Chr's sketchbook | 16th February

[Chr]

hello everybody!

Welcome to my sketchbook. Feel free to critique or leave comments, or just have a look. I dont have much drawing and painting experience, but have taken some life drawing classes. Lately i have been reading a lot and made some studies. I have also taken a sketching course recently.

Better things at the bottom, of course.

[Chr]

wip, cow, abandoned

[Chr]

self portrait-sketch

(I accidentally deleted the old one so I added a new one)

[Moai]

Hey, I stole your sketchbook virginity!:P
Anyway, this thing's off to a nice start. There's a good variety of stuff in here. I like that giraffe/beetle, and the face on the first image is excellent. I actually prefer the falling razor idea to your current CoW. It's a strange idea, and a pretty cool image, and with a good description behind it, it would be very interesting. Your newer entry is good, anyway. However, the color saturation in the shadows is too high. Shift it over to the grayer side of the spectrum (not too gray!), and it'll be good.
My main crit at the moment is to clean up your style a bit. Try some softer, more subtle strokes on your next pencil sketch, and make the edges a bit harder and clearer in your digital work.
You're off to a pretty good start! I'll be checking back.

[Chr]

moai thanks for visiting! good suggestions... i will try them out. my pencil sketches are often very rushed

[Chr]

a chair... boring, but fun!!! :rolleyes:

And a school mini project.

[Moai]

Wow! These drawings are quite strong. Very nice.
Some crits: That red guy that became your avatar is not positioned clearly in space. He looks to be about the same distance from us as the "Dr. Mek" sign, yet he's standing right on the horizon line. The chair painting is dark and moody, and I like that feeling, but I still think that there should be a bit more contrast between the chair and the background.
You need some more comments in your sketchbook! My advice would be to just visit as many other sketchbooks as possible, and hopefully they'll return the favor.
Nice update!

[Chr]

Moai "That red guy that became your avatar is not positioned clearly in space. He looks to be about the same distance from us as the "Dr. Mek" sign, yet he's standing right on the horizon line."

nice observation, thanks! I didnt see that.

Maybe i will give the chair another try.

Yes, I'ill try to get som other people into my scetchbook :)

[rmore]

nice start, would like to see more

[Alexandr Pascenko]

yo these pencilz are quite good , i likem the sketches i mean , also some fresh and funny ideas up in here! i would have only one crit 4 now.
put some more sensibility and time in the outlines of your drawings maybe?
very inspiration for me is the don quichotte horse , did you draw the pose from referenc? keep it up :)

[invinciblewombat]

i really love this one: http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l188/chr_014/riddare.jpg the reffed animal sketches are looking good too

[Chr]

an orthographic I thought I would use for the character of the week activity, but it took another direction.

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=35266&stc=1&d=1160703392

[j a k e]

Liking the bust study and the animals. Great stuff with the ortho too. He looks a little plain to me though. But consitant none the less. Keep it up.

[Big Poppa]

Yo, din klasskamrat Petter här, hej hej!

Det här ser ju fint ut! :D Gillar stolbildens clean:het, och highlightsen och grejer ser bra ut, nice! Har inget direkt konstruktivt att komma med just nu...det ser fint ut, bara att teckna på, så blir det ännu bättre antar jag. Jag får komma tillbaka och ge en bättre kommentar senare... ;)
jag kanske startar en sån härn skissbok här också, du får kolla in den...jag säger till om jag skaffar nån. Well, hörs/ses i skolan type stuff, hej hej

[Chr]

j a k e thanks! Yes the ortho is a bit dull. I should have tested different designs before i started to render.

Big Poppa hej! man kan nog få lite bra tips här ifall man har en skissbok, men den största anledningen att starta en är nog att det är ett sätt att motivera sig till att göra något. kanske.. vi ses i skolan!


Last weeks contribution... very sketchy.

[Big Poppa]

Hellu again (this post is, just for the hell of it, in english wow)!

