What's a Snurkle? July 21st (figure drawings)

[rsnurkle]

Taking the plunge here. Typical story, been lurking for a while, thought I'd finally make a thread for c&c. I'm 17 (graduate from highschool this year) and have been drawing somewhat for most of my life. It's a hobby (I'm looking to go into a science-related field in college) but I put a little more work into it a year or so ago and have been getting a little better, so it's a more "serious" hobby. =]

I recent set myself a challenge to reach a certain point in a current sketchbook that I randomly marked off -- it's about 50 pages, for under a month, came to about 2 pages a day for me, which is more than I usually get done when not on vacation from school. Unfortunately since I don't quite like the paper in this particular sketchbook, and I have a lot of it to go through (400pg), some of what I've been putting in to make the goal is just...crap.

To offset that slightly, I'll post a not-so-recent, but favorite picture of mine to try and get on somebody's good side.

http://members.lycos.co.uk/rawrsnurkle/sketchfind/IMG_4243.jpg

Here we go with the recent stuff, all done this past week.

I've been pseudo-planning a masked gladiator picture. This will not be him. :teeth:
03/02/2006 A (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_02A.jpg)

A couple of sketches in a restaurant, more from my head.
03/04/2006 B (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_04B.jpg)

More on the gladiator costume research/planning.
03/04/2006 C (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_04C.jpg)
Still life sketchy from somewhere in my house... I think.
03/05/2006 A (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_05A.jpg)

More still life, and from head concepts
03/05/2006 A (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_05B.jpg)

Random stick figures to finish off for that night
03/05/2006 C (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_05C.jpg)
Started drawing the bowl, then got caught up in studying its reflection on the wood table
03/06/2006 A (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_06A.jpg)

More silly stuff, I recopied notes from my Astronomy class and added from-mind imagery
03/06/2006 C (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_06C.jpg)

I drew some zebras from nat'l geo. a while back and thought I'd add one into the gladiator mix.
03/07/2006 A (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_07A.jpg)
And a digital paint, which I am very marginal at. 15 minutes before I had to run off.
03/09/2006 A (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_09A.jpg)

Which I am about to do now (run off). I'm looking at an art post probably every weekend after this, fyi. I'm mostly interested in concept art stuff, but I've decided to work on from life lately to polish up rendering, structure, and stuff like that, so general advice is appreciated. If you want to see some earlier stuff of mine, check out my dA gallery (http://rsnurkle.deviantart.com/), or this random directory (http://members.lycos.co.uk/rawrsnurkle/sketchfind/) of a few more uploads.

[Mort]

the sketch with the watch is awesome. it looks just like its on the paper.
good luck with the gladiator man.
the gladiator with the zebra seems like a cool concept.

thanks for stopping by my book.

[savii]

Interesting stuff so far, just push those observation skills, really look at what your drawing. It obvious you can do it, the watch is a great example, nice work. Good luck with that!

[rsnurkle]

Mort: Thanks, I had fun doing the watch. Zebras are kind of neat, so one might make it into the final *shrug*. Hey, thanks for stopping by my book. =]

Savii: Glad it's not boring, =D. Re: Observation; will do! Thanks.

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Here's what went into the next few pages following my first post. Most are from when I was at a film festival, so they were drawn either in the dark or between bad science fiction movies (that is the reason "bad" and "wtf?" or "DON'T WATCH THIS MOVIE" appear a few times in cropped-out spaces).

There was a page before this: I was warming up and trying to reference from face from "Signs." The page is pure crap, and would've been all blank stares anyways. Following that movie was a Star Trek double feature, the only ref'd sketch is the from-life of my foot on the back of some chairs.
03/10/2006 A (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_10A.jpg)

Sometime after midnight we started on "The Black Hole" and the scribble on the right is inspired by the captive humanoids in that film (which was so odd). The left guy is another gladiator helmet consideration.
03/10/2006 B (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_10B.jpg)

Random clothing done during "Buckaroo Banzai", and not ref'd at all.
03/11/2006 A (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_11A.jpg)

Done this morning, I think this is going to be the final helmet design for my gladiator, at least the face-plate.
03/12/2006 A (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_12A.jpg)

And another silly digi-paint. 20mins of me paying absolutely no attention in OC.
03/12/2006 B (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_12B.jpg)

Apologies for the image qualities of this batch. I use a camera because my scanner is old (and cheap) enough to eat pencil-work on every scan, unless I promise it my first born.

