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[voraz]

EDIT: CHANGE IN ORGANIZATION (SO CHECK ONLY FIRST POST IN THE OLDER PAGES)

Decided to change the organization of my sketchbook a little, for the second time (the first one I removed lots of images because the pages were so heavy and took ages to load).
I will now put the stuff I like more from pages 1, 2 and 3 in the first post of each page. So all you'll have to check is the first post in pages 1 to 3, the last page remains the same for now.

(I wanted to do this for a while, so I finally decided myself. Some old things some are some recent experiments.
I love this forum because I think I can learn a lot here, it is very inspiring and seing some of the posts and the quality of the artists in here makes me want to do something.
Critiques are very welcome.)


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http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a109/voraz/imagens%20CG/sketchbook/ck01-2.jpg

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a109/voraz/imagens%20CG/sketchbook/minotauro.jpg

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a109/voraz/imagens%20CG/sketchbook/aqua1.jpg

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a109/voraz/imagens%20CG/sketchbook/db425b12.jpg

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a109/voraz/imagens%20CG/sketchbook/18412d30.jpg


-sorry filelodge images disapeared! but you can check the last pages for newer stuff.

[Flaskpost]

Haha, cool stuff dude! Those two first oil paintings are really nice, and that last girl. Great style there!

[Cobi]

Hi Voraz. Good start. It took me a couple looks to realize what some of these pictures were of. I suggest working on proportions just a tad more before you get into detail (i know it's the funnest part!! :))

It all depends on what you're going for, as well, to what advice can be given.. What style are you going for?

You are good with colors.

I'll be back! :)

[voraz]

I, thanks for your comments.
Cobi- about the style I am going for I really don't know, I like to paint and in that I like the impressionists, though I don't think my things are impressionist. But what I relly like is comics, and I don't think I haven't done enough to say I have a defined style, I have never really thought about it, I know are I like but are a lot of completelly diferent things :teeth: .

[voraz]

some other stuff

[voraz]

Some quick drawings (the kind of stuff I do when i should be doing something else :dur: )

[voraz]

Check first post and last page!

[voraz]

some more sketches, this time some animals.

[asoir]

Sweet animal studies!

[voraz]

Some new sketches

[voraz]

Some drawings I have painted in

[voraz]

This is a sketch for a painting I was doing.

[voraz]

some quick face sketches

[voraz]

[IMG]http://i10.

[Zebz]

You've got some nice ideas in here, man. But I'm gonna say it because someone is bound to anyhow... there are some pretty bad proportion issues in here at times. Perhaps some more anatomy and in depth study might help you correct those things. For example, in the last one, her head is far too small or her body to big among other things. And some life studies definately wouldn't hurt. Drawing from life and refin' some anatomy is a fool proof way to improve your stuff. Trust me. It'll help! Keep up the great work ethic.

[van]

Zebz said it. I see a lot of anatomy issues here and there. But I love the styles you are experimenting with. Keep rockin.

[voraz]

Hi, thanks for your crits guys. I'll be more carefull with the anatomy problems.
Glad you like the style Van, good to hear that.

[voraz]

this is an old watercolor/pastel painting (1996 I think)

[van]

Love those pastels. :)

[voraz]

That fat kid- thanks for the compliment.
Van- Thanks a lot, glad you like them.

[voraz]

Some old oils.

[voraz]

There was a problem with filelodge, where some of my files were kept thats why the red Xs. I'll try to correct this as soon as possible. Meanwhile 2 quick sketches done for some CA activities.

[voraz]

Some more stuff, from activities in CA:

[voraz]

Two more quick sketches:

[voraz]

Some more:

[voraz]

Check first post and last page!

[voraz]

Check first post and last page!

[voraz]

Check first post and last page!

[voraz]

3 more:

[Alday.J]

Hi, Voraz ! Hungry about art, he ? There's a lot of good stuff here, I love your oils and your sketches studies a lot ! <3 But when you draw in a "comic book" way, quality seems lower. Focus on the stance, even if you don't have ref. Don't worry about what I wrotte, I've got the same problem ! And again: GREAT studies and oils here ! :wink:
Keep posting, Dude !

[voraz]

Hi Alday J, thanks for the crits and the encouraging words.
That's right I am Hungry about art. Always loved it and the Conceptart.org is a great place for learning and share experiments.

[voraz]

Another 3 sketches

I have got some more but I'll have to digitalize it first.

[voraz]

these are some old images from lab classes back in the University.

