emily (11.28: more costumes and stuff)

[hp]

EDIT: Hey, I'm Emily Su and my dream is to work as an illustrator at Imaginary Friends or Udon Crew :D

http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/8148/painting7to.jpg
http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/5066/noses8ty.jpg
http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/183/anatomy19bm.jpg
http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/5850/anatomy23hm.jpg
http://img467.imageshack.us/img467/2843/pinup2together8hh.jpg
http://img467.imageshack.us/img467/1131/pinup1together8vq.jpg
http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/9537/pingup3together4tz.jpg
http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/2415/pinup4together3tm.jpg

[hp]

and some fanart sketches based on anatomy sketches.

http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/3338/renjishikai1qk.jpg
http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/2366/shirayuki0qt.jpg
http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/2889/bleachsketch210xz.jpg
http://img464.imageshack.us/img464/2209/card45wm.jpg

[hp]

ummm for my class, i'm doing some "sailor" concepts that are probably around the roman/greek time but really don't have to be >.<

this is part of the "loner" type stuff ^^ the first page was all done in pen.

will post more later.

http://img334.imageshack.us/img334/1762/sketchbook13ln.jpg
http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/8114/sketchbook23px.jpg

[cartoonfox]

no one has replied yet?
it's a cruel world out there in sketchbook land these days! so many sketchbooks, so little time : ]

anyway enough blabbing. you have some nice stuff here. good to see you doing them studies, i should really be doing the same...

my favourite is this one (http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/2366/shirayuki0qt.jpg) - i love the dynamic pose and the loose yet firm lines for the clothes. if you could get the same accuracy and confidence in your lines for the actually figure, then you would be seriously rocking! with more and more studies, life drawing and practice, you'll get more confident in where you put your line.
the actually anatomy is fine, but it does seem a little stiff in places. try doing some exercises where you have to draw the whole figure in just a few minutes. either in life drawing or with anatomy books. this will help you to loosen up, and your drawings will benefit greatly from it. try not to worry about how it will look. a sketchbook is for you, not others. if you draw a quick loose sketch and it looks rubbish at first, who cares? with practice you will get better. and then when you go to draw at a normal speed, you will notice a greater sense of your own style coming through.

hope this makes sense. just try a few loose sketches a day.
try and get everything in with out taking your pencil off the paper.
try get everything in in as few lines as possible.
try getting everything in in as little time as possible.
these suggestions may sound a little lame, but try them out. i think your drawings will improve greatly from them (and they are already awesome!)
hope this make sense.

i look forward to your next update.



peace :7up:

[Master 25 Days]

good stuff here, gal. I really dig the colored piece. Good colors there. The right shoulder is to broad though and the left shoulder seems to slump. Your shading shows good understanding. keep it up.

[Boogieman]

These rock. Hot ass on this (http://img467.imageshack.us/img467/2843/pinup2together8hh.jpg) one. And this (http://img464.imageshack.us/img464/2209/card45wm.jpg) paint is really nice. Gimme some more.

[hp]

mizore. unfortunately i've been really sick so i had to finish this fast (by my standards)...i'll finish the keyboard tomorrow and work on some details/fixing.

oh, btw thanks to everyone who commented!!!!!

@cartoonfox: yeah my main problem is anatomy + drawing too slow....trying to work on it...:(

http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/8017/selfportrait38ch.jpg

[XXXJanitorman]

Wow! I really like the last painting. The lamp and the highlights on your face are great. The only thing that immediately bugs me is your thumb. I think it should be lowered a bit?

Your first fanart picture is amazing. I love your confident lines and they have a rhythm to them also.

[Kresh]

Nice studies!. I like that your working with character interaction too. Watch your head sizes, in a few of em i see the porportions of the heads way off from the rest of the body.

Your last sketch here is really impressive nothing to complain about that one yet. Keep up the great work

[glikster]

hp... these are starting great!
The second loner pager's sitting figure has VERY long limbs...
I really like that last SP (but watch your thumb, it's dislocated), and the little figure on the other figure's shoulders.You nailed that pose!

Keep working and posting!

My first crit as a member of SSG#13!

[hp]

woot! part of a group! ^^ (really need to start meeting more ppl on this forum) :yayca:

@XXXJanitorman: thanks, about the thumb, i realized what is wrong....i think i am more flexible in my fingers than most people...i'll fix it though b/c everyone else will think it's wrong :tihi:

@Kresh: yeah....working on anatomy.

@glikster: ditto from what i wrote for kresh and xxx >.< i think the figure who's sitting on the other's shoulders - you're talking about my bleach sketch? - anyways yeah that sketch gave me a hard time. i originally was gonna color it and finish it for an xmas contest but the colors on my monitor are REALLY skewed. i have to use my roommate's comp to color anything now...although i just got a 2100 paycheck...maybe i'll buy me a new comp :teeth:

[Farvus]

That's a very good start. 8 hours a day is lot's of time :)
http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/2366/shirayuki0qt.jpg - this one is fantastic. Really clean line and dynamic pose.
I think that this one http://img464.imageshack.us/img464/2209/card45wm.jpg contrast although the last one looks good.
Can't wait to see new updates :).

[Onir]

thought those sketches looked like Renji from bleach! lol great work you've got, really like the anatomy studies you've got, and your fanart based on those studies is a really cool way to go about them. Beautiful paintings, wish I could paint like that :P Amazing that you spend 8 hours a day btw, that's admirable/inspirational lol. Nothing I can really think to crit on honestly, you definitely seem to know what you need to work on and you're working on it diligently hehe. keep it up, looking forward to updates :teeth:

[ivy'sgrandkid]

kewl worl i like your lines and i love the fanart ones

[hp]

@Farvus: thanks, yeah, right now with a new job + school + social time only prolly allows me for half the time i've been drawing. *sigh* it was crazy though esp during the winter break...i was drawing a hella lot more than 8 hrs a day...

@Onir and ivy'sgrandkid: thanks about the fanarts...i figured i had to merge my anatomy studies and my fanart somehow...>.< i have like....TONS of fanart on my hd that i won't post cuz it's scary how much i have of bleach.

"finished" self portrait with a keyboard and some touch ups.
http://img319.imageshack.us/img319/4360/finalspsmall8ep.jpg

i did make a thread for my fanart but here are some closeups of my sketches.
http://img452.imageshack.us/img452/9453/bleachsketch4close8fx.jpg
http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/7836/bleachsketch5close6ub.jpg

[Darktwin]

very cool sketches, and I really dig the self portrait, wow, welcome to concept art

[glikster]

Great update! I love your sense of mass and lighting...it really comes through on that last page of fanart sketches... the head with its tongue out is great!



Congrats on getting the big check! Too bad about your computer, though...

keep em coming!!!

[Hiipi]

Bugger.

Good work there girl! Good to have you in our team!!!! :D

I don´t know what to say, your work seems pretty nice to me. You don´t have big issues with anatomy, your lines are firm and solid and your colorwork seems to be pretty much in schedule. Daamn. I just have to asspat a bit. *pat pat*

Even though you have nice sketches and so on, there isn´t much finished pieces. And since you CAN make colored pictures, why dontcha take one of those nice sketches you have and color them?!? Please... Would like to see more. You self-portrait has really good values and a nice mood in it, some refinining with the texture would make it better, in other words you can see the brushstrokes a bit too clearly for my taste in some bits (but this is totally a factor of liking some style or not). It makes it look a bit too ruggady for example on the cheek and the armpit...

But you are on a good track! I can´t say much more now so I will just shut the hell up, m´kay...

:D


http://www.todellisuus.net/~hiipi/Pics/finpatriot.gif

[machzero]

oi hpslashluvr,

have to agree with Hiipi, more finished coloured works would kick arse.


and have to say... enjoying the diversity in ssg13 atm. It's 10:30 friday night for me atm, just got back to work, and unfortunately have to head to office again tomorrow (no OT).... but definitely inspired to doodle the weekend away after looking through all the threads.

[hp]

@darktwin: thanks!

@glikster: you know, about drawing from memory...i remember you doing that with your latest "back" sketch. if you see my first post, the page of noses is me trying to draw from memory >.< like i'd draw it once or twice from a photo, then cover them up and draw a few more sketches of it over again from memory. it doesn't really work THAT well unless i keep doing it i guess...:teeth:

@hiipi: thanks for the asspat :heart: haha jk, you should be meaner to me! about the selfportrait, it was "rugged" cuz i didn't have time to finish. it was due really soon and i basically whipped out a piece of crap painting. ^^ i can see where the jawline/cheek and the arm needs to be smoothed out, definitely. about finished pieces....not to make you angry but i have never, ever finished a piece in my entire life.

@machzero: ditto about finished pieces, read above :tihi:

I don't know if any of you are going to do this, but I'm going to try to have a "theme" each week of something I need to work on. We don't all have to have a similar theme and you don't have to draw specifically towards this theme for every sketch but you have to promise yourself to at least do one page of studies for it during the week. Too often we tell ourselves that we are going to do studies of something we suck at but we don't.

So until next friday, my theme is...dun dun duhhhh...HANDS!. I used to be really good at drawing hands and loved it but now it's more of a chore.

[Sepulverture]

Nice sketchbook, I feel inspired to update mine :P (crappy as it is).

[cartoonfox]

wow, some great stuff since last time.

don't worry about my last post. your drawings and anatomy are great. way better than mine.
it was just a little excersise suggestion (i just realised my post was waay too long! : ]) to help you loosen up a bit.
but, just ignore me, i'm talking out my ass! : ]

anyway, that digital painting is coming along great.
and those sketches look cool, though i can't tell if they're real or digital...


peace :7up:

[evildisco]

Some really nice linework, a couple of weird proportions here and there but overall a really good body of work.

[Onir]

nice update, very nice self portrait love the way you handle those colors. I like the head practices you've got there, they look reaaallly nice hehe. were those from reference? Either way wish I could sketch heads like that lol :P keep up the great work!

[Zhengpeng]

Impressive art you got there. The heads you draw seem to be at pretty difficult angles to draw from. And yet they are very well done(work a little on the chin though). For the rest there is little I can comment on right now, but I realy like the painting you did and I'm looking forward to see you improving. Oh I just noticed that the thumb in your selfportret is not properly attached to the rest of the hand. Its coming from behind your fingers with an imposible angle...

[HEROIC]

woot, that SP u did is kickin. ouch it hurts, really like the values.
Ur portraits are great, love the guy on the right (http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/7836/bleachsketch5close6ub.jpg). but i think its time to start doing crazaa full bodies too :)
Great ps stuff. Love the line work. Did u do ur sp on the paper then worked on it, in the ps? or did u do the outline in ps too?
Cause the sp looks like its been taken by camera. cause of the orangi shade it has. but if its not. Its way damn too awesum.
which will make me end up *BOW*
DO more on paper plzzz :D


AMi :^^:

[Farvus]

These head sketches have very good proportions and expressions. You must have done lot's of studies.
Self portrait is great too but something bothers me about shadows on forearm. It looks a bit flat.

Cheers.

[Master 25 Days]

That self portrait looks great. Lighting looks tricky but you pulled it off pretty well. For dramatic effects, I would pump up the contrast more but it looks fine right now. You should post the photo to go along with it too.

[glikster]

Update! :upset: :uzi2:




:P

About anatomy... yeah... practice, practice, practice....

[hp]

sorry i havent had access to my comp so i couldn't upload anything...um, it's not much but here is what i have - i drew a rough sketch for the cotw but never got around to fixing it and coloring it for the actual submission...thinking i might actually finish this piece though. basically his imaginary elf char is "guiding" him through the game (it's a bad scan but she's pointing) :teeth:
http://img70.imageshack.us/img70/4204/img0019sx.jpg

@Sepulverture: thanks, i think i commented in yours.

@cartoonfox: ummmm i think that your anatomy work is better than mine >.< but i suppose i will accept an asspat from you :bashful: if you're talking about the bleach fanart sketches, those are digital but i originally was going to make the whole piece look like a pencil drawing.

@evildisco: thanks...yeah...my anatomy proportions are horrible. :tihi:

@Onir: for the head sketches, those are referenced (mostly loosely) from the first girl's (haha, and most of my sketches ended up being guys) photos in "facial expressions". it's a GREAT photo book that i got to help me work with drawing more exciting emotions and also to help my anatomy work.

@Zhengpeng: thanks, i tried to get unusual head poses to get the chars in the overall sketch to look more interactive and fun. about the thumb...yeah...my thumb does that. i tried to fix it but i guess i still need to lower it some.

@HEROIC: i thought i mentioned it being from a photo b/c i had to do it really quick before class (i've been sick and couldn't do it from observation like i wanted to...in my last sketchbook thread you can see a sp i did from observation)...but after posting on a few forums i guess i forgot to add that. here is the FUGLY ref pic i used :$ i wish i could say i got all prettified for it but i basically woke up and drew it ^^ AND you can see my thumbs DO do that weird broken look thingy...>.<

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room11/269334/artref%21.jpg



@Farvus: thanks, yeah, i had to draw them quite a few times before i liked what i saw. about the arm in my sp...agreed. if i had more time i'm sure i woulda worked on it.

@Master 25 Days: I shoulda pushed the contrast but I was afraid it would look too much like I worked from a photo if I did it too much.

@glikster: haha, you copied my post with the uzi!!! lately i haven't done enough anatomy practices...*sniffs*

[Sepulverture]

Yeah, you did comment in my book, thanks by the way! Sorry for not getting around to saying so earlier:P

[Zhengpeng]

Lol, I've been staring at that thumb and tried to reconstruct it. I came to the conclusion that its possible if you put a lot of weight on it ^^. Ok I just have to find a doctor to return it to its original position >.<

That sketch you made is actually pretty good. The expressions are very strong, but omg that much vet oO.

[dCepT]

Good stuff! I like the colors in the SP by your computer.

