Blahm

[Blahm]

Yay! i finally got a digi camera! Now i can share my art like the rest of ya.

First a little about myself. I am 23 and i just started drawing 3 months ago. Before that the last time i drew seriously was in middle school.

Ill start with some of my older stuff and work my way to present.

i appologize for the quality of the pics, i suck a cameras.



http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/kripto666/P1010001.jpg

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/kripto666/P1010003.jpg

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/kripto666/P1010015.jpg

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/kripto666/P1010004.jpg

[Blahm]

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head studies


http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/kripto666/P1010027.jpg

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/kripto666/P1010038.jpg




http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/kripto666/P1010020.jpg

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/kripto666/P1010014.jpg

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/kripto666/P1010019.jpg

[Blahm]

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/kripto666/P1010037.jpg
no ref
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/kripto666/P1010024.jpg

[Siobhan]

Alright! Looks like we got another anatomy junkie!^_^Nice start. On the first post tho, I had to tilt my head! I like the anatomy studies a lot. Creepy faces...and the last head pic has a very interesting angle.You got good skills for someone who hasn't drawn since middle school. All I can say is keep drawing and I'll be back! ~~Sio :confident

[Blahm]

here is a consept inspired by Un paid employment section of the forums.
Wanted to make a light infantry guy. dont laugh pls.

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/kripto666/infantry.jpg

[Blahm]

here is a logo i just did for my brothers buisness. I had to draw and paint the speaker with my mouse. I cant draw straight lines with the mouse.

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/kripto666/sd5.jpg


and a life drawing, sry for the quality my camera is sucking.
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/kripto666/life.jpg

Sioban: Thanks! hope to see you again.

[Blahm]

here is some faces i did with photo ref.


http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/kripto666/face3.jpg

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/kripto666/face2.jpg

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/kripto666/face1.jpg

[Blahm]

here is my first sculpt attempt ever. I tryed the human skull because i wanted to get a better understanding of it. It helps ALOT. I used Anadomy for the artist (ricter) for reference.

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/kripto666/skull.jpg

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/kripto666/skull3.jpg

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/kripto666/skull2.jpg

[dashi]

hey nice book
skull looks cool...working with it will help your portraits as well
and work with body anatomy too
dig your first posts and the studies and such

[Blahm]

Dashi: Thanks! Yea, i want to eventualy model the whole body in clay. It helps soooo much with drawing.

Hogarth study



http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/kripto666/hogarth.jpg

[Blahm]

some hogarth study

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/kripto666/hogarth2.jpg

[bengonzalez]

The sketches and studies are comming along nicely. Quick Question. What is the skull sculp made from? It looks like beeswax. If it is I would love to see the process when you cast it.

[camilografix]

wow youre stuff is pretty good considering you havent drawn since middle school. keep up the good work.

[Bubstar]

Nice rendering technique there Blahm. I have to agree with Camilografix your stuff is coming along nicely since you have not drawn in a while.

[ashemoto]

You need to keep at it and keep at it


You are getting there ...and very nicely too




Ashemoto

[Aremah]

Good stuff here. I admire your perseverance and I see good things in the future for you if only you keep it up. The sculpted skull is quite impressive, too, since I wouldn't know where to start with that. :)

[Blahm]

bengonzalez: Thanks alot! The sculpt is done from super sculpey. And it probly wont get casted beacause i dont know how.

Ashmeto: Thanks man, i will.

Bubstar: I apretiate it alot. I am fond of the sort of Germanish rendering styles.

Camilografix: Thank you!

Aremah: Thanks for the comment! I will never give up!! argh

Here is a face from picture reference. The photo is at a wierd angle sry.
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/kripto666/goldfinger.jpg

[auto_matt]

i think you are on the right track. i m a beginner too so perhaps i m not the best person to give you crits but i think the first thing you should improve your lines. it would make your sketches much nicer.

bye and just keep going.

cheers :vodka2:

[The Iconoclast]

You're suffering from a bunch of 'beginner mistakes' which is good. Why is it good? 'Cus it's easy to correct 'beginner mistakes'--just draw more!! =D Your biggest issue right now is line quality. Try making long, smooth lines. Think twice about placing a line on the paper--what purpose does it serve? Try to see the big picture.

Keep drawing dude, good stuff! You have a healthy mix of sketches and other mediums. You may want to throw some paint into the mix, though :wink:

[Blahm]

The iconoclast, auto matt: Thanks for the crits! yea i have been somewhat aware of my bad lines recently as well. I have been useing pens alittle to try and work it out.

Here is some i did just now using no reference.