[voraz]

3 more

[voraz]

Check first post and last page!

[tensai]

this one,
http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd2/11596/quadros/Ribeira.jpg,
is incredible! very good texture and looseness. i think the animal drawings are showing some nice improvement.

keep it up.

[voraz]

Hi Tensai, thanks a lot, like I said this is my favorite from all the paintings I have done, it was done about ten years ago when I was 17. After that I haven't painted so much since I was at the University studying biology not arts and now with work I don't have so much time too.
By the way I love your cityscapes they are really great, love your style.

[voraz]

Check first post and last page!

[flatliner]

Great work, you show promising improvement :). The animal studies are very good indeed and the paintings, especially the latest oil, look very professional. I look forward to seeing more :D.

[voraz]

Flatliner- Thanks a lot, that's the objective, to improve as much as possible :teeth: .
About the oil, thanks a lot, from all the painting I have done that's my favourite ever, I think it is from 1994-95, not sure, when I was 16 or 17 years old.
After that, there were severall years when I didn't paint so much...
anyway you can check out my new stuff at the WIP thread (link bellow :teeth: ).
cheers

[voraz]

OK, I have been two days to a scientific meeting. Got some time to do some drawings. Some of them are drawings of the speakers. They were a little difficult to do because they kept changing their position.

[voraz]

I've been experimenting with oranges...

[voraz]

some new ones:

[voraz]

Check first post and last page!

[voraz]

I guess it will take some days for the next update... gotta find a scanner :dad:

[voraz]

Got two more :^^:

[voraz]

these are some really old drawings, that I did back in the early 90' while I was at highschool, I just found them and though it would be funny to post them! :P

[voraz]

Last update (done this week):

I liked this one better while it was only graphite, it went really bad with the watercolour (I wished I could paint with watercolour but it is really difficult :dur: ).

[voraz]

small update, stupid little drawings during some meeting.

[voraz]

Check first post and last page!

[van]

The pen likes you. Very nice stuff, man.

[voraz]

Thanks a lot. I am in a meeting again, so next week I will have a whole lot of new stupid sketches to post....:teeth:

[voraz]

Ok, here's some new stuff




:wink:

[voraz]

Some more exercises for the illustration course I am doing. Once again these were copied over other images. Just to train using the metal nibs in the polyester paper.

[Hyver]

good job improving the way you do.. as i was browsing your styff, first i was thinking this guy should focus on drawing way more than on painting and as i scrolled down i saw that you actually did, and it paid off! so yay for that!

now, on a c+c side, it's obvious your reffed stuff is way better than your freehand stuff, so try to understand why things look the way they do when doing refs. study the bone structure and muscle system for example, they'll make your made-up stuff look a lot more convincing.

keep it up!

[voraz]

Hyver, thanks for the comments and the advice.
Actually I draw much more than I paint and I actually enjoy much more drawing than painting. I used to draw much more but since I went to college I never got as much time as I had before (especially in classes).
Now I think I should use more references and finish more pieces instead of just sketching.
That's what I am trying to do now.

[voraz]

I hadn't updated in a long time.

[voraz]

Another two:

[voraz]

2 more:

[voraz]

THE BEST WORKS PREVIOUSLY POSTED ON THIS PAGE ARE NOW GROUPED ON THIS POST:



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[voraz]

Some attempts to make a portrait of my friend, back in 1995 :dead:

[voraz]

Some more portrait attempts, these were quick charcoal sketches done from life (unlike the ones in the previous post that were done using a small photo as a reference):

This one was not so bad

[voraz]

Some pose studies:

[voraz]

Check first posts and last page!

[voraz]

more sketches

[voraz]

Its been a while since the last update, here's some new pictures from my sketchbook :P :

[voraz]

A sketch of a concept I was doing for IDW but I didn't have time to finish on time:

[voraz]

Some very recent pages from my sketchbook:

[voraz]

OK, I just noticed i had double posted here, so I replaced it with something different:

[voraz]

Latelly i haven't be able to post as much as I wanted, here are two new drawings:

[lunatea]

Gorgeous owl! I love the colours in it.

[voraz]

Thanks Lunatea, I think it looks kind of strange and still needed some work (even though it is just a sketch), but I didn't have time or patience to finish the feathers pattern.