Keep 'em coming!

d-C

[glikster]

nice sketch.... the guy looks like he's in pain, but I see what you're aiming for.

Wow... your legs are distracting... :wink:

[hurricane]

great anatomy stuff and your lines are great, love the weight of em !

cheers and keep on sharing!

[Farvus]

I dig the elf character's face expression. Interesting composition. I can't wait to see this piece finished.
Keep updating ! :)

[HEROIC]

wow, thats pretty much the same, sweet.
I think i gotta do one too >_> :D

and yaah ur photo is looking pretty , pretty. :x distracting.
>__________________________> Cant wait for Montreal workshop :tihi:

maybe some more updates?
lazy ass:android:

AMi

[Orozc0]

damn that self-portrait is pretty sick. I just recently did something very much like that, it's in my sketchbook if u wanna see.

[jca]

http://img464.imageshack.us/img464/2209/card45wm.jpg
wtf???!?!?!

[Victor B]

Nice variety in sketches from linework to color, I really like the costume exercise you did( where you used the figure and drapped it in various costumes) I need to do that! Anyway just wanted to chime in and say nice work, keep it up!

[machzero]

hpslashluvr, you're developing your own fan base!! Heheheheh.

btw, bleach is the one with the carrot-topped demon hunting kid with the big sword, and pages and pages of people standing around commenting on the fights? I'm outta touch.

[Onir]

hehe machzero is right hp, appears you're getting some fans. nice chow sketch as well, shame you didn't get to complete it.. love the look on the gamer guys face lol. nice picture of you as well; gliksters comment about your legs made me laugh a bit ;P

[hp]

@Sepulverture: it's ok, i don't mind if you don't post back here.

@Zhengpeng: haha, yeah i didn't even notice my thumb was messed up until like this year when someone pointed it out to me.

@dCepT: thanks!

@glikster: I tried to get across that he's just really into his game, but i guess it looks like he's constipated or something. my legs....bleh.

@hurricane: thanks!

@Farvus: thanks. btw if you can't tell it's in a basement and it will look sort of saw/hostel-ish with a light swinging back and forth over him.

@HEROIC: are you calling ME a lazy ass? >:D :confident yeah...i suppose so ^^ thanks, and i can't wait to move my bed as far as possible from yours in montreal...:teeth: *gives heroic a hug*

@Orozc0: I looked but i only saw dead links?? *sniffs*

@jca: haha if you mean it looks stupid, yeah...i was trying to draw a stylized manga type thingy with long torso/limbs but it came out all wrong. i put renji's tattoos :teeth:

@vctr: thanks! those were done as studies for a pin-up i'm drawing of a friend. unfortunately she chose like the hardest pose ever...it's not shown but i'll post the sketch later.

@machzero: haha! i don't know what you're talking about...thank god for the ssg though for replies ^^ and yeah...that's bleach :tihi: i don't really watch anime at all but i'm really into that show.

@Onir: thanks! i think i'll fix all the problems and try to paint it eventually. and about glikster...i don't even know what he means by that...*shrugs*

um...sketched out a quick idea for the new cotw...remake of the famous "venus" painting. i know her legs are weird and her boobs should be stuck together if they're bound like that. and i dunno why sakura blossoms are falling or why she has a riding crop. i'll try to think of something to put there instead later.

http://img127.imageshack.us/img127/6854/cotw4lb.jpg

[Zord]

Hey, just wanted to give encouragement and say that things are looking good. You've already improved and if you keep drawing as much as you are, things will only get better. I like the COW sketch from yesterday; nice fine lines, and plus it's done in the tradtional ink/paper. Always preferred those more than digital. Keep pushing those studies too, they can only help. Cheers!

[glikster]

Sorry if my comment was out of line... :teeth:

Very nice start to the CHOW entry... I like how you kept the hair around her...and she looks very relaxed...


Post more!!!

[Onir]

nice little update, looks good. the CHoW this week seems to be producing alot of diversity (which is a good thing of course); I like your take on it, and I'm with glikster she does look very relaxed, just kinda loungin in the shell. Took me a little while to notice the riding crop you were talking about.. that is a little random lol. anyway nice work keep it up! :D

[Sepulverture]

eh, it`s not that i don`t WANT to post back here (getting comments/suggestions is always appreciated so i like to try to show my appreciation). it`s more that I am extremely forgetful. I usually check out your sketchbook when I post an update, you got some cool stuff up here.

[Farvus]

Cool update with the Venus painting. I like the pose and composition. It's very early stage but I think you could experiment a bit more with colours.

Keep it up.

[hp]

@Zord: thanks! for some reason i've been going more into traditional work than digital lately, which i guess is a good thing.

@glikster: haha it's cool. i tried to keep the hair draped the same way as the original painting.

@Onir: lol yeah i was going to draw a huge ass gun but then realized her hand was already closed, so then i thought about drawing a sword...and settled on a stick that turned into a riding crop ^^

@Sepulverture: nooooo i'm not complaining! i just comment on random ppl's sketchbooks and i don't always remember if i got around to everyone that day.

@Farvus: yeah, i dunno why i went muted on this piece...usually i try to use pretty bold colors. i think it's cuz of the digital watercolors that i talk about below.

not sure if i like this better. i thought i did but now i think it's too centered. for some reason a while ago i went through a self-portrait-foxgirl phase where i added hair-ears and a tail to everything...i thought i'd do it here. ^^

http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/2304/venus8gu.jpg

veryyyyyyyyyyyyyy basic coloring. for some reason i've been playing with digital watercolors but i'm pretty sure i'll go back to oils for that "oomph" in color.

http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/9601/venusbasiccolor9by.jpg

and the page that the sketch was on...morgan i know you'll read this eventually...i hate you for choosing that pose to draw :upset: so bad >.<

http://img367.imageshack.us/img367/7523/emily8am.jpg

[glikster]

I agree, I like the first comp better....
Aside from being too centered, this one loses the whole feel you had that I liked in the first...

[machzero]

hpslashluvr, haven't seen the bleach series though, TVs been unused for awhile. Friend was raving about it so decided to browse through the books.

It'll be freaky if you combine all your elements. Foxgirl ears/tails, the riding crop, and the cherry blossoms... heheh.

oh yeah... i've seen hardcore MMORPG gamer friends who were constipated! It's the bad diet, glued to the keyboard lifestyle.

[Onir]

wow alot different on this new one; I agree that it does seem centered, but I kinda like the pose you seem to wanna use; both seem to be in a lounging relaxed manner. I do think this one has more natural looking legs though, the other one's legs seemed really spread apart. cool stuff though, nice on the digital watercolor; with the pencil sketch (which looks like it's done on paper) and the watercolor painting could have easily fooled me into thinking it was done traditionally hehe.

[Lake]

Interesting!

I like the concept and the colors... Very little mermaid-esque.

Looks like you could use quite a bit of anatomy work, but your photoshop painterly skills look pretty good.


how old did you say you were?

[Farvus]

The colours in the new Venus piece are a bit better right now. Interesting shape of hair.
I think you could do some feet studies (something I should do myself :) ) In the last drawing they could be better.
Keep it up.

[HEROIC]

Heya, Long time, Been buzy with portfolio stuff and skool dang -__-
ur cotw is looking good. Ya That riding crop, doesnt really match her >___> but neways, i like the 2nd one, and i like it that when u scan u wont clean up the shades, ull live it to be there and then do light colours on top of it, which makes it look great. if u could just work more with ur colour that it wouldnt look flat, then it would definitely look awsum, its a great concept by the way, ill keep that im mind.

its not time consuming, just couple brushes for the light parts, and couple brushes for some dark areas, no deitals, cause thats what makes it look nice.

THat last sketch (http://img367.imageshack.us/img367/7523/emily8am.jpg) looks great. i like her pelvis and legs. u could work more on the hands plz -___-#

I should keep in mind, ASAP when i got to montreal, ill buy an awsum glue, and glue my hand to urs, so 1st u wont get lost, 2nd i wont lose u :^^:

[hp]

@glikster: yeah....i don't have time to ever finish these pieces by the time they're due ^^ so....someday, i will finish both cotw's. i think i'll try to mix the pose of the first and the idea of the second.

@machzero: haha i think there is a point where you cross from random objects in your painting being cool, and random objects just being random. ^^

@Onir: yeah, eventually when i'm good enough i wanna do gallery showings...maybe be a pioneer of like digital work in galleries (i know there is some but most of it is abstract or fixing paintings in PS)...so i'm really interested in a digital-yet-traditional-looking style.

@panda: yeah, anatomy....bleh. i'm still working on it...i'm not saying how old i am, until maybe the workshop >.< it's a mystery...:^^:

@Farvus: yeah i mean to do a hella lot of feet/hand studies cuz i always skimp out on them in my drawings.

@HEROIC: yeah the hands....read my post to farvus.

I should keep in mind, ASAP when i got to montreal, ill buy an awsum glue, and glue my hand to urs, so 1st u wont get lost, 2nd i wont lose u

and i'll bring a large 'lectric saw, so i can make sure this doesn't happen. :teeth: i'm pretty sure that i'll end up "stalking" someone anyways so that i know where to go cuz i get lost easily...

UPDATES LATER!

[Lake]

aright, 16 is my guess then. I'll find out there!

[Onir]

facebook, eh? hehe well since you've given your name and the invitation to facebook you, I'm William Justin King at Northeastern in Boston. Figure I'll tell ya so it's not random if I invite you as a friend lol

might as well add that everyone is welcome to facebook me as well :P

very cool aspirations you have, extremely unique idea if you ask me; I wish ya all the luck in the world with that. If you do ever have a show I'll try to get there ;) hehe

[hp]

i'm not trying to spam my own thread, but 16?!?!?!!?!? i'm almost flattered that finally someone thought i was younger but...hell no >.<

i'll be sure to invite ya'll if i ever have a gallery showing yeah :teeth: eventually CA is gonna be like facebook too...:yayca:

[HEROIC]

17 or 18? >____> 17.25? 18.01? :needle:
SPit it OuT :D
Updates? :er:

[That fat kid]

hey emily, lot of improvement in here, had to check out the sketchbooks of the people in the cartoonfox room of doom, not to mention glikster's comment, lol. keep working on that linework!

~A

[bidaum]

and the page that the sketch was on...morgan i know you'll read this eventually...i hate you for choosing that pose to draw :upset: so bad >.<

http://img367.imageshack.us/img367/7523/emily8am.jpgI didn't complain about mine half as much...

[machzero]

I'd guess 19~20 since most of the ladies I work with looked younger than they are. Heh.

And what is facebook? *living in prehistoric ages*

[glikster]

Um... what's facebook?

[machzero]

there was a database rollback a day or two ago. This thread could have gotten corrupted by it.

[hp]

sorry about no updates...i need to get to a scanner sometime...i have been drawing bridgman stuff though.

i'm not telling my age >.< if you have facebook you'll know. machzero's the closest in guessing ^^ facebook is sort of like myspace...it's for ppl who are in college or have a college email though...sort of like to get to know your fellow students and get in touch with old friends. you guys should sign up if your university email still works XD

is it me, or have ppl been replying and their replies got deleted?? i've been getting emailed replies but nothing is showing up since the last time i replied???

[glikster]

sorry about that. I still can't view any of my replies in this thread...


Oh well... darn technology...

I can see it now...
whew....

[Hiipi]

huzaaaa!

Hopes your thread is not all broken...

I want to see more of that Venus piece! Hard to tell which pose is better since they both seem that it is not ready cropped. At least I would hope you would add some space around there...

I´ll be backs, goody good!

[aesir]

lol hp, another facebook junkie I see. Its weird to see facebook getting mentioned on a site like this though...

i poked you :) (or someone else named emily su...)

[jca]

cool stuff, i like that self portrait one --- and after reading thru this again, i said "wtf?" last time because i thought the picture hinted at some other activity.. it doesnt look stupid, i was just wondering what the picture was about.

[hp]

@glikster: yeah, i was getting sorta frustrated with it >.<

@Hiipi: yeah, i wouldn't try to make them so centered and boring.

@aesir: sent ya a message :) well facebook, the new ca...same thing ^^

@jca: thanks, what pic are you talking about?

not much of an update, i'll try to scan the rest later. i've been spending all my evenings watching all the lost episodes XD i know they're all shitty drawings...the one with the pen was done in the dark so it came out better than expected ^^ um...they're all supposed to be self portraits but they don't really look like me. i did buy a desk mirror though for em. i also tried drawing some pregnant girl outta one of my photo books :teeth:

http://img158.imageshack.us/img158/2634/sketchbook5to.jpg

[glikster]

i know they're all shitty drawings...


Er... no they're not.... these are great... whether they ended up looking like you or not. eyes are off on one or two...


Post more!

[hp]

thanks glikster, you're too nice to me ^^

um yeah, i drew a crappy sketch for a bleach card proj. i'm jack of diamonds...i can't draw anime-style to save my life though...will fix the nose and stuff :(

http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/449/card9qo.jpg

[machzero]

yo hpslashluvr,

don't say you can't draw "anime-style"... just not "stereotypical anime-style". heheh. Most of the JP artists I like don't do standard big eyes either.

tried the good 'ol horizontal flipping method yet? The mid of the eyebrows aren't lining up with the nose, upper lip, and mouth.

so, you've been watching tv with a mirror in one hand and a sketchbook in another? multitasking hardcore, eh?

meanwhile... i think jca has his mind in the gutter... kekekekeke

[Joshawowo]

Hi hpslashluvr, great sketchbook you have here. Don't have much to say, I'm just really enjoying all your sketches. All of your drawings seem very solid, and you seem to be very good with faces. Can't wait to see more, I'll probably check back here again!

[glikster]

i can't draw anime-style to save my life though
This might be the single most confusing quote EVER on CA.org. :D


Still, it's very cool... I don't think I told you, I really enjoy how clean you get your sketches!

