset cause I thought I was ''losing my talent'' after 3 months of not drawing at all, so he said he'd make me a cuppa coffee if I drew it. So I did! and it got me back on track. :) and thanks again.

I love doing these litttle colour squares, i might try some skintones later!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/morecolours.gif

[Bad Brownie]

Well, I was glancing through your sketchbook here (always nice to see other girls' work!)
and I noticed that you've made quite a bit of progress since your first posts...way to go, that's what I like to see!

I really, REALLY love your color squares. I am a bit of a bright color nut, and I love the style.

I think I read somewhere on here that you are only 15? How cute!! You make me feel old. ; P

well, you're on the right track, keep creating.

[Rebecca]

Bad Brownie, thanks! It's good to see other girls on the forums :) so you like the colour squares huh?! Glad to hear it. and I really like your profile pic, it's funny! and thanks again :^^: (I'm 15 and 11 months, actually :P :wink: )

Yup! MORE colour squares, this time skin, but I just realised how hard it is to do skin tones :(

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/SKINTONES.gif

[Mikko Voipio]

Hello. You've got some really nice drawings going on here. Some problems with the overall mass and proportions. I suggest you study more anatomy.
But you are young as hell so you've got all the time in the world to become a really good artist. I like the red haired woman on this same page. See you.

[Idiot Apathy]

heres a colour practise thing, its from one of Idiotapathy's threads, you colour in a square with nothing but the clolours that you associate with the four seasons, heres my shot:



Uwaaaa ! That was a bit of a surprise, stumbling across my name like that! I like your squares, they seem a lot more alive than mine did. They are pleasant to look at.

You seem extremely busy nowadays huh? All these exams and studies, I hope some of them are art related! Your progessing too well to give it up :P.

You should drop by the coloring book thread, or the new one I'm trying to get rolling in my signature.

Great to see you doing well, take care and keep it up!

[Rebecca]

Idiot Apathy Hey there! I will certainly look at your thread, nice to see some new things coming out :}, and I was looking at the progress that you've made with colours, and it motivated me to work on that as well!

...And yeah, exams, exams, exams, three weeks 'till my exams, oh no :( I'm practising for my art exam today actually, I have 6 hours to do a self portrait from life, LOL, so I made this in about 1 hour:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/Madpainting.gif

as you can see, I really am trying to do the skintone, theyre fekking hard, too :O the hand is a different colour from the face, and the face has too much blue/green around the chin, and it looks like she needs a shave :( And because this drawing was made like, 10 months ago, the proprtions are very bad.

Placeboast Damn, yeah, I do need to study!! Thanks for reminding me :)

[Cyanid]

nice anatomics, good thing to see you working on colors too!
keep that up!
That colorsquares are nice to look at, now apply them to your pictures!

[Ernesto Nave]

can anybody tell me how to post your stuff onto a thread like the sketchbook thread?, I'm lost... HELP!!!

[Lazy Gun]

Looking through this sketchbook I was going to say you need to proportion the faces a bit more like some of the earlier ones look a bit bug eyed but looking at this last page I can see you have already started to work on that and it's looking sweet. I would say though that you have to work on the form of entire figures a bit more I mean there arn't alot of full figures in here and the ones that are look a little bit out of proportion. On the whole though very impressive, you have aced your tonal works they are really nice just work more on the bodys. Looking forward to more updates.

[Rebecca]

Lazy GunThanks a lot, I'm glad that you can see progress. It keeps me motivated :) cheers.

Ernesto NaveHey it's piece of cake :) you just need to find an image host, like Photobucket, I use photobucket.Then You need to set up an account there, it's free, and copy and paste the url into your sketchbook thread. :teeth:

CyanidYeah, I cant wait to start putting colour into my pictures, but I need some more practise. Thanks for replying :)


I have been looking at your thread Idiot Apathy. I have started the little activities, and I can say, they are good fun to do. But I didn't want to post late, so I'll post them here:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/valuecolour.gif
Heres the colour/value thing, I used purple, cause I like purple. :) But I used a mixture of blues and pinks in there, to make it look a bit more interesting, and I included the reflecting light around the bottom. But I dont think that its as good as the greyscale, because when you look at ithe coloured sphere in grey mode, the reflecting light almost disappears. But, hey, I only gave it one shot without starting over :)

heres the grey scale:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/valuecolourgreyworld.gif

the next one was the coloured blocks. I enjoyed doing this one, took about 35 minutes, and this was the first one:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/colouredblocks.gif

I found the reflecting light from the floor really hard! and I was stuck with where to put the shadows.

[Magic Man]

you need to work on your hands and feet, at this point they are very weak and this is also obvious how you try to hide them. Don't hide from your weaknesses or else you will never improve.

[Idiot Apathy]

Jez, seriously where are you going to school; it really sounds brutal. College isn't even that bad for me right now.

The exercises from the Peer Project Thread turned out really nice. There isn't any due dates or lateness, it's supposed to be open the whole time, all the activities going on at once. So post them there! You'll get more feedback and others can learn from what you've done. I'd appreciate it :).

Good job on the Color Spheres, your values are really pretty close. The reflected light was a bit rough huh? I think you got the idea of the exercise though, too often value is forgotten in colors. I like your colored blocks as well, good job on the values but watch your intensity; most of the blocks are the most intense on the back darkside. They are different colors so the light reflected onto the back would appear differently on all of them. I.e. Red light on blue might dull it a bit or even turn it closer to blue violet, but of course it would raise the value a bit (it's still your dark side though!). Blue light on a blue block would raise the intensity and still of course the value (adding light!). Hope I'm making some sense...