The lighting and stuff on the old guy robot is pretty neat, he looks really metal:y (something I have great problems with). I also totally dig the fact that there are three whole pages (not here, but I know they exist ;) ) with thumbnails of the robot dancing joyously! Sweet! :D
There's one thing I've been sort of thinking about though, concerning the robot design: It sort of looks very much like a human, anatomy-wise (well, if you'd say that a robot had anatomy of course), almost like a human wearing really neatly figure-cast body armor or something. Is this a conscious decision, or is that just how it turned out?
I know that I sometimes have a problem with not being able to draw humanoids...not humanlike if you will. Like if I'm to draw a frog man, he gets human anatomy and a frogs head, that sort of stuff. Could this be a case of the same thing? :)

(and oh yeah, I got a sketchbook now, go check it out! :) )

[Chr]

Big Poppa hello! i think the robot/human thing is partly conscious and partly not. i thought about how the robot should be able to move. if the robot hase the same degree of freedom as a human its joints should look somewhat like a human. but how it bends should show also on the surface since it has no soft skin. but some lines vere just scribbles that looked good, so i kept them. actually its shoulders doesnt make sence. now it cant raise them to the sides.


vehicles: they turned out better than i expected. copic markers c1 to c5, different pencils and "tipex"

[Chr]

very sketchy sketches ;) I do a lot of these. Pretty mindless. No ideas behind, but fun. I think they look a bit too generic tough and unfinished of course.

[hurricane]

great updates christoffer!
the vehicles looks sweet!
you should join us on mondays at ÁGES.

keep at it you're doing great, truly!

cheers

[Chr]

hurricane Thanks Björn!! I had forgot about the sketchgroup almost! :O How could I? I will be there next time! It will be fun.

[Ragathol]

Yep, pretty nice :)
Are those vehicles the updated versions? I thought they had more contrast "live"... very cool nontheless. I should do more color studies as well...

[Moai]

Damn, Chr! Those are some nice vehicles! I like the sketches in the last update as well. They have a nice loose feel to them. My only suggestion would be to fill the pages a bit more.

[Chr]

speedpaints.

im painting a lot of faces... dont know what to think about it

[dCepT]

Hey, man! Good stuff in here! The tech-designs and the enviro-stuff from post #6 vibed most with me... I'll come back with more constructive stuff some time... hehe... you study with Björn? Suddenly realized there were more Skövde-people here... haha..

d-C

[Chr]

dCepT Thanks! Yes i study with Björn, but not always. Its inspiring. Hes good. Theres probably several Skövde people here, but I dont know all their screen names.

some dinosaurs!

[DannySketch]

LOVE ur pencils man, post #18 is killer cant wait till u get ur photoshop skills on the same level as them, the results shall be sweet, keep doing what your doing dude,

[Chr]

DannySketch Thanks!!

mouths and faces

I probably should put more time in this and try to only post the good things here.

[Big Poppa]

Nice faces! :) Are they ref:ed or something? Well they look nice anyways, I really like the first one, it's got a nice realistic, yet surrealistic feeling to it.
And you managed to draw a LOT of dinosaurs at sketch night too I see. And they look good too, I especially like the page with the long-necked one and the little bike riding dude, hehe :D

How's the self protrait coming along btw? Those mouths wouldn't be studies for it now, would they? ;)

[Chr]

Big Poppa thanks!

I got lazy on the self portrait. so i did no painting.

Yes, for the mouths i used a mirror.

I think i copied the biking dinosaur from a book i read a long long time ago. so i feel a litle bad about that ;)

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Edit: added two speedpaints... im experimenting with color

[Moai]

Those are some sweet looking mouths and noses, Chr. Your faces have a lot of character and life in them.
Speedpaints are great for experimenting with color. Have fun with them!:rendered:

[Chr]

Moai Thanks! Im having fun with them. also very confusing.

I played around with colors the curves feature and hue/saturation on the robot below.
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efit: added the original blue robot.

[P E N Ricklund]

Hi there, I like what I'm seeing. The way you handle perspective looks very confident. The vechicles are sweet, and the animals at the top, show us some more pencil drawings. You drew those in a bold way I like.

The faces need work, mu suggestion is start at the bottom, work from the skull and up, the muscles that affect the mouth when you smile and look deppresed. It helped me and I think it will help you to.

Hugs!

[Chr]

Pencilator thanks for the advice about the heads! I did some more. it might look like I didnt learn anything ;) but i did. but i should do more.

(most is reffed, exept things to the right on the two first papers.)

[Chr]

a fast painting that i worked a little more

i need to finish more things.