[voraz]

Two recent pages (from yesterday :teeth: ):

[voraz]

A new sketch, graphite and watercolour:

[hurricane]

http://img390.imageshack.us/img390/425/sktbook0475qb.jpg

the best i've seen in a long time !

absolutely wonderfull !!

cheers

[voraz]

Hi Hurricane, thank you for stopping by! Its great to hear that from someone with such great work as you have, your sketchbook is really great, (been there many times)!!
Though I am not sure what you liked so much about that piece ( well, it is not my favourite...), that one was done for IDW as i said I ended up not finishing it because the time to post it had passed, anyway I think the IDW activity is dead now!!
Thanks
Fil

[voraz]

Just another page...

[voraz]

some more animal sketches:

[voraz]

sorry, double post!
I'll get something to put in here later.

[comixnut]

Hey nice man. I really like some of this stuff but especially the animal drawings.

Which brings me to the question: Onde estas em Portugal? Eu sou Bracarense, mas ja vivo na Australia ha 13 anos (which is why my Portuguese sucks to the wazoo).

Cheers man keep it up!

[voraz]

Hi, somehow I missed your post (and I'm around everyday)... and thanks!
Estou em Lisboa, mas sou do Porto, é fixe encontrar mais um Português por aqui... mesmo estando do outro lado do mundo!!! :teeth:

[voraz]

Hi, I was colouring some mosquitoes for my project (they're in the WIP section) so i had my watercolour there and i didn't feel like stopping so I coloured this guy too:

[comixnut]

I like your animals very much dude. This one is well done but your monkeys are awesome. Keep it up!

[Hyskoa]

First and foremost, thanks for critting my sketchbook,
secondly, when i browse through the pictures it's constantly a feeling of good-excellent,less good,hmm and over again. My guess would be you spend less time or something like that?

For example, compare the eagle's head against the lion's head. One is a very very powerfull drawing while the other just doesn't work for me.

I'd say, see what u did when u were working on the eagle's head and keep doing that hehe :)

[voraz]

Hi, thanks for the replies.
Comixnut- Thanks again. I am very happy with those monkeys too :D !

Melancholie- Thanks for stopping by, and thanks for your comment on my sketchbook. Yes I agree with you some look a lot better than others which I think it is normal, I do spend some more time in some drawings than in others and many of them are made with different mediums and in the most variate ocasions. Even if that didn't change I guess there would always be stuff ending up better than other.
Anyway most of them are just sketches done for fun and learning without any previous studies.

[voraz]

Long time since my last update, been really busy.
2 new ones:

[voraz]

some more:

[voraz]

[IMG]http://img132.imageshack

[voraz]

Another page from the sketchbook:

[voraz]

and another...

[Lewis]

Hey voraz, how are you doing?
I think your definately going the right way w/ your sketchbook. The shading is getting better and better.
I still think some of your faces are a bit weak, i think you need to try out some more emotions and facestyles (chubby, skinny, feminine, whatever).
Keep em coming, and i hope to see some more animalstudies, those were great :x

Cya, Lewis

[voraz]

Hi, thanks. I am trying to improve as much as I can.
Also trying to finish stuff a little more.
Got to go back to those animal sketches, I enjoyed those. But right now there's no time.
Thanks again. I'll try to look into broadening the facial styles I draw.
Cheers
Fil

[voraz]

Just started this little book:
(first page from life...)

[voraz]

some more (left page from life)

[voraz]

I had to wait a while in the airport for a friend, so I spent some time sketching the people that passed by:

[Zarquino]

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a109/voraz/imagens%20CG/sketchbook/aqua2.jpg

I trully love this one and still dont know why!

I thought you were catalan cause of the name "Esboços", that means sketchbook in catalan, but then i've seen "crocodilo marinho" and now I dont know.

Well keep on this!

[voraz]

Hi Zarquino, I really loved that one too and it isn't very usual for that to happen. I offered it to my sister for christmas in 2004.
And no I'm not catalan :teeth: .
Esboços means sketches in Português, almost the same that in Catalan, very similar like many other words in our languages.
Thanks for stopping by.
Cheers
Fil

[voraz]

Some more sketches (some from life):

[voraz]

Some new ones:

[voraz]

and it keeps going...

[voraz]

Check first posts and last page!

[voraz]

Some more:

from life

[voraz]

[IMG]http://img157.

[voraz]

[IMG]http://img157.

[voraz]

Check first posts and last page!

[Medium Pace]

You show a great improvement from your original post. Your animal stuff looks great. I love that first elephant you posted. The human stuff still seems to be hit & miss. The referenced, and life drawings of humans are looking better and better, but the non-referenced stuff sometimes turn into a mix between anime and western charcoal art.

