d-d-d-d-d-rawings - HUGE UPDATE - [march 31nd]

[Pierre]

*** NEW STUFF AT THE BOTTOM ***

Hey!

Well, I've been lurking around for quite a while now at CA, learning tons and have been asked by Robolus several times to finally get around to post my sketchbook junk. And thats exactly what I'll do now. I hope I can keep the thread as often updated as possible. It will force me to push even more, I hope.

Enough talking, lets start with the good part. Looking forward to your criticism.

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This is a good friend of mine who majors in illustration. The drawings is prolly over half a year old.

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This right here is some newer stuff I made in Berlin riding the subway.


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More to come!!!
Peace. Pierre.

[nacho]

good stuff, the subway sketches are the shit! lots of character in these.
i got tons of berlin subway sketches floating around myself, not of that quality though. let's see some shading or colors, the lines look very promising!

funny how robolus urged me to open a sketchiethread, too. i think he gets paid to recruit ca members.... :ninja:

[Badger]

Nice stuff, and really confident lines, which is nice to see!!
Your style is quite contempary.
Keep on posting! I'll check back.
-B-

[rodrigo!]

i love this sketchbook so far and your line is so energetic and free its crazy i reeally love the way u draw from life
hope u can post more!

[GunTrouver]

Great sketches! I love lineworx like that, so free but confident.
Oh, and you r from Germany?
Me too:)
Keep it up!

Ahoi :yayca:

[Jason Snair]

Pierre

nice stuff. I really like your line work. it's quick and fluid and with just the simplist stroke you show form very nicely.

i like the first one the best...love how you only colored in the notebook.

-jason

[Rebecca]

Helloe there! This is a v. good SB, I cant wait to see it develop and progress. :teeth: Like Badger said, nice confident lines...good work.. and keep on posting, and just keep on pushing yourself to the top...Looks like you need to work on your rendering from what I have seen so far...and it would nice to see some finished lines, like the very first one..and its nice to see drawings not just on white paper. thanks for sharing..and good bye :ninja++:

[Robolus]

Ahh, endlich Mann, wurde auch Zeit!

Great start Pierre. Show us more, I still remember your sketchbook with the landscape and city studies - wonderful.

[ruhigblut]

Salut Pierre!

I'm glad to see your stuff here! thanks, that encourages me & pushes me to do more and more...
I like your choice? and hope to see more so fast as possible!
:bounce:

ellen

[Pierre]

Wow, thanks for all your comments! That really motivates to keep pushing and pushing. :teeth:

nacho - Thanks for the nice words. You should post your subway sketches! Whenever I am in Berlin I love it to draw all those people in the subway. I smiled, too when I read in you sb that Robolus made you start your own thread as well.

Badger - Thanks! I guess that's a deal then. What do you mean with contemporary?

Rodrigo - Sure thing - I will post more! When I came home last night and checked on my thread I was really pumped up with motivation! Thanks!

GunTrouver - Yes, sir! I am from Germany, too. I'll be heading to Leipzig in less than two weeks. Where do you live at?

fat kid - Yeah, we were both sitting across each other at this small kitchen table with our papers. I still cheerish that moment. Check out the drawings at the bottom - I scanned in another drawing that I made that night, when she was posing for me.

Jason Snair - Thanks, man! I checked out your sb, and you've got some nice stuff going there, too.

Rebecca - Hey there, thanks for the encouragement. As for the colored paper ... actually i can't remember where I got this paper from but it was really nice to draw on.

Robolus - My friend, sorry for turning you down so often about opening a sketchbook but I'll try my best to keep this kid going and grow. About the landscape drawings - give me a day or two and I'll scan in some ish, cuz I have this stack of Spain-landscape drawings lying around here.

ruhigblut - That's nice to hear! I'll be coming to Wismar on Sunday night and hang out with y'all for two or three days. So, get your drawings together, cuz I am curios to see what you've been up to.

***Allright, here is the small update, then.***

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This is Takeshi, I met him while both of us were standing in the line to get into the Goya exhibition in Berlin. Nice guy, who was so kind to write down his name in japanese next to his portrait. He was visiting friends of his in Germany and recently quit his job at a car factory.

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That was a really quick drawing of an atelier in Leipzig, which I colored at home afterwards. Just having fun and playing around with the colors and to see how going over another color would affect it and what nice mixtures it would cause.

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Quick gestures of people hanging around and an Italian couple who was sitting with me on the train to Berlin. Sorry for the middle part, which is left out white, but Ive got this huge sketchbook (9,5 x 13 inches) and its somehow falling apart already and I had trouble with scanning. So just think of it as a double spread in my book.

