my FIRST post!!!

[sfumato]

Hey guys! Ive been lurking here for a while and im gonna take the chance to post! hope you guys like what i do. Critiques are ALWAYS welcome!

drawn from memory
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c200/jrrecuerdo/free00002.jpg

random creature
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c200/jrrecuerdo/free00009.jpg

bendy girls!!! memory :)
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c200/jrrecuerdo/free00001.jpg

life drawing
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c200/jrrecuerdo/FD0003.jpg

more women!
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c200/jrrecuerdo/free00004.jpg

theres also the typical ninja robot ripoff..
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c200/jrrecuerdo/ninja_robots01.jpg

ornate lady from memory
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c200/jrrecuerdo/free00003.jpg

[gmags]

Nice start there sfumato! Like your girl and memory sketches. Welcome to CA dude! Good Luck. :yayca:

[sfumato]

thanks gmags, ill keep drawring!

[sith]

You got some skill with that pencil, bro. I don't tell very many people that. Keep 'em coming sfumato.

[sfumato]

domo arigato mister sith-o

[archipelago]

Cool man! Id like to see more stuff thats not from memory though! keep going! :D

[sfumato]

heres a life drawing i did in 20 mins
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c200/jrrecuerdo/FD0002.jpg

[warlock1234]

great job sfumato, i suggest working more with faces, but your contour lines are sweet....and well developed....keep at it ^"^:yayca:

[sfumato]

this is a self portrait I did when i couldn't sleep.. it let me sleep sooner than I thought
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c200/jrrecuerdo/selfPortrait0001_small.jpg

[Sirio_Brozzi]

Really nice start dude, solid pencil work. :)

[tensai]

nice sketches man. good line work and good shading.

no crits for now, keep it coming!

[rob-ot]

excellent pencil skills - nice work!

- can't wait to see some more

[sfumato]

danke! ill start scanning more work!

[sfumato]

here are some ballet gestures that I did when I barged into a class.. it was an entirely different ecperience from your typical life drawing session. They were all moving all the time so I had to memorize where everything went and drew really quickly

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c200/jrrecuerdo/FD0010.jpg

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c200/jrrecuerdo/FD0009.jpg

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c200/jrrecuerdo/FD0008.jpg

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c200/jrrecuerdo/FD0007.jpg

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c200/jrrecuerdo/FD0011.jpg

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c200/jrrecuerdo/FD0012.jpg

and some portraits of the people who were dancing

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c200/jrrecuerdo/FD0013.jpg

[Cup of Joe]

Great stuff sfumato! Keep it up!

[sfumato]

heres a new page!

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c200/jrrecuerdo/free00008.jpg

[sfumato]

new page of randomness!

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c200/jrrecuerdo/free00010.jpg

[sfumato]

another update i did when i couldnt sleep so i drew this at about 3am in the morning, just doodling away... wasnt thinking about proportions or anything but just trying to express the feeling of breaking away.

Critiques are always welcome! BREAK ME BREAK ME!!!!!
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c200/jrrecuerdo/free00005.jpg

[SprayNation]

Critiques are always welcome! BREAK ME BREAK ME!!!!!

These types of comments always seem to come from people who are truly devoted artists. I commend your eagerness :).

This stuff is all really great! Try to get more imaginative with the subject matter. Nothing really caught me off guard, conceptually. Love the ornate lady from memory. As far as your life studies go, your hatching is really interesting; however, your figures might work better as a whole if you hatch a light base tone early in the drawing (rather than noodling from part to part, which is what seems to be the case). Once you get the lights and shadows blocked in, you can noodle the shit out of it. You do a great job of seeing around the form, so I think starting this way will help speed up your drawings. Great gestures by the way. Keep it up bra' :).

[sfumato]

thank you mR spraynation! Ill try and draw much quicker and add some of my conceptwork in there.. till then ill put up a monster creature that was inspired by the grotesque from Hellgate

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c200/jrrecuerdo/free00012.jpg

[seansea]

Hi sfumato:

I'm liking your pencils the figure studies. Your work makes me want to push harder. the only thing is that some scans are showing up too light. other than that, keep it comin'.

seansea

[sfumato]

more new stuff here, just random doodles..
once again guys, i b eg you to BREAK ME!!!
weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

random faces etc
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c200/jrrecuerdo/free00023.jpg

pointing!
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c200/jrrecuerdo/free00017.jpg

stuff i copied from the ryder figure drawing book, trying to steal his
cross hatching technique
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c200/jrrecuerdo/free00024.jpg

quicke figure drawing
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c200/jrrecuerdo/FD0019.jpg

[sfumato]

my melancholy peeps

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c200/jrrecuerdo/FD0020.jpg

[bhanu]

What were you waiting for to post your first thread here ?
I really hope I can get as good as you are someday.But for now I am enjoying your art and now I am going to get up and draw a bit(I am feeling inspired , especially by those life drawing of yours).
sfumoto You have a very bright future .
The days are nearing when your art will be widely popular.

[T-Raktor]

Heey there, when i first saw the thread called first post, i've braced myself for one of those threads where u see a lot of random wierd doodles made by amators (like me :)). But entering here, i must say that your first posts are really great. I really like that super hero guy, very very nice. How long have u been drawing?

[sfumato]

bhanu - I really dont know why i waited that long, just didnt feel good about posting craptastic work so i waited. Im never satisfied anyways so i said what the hell, its now or never right? Its funny that photobucket killed some of my life drawings cause there was nudity. I guess i cant post my life drawings in there anymore, eventhough they are just drawings.

T-Raktor - Sorry, but i cant see which super hero guy you're referring to but i appreciate the generous compliment. To answer your other question, ive been drawing on and off since i was very young. I knew that I loved doing it but my parents forced me to be the shool nerd kid so it kinda killed that a bit. During that time ove only drawn a little bit sporadically until two years ago when i finally went to art school in the US. Ive been drawing since then, which is about 2 years... Just lots of hard work and PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE, and getting your work beat up by as many people possible.

Till next time, still have to scan my new work... well see!