[mlsfishi]

That Zebra-mounted gladiator's pretty spiffy. I think you might need to work on necks and how the head connects to the body, because in your gladiators and other humans the heads all look a little off (in relation to the body).

[Madfishmonger]

I like your gladiator ideas, they're awesome. National Geographic is the best reference, I have a pile of them. Shoulders and necks are hard, especially when someone's in a bit of an odd position, some more figure drawing can probably help that. Ask some friends to sit still for a few minutes, or take some photos (if your camera isn't bad) and draw from that, and of course there's lots of people in NG. Drawing upside-down is good if you find you're struggling. You have some great shading here though :}

[rsnurkle]

mlsfishi: Heads-necks/shoulder area, right!
Madfishmonger: Yay for National Geographic. Shoulder area is on ze list.

Half hour with my brain turned off. Because I just needed to do something PI-related before homework. :teeth:
PiDay2006 (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/PiDay2006.jpg)

Happy PI Day!!

[EKU_11]

You certainly have great skill just looks at that watch it’s amazing. That pie gladiator is great to epically since you said you did it without your brain on, keep up the good work look forward to seeing more of it.

[mlsfishi]

Hur. Pi day = love. My school...sold pie at midday. Our math team's always proud to celebrate Pi day.

The shading on the head is different from the rest of the body it seems, though. Always remember your lightsource! =D

[rsnurkle]

EKU_11: Well, I think parts of my brain were on =], but thank you!
mlsfishi: I don't have math on tuesdays, so in my class we celebrated on monday with pie, and number cookies, and a story, several poems (I wrote a "pi-ku") and three people reciting the digits. Good stuff it was.

Here's another during-the-week-one-image update (I did five pages in my sketchbook the other day, but that gets to wait until the weekend to be uploaded).

My next assignment in commercial design deals with high contrast images, and we're to first create a black and white portrait to explore positive/negative space and for further work. I did a test run today (because I'm actually ahead - most everyone is still working on the previous assignment, which is due tomorrow) and thought I'd scan it before I showed my teacher and it went into my materials at school. Black acrylic paint, with remnants of pencil I did not erase. Referenced, guess who! :teeth:
captainjack (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_16captainjack.jpg)

[Madfishmonger]

That's a nice likeness. Now if you can construct me some kind of life-sized realistic and fuly animated reconstruction of Johhny Depp...
The mouth looks a teeeeny bit off to me, like it's straight while the rest of his head is tilted. That could just be me swooning, however.

[TheGnoll]

so, i'm not the only 17 year old around here :D

i like the still life, the stick figs and the clothing studies...but i'm sure you could do better with the digital paintings :D

[Pesmerga]

Hi there :) welcome to ca :yayca: enjoy your stay and keep drawing everyday :p

[EKU_11]

wow captain jack is awersome is so is that picture.

[mlsfishi]

I agree with Madfishmonger, it's a good likeness, but the mouth looks like it's asymmetrical. It might just be the shadows, though. -shrug-

And in a side note, what part of the Midwest?

[rsnurkle]

Madfishmonger: Swooning is perfectly acceptable - I would have to make an animated reconstruction for myself first, you understand. =] And yes! The line of his mouth is not aligned with his eyes - it is obvious to me now when I can't/won't change anything about it (it's stuck in my at-school stuff now, and I think my teacher wants it as it is...)
TheGnoll: Yay for 17! Hehe, sounds like a challenge there about the digital paintings, =], thanks.
Pesmerga: Thank you!
EKU_11: Cap'n Jack is very awesome! =D
mlsfishi: Yep, stuff's funky in the picture. I'm a Michigander, are you in the area?

From this week (I haven't done anything yet today).