Hope you dig it!
Pierre

[kinnas]

good solid stuff, the profile of takeshi is especially aestethic. but then again I've always had a thing for noses in profile : )

[Steven]

it's been a long time...
man man, so lang her. Aber auch wenn ich jetzt grad nur ne handvoll skizzen von dir hier sehe, du hast dich verdammt gut gemacht. Deine Strichführung ist wunderbar anzuschauen. Ich hoffe du scannst auch noch all die Sachen aus dem gesamten letzten Jahr.

[Jason Snair]

man, I love that watercolor one just above. that's nice

-jason

[Pierre]

Steven - Habe mich auch häufig gefragt, was Du so machst, man. Wie gehts Dir sonst so? Kannst ja mal PMen.

[Diego]

I see a lot of great stuff man. Really like the lifedrawings. Very loose lines.
Keep postin'.

CHEERS

[Pierre]

Jason - Thanks! I like this one too, actually. But probably more because of the connection I have with this. It's actually a drawing of one the ateliers in the artschool, which I am going to start my studies at soon.

Diego - Aight, will continue posting. Thank you for the kind words.

Well, I guess its nothing fancy for today, but I went out last night for the cultural night in my town, where cafés where opened all night, Live-Bands playing on the market, light shows and shit like that. So I got around doing this one drawing, with my new ball-point pen - besides that I just got involved into too many good conversations.

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[4rt-r41d]

nice stuff man.
i love it. just keep up!

[Badger]

Love that latest one. I ment contempary because it reminds me of the line work of a lot of 'fashionable' illustrators and artists at the moment, and take that as a compliment, it doesn't look like a clone, your style is till very unique.
Love those little strokes your put in the hair and your treatment of negative space :)
keep on rocking (in a senstive yet confident style) he he
-B-

[AndrewLey]

very enjoyable studies man - keep posting

[Pierre]

Just a minor update before I'll leave for a few days.

Again doing studies with my ball-point pen and trying to get more confident on what I see and draw. The people were peeps hanging around at a concert last night.

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Peace, Pierre.

[B-Man]

Neat lines, cool expressions, good coloring and so on. Whats not to like about your style this is realy good old school drawing. nice! :D
Hats of to you!
I'll be back

[Bojee]

Nice work. More please. :)

[Sam256]

Hey Pierre, I like your sketching. And big sketchbooks are goody, cause you start to throw your lines at the paper instead of dipping tiny ones.

And it seems you are from the same town as me and you are also visiting the same cafes (Jazzcafes) for drawing. Do you want to start at the HGB?

Gimmie a hint if you are around in the "Protzendorf" and we might meet there.


cya

[sve]

Hello, Pierre! Wonderful, very informative sketches. People are alive in you drawings. It's pleasure to observe them. So thank you.
Sveta Dudetta

[Uwe.R]

...Mensch pierre!(...altes haus! /B-)

...da es nun doch geklappt hat, sich in dieses schöne forum unter Uwe.R einzuloggen(beworben in newdeutsch!...WoW!)...und ich vom robert(erstes sem.-HWI!) erfahren hab das du dich hier breitmachst, dacht ich mir, gugste mal rein und schaust was der olle pierre hier so zum zeigen hochhält!
...und ich muss schon sagen.....net schlecht das ganze!-wirklich schöne skizzen dabei!!-schön locker und doch recht prop.-genau! ...ich hoffe das dir leipzig mehr für deine fähigkeiten als (..zeichner/maler...usw.) einbringt als das es wismar geschafft hätte!...(ich denk schon!)

...sodenn, erstmal genug geschleimt!-ich hoffe man hört mal voneinander! (...übers forum oder auch anderswiedie!)..würd mich freuen!

beste grüsse+frohes fetzt aus dresden!...........der uwe!

[vigostar]

WOW, these are great!!!!! I love all of these... keep on posting

[krakel]

i think its kinda scary how many good artists there are in germany.. maybe its because its so small and it just seems like a large number because of the ratio... but still-
weiter so ;P

peace

krakel

[Serpian]

Nice lines and colours! I like those face-pages. More!

[Pierre]

Thanks for the last comments guys, I havent had the
chance to post on CA for a couple of months due to
my move to another city and the fact that I do not
own a computer so far. So I thought that I should
post some pics I took with a digital cam of some drawings
and sketches that I made within the last months. Hope you
enjoy!