I have the same problem of overly simplifying the humans I draw when I'm not looking at something for reference. But I am now conscious of it, and try to incorporate things I've discovered when drawing from a photograph, into stuff I just conceive by myself without any references. There is still a huge difference between the stuff I can draw when looking at a picture and the stuff I can draw on my own. It looks like you may be in the same boat. But the more you practice both drawing techniques the more the line between them seems to blur.

[voraz]

Hi, thanks for dropping by and taking some time to leave a comment.
You are totally right with what you are saying and I perceive that difference.
Anyway I guess i will probably never use the same technique when drawing from life or photo, then when I draw without a reference, mostly because what I like to draw most are comics, where they are more stylised and more simplified and not exactelly realistic.
I will sure try to be as reallistic as possible in some kind of exercises, when i want to make portraits that look alike, or when practising in some ocasions where I really want to get the shapes as realistic as possible.
Glad you also see some improvement, I have been working more frequently in the last year (and some stuff, especially in the first posts, in my sketchbook are really old, some are from more than 10 years ago).
Cheers
Fil

[voraz]

right page from life

[voraz]

[IMG]http://img130.images

[voraz]

Check first posts and last page!

[voraz]

Check first posts and last page!

[voraz]

some more sketches:

[voraz]

Check first posts and last page!

[voraz]

[IMG]http://img340.imageshack.us

[voraz]

[IMG]http://img315.imageshack.

[voraz]

Last page:

[IMG]http:/

[voraz]

I think my images from Filelodge disapeared... :(

[voraz]

Check first posts and last page!

[voraz]

Check first posts and last page!

[voraz]

THE BEST WORKS PREVIOUSLY POSTED ON THIS PAGE ARE NOW GROUPED ON THIS POST:

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[voraz]

Working on TD piece:

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http://img314.imageshack.us/img314/8266/img30506007up0ef.jpg

http://img314.imageshack.us/img314/8624/img30506008up9fv.jpg

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Definitive lines:
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a first ligth watercolour version
http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/271/img26606003upux1.jpg

another watercolour version with stronger colours:
http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/8202/img26606001upjk9.jpg

WIPs:
http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/7371/img26606004001uptl8.jpg

http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/8463/img26606004003upjq3.jpg

The final image:
http://img350.imageshack.us/img350/7977/vorazround1td0lb.jpg

[voraz]

Check first posts and last page!

[voraz]

Check first posts and last page!

[voraz]

from photo reference

[voraz]

This is so silence I can hear the crickets... I guess I'll have to make an extra effort to make some more interesting pieces!

[voraz]

Quick sketches based in illustrations I saw in a book, from Dugald Stermer:

[Hypronost]

wow, improvement all over !
Your last few sketches are great.
Your definitly on the right track.

I'd suggest doing more studies, and quick sketches, keep it up mate!

[voraz]

Hi, thanks a lot. Actually I think that fast studies and sketches is what I do all the time, right now I am trying to make myself go deeper in the stuff I am doing and take some pieces all the way.
Though I guess sketching will still be what I do most.
Cheers
Fil

[voraz]

Some more sketches,

[voraz]

Check first posts and last page!

[voraz]

This one's from life:

[voraz]

Check first posts and last page!

[voraz]

From life, in the train...

[voraz]

Check first posts and last page!

[voraz]

including some sketches for the last CHOW:

[voraz]

Check first posts and last page!

[voraz]

back to some animals, quick sketches, first took about 20-30' in pen and watercolour, second one less than 10' in graphite (based in images from books):

[Xavvaniv]

Hi Voraz, thanks for the tips. You have a good sketchbook. I see some great muscles studies. Although you don't like the model, he sure got some good muscles definition for study. And the little monkey is really adorable.
The latest animals are looking good too. They make me want to draw animals too.

[voraz]

Hi Xavvaniv, thanks for your nice words.
About the study above I wasn't complaining about the model itself but from the style of the guy whose work I have used as reference, because I don't like it very much (hope you understand this sentence :dur:).
Thanks, I'm very happy with those monkeys and with this last lizzard also, even though they are very rough studies.
Fil

[voraz]

[IMG]http://img57.imageshack.us/

[voraz]

another page:

[voraz]

some more stuff. started a pencil sketch from a book, then i inked it using a thin brush:

[voraz]

from photo ref:

[voraz]

gave this guy some colour:


sketched some other stuff:

[voraz]

another one:

[BONKANAILIOS]

I see some promise here, but you really need to do some more gesture drawings until you have a feel for how the body really works. I like your background stuff though.

