Cercie's Salacious Sketchbook (Updated: 28th of April, 2011)

[Cercie]

So I've been here for about a couple of months and have hardly posted any art. I’ve only just gotten back into the art habit and it feels really good, so I think it’s time I start a sketchbook.

To start are a couple of selfportraits I painted today with photoshop and a mirror.
10 minutes, to see if I could do it in ten.
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i256/Cercie36/may7.jpg

30 minutes
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i256/Cercie36/spmay7.jpg


(i'm surprised these photobuckets still work!)

[Death]

Off to a nice start! Keep Posting! NOW! :P. :D.

[asoir]

YES! What Death said, get yourself in a drawing habit...check the site for inspiration etc etc...i'll be watching this thread!

[Halos Chain]

hey there! nice start for a book. : D doing self-portraits like that is definitly good practice, just keep doing that and I'm sure you'll progress. Really try to anylize the shapes and form too, and get it as accurate as you can. The harder you stress those points the more your mind gets use to where they really lie, keep on rockin and a rollin. : D

[Cercie]

Just posted and three comments! Yikes!

Thanks Death and Asoir, encouragement much appreciated!

Halos Chain, thanks for the ideas, I've been working on trying to be more accurate as i tend to just make a mess with the brushes and not get in close and work on details.

[ZapRadon]

Good job, Cercie. Almost looks like knees are too short, but all in all, really nice.

[Grooveholmes]

great start.. all the proportions are nailed down nicely, now smooth out those strokes and tighten everything up.


cute too!~

[Slash]

supressing the urge to say something immature, i'll just say nice work! :D

now, where's the reference? i should see it to check *ahem* likeness..

[chaosrocks]

very brave.....Brava
I supose I should follow suit as soon as I get time.

The "art Habit....." I like that
I just got around to starting a sketch book thread too.
unfortunately due to NDAs and all theres a lot I can post
but I have a costuming job this summer And I can post costume designs....
Any way keep it up
and grl fellowship rocks!
Chaos Rocks

oh and mine's here
http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=67111

[davi]

very well done cercie!

this is my favorite of the 3 for sure.

I would try working with bigger brushes and work down to softer smaller brushes for detailed areas.

keep it up and hurrah for peer pressure

[Cercie]

Thanks for all the suggestions guys. Gasp an update!

Alright start off with some throw-aways.

a fishy doodle.
http://www.noleftsock.com/old/oldies/digital/fishy0516.jpg/IMG]

What would have been a throne room for the EoW, but I was about a day late and a dollar short.
[IMG]http://www.noleftsock.com/old/oldies/digital/thronemay16.jpg

And a fat guy with no arms.
http://www.noleftsock.com/old/oldies/digital/fatman13.jpg


Things to work on: arms and hands.
Enjoy.

[Slash]

I very much approve, even tho you are married. :P


Something about the face looks a little off to me tho, but i cant put my finger on it.. maybe you should try flipping the image horisontally and see if the error pops out?

[fooxoo]

The selfportrait is looking gooooooooooood!!! Very nice! Totally! :teeth:

Slash mentioned face ... i think the perspective on the forehead might be off a bit .....

[BlueMech]

Why is the fat guy smiling? He has no arms! And what a predicament he is in! Above him is the throne room, which he will havce trouble climbing with no arms, and if he cannot get there he cannot get the fish. And even if he could, he has no arms with which to catch the fish. And below him is a woman that he cannot even reach out and touch because he is armless!

The man has no reason to smile, I dissaprove.

[MattGamer]

hehe i like the fish and the fat guy - blood should be coming out of his arms and he should be smiling cuz he's a sick bad guy like on Sin City. haha!

i like the self portrait, but not just because i see your boobies... but beause you were bold enough and hot enough to post it. keep it up and make awesome pictures... draw your hubby. ;) and post moree!!! MORE MORE MORE! hehe

[Cercie]

Hey hey hey!

Thanks for the encoragement and suggestions people.

Matt: thanks for the kind words, and here's a little more, I don't seem to sketch often enough.

