The Student Project...updating on the regular.

[Smarty]

Hmm i can't think how else to put it, the temple int the thrid portrait in post 244 is where it shows most. bleh it's not as important as the other things i said.

the latest batch are good, the straight on one is great. The placement of your nearest eye ( it usually the furthest eye for me) on 3/4 views is usually a little , on that last one is shows. The far eye is beautifully done though.

[Kian]

Excellent work mate. You're storming!

[DannySketch]

lefran I feel there is a creepy no eyebrowed fellow lurking deep within my soul that i captured quite well here...but FINE if you wish to ruin my fun i will add eyebrows:)

CamSyko Hey cheers man for stopping by, indeed your spot on about spending more time on these, I feel I should explain what it is I am doing, I have a brief for my course to do 30 sp in 2 weeks, my master plan is to rush through 30 crappy quick ones in the first week just so I know I have them and then to spend my time in the second week on really long poses so i can focus on all the things you pointed out, cheers for stopping in

Smarty hey poo face, please stay out of my sketchbook. :)

Kian Ah cheers brother, thanks a ton for stopping in.

So same drill as before gestures and sp's.

[Smarty]

That last one is your strongest, strong sense of lighting. You've managed to let the face for the most part get lost i nshadow but because your placing is spot on it works really well.

BTW looking at your posemaniaks stuff, you approach the figure completely differently to me!

[DannySketch]

kyle, aye I took a little more time with that one, really tried to focus on placement, the ones in this update are more quickys and i notice more floaty right horrors, gonna try and do one or two more this afternoon in pencil to really get some symetry down.

[DannySketch]

more sp's

[res01ve]

how bouts a three quarter view?

[DannySketch]

heres a couple for you mate

[res01ve]

The ink wash has a real nice flavour.
I do believe you got your nose right on the second to last one down ...

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[Smarty]

The brush pen one is awesome. It looks like a kirby comic face.

[DannySketch]

res01ve Cheers man,

Smarty ha thanks dude, had fun with that one

[DannySketch]

So new project, new sketchbook pages and new ideas, I am getting quite into this one.

[Shantih]

Is this for the book project? Pfffft. I'm opting for ignoring it in the hope that it'll go away.

[Smarty]

the old womans arms are very muscular! anyway, It's looking cool man, for the narrative right? Will be good for you to explain what it's all aobut next time i see ya, looks interesting.

[DannySketch]

chloe you need to learn to embrace this project, you could be awesome...frickin AWESOME, specially in light of your last tiger pieces.

Kyle you have the nose of an otter.

So I am trying my best to update this thread more with my studies by the fine example set by the smarties loving mofo above.

[Smarty]

good stuff, giving you a poke and bump...

also, Gary Embury is awesome as a life drawing teacher! hes got an insanely acute eye. he also brought us some of his life drawings and their really nice, loadsa life in them. he was also tlaking about when he was at college they did 20 hour poses on a regular basis.

[DannySketch]

well woopy-dam-doo-dar for you, i've just checked me timetable and he dosent teach my group once during the drawing from life module...MEH!

This mornings efforts.

[DannySketch]

cafe scribbles

[Mischeviouslittleelf]

Holy crap! That last image in 261 is INSANE!!!

-E

[Jussi Tarvainen]

Holy shitster Danny! You have come so far. Such great studies and excellent improvement. No crits just keep at it!

Love those sketchbook pages and self portraits!. What makes self portraits very hard is because you keep moving constantly as you draw. Doing portraits of someone else is much easier for this reason. Just a heads up.

[Ginji]

Hey Dan, It's George from the UK meet. Just thought I'd drop by and have a look.

really impressive stuff here man :) inspirational to newbies like myself
keep up the good work. hope to see you at the next meet.

[DannySketch]

Mischeviouslittleelf Thank you.

YuZa thanks for stopping in.

Ginji Great seeing you the other day mate.

Some more sketchbook pages. These are all around the same project

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Nice work dude, keep at it!

Oh and check oh Kevin Chen (I remembered this time).

[lefran]

only because i wrote it in your SB right Adam? (in that secret welsh language)

[lefran]

also cool sketches dan, i think the females need a lil more work than the males facially

[DannySketch]

Adam!you awesome dude you, ah yes cheers mate, i have had a quick look, will get properly into it at some point, cheers for your help on the meet, i soaked up every word i promise.

fran, haha i am glad you left a comment on my work and didnt just use my sketchbook as an extra version of msn!cheers missy, shall get on it.

This mornings study

[Smarty]

thats deifnately a breakthrough. Are you using alot of custom brushes for this?

[DannySketch]

thanking you kyle, meh i have seen you 50 billion odd times since updating this thing...gah!

[Jacky-Boy]

Great work so far, I love these last 3 panels,
and the head studies on the previous page are really good.
Keep it up :}

[Giorge]

very nice dude very nice , its just my wild imagination or that last piece looks like the beauty and the beast ^^, over all your stuff looks very nice , and your drawing stile looks kinda old though , meaning that you must have some experience and years behind you , cheers ^^

[wookiedabo]

awesome panels man, lovely tight pencils. that first one is almost james jean-esque, great composition. ye, just that really... good stuff.

[lefran]

nice harries, the line work is great, maybe make the smudging in the last one a little more consistant?

[DannySketch]

Jacky-Boy Thanks man!

flamable Cheers for stopping in, aye these are all for a fairytale re-design book project for uni, and I am 21, your making me feel very old!:)

wookiedabo Ha thanks mate, I do love that man, and am very guilty of allowing him to influence me work.

lefran Merci McFran, aye, I am gonna play around with it in photoshop, see if I can make it a little bit better.

The old Lady.