[voraz]

thanks, maybe I'll do that.

new sketch:

[voraz]

Just trying out my new mechanical pencil...:wink:

[comixnut]

you know your coming along just fine. I really like your animals more than your people but i have to say that when you add colour to them, you are seriously starting to blow me away. They are really good.

[Mikhael]

What do you use to color your pieces? Markers, Watercolors or a Graphic Programme?

[voraz]

Hi, sorry for the late reply, I have been in vacations! :teeth:

Anyway, thanks a lot comixnut, realy glad you like!

Mikhael, for colour mostly watercolours, but also other inks and some digital edition too.

Here'a small dump of some stuff from my sketchbook:

[voraz]

Check first posts and last page!

[ruuhkis]

You've done some great job in this book of yers! Nice improvement - just use more contrast in your drawings and paintings and you'll be on your way to conquer the planet! Yeah and thanks for the kind comment in my sb.

[voraz]

Thanks Doyle'.
here's some more stuff:

[voraz]

Check first posts and last page!

[voraz]

The rendering of a scene of a comic idea I'm working on...

[comixnut]

again, loving what i see. i feel like you are letting go and not really worrying about proportions even though you practice it, which is why i think i am ok with it. It's good to let go and enjoy what you do! *S* Keep it up man!

[voraz]

Olá Pedro, obrigado. E como vai o teu trabalho em BD? Estou à espera de ver actualizações no teu sketchbook, as tuas linhas são mesmo boas, tens trabalhado nessa área?
Esse cadre corner é um estúdio? trabalhas lá?
Curiosidade
abraço
Filipe

Some sketches for a comic:

[voraz]

Hi, I sketched this from life, then I just add some quick watercolour colours from memory.

[comixnut]

I honestly love this last piece. For awhile there i even forgot who's sb i was looking at and then i saw the flag and i was going 'hey isn't that..?" :D

Filipe obrigado pelas palavras (eu queria dizer comments mas o meu vocabulario e um desgosto). O cadre e um online estudio e eles convidaram-me para ser parte do estudio, mas eu continuo aqui em sydney. Se regressares ao meu sb veras uma personagem (e assim character) que faz parte da historia que estou a assombriar agora.

[voraz]

PJ, yeah that's from my vacation in Algarve in the South, in Vila Real de Santo António, rigth during the World Cup fever, so there were flags everywhere!
I was thinking about doing a bigger version of this all in wtercolour, maybe I'll do it if I have time.
Fil

[dannE-B]

Hey voraz. Lots and lots of sketches and work here. Who needs replys when you post so often, you've filled up your 3 pages with a lot of work. i enjoyed looking through your sketchbook, shows good improvement and determination. Keep it up and keep posting.

[voraz]

Thank Prophet. Actually there are much less thing i here now, because I removed lots of old stuff, leaving only the pieces I liked more. I had to relieve the sketchbook, it was really really heavy and took lots of time to load. I think now there is less than 1/3 of what was here before.
This sketchbook has been a very effective way of keeping me working as much as possible and keeping me motivated. Since I haven't studied arts, and that i don't work in arts. This sketchbook and the whole CA has kept my motivation to keep on doing stuff (it has also taken many time that I could have used in drawing in painting to just be around in CA, spending here way much time than I should).
Sometimes it is disappointing because I feel i get few replies but then again I just think I'll have to get better and at some point I'll start having more interesting stuff and will get more replies.
That or I'll just join a SSG! :teeth:
Cheers

[tensai]

really like this one man
http://img463.imageshack.us/img463/4792/img22606002up8gr.jpg
would be a really cool place to take a little walk in...
keep it up

[voraz]

Thanks Tensai, that one has a little of Escher to it even tough it started inconsciously, it was doen while at a reunion... :teeth:

[voraz]

Check first posts and last page!

[voraz]

These were done as a final project for a workshop of scientific illustration. They have been exposed in the Museum of Natural History in Lisbon, in a exibit from this and past workshops students.
i have posted this in the final finished section but since they weren't considered good enough to be there and were put out I'm putting it here too.

They're watercolour and a little digital edition.

[voraz]

Just a quick digitall painting to train, it was done from a picture, took about 50 min and it doesn't look like the person I was portraing. I sampled some colours from the photo.



EDIT: I am seing this in another monitor and it looks too dark!

[oma]

i like your watercolours.

And i see improvement. Love those bugs.