Bluemech: That's a very linear way of looking at the pictures, I hadn't though of it as a story, but its funny. Yeah I guess he shouldn't be grinning with no arms.

Slash and Fooxoo, thanks for the ideas, I haven't been back to the self-portrait since then but maybe I should. I'm such a lazy artist.

An update after what nearly a month?! Sheesh I'm pathetic, and only three sort of good things to show for it.

A pressie for my husband, he wanted me to paint the badger (a stuffed animal), this is from life, he's still sitting next to me.
http://www.noleftsock.com/old/oldies/digital/littlebadger.jpg

This is my robot friend, kind of grew out of thin air. Still a bit messy but I've had enough of him.
http://www.noleftsock.com/old/oldies/digital/robotyjune15.jpg

And a very wip landscape I've been stuck on. I think I need to work on tonal value more, because when I desaturate it its very flat. Add it to my pile of flaws. =^)
http://www.noleftsock.com/old/oldies/digital/gatejune15.jpg

<3 y'all

[Grooveholmes]

I like the furry bear texture, it looks almost photoreal.

[xzacto]

the badger rocks my FACE OFFFFF..... 4 stars... ... i quit.. I am done drawing because of you... Cercie.. you are my hero.



heheh but really I like your stuff.. keep them comming.. I am getting inspired to make my own SB ... maybe I will..

[John]

Love the badger cercie, you did very well on that one. One thing that i noticed is that there is a lot of sketchy stuff here, not so much finished drawings or even attempts at a more "finished look". I suggest you move on from doodling and think more about what you want to draw, work on compositions. Like the wip landscape. More of that :)

[Slash]

VERY nice work on the badger dear! I'm impressed.

Here's some suggestions to what you can do to fix that robot a little. A pitcture is better than atleast 100 words, and thats more than i wanna type out when i can do a quick paintover instead. :D Put this one over the original in photoshop and turn the layer on and off to see my changes clearly:

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b21/slashesc/cercpaintoverrobot.jpg

[Dirty C]

the badger rules :)

welcome to the uk!

[james]

looking good cercie. you've got a nice style. my major problem is actually doing anything and you seem to be mildly prolific. keep going with it.

J

oh and yeah, enjoy engerland.

[Listing]

Some nice paintings. I'd like to see a drawing or two. I'm certain they're great.

[Cercie]

Ask and ye shall receive! Thanks listing.

Thanks for all the advice and support guys. I see what ya did Slashy, it did help him pop more, but I gave up on Mr. robot ages ago. =^\

james: I know what you mean, just doing anything is an accomplishment these days. ‘Mildly prolific’ I like it!

dirty_c: Thanks for the warm welcome. =^)

Johnny: I know what you mean about finishing things, though I think I better work on the actual drawing bit before I try anything else, the more I try the more I realize that I need to work on my basic technical skillz.

Xzacto: you’re a madman. ‘Nough said.

Groove: <3

Its been a little over a month so I better get to it. It’s sad how little I’ve done in a month…



Guess I post my paintings in my sketchbook cause I don't think they're good enough to go anywhere else. Meh.



Anywah, I got this catalogue in the mail full of quite terrible clothing that I would probably never wear, but it is good for drawing pretty ladies in craptastic poses. I broke out a cheap ballpoint pen and my homemade sketchbook and off I went.

http://www.noleftsock.com/old/oldies/sketches/sketchjul21_1.jpg

http://www.noleftsock.com/old/oldies/sketches/sketchjul21_2.jpg

http://www.noleftsock.com/old/oldies/sketches/sketchjul21_3.jpg

http://www.noleftsock.com/old/oldies/sketches/sketchjul21_4.jpg

http://www.noleftsock.com/old/oldies/sketches/sketchjul21_5.jpg

anywah, <3s and Xs and Os for all y'all.

[Cercie]

Well as nobody liked that batch, here's another one for you. Off that last page one of the silhouettes i thought i'd take and paint what the model is wearing. there is still something wrong with one of her elbows though.

Meh

http://www.noleftsock.com/old/oldies/digital/catajul24.jpg

<3s

[Kian]

Hey there Cercie. Love this last pic. The cloth is bang on. :yayca:

[Grooveholmes]

this one is great... i like how the face is more in focus, it really draws the eye.