[Farvus]

So you bought a desk mirror too. That's very useful tool.
Don't worry about self portraits. They just are good for practicing proportions and the likness will come later :).

[Onir]

very nice looking stuff hp, those self portrait attempts all look great if you ask me. your shading and faces look great either way, so what if they don't look exactly like ya eh? hehe. the bleach card looks cool as well; I hear ya on the anime style, but that's fine still looks good. is this card project a personal project? or something for class?

[sith]

I really like your second to last pic in your second post. There's just something about it.

[hp]

@machzero: well normally i'm not trying to do anime, but everyone in the card proj seems to be doing that (i mean, bleach IS an anime)...i realized the facial features are quite off so that'll be fixed in the final.

@Joshawowo: thanks!

@glikster: i have a really bad scanner/camera, or else they'd be cleaner ^^

@Farvus: yeah....i worry sometimes about using my face cuz it's not "traditional" but oh well :teeth:

@Onir: well usually if i bother to use a mirror i'd like it to look like me...^^ the project is something between some ppl i know...so i guess personal.

@sith: thanks, someday i'll finish it...>.<

So...I showed my teacher some of my digital WIPs, and he told me to print them out really large and throw red paint at it. :needle: Oh! and finally I went to a local sketchgroup, it was pretty fun.

some more sp work and a tdome concept and start of painting (it has to be traditional). the topic is machine like character...don't worry it will have a lot more "machinery" to it, i have to wait for the base layer to dry first. i need to fix a lot of anatomy errors too but it's late...either way i haven't painted in SOOO LONG...i think it's gonna be some crazy hi-tech squirrel-girl XD

sorry for shitty camera...i took two pics of my painting, the colors are off in both :tihi:

http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/6359/11jw1.jpg
http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/2324/20rc.jpg
http://img159.imageshack.us/img159/5509/37rr.jpghttp://img159.imageshack.us/img159/5199/40nf.jpg

[machzero]

oi hpslashluvr,

dig those pencil sketches. The later "?photographed" ones seem to show the texture and your strokes better than the earlier ?scanned one.

regarding the painted one. The lighting is from below on the figure, but from the top on the tail?

[HEROIC]

WOw, sweet updates. Sketches are lookin good. though its not much which shows ur lazy ass. :p
Painting looks very nice. abit of lighting prblems, ts like u cant notice thta ur light is from down, ,rather than left or rit. and its mostly because its a bit messy, and uve lightened some areas more. Like hair is too light. Legs are bit disorted.amrs are good. face is very intresting.
Overall i like it.


GImme mroe updatess lazy ASSS. wonder how fat u are. :D ... pictures are tricky. it might have be someone elses pixz . but u trully are a HUGE FATTY PARTICLE
:^^:


AMi :^^:

[glikster]

I'm loving that tdome piece so far!

Great beginning and definition of mass on her.... can't wait to see your updates...

[Unbreakable]

Hey, the painting is coming along nicely. Heroic pretty covered all the crits that had so no need to repeat.

DeMario

[Farvus]

Great update. It's hard for me to find any constructive crit in these. From what I see you're not confident with drawing neck area. The lower part of falling woman's body could be a bit less bony in comparison to the upper part, I think.
I like how you used different values of blue. The result is quite three-dimensional look.

Farvus.

[Onir]

interesting thing your teacher told you to do lol; great update though, that sp attempt looks really good, and the squirrel girl painting looks like it's coming along nicely. really nice rendering on the body and nice handling of the paint; can't wait to see how it turns out

[hp]

@machzero: yeah actually i knew it was wrong, i just wanted to show my friend how it works

@HEROIC: well i wanted her hair to be white actually...i put too much blue in accidentally and then overworked it. anyways...DO YOU HAVE A JOB?!?!??!!?? i never have time to do lots of stuff cuz i'm busy :teeth: btw, your grammar is so bad....i can't even tell what you're trying to say XD

@glikster: thanks!

@Unbreakable: thanks, see ya week after next at the sketchgroup.

@Farvus: well on the sketch i was trying to draw myself looking down sort of at the mirror and it ended up like shit so i gave up on drawing the rest. i'll fix the painting. thanks.

@Onir: yup....but i'm gonna throw paint at my stuff today cuz apparently our midterm grades are this week...better make my teacher happy...

um...as i've learned once before...COLORING LITTLE NOSES AND MOUTHS does not look cool. i'll prolly just make the proportions normal eventually (btw his hairline is supposed to be really really high), i don't like the way it looks now...so...COMPLETE SHIT (i know the shading is off and all the features are slightly askew, i need to use a reference):

http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/985/cardpreview0xt.jpg

[Lake]

your latest stuff, I dunno, it seems really flat. A lot of the characters (including the painting of the blue girl) remind me of the main guy from Ong Bak. (movie about muay thai)

I'm not sure if that's what you were aiming for, but I'd definitely be wary of trying to work that into a personal style.

[hp]

wow, i'm definitely trying to keep my chars from looking flat, except when i just do the lineart. :(

anyhoo...a lot of ppl liked this sketch i did of hatori from fruits basket a long long time ago...SO INSTEAD OF BLEACH FANART I PRESENT A FANART OF ONE OF THE ONLY OTHER ANIMES I KNOW! >.<

http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/3699/fruitsbasket8fo.jpg

so I did a quick painting (will tone down the glow...i painted it on my computer and my monitor didn't look so bright, now on my roommate's i can see the difference) of the scene from fruits basket where hatori erases the memory of him and kana falling in love *sniffs* (the sketch of his face above was supposed to be from this scene)

it is pretty close to the original but i want it to look realistic instead of anime-style.

http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/3760/colorstudy7ey.jpg


http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/124/hatorikanaerase8ref9qj.jpg

[Onir]

cool stuff, I'ma have to agree that dark profile pic looks really good; great usage of highlights and the monotone looks really cool. that quick one looks really cool, and I really like the way you did the glow; it is a bit bright but it definitely works well. his legs look a little wierd but I understand that it was quickly done; either way it's lookin good so far

[Hiipi]

Ciao bella!

Looks good! I especially appreciate that you´ve changed their pose juuuuuust a bit, to make them more realistic actually. I like that their weight is leaning towards us, they are much more in a 3D enviroment this way than the original way. The fact you pulled it off this nicely shows that you have a good nose on anatomical things but I thinks you have to practise your rendering a bit more. They look a bit slobby, soft brushes used on the characters and yet the grid in the window is as sharp as George W. is not.

But do more and more and I will come every now an dthen pat you on the butt. :D

[glikster]

I agree with everything Hiipi said.

And I love that monochromatic profile, you showed just enough... I have no idea about any of these anime things you mention, but I like your takes on them anyway...

[Farvus]

I like the last one. I don't know if it's closer to early or finished stage but I think you should give this characters more variety of texture. I mean, different values on clothes and skin.
Keep it up :)

[machzero]

yo hpslashluvr, prefer your proportions to the original cell work. The shoujo style never caught on with me (*gets killed by rabid fans*). Why the unfinished bit to the left?

for your card work, nice colours, but I'm gonna use your phrase... "the forehead is bugging me..." heheh.

[hp]

sorry for no updates and not responding to sketchbooks, i was out on vacation and prolly going camping tonight.

[nordmark]

Nice gallery, just watch out so you dont get stuck doing all your drawings in an anime style

[hp]

oh trust me, that's my worst nightmare ^^

i don't have a scanner so i can't post my drawings i've done recently. here is some complete crap (but that i like) that i draw for my bf when i get up and he's not back from class yet so that he'll have a good day...some of these are done with a mouse, but i won't post the mspaint ones >.< i feel like i rediscovered the pen tool in Painter (i used to use it all the time for my sketches)! although i need to work on line variety and expressiveness more...sorry for not posting anything real...i just felt like i had to show SOMETHING, will post SB later.

http://img372.imageshack.us/img372/5605/aqua3yr.jpg

http://img107.imageshack.us/img107/2299/wesme23qb.jpg

http://img107.imageshack.us/img107/3300/march146hb.jpg

http://img372.imageshack.us/img372/4850/snotecrop5ld.jpg

http://img372.imageshack.us/img372/4166/wesandme1wh4rp.jpg

something drawn at work a long time ago on artpad, the most frustrating program ever, esp with a mouse. (i think i brought my tablet this day though)

http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/6990/send26ly1xr.png

[glikster]

cute stuff...
the goth you is pretty cool.
Hope you had a great vacation while we were patiently waiting for you to update....

[Onir]

hey nice updates, glad you were able to get something up. everything is lookin really cool; gonna agree with glikster, that goth you looks really nice. nice usage of the pen in painter btw, sketches look great. never knew they could get like that in painter; nice that you're back with something though, keep em comin

[hp]

some actual drawings.

some really gay looking sailor poses i was trying to draw...:( (and apparently decided to make gayer by added curly horns and smiley faces)
http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/2355/scan00013re.jpg

some slightly better drawings of those poses...both were meant to be guys but i ended up making the left one a girl.
http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/8607/scan00021ru.jpg

a little drawing done on the plane with my brother, whom i reminisced with about our wolverine drawing days (you can tell which ones are his i hope)
http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/4523/scan00038td.jpg

a drawing meant to be done for the teen t-dome challenge...unfortunately i was on vacation or busy so i didn't get to do it, but i drew this today at work. um...it's supposed to be like one of those round bots that have spider legs, they can roll around but also open up hatches with weapons. the inside control panel/seat can come up or stay down depending on the person controlling. the thing she's leaning on is a control panel that's transparent. i know the anatomy is shitty but :( i'll take a ref pic

edit: i want her to be a little squat and a tad on the heavier side, i dunno, i love that "wake up, baby" painting and the girl in there is an obvious inspiration - not skinny, looks feminine but can punch your lights out prolly. btw these poses are ref'ed from an illustrator's ref photo book i got...i have like 20 photo books now...
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?threadid=125507

http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/6443/scan0004small2wc.jpg

[Onir]

hey hp, nice update. nice poses on those pirate guys, looks like you used alot of flowing lines on some of em, almost like a gesture drawing. very nice, helps em come out with a smoother feel.. I like those hand drawings alot, seeing your straight line way of assembling then is really cool. cool idea on that last one as well, seems like a crazy robot thing haha; would be cool to see how this comes out.. thanks for showingthat Wake Up Baby! pic as well, very cool stuff

[sith]

nice lines on this gal.

http://img372.imageshack.us/img372/5605/aqua3yr.jpg

otherwise the only thing i have to say is that (i know this is going to sound kind of anal) your paper gets a little dirty when you draw. It's probably from your hand accidentally smudging the drawing when you start to draw in a new spot. Try setting a piece of paper under your hand.

I suppose, that was kind of unnecessary (omg, how do you spell that?)- i just needed something to write. Anyway, keep up the good work.

[machzero]

yo hpslashluvr!

forgot to say thanks for taking the effort for the paintovers you did on my thread.

Also, I dig "those round bots that have spider legs". Was planning to do a take on that design one of these days too.

btw, is the paper actually dirty? or is it the scanner overcompensating for the faint lead marks? Used to have the same issue too. In the end, switched the scanner to the high res colour mode, even to scan pencil work. Results were a lot better.

[liam.c]

hay that painting up there <blue> turned out really well mate ! studies coming along real nice too!

[hp]

will reply individually later...as for now...blargh! i have to finish these sailor thingys by this friday eep! lol

http://img164.imageshack.us/img164/5912/sailor8sp.jpg

[Lake]

that last one Is very well done - especially compositionally. if you have a site or are thinking about making one, it would do well as a left side banner.

[Onir]

nice painting hp, looks great; I'm always a fan of monotone so I love the greyscale, plus the thinness works really well with the composition. I agree with panda, would be a great banner for a site. good stuff! :D

[hp]

thanks! the thin size is actually me cropping it just so i don't have to think about the rest...i am on crunch time >.<

an update:

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room11/269334/sailorlookingback.jpg
http://www.filelodge.com/files/room11/269334/sailor1.JPG
http://www.filelodge.com/files/room11/269334/facecloseup.JPG

i found out that not only are all these sketches/art due this friday, but i have to present it at a game conference....*cries* well, technically my group already has the siren art done, but i want to be able to show something on my part....:( as a side note, this is for a videogame project geared towards women.

so....some hopefully less gay looking chars. two guys and two sirens in human form (both sirens look alike) - ignore all the wrinkle/clothes lines, i drew from some refs i shot and then drew over the original clothes (the sirens are naked sort of).

two ideas for posters??? which one do you like better? :blahblah:
http://www.filelodge.com/files/room11/269334/poster.jpg
http://www.filelodge.com/files/room11/269334/siren.jpg
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http://www.filelodge.com/files/room11/269334/dustinjealous.jpg

update on my machine thingy!
http://www.filelodge.com/files/room11/269334/drawing-2.JPG

[glikster]

wow... the newer stuff is totally kick-ass....

I like the first pose... but it would depend on what else there is in the poster....

[Lake]

the first one's looking really good - I suggest adding in harsh warm lighting.

[Sepulverture]

Howdy. I like the halfpainted version of your (jack of diamonds?) bleach card project thing. You seem to have a great sense of light, and your faces are very expressive. But something about the way you painted his skin makes it look unrealistic, not very skin-like. I also really like the picture you painted up showing the guy erasing the girls memory. you said that you felt like you needed to tone down the glow coming from behind them, but I think it looks pretty cool like that, just clean up those shadows under the characters maybe (i'm sure you already knew that one though). Anyway, cool stuff, keep it comin', eh?

[hp]

@glikster: not much, just a title prolly will be added. i'm going to try to put a lot of mood into the lighting though....unfortunately these will prolly be b/w cuz my monitor still sucks at color.

@panda: i might add a little sepia/yellowy cast on the pic but that'll be it, it's gonna be monotone.