[voraz]

Thanks oma!
cheers

[voraz]

digital painting study, about 1 hour, I am not happy with it but the idea was to practise some more painting. No ref...

[lefran]

thanks for stopping by my SB =] youve made a good improvement, theres a nice variety here too, i like the loosness of this sketch, =] http://img468.imageshack.us/img468/6772/img196060012mu.jpg

[voraz]

Hi lefran, thanks!

This is a sketch I did last night, didn't have much time, I did it in about 20' in my graphic tablet, the main objective was to try and do some good lines in it, but they still come out very funky. The figure in the left had a little more work.

[voraz]

some sketches for comic characters:

[comixnut]

Finally something i can help you with! :)
http://img479.imageshack.us/img479/1695/skt17706001upwz1.jpg
Any time you want to ink, just remember (i guess just like in the pencils) about the form underneath. It makes no difference if you are using aball point pen, or a nib or a brush neither! :) So in the head for example, those lines shouls have followed the 'roundness' of the head to give it form. You kinda did it with the arms though so that's a good start. *S* Keep it up man. It sucks that they kicked your bugs out of the finished section but i am glad to see them in here because they rock. Cheers!

[Dile_]

Nice stuff!
My advice is to practise the human proporations more, cause they
are sometimes very off, but keep it up! Good work man :)

[Dile_]

Nice stuff!
My advice is to practise the human proporations more, cause they
are sometimes very off, but keep it up! Good work man :)

[voraz]

comixnut- hey PJ thanks for the advice, yeah I know what you mean I actually stopped inking it because the head was really bad and I lost interest. Thanks for the crit, glad to hear it especially from a guy like you that makes such good lines! :teeth:
And thanks!

Thanks Dile, yes i have to work more in the proportions, I think it comes out allrigth when I use ref, but most of the time I just don't and it notices and I end up doing the same errors on and on... gotta change that!

Cheers

I'm going to scan someting so i can keep the daily updating that is going on since the 23rd of July!

[voraz]

That was fast, rigth? :teeth:

[comixnut]

See the guy in the middle? he looks like you erased all 'classic noob' feelings from th drawing so that he looks really good, proportions as well as the head shape (big noob area is the head). He looks totally different from the other 2 that are flanking him. Whatever you did with the middle guy keep doing it!

[Olof]

Heya.

Try to draw some more from references. Right now many of your characters have very similar poses and almost everyone seem to be heavy bodybuilders with sixpacks. Try to break out of the pattern :)

Looking good though. Keep it up!

.cheers

[voraz]

Comixnut- Thanks a lot! :teeth:. i'm thinking of some characters for a story, i've been doing that with my 0,3 mm mechanical pencil. I didn't understand very well what you meant with"(big noob area is the head)"- you mean the head is worse than the rest? desculpa lá mas não percebi muito bem... :teeth:

MorteM- I realy got to do that, but these last guys are all for a story I am writing, they are supposed to look like that. Though I have to admit that all the people I draw are too much like bodybuilders, thats what you get from learning to draw from super-hero comics. So thats a problem that comes all the way since i was a kid! Thanks.

Here's todays image (from life), two of my friends, they were doing a presentation and I was drawing them:

http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/7188/skt30706002upeq4.jpg

[Newbs]

voraz- hey man nice sketches. I see you improving quite a bit. I especially like the color sketches with water colors. very nice handling. keep after it!!

[voraz]

thanks Newbs.

Todays practise with the tablet, about 15 min:

http://img173.imageshack.us/img173/9986/estudo3170601pj3.jpg

[voraz]

http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/6831/skt1806001upie8.jpg

[voraz]

http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/1596/skt2806001upch5.jpg

[voraz]

a quick sketch in pen, from ref:

http://img446.imageshack.us/img446/9131/skt3806001upxo4.th.jpg (http://img446.imageshack.us/my.php?image=skt3806001upxo4.jpg)

[voraz]

http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/9801/skt4806001upia7.jpg

[demented]

Sup voraz

really liking this style man - the flat shapes mixed with the more textury sketches - really cool. Be careful not to flatten out important part - haven't seen that happening here too much though.

Great work mate - love this style would love to see how it develops mate!
ciao dude!

- d.