I've been doing studies and random line-drawings in our student lounge at school. Gestures of my dog are at the bottom.
03/13/2006 B (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_13B.jpg)

And on that day I went to the park, it was cold and windy, but very sunny.
03/13/2006 C (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_13C.jpg)

I was wondering what fun facial painting could go on this possible zebra-rider/gladiator, didn't finish the rendering (obviously).
03/13/2006 D (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_13D.jpg)

First sketch of the day, warming up in english class during a movie, several of these are of classmates sitting (and sleeping).
03/14/2006 A (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_14A.jpg)

Trying to figure out what my high-contrast portrait might look like (from before I painted it).
03/14/2006 B (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_14B.jpg)

More Captain Jack Sparrow, all are from handy reference (and not life...*sniffle*).
03/14/2006 C (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_14C.jpg)

A quick run through of the first five people in NG and on the cover of another book, looking at necks. Not very productive, but a start.
03/14/2006 D (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_14D.jpg)

Spewage from my brain, zebra-rider thing.
03/14/2006 E (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_14E.jpg[)

In the student lounge again...
03/14/2006 A (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_15A.jpg)

My shoe in lines, and quick scribbles to remember an idea for bathroom architecture.
03/15/2006 B (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_15B.jpg)

Various things, one being thumbnail for gladiator angle - the shiny gold of the face plate refects an approaching zebra rider and the gladiator's possible doom. Blah blah blah.
03/15/2006 C (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_15C.jpg)

A setup for a study of a NG cover; there is a chance I won't come back to this... I have to note that this picture of the page is actually at an angle - the left (our right) eye is not quite that squashed horizontally. If I finish it, I'll get a much better shot.
03/15/2006 D (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_15D.jpg)
And another page of from-mind spewage, I was tiring, so things got rather random.
03/15/2006 E (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_15E.jpg)

Thanks for your comments guys 'n' gals! :teeth:

[Orozc0]

nice nose bleed. need better scans tho.

[bhanu]

Hey rsnurkle
One thing I saw in your stuff that a lot of it is unfinished even for a sketch for example the spacesuit costume isnt finished.
The dynamics look good somewhere and somewhere look like you need to pay attention to anatomy and perspective.
But Yeah I enjoyed watching your sketching.
Keep posting

[Dwezz]

Damn, jack sparrow looks sexy! (in a straight way ;))
You're improving with each drawing, there's some really good stuff here.

[Madfishmonger]

Your stuff's looking better, keep practicing!

[rsnurkle]

Orozc0: Eh, where? On the coverstudy? Thanks, and yea, my camera and scanner are not hi-quality.
bhanu: Thanks for pointing that out, I seem to have something against finished stuff and consistency, I'll need to work on that. =]
Dwezz: Heh, it's ok to want Jack Sparrow, he's extremely awesome.
Madfishmonger: That's nice to hear from two people, =] I'll keep going!

So, a week's full of stuff nearly. Some of it I'm embarassed with, but maybe tips will come of showing it. Here we go...

Mar 18, 2006 - Warm-up, necks from mind, from ref (NG), from life, shoulders from mind, digital study (NG), and shoulders from ref (NG)
03/18/2006 A (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_18A.jpg) 03/18/2006 B (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_18B.jpg)
03/18/2006 C (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_18C.jpg) 03/18/2006 D (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_18D.jpg)
03/18/2006 E (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_18E.jpg) 03/18/2006 F (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_18F.jpg)
03/18/2006 H (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_18H.jpg)

Mar 19, 2006 - Mostly from life; went to see a show and then to dinner afterwards.
03/19/2006 C (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_19C.jpg) 03/19/2006 B (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_19B.jpg)
03/19/2006 D (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_19D.jpg) 03/19/2006 E (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_19E.jpg)

Mar 20, 2006 - Trying to do more "finished" but not succeeding.
03/20/2006 C (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_20B.jpg[/IMG][URL="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_20C.jpg)

Mar 21, 2006 - Eheh...from life...showercaps. Dying marker.
03/21/2006 A (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_21A.jpg) 03/21/2006 C (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_21C.jpg)

Mar 22, 2006 - More studies for the third part of my contrast assignment, and another marginal unfinished digi-paint.
03/22/2006 A (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_22A.jpg) 03/22/2006 B (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_22B.jpg)
03/22/2006 C (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_22C.jpg)

And I'm two images over the maximum if I put Mar 24 in this post...

[rsnurkle]

Mar 24, 2006 - I spent most of this day sitting around at a science fair, on a cloudy day outside, which meant I was slowly drained of any real motivation to draw properly. So when I got home and glanced at some inspiring sketchbook pages from others, I got angry, got a pen, and randomly assigned myself to do nearly ten pages, whatever they were of.
03/24/2006 A (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_24A.jpg) 03/24/2006 C (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_24C.jpg)
03/24/2006 D (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_24D.jpg) 03/24/2006 E (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_24E.jpg)
03/24/2006 F (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_24F.jpg) 03/24/2006 G (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_24G.jpg)
03/24/2006 H (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_24H.jpg) 03/24/2006 I (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_24I.jpg)
03/24/2006 J (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_24J.jpg) 03/24/2006 K (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_24K.jpg)
03/24/2006 L (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_24L.jpg) 03/24/2006 M (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_24M.jpg)
03/24/2006 N (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_24N.jpg) 03/24/2006 O (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_24O.jpg)

Imaginary cookies to anyone who figures out the "haha."