"the move to leipzig"
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fucked up on the face so i left it like that ...
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the view from our balcony - sorta value study (it was freezin' coold that day outside)
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peeps in the bar
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from my anatomy class
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this is a modell i made for anatomy, sorta abstract, but it
shows how the muscles for front and back relate if you bend
the torso.

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cheers,
pierre

[johnny78]

The pic from your move to leipzig is well executed. You have very selfconfident lines in there, I like it. And I think that these skull and skeleton studies you are making are a good way to get the feeling for the human head & figure.
You only gotta work on your architecture drawing skills. Maybe it helps, if you try to concentrate on the outlines and main edges only. Keep away those shadings for the beginning, the rendering can come later I think.

Keep up!

[Pierre]

hey guys!

here is another bunch of pics. the first two are from a portrait session at school. the drawing with the two guys sitting, was an exercise where we were supposed to contruct them into the space of the room, got another four of those lying around (from different angles) and the last two are life drawings from the other night.

johnny78 thanks man! hope you like the new update as well.

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peace
pierre

[Pierre]

hey guys,

could not sleep so i thought i could do a color study (45min) of my desk as i
have it front of me. the exercise i told me to do, was to use not any layers,
multiply mode or opacity but to match the value just by eye sight. i would
appreciate any criticism. thanks :)

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cheers

[poise]

very cool Drawings! Do you or did you go to The Academy of art University?
I like your line work a lot, But I would like to see more Value in your sketchbook.
Keep them comin!!

[That fat kid]

hey pierre, i'm sorry I didn't check back sooner, this thread is definitely worth it with all these great figures and studies....the gestures are my favorite, you really have a sense of how to capture a person with an economy of marks..I've done the draw a person while they draw you, makes for some dynamic expressions! keep working at it, I'd love to see somre erally finished pieces, looks like you could impress us!

tfk

[kinnas]

aw geez, I wish I had your line

[Jeff Jaws]

hey,
coole zeichnungen hast du da. wie man das so aus dem thread mitbekommen hat, bist du ja anscheinend in Leipzig an der HGB.. was genau studierst du denn da?
hau rein und lass mehr sehen.
Jj.

[Pierre]

thanks for the replies guys!

poise i just started studying at the art academy three months ago and i got another 4 1/2 year to go, hehe. but its been quite fun so far. i'll work on the value thing. we had two sessions yet where we had to build the drawing by value only, i dont have pics of them though, but it was a big learning experience and ill try to focus on that in future life drawings. stay tuned.

that fat kidthanks for checking back. i sorta fucked up on the updating too, so soryy for that, but ill really try my best to update regulary. im digging your sb as well, man. and the thing about "i draw you, if you draw me" - yes, this is really fun. what also helps is, if you dont look at the paper but try to be confident on putting the lines down on your paper while you "draw" what you see with your eyes. so that your eye and your pencil are always on the same area and always go by the same speed, if you know what i mean. those contour drawings look quite crazy at the beginnig but it helps tons.

kinnas thanks - just keep on drawing and drawing. thats always the best and have fun!

jeff jaws thanks for dropping a line and yes youre right i am studying at the hgb in leipzig, but im afraid to tell you that i dont study painting there but graphic-design.

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alright, so here are some new studies that i made during an afternoon in the city. mostly gestures again.

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from a party last night ... got bored and had nothing but this
paper with me.
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guy in a café today, who was talking about dante's comedy. quite interesting!
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cheers
Pierre

[Pierre]

hey guys,

well this was just a speedy and i am still getting used
to the digital painting ...

wish all of y'all a happy new years eve
and not a bad hangover for tomorrow.

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pierre

[Taj]

Amazing stuff here Pierre. Makes me wan't to get up and sketch...i won't. Hey what kind of pencil do you draw with usually, it looks to soft for 2B.

[Odds]

hey pierre; nice seeing your stuff progress. those skulls are looking REALLY tight. keep it up with those studies. with your life drawing, remember to draw the structural lines before you start detailing, this will help you getting the figure to look a little more balanced. :)

[steak-tron]

Great sketches man. Nice searching line-work, thanks for putting them up :)

[Robolus]

Hi Pierre, toll neue Skizzen von dir zu sehen. Wie immer beeindruckt es mich wie du mit wenigen Strichen die Persönlichkeit einer Person festhalten kannst. Ich würde mir wünschen weiter ausgearbeitete Sachen von dir zu sehen die sicherlich bei dir herumliegen. Was macht dein Studium? Meld dich mal bei mir.
Btw, ich wünsch dir ein super 2006!!!