[Tofa]

lovely pencils

[Smarty]

really like the first two, they have a nice flow. Not sure about the composition in the Beauty adn the beast on in retrospect. Specifically the use of dark and light sections should have maybe been swapped for stronger shapes. I dont know, The slice seems a little artificial. I dont mind the smudgy area tbh though.

Also maybe referance materials, specifically the old womans shirt. It looks like a cool circuit board. Something to think about. A suggestion would be some horrible william morris esque print. These things build up to assosiations remember.

[DannySketch]

chriis.zed Thanks mate

Kyle Indeed I recognise all your crits, but its just down to a time thing now mate, this image for instance i am not happy with at all, but whatcha gonna do? We only got a week left.

So if anyone can tell me whats going on in this image I shall be a very happy man, as I dont think I have made it clear at all.

[Dile_]

Hey man whatsup! I really enjoy your lines man, i think you need to think of them as marks and value more though.. but i'm not sure of your intentions with these last ones anyway.. try to finish em up , the rendering looks pretty tight too! I really like this one http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=608653&stc=1&d=1236070927 and http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=623532&stc=1&d=1237483878 ! Try to be as confident with your marks on the wacom as you are with the pencil :) its very similar if you're not focusing on the medium to much :p anyyyways.. keep it up man :)

[wookiedabo]

erm, is it an overfed chicken-pig-yeti? really not sure what the the hairless bulgy bit is, gorgeous clean rendering, but I'm not sure what's goin on. nice comp too.

[KonnA]

I am just droppin' in to tell you:

Your progress is amazing!!!

[Ahim]

Now that's what I call lines!

[Mokinzi]

Amazing work!!! Such beautiful lines and lovely concepts...
That old lady up there really rocks.

[PieMonster]

Cool shit man, lines are looking good. Be careful not to overdo the lines though, in some of the pieces it's sort of flattening them.
On that last piece, the big thing below the pig is nicely rendered, but the bottom part of it is way to light to make it read as round, it flattens the whole thing. If the white part is supposed to be reflected light, you have to make it darker, or at least reduce the amount of white.The way it is now makes it read as a big fat white outline, and this flattens the whole thing.
Really liking how you did the rest of the piece though.

Keep it up dude! :)

[ForScience]

It is a rare thing to see someone who has work from their head at the same level as work from life, you are at a great place with your work. Its hard to describe but your work feels very earnest and unique.

[DannySketch]

Dile_ Hey man cheers for the crits, really good stuff, I am really going to try to have a go at the digi side of life when the easter holidays kick in, be great to pick your brain over that stuff.

wookiedabo Ha it is supposed to be a giant ass!gah it was always gonna be a tough one, thanks a lot mate for the kind words.

KonnA Far too kind mate, thanks.

Ahim Ha cheers mate!

Mokinzi aww cheers!

PieMonster cheers man, that crit really made sense, def gonna go over that ass again, thanks.

ForScience Wow, thanks a lot!

Two more...the second one...i am sorry.

Time to colour them.

[lefran]

haha i like the pig in suspenders harries, send me some of your printscreens as you go im interested to see what your gonna do

[Smarty]

th giant is beutifully done, like the details in the vest and such. His waistband has been half rubbed out though, which is a quick fix. The trees in the foreground seem a lot more textural than the rest of your Mucha esque images with clean line work which makes them kinda jump

With the beastiality image, again nice clean lines but the cloth in her hand isn't convingsice, needs to be more subtle. with heavy directional line work like that it suggests heavy fabric with few folds. But the ammount of fold you've given it would make me think the opposite.

anyway all done and said i know the time constriants on these so I know oyur not looking fot nit picks like this lol. good job.

[Sean McClain]

I like the direction your goin in man!

[DannySketch]

thanks a lot guys

colour wips, wish i had given myself more time to work on these.

[DannySketch]

really struggling with these, would love to hear peoples feedback.

[Smarty]

man that frog one relaly has a nice snese of colour and works well with the line work. It would have been nice to assign the others a strong key like the frog.

[PieMonster]

Cool stuff lately. The frog is looking good, really liking the colours, you might want to put some more red or purple in there for complementary colours. The leftmost leg seems to be too saturated, you should bring the values down and make a cast shadow from the leg in front of it. Also remember to not use black and white for highlights and shadows, like it seems you did in the giant piece. Instead of making the shadows desaturated like that, use a darker saturated blue to make it look like reflected light from the sky.

[DannySketch]

Smarty cheers man

PieMonster cheers mate, awesome crit, i have recently found out we now have another month for these so I'll def revisit them with what you said in mind.

Ok so the Jack and the Beanstalk one coloured(the only one I was half pleased with:() some quick facebook/imagination face studies and a longer b&w. Trying to ease myself back into studies.

[lefran]

i spy claire definately...maybe bex?

[Smarty]

lovely face studies, not sure aboutthe painting though. it's hard to tell where the lighting is. You have your planes mapped out pretty good well. I would just make the lighting more intentional for now.

[wookiedabo]

thats an awesome illustration man, gorgeous piece, ya should be proud. face studies look good. I sorta understand the lighting on the painted face, but it could do with a bit of clarification. still, nice work.

[Shantih]

I definately see a Claire but I'm not sure about any of the others. Draw her in a box! Very nice stuff mr harries.

[DannySketch]

lefran aye I think claires the only one you'd recognise, bex aint in there which one do you thinks her?

Smarty Hey man, aye tis what I get for not finishing it, the white on the forehead is actually war/tribal paint or something, but aye at the mo its looking like poo light areas, bah!

wookiedabo Thanks so much for the kind words mate, means a lot.

Shantih Not only in a box, but also perched on your mantle! cheers missy.