[Madfishmonger]

You get teh cookies for you improvements, you life drawings are looking fabulous! That one of the woman in profile, from the 19th looks awesome, there's a lot I like in here. Slick.
http://www.cookiesinheaven.com/images/cookies/chocolate_chip_cookie.jpg

[rsnurkle]

I'm hungry, and that cookie looks really good... thanks! :teeth:

[EKU_11]

Seems that all that drawing is apying of just great improvement in yout figure drawings, Keep it up.

[rsnurkle]

EKU_11: Glad to hear that, thanks =D.

I said I'd post on the weekends, but I figured might as well put this stuff up, so there's a bit less to upload on Friday.

March 25, 2006 - Drawing people at lunch, in the mall, dinner, and the violin players onstage at a show.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_25A.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_25B.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_25C.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_25D.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_25E.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_25F.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_25G.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_25H.jpg

March 26, 2006 - I sat around and watched 3 movies. One of which was "The Mask of Zorro." Great movie. So engrossing I only scribbled on one page during it.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_26A.jpg

March 27, 2006 - School today, but two pages done in my commercial design, still working on the exercise/project with Cap'n Jack. A digital to try out some custom made brushes, and drawing during "Miss Evers' Boys."
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_27A.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_27B.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_27C.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_27D.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_27E.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_27F.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_27G.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_27H.jpg

I gotta get the "captive audience" something more interesting than sketches to look at... spring break is coming up.

[EKU_11]

Wow your on fire, I thought you had improved since last time then bang your drawings got even better. Epically that Skelton head with the bandana and those last 2 pages of drawing with the people are very good.

[Madfishmonger]

Your life drawings are getting better and better. Some anatomy study in the in-between time will only improve you. Keep it up :)

[rsnurkle]

EKU_11: Thank you =D
Madfishmonger: Anatomy studies...right! Onto those...after break. :teeth:

I'm basically on spring break - leaving tomorrow for a sunnier place. I'm taking my less-than-liked sketchbook (I'm on page 149/400), my watercolor paints, and another book with heavier paper that I need to finish - no art reference, so it's just going to be from life on the island. I should be back April 10th with a lot of stuff, some of it fun, some of crap, but lots of stuff.

Also! Was cleaning and found this, back from Sept. '05...spoon!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2005_09_09.jpg

March 28, 2006 - Working on Cap'n Jack in class, and some gestures from rehearsal.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_28A.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_28B.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_28C.jpg

March 29, 2006 - Out & About. Went to the "Senior class fashion show," from life drawings in the half-dark.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_29A.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_29B.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_29C.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_29D.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_29E.jpg

March 30, 2006 - Cap'n Jack in contrasting colors, comments? I want to learn from this (besides the fact that my traditional painting is worse than my digital).
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_03/2006_03_30A.jpg

[Dwezz]

Gestures are always good, nice update
Like the cap'n jack studies too

[Madfishmonger]

The Cap'n is looking good, I like the contrasting colours. Something in it though, doesn't quite look like Johnny Depp, maybe his face is too long? I can't quite place it.

[EKU_11]

A nice update Captain Jack is looking good plus the gestures are pretty good.

[Ham-e]

Nice progress! Keep going I'll be watching for updates

[rsnurkle]

Dwezz: Thanks. I'm not quite sure I "get" gestures, but I'll try 'em out anyways.
Madfishmonger: I keep thinking on my studies that I tend to shorten/squash his face, but I do think it's a weird reference picture regardless. He looks very impish, but not very Deppish...
EKU_11: Thanks!
Ham-e: Cool, thanks for stopping by.

So, I went on vacation for my spring break, which as usual meant I had a reasonable amount of time allotted to sitting around doing whatever I wanted to. And since I still want to get rid of my current sketchboook (it is seriously just falling apart, and I don't like the book enough to want to fix it) I worked on filled pages with whatever was handy - which produced a lot of outright scribbles no browser should be subjected to. Ask if you need comments, I'm just putting pictures up to the 3rd, and then going to bed, the rest can come tomorrow.