[Pierre]

oh man, im such a dick on updatin'. well, anyways, as i dont own a computer and i only can work digitaly on the 'puter of my parents i'll just have this ish as an update. so... it was my dad's b-day and we celebrated it quite well, im sorry for this being the only thing i got right now to put up online (no scans - quite lazy to be honest on scanning that ish - im feeling like such a jerk, man) .

Taj ------- hey thanks for the encouragement. please do go and sketch! show it to us, im looking forward to it - and sorry for the long takin reply...
concerning the pencils - yes i am using something softer than 2B. actually its 4B most of the time. but being quite honest i dont really care, as long as it doenst smudge too muge. i guess 4B is the softest i use. hope it helps.

Odds ----- Yes, man - thanks a lot for the critiques - and you're right. i tend to forge to build up the understructure and getting to quick on the line drawing. i'll focus on that!

steak-tron --- oh shit, man, you dont know how i felt like seeing you post on my sketchbook. im digging a lot of your stuff ive seen recently! thanks on that! and thanks for liking some of the stuff i am putting up. i am not very well equipped computerwise, so i wont have many updates i guess - sorry, im feeling quite lame bout it...

robolus - thanks!!! did you get my mail. i am quite concerned cuz i got a new account from our school and i hope my email to you didnt get caught as spam...it'd be nice to talk to you again sometime!

anyways, heres a REALLY small doodle....

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hope ya like,
Pierre

[sabe2003]

wow. Line quality! And Expressions are so strong here..... then color! Wooo! :uzi:

[Pierre]

sabe2003 ---- thanks, that makes me happy.

anyways, so i moved my lazy ass to the scanner, hehe.
here are some drawings i made on the train or at the train
station - observing the collars of people.

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[Sam256]

Hey, this is great. Few lines, but telling allot. Are you at the HGB now?

[Pierre]

Hey guys,

sorry but my server crashed and all the links to
the images broke, which is why I "X"ed them all
out. I'll try my best to get those old pics up again
but for now ya'll have to come out with the new
ones here.

First one digi-sketch of a pirate and then some
scans from my sketchbook! I hope you like them.
I had much fun doing these!

Sam256 Yes - I am studying at the HGB right
now! So you're hanging out at the Protzdendorf? I'll
be back in Leipzig in April - then I'll drop by there for
drawing. They have jam sessions on mondays I think!


http://www.mitglied.lycos.de/pierre/ca/28-02-06/bw-pirate.jpg

friend of mine having a hangover

http://www.mitglied.lycos.de/pierre/ca/28-02-06/kummsi.jpg

http://www.mitglied.lycos.de/pierre/ca/28-02-06/trainman.jpg

http://www.mitglied.lycos.de/pierre/ca/28-02-06/zug1.jpg

http://www.mitglied.lycos.de/pierre/ca/28-02-06/zug2.jpg

http://www.mitglied.lycos.de/pierre/ca/28-02-06/zug3.jpg

Cheers
Pierre

[Moysturfurmer]

pretty good stuff. My only qualm, is that some is a bit hard to see.

[Pierre]

I am travelling a lot at the moment, and this here is my best friend ;).

http://www.mitglied.lycos.de/pierre/ca/28-02-06/reiseruck.jpg

[Sam256]

Hehe cool shit. I will be back in good ol' LE in April too. They have sessions every monday. I'm the guy with the sketchbook drinking beer. :)

[Pierre]

Sam Looking forward to it! Wont get the chance to go there on the first monday of april ut prolly at the beginning of the 2nd week.

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Well, here goes another update. Again some digital scribble first. Then one of a few portrait drawings I did of a friend of mine.

http://mitglied.lycos.de/pierre/ca/01-03-06/scribble.jpg

http://mitglied.lycos.de/pierre/ca/01-03-06/haubi1.jpg

Went to Münster last week - hanging around with good friends of mine.
I was also looking at the etchings of Hopper, whose prints really blew me away. Been then doing lots of value stuff lately. I got a stack of post card sized value studies of his and Degas' works at my place in Leipzig lying around. Once I get back there I'll throw them on the scanner. Will be reading the short excerpt about value by Loomis as well.