@Sepulverture: yeah, the face is also too broad and pouty, i gotta rework that. i will try to finish that FB painting sometime later this month...*sigh*

here isn't much of an update, just more piratey looking costumes.
http://www.filelodge.com/files/room11/269334/costume.jpg

and some charcoal sketches i made a while ago for the machine girl thingy. also when i decided to draw in the chair, cuz i can't visualize the shirt underneath lmao.
http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/5203/charcoal12dh.jpg
http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/6954/charcoal29xk.jpg

[machzero]

hey hpslashluvr,

was playing with your sketches in photoshop, just some copy paste, and some mirroring. Picked the most dynamic poses from your sketches, and balanced them out. I think the same character appears twice, but was just using the pose.

http://www.medievalfx.com/machzero/graphics/060323b.jpg

oh yeah, that solitary eye on your charcoal sketch stands out to me! heh

[Onir]

nice updates hp, hope that game conference thing goes well; sounds like a cool idea. very nice stuff as well; the digital paintings look great, the shading is really good.. the poster is looking good as well, will be cool to see how you render out the costumes and such. I say that just because the way you tightened up your machine sketch thing is really impressive to me, some really clean lines.

those charcoal sketches stood out ALOT to me as well; amazing to me that you can call them sketches as well, the way you shaded seems like they would take a nice amount of time. I'm with machzero as well, that eye is beautiful.

keep it up! :android:

[hp]

thanks for the paintover and everything, i definitely used it.

still really crappy, but i lost my file and it's due now. so...

and ignore the font. it's just there to show there will be a title.

http://img396.imageshack.us/img396/6516/coloring353jf.jpg

[glikster]

like in said in your other thread... great job on it!

[Lake]

woahhh - cool! great rendering on this one! - a little more background could make this pic really stand out. I don't mean changing the background at all - I just mean you could sepiatone the edges or toss in some shadows of other people or something - making it look a little more crowded would help a lot.

[Farvus]

Sorry for not leaving any comment for a long time.
Let me start from the beggining.
March 16 - What a coincidence. I recently rediscovered pen tool in Painter too. It's twice better than any PS brush simulating ink. I dig the self portrait with angel and devil giving suggestions :).
March 18th - I think the poses have some balace problems. The hands with simplified contours caught my eye. Something I should practice too.
March 22th - Fantastic control over tones. I think you're quicky improving in this. As for the posters. I like first one. Nice composition.
Design of machine thingy looks great.
March 23 and 24 - I'm especially impressed by those last updates. I mean charcoal sketches and the poster. Good job.

[~Faust~]

Haha, you have dirty thoughts, I like that :) (http://img464.imageshack.us/img464/2209/card45wm.jpg)

It's the first time I see your new scetchbook and was already stunned by your first post. Gotta step in from time to time and give some asspats :)

[Onir]

gah you're ridiculously good when it comes to rendering stuff haha, looks great! the costumes came out great, and I really like the way you did the faces. I agree with panda on the sepia in the background, might help make it pop a bit more. either way good stuff, keep it up!

[machzero]

yo hpslashluvr,

love the look of the final piece you posted! But you're wrapping it up at that stage?

edit> woot! page 3.

[hp]

@glikster: thanks.

@panda: yeah i was going to give it that burnt/worn look to the edges, i just didn't have time.

@Farvus: thanks for the feedback :teeth:

@~Faust~: I'd rather have crits than asspats, but whatever ^^

@Onir: thanks, read above.

@machzero: yay page 3 indeed! i still feel like i don't have anything crucial to post each time though, almost like i'm spamming my own thread :( anyways, i have to redesign the whole poster, so that's it for that one design.

i thought the soft brush & laying down lighting method worked relatively fast (by my standards) and well, so I'm trying that again. I'm using a photo that I printed out as reference, but the lighting was a little weird so that's throwing me off. I think I might use this piece as a metaphor for my work process in a competition, but i'll have to draw in the rest of the bg and the ball for you to understand ^^

the shirt is giving me a headache...:(

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room11/269334/drawing-2_001.jpg

[glikster]

I really like how you capture the light...
too bad about the poster... :(

woops... just reread what you mentioned to Faust and Onir...

sorry about that...
ok...
why'd you stop the leg at the chair? wouldn't it be easier and more likely to be cohesive if you did her all together instead of piecemeal?

[spicy meatballs]

Just went through your sketchbook, you have shown a lot of improvements especially your digital stuff. Keep up the sketches! Oh, I really love that last piece, nice soft brush touch and your attention to lighting is amazin! Can't wait for the final piece.
Peace

[Onir]

hey hp, gotcha loud and clear; more crits and less asspats. I'll try to do that from now on hehe ;) nice update though, I like the way you're rendering this out, and yea as has been said your attention to light is great.. only thing I'm a bit confused with is the eyes. I can definitely see them as blacked out and aimed towards me now, however the marks under her eyes made me think she had her eyes closed at first. not a huge detail, yea, just maybe lighten the shadow over her eyes a little (if that's possible) to help the eyes stand out a bit more. hope that helped a bit

[hp]

@onir, actually i was pointing you to the comment i made to panda about the sepia tone....but that's cool too ^^ (haha even glikster sharpened up) i always like critiques, the more honest&harsh the better.

@spicy meatballs: thanks, I'm having trouble with lighting issues of the shadow of the chair onto the leg. So far there are two light sources, one strong one from the left and one slightly less strong one from the right, making the center look the darkest. Not sure if this works well...

@glikster: i didn't finish the leg cuz i'm having lighting probs mentioned above ^^

Anyways this is my concept sketch, to explain what the whole picture will look like. On the top left is the whole idea. Basically in each circle will be a step in my work process, so 1 would be the thinking, 2 the sketch, 3 the coloring etc. It should look like it is dripping down to the final finished product in the last circle. This is like an idea - it starts out really broad and then as you go along you get tighter and tighter (or smaller and smaller circles, i guess) until you have that idea rendered out into a clear visual product.

On the top will be "me" with a lot of things in my room that unconsciously influence me while I work (graphic novels, photos, postcards, wall scrolls). I don't know why, but I've been thinking about chinese zodiacs and fox demons recently, so I added a fox chasing a rabbit and the rest of the animals (they're the little white blobs in the sketch on the top left). I wanted to illustrate like how sometimes you're assigned to draw X, but really you have this idea of drawing Y, and the whole time you're thinking about how much you'd rather draw Y - I think unconsciously idea Y will show up in assignment X anyways because it's just hanging over your head.

http://img53.imageshack.us/img53/5060/concept9ml.jpg

[Onir]

whoa very nice idea behind that; always great to see something like this imo. I really like that dripping down idea as well, cool to see what people describe their thought process as. can't really crit anything honestly haha, seems like you definitely know what you're aiming to do in this piece.

haha yea didn't realize you were actually aiming towards what you said to panda; fine by me though, I need to learn how to crit better ;)

[Idiomatic]

Hey HP, if you don't mind me throwing in my two cents, I think part of the lighting issue might step from the fact that the lower legs as they currently stand, the feet in particular, seem to read at an impossible side-on angle. You've done a great job at making the thighs appear to advance through foreshortening and shadow, but I feel like the line work might be subconsciously suggesting a difficult if not impossible three-dimensional form to describe naturally through light. You might also be able to pull a little of the hot white highlight out of the t-shirt below the chair back, as the figure's posture indicates that this area from the center out would lie in increasing shadow. The thighs and upper body look great, though, and conceptually the idea is a lot of fun :-)

[machzero]

yo hpslashluvr, got to agree with some of the previous posts here... you got some cankle action going on. But since you mention you're working off reference photographs, is it just the lighting (which you said you have issues with) that's flattening them out?

You also checking the values? It's very "contrasty" on my laptop and my home monitor, but on the super-crap(tm) office monitor, everything's mostly BLACK.

BTW, you completely "done" with the siren's poster? Throwing ideas around my head at taking a crack at it.

[glikster]

Sweet concept... you've read the Dream Hunters, of course?

[VeSeljak]

very cute,hope to see some more,,,,

[hp]

@onir: actually, the symbolism is sort of contrived to make my art teacher happy. he says i should stop trying to work on technical skills altogther and use a lot of symbolism.

@idiomatic: thanks for the help, i'll try to fix the legs.

@machzero: yeah my comp monitor sucks and isn't accurate, i'll try lowering the contrast. nope, not done with poster. i'm gonna need a new idea with the sirens being the main focus.

@glikster: nope! never read it!

@veseljak: thanks!

ok....going to make a WIP thread prolly for this but...SORRY FOR LONG POST!

i'm not sure if they will refund my money that i paid but apparently the top 10 winners of the tdome for the girls will get tuition paid at the workshop.

topic: illustrate a song of your choice.

my ideas are based on two songs (sorry for bad translations!!! from chinese to english):
Love before AD (top left image, basically a guy watching a girl touching a black stone carving in a crowd of people, and the reflection is of himself touching her back):
The ancient King of Babylon passed the Hammurabi code of laws
It was carved on black diorite 3700 years ago
You stand before the display, looking intently at the carvings
I stand aside, quietly admiring your face, which I deeply adore
Offerings, alter, war, bow & arrow, whose past do they belong to?
I love how you belong only to me in the midst of this crowd
We pass the Sumerian Goddess
And I wish in the name of the Goddess
My missing goes on like the Tigris River
When what is left of the Ancient Civilization is but an illegible language
The myth becomes a never-ending poem
My love for you has been written before this Century
And it has been buried in the flatlands of Mesopotamia
Uncovered after many centuries
We find the wordings to be still clear & intelligible
My love for you has been written before this century
And it has been buried in the flatlands of Mesopotamia
The promise of forever carved in cuneiform
The promise that has been eroded for thousands of years, will be re-enacted now
I feel exhausted, I am far away from home
I am afraid that I will never be by your side again
Love Before the Century
Love Before the Century

http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/8301/tdomedrawing8py.jpg

Tornado (a girl is caught in a whirlwind/tornado, her feet are in a whirlpool and a "ghost" of her love is being torn from her)
Love is like a gust of wind; it blows, and then goes away
This kind of rhythm would leave anyone helpless
Without you, my soul goes out of control
The black clouds have descended, they pull me away
Quietly, stealthily, silently leaving
Teetering on the brink of danger
My world is already in a violent storm
ooh~~ Love comes too quickly just like a tornado
Can't escape the whirlwind, can't escape in time
I cannot think again, I cannot think again
I cannot, I cannot, I cannot
Love passes too quickly, just like a tornado
I cannot bear it, I already have no place to hide
I don't want to think anymore, I don't want to think anymore
I don't, I don't, I don't want to think of you anymore
Unconsciously, you have already left me
Unconsciously, I have followed this rhythm
After becoming aware, another autumn has passed
After becoming aware, I should live a good life
Unconsciously, you have already left me

http://img122.imageshack.us/img122/3175/foremilysmall2px.jpg
although the "ghost" more like:http://img119.imageshack.us/img119/4409/downref6xj.jpg

and some loomis ^^
http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/4100/foremily26vb.jpg

[Onir]

cool thunderdome idea, and nice song choices; the one with the girl putting her hand on the wall sounds pretty powerful, I'd imagine the song to be rather sad. I really like the sketch you did for the second one, both people look really good in it. nice way you did teh hair and the wind, makes a nice effect; the left arm on the lower girl looks a little strange though. and nice loomis stuff hehe, gotta love loomis. keep it up! :teeth:

[hp]

@onir: thanks, i don't really expect ppl to read the lyrics but yeah the songs are pretty good. both are pretty famous..."Tornado" however is one of the most famous taiwanese songs...anyone will recognize it.

here are the videos in case anyone wants to hear them....they're really cheesy as both videos and songs ^^ (edit: actually now that i've seen the tornado video...that's a really stupid video lol)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=NzQ5yxFy_Qs&search=love%20before%20the%20century
http://youtube.com/watch?v=8cF0StK1EjU&search=tornado%20jay%20chou

i did another sketch but i don't know if i like the idea of the ghosts of the lovers being pulled apart into the black clouds. either way the figures will follow the form of the tornado (to be added). her feet will be dangling in a whirlpool with dangerous waves and maybe some sharp rocks around her...lots of foam prolly.

http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/6448/song5uh.jpg

[glikster]

cool progress... good luck with it!

I'm worried about the dead space in the middle right now, though....

[Farvus]

Fantastic stuff. Glikster is right about this WIP. The space in the middle should have something. Maybe element of landscape like mountain or clouds.
Loomis is fun. Nice to see some anatomy studies :).
Keep it up.

[Onir]

hey nice WIP, looking good so far; nice idea with the guy seemingly pulling the spirit out of her. Not to be repetitive but I do agree with them about the middle space; I doubt you would have just left it blank but yea best to just reinforce. nice work though, coming along well

[machzero]

hey hpslashluvr,

uh oh.. jay chou... heheheh... i think I hear him in the shopping malls all the time... but my mandarin is super bad though, can only pick out a few words.

will be interesting to see where you take this one (you're going to finish this one, right? heheh). Grab some ref pics if you haven't done it already cause the poses look a little challenging (well to me!). Cheap digicam/phone and some friend will do the trick.

[Hiipi]

Ciao bella!

Damn I wich I had more time on my hands to at least buff up my SSG-partners. At the moment I am the silent partner :D but maybe I will have more time in the future.

I really dig how well you are able to render things when you put your mind to it, that pic with the girl (you?) sitting on a chair looks damn nice! Would love to see it finished! There was some good points on it though, the shadows are way dark and it is a bit contrasty but as a whole, pretty nice start! My advice on it would be to pay attention to the shading... It seems to be a bit exxagerated in places. The left foot sneaker is BRILLIANT because of its subtleness. The skin and the shirt are a bit messy because there isn´t such a determination on the strokes - everything is a bit too blurry. Shadows are often pretty sharp edged and if all is a blur it looks dirty and messy.