So some crappy gestures and crappier characters, look at me not drawing legs/feet/hands!

[AustenFM]

Wonderful Sketchbook! You've come a long way since the first page, it was awesome to browse through the pages and see the progress. Keep it up!

[DannySketch]

AustenFM Ah cheers mate!

Bah, need to get better at these, from ref.

[bharat]

awasome...aaart....keep it up...!

[Ahim]

wow, those last characters!

[DannySketch]

bharat Thanks a lot man

Ahim Cheers dude

Erk, I keep shuddering whenever i look at that last update, must.improve.

B&W studie

[DannySketch]

*cough*

[Smarty]

machine! save them up!

that last one has a better range of value though.

only 6 more hours to go!

[lefran]

yo dude nice portraits, you'll be drawing pretty lasses in no time!

[DannySketch]

Kyle Aye dude, has been a long ass day

Fran ha, never gonna happen :)

Digi still life and the start of a t-shirt design idea...meh.

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Nice work dude, keep at it!

[DannySketch]

Void Thanks man, hope your doing well dude.

Argh, so messy and I need to learn how to paint rocks, gawd dammit.

[DannySketch]

Facebook quick studies

[lefran]

haha awesome, you should do characatures of us and colour it lulz

[DannySketch]

haha maybe franwise

It would be rather nice to do one of these that didnt look like complete poo. *sigh*

[DannySketch]

Digi stuff

[Ahim]

Hey I can learn from this! Thanks!

[DannySketch]

Ha really?but its a mess!

meh.

[DannySketch]

first tis reffed, second is an attempt from me head.

[DannySketch]

Some imagination faces and a sargent studie, the guy is a frickin genius and I pooped on his painting...:(

[DannySketch]

So this is the first ever real attempt I have given to doing a full blown colour face from imagination, that is really quite stupid when I think about it.
Its messy, muddy and a little bit yucky, but its a start.

[PieMonster]

Cool work recently man, really liking all those colour studies you've been doing. You can probably push the value and saturation on some of them though. Keep it up! (:

[DannySketch]

Cheers man I really tried to keep that in mind with these two, let me know.

This mornings session, colour is reffed, B&W is not. 2 hours each, aye I know, i am slow.

[P]

very very nice sketches. keep up painting

[crashMMVII]

Your heads / portraits are awesome.

I'd say your environments are probably your weakest element right now, but you seem aware of that and you're practicing them so much that I can already see an improvement on this page alone (errr...previous page).

Keep 'em coming!

[NateShaw]

nice head studies!

[DannySketch]

pijus Cheers man, shall do!

crashMMVII Thanks for the comments and encouragement mate, desperately trying to push through the hideous enviroments at the moment!argh!

NateShaw Cheers!

Ok so the first is just under two hours and the second is just under three, both reffed, not sure if I should be trying to speed these up or slow them down, I shall try both tomorrow!:)

And then a wip digi from me brain, trying to use scarier colours!About 2 and a half hours in.

Sleep time.

[DannySketch]

Not a very good morning session at all :(

first an hour of 6 quicker 10 min studies from ref, then a longer hour long one, then an imagination piece that was supposed to be 2 hours long, but I struggled. gotta work harder.

The first 10 min one looks like play dough :(

[DannySketch]

so I felt very guilty about my lazy enviroment attempt this morning and decided to spend some more time on them, so I did these thumbnails, 10 mins each and then painted up the last one for just under 2 hours.

Really gotta do a lot more of these.

[Toffeeliz]

Good work for 10 minutes each! :D
http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=643312&stc=1&d=1239402914 really striking colours, will you finish this do you reckon?

[DannySketch]

Toffeeliz Thanks for stopping in, probably not no, but I did give it a few more hours tonight,

so here, I got slightly lost and never really managed to get a handle on those feather type things, but it was fun nonetheless.:)

[DannySketch]

Ok, so first off 6 10 min quick ref studies to get warmed up.

Then a 50 min ref enviroment study.

Next a B&W imagination enviroment thing, cant remember how long I spent on it, I think anywhere between 1 hour or two.

A shoe from life, I had to call this one quits at 2 and a half hours just cause I was running out of time, need to do more of these and speed up in placing form and colour.

A quick 50 min study of a face, and then some lips which were 15 mins each (rather amazing how much pornography one finds when one googles 'lips')

And then a crappy half hour or so doodle which has told me I seriously need to work on my skin tones.

[Smarty]

man your killing it. Your colours seem to be getting alot easier on the eye. The 10 minute ones are showing this. Things are starting to look blotchy on the ones your spent more time on though. Watch your stroke economy, the means using a bigger brush alot more often than you think. It shows up particuarly on the toe area of the converse if you can't see what I'm saying.

[armando]

Self portraits are a good way to study skin tones, the only draw back is that it's always the same race and gender. There's all these little shifts in saturation, value, warmer and cooler. Go back and forth between self portraits and photos.
I think it would be helpful on these short environment studies to concentrate on only a few things at a time: only lines and shapes and proportion, only values and proportion, only colors and proportion.
Consider the image as a flat rectangle and cut out smaller shapes on that rectangle using lines. Then with that out of the way more of your mind is freed up to compare colors. You could also just trace over the general proportions first, that way the shapes are as close as possible in the shortest amount of time, again freeing you up to concentrate on the colors.
Somber mysterious colors are always desaturated colors posing as other colors: reds can look like blue or purple, orange can look green. Use the eye dropper at the end of a color study to compare choices with actuality. It's probably possible to make any color look like any other color.