March 31, 2006
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April 01, 2006
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April 02, 2006
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April 03, 2006
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[rsnurkle]

There are about 10 more pages, for april 8, but I'm pushing the 30 image limit again. I should evaluate for quality... =P I'm still ridicously inconsistent on perspect/anatomy/lighting/etc. I signed myself up for the Chick TDome, and there are some sketch-thoughts in there. Hopefully I'll start posting some more thumbs or even WIPs for comments soon, I need to get on this. Comment 'n' crit away please!

April 04, 2006
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April 05, 2006
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April 06, 2006
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April 07, 2006
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[rsnurkle]

April 8, 2006
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And a 20 minute noodling with one of the earlier sketches today. I have math homework that awaits... *sigh*. Working on digital stuff for longer is on the to-do list.
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[Ham-e]

Hey I'll give you some comments, not sure if you want them...but let me know if you don't and I'll shut up! Ok theres some good drawings in here where I can tell you were in the zone: the love bird, the iguana, and that crouching girl. Whatever you did when you drew those...do it more. :blahblah:

[dCepT]

First: Thanks for droping by my sketchbook, man!

Went through your thread just now.. Your dedication is admirable! For example the captain Jack piece you're working on.. Obviously you learn a lot from redoing it that many times.
I like that you're working that much from life.. helps you "see" correctly.

Your should top off all the stuff your doing with some anatomystudies (yeah.. the adage (sp?) of conceptart.org.. hehe... And if you spend just a bit more time on the ones you decide to render out more, I bet they'd take a big jump up! :)

Keep it up man!

d-C

[Madfishmonger]

The birds are great, you're doing some very nice things with colour there. Your figure drawings are definately improving, and it's nice to see so many. You can't help but get better the more you draw. Drawing the feet, heh heh, it's kind of fun, isn't it? You never really look at your feet until you sit and draw them.

[EKU_11]

I like the sketches espically the girl and the 2 sketches below that one.

[rsnurkle]

Ham-e: I love comments! Hmm...which iguana? (I'm guessing not the scribbly one) The crouching girl I did put some thought into, I had to give her up after so long though, my head was screaming for me to stop before I messed something up really bad. Thanks!

dCepT: Thanks for stopping by mine! Anatomy studies and rendering for longer... :teeth: I really need to get on that so people will stop mentioning it, hehe. Alright, keep an eye out for that jump. =]

Madfishmonger: You should've met the birds in real life, they were so neat. I'm glad the colors look alright, was trying to mimic them without having the paper get too soggy. Heh, drawing the feet is fun - although I did pay relative attention to my feet anyways (I dance, so...yea).

EKU_11: Cool, I don't think I'll run out of sketches to show. That girl seems to notable... thank ya!

Unforunately, on the weekend I was rather unmotivated to post - my relative amount of drawing is dismal compared to on spring break, because I'm busy again with school and projects. But anyways! Stuff from last week, the "final" for component three of the contrast assignment (Jack Sparrow - I am a shoddy painter), and two digitals from today. =]

April 10
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April 12
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April 14
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April 17
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[rsnurkle]

Working on a poster now for my commercial design class, as well as an entry for the song tdome. Unfortunately I don't think I'll have time to properly paint the entry... Working on it made me wish I had a larger mental library of ref'd anatomy, *sheepish* will go at that with renewed purpose when I get clear of this stuff.

Poster thumbs:
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'Aerials'
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[Amazing Action Ape]

Hey man! thanks for stopping by my sketchbook!

Wow, nice stuff! great to see you working on studies! I think in a few years youll be top notch stuff mate.

[Interceptor]

Oh my god, when you post, you post TONS.
Well, aside from what everyone else has said, I can't give any further crits. It seems you know where your problem areas are and are working hard at them. This is a start to a wonderful sketchbook, my friend.
CHEERS!
-Loren

[Smitherines]

Its good to see that you are doing some anatomy studies from life, but also reference books because you may see that foot infront of you, but you may not understand its planes and structure without knowing what it looks like on the inside. Keep on studying, you'll get the hang of it.