Take what you have on the sneaker and you´ll have yourself a masterpiece!

Til later, pat pat pat!

[1-thought]

kick a$$!

keep em coming, nice to see your progress

[Heart_x_Slayer]

Hey i really love how you do your faces. And im ammazed by what you did in artpad i cant get didly out of that good job!!

[armando]

You said these were self portraits http://img158.imageshack.us/img158/2634/sketchbook5to.jpg, is the one on the upper left also you? Humunuhhumunuhhumunah. I really like the simplicity of the face in the middle, leaving the face free of rendering gives it a soft youthful quality. The eyes pop because they contrast with the white of the paper. Use of line is nicely varied, soft and lost around the jaw and ears, hardly perceptible along the hair line which gives it a weightless quality. Line is also nicely used on the edge of the face, a dark line seperating the head from the background gives solidity. I don't like the other two as much, the scribbly hair has an unnatural texture and appears heavy, note how outlining the hair seperates it from the bakground and makes appear as a solid form, too much rendering within the face, and the line isn't varied. This one's nice too http://img164.imageshack.us/img164/5912/sailor8sp.jpg. I always like those skinny panels, the path of the eye is limited and easily follows a vertical line which gives a sense of importance. The linear rhythm is simple and attractive, lines of the arms and legs seem to curve from a common point which gives unity. Notice the parallel lines and flowing lines. Something's missing from the upper left hand corner though, I think. The reason I'm saying this is because you're drawings are inconsistant, you've got talent but I don't think you know why some pictures work and others don't. An artist must know what they like, why they like it and the effect it has. "The Practice and Science of Drawing" has useful ideas, and there's a link for it on the wiki somewhere.

[Master 25 Days]

wow do you really go to UTD? We should meet up at a workshop sometimes. There are some in or around dallas right?

btw does your SN have anything to do with a game called "Guilty Gear" ?

HP Slash Lover sounds awfully GG like.

Since you're familiar with Taiwanese songs, do you know what's the name of the famous Chyi Chin song? i don't even know how to describe it but I think the english title is something along the line of "let's live for youth"

[hp]

@glikster: I think I'm going to cut out a lot of the space and make it a lot tighter, probably the guy will only have his head/arms shown.

@Farvus: loomis is fun....but it gets tiring >.<

@Onir: thanks!

@machzero: I have a book of photography references of girls in motion, hopefully i'm just going to "cut and paste" certain elements of different photographs. where do you live??? jay chou is definitely not played in Texas :teeth:

@Hiipi: no patting! *looks offended* :P you know it's funny, I'm apparently going to get a teacher for my 3d design and life drawing class next fall that is HORRIBLY blunt...like he tells kids their work is complete shit and to trash it...that will be a interesting change :confident
the contrast is due to the monitor problem I've been complaining about and been meaning to fix for like half a yr now. After I paid for the CA workshop, I had no money left *sniffs* that's why I'm going to try to do this....maybe get a refund...:teeth:

@1-thought: thanks!

@Heart_x_Slayer: thanks, artpad is something I do at work when I'm bored. I think the one you are talking about though, I used a tablet with.

@armando: lol NO, I think it was the pregnant section of my photography book...the girls were pretty busty. The self portrait I did in pen on that page is really scribbly because I did it in the dark, I couldn't really see my page at all. I agree with the inconsistancy....especially between realism and styli...ism - I think after doing a lot of photo studies I feel like I need to take a reference picture for everything.

@Master 25 Days: my sn has NOTHING to do with GG lol, I've never even played it. I am not familiar with any asian bands or songs, I went to Taiwan this summer for a little over a month - basically I went to a music store and took random CDs off the shelf.

I'll post two versions, one is the normal one and one I turned the contrast down so you can see better if your monitor is different from mine. Not that much done....Painter crashed the first time I worked on it and I lost the will to redo everything I had just done. And then it crashed like 10 times last night. :( I know the shadows on the legs are wrong, I need to try to think about how to do them.

http://img66.imageshack.us/img66/2957/machinegirl5jv.jpg
http://img392.imageshack.us/img392/524/1lighter7ej.jpg

[kyi_72]

your painting is coming along very nicely. look forward to the finished product. one crit, the feet are shown in almost complete profile...being that your legs are resting on the globe the lower leg would be forshortened and the feet would be turned more toward a frontal view with a bit of the bottoms of the feet showing.

nice sense of light and value, very dramatic.

draw!

k

[Onir]

hey hp, nice wips so far; personally I like first one better (I'd assume that's the one with higher contrast), darks are darker and such (which makes sense I guess). Your lighting seems to be omnipresent in a way and it kinda looks like there are multiple light sources (one to her left, and one to her right.. maybe one from above as well).. not sure if that was what you were going for. looks good over all though; nothing I can really crit on as you already seem to be pointing alot of things out yourself. good luck :teeth:

[glikster]

You really got the form down nicely on everything!

Keep it up!

[Farvus]

To me the legs in your last painting look quite good. I only see that the right shoe doesn't have any shading so it looks flat.

Oh.. and one more thing.

Update!!! :uzi:

[~Faust~]

That shoe is uber.

[gmags]

Nice work on your last piece HP! Like your anatomy sketches also. Keep em coming girl! :teeth:

[hp]

sorry for not updating...i'm taking maymester right now which is basically a semester's worth of work crammed into two weeks, and i got two jobs :(

the last thing i drew in my sketchbook, which was i think, during my last class like in the end of april >.<
http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/5333/sb3qb.jpg

some notes i drew on during my maymester class. yeeeeeah i always end up drawing either bleach/naruto or my roommate/her cat or typical UTD nerds when me and my roommate draw back and forth. ^^

http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/227/notes3gh.jpg

[Onir]

hey nice update and welcome back :teeth: a semester worth of work in two weeks? ouuch that's rough :( well good luck to ya with it, I'm sure you'll pull through alright... the faces and such in the first picture look great! really nice shading on those, I especially like the girl holding the gum/cigarrette/whatever it may be to her mouth, great form and look to her. nice doodle page afterwards as well hehe, always interesting to see what other people doodle while in class/at work. the lady holding the paintbrush (I assume that's a paint brush at least) looks cool, nice and clean lines. keep it up and another welcome back :)

[hp]

hehe, that lady holding the paintbrush is holding a little kakashi doll >.<

anyways, thanks for the comments! the class is basically over, only one more class period on tues. it's really easy because humanities is pretty basic.

more notes i drew on in class lmao...some with pen, some with pencil...sorry for the lined paper >:| i know it's not really postworthy but some of it is fun at least ^^

and btw these are almost all done in basically complete darkness...my teacher thinks it's cool to turn off the lights while we take notes blargh! good news is i've been reading (if not drawing, at least i'm reading it!) loomis again. basically i draw the muscles all down and outline the basic form, then just practice drawing in pencil over and over right below.

http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/212/img0015bu.jpg
http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/7566/img0021rm.jpg
http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/4128/img0035fs.jpg

me and my friend draw half and half pics
http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/9948/img0042sx.jpg
http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/1143/img0058ri.jpg
http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/4195/img0061hf.jpg
http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/3565/img0075hz.jpg

and something i drew during work about my life (in fact i scanned these in during work, i shouldn't do this =P)
http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/3175/img0087ey.jpg

[Farvus]

Nice to see you posting again. Even doodles on lined paper are worth posting if they look good (If the lines have some colour, you can always remove them in photoshop :).

http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/5333/sb3qb.jpg - The face in the bottom lef corner caught my eye. Fantastic rendering. The hair looks really realistic.
I also dig the muscle and face features studies. Good job.

[liam.c]

omg ! best page ever http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/3175/img0087ey.jpg lol the caption bottem right is soo perfect for that pic hahah !!!!! love it !!!!!

[asoir]

Haven't seen your stuff in a long while, great improvement!

[Master 25 Days]

lol "student who don't take notes don't do well"
http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/9948/img0042sx.jpg

[glikster]

great update I love some of those romance scenes! Keep it up!

[ThabisoMhlaba]

Me Likes ^_^
Are these from the Parramon book?
http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/4195/img0061hf.jpg

[hp]

@Farvus: thanks, i think i thought of removing the lines in ps but i forgot >.<

@liam.c: thanks!

@Asoir: I don't feel like i've improved at all, but sure thing ^^

@Master 25 Days: hehe yeah i drew all during class. i even had a little desk mirror for self portraits that i had in my backpack but my friend was like NUH UH PPL WILL THINK YOU'RE WEIRD AND EGOTISTICAL

@glikster: yeah sitting next to my friend in class has it's downsides, i basically draw romantic pics, or pics of her and her cat as naruto characters

@Oki: um, they're from the loomis book?

sooooo yeah of course i didn't have time/energy to do the tdome cuz of time restraints...i started to sort of play with a basic coloring today for fun and i got really mad cuz it started to look good within a few minutes ("good" is very relative but give me a break, i sort of liked it)...i could have at least submitted SOMETHING...oh well, i had already paid for my tuition anyways to the workshop.

hehe, i've been sitting at my roommate's comp while she's away since my monitor sucks...she doesn't really use her Painter anyways...

5 minutes underpainting:

http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/5351/jaychou14xm.jpg

presumably it will be a little darker in mood, like this:
http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/6019/jaychou21so.jpg

I saw some nice photos that reminded of me of the pinup I'm supposed to do of a friend. Here is a basic underpainting - i want the bg to be white so maybe it can be used as a desktop bg. i used the method my roommate uses - don't draw a sketch, just start painting. i don't think i like this method lmao!!! :[

http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/2759/copy8ir.jpg

[Onir]

nice work with your thunderdome piece, looks good so far. second one definitely has a darker feeling to it than the first, though I do like the clarity of the figure a bit more in the first one (that might just be the skin tone shows a bit more clearly in it). I like the last one alot as well, definitley came out well especially condsidering you didn't draw anything out. her leg looks a little odd around the knee, but I'm sure as you render it out it'll be fixed. nice, keep it up!

[machzero]

hey, hpslashluvr, welcome back~!

had to go bum half a dozen naruto books to figure out your sketchbook... heheh

[Spade]

hey there! like the style you've got going, nice use of colour in the Paintings. hard to work out what to crit you on since im new D:, maybe try do a few more complete sketches? Some of the more comical stuff made me chuckle ("dont be sad" lol) seem very full of enthusiasm, keep it up!

[glikster]

I quite like the rough masses of tone in the lineless painting... after you get that stage done you can render it neatly...

[hp]

@Onir: thanks, yeah the dark one was just to show what kind of feeling i wanted in the end.

@machzero: hehe...GET ADDICTED TO NARUTO! DO IT! it's easier if you watch the anime. although i admit i haven't watched it or any other show in a long long time.

@Spade: i'm trying to finish a piece yeah...i never can seem to usually cuz i lose interest after Painter crashes a billion times. I think the new version will save before a crash though, according to Rick, a Corel guy I talked to at the workshop. DL the update! (painter IX.5)

@glikster: yeah i'm trying to see if i like this method better. so far...no...at least on chars...

So yeah the workshop was fucking awesome. That doesn't even begin to describe it. I'm still experiencing it in my head right now...anyways for anyone who has any doubts...or even no money, I would sell my house/children if i had any to go to the next workshop :yayca:

loomis study on the airplane:
http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/8582/loomis1vn.jpg

tdome in the basement of the hostel..."banana fairy, bee who saved the world, cannibal and gangster communicate on a bridge, "masked warrior"
http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/6800/bananafairy9ng.jpg
http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/7731/bee7zq.jpg
http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/9948/tdome5zs.jpg
http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/1117/maskedwarrior9uy.jpg

bought a brush pen set...BEST THING EVER!
http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/7361/brushpen5sn.jpg
http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/3343/brushpen25xm.jpg
http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/5821/selfportrait0wg.jpg

carrrrrrnifexxxxx (inside joke). and me. and andrew lecturing on the bottom.
http://img79.imageshack.us/img79/2489/carni3je.jpg

late night life drawing. the massiveblack guys got four girls to model in the hotel, it was great.
http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/4306/lifedrawing8ce.jpg


special thanks to hussar, ds, and others for lending me paints and board. i painted a face and ds fixed it...other ppl kept coming over and telling me it looked great...so i had to write something ^^ oh, and i tried to draw fox's symbol >.<
http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/3779/img0017ph.jpg

ART DONE BY OTHER ARTISTS:
late late late night sketch session with ds and matt:
http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/17/dsmattrhodes7gw.jpg

after telling jason to draw hentai:
http://www.filelodge.com/files/room11/269334/jasonchandrawing.jpg

um...just boon. these are like r rated versions of his pencil case.
http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/7203/boon6mu.jpg

me!
http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/6752/mrblonde9vc.jpg

late late late late late night collab. fox did the head/body, mr. blonde did the body and i think boon...well you can prolly tell.
http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/8217/collab4al.jpg

erilaz, my tea buddy!
http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/6968/img0040iv.jpg

emily g!
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/6707/img0057gq.jpg

dirty c drew this using beer.
http://img70.imageshack.us/img70/3584/img0027pi.jpg

fox's creatures.
http://img74.imageshack.us/img74/2767/img0065ia.jpg

and it's funny...but as much as we look at it we can't remember how to draw fox!!!
http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/6509/img0079lu.jpg

[machzero]

hahah, gotta say... i'm really envious~! awesome "guest stars" in your sketchbook.

would sell my house/children

woo... gratz~! as old as glikster's?

*gets killed with a brick*

[glikster]

wow... I can see that the workshop worked... Damn I envy you so much...
And Mach, as much as I'd like to go to the workshop... I am definitely going to be the the over-protective, paranoid parent who, when she gets older, will greet boys at the door with a noose and a shotgun...

[JasonChan]

Oh wow, I can't believe you posted that pic I drew! :nohope:

Great sketches! Your digital stuff is pretty nice! Lots of Bleach ;) Can't wait to see what kind of stuff you come up with now after the workshop! I know I'm pumped!