[Toffeeliz]

http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=644907&stc=1&d=1239571658 gorgeous colours, sexy lips ;P

[DannySketch]

Smarty Cheers man

armando Long time no see dude, thanks for dropping in, your words of wisdom are always welcome, thanks for the crit.

Toffeeliz Ha, thanks! :)

Gah CA is being well moody at the mo. Took me forever to load these up.

Had a horrible day today, nothing seemed to go right.

First 10 min warm ups

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Next longer study about 50 mins

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Quick 10 min thumbnails from me brain.

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Spent a couple of hours on one of them

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words cannot quite desrcibe how much I hate the image below, i hate how all my imagination faces are both muddy and cartoony, gotta work on this.

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And thats all, no updates for a while. I am off to the coast of this wonderful little island tomorrow for four days armed with naught but a few sketchbooks and a pencil. Hopefully lots of scans shall be produced.

[Smarty]

the BW and the castle one look great. Your choices of brushes are seeming a tad random sometimes though, perhaps decide which brushes to use in your picture before you start seeming as these are just copies of photos.

The most succesful skin study is the centre one. The others look a little muddy due to using greeny browns with yellow i tihnk.

[DannySketch]

Cheers man. colours are destroying me at the mo.

So I am back, didnt manage to get that much done, mostly scribbles that aint worth scanning in, heres a couple of pages of some faces and shizzle from imagination, gotta get better.

[Smarty]

nice to be back? anyway I've been doing sooom loomis and I've just realised, you heads are SOOOOOOOOO loomis. Which aint a bad thing. I wanna see that painting!

[DannySketch]

ha really? I've never actually studied Loomis's heads so thats a bit weird. And its not a painting its a drawing and shh!I dont know whose watching.

Spent most of the day working on some crappy pencil gesture studies that I cannot be bothered to scan (there are many pages, all poo) but I squeezed these two in towards the end of the day,

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and one crappy doodle, I need to start giving these a bit more love.
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Tomorrow= enviroments + imagination/design x lighting/still life + everything!:)

[Shantih]

Are you trying to tell me you sat on a train for 6 hourrs and then did nothing? Are you still doing the painting? EH.

[Virg]

good stuff man, keep refining your brushwork and those digis will be kick ass. I think you should use the pen pressure with the opacity setting a bit more often with your brushes, your edges are pretty hard where they should be soft in many of your paintings. Love the pencil sketches they got great linework.

[DannySketch]

Shantih What can I say missy, I am a lazy mofo. And as I have already made quite clear to Kyle it is a drawing and not a painting and SHH!! people are watching!!!

WhiteC Hey man thanks a ton for your comments, shall def take them on board.

morning dump

10 min studies,
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Longer studie, I did this image at around this size, just trying to get the most important parts in first, about 1 hour 20 mins

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[DannySketch]

10 min thumbnails from my head
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working on one for a little longer

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1 hour sp from a mirror, I have the unfortunate habit of making myself look like I am very angry at life.

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and a sketchbook page of faces from my head.

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[Smarty]

hey man, i see what whiteC is saying, your brushes don't have a ver long lead of with the pocaity making the transitions a bit forced with more stokresthan you need if it were a bit more sensitive.

Are those head after I spotted the feature thing by any chance, some of them are really strong and not cartoony!

I was planning on doing a page like this, you beat me too it ha.

[armando]

The self portrait looks pretty accurate if memory serves correctly. I like the eye on the right, all the flat shapes sticking together like pieces of a puzzle. I don't like the cheek on the left so much because the values are jumping around a lot, nothing's sticking together, everything is blending in and out of the thing next to it. Only thing I can say is that it's worth taking your time on those, because the solutions you find can be used in your imagination stuff.

[DannySketch]

Smarty Aye mate they were done with your helpful crit in mind, cheers for the brush stroke advice, tried to give it a go here.

armando Aye I think its about time to do a proper long studie again, instead of just 1 or 2 hours, I'll have a go soon, cheers mate.

So heres this mornings effort, one from ref, which I despise, about an hour and a half.

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and another go at a self portrait, had a longer go, 2 hours.

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[laserlipo]

Hiiiiiiiiiii..
Here the project of the student is with daily updates i think its a very good thing and its on regular basis..

[DannySketch]

laserlipo Heya, thanks a lot!

photo studie

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Sargent studie, need to get a higher res version of one of his paintings and really spend a while on it.

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two crappy imagination b&ws.

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very, very tired.

[wookiedabo]

damn you're determined to nail flesh tones. far more dedication to it than I have man, kudos. the sb pages full of heads are fantastic, some really distinctive faces popping out, obviously all the studies are starting to pay off. Your b&w white sps are good but the vlues are pretty dark, maybe try working with a more restrictive grayscale range. anyway, nice work.

[DannySketch]

wookiedabo heya cheers mate, I'll try and do a batch of sps tomorrow at some point and focus on values.

Had a really crappy day today, I suck at so much of this stuff, gah I have been lazy for way too long.

Gestures, mixture of posemaniacs, reference and imagination

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A crap enviroment studie

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an even crapper quick sp

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meh.

[Smarty]

your first set of studies are really great with colid structure and grounding. The stuff from your imaignation is seeming like more of a struggle than usual though. Apart from what i said before about the torso realtion ships your head are floating on the bodies a bit. So that necks and weighting need more work.

Digitals are getting good- can't say much here.

[Genome]

Watch your head sizes on those characters, they aren't big enough and HANDS always include hands! finish them and you will go far!!!!!!!

[DannySketch]

Smarty meh still buzzing over our tea discussion.

Genome Cheers dude!shall do.

Ok so some gestures imagination/ref (kyle this was before our convo so shut it)

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10 min each from ref

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A longer studie

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[DannySketch]

I had to work on a commision for a large chunk of the day so I didnt get all that much done, but heres what I have.