[rsnurkle]

Amazing Action Ape: No problem, and whoa, thanks for that compliment!
Interceptor: Heh, it's my alternative to posting daily. Thank you =D
Smitherines: Anatomyrefanatomyrefanatomyref - I've got to do that. Thanks for the poke on that, they're mounting up.

First off, the last update from what was to be my tdome entry. Unfortunately I was among the 30 or so MIAs - I got home from another trip went to bed, and at 12:34 (I kid you not) realize I hadn't posted even a cleaned-up sketch for an entry. >_< Crit away!
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April 20, 2006 - Poster stuff
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April 21, 2006 - In the airport
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April 22, 2006
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April 23, 2006
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April 24, 2006
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April 26, 2006
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April 28, 2006 - At a Conference
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[EKU_11]

The poster stuff is coming along nicely especially like the many drawing of the people face the April 23 one has nice shading. Keep up the drawing of the hands they really good but some seem a little flat.

[rsnurkle]

EKU_11: Flat is not wanted, nope. I definitely have trouble with the volume/shapes in hands. Thanks =]

More random stuff from yesterday and then stuff from today (went to see a show, so several more pages of me scribbling in a dark audience). Pulled out some anatomy books, though I didn't do a lot of study from them. The last page is from several abercrombie n fitch photos I snagged - for being a clothing company they seem to like their boys without them as much as possible...

April 28, 2006
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April 29, 2006
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[rsnurkle]

Went to a museum exhibit and then a wedding shower today. Wedding showers are kind of odd - besides the provided food. Exhibit was cool, even though I had never actually tried to do any serious drawing standing up and balancing my unwieldy (6x6 or 7x7 and 200 sheets) sketchbook on an arm as lots of people walked around me. We were also only there for maybe an hour or two, so more was being simplified or scribbled than paid attention to.

Any tips for drawing in museums lacking places to sit?

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For the record: I'm not very pleased with the second to last page - the character sitting on a dock. But I hadn't ever drawn him before, so that hurdle was crossed.

[rsnurkle]

I think my ssg has left the building... o_O

Anyways, more of the same? It occurred to me a while back that color stuff might be more fun - so there's my promise: when I finish this sb (I need to get out of it first -- it is falling apart) a full week of color. Howzthat?

(I'm up to page 318/400...)

May 1, 2006 - Posters, characters, and testing a stamp for a book I made
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May 2, 2006 - Quick ref from a photo
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May 3, 2006 - Knot designs, sketching outside, clothing from ref, crap dsg try, and hands from life
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I'm guessing I need to just keep at it? Or do more finished stuff *sheepish*

[EKU_11]

Always like looking at your work see the hands have more depth to them and torso drawing and just fricken awersome. Least your keep up with the anotmy study and it shows. Keep the good work up.

[rsnurkle]

The hands for some reason did feel a bit more comfortable, I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought they were different - funny too, because I was working in ink, so no erasing allowed... more anatomy studies on the way - more than likely on a topic related to the current system in my anatomy/physiology class in school. :teeth: Glad the work's nice to look at, thanks for stopping by.

[rsnurkle]

Unforunately today, there is no full self-portrait for the unofficial ssg18 challenge. I did a few studies on my facial features this week, a fish tank, got interrupted on another torso study, and then did a portrait of a friend at a party. The portrait is not a likeness, :| .

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[Madfishmonger]

Sorry about that, wandered off for a while there. I suck.

Anyway, some amazing improvements! Volume and making things not-flat is very difficult, takes a loooot of work,a nd some ability to see that seems to be difficult to grasp. Your shading and your faces are muchly improved, there's a few faces in there that are just fantastic. I noticed your shoe...feet are easier to draw than shoes, who knows why. Shoes are so bloody hard to draw.
You've also inspired me. I recently aquired a small purse-sized sketchbook, with a hard cover, so it's much easier to carry around and use in your lap or in your hands. I'm going to be going on a field trip with the kids at work to the museum, so I'll be bringing it along and maybe I'll get some stuff like yours. That cat is lovely. All I can say is keep it up :) and I am sorry for not being around

[rsnurkle]

You do not suck, in fact, regarding your being inspired and taking a sketchbook with you to draw things out in public makes you extremely cool and inspiring to me. Some of our group's just been on the Extremely Lite side, and I've kind of wondered where they all went.

On the updates front: I spent a week in Indy and did some stuff on the travel day there, but I don't really like it, and I'm about to scream through another five days of stuff happening all at once in addition to me playing catch-up. With luck, I'll drop off what I have of my poster and some better basic work later this week, I just don't have anything right now. =|

[rsnurkle]

QUESTION: Is this page too long of a load?