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/kripto666/noref.jpg

[Rookie80]

Nice Studies, I like the First ones and I like to make people Funny ;)

[Ferg]

I like what you've got going here. I can tell through your sculpture and drawings that you have a good idea of objects in 3d space, but I think your linework is selling you short, as the kids say. A lot of your marks are very short, and your longer lines are very light and unconfident (is that even a word?). I've been working on the same thing in my work the past couple years. A few excersizes you can try that helped me:

Draw a series of dots on a piece of paper. They can be along a straight line or scattered all around. Start at the first dot you made, and attempt to draw one single, solid line from the first to the last dot, stopping at each dot. Between each dot, aleternate the line from 100% dark to very faint. So you'll end up with something like this:

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/linesandsquiggles.jpg

This is not unlike the ancient chinese mind-game known "connect the dots".

I've found this really helped me develop good line control and helped make me a lot more comfortable with making what I wanted to make. As you can see, I'm not very good at it on the wacom, it's hard to do on a no-resistance surface... but on paper it's easier heh. Anyway, give it a shot, hopefully it'll help you. (I didn't come up with this excersize btw, it was taught to me by a grand master chinese shaman doctor by the name of Chunder)

Another good way to practice is to just draw a spiral on the paper. Try and keep each line equally distant from the previous layer. This helps develope basic control, and it's really fun because you can see your progress pretty quickly. Doesn't matter how big it is, doesn't even have to be a spiral. Just a simple set of rules that allow you to focus on making a very specific line without having to worry about anatomy or lighting or anything like that.

Anyway, hope this all helps :)

[artmaker]

I like the guy with the hood very much.

[Blahm]

Farg: That sounds like a great excersise thanks!! I apreatiate your input. i will definatley try that.

artmaker/ rookie: Thank you kindly.

Sorry for not updating in a while. lazy.

Ok, here is some refed heads

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/kripto666/port21.jpg

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/kripto666/tux.jpg


Self portrait. ignore the legs on my face, i tend to draw over stuff.
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/kripto666/SP.jpg

refed
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/kripto666/1935.jpg

no ref
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/kripto666/deadboy.jpg

Edit: OMG! im sry about the quality of some of the pics.

[Blahm]

i just did my first painting ever today! here it is.

acrylic on canvas paper
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/kripto666/1stpaint.jpg

[Blahm]

That Fat Kid: Thanks for the encouragement! Yes sometimes i spend hourse looking at Weses sketchbook. It just blows my mind haha. Your making really good progress yourselff BTW.


Well while everyone else is out getting laid or drinking/smoking ( living ) on saturday night i decided to do some Lion anatomy! hurray for me.


http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/kripto666/nov122.jpg

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/kripto666/nov121.jpg

Lately its becoming very hard to not get side tracked. I can hear the video game store beckoning me from the distance. The beer in the supermarket quietly whispers my name when i walk by. I am having a strange time these days.

[Blahm]

oops forgot my wannabe cast drawing. These are not easy.

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/kripto666/nov12.jpg
its not nearly done. starting to get a little annoyed with it. Makes me want to be in school haha. :dur:

[Blahm]

uh oh, you guessed it


http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/kripto666/tiger.jpg

[That fat kid]

hey blahm, cast drawings are great, they really help to understand how light and shadows work to describe form, not to mention how they help people draw from life and work on proportions....i hope you hammer out a few more of those and keep sketching!

the fat kid

[Blahm]

Fat Kid: yea , i am going to buy some more casts pretty soon. Mabie a full bust this time.



more studies.


i rendered this one out a little more. i like it.
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/kripto666/nov17.jpg

doggy rowr
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/kripto666/nov173.jpg

figure
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/kripto666/nov172.jpg

mofo
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/kripto666/nov171.jpg

[Farvus]

The lion's head is great. Good subject for practice :D.
I think you should try to change the hatching direction more in order to describe every part of the form (roundness for example)
Keep it up of course :).

[Zord]

Blahm, cool to see you posting a lot. The cast drawing is coming out. I agree with that fat kid, doing more certainly helps. I have a question, where does one go to get casts? I wouldn't mind doing some myself. But back to subject, keep working man. And then improvement will be even quicker than it is now. Cheers!

[Blahm]

farvus: thanks ill try that!

Zord: Thanks! you can get casts at www.staute.com under the 'drawing cast' section.

[HEROIC]

heyyyyyyy Blahm,
A fresh SKetchbook, yay

ok, heres a thing, ur lines from the beggining are getting better,, BUT

Use a darker pencil HB, B2, B3, B4

try diff pencils, and try do drawwww everything u find and see intersting,. like if u see ur skull interesting with its shadows, do some drawings of its shadows. the sculpture may not be right, but u are practicing for ur lines and shadows. Get some good anatomy books.