Some gestures, ref/head, half done at the crack of dawn, half done last thing at night, I plan on giving these some proper love tomorrow.

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Faces from me head, struggling to get these where I want them.

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Self portrait, I think an hour and a half

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two ref studies, cant remeber how long I spent on them, between 1 and 2 hours I think.

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And finally a doodle from me head, I need to learn how to paint fabric :)

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*EDIT* ooo i am on to the superstitious page.

[Smarty]

your brushes are so much nicer! makes a big difference on the self portrait.

[DannySketch]

Cheers man!

Ok should have done more today, but heres what I have.

Some gestures half imagination half ref

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10 min studies

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And a longer studie,

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an thats all folks :(

[DannySketch]

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[Finn Diesel]

Well, if it isn't Harries' sketchbook! Took me a while to find, but oh was it worth it! I love the people pictures in particular. What pencils did you use for the 'Beauty and the Beast' picture? The shading is gorgeous.

[Shantih]

Mr Harries - I love your sp's but stop abusing your nose so. It is not that big.

[lefran]

i concur, sp's looking good, but dude your nose isnt that big! Skin tones are getting better too!

[Zord]

Hey dude, nice to see you grinding away. And from what I remember at the San Francisco workshop, your nose wasn't as big as you draw it, like what everyone says. I tend to have the same problem with my self portraits.

Anyways keep it up, mileage, man.

[DannySketch]

Finn Diesel Ello mate, cheers! Beauty and the Beast was just a plain ole mechanical pencil with B lead.

Shantih But its a bulb!!this has been discussed!

lefran Cheers Franwise!

Zord Hey man, long time no speak, hope things are well with you, cheers for dropping in.

Ok so some gestures, trying to nail the balance and weight of the figure, large majority are imagination but there is a chunk from ref at the top.

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and a self portrait, quite quick around 40 mins (I tried to slim down the nose fran and chloe)

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[PieMonster]

Cool stuff, self portraits are looking good.

The colours are looking better as well, just watch the values and the saturation, try to not get too muddy and flat (looks good in the last colour portait, but not as good in the enviro thumbs further up).

keep at it man! :)

[DannySketch]

PieMonster cheers for the wise words mate, shall keep em in mind.

Ok some crappy,(and i mean REALLY crappy) 10 min studies from ref, not sure if I should pack these in for the time being and just work on longer ones, shall see.

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And a crappy quick sp that looks nothing like me!

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I am being so lazy and thick with these, gah!

...but its still fun :)

[[void]]

Some very good stuff going on in here.

Sp's and studies are looking good. Perhaps some line thumbs to drill that perspective and help that stuff carry over into the imaginative stuff.

Keep em coming.

ps. oh and longer studies are the way to go, Im dubious of the value of 10 min studies.

[Shantih]

I like the longer enviro a lot, the short ones are helpful but I agree you should try sticking with one for longer now :)

[Smarty]

longer enviroments is very good and the womans face on the top right is a pretty one! score!

You've done your face value wise alot. maybe try a different tack? dare i say full colour?

[Finn Diesel]

Woah. You've been working like a Japanese prisoner of war. I like the figure sheet and the imagination faces a lot. Was the last one a Watchmen reference, or did you just give up?!

[DannySketch]

[void] Always a helpful pleasure to see you in here mate, Gave what you suggested a go and REALLY need to work on them some more, cheers

Shantih cheers missy

Smarty Cheers man, aye I really should just wanna stick to B&W for a lil while longer so I can focus on me brush strokes

Finn Diesel Ah I desperatly need to work on the other stuff as I suck at it, design, enviroments, colour, all my downfall!Ha and aye indeed, everyone loves a smiley.

Bad day today, just worked on all the stuff I'm poo at mostly, made for quite the depressive session.

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[DeeLock]

Get some variation in your self portraits! Those are the things to go all out on and try different things.

Just look at Andrew Jones' self portraits to see where you can go with them.

Keep up the frequent updates though! It's looking nice.

[Finn Diesel]

Nice stuff, I like those tonal thumbnails. I agree with Deelock about the self portraits though, they're getting much better but it would be cool to see some in a different style.

[DannySketch]

DeeLock Hey man cheers, for your comments!

Finn Diesel well just look at you, your almost a CA regular now, how does it feel? Do you feel like you need a wash?

So 3, 1 hour or so studies from ref

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Some gestures, mixed bag of imagination and ref like normal

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Imagination characters, I am so poo at these

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Pencil thumbnails whilst my food was cooking:) need to do lots more of these

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A self portrait, still boring, messy, big nosed and crap I am afraid, *sigh*

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and a doodle from me head

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ta x

[Finn Diesel]

Haha, I do indeed! Unfortunately, a certain someone *cough jim cough* seems to have dropped off the radar entirely. What a shame.

Has anyone ever told you that you're sickeningly productive?

[Smarty]

last girls needs some nose lighting ocmapred to the value of her cheeks with a front on light source like that

[DannySketch]

Finn Diesel Ha not at all mate, do me a favour take a look through this sketchbook (http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=114449&page=53), then come back in here and call me the lazy bum that I am :)
And aye about the Jim thing, but I hold you fully responsible for that, I cannot poke him myself from here.

Smarty Your face needs 'some nose lighting ocmapred to the value of her cheeks with a front on light source like that'. Only kidding, you are of course right, cheers.