Some stuff. The colorful, pointless, magenta digital is what tends to happen when I play obliviously with the paintbrush tool and color in photoshop. The charcoal figure was done for my phantom poster, but I started another version in class today that fits the format I need better. Other stuff, from life and mind.

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[rsnurkle]

I'm basically done with highschool. Just some go-through-the-motions classes next week and graduation. Yay.

So, in my sudden onslaught of free no-studying time I have done very little. =D Today, I did some concept stuff for a friend's game project I'm involved in, and then decided to try to learn anything about texture with brushes in photoshop. Two ridiculously experiements with color, a more interesting value doodle and me getting bored 20 minutes into the decent idea of a study.

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[rsnurkle]

Quiet indeed.

The camera is temporarily missing after coming home from a wedding, no traditional stuff. Here's something I found in my files from March, and today's digital study from a mirror.
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[rsnurkle]

Mostly out 'n' about from life. Two pages, and part of one are from mind.

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[rsnurkle]

Done today. Initial trial of a self-imposed exercise.
5 mins each. In the second, I wasn't thinking as quickly...
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[EKU_11]

Congratulations on graduating. Your out and about drawings are us interesting us always especially the last 3 pages and the one with the weird elephant thing. Also that Egyptian pillar painting is look good but needs to be on a bit more of a angle. I would like to see more of you’re made up drawing because they are pretty interesting.

[rsnurkle]

EKU_11: Thank you! It feels good to be done. Onto life!
I kind of enjoy doing out'n'abouts, they're good for remembering places, and they're an interesting way for me to do studies. I'm intending to do a more imagination stuff, but in the past few days most things have been crap.

A very meager update. I did a few concepts and studies for a game project I'm involved in, and then two pages of (bad) hand studies to finish off my nearly 400-page sketchbook. Here is the last page, and before-starting and after-finishing photos of the book. I was desperate on a trip for a sb, so I bought this cheap, mildly interesting looking one from Meijers, or somewhere. A bad idea...

Goodbye!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2006_06/2006_06_02A.jpg
To you...
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Onto other books...I hoard sbs, they're just all waiting to be used...

[Jackwhat]

On the first page it looked like you were still sorta struggling with constructing the head but it looks like youre getting a lot better at it, some of the last sketches on the first page are getting nice.

Either way, you may or may not already know of it but, http://www.anticz.com/heads.htm is a really nice way to construct heads, or at least i find it quiet simple to follow now.

I sorta fell into a rut of drawing heads n faces :P my anatomy reflects that ;<

[rsnurkle]

Jackwhat: Thanks for that observation =]. I've still got a ways to go on constructing heads, and that link looks like a good place to remember the basics (which I tend to steamroll past, =P ). Checklist: Avoid ruts!

In the convience store the other day, and found a cheap-paper 11x14 for $2. I'm a compulsion buyer... anyways, hand studies have ensued. All from life, except the start of the last page, which is from lovely photo ref.
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[Myxomatosis]

Tee hee, good ol' blind contours. Be wary of some of the bends in the fingers - some of the ones you've drawn would only occur if they were...well, broken. Reference the fourth page, top right hand. Really enjoy the 5th and 6th pages, though. Nice shading overall, where you put it. Good mark.

[HellTaxi]

Great studies, good to see that kind of determination

[rsnurkle]

Myxomatosis: Thanks for the note on the bends (I think one of the "broken" joints is actually accurate, if exaggerated -- maybe I should have my hands looked at...) :teeth:
HellTaxi: Thank you!

Even though it is summer, I had been rather busy up until last Saturday -- working on a dance performance. Hopefully with that complete, I shall return to drawing daily and updating on a more regular basis. I've got to work on some entries for a scholarship contest, my mother would like me to paint a stairwell in our house, and I'm in the LMS2 tdome... lots to do! =D

Another page in the hands book...
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Stuff from another older sketchbook I'm finishing off.
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And a quick demonstration of how my scanner eats things (scanner on left, camera on right).
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[rsnurkle]

Did this today -- I sat myself down to do one thing for about 2 hours. Ref was "Egyptian King" costume in Historical Costume in Pictures, so after Andreas Muller. Beautiful plate engravings in that book. I was also monkeying around more with my scanner.

