Mayshing's Journey

[mayshing]

Alot of awesome artists here, it really took a while for me to decide to open up my own thread to share my sketches. :yayca: Salute to all the awesome arts in this Sketchbooks forum.

Hopefully as I keep a sketch book and get feedbacks, I will be inspired to do more and better sketches.

A little about myself:
An art student during transfer so SVA, also a freelance artist
Age: 23 (turning 24 at Dec 9)
Interests: all kinds of art, cultures, psychology and medical studies
Concerntrate Area of practice: manga/comic art
Area hoping for improvement: enviromental art, watercolor painting, mechanical drawings, concept and.... ok... there's too much. I will shut up and post artworks now.

http://www.altarstudio.com/manga/cache/Anime/artworks/Sketches/_640/GoldenEagle.jpg

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http://www.altarstudio.com/manga/cache/Anime/artworks/Sketches/_640/Bold-eagles.jpg
http://www.altarstudio.com/manga/cache/Anime/artworks/Sketches/_640/Bold-eagle2.jpg

[mayshing]

http://www.altarstudio.com/manga/cache/Anime/artworks/Sketches/_640/may-mystry.jpg

Experiemental concept sketch

[mayshing]

People:
I like sketching from life, most of the time I don't ask people to pose for me, I prefer their natural expression and stage when they are not posing... they tend to have a habit-pose they go back to once in a while, even when they are not still.

http://www.altarstudio.com/manga/cache/Anime/artworks/Sketches/_640/Papa-Lewis.jpghttp://www.altarstudio.com/manga/cache/Anime/artworks/Sketches/_640/Teacher-anthropology.jpg

http://www.altarstudio.com/manga/cache/Anime/artworks/Sketches/_640/Woman-inDiner.jpg

http://www.altarstudio.com/manga/cache/Anime/artworks/Sketches/_640/Skull-buttom.jpg

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http://www.altarstudio.com/manga/cache/Anime/artworks/Sketches/_640/WolfPup.jpg

Wolf pups, study from photograph

http://www.altarstudio.com/manga/cache/Anime/artworks/_640/Wolf-Moon.jpg

Wolf, study from photograph

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http://www.altarstudio.com/manga/cache/Anime/artworks/_640/Earth-round.jpg

Some fun with perspective.

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http://www.altarstudio.com/manga/cache/Anime/artworks/Sketches/_640/Beaten-iron-bender.jpg

An steel/iron bender, it was full of personality.

http://www.altarstudio.com/manga/cache/Anime/artworks/Sketches/_640/Masks-SurA.jpg

Some South American masks, doodled at the museum. They are quite fun.

[mayshing]

http://www.altarstudio.com/manga/cache/Anime/artworks/Sketches/_640/Value-practice.jpg

Some traditional media value study.

http://www.altarstudio.com/manga/cache/Anime/artworks/Sketches/_640/Colorado-rocks.jpg

Colorado rocks, study from photo. (again)

[mayshing]

http://www.altarstudio.com/manga/cache/Anime/artworks/_640/lakota-circle.jpg

Drawn as a gift for native friends.

http://www.altarstudio.com/manga/cache/Anime/artworks/_640/lakota-fire.jpg

Colored version.

[mayshing]

http://www.altarstudio.com/manga/cache/Anime/artworks/Sketches/_640/Paintover-FieldsHills-s.jpg

Paint over study of a photograph, simple practice, but it's some insane amount of time spent for a simple practice...

[Farvus]

Great start for a sketchbook. Welcome to CA.org :)
I like the forest drawing. It's really difficult subject.

Keep posting.

[yAdam]

Some nice work so far!! Especially liking the wolf and cubs.. Great start to the book

[Azeira]

very nice animals. your works on naturasl subjects are far more imprssive than your ficticious ones. i would recommend practicing more on your fake animals. try intigrating what you know about youre animals with new, stranger possibilities. it cant hurt to try.

Woodruff

[mayshing]

wow... I didn't expect to have more replies... I suppose I will keep updating this thread.

To Azeira: Yes... I noticed I work better with references.... I need to work on my imagination.

[mayshing]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v83/mayshing/GrownUps.jpg

http://pictures.greatestjournal.com/userimg/5341948/95193
Just somethings i am working on. C &C welcomed.

[mayshing]

Doing some more studies lately with photoshop. :P
http://www.altarstudio.com/manga/cache/Anime/artworks/Sketches/_640/speed-mountain%20practice.jpg
Speed painting study.
Realized the weakness of the lack in texture and shape. The stone look like wood.

http://www.altarstudio.com/manga/cache/Anime/artworks/Sketches/_640/stone-sand.jpg

somewhat happy with this one.

http://www.altarstudio.com/manga/cache/Anime/artworks/Sketches/_640/stone-shiny.jpg

The shiny stone is the most unsatisfied, my eyes could see fairies after staring at it for so long.

[mayshing]

http://www.altarstudio.com/manga/cache/Anime/artworks/Commissions/_640/Tashna-goddess.jpg

Recent finished commission piece.

[mayshing]

http://www.altarstudio.com/manga/cache/Anime/artworks/Sketches/_640/Girl-3102006.jpg

[document]

Nice sketches! The life studies are looking good but I think you need to try to get a bit more structure in them. Try to block things out with simple shapes first (boxes or cylinders) and then move into more detail. Keep going with these though.

[mayshing]

To Document: thanks for the advice. I know I am lacking in the structure but had trouble with it.

[Matt Smith]

Nice stuff, I would like to see more studies from anatomy and drawing books, those might help you think about the structures more. I also like the texture on the rock study.

[mayshing]

http://www.altarstudio.com/manga/cache/Anime/artworks/Sketches/_640/Lady-black.jpg

Finally learned the usefulness of using the "eye" measurement. Some of the value is a bit rough... just trying to get the measurement more accurately.

http://www.altarstudio.com/manga/cache/Anime/artworks/Sketches/_640/stone-gray.jpg

http://www.altarstudio.com/manga/cache/Anime/artworks/Sketches/_640/stone-green.jpg

[vigostar]

those last two rocks look pretty damb good...

[mayshing]

http://altarstudio.mayshing.com/oekaki/pictures/OP_177.jpg
Another study from a black and white photo.


Next goal is a study from color to black and white.

[mayshing]

http://mayshing.com/Gallery/figure-04.jpg


http://mayshing.com/Gallery/Skeleton-online.jpg

http://mayshing.com/Gallery/Skulls-2007-online.jpg

http://mayshing.com/Gallery/figure-09F.jpg

http://mayshing.com/Gallery/figure-03.jpg

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http://mayshing.com/Gallery/2M-DragonKnight-s.jpg


Having trouble to add colors to this piece... so I ended up keeping it monochromatic theme.

[mayshing]

You can tell I have no love for the gun, I don't even know what the heck is going on in the tiny photo reference anyway. -_-b I still don't like the hands.
I will continue to work on this pic.

[Hudd]

You have some nice work here. I really like the skeletons and the figure studies. Where is the update on the last one? Hope to see an update soon.

-Hudd

[Jaytea]

Ah, great work here. I really like that portrait at the top of the page; nice colors there. The studies are nice as well, can't wait for more~