[voraz]

Hi Demented, thank you. This last one I really just bucket filled some spaces so the image looks a little more appelative. Anyway I like the effect...

didn't post a image yesterday, that's a pitty. I was updating this daily for some time now...

my image for the last chow:

http://img328.imageshack.us/img328/1493/vorazchow36oliveriakr7.jpg

[voraz]

2D figther WIP (see thunderdome area):

http://img469.imageshack.us/img469/5246/2dfigtherwip1pi2.jpg

[voraz]

http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/8363/skt8806001uprz1.jpg

[voraz]

http://img161.imageshack.us/img161/319/skt10806001upun5.jpg

[voraz]

a painting I am working on.
Oil on canvas:

http://img422.imageshack.us/img422/1736/ribeira12006wipupje0.jpg

[voraz]

Sketch from newspaper photos (athlete Naide Gomes):

http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/2374/skt20806001upla3.jpg

[voraz]

http://img463.imageshack.us/img463/6245/skt20806002uplj0.jpg

[voraz]

another oil on canvas (WIP):

http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/8655/ribeira22006wipuprr9.jpg

[voraz]

Some Bat sketches:

http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/6868/skt21806003upwp5.jpg

http://img53.imageshack.us/img53/5058/skt21806001upim2.jpg

[voraz]

http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/1075/skt21806002upxm5.jpg

[voraz]

http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/189/skt24806003uppj1.jpg

[voraz]

http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/1898/skt24806002uppj8.jpg

[voraz]

http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/6702/skt24806001upub4.jpg

[voraz]

back with a bat:

http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/5334/skt24806004upwt4.jpg

[Tobin]

some good work, the oil paintings are very nice.

as for your drawings i reckon you need lighten up on the pencil loosen up on the lines and use longer strokes. and try doing each line once. and only once. its hard.

[voraz]

Thanks Tobin. Yes I know what you mean about the strokes, the problem is that at the sketch level I normaly don't get the line i want at first because I'm not too carefull and then I have to correct it with other strokes. Hopefully its something that is corrected when it is past the sketch level, but I'll be paying more attention to that.
cheers

[Orifice]

got some sweet stuff in here! good thing with all them lifa drawings and all that jazz... cant do enough of those. so I better start doin some:D anyways, good stuff. Really liked that one with some blended citystuff, man with puff-o-hair n monster. that was cool. Ive seen your avatar before n have always admired it. freggin awesome!

[voraz]

Hey, thanks a lot, I really apreciate it!
Glad you like my avatar, its an old drawing from when I was in highschool I think... more than 10 years ago! I always liked it, so... :teeth:
cheers for stopping by!

[sith]

good book voraz! don't forget to break out those hogarth study's every now and then- yeah his stuff is wuite a bit exagerated but you'll learn a ton. btw- really dig that one from the 4th- keep it up man

[voraz]

Wow, I'm getting so much replies!

Hi Sith thanks for the comments, I intend to keep it up even though I haven't posted for 3 days now... it was just a little break.

Here's something I'm working on:

http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/4739/quadrowipmulherdeitada01qv4.jpg

still a lot to go though...

[voraz]

This was for the OFDW017 in CGTalk, but I didn't have time to finish it, though I am still working on it when I have time...

http://img350.imageshack.us/img350/1193/wipsorolla02gx4.jpg

[voraz]

http://img238.imageshack.us/img238/4418/aguarela3906002upbs1.jpg

[voraz]

http://img378.imageshack.us/img378/3865/morcego3906002uprs5.jpg

[voraz]

I started re-working on an old comic story I did some years ago. I wasn't happy with it so I decided to restart it, these are new lines, one of the scenes.
Still trying to loose the hand a little... :[

[voraz]

Another scene from the same comic, the lines and some digital painting. I'll just lay down the colours digitally, I will then finish it in watercolour.

http://img68.imageshack.us/img68/8303/bd2p1q4linhasuphu8.jpg

http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/8214/bd2p1q4coresiniupac3.jpg

[voraz]

ok, forget about the stupid background in the back...


http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/5107/sktsci9906001upqu7.jpg

edit: had to re-post it without the stupid background...

[Meatsworthy]

Making good progress!

I do like your traditional stuff quite a lot. Especially this one:
http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/8655/ribeira22006wipuprr9.jpg

I find my self wondering what it would look like without some of the the lines.

[voraz]

Hi, thanks a lot.
That's just a WIP, the lines are there just to place stuff better (I re-drawed after painting to be shure everything is in the rigth place) but they will surelly be disapear, at leat the most of it.

[voraz]

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/3358/skt11906001upzk3.jpg

[Jens]

cool stuff voraz keep experimenting!