[hurricane]

great stuff !!

keep at it !
the last one is hella' fine :P

cheers!

[Cookiedough]

Claudia Schiffer? Good job. Post more often!

[MattGamer]

yes yes, the latest one is way freakin cool. i like the sketches too... keep at it. check out my sb too... i did so many of those cataloge girls... i think i'm sick of them now. lol!

sketch a ton!!!! :) <3

[Cercie]

Well it appears as though I haven't done shit for six months, and while that's not entirely true, I haven't been doing any concept art. What I have been doing is work for drawing and painting class, and as I photograph what I have done, here is the first in what is hopefully a long line of drawings/paintings.

http://www.noleftsock.com/old/oldies/oldwomannude.jpg

We had two live models in the two adjacent panting studios, I got the skinny older lady, which is quite intimidating if you've never oil painted from life before. I think this is 12 or 15 hours work.

That funny bit that makes the bottom half of the space heater look transparent is just a bad glare off the flash. But an interesting affect, nonetheless.

more to come!

[Cercie]

So here are the best drawings, or ones I liked the most, of the stuff I made in my drawing class.

[bumskee]

Hey! :) gotta say those pots are awsome! and the scooter too! keep scribbling!

[Slash]

Hey there! long time no see. I like those red ones, they remind me of boobs.

[Grooveholmes]

The scooter is especially great.
It has lots of life for just a little scooter.

Keep it up Cercie

:confident

[xzacto]

Your sketches are really comming along nicely, you are getting a lot more confident with your strokes, they are progressing toward more deliberate controlled lines. bravo:}

[Adam.Katsaros]

Hi, Good work all round. Would love to see some thumbnails or very quick sketches. Don't know what of, maybe bunnies with cloth for teeth? (dam, I gota stop resquesting things from people).

Attenion!

Create more of everything, is all I really can request.... so dont worry about the bunnie thing.

Cheers.

[4rt-r41d]

Damn, these are amazing, you are ding ecxellent.
i want more drawings :)
the digi paints are awsome.
keep it up.

[MattGamer]

Horray for Cercie! You are keeping me motivated by your art!
Draw draw draw!

[smellykitty]

I love your studies! and the oil painting came out great

if you ever do another fantastical landscape, the key thing to remember is NOT to work from your imagination, but to be inspired by reality =3 Go outside, look at your house inside and out, study architecture, study trees, look at rocks - and so on.

[MUNIZ]

NIce SB you've got going. Quite a variety from tonal studies to some poses. Keep the coming looking forward to more stuff!

[Jove]

Nice stuff, Smellykitty hit her head on the nail. To do really good environments or characters from your mind you need to do real studies first or be inspired from a real place. Id suggest doing more full environment studies and keep doing the people studies and mix in more men, pretty much all your life studies are female right now. Keep us posted :)

[suhsealyuh]

the composition for your red circley landscape is very nice.
the teapot drawing is interesting. it would be great to see that idea developed further, and more attention applied to the form of the teapots. (i took a ceramics class last semester and made some teapots. maybe you could draw some of mine :P )
it seems you are able to do realism very well when given the right amount of time. (that live model painting looks awesome)
i think practicing more gesture drawings will help with your speedy accuracy. cant wait to see more.

[TomCardin]

Nice stuff! great start on your sketchbook!

I would suggest some perspective studies to compliment your life drawings. Also try to work with a full range of values in your pencil work and in your digital paintings.

The panda bear still life rocks!

[Cercie]

I appreciate everyone's encouragement, though I doubt any of you remember encouraging me recently.

My fault for being such a freaking loser =^)

a couple of things:

A quick doodle instead of paying attention in class a light study I guess. And the four by six foot abstractish painting for painting class.

[Lad]

Good stuff on the light study. Too bad we all cant take our wacoms to class :P

Keep them coming!

[Kamikazebob]

Great SB! Love the paintings. Cant wait to see more.
~Bob

[Cercie]

I know it's been a year since my last post, but I really haven't been doing anything worthwhile until recently. Here are the last three pages from my sketchbook.