Start drawing from life, DDraw ur room, ur cup, kitchen, stuff,, just lines, n shadows. then if u want do some shadow works too. Draw people, draw animals, draw objects. draw ur self.


Start drawing ur hand, start BY UR HAND, then use ur anatomy books, and see how ur hand works,
skeleton, muscles, abit detailet, just a bit, then ur hand again, draw draw

Next time u want to take a pic of ur drawings, plzz DONT CONCIDER UR SOCK IN O_O ;p jkss
and plzz Edit it in PS. just higher the contrast. THank u :)

Keep it up,

HALF **CHOP CHOP**

[Blahm]

Heroic: thanks for the suggestions! Sorry about the sock in the that one hehe.


here is the cast, im giving up on this ... mabie
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/kripto666/nov252.jpg


and a couple from ref.
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/kripto666/nov251.jpg

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/kripto666/nov25.jpg

[Blahm]

more of the same.

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/kripto666/nov271.jpg

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/kripto666/nov27.jpg


ive figured out and easier way to draw. not on computer paper.

[timpaatkins]

Hey there, thansk for chekin in on my stuff, yea anatomy.... Is next on my list! My "Threaded Studies" will hopefully be a testement to that!

Diggin your SB, especially the (Is it vincent price, or maybe CLarc Gable) portrait. Its good to do valuestudies in greys!
I also really like the idea of doin a series of animals roaring/being generally agressive, I think that could translate well into a piece!

Cheers TIm

[Zord]

Hey Blahm, you shouldn't give up on the cast drawing, it's coming out nicely. Funny thing, the site you gave me for casts was actually statue.com instead of staute.com, had to figure that one out. But yea man, keep on posting. Cheers!

[Azeira]

not bad. try using a dark valued pencil, or pressing down firmer to create a greater contrast with the pencil to the paper. youre on your way, with obvious interest, so all i can say is to pay attention to both your studies and those accomplished by others. take what criticism you gain from these into considaration, and be sure to practice, all the time.

cheers,

Woodruff

[Steinmetz]

As other people here have said, 'try using a darker valued pencil' well you don't have to do that but you could try to get more tones going you know darker, lighter. Anyway, a new power is arising as SSG8 and we need you at your best.
-Captain Steiny

[Blahm]

Tim: yea one of those is clark gable but i cant remeber witch one haha. Thanks for stopping by. And yes animal studies are great, i think it helps with the creating of monsters and the like.

Zord: Doh! sorry about that typo lol. glad you were able to figure it out. :dur:

Aziera: Alot of people tell me that i real life. its like a thing with me i guess haha. My crappy digital camera makes it worse though. And i will keep practicing!

Mein Furer: thanks for stopping by! i am but a loyal subject.

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small update today

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/kripto666/dec81.jpg

[Steinmetz]

LOL, Mein Furer! I love it. Keep up that attitude and you'll be my first prime or right hand man soon enough. Great drawing too, but what about that dark patch at the bottom!@! scanner issues

[Nils_Carstens]

I like ur last page. Maybe u should try to vary ur values a bit caue values are not only good to create depth but also to make the viewer look at something.
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/kripto666/nov25.jpg

in this image for example even if in life the darker values where on the instrument u should not drop the darkest values on it, atleast aslong as u do not want it to get the main attention.
One of the coolest things about life drawin is that u don't have to stick to everythin u see.

Hope it helped and made sense to u

Take care

[Blahm]

dreckster: thanks for the info. I will work on that.

Steinmetz: yea my digital camera is from like 1985 or somthing. haha.

[Blahm]

dreckster: thanks for the info. I will work on that.

Steinmetz: yea my digital camera is from like 1985 or somthing. haha.



a quick one. the photo is at a wierd angle and is disorting it though.

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/kripto666/dec83.jpg

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/kripto666/dec82.jpg

[Frank the Ninja]

Some general critiques:

I'm glad to see you doing studies and stuff, I really think you should keep it up.
Slow down, practice line quality and try to think in 3d. I think you draw too light, or at least do not make your darks, dark enough.

Keep drawing every day! Keep it up, good job so far.

[Steinmetz]

Steinmetz: yea my digital camera is from like 1985 or somthing. haha.

Please, mein furer.

And looking good here, at least you're doing some original drawings even if the line quality isn't the greatest. For the pride of the SS#8 well done.

[blkn]

a little light(what pencils do you use?), but overall good studies.