Ok so started the day painting this lovely lady
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Then went on to fart out this utter piece of chronic poop from my imagination.
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more imagination faces, need to do a fair few of these pages from ref I think. Me imagination faces are too generic, toony, and generally crap.
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ta x

[Smarty]

the colour face looks like across between bond and you. Nice figure painting though

[young paddy1]

even though you say you're poo at them the characters do have a certain amount of natural life about them, rather than the forced energy you get from most peoples poses, the only thing I'd say is don't always have them looking at the viewer, the eyes distract from the rest of the design. Love the painterly feel of your digital stuff, it's got a real sweet brushed out look.

cheerio

[Finn Diesel]

Looking good. Is the study of Daniel Craig? (The second one obviously)

[Shantih]

Hahaaa, oh Dan, is it? I know you're in love with him but a line might have just been crossed.

[lefran]

oh chloe i think your right
not only is it daniel craig but its their love child - check the nose
your fantasies are getting to out of control harries.
last SP is looking good ,but will you please please paint a monacle on it because its the perfect expression for it

[BubbaGump]

Hey man, I dig the work ethic! But watch out--when you're doing gestures you're settling for similar body types. Draw all kinds of people--fat, model skinny, regular, etc. I like your self p's btw.

[Mischeviouslittleelf]

Hey man, add a pic of you next time so we can see the relative difference between you and the SPs. Good studies here by the way, real nice stuff^^

-E

[DannySketch]

Smarty Dude I AM bond.

young paddy1 Hey man thanks a lot for your comments! your completely right about the eyes, tis a nasty habit that is tough to snap out of, cheers again.

Finn Diesel Ha actually no, although that seems to be a popular opinion, this is just some random google guy. cheers!

To my mothers, what can I say, I have issues, *hangs head in shame*

BubbaGump Hey cheers man! Aye its a tough one, I'm just really trying to figure out the relationship between the upper and lower torso at the moment, and how that affects the balance, which means all me studies are looking a lil generic, because thats just eaiser to play around with, your right, I gotta watch out for it. thanks again.

Mischeviouslittleelf Heya, aye for the next one I'll take a pic in a similar pose so you can compare, cheers!


So some poo colour studies, need to dedicate a full day to just these soon, should be better by now.

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A quicky enviroment studie, been neglecting these

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Some figure studies, desperatly trying to get the torso down, studied Kevin Chen for the first time, made a lot more sense to me, Some are copys from kevin chen/ref, others are imagination.

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And some imagination characters, I have just noticed the first guy is falling over *no hope*

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[Teundeboer]

damn you do a lot of studies! Those color reference things you did on page 11 really spoke to me. Cool way to check if you're doing anything right.
And you are, keep it up.

[DannySketch]

Teundeboer Cheers mate!

So I spent the majority of the day cleaning the flat which, as anyone who has had the pleasure of visiting a student kitchen can testify to, was no easy task.

Anywho, imagination poop, I'm going all surreal on your backside.

[Smarty]

very dark. Try raising the girls eye brows over here actual browline for a bit more feminine look. Remember to keep the brow understated though. The left eye needs cutting and placing a mm to the right or so too. The tree guy obviously has a bit more to go, still very rougth. The arm on the left is more in the light than you've suggested based on how you've lit the rest of him.

[DannySketch]

Smarty Cheers bro, good crits.

Look at me getting lazy with updates, boring studies as per the norm. Today was all about how colour very much hates me:(

Enviro naffness from ref
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First still lifes I have done in a long time, urgh, just....urgh.
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Some photo studies, I'm just gonna have 'urgh' as an umbrella term for the entire update.
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trying and failing to get better at womens faces
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and uni scribbles
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[Smarty]

that lqast bird is ver nice, you seemed oto have loosened up a bit. Your studies form life might make a bit more sense if you block in a generic background oclour to that of it's enviroment. The colour is looking isolated on the object. that is unless.... you are paitnintg it on a ocmpletely white BG

[Finn Diesel]

Those still lifes ain't too shoddy, liking the pepper. I'd use a softer brush for the shadows though. The sp looks quite good to me, but perhaps my memory of your face has been somewhat skewed from seeing all of these variations! It would be nice to see them all mounted together at some point. Do you use photoshop or painter by the way?

[DannySketch]

Smarty Aye I am going for the bumskee approach, I shall have a play around.

Finn Diesel I am a photoshop kinda guy, cheers for the comments and crits dude!

Meh, need to get back into updating this thing, here's some of what I have been up to...dull studies.

[Helltroll]

Your digital works aren't too bad at all!
I really like the bird page, it made me lol
Keep it up, don't stop!

[Verehin]

keep it up! nice stuff!

[DannySketch]

Helltroll Nah your right they are horrid :P cheers mate, shall do!

Verehin Thanks!I shall try!

So just some scribbles for my Uni project, all drawn from life at the local museum which has a huge stock of dead animals with sand stuffed into their behinds. :D

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[lefran]

nice studies, your doing the museum too...better not be stealing my project!

[Smarty]

you got loads done! Very nice studies, especially the badgers.

[Sebastian Gromann]

u are doing realy great ! keep at this amount maaaaaaaaaaaNnn :rocker:

[algenpfleger]

Awesome animals man!

[DannySketch]

lefran I'm stealing your face

Smarty Cheers dude!

SnobbyOo Thanks man, shall try!

algenpfleger :D thanking you muchly

So I have been far to lazy lately, need to get my act together

sorry boring anatomy studies, dont think I am gonna share these anymore, kind of pointless loading them up.

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And taking the animal studies foreward, again for uni, not really what I was after, but its something to build on

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[Eiki]

Wow! Your animal studies are great!
And your latest studies are very nice as well. You got a great line I think :)

[PieMonster]

Awesome stuff man, those studies are looking freakin ace! The colours have improved loads, and those lines are just too good! Keep at it! :D

[Knarf]

in the words of borat, verry nice.