[voraz]

Thanks. I will... :teeth:

[voraz]

http://img79.imageshack.us/img79/7382/skt9906002upxy3.jpg

[voraz]

http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/6783/skt14906003upsj5.jpg

[voraz]

http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/7730/skt14906001uplm7.jpg

[JERI]

At the moment I reckon your figures could use some more consistency in form/proportions.

[weggebrecht]

LOVE THE BATS very nice...

[voraz]

Jeri- yeah you're right, that's why I have to do more referenced stuff! :dur:

Weggebrecht- thanks, I'll put some more bat watercolours soon :teeth:

[voraz]

30' from life:

http://img102.imageshack.us/img102/8060/skt15906001upps0.jpg

[fedezz]

Your traditional stuff is great, the cityscapes(?) are my favs. That last figure from life shows a lot of improvement over your other figure studies. Just keep practicing from reference and you'll see the improvements in what you draw from imagination in no time.
Keep it up!

edit: oh, I forgot, those bats are badass!

[voraz]

thanks a lot fedezz. yes they're cityscapes :teeth:

about the bats here is an update (still a wip):

http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/9011/morcego11906002upfe9.jpg

[voraz]

more sketchbook pages:

http://img381.imageshack.us/img381/1795/skt18906004updr5.jpg

http://img381.imageshack.us/img381/5749/skt18906003upln6.jpg

[voraz]

http://img369.imageshack.us/img369/7884/skt18906001upkv0.jpg

[voraz]

http://img381.imageshack.us/img381/509/skt18906002upvj6.jpg

[voraz]

This has been stopped for a while, been working hard on a comic in the last days.
meanwhile a painting I am working on:

http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/5774/gajonoazultl2.jpg

[MrBobMarley]

Thanks for checking out my book man. I see you sketch kind like I do, a little messy here and there. I'll pass on advice I got here which is to watch the hairy lines, don't let them get too crazy. Keep posting!

--Dayne

[voraz]

Hi thanks for the input, about the lines that's true I make them a little messy that's because I am always trying to fix things in the paper so in some places when I don't like it I'll just go over it and try to fix it, I should use an eraser but never could get myself to use one of those, old habits, anyway since they are sketches I don't mind a lot as long as I get straigth lines when I am doing the final piece. Though that is something I am trying to work on: keep the lines cleaner in my sketches.

[voraz]

http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/1988/skt4102006001uper2.jpg

[voraz]

same situation as post #228, another day, still from life, less time for this one:

http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/4052/skt4102006002upqn1.jpg

[voraz]

http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/5823/skt5102006002upha7.jpg

[voraz]

http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/3387/skt6102006002upvq2.jpg

[voraz]

For this one I used as reference a x-men book I have:

http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/6426/skt6102006003uptn1.jpg

[voraz]

http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/6986/skt6102006001updt2.jpg

[rmore]

nice SB, I particuarlly like your bugs of page 3 keep it up.

[voraz]

Thanks rmore.

Here are two illustrations from a 4 page comic I did last month, my sister helped with the colours:

http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/7158/bdfibda2006p2c1001upcz5.jpg

http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/1799/bdfibda2006p1c4001uput8.jpg

[voraz]

two more scenes from the same comic, as above my sister helped wih the colours.

http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/9720/fibda2006f001ce0.jpg

http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/3888/bdfibda200624906017upkh9.jpg

[voraz]

http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/1149/bdfibda2006p2c3001uplu6.jpg

[voraz]

http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/9177/skt191006001so3.jpg

[comixnut]

YO DUDE! Sorry i have been away a little busy and probs with the comp. But no probs now!

And i have to say that i really like what i am seeing man. And that is that your anatomy is improving a lot! And that is a very good thing. Plus you are putting all of that hard work into some action shots. Nothing better in my book i reckon.

Keep it up, rapaz!

[voraz]

Olá PJ, desculpa não ter escrito antes.
Just seen your message now, been out of here (my SB) for a while.
Thanks, i have been trying to focus on doing more dinamic figures after hearing so much about the stiffness of my drawings, also when possible been looking more at references (still need to work more on that...).

here's a quick sketch:

http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/9937/skt27102006001upik7.jpg

[lefran]

i like the way youve done these (http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/9177/skt191006001so3.jpg), i think the looseness of the bottom and middle one works quite well

fran

[voraz]

Thanks lefran, those were all brush & watercolours (no ref...)

here's some more sketches:

http://img174.imageshack.us/img174/4171/skt27102006006upxv5.jpg

from life:
http://img111.imageshack.us/img111/8414/skt27102006005uphd1.jpg