Your shadows are just a bit odd, such confusing things aren't they? Generally with one light source the lines of your shadows from different objects should run in the same directions. Right now it's almost like several lights. Anyways, post in the Project thread and when I have more time I'll see if I can clear some of it up with pictures instead of clumsy words.

Looking through your sketchbook I've notice that there is a lot of "banding". I.e. the shadow side of your yellow block. This is probably because your saving as a .Gif, you'd have better results with a .Jpeg.

Oh, P.S. I don't think you'll have much trouble with a self portrait, you've already done some very nice ones. Good luck! Go get 'em.

[Rebecca]

Ah, Thankyou Idiot :P

heres a little, factory, type thing:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/perspectivething.gif

[Rebecca]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/perspectivethingtone.gif
I don't think I did so well, in this. Gonna go paint :dur:

[Marjolein]

WOW rebecca! you have a really nice sketch book! :D

[Rebecca]

Marjolein Thankyou so much! your reply just cheered me up!! :} cheerz.

heres a couple of paintings I did, spent about 2 hours doing both. Gee, i really need to save up and buy good brushes, mines are all too big and chunky to do small details.

the first one:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/Purplehairedgirl.jpg
actually very un happy with it, I had the ear in it originally (gawd, I cannot spell) but I kept on making mistakes, and the paper was getting very fragile with all the lifting off I was doing to it. My brushes were just to big to be able to do it properly :(

this is just a quick face i did with the left over paint. :) took about 10 minutes
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/leftoverface.jpg

as you can see, my anatony is very bad indeed.

[Lazy Gun]

Ooo cool building concepts something I suck at lol.

[arechiga_tony]

you have a lot of stuff...thanks for the comment on my WIP thread

[Rebecca]

A nice light sketch:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/ballerinagirl.jpg

and one for the media colouring book:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/Image9.jpg

[Rebecca]

some loomis studies:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/loomis2.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/loomis3.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/loomis1.gif

and that self portrait again, with half the hair done:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/aselfportrait.gif

[Rebecca]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/loomis4.gif

[Rebecca]

Another loomis study, wow these are just pouring out:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/loomis5.gif

and a very un successful sp:( :
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/aselfportraitred.gif
my face is too long, and my eyes too droopy...

[B-Man]

Hi Rebecca!
Nice studies and the hands are geat! I love the page with the nose detail and spine, it's a nice layup.
:}
Cheers!

[Ni*]

you obviously enjoy drawing so the only bit of advice i'll give you is to practice it, and as i think magic_man said, practice your weaknesses, since people will draw what they get most success in, for me that's faces and torsos so i'm now looking at legs, hands and hips. If you start that habit now, you'll be amazing withing a couple of years...

oh and work with your school classes, put everything into art projects and design work and you'll benefit by learning far more than you need to to simply pass an exam, trust me.. i'm a teacher :-p

good work here though, remember to use construction lines to set up the studies, it will help with proportion. and ask your CDT teacher to give you some 2point perspective examples or an example of how to construct freehand drawings (those are quicker for getting ideas down)

keep it up

N

[Rebecca]

wow! Youre an art teacher!! I hope that your not one I know, I've been to a lot of schools :$ thankyou for the advice :)

[iambs]

wow....i am new here and i look at your whole sketch book and you can see the evolution of some of your skills......mostly the things you like to draw......but like i say to all the artist i know....."even if you hate it force yourself to draw it anyways, because weaknesses only hold you back from what you can truely be"

so practice on what you hate to draw or what just annoys you to draw and it will help you as an artist all around.

but this is a very good sketch book.

that was my 2 cents.....now only if i had a scanner :bashful:

[ATLAS2900]

Variety is what I see in this sketchbook. You have come a long way since page one. You have a good eye and I think that you are moving in some really good directions. I must say I like your use of color.
Keep it up

[Rebecca]

ATLAS2900 Thankyou for the motivation :}

iambs Thats good advice, I will definatley do some of that tonight, feet, perspective, and hopefully anyting else that i need to work on. thankyou so much :) and... welcome to CA :teeth:

heres a thing I drew during the commercials between Dr.Who ...I'm such a nerd, lol! :dad:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/snakesglasseye/aliens.gif

the contrast of the girls face has been taken out by the flash

[Smith Wesen]

Awesome stuff! Makes me jealous being your same age and being on a lower level than you art wise.. I like your form and shading, something I have problems with. I demand more paintings though!

More I say!

[Idiot Apathy]

Hey, fix your host already :p, sign up for another photobucket account or something.

[Rebecca]

yeah I know :(

[BlueMech]

:( I was going to come look at your art but it's all bandwith exceed'd!

[Rebecca]

i have a new sketchbook... i dont really get this band width thing, i had to get a new account so i had to upload all my images again :( thats just pure poo...so the link to my new sb is in my sig

[Idiot Apathy]

A free photobucket account allows 2500mb of bandwith each 30(?) day period. Because you have so much stuff right here it takes up a lot of bandwith. It will reset the next time the 30 days rolls over and everything will show up again.

Not sure if they will care but you could just use multiple accounts from now on.

[Zergaloth]

Or try imageshack?