[BlackGuy]

about a year and a half ago, you left a comment on my sketchbook that really inspired me to keep going and helped me not give up. I just wanted to say thanks. Still trying to develop my skills by the time that three year mark rolls around! =)

[DannySketch]

Eiki Thanks a lot man, I really try and work on my lines so that means a lot.

PieMonster Wow mate, cheers! you talented mofo you.

Alm0st In the words of Ali G, Respect, :D

BlackGuy Your well on your way dude, keep em rocking.

Birdys :)

[DannySketch]

sorry to spam, just one last studie before bed.

[Smarty]

that apple is really good, can'treally say much. The birds piece though. The use of white on the back ground isn't helping the coposition and is coming across a little bit chalky. Have you tried a harmonious colour? Or flippping the value range of the background might make more sense. As the dark shapes are in the bottome left and the light shapes in the top right. giving them a background with a contrasting value might help

[DannySketch]

Cheers dude, got all inspired by your B&W imagination faces so i did me own.

so. freakin. lazy.

Woh...the second i uploaded this i realised nearlly every single set of eyes are miles too far apart...dam.

[DannySketch]

ok so i know i said I wouldnt upload these anymore, but they take up such a huge chunk of me day and I didnt want ya'll to think I was doing noubt, So i shrank them down instead. Anatomy studies!:D

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and a studie from a photo, of a painting, that I took at the museum

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Also just discovered the Glitch Mob, :rocker:

[Smarty]

wow, that frame around your studies is awesome. Seriously though, nice bust drawing. On those heads from your head i think your over tihngking the cheeke bone. Most of the time its just where two seperate planes of value meet. Your giving them all mick jagger cheek dimples.

[DannySketch]

If I had the time, I would frame everyone of these images just to spite your sarcy ass.

Anatomy studies :D

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[kikindaface]

I love your animals paintings ! it's crazy, the last tiger is gorgeous ! keep it up

[Finn Diesel]

You've been busy. The animals are awesome, particularly the hawks and tigers. And I like the painting studies too. I think sometimes your anatomy studies get bigger as you draw down the body, but most of them look pretty sound. Good work.

[DannySketch]

Walid D Cheers Man!

Finn Diesel Thanks dude

What a load of poop.

[Smarty]

okie the coloured bird was beatuful, your deifnately onto somethings their. that last guys stance need alot of work though.

[DStraX]

allaround great stuff you got here! no crits just keep posting the awsomeness:D

[Freddy Scribbles]

Awesome sketchbook!

[FraserMcT]

I love your animals. There are some amazing stuff in there, I reckon you should try being a bit more expressive with them though, and try get a feeling of movement.
Good job!

[DannySketch]

Smarty Cheers man, aye your right about the pose, working on it.

DStraX. ah cheers dude!

Freddy Scribbles Thanks a lot!

FraserMcT Aye me paintings are all very lifeless at the moment, working on it, must get better, cheers!

Tonights efforts, working on clothes on the figure, design and what not, all of which I suck at,

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[DannySketch]

very tired.

[sleep]

i dont get why u keep colour picking to see how close u are to ref, it shouldnt matter , afaik the important thing is to keep the relationship between the colour temperatures the same. if ur keepn the warms and cools in the right places then matching the precise hues doesnt really matter. if your trying to get better at mixing colours then grab some oils and just do loads of colour mixing...theres a post by jason manley or someone like that in the techniques section about it.... its a bit boring but the amount u learn is phenomenal (allegedly.....ive never done it but its on my to do list)

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=663232&stc=1&d=1241475958
this is sick, but the composition doesnt appear to have a focal point and this is compounded by an even spread of darks and lights. try to simplify the light...its tempting to show off , but it doesnt do a lot for readability.

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=668645&d=1242065866
bottom right and top left badgers are so cute i just want to take them home!!! well done

some of ur imagination (and even ur ref stuff) comes out looking a bit plasticine like in terms of colours, your not taking into account the harmonizing affect of ambient light, how light source temperature affects shadows etc. like with these
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=676430&stc=1&d=1242916957

youve come along way bro and i cant wait to see u at bristol . also fran said to ask u for advice...i just did my first digi painting in ages so, id appreciate any crit u have to offer...peace XXXX

[lefran]

last study is really nice- chloe will love it- is has boobs

i think with your female figures from imagination, it doesnt look as if your trying to draw the chunkier set girl, but i think its because your drawing the torso too wide, like the rib cage too wide esp on the punk pirate girl, and on the bird girl perhaps the boobs are slightly too low?, which then means youve drawn the hips quite wide, and the head looks a bit small in proportion then. Theyre looking good as character studies, but i think theres just the odd bit that makes them look a bit off, not with the guys those are looking great, just with female figures, some of these issues seem a bit present in the quick figure sketches too. When its reffed, you hit the marks much better i think, for some reason you draw the naked porn girls much better lol, i think just try and apply that a bit more. Not saying every girl you draw is like young hot skinny, just certain bits are a bit out

DRAW KATE WITH SPOCK

edit: i take it back she does not approve of tan line boobs, i concurr, they are not good with tan lines. I wasnt sure of how high her boob standards are. now i know.

[PieMonster]

Oh man, can't even keep up with the updates recently. Cool stuff!

[JailHouseRock2]

Fuck' hot update man,

Really cool work all round, keep it up!

[Bushido]

Nice digital paintings man.
Try to aply that on your drawings!

[DannySketch]

Sean and Fran Awww i dont half love you guys, both spot on with your critiques, tried to work on the ambient colour issue and my lady lumps (my lovely lady lumps) in this update, Thanks a lot.

PieMonster Cheers mate, means a lot.

JailHouseRock2 Thanks man!