If you guys know any good infos about value - give me a hint.

http://mitglied.lycos.de/pierre/ca/01-03-06/muenster02.jpg

http://mitglied.lycos.de/pierre/ca/01-03-06/muenster01.jpg

http://mitglied.lycos.de/pierre/ca/01-03-06/value01.jpg

http://mitglied.lycos.de/pierre/ca/01-03-06/value02.jpg

bye
Pierre

[Pierre]

nothing fancy here - just some sketches that got lost when
the server crashed, that I wanna put back up. -pierre

http://mitglied.lycos.de/pierre/ca/01-03-06/train.jpg

http://mitglied.lycos.de/pierre/ca/01-03-06/mufajubi.jpg

[Pierre]

quick sketch

http://mitglied.lycos.de/pierre/ca/01-03-06/streetcars.jpg

[Shinryu]

amazing lines, I was in here a while back but didnt get to post, all the older stuff was great too, excellent stuff Pierre

cheers

[sith]

Pierre, it's wonderful to see someone that uses pretty much just line and yet, is still able to show depth and form.

[Pierre]

hey guys!!!

new stuff for all of you. Hope ya like!!!

I've been to Spain for the last three weeks, been to
museums (discovering wonderful artists), have been
drawing a lot, have been partying for the "Fallas"
(in Valencia) and of course spend time relaxing as it
were my holidays.

Shinryu Thanks! Hope you come back around this time!

sith Thanks, man! Still I want to get around to show
form by crosshatching and value in the future. I just looked
at stuff by James Kei and he really blows my mind away with his
drawings and paintings!!!

Cheers,
Pierre

http://www.robolus.com/pierre01.jpg

http://www.robolus.com/pierre02.jpg

http://www.robolus.com/pierre03.jpg

http://www.robolus.com/pierre04.jpg

http://www.robolus.com/pierre05.jpg

http://www.robolus.com/pierre06.jpg

http://www.robolus.com/pierre07.jpg

http://www.robolus.com/pierre08.jpg

http://www.robolus.com/pierre09.jpg

http://www.robolus.com/pierre010.jpg

http://www.robolus.com/pierre011.jpg

[tensai]

nice book, good effort.
love this one, pure gold
http://www.mitglied.lycos.de/pierre/ca/31-03-06/07.jpg

keep it up

[daqu]

dude so 5 stars

[frog and *BAM*]

Amazing stuff, your style is awesome.

[Dizon]

We have a HOT one here! I admire your life sketches! You have a great eye.

BOOKMARKED!

[ArcoNL]

Your line work is fantastic....thanks for sharing!

[Icey]

i don't like all your sketches, but what amazes me and makes me drop my words here is your determination! That shows in your all tipe of lifedrowings, doodles and gestures. Some of them are amazeing!
I've voted 5 stars just for that!
but keep up the sweaty work here and soon i'll come here with the hat in my hand and my head in the ground!!

Best luck!!

Icey

[sleeperservice]

Your sketches have a great line quality. Lots of life and movement in them with such economy. Where did you study? I'd love to get the knack to do those quick character drawings. Any suggestions?

[Pierre]

First of all thanks again - and thank you for your patience as well as I had again problems with my server. Which explains why there where not any images online from yesterday until now. Many thanks to Robolus for I was able to put the last images back online due to his effort. The server problem will be cleared during this week!

tensai thanks a lot, man! I looked at your stuff and found those incredible drawings of the city landscapes. thumps up, pal!

daqu oh, dont make me blush, i was already happy to receive 4 points, but i guess thats a nice goal that makes one to work harder!

frog and *BAM* muchias gracias!

patdzon thank you patzdon! i am glad you're enjoying these! about my eye sight... i wear glasses, damnit ;) :dad:

ArcoNL thank you for the kind words and commenting! i think this is part of the community to share and as far as this goes ive learned a lot just by the stunning artwork posted on these boards and it keeps one busy!

Icey thank you for your honesty and for the stars! i'd be interested to know which sketches you rather liked. but as you can see i had server problems yesterday and most of the stuff got pulled from my server. only the last post is back online. anyways, thanks for your encouragement!

sleeperservice hey sleeperservice! thanks for coming by and looking at my stuff! i didnt study anywhere particulary but i started a half year ago to study at an art school (HGB Leipzig). Still most of foundadtion is self taught by reading a lot and keeping my eyes wide opened. I am constantly learning just by drawing from life. Thats all I could suggest, I think.

More to come,
Pierre

[lumbi]

=== german ===
astreine scheise alder !!!
mach weida so ... wirst so ein grosser stadtjunge.
gruesse von oben - ellen und lumbi

=== english ===
this shit is hot dude !!!
keep on working this way ... so that you grow up and become a real big gangster.
greetz from the coast of germany [wismar] - wonderwoman and dickhead
:blahblah: :blahblah: :blahblah: :blahblah: :blahblah: :blahblah: :blahblah:

[Robolus]

Reeeeeeeeeeally good looking work man!
Keep these lines flowing!!!

[Taj]

updaaaate!!! amazing stuff man.