[Listing]

Great work. I really like that self-portrait in post 3. Keep on with the gestural line. Produce some simple color pieces, still lifes and portraits.

[Chr]

Listing Thanks. good advice. I think ill do some of that right now.

heres a layer experiment

[Chr]

graphite and ballpoint sketches

most of the heads are reffed

edit: added another

[Chr]

I started this painting black and white and then colored it but didnt really finnish it obviosly... but i will try to make something more of it i think.

[Moai]

Your speedpaints are coming together, dude! The colors and values are really starting to harmonize. Keep at it!
I had a chuckle at the caption in your last pic!:P

[Chr]

Moai: Thanks!

sketches,,, im not very good at making long sketches, thats why I cant render i guess

[Cold]

really cool sketches, your digi work is improving aswell, all in all its a good progress. Your Vehicle drawings stand out the most.

[term8or]

I really like your pencil work... very nice. Have you done any work on toned paper?

[Chr]

Cold Thanks!

term8or Thanks! I have never tried toned paper but I think I will! just have to get some first...



practising rendering soft and hard edges and heads

edit: added 2 new ones

[Chr]

speedpaint/sketch

figuring out color. I should do things from life instead maybe

[Chr]

faces from imagination

[saa]

that's some really nice work, i love the cat and the dog from the first post ! :)
keep it up, cheers

[Chr]

saa thanks! yes tha cat is 'ok' in the values i think... but a bit rough..

[saa]

rough isn't automatically equal to bad or technically undeveloped.
i think a rough drawing/painting can be much more interesting than an overpainted boring piece...it depends.

the cat and the dogs for example are really nice. also like the new one, cheers

[madhatter106]

Great paintings and great animal drawings - it looks like you are comfortable in both pencils as well as pixels. Some really impressive stuff here.

I did notice one strange thing - for the latter entries, all of your male figures have very little or no hair at all...? The gals aren't bald (of course), but a whole lot of the guys are...maybe it's a theme or coincidence, but give us guys some hair too! :)

[Chr]

madhatter106 hehe... yes I should put hair on them... but Ihave been concentrating on the skull for a while and being afraid of drawing hair... maybe i should try that out. thanks for mentioning it, I almost forgot!

saa yes, I agree with you about roghness. especcially if something is spot on from the first time its great...

[Chr]

tried to think about core and colors when doing simple things...

edit (added a yeti with skinn)

edit: added the fork and knife pic.. I shoud probably work the pictures more.....

[Moai]

Where'd you go, man??:[

[Chr]

oh sorry! Im ok

I have just been away from here a while. Didnt like my sketchbook. :(
but ive been lazy too >:|

However I have been drawing and painting some (no real paint) and reading about painting and drawing too.

Heres an unfinished enviroment sketch

[benkashmir]

darn good vehicles... really good.

[Moai]

The particles on the ground look really good. Also, good atmospheric perspective, and good job separating the planes on the rocks. What it needs, though, is a center of intrest to give are eyes something to do besides wander down the canyon.
Good to have you back.:rendered:

[Bendragon]

These are very nice. You have quite a strong foundation. I would say colour is your least strongest point though. A lot of practice will help this area forward. Then we'll see from there! :)

[Chr]

thanks Bendragon

heres an update

What it needs, though, is a center of intrest to give are eyes something to do besides wander down the canyon.

I tried cleaning it up a bit. Didnt add any big centre of interest though. Maybe ill add something. Maybe something human built.

[Moai]

Didnt add any big centre of interest though.
Your center of interest doesn't have to be big and impressive. You could just do something subtle, like but a bigger reflection on that foreground boulder to give it more contrast. Or, you could redo the boulder and make it a statue or have some other evidence of human design. Or, you could add a doorway or cave mouth on the side of the canyon and have some light flickering out of it. Infinite possibilities!
The shimmering particles on the ground look damn good and give the piece a very lifelike sheen. You've gotten much better at lighting and color, I think.

[Chr]

heres one with a centre of interest.

Its meant to be the same enviroment. Further down the path.

A little bit too much generic fantasy, but not that obvious...

[Nutter]

Try using a photoshop brush with pressure sensitive opacity, I find that it makes sketching in photoshop a lot easier and more flexible. I really like your pencil stuff, it has a lot of character.( im assuming you have a wacom)?

cheers.