[asoir]

Jason Chans handwriting! Now I have seen it all..
Good stuff, the montreal stuff is very nice.

:yayca:

[auden100]

hey, the sketchbook is looking nice. Those drawings you got from the workshop are sweet. Nice progress through this thread. I"d like to see the girl in chair pic and the tornadoe one finished. Those were two cool ideas that should find completion. I'm going to second Farvus' suggestion way back there about the values on the right shoe. It pops right out of the picture. Needs less contrast to push it back a bit.

Nice meeting you this last week. Keep it up.

[Dile_]

Simply amazing sketchbook hpslashluvr
keep the improvement up! Your anatomy stuff jsut rules!
Nice job girl :teeth:

[Onir]

good lord great pieces! seriously these are all amazing; your brushpen work is looking really nice not to mention those lifedrawings/portraits. just inspired me like crazy as well I should mention ;) definitely looks like you've improved alot, lookin forward to what you'll be putting out now :teeth:

[jcaffoe]

I loved seeing your stuff in person, and thanks for letting me try oils for a little bit on your practice board, I think I'm going to buy a set now and try some out this summer!

I'm jealous that you had late-night drawing sessions with all of the cool artists, but at the same time I suppose it's my own fault for not being there =p

I like your nose/lip/eye studies a lot, and it's always great to see people doing Loomis.

[Mr.Blonde]

hey emily! I am completely jealous of all the awesome drawings you got in your sketchbook! Thanks for sharing them all, now post some more drawings! ;)

[Erilaz]

Awwww.... why did you post my sucky suck drawing! :dead:

Great to know you Emily. It was a brilliant experience. Keep up those paints!!! Let me know if you DON'T want me to post those "interesting" photos!

Can't wait for the next one!

[Farvus]

All this stuff is fantastic. My favourite are brush pen drawings. It all makes me regret more that I didn't go to the workshop. Hopefully I might visit next one.

Oh... and I'm waiting for new update of course.

[donkeyslayer]

everyone hearts cartoon fox. it was great to meet you. ta ta. i remember that bee guy... you were sitting next to me. i totally forgot til just now.

[Master 25 Days]

damn those are awesome! sounds like you had a blast.

[hp]

@machzero: thanks!

@glikster: and your daughter will rebel against you ^^

@JasonChan: of course i posted your picture! it's a masterpiece! >.<

@Asoir: thanks!

@auden100: nice meeting you too!

@Dile: thanks...been trying to work on the anatomy.

@Onir: thanks...brushpens are so cool! *squeals*

@easy tiger!: haha it wasn't my board anyways =P yeah....i'm lucky that ds let me follow him everywhere >.< i would have been too scared to talk to the MB crew...jason bought me some drinks but i was terrified of him haha!

@Mr.Blonde: whatever, i'm jealous of your stuff. esp the pic you drew of me! my roommate loves it.

@Erilaz: whatever, why wouldn't i post your drawing?

@Farvus: you should update more often! ^^

@donkeyslayer: pssh of course everyone hearts fox!

@Master 25 Days: a blast is prolly like an extreme understatement. i'm going through withdrawal right now.
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something i drew for the teen tdome...unfortunately my comp is at my parents' house so i didn't get to finish this...yet (determined to). topic is "final battle"...my battle against art frustration.
http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/2397/img0010yr.jpg
http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/9918/tdome48pu.jpg

for the character of the week. topic is "ex noble lady whose son wants to die, during the french revolution."

http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/9571/img0024go.jpg

[asoir]

Fantastic digi, love it! Those sketches are equally good, you've improved quickly too.

[Onir]

nice update; really likin those sketches, you've got such clean lines and a nice sense of confidence in what you put down. that last one came out especially well... the digital piece is coming out really nicely as well. always amazes me how tight you seem to be able to bring your renderings to digitally. looking for a crit, but can't seem to find one.. keep it up either way, everything's looking great.

[marco nelor]

http://img464.imageshack.us/img464/2209/card45wm.jpg
wtf, blowjobs for everyone??!! me next please. Work is improving here, hp, although youve never been afraid of doing work and challenging yourself. keep it up luv!

[Erilaz]

The noble lady is coming out well. Great facial expressions. Her left arm feels a liitle unnatural, but everthing else looks brilliant.

[BOON]

r u freakin serious! u like Bleach too! omg! im like crazy for it. u got good sence of the anatomy. keep on rockin girl ;)

[glikster]

yeay, yeah... if she can gnaw through the chains on her bedroom door...


I'm kidding (before you all call Child Services on me)...

Nice updates... liking the CHOW sketches... the teen t-dome piece... I dunno about her face...it looks flattened...

[hp]

@Asoir: thanks, i don't feel like i've improved at all. :(

@Onir: thanks...i dunno...i feel like i've just gone downhill digitally lately since i haven't really done it in a while

@marco nelor: you know, it's funny...i took that pose from a photo and everyone laughs at it ^^ i don't really think that i've improved at all...but yeah hopefully i will get better soon.

@Erilaz:thanks! i need to check your stuff out soon. if i don't, write back and yell at me!!!

@BOON: haha thanks. yeah it's died down but i love bleach :)

@glikster: haha, we'll see. how old is she now btw? Just wait when she hits around 10-11...HAH! I will be laughing in your face as she starts to get that pre-teen mentality and attitude. yeah i had problems with the face...i think usually if i draw something cartoony it looks fine as lineart but i don't know what to do with it as a painting.
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SOOOO...I got my laptop and a new comp!!!! YAY!!!! I did some stuff at work yesterday when I was bored. I'm doing the 50 heads in 1 month workshop over at cgtalk - (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?threadid=375031)...and gonna hopefully finish the tdome and CHOW piece. I restarted the CHOW piece but it looks like crap compared to the original :( for those of you who don't know...MY COMP FUCKING CORRUPTED ALL MY FILES when it decided to freeze even though I had saved a lot. It was perfect and almost done!!!! ::cries::

just some lighting ideas....i was thinking either outdoors with a canopy net casting shadows (think renoir's moulin galette) or in the shade of a hot day with "blinds" type lighting (in which case i'll tone down the yellow-yness of the skin)...anyways this is going to be studies of the refs:
http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/9214/preview1hn.jpg

refs:
http://img158.imageshack.us/img158/8883/arabhot7qn.jpg
http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/3871/womanrefchanged8tn.jpg
http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/4817/costumerefchanged8ky.jpg

started to do my new yr's resolutions (look at very first post)! a costume study and anatomy study so far...and some facial expression/cartoon studies. used a mech pencil since apparently EVERYONE does...
http://img236.imageshack.us/img236/2485/img0012gm.jpg
http://img79.imageshack.us/img79/6356/img0022al.jpg

1st head of 50 :( (about 50 mins...i didn't use lineart and that was interesting...very little blending too...only place i blended was cheek):
http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/453/preview1ib.jpg

[dCepT]

Hey, hp! Glad to see you continue doing the CHoW! Looks great! Shame you didnt' make the deadline... oh well.. next, time huh?

d-C

[spiffiness]

Heeey!! Nice work! I like the 1st head and the costume study. Looks like you're changing the proportions of the face that you had before so that the chin's a bit longer.

[Rebeccak]

Heya hp! Good to see your Sketchbook over here. I am admittedly poor about checking Sketchbooks, there are so many!!! I hope you gave Martin / erilaz hell in Montreal. ;) Great to see you in the 50 Portraits Workshop (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=375031), you actually don't have to feel compelled to create finished / rendered images for each portrait ~ they can be sketches as well. :) But your first is coming along well, I know you've got lots of talent ~ but damn I want to see more finished pieces! :D

Hope to see an abundance of Portraits, w00t! :)

Cheers,

~Rebeccak

[hp]

@dCepT: yeah....next time ^^

@spiffiness: proportions of which face?

@Rebeccak: mmm we'll see if i finish all 50 >.<
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another portrait:
http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/5297/preview2sl.jpg

more CHOW work...will take a photo ref for the hands.
http://img304.imageshack.us/img304/2940/preview9nc.jpg

what color scheme do you like best? ...originally I wanted it to be outdoors but now I'm thinking, why would she sit outdoors...probably she would be in the shade. Another possibility is she would be in prison for helping her son kill himself (in the CHOW topic the son wants to kill himself)? Either way I'm thinking some kind of shade is the way to go. I experimented with the way the light would come in...maybe a door open a lot, or broken boards (blinds), or the door open just a little bit.
http://img473.imageshack.us/img473/2039/choices0nr.jpg

some sketches that I did a while ago for that pinup (look at first post):
http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/2899/pinuptogether21oe.jpg
http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/60/pinuptogether36lm.jpg

And...you ever feel like you haven't improved at all? I certainly feel that way looking through my work...but then I went back and looked through my cgtalk thread http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=219677&page=2&pp=20 and i thought...hmmm I guess I have gotten a LITTLE bit better...>.<

I decided to compile a few images that show my progression (from two yrs ago till about last summer I think...I wish I could find the stuff that I drew a little before that...it was "good" but pretty bad by CA standards)
After a break in drawing, getting back into it:
http://img454.imageshack.us/img454/4407/dancerhorse6as.jpg

All the stuff I was proud of...starting with two yrs ago, but not necessarily in order (but mostly). The top two are sketchbook covers (I thought the quote was clever..."the pursuit of art is like falconry" - Garcia Marquez). The Bush drawing/painting was what I drew the first day I got my tablet. I really wish I could find the portfolio cover I made with a mermaid...it was probably 4 feet long and the scales were painstakingly cut and glued from pieces of shiny wrapping paper ^^
http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/8096/17cg1.jpg

A lot of sketches I used to be proud of. The one with the arrows you can see that I used to draw myself a lot differently. A lot of "wizard of earthsea" fanart for my AP portfolio :)
http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/1395/21ri1.jpg

Obviously heavily ref'ed pics...and a HUGE dependence on the Painter pen tool and lineart. The "art and soul" pic was a self portrait i drew on a sketchbook cover - as a side note...cheap 50 cent acrylics make good washes ^^ More wizard of earthsea art for AP.
http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/1295/32fu.jpg

Ugh....so bad....some 3d work too that I never finished in 3dsmax. That self portrait with me painting myself is completely from observation. And that's why I never finished it ^^ So is the other self portrait to the left of it. And the bottom right piece has been redone and is linked in my sig under "la belle dame." The bottom left is the most recent - it was a coloring from Bleach done for a contest. I won second!
http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/9306/43zg.jpg

[glikster]

yeah.... every so often I'll look through my old posts, or, even better, my old sketchbooks and cringe... but then I appreciate how much I have improved.... I really like how the CHOW piece is progressing.... and that sucks about the files, but congrats on the new comp. Does it come with a new monitor? BTW, she's 10 months old now... so I got some time...

[machzero]

hey hpslashluvr!

great flashback update. WAY bigger jump in two years than my own stuff.

If those heads were done in 3DS, they're pretty damn good. They're lacking the "tubesock" look i've seen in the past.

so, when's all the good stuff resulting from the montreal experience showing up? heheheh


glikster, man... i'm gonna have to burn my old stuff now... to erase the evidence that is... heheh.

[That fat kid]

hey luvr, there is tons of improvement, isn't there? And that ChoW is really coming along. I'm partial to the color scheme's of 5 and 6, there's the most drama in them....

~A

[Farvus]

50 heads in one month? Now, that's a challange. I think I'm going to stick to my self portraits :P.
The chow looks great. As for the colour scheme - I can't decide between 4 and 6.
You improved a lot from what I see here. Especially your brush stroke economy (PS and natural media) is much better. Everything is more simplified and beacause of that more clear to read.
Oh, and I didn't know you made some 3dstudio max modelling. The faces look awesome.

-Farvus

[spiffiness]

I was talking about the costume study and the 1st head ;p. Wow, it's awesome seeing your old stuff, they're so different from the things I saw on BF! Good work! Goooo, Emily!

[Onir]

great update! always love seeing the progression people have made and your's is definitely inspiring. you really have done alot of work in the last two years, really showing great improvement. as for the CHOW piece I'd say 4 or 5 personally; I like the slight door open casting the light on her, in between on the value contrast though.

50 heads in a month? geez quite the exercise haha. you really make me want to get involved in these cgtalk workshops, seems like they are definitely good practice. I really like the costume study you did 2 posts ago btw, great design to it.

lastly just want to apologize for taking so long to post replies and such, need to get time in my life better organized.. great stuff though keep it up :)

[hp]

@glikster: congrats! uhhh i'll prolly forget so happy bday for her when she turns 1 =P and yeah i got a new comp but i've barely been using it cuz it has no internet hooked up ^^

@machzero: haha i dunno, maybe i'll have to go to another workshop to see some kind of improvement ^^ thanks about the heads...i did those A LONG time ago so i'm sure i would do better now...

here is a slightly more recent model but still at least a yr old...they suck, i know! i should get back into 3d...

concept, much more stylized looking than the other head models:
http://img428.imageshack.us/img428/6094/sketch2ty.jpg
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b314/hpslashluvr/pers1.jpg
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b314/hpslashluvr/pers2.jpg
http://img469.imageshack.us/img469/777/headrender0bw.jpg

@That fat kid: thanks! i really don't see a lot of improvement, but any is good...right? right? right? :(

@Farvus: thanks! i think if anything, yes, at least my technique has improved a little bit.

@spiffiness: haha, you sound like my personal cheerleader. yeah, this all is a lot diff than the stuff i post on bf.