[HEROIC]

really liked that guy with instrument, i dunno how to write it in english though ;p
ur shadings are good,
really liked those lips u drew, hmm, reminds me, why dont u do some self portraits?? do some lips, do some nose, whole face, jsut draw it. and then do some studies of how real lips looks like and how is the volume, Loomies are good studies for face studies.
keep it up,

*CHop Chop*
AMiRali

[Blahm]

thanks for the advice guys.

Blkn: I use 2 b -4 b pencils moslty.

acrylic on paper. still trying to get used to painting in color. bah.

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/kripto666/dec15.jpg

some bum

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/kripto666/dec152.jpg

[thebulfrog]

There's some mad improvement here. I don't believe you for a second that you've only been going for five months...well, I do...but I'm hesitant to believe it-it's far too good for that. My only big gripe right now is the crappy quality scans/camera shots of the pics-a five second (literally five second) job in photoshop can quickly up the contrast-change into something more like...http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d152/thebulfrog/contrast.jpg

Not to say that's perfect by any means, but it's a quick autolevels-the light source when the pic was taken doesn't help the image, but it definitely reveals more detail.

This, of course, is no complaint about the work itself-you seem to have that under control. I'm liking it.

[BrentM]

Hey Blahm,

You got some natural talent in you.

I really like that cast drawing, would be awesome to see another one from ya.

I'm 22 and just started drawing this year too, should be fun to help each other out on our development. Thanks for checkin my SB out

[algebra]

I knew there was someone's SB I hadn't posted in yet!

Awesome stuff thus far man, keep up the anatomy studies. I really like the cast drawing, too.

[Blahm]

algebra: thanks alot!

BrentM: yea good to have another like minded person in the group.

Bullfrog: lol, i appreciate that you think that. i drew alot as a kid. More than most i think. I took your advice with photoshop stuff. It makes a huge difference. I was using the doge/burn tool as well to bring out the contrast. I can make it look more like it does in real life now! my camera sucks... alot.

photshop ajusted
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/kripto666/dec182.jpg

oil painting unfinished

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/kripto666/dec185.jpg

no reference thing

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/kripto666/dec18.jpg

[Flaskpost]

man, you need to get a scanner!
would love to see the latest bunch scanned! they seem to be very cool!

[mentler]

What I can see looks good <> get a scanner when you can <> thanks for dropping by <>

[Blahm]

flaks, mentler, Thanks alot for your comments. I would love to get a scanner.

I have to appologize to my SSG for the lack of updates my digital camera is dying a slow death, and sometimes i just want to fisihed the damn thing off myself. Chuck Norris style. Here is what i managed to capture. I had to mess with it in photoshop so you could see something.

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/kripto666/green1.jpg

[Blahm]

Damn, its been a while. oh, and i just got a wacom (9x12) AND a scanner! im set to motherfuciking jet you jive ass turkey.


Self Portrait
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/kripto666/SP2.jpg

Character design, ran out of room for the legs.

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/kripto666/img003.jpg

Moses statue, by Mr. M

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/kripto666/moses1.jpg

[Darktwin]

You've really progressed, especially with your understanding of drawing heads. great job on practicing with reference and without. Some people get caught up drawing references and never draw from their imagination. Its good to mix it up and do it all to grow as an artist. Glad to hear you got a scanner, and tablet. Can't wait to see your new stuff. thanks for stopping in my sb also

[Blahm]

here is a no ref thing i did this evening. I have to clue where to go with this colorwise. Suggestions?
Photoshop

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/kripto666/3amigos2.jpg
Makes no sence to me eiter.

[Blahm]

here is another non sensical thing from tonight

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/kripto666/slime.jpg

[strych9ine]

Lookin good MUUUUUUUUUUUURDA! It looks like you are focused on values and not line and contour... you can translate the gist of what you see from eye to hand, so now just add a bit of value depth to your pencil work and it'll really stand out.

We gotta quit playing that game, it'll be the death of us. Or at least the nerdy decline.

[Blahm]

Here is an oil painting of my moms dog that died. A christmas present. Ive been doing alot of other stuff but i always forget to take a pic.

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/kripto666/Kenya.jpg

Wow, this pic really sucks, sry.

[Slechtvalk]

This one stands out as one of your best:
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/kripto666/tux.jpg

And my suggestions for color scheme would be either all warm colors or all cool colors.

Great work!

:scribble:

[Blahm]

wow, been a while. Here is some oil paintings i did for my friends show. Oil on panel.

no ref with these
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/kripto666/100_1088.jpg

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/kripto666/2.jpg

and a study of the view out my window, nothing special.

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/kripto666/100_1092.jpg