Long time no post.... 2006 wtf Ive been gone for months.

[Tobin]

Starting a new sketchbook, because I started a new one in real life, and I want continuity goddamnit. Im going to try keep this one more organised and updated at least once a week.

For the next while im focusing purely on the figure and getting it right. So this will be a progress thread for the time being.

Well Here are some referenced girls torsos:
http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/8645/14il.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
I dont have many issues with referenced stuff, I still make mistakes of course but I find it a lot easier to make things seem like they exist.

An unreferenced girl at a weird angle:
http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/4420/23km1.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
this one isnt very good at all, I have problems with unreferenced figures, its what Im aimng to improve at.

I did a few studies from hogarths books, whilst I i was doing them I realised what was missing from my recent figure drawings over the last year, when i was doing life drawing classes, i always worked much bigger and worked standing, but I always always worked on instinct, not that I wouldnt look at the figure, but the process moved so fast i never captured the method in which I drew them. So after those hogarth studies which where long and tiresome, not the way I like to draw I just started drawing very fast curves everywhere, and DING i knew exactly what I was doing before in life drawing classes. That didnt solve my problem with reference completely but its starting to improve my sketches already:

http://img350.imageshack.us/img350/6339/30vu.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://img350.imageshack.us/img350/1220/40cn.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://img350.imageshack.us/img350/2641/59cv.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://img350.imageshack.us/img350/160/68hg.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Clearly none of these are perfect but i feel they are an improvement on my previous unreferenced sketchs. And the method for drawing them is a much more solid basis that my previous methods.

Anyway any help you can offer will always be greatly appreciated, Im currently spending about 4 hours a day sketching so Im sure Ill have updates for you very soon.
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[Isamov]

I really like the angles of some of those middle two. It's something that I always have issues with, myself.

[OleOlsen]

hey that is looking good so far....you have some nice dynamic lines!

[Crystalline_Blue]

Great studies, they have such a nice flow to them.

[quesadeist]

No crits here. I love your loose sketch style, do you have any more complete works posted? Keep up the good work.

[Tobin]

AGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH

I started with good intentions, but the next week all hell broke loose. It was my 20th birthday... I didnt get into college.. and a whole load of other crap has been keeping me from getting more stuff up here including my scanner breaking... but I've still been drawing. and today I sat down at the wacom for a while.. which I also havn't had a chance to do, and started working on a concept that I've had in my head for ages...

anyway heres how its going so far. Its still very loose.
http://img282.imageshack.us/img282/508/spanish9ys.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

I would keep working on it now but as look would have it the sun is so strong its getting through the curtains and hitting the screen ....

Things are just not going my way... Anyway ill have my scanner fixed soon and will probably be able to get more time working with the wacom too, so more DEFINITELY to come.

Edit:
http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/7348/spanish13pi.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

got a bit more work done and the sun started shining again.

[Tobin]

LONG TIME NO POST !!!

yeah sorry,

http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/3/untitled13tp1.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

what im working on...