Bushido Aye mate I am running scared of clours from me head at the moment and I need to face up to it.

Ok today has been a bit of a struggle so far, so wanna dump what I have so far and try and burn through the night.

First off tried to work on Frans crit with me imagination ladys and their hips, also had a rare quick stab at colours from me head with sleep's crit in mind, meh.

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[Smarty]

lol, although you may still say my legs are still to short, your legs are looking a little too long to me. I tihnk it's kinda an issue of where the eyelines lies though. Alot of your figures seem to look like we are chrouched on the floor looking up. Takea closer look at those fasion shoot style full poses (like on that hel looks or whatever) With photos taken like that they look natural because the camera is eye level. With this in mind the bottom of th foot to the waist line is the same as the waistline to the top of the head most of the time. I don't know if its on prupose but your images have a skew in perspective, perspective from the bottom, which isn't that natural.

Also feet! your hands are miles better than your feet, or placement of. Get a load of feet and just draw how they sit and support on the ground.

[Pic]

Gah! So much work! So productive!

I would agree with what smarty says really, i think perhaps the solution to some of the things raised like with head size though, the heads are ever slightly on the small side, which creates that "crouched on the floor looking up." and makes the limbs seem longer

You say your scared of colour in an earlier post and i look at the beautiful colour studies in post #425 and i'm thinking...why?

[Pic]

Gah! So much work! So productive!

I would agree with what smarty says really, i think perhaps the solution to some of the things raised like with head size though, the heads are ever slightly on the small side, which creates that "crouched on the floor looking up." and makes the limbs seem longer

You say your scared of colour in an earlier post and i look at the beautiful colour studies in post #425 and i'm thinking...why?

[Meon]

hey man! awesome stuff! that violin player is ACE!

[Finn Diesel]

Nice character sketches. I'm amazed you can do them so clearly with so few lines. Personally I would have to build them up in layers like the violinist one, but I guess all your anatomy studies are paying off! Not much to crit, perhaps the heads are a little small, and it seems as though you have the tendency to draw them leaning to the left a bit. Otherwise great stuff!

[BlackGuy]

your studies are great man! keep those up

[Finn Diesel]

Er.... Hello? 8 days and no updates! What is this?! Dare I say it. You're almost as bad as Jim. I'm shocked and appalled.

[DannySketch]

Smarty Cheers for the crits dude, always helpful

Pic ha, colour is still a beast to me, specially from my imagination, its a killer, thanks for your comment. both of them :)

Meon Cheers dude.

Finn Diesel cheers for the crits man, and aye, the character sketches are in fact sketched out before hand, if I kept all the layers on they would all end up looking a lot more like the violin guy.

BlackGuy Cheers mate.

Just a small update, I should prob be spending more time on this, and I got lost in layers and textures, but I learned a fair bit.

[sleep]

last digi is killer, really kinda weird graphic style sitting between vector and ps painting, just thrown off by ambiguous lightsources (plus a mysterious one emanating from gorillas chest). given the strong light in the background it would look really good if he was backlit, making him much darker, almost a silhouette with rim lighting. but the strongest part of the drawing by far is the monkeys bum and the leg coming down from it. there is a clear light source on the left so the shadow looks good, and theres some nice subtle variations in hue. and if the rest of the drawing was done to that standard it would be siiiiiiick but right now its just cool and a bit strange (like you)
much luv bruv XXXX

[DannySketch]

meh!unfinished, but reached breaking point.

[DannySketch]

gotta finish these lines up and maybe paint it.

[DannySketch]

todays effort.

[Smarty]

the woman's face could do with more contrast but those last two studies are gorgeous. Really seeing some lights turn on with that stuff. Specular placement and contrast is getting better.

[Mr Man]

Nice portrait! ref?
One thing I noticed is that the brow on her left could do with softening up a bit. Good study though!

[Badger]

Looking good owl pants, i like the wintery beard man!
Scarlett is looking nice too, would be nice to see it applied to a concept.
-B-

[jatherip]

dont know....your male torsos are sooo awesome :) your poses could use some posemanicas anyway!
keep goin

[Giorge]

very nice m8 , really like your simple approach , and the studies seem to be getting better and better , keep that up!

[Shantih]

Very nice wench in the last post!

[DannySketch]

Smarty cheers mate.

Mr Man Cheers dude! aye its from ref, I should have kept the orginal really, I cant find it now, its somewhere on www.weheartit.com

Badger Many thanks fox knickers...(I'm not sure I completely understand this animal/item of clothing game)

jatherip Thanks a lot, shall do!

Giorge Cheers dude!

Shantih Shes not the wench, your the wench, you wench.

I spent way too long on both of these, and the effort does not even show!

first are 10 faces from my imagination, I planned to do 50 but like I say, ended up spending way too long on them, learnt a ton thou.
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[Badger]

Nah i think it's a great start, showing some nice form. Your lines are silly good.
Hope you are well mate, 2nd year for you!
-B-

[Finn Diesel]

Hey. Nice to see some new stuff. I like this (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=781683&stc=1&d=1253317984) a lot, and I think this sketch (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=776511&stc=1&d=1252786792) has great potential. Would love to see a version painted up, although perhaps the head is just a teeny bit small? I don't know. Looks great though. Second year going alright?

[mairuku]

Great sketchbook...keep up the work. Proportions are difficult to master but you are getting the hang of it.

[NR43]

Awesome collection of studies.

[DannySketch]

dump.

[Mr Man]

Good to see your alive lad! I was just thinkin about you actually (oooh danny).
Hows the last year of uni treating you? Or are you still doing the intern at Disney? Be sure to give me a poke if you see any jobs going there btw.

Keep at it lad!