@Onir: yeah there's no way i'm going to do all 50. i took a jason chan wallpaper and on the side wrote, "by the end of this month, i am going to finish my chow and tdome piece...as well as at least 10 portraits and my monthly new yr's rez's." YEAH RIGHT. well, at least i see that statement everytime i see my desktop =P
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sooooooooooooo i'm a little tired lately...trying to do art a few hrs every day though instead of just going "on break" like i normally do. so i did studies cuz they're kinda mindless.

http://img125.imageshack.us/img125/1168/ninjacrouching9lg.jpg
http://img117.imageshack.us/img117/7053/staff2ws.jpg

both taken from : http://anodyneheroine-stock.deviantart.com/

and sort of started this and decided to ditch it. but i started with darks and worked to lights...that's diff for me!
http://img303.imageshack.us/img303/560/preview2zx.jpg

a very old sketch....but i found it today and i like the colors. i may redo it.
http://img50.imageshack.us/img50/1235/126mo.jpg

[glikster]

I like the last head a lot! mouth seems off, but that process worked!

Thanks for the pre-emptive birthday wish!! I'll tell her when it's appropriate. :)

[Lord Dubu]

HP!!! Hey didn't know you hang out here too. Cool. I'm now watching your SB on two forums :)

[Arne S.]

hey, nice drawings, good practise, keep it up!

[wookiedabo]

got nuttin helpful to say, tis great stuff.

[Mr.Blonde]

yo yo yo... cool to see old work... lots of improvement fo sho. i dig the japanese street model things, very cool stylee one of my old works... (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v256/turrible/Photoshop/beardy.jpg) funny to look back... i thought i was the shit then, and i still think i'm the shit now... and then i look back and see that i haven't ever been the shit, i am just shit. kick it

[Onir]

hey hp, cool 3d stuff; something I'd like to get into one of these days. nice on doing a stylized approach, always good to step away from realism at times. I really like those two digital studies, the simplicity of them really helps. the crouched one especially has a really nice feel imo, great way you used your lines.

be cool to see if you redid that last one as well, see how all the work you've done recently helps to effect that.

[Wafflehouseninja]

Wows. Im fealing your faces andline work . Nice and clean. Some thing i could work on. I can also see lots of improvment in your painting and color. Wish i hat this lv of skill at your age... hell i wish i had em now.

I dont think we met at the work shop. I could not break thrugh the wall of giddy boys that surounded you. May be next time. keep up the good work you will be roling with the majorleagers in no time.

[Farvus]

Hey. Nice head study. Maybe you didn't intend to do this but the color saturation here works well as a strong accent that catches attention and makes the face more interesting. I gotta keep that in mind for my own studies :).

[hp]

WOW my last update was July 3...it felt like....two days ago. My life has been hectic!!

@glikster: yeah...i know the mouth is off but yeahhhhh i was too lazy to fix it. you should remind me when her bday is too! i'll be sure to try and draw a pic =P

@Lord Dubu:yup...haven't seen you in forever!

@Arne S.: Thanks!

@wookiedabo: i disagree, but thanks!

@Mr.Blonde: haha yeah...it's funny how that works.

@Onir: yeah, i think sometimes my linework is too forced and clean though...if you know what i mean?

@Wafflehouseninja: hehe thanks! and i was NOT surrounded by giddy boys...i'm pretty sure i was just giddy about being there. see ya at the european workshop! i'm still deciding whether to go to the small us workshop or not...prolly can't afford it.

@Farvus: thanks...do you mean the yellow tinge?
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Welp, I didn't do everything I planned for this month AKA head studies and my CHOW piece due to just being tired from work and class. I started a life drawing class that runs around 4 1/2 to 5 hrs Mon-Thurs o.O;;;

I did my new yr's rez though! ^^ I already posted the costume study and the anatomy study. Here are my color studies and my lighting study.

http://img125.imageshack.us/img125/5396/colorstudyjt2.jpg
based off this GORGEOUS photo:
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/33598188/

it's funny, cuz i've been trying to find a good lighting ref for my fruits basket pic and here it is!!!! i changed the photo a little to suit the fruits basket pic i had...nothing much...just hair. i know she's kinda wide too but it's ok.
http://img462.imageshack.us/img462/8710/kanalightingstudywq1.jpg
based off this GORGEOUS photo:
http://www.deviantart.com/view/36813010/

a little improvement on the pose of my la belle dame piece:
http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/9733/compareux0.jpg

a little bit on machinegirl:
http://img82.imageshack.us/img82/9228/previewon2.jpg

a little on CHOW...BETTER HANDS! yay!:
http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/4692/colorwlighting004qf3.jpg

some comics:
http://img77.imageshack.us/img77/1374/comicsmallqj3.jpg
http://img77.imageshack.us/img77/6555/morgansmallwz2.jpg

LIFE DRAWING!!!!!! (in no particular order)...i know it's not that great but it's great fun...haven't used charcoal in forever...a few of my good pieces have been taken out too for a display.

http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/8242/4xg3.jpg

http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/1699/imgp2317wd9.jpg

and....sketchbook:
http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/4854/sketchbookgt8.jpg
http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/7706/sketchbook2se7.jpg
http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/736/sketchbook3ib2.jpg

[Erilaz]

Wowsers... huge update! :$

I really like the silhouette you managed with this one:
http://img462.imageshack.us/img462/8710/kanalightingstudywq1.jpg


And those charcoal renders are superb.:yayca: The woman's face seems a little sharp.

[Arne S.]

wow, biiiiig ubdate!
i like the figure-studies, very natural.
is the comic about you?
good work, sweet avatar!

[Onir]

wow so that's what you've been up to! haha very nice update; seems like you've done alot both digitally and traditionally. reaally jealous that you have a life drawing class lol, been wanting to go to another one (even if it's just one session) for such a long time.. really great work though, some nice diversity in all the life drawing things you have there. looks like you tried building up the figure a number of ways and you did alot of linework and full renderings. must say though, of all you posted, your sketchbook pieces stand out most to me. your line work in there looks really confident and your pen shading is lookin nice. I know you always appreciate any crits but honestly there's really nothing I can think to crit; you've covered everything really. keep it up is all I can say! :teeth:

[glikster]

AWESOME life drawings!!!! WOOHOO!!! And if you really want... her b-day is the 22nd of this month...

[Farvus]

(Yes, I meant yellow tinge writing about color saturation :) )

Awesome update! Lot's of techniques, lot's of approaches to drawing. It's really good that you started going to life drawing class. I already see some improvement especially in shading.
I would like to think of any better crit but I'll just say: Keep doing these studies!

[Carnifex]

whoa...i feel lazy just scrolling through the amount of pieces. and the increasing quality aswell...wow.
keep going i say,keep going!

[machzero]

hey hpslashluvr~!

massive update you did... and it's a little intimidating too! Recognised some of the older ones, but are the rest post-montreal?

life drawing was something i never had a chance to take back in community college, and now with a full time job... no time/opportunity.

[crimsoneye]

Hey, seen some of the post that you made in SB of one of the members in my SSG. So I decided to drop a line in your SB, and see some really good stuff in here. When you showed where you were two years ago, it really amazing how your artistic abilities develop. Your life drawing studies are amazing too, the work line and shading what really like about it them. Like everyone has said, you have very confindent lines and very deverse subject matter in your SB.

[T-lapia]

good job here in ur Sb. i can definetly see an improvement from pg.1 to pg.4 on this thread! :D

[spiffiness]

Dude! You're getting better so fast! Awesome figure drawings! Keep it up!

[dCepT]

Haven't stopped by in a while... damn... those lifestudies rock! Especially like this one ("http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/2047/8ax9.jpg)!

And happy b-day that was.. if it was the 22nd :) Just had mine the 23d :D

Keep updating!

d-C

[Unbreakable]

Good to hear from ya!
I really like the life drawings you got going. Ha.. it's funny that you mention how some of my sketches look very wes/marko inspired. Another friend of mine said that exact same thing. Yeah hopefully i can move away from that a find my own.

yeah they just started back having sketchgroup like a month ago. You should definitely go that would love to have you. I'm not staying in Dallas at the moment had to move back home, because i couldn't find a job.:(

[hp]

@Erilaz: thanks. what woman are you talking about?

@Arne S.: yes, all my comics are always about me...usually I draw them for my bf while we're at work. But if you look in the old comics, my bf has changed. =P hahaha

@Onir: thanks...i'm starting to like pen more and more. thanks to you and other ppl in the SG...poo on you! you've converted me! =P

@glikster: i think i missed it....wish her a late LATE happy bday...you do anything for her bday? i think it will be cool to see her grow up, if you and I stay with CA that long =P

@Farvus: I don't think that any of this is going to transfer over to my real drawings :( that's the sad thing.

@Carnifex: thanks, carnifex! same back to you.

@machzero: i don't know, i guess everything is pretty much post montreal. you slacker poster, you. ^^

@crimsoneye: thanks...i try to break up the topics that i draw but they always seem the same to me >.<

@T-lapia: thanks....i wish i could too! haha

@spiffiness: you need to update more often! school or job is not an excuse! i had two jobs and full time classes! i'm not even doing art in class! haha

@dCepT: thank you!

@Unbreakable: i wouldn't worry too much about influences right now...i'm sure eventually we'll all turn into our own little wes's and marko's and influence other ppl. haha i can't wait until i have my own little cronies!!! will be a long time though...:( i want to go to the sketchgroup in dallas but i have work every sunday at the exact same time they meet BLAH. if you are still in touch with them you should tell them to give me a call. =P
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So....I quit one of my jobs and hoped for more time...but really with school starting again full time it's hw, hw, social life, hw, hw, hw. =P I started to draw a lot more doodles during class and have decided that it's one of my favorite things to do. I think I actually get better at drawing poses/expressions by drawing little cartoons.

Sorry for the bad quality, I took this with a camera on my lap >.<
http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/492/upload1xp8.jpg

I have made like a billion of these while at work. Call it lame, call it obsessive, call it cheesy...I call it boredom.
http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/6117/morganei7.jpg

I watched this movie called Head On, and decided I like drawing the main girl (the one smoking).
http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/7575/upload4jr0.jpg

"annoying girl" and teacher from my storyboarding class. and sibel from Head On (from previous page). i have absolute pages and pages of cartoons of my teacher and that "annoying girl"...it's a long class.
http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/3522/upload3co8.jpg

storyboards from my class. The premise is that there is this retarded Dinosaur that looks like gobbles from south park and an asteroid chases him. The way his face works is it is just an open mouth that acts like a shovel. The animals he eats turn into music notes and the motion lines turn into a staff. The asteroid will set the pace of the music. Hopefully you got that all from the picture lmao.
http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/3531/spage1pe9.jpg
http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/4715/spage2zp6.jpg

BEST SKETCH EVER!!! It may look chaotic and not good but this is all from my head...I was pretty proud of myself. I took the pic of Mr. Blonde (another CA member) that I drew earlier and added a braid lmao.
http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/4348/upload2sx7.jpg
http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/9430/upload5xw5.jpg

The drawing with the building was gonna be for "awakening of the underground giant" for cgtalk's challenge. it's based on ray bradbury's story of a city that comes to life to seek revenge...it basically guts the captain and crew and rewires them...only one guy is left and running away...he doesn't look very scared though here haha.
http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/9419/upload6yh1.jpg

MORE LIFE DRAWINGS! :)
so ugly....we only were allowed to use 3 colors in some kind of color scheme...forget which one.
http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/6473/upload7cv3.jpg

more color scheme practice. pretty proud of the face (although the photo skews it), i never can get likenesses but it looked just like her.
http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/8410/upload8qd1.jpg

i thank God everyday for sending me a micron pen and marker. I love how these turned out.
http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/6205/upload9ln9.jpg
http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/4648/upload11kg1.jpg

http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/2687/upload12hp3.jpg
http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/7843/upload10cz8.jpg

i started to use imageready during work when i got tired of making cartoons. i put together the pics i drew YRS ago for the first one, about a girl who climbs onto a railing of a bridge and turns into a penguin and jumps into the water. sort of random. second was a really cheesy thing i was going to make for my bf and set to cheesy music as a joke, but i just gave up and now it looks like something that is supposed to be serious :(

http://i7.tinypic.com/4hjxy5c.gif
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b314/hpslashluvr/1_work-1.gif

CHOW update:
http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/2315/changecolor002gg3.jpg

and because this pic (albeit unflatteringly short and fat looking, but all girls complain about that) has me dressed up in striped socks and a towel:
http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/6147/n44404068302780893549dy2.jpg

[Carnifex]

yarrr,finally an update. i love those little animations (for some odd reason?). pretty well done,those. heh,and that pirate photo definately has to go into the "what does everyone look like" thread ;)

[Unbreakable]

You're making good progress, just keep life drawing and you will see a major difference. Try not to get to caught up with contours though try and find the volume of the figures using shapes. I would be a good idea if you purshase some of Vilppu's instructional dvds. I think they're only 30 bucks which is very reasonable considering how much they help.

And about the sketchgroup thing they stop or a least slow down some. I think they are only going to do it once a month now.

[DR_Inferno]

awesome stuff here. keep up the good work, and i can definitely see an improvement.

[Arne S.]

sweet update! good studies and nice charas! more comics please!

best to you!

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[Onir]

gah, the amount of work is tremendous lol and it's all good stuff as well. firstly lemme say that I LOVE that storyboard. we've actually started animation things in my animation class (we have a stop motion piece due in about a week) so we've gone over storyboarding a bit recently. your's is nicely drawn, cleanly done, and easy to follow; can easily tell what's going on in it which is a good thing (as I'm sure you know ;) ).

The sketch page that you really liked is definitely nice, especially since it's all from your head. not sure if you intended it but the swooshy lines, the hands, and the looks on some of the faces all have a nice visual movement to them. speaking of the hands, very nice job on those; much better than any of mine lol.

lastly, the life drawings are great as usual. that blue face is beautifully rendered, kudos to ya on that one. everything else is really nice, love the simplistic pen and marker figures, as well as the ones with the wide lines of charcoal. really nothing I can crit you on; you cover everything really well. just update more often! :P great work once again

[glikster]

that is some great no-ref sketches...
really enjoyed the storyboards, although I was confused becasue I thought the focus was on the buny escaping the evil dino since you led off with that devoted a lot of time to it.

life drawings are superb!