<3

P.s. it's my Birthday!

[Slash]

About time you updated!

I'd like to see something more fleshed out, but at least you're back in the game ;)


HAPPY BIRTHDAY! may the gods of beer and booty smile down upon you on this day!

[krossj]

Happy Birthday!

nice doodles but like Slash said, would be cool to see something a little more fleshed out.

Post more!

[Cercie]

Thanks Slash and krossj, I fleshed out the top cat. I still like the sketchy quality to it.

[Cercie]

A quick study, about 25 minutes

Might develop it more...

Someone might recognize this.

<3

[Cercie]

a couple of speed-paints

the smaller one is about 30 minutes

the larger a derivative of the smaller, something like an hour and a half.

Just trying to work a bit faster based on some of koshime's speed-paint philosophy.

less than three

cerc

[Hyptosis]

Get Cercie, good stuff. Keep up the hard work. ^_^ Nice photos on your homepage as well.

[Cercie]

hour and a half.

Self portrait.

Less than three.

[humanNature6115]

Very good stuff here.


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http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=120761

[davi]

very nice self portrait :)
very dramatic, love the brush you used too

[chaosrocks]

nice cheek bones but you look pissed.

on a more art basis. the value is working really well, except at the very tip of the nose. theres something odd there.
but its strong.

crx

[MattGamer]

ahh it's me and my HUGE head! :D
i like the way you are progressing!!

[Cercie]

I drew a sad robit. http://www.noleftsock.com/sadrobit.jpg all he wants is a friend.

[King Kobra]

awesome stuff
amazing art
keep it up

[Cercie]

You guys are all way too nice to me.

I'm going to do some scans of my sb (the good pages) but for your viewing pleasure, I've gone a bit industrial. Playing with my new brush via sketchling.

Tootles and doodles.

[Cercie]

Here's a few of my sketchbook pages from the last couple of months. Not a lot to say about it. Some of it good, most of it crap.

less than three

[Farvus]

Hey. Nice sketchbook! I like your life drawings on second page.
Maybe drawing bigger would help for imagination stuff. Also try some basics of perspective.
And of course... keep posting! :).

[Angel Intheuk]

Hi Cercie

nice sketchbook, definitely do more life studies, and the cartoon style you have is cute.

p.s blondes not bombs :D

[Cercie]

Thunderdome

[Cercie]

IRC TD Pipes, Rails and steam. One hour drawing in the company of Squidmonkey Waffles, Mongoosedog, Ciicru and Duq.

Also..

Three-four hourish Still-Life/Self Portrait. Oh tea, om nom nom.

[spark_zero]

The fisheye effect on the teapot looks great! Also some of the your "best of" drawings on the page 2 look really nice, the teapot sketch is crazy lol, you must like your tea :d

[Cercie]

Thanks Angel, I'll force myself to get some more life studies in. Maybe I can find a class this summer too. And thanks for visiting my blog.

Spark_zero, Thanks, I do indeed enjoy my tea.

Four quick faces from MoMA performance art exhibit (http://www.flickr.com/photos/themuseumofmodernart/sets/72157623741486824/). Great for getting a variety of normal faces.

[Cercie]

So first one is a quick study of the little private road I live on. Very quaint. I was trying to figure out the perspective of the hill and seem to be failing. Practice practice, I guess.


Also, since I felt so dissatisfied with the perspective drawing I went to my safe place and came up with these beautiful badgers. I think its just what I wanted for my next linoleum print too.


http://www.noleftsock.com/artz/5julydoodle.jpghttp://www.noleftsock.com/artz/badgers5july.jpg




If it isn't obvious, I have a love of badgers.

[Cercie]

a project in my birthday-moleskine, i'm drawing animals from google images at work, while the progress bar moves. I spend a surprising amount of time watching folders of files move from server to server.

[Mat Kaminski]

Ohai from chat -- Do you have more current arts? Lessee :D

Teapot above is epic btw.

[Baudolino]

Great development in your sketchbook! The cat from post 63 is awesome!! :)