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[Madfishmonger]

Holy crap your shading is awesome. *bows in reverence*

[rsnurkle]

Eheh, thank you, =] the result of long hours of near-mindless practice. The trick for me now is to try and construct shading to place correctly on stuff from imagination, as opposed to referencing from examples.

Something...crappy to serve as a self-reminder. This was done in charcoal, and more as an experiment in conveying shading using "planes" without worrying about detailed structure. I did not do so well.
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The title page for my new "main sequence" sketchbook, the 11th one. Pencil, referenced from a photo online, with a bit of marker for border and titling.
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[EKU_11]

Holy crap your shading is awesome. *bows in reverence*


That just like WOW man WOW just amazing shading. Those hands studies have improved greatly no sense of flatness at all now also that guy getting up from behind in that stuff drawings looks superb.

[rsnurkle]

EKU_11: Thank you! The note on that guy getting up, I wasn't sure if that pose worked or not, good to hear comments on that.

Testing out the attachment dealio. As an interesting note, I'm going to do a mural in the basement stairwell of my house. I'll post pictures of how that turns out when it finishes. Here is some stuff from my newest sketchbook, and my final project from my commercial design class.

[Madfishmonger]

You've improved amazingly. I think I need a hell of a lot of that near-mindless practice.:cheerleader:

[EKU_11]

Were did the idea for that creature come from cause it pretty interesting, the phantom of the opera post come together very nicely. The Japanese’s looking house works a really good you were able to put a lot f nice detail into them and the cloth shading in the corner looks great.

[rsnurkle]

Madfishmonger: Thank you; make sure to put some fun into your practice though.
EKU_11: The creature is from a game project I'm working with some friends on -- a friend came up with the creature idea, and I asked him a million questions about it, and finally did that. O should probably try to color it for him. Glad the studies look nice, thanks.

My schedule is basically non-existent/inconsistent, so I've been in the equivalent of an art slump. Here's some recent stuff...
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[rsnurkle]

Again, recent-but-older.

While watching DVDs
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LMS2 sketchies -- the best laid plans...
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[EKU_11]

For someone in an art slump your work still looks great, I think the warrior guy has an amazing expression and the lady with the sunglasses just great shading and good overall detail is great us well. I was looking back through your work and something occurred to me that you have a great ability with clothing just wanted to know if you create the clothing design or are they just stuff you copied from picture and what not.

[Listing]

You're in a very good way, I think. Some really good shading. Show more life work. Just keep at it.

[Madfishmonger]

Hey you! The madness has settled, I'm ready for your challenge!
I have tog et a cord for my scaner, but I have a digital camera, so I can take pics of the stuff, so bring on the sketchy contest! I'mma kick yo ass! ;P

[rsnurkle]

So, technically I was supposed to reopen this thread back in June, just after I got home from school. I was also supposed to have finished a lot of summer projects by now... =]

I really neglected my physical sketchbooks, and didn't doodle much during lectures, but I did take a non-credit figure drawing class my fall semester at school, which was pretty cool. I don't really have much stuff besides sketches from that. There are about 20 drawings that I was okay with, so here aresome of my favorites, with links to the others...

Done with vine charcoal on 18x24 paper (either newsprint or sketch paper).

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six figures (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2007_07/IMG_0265.jpg)
back, lopsided (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2007_07/IMG_0261.jpg)
couch, cartoony outline (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2007_07/IMG_0259.jpg)
three figures (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2007_07/IMG_0258.jpg)
dark couch (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2007_07/IMG_0255.jpg)
upside-down on couch (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2007_07/IMG_0254.jpg)
stretch pose (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2007_07/IMG_0253.jpg)
shadow and form (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2007_07/IMG_0252.jpg)
dancing gestures (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2007_07/IMG_0250-1.jpg)
overlaid gestures (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2007_07/IMG_0243.jpg)
kneeling (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2007_07/IMG_0239.jpg)
over shoulder (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2007_07/IMG_0232.jpg)
leaning on arm (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2007_07/IMG_0222-1.jpg)
thinking pose (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/rsnurkle/ca_sketchbook/2007_07/IMG_0221.jpg)

and just for kicks, two little things...
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[ruuhkis]

Howdy Snurkle! I'm not sure about those scratchy lines you're using in those figure drawings. Though I really like the use of blacks in some of these.
You should update more :)