[Mr.Blonde]

hey emily, whats goin down. thanks for the sketchpage (http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/4348/upload2sx7.jpg). I am doing all sorts of badass stuff and wearing armor and shit, it's pretty sweet. I know this may or may not crush you entirely, but my hair is much shorter now. I'm sorry I had to tell you that, I know it's like a friend dying, a hairy friend... maybe a wookie. Either way, I was planning on making a retaliatory sketchpage with you wearing skimpy clothing and accidentally saving the world, but I haven't... I would normally take this time to give you some advice on what you could be doing to improve your phat art skillz but right now i just don't have the heart. Hope you're doing well in the big state, and don't die, ok?

[crazy3dman]

Just checking out your sketchbook for the first time. And loving it. I really like the chow piece.

[Idiot Apathy]

Mmm hmm! Some really nice stuff in here, great life drawings too!

On this one, http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/2315/changecolor002gg3.jpg
The erhm (pillar?) of light you have shining in, right now because it does not change shape on the vertical portion it is reading as more of a flat wall and that perhaps the girl is wallpaper or a poster you know what I mean? See, just like a contour line in your life drawings the light should follow form.

So, I think for the most part you are good - I imagine the light coming from a bit above yeah? Perhaps I might expect to see a bit of a shadow underneath the collar and other forms and the light to sort of dissipate off slowly on the rounder forms like her cheeks. And the light hitting the wall behind her I would expect to become a little larger and more diffuse perhaps.

I tried to google a reference for you but no luck, it's a bit of a unique situation which I think makes it a really strong painting. I did find this though:
http://kenpope.com/assets/animals/june4bl.jpg :)

Anyways, this doesn't really matter it can be ok to bend 'reality' I think.

[hp]

@Carnifex: thanks! yarrggh to you too ^^

@Unbreakable: I actually am starting a sketchgroup at UTD once a week that is going to feed off our animation guild which sponsors life drawing and zoo trips. this is a lot easier for me since that half price is always so far and i have work during it :)

@DR_Inferno: thanks!

@Arne S.: hehe thanks! i'm glad you like my comics.

@Onir: thanks!

@glikster: hopefully with the actual animatic it'll be clearer to what's going on.

@Mr.Blonde: i'm planning on not dying, thanks =P are you coming to the workshop?

@crazy3dman: thanks, i like it too ^^

@Idiot Apathy: thanks, i am going to do exactly what you say...just have to get around to it :)
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So...I started a sketchgroup!!! I got a really good response from other jaded artists at my uni, which is known mostly for com sci and EE. It's gonna be exciting...and apparently I didn't know, but our animation guild takes trips to the zoo twice a month! I know it sounds lame, but drawing at the zoo sounds neat :)

I got that water brush pen thingy a while ago that everyone uses, but didn't start it until now...I don't know how to use watercolors so yeahhhhh. They're actually watercolor pencils but whatever.

trying out the pencils...
http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/2434/blah2um6.jpg
http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/441/blahqr4.jpg
http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/1382/img003nq1.jpg
http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/2135/img012zq3.jpg

some of these are ppl from my storyboarding class...some are from my head, overall I'm pretty pleased. the one with the glasses is my teacher...wait till you see the marionette i'm making of her in 3d design. and no i don't have an obsession, she's just really interesting to draw.
http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/7209/14sw6.jpg

just some sketching. i've been really into the 3/4 view for some reason lately...i hope it's some sign that i'm just getting better. hah, yeah right.
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/6352/img006mg4.jpg
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/5042/img005tl5.jpg
http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/6959/img009ho9.jpg

started looking at some of hegre's photos in hopes of learning how to draw sexier chars...nope! just realized that the "legs spread wide open" pose is not only common, but really hard to draw!
http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/6724/img007hx0.jpg
http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/8683/img008tp7.jpg

i need to stop painting on my laptop...the colors are all wonky. i tried to draw something mech...which i suck at.
http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/1202/robotye0.jpg
just some fun colors: http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/4480/robot2hw7.jpg

[glikster]

wooot! an update!!

I love the variation you have in your heads... I almost always end up drawing the same person...


Also, I really like that mech painting and I think the first one is better because there's more contrast. All you need now is some hapless victim who's about to get elctrocuted or whatever it is those prongs do to hapless vicitims....

[spiffiness]

Hey!! Cool sketches and stuff! You're getting better! And I do like your mech painting. I've noticed that your faces tend to be round. Draw some ppl with sharper jaw lines or square jaws to change it up!

And yeah, I do need to update more often, especially since I'm trying to apply to ACAD, Sheridan, and the Vancouver Film School... I don't know how you managed to keep drawing, but right now, I'm just hanging on with school work.

[Onir]

heeey always love an hp update :teeth: great work as always, glad to see you're starting up watercolor! I loove those water brushpen things, get me out and painting more; really nice values on your watercolor pics and the blending and washes you've done are looking great. biggest thing I've learned with watercolors is to be as patient with washes as you can (I also paint with lots of layers when I use watercolors); something I'm sure you've realized but doesn't hurt to say it again I guess hehe. really liking the cleanliness of your lines on the sketches, both pen and pencil. only crit I can really think to offer is along the lines of what spiffiness suggested on your heads, otherwise just keep workin at those watercolors. oh and I like the mech doodles too, nice rendering on the arms. keep at it!

[DR_Inferno]

that watercolor pen makes really neat marks. especially when you use it :D

keep it up. your characters are very individual, which is fantastic. I really like the 4th page. lots of movement and emotion there, though some of the other pages feel a little static.

[Farvus]

Nice update. I especially dig this page - http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/7209/14sw6.jpg. Is it pencil + gray brushpen beacause there are very smooth shadows. I think I might try that technique.
Maybe studying skeletal structure could help you in drawing figure. For example to draw better elbows, knee and other parts that appear more angular in body (just like spiffiness said).
Oh... and from the earlier update I really like the colour scheme practic. Nice rendering on blue face.
Keep it ut!

[Vishaka]

Very cool SB! I *adore* your CHOW and la belle dame pieces. By the by, I used to use an internet nick oddly similar to yours way back when... I think it was hpslashlove or something along those lines and it always throws me off when I see your name, lol.

[Unbreakable]

Glad you started a sketchgroup, nothing like getting together with other artist learnin'. And drawing at the zoo is awesome!!!

[hp]

@glikster: i'm glad you're here to tell me what mechs with prongs do to victims :) and, i feel that all my heads look the same too :(

@spiffiness:will try...to draw...sharper...faces...GAH! it's so hard for me. :(

@Onir: yeah...i'm not sure i'm patient enough for watercolors >.<

@DR_Inferno: trying to work on non static images...:dead:

@Farvus: thanks. mmm trying to go back into studies soon. bleh. i hate skeletons. :xpld:

@Vishaka: hehe, that's cool. maybe we're long lost twins :)

@Unbreakable: drawing at the zoo is hard! i hate stupid flying monkey things, i can't draw them!
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I have a bunch of life drawings but no camera so oh well. Here's what I've done in my sketchbook.

i'm happy that i did the bottom drawing without any ref...her hand is a bit big but who cares. i even...PUT HER IN A SETTING!!! *gasp*
http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/5517/scan1dr2.jpg

trying to teach myself how to shade faces using a mirror. this is basically the style i'd like to be able to use for my chars...without a mirror. i started some without ref and i think i'm getting it down :)
http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/3830/scan2ik3.jpg

today's sketchgroup topics - "crazy vacuum dances in jungle" and "beached whale in tub". obviously i can't draw jungles, vacuums, whales, or tubs. i still like how the first one came out though. :blahblah:
http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/1719/scan3tt1.jpg

[Erilaz]

Great art, and funky rant Emily. You've got some damn nice tones in there, and your non-ref studies are really starting to pay off.

As to the sketchgroup, I feel your pain. Hang in there!!!:) You just have to keep at it. The frustrated lazy ones will eventually drop off and you'll have a core group that goes hard. I usually just shout "less talky more drawy!" when we've been digressing over coffee. We've got a great solid group now that gets a fair bit done.
And tell anime fan to start drawing more real people. He can get back to anime when he understands how anatomy works. Facial expressions in cartoons are all about believability, and that comes from studying how people interact and emote. The silly sod. :rolleyes:
As to the 3CH thing, have you tried the adjective-sketch idea that Marko and Wes did at Montreal? That might get them moving, as they only have to individually think of a word each. You'd think they were trying to do rocket science.

[Onir]

hey hp, nice update. you shade very nicely lol; really like that face on the first page.. not to down play the unreffed drawing of course, that came out really nicely as well. not much I can crit on em and great work since that is in fact without a ref ;) nice page of your mirrored-selfs, I like the shading on em. the jungle with the dancing vacuums is really cool in my opinion, love the lady's expression, and the whale in the tub made me laugh. really nothing to crit except maybe watch the proportions on your self portraits (which can be really hard if you're using a mirror).

sorry that the sketchgroup is kinda having a rocky time :\ I kinda know what you mean. luckily in my case the people I deal with have thicker skin when getting critiqued and actually listen to what my opinion is on a matter. now, the group of people I know is most definitely smaller than yours (in fact I'm pretty sure very few people at NU actually draw outside of class...), so that might be why I'm having a bit easier go of things. either way though, you really should just tell them thatif they want to be an artist of any type they gotta learn to listen to advice and not to get offended with crap. just my take on things of course.. I'm sure you know how to handle things ;)

that got a bit long... sorry about that. either way keep up the good work and good luck with your sketchgroup stuff.

[glikster]

I feel your pain about the sketchgroup.... I tutored and substituted before... but you would think if they're there voluntarily...

I love your shading, and that non ref lady is looking great!
Also, the vacuum and jungle are looking super animator-y... great!

[Unbreakable]

Yeah, animals running are hard to draw but that is the fun part!

[spiffiness]

i really like the waterfall sketch! It's pretty!

Man, that sucks with the sketchgroup. I'd be like, STFU and draw! Stupid mofos... LOL

[archnemesis dbal]

You've got some good stuff, keep up the good work. I need to start up my sketchbook thread here soon. But i'll be sure to come back and crit your new stuff.

[Fishspawn]

There's a lot of progress in here. I really like your rendering style. Keep up the life drawing, it will help you immensely.

[hito]

http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/1202/robotye0.jpg

This si cool, very castle in the sky.

[Farvus]

I dig the shading in those faces.

As for the sketchgroup. I noticed lots of people like this on other forums. They seem to be more interested in cartoons than drawing. I guess it will take some time to convince them that there is no shortcut and that the foundations are necessary to gain freedom in creativity. Good luck with that
I wish there was some sketchgroup where I live. It's really hard to find people with similar interests. I mean illustration or conceptart.

[seb182]

wow u have an excellent style and a great eye. thanks for the inspiration!!!! just 1 thing, ur drawings are getting quite repetitive (which is definatly not a bad thing) and since ur great at the portraits and antomy you should have a go at sumthing a little more crazy. do sumthing funky with colours and make things do things that they shouldnt. in your drawings you are god.
-- go wild u have the talent, theres nothing stoppong u

[hp]

@Erilaz: oh you don't understand...i was like, "OK! A NOUN!?!? ANYONE!?!? A NOUN!?!? A FUCKING NOUN!" *thinks, oh.my.god. they can't come up with a noun.* "OK, NOW A VERB! A VERB!!!??!?!!" they seriously were too shy or too lazy to think of anything themselves...

@Onir: well, i was trying to "stylize" the faces into how i normally doodle, but with realistic shading.

@Unbreakable: i guess i just need to go to the zoo more =P

@spiffiness: hehe thanks. update more! no excuses! :)

@archnemesis dbal: thanks!

@Fishspawn:thanks!

@hito: hehe, never watched it, but thanks.

@Farvus: thanks! yeah it was hard to find ppl to come to the sketchgroup, although i got a lot of emails. i have like 77 members technically, but only about 8-12 are really involved.

@seb182: i always feel like my drawings are repetitive...i need to branch out.
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i'm too lazy to scan my life drawings and my sketchbook. the good news is...I'M ALMOST DONE WITH MY SKETCHBOOK WOOOO!!!! first time ever that i felt that i had a "real" sketchbook that wasn't all like, torn out and one small doodle per page. i got a new bigger sketchbook so hopefully i will learn to draw bigger.

sketch:
http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/5033/day1sketchaf3.jpg

some color:
http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/1710/day1002xk6.jpg

some thing i drew a while back for "my parents are superheros" and never finished.
http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/7604/92106color45minwr8.jpg

dunno if i ever posted these...i was trying to figure out that method of doing white on black really quickly. one is "tombs of atuan" fanart and one is me copying the prince of persia artwork. btw, i used the "flat color" pen to do these in painter.
http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/3822/darklight003la1.jpg
http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/7918/day12ek9.jpg

anddddd drawing outfits i want to make but...i suck at crafts. and i wish i had an occasion to wear a sexy business outfit with cateye glasses.
http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/4093/outfitslb2.jpg
http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/2263/12001ri1.jpg

and just cuz it's funny...BATWING NIPPLE THINGIES!!!!
http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/8329/12003ym1.jpg

[Erilaz]

Okay, that last one is just scary. 0_o

I think my fav in that lot is actually the one of your superhero mother. Really nice flow of the form, although something is going weird down in the lower calf/foot area.

Heh, and you're right! Nothing makes you learn something faster than being forced to teach it!:bashful:

[Carnifex]

anddddd drawing outfits i want to make but...i suck at crafts. and i wish i had an occasion to wear a sexy business outfit with cateye glasses.

and i wish i could see that ;)
good stuff all around in that last post. good luck with the matte painting and vehicle stuff...i haven't even tried to draw a screwdriver ;)