Erik's Sketchbook!

[erikfriis]

HI CA! It's my first post here on CA so i'll just tell u who i am :p
My name is Erik Friis and i live in norway. i'm 18 years old and go to an art school. i draw when ever i want, which is more or less every day. and i finaly got those drawings in to the comp, and now posting them here. i'm trying to my best to advance, and it would be realy great if u could help me with that. give me crit so i know what to work on :) and sry for the bad quality on some of the drawings. they were too big for the scanner so i had to use my phone cam

[brucelidat]

hey, nice work, drawing from life is always good. i like the hands. if i may make a suggestion, i'd say study some anatomy and form and most importantly how the different parts fit together. keep up the good work though

[erikfriis]

yea, my anatomy is kinda shity :P so i'm working on that now. thx for good response though :)
and yea, give me some crit on shading plz... i haven't realy figured out what type of shading that i like yet. and yea, i'm new to toned paper, so plz give me some guide lines :)

[erikfriis]

minor update for now :P just a fast one.

[Zoio]

good man!
nice studies!
Keep it up!

[erikfriis]

WIP. tell me if u see something i can improve. :D

[erikfriis]

Not realy sure what more to do with it....

[Zweit]

duuuude, you got to scale some of these down. that last one was like 1700 pixels wide, try to keep them at least at 900-1000 pixels wide so those of us with lower-res monitors can see everything at once. ;)

studies are looking good though, from what i can tell. some of your hand studies are looking kind of squashed but that's all i can think of to work on. keep up the good work and remember to squash those images. :D

[erikfriis]

awkey, i'll scale them down a bit as soon as i got time ;) and i'll do some fast hand sketches to see if i can the hang of it. thx for feedback :D

[Deodatus]

Nice sketches; but verry big images. Post some smaller stuff, we can have a better overlook of your work. And maybe some more contrast in your lines.
Keep up the good work, mann.

[erikfriis]

just made them smaller now :P well, not every one. just the ones i that had to be scaled down :)

[erikfriis]

just bought some fine new toned paper :P best one i have ever used. only downside is that it's quite expensive :(
as u can see, i have no clue how to draw hair :P hehe. well.. just some minor updates, more will come soon.

[erikfriis]

an other one :P the sketchbook was a bit too big for the scanner, so then it reflected the light down in the corner some how.

[erikfriis]

a self portrait :D experimenting with some color in the picture :P did this in about an hour or so :)

[Tomato]

Pretty neat stuff dude :D Digging the shading and highlights in chalk/pastel :D

Do more ;)

[Jason Rainville]

You're doing exactly what you need to do. One thing though, it looks like you consistently make the eye that's closest to us larger than the other.

[erikfriis]

a WIP. yea, i know she looks like an green alien :P don't got pastel pencils in skin color, tryed to mix, but went bad :P. so i'll head to the art store and buy some skin color pencils. give me some feedback on too pls :P so i can make the changes before it's too late.

[erikfriis]

heres an other self portrait :) turned out ok, plz crit if u see anything. and sry for not posting as often, i'll try to pull me self together. it's just that i have a lot of homework to do as well.

[erikfriis]

well. since noone is replying, i'll just post untill someone does :P fast sketches

[erikfriis]

fast sketches

[erikfriis]

dunno if i will do more on this one

[erikfriis]

i would apreciate some crits :)

[hurricane]

Just keep at it, the replies or critiques will come now and then.
the lines are too "feathry" and you render too much in fences... like ####

your stuff looks good
cheers!

[erikfriis]

thx for reply :D i'll keep that in mind.

[Zynic]

Cool stuff erik :)
Just try to work on the linequality, and do more ref-stuff as you currently are.
And make the hatching go with the form of the object, and not just go in random directions.

Keep up the good work :)

[erikfriis]

Hi! :P been a long time since i posted, but don't worry :P i'll try to upload some crap 2morrow. haven't been drawing that much lately, but i'll try to change that.

[erikfriis]

ok, so it has been a while. i dunno how often i will post, but i shall try to pull my self together and post more often(yes i know i said that further up, but this time i really mean it :P ) so i'm gonna post a fairly big bunch of sketches, and i rly want some crits. haven't been doing that much life drawing b4, but it's going forward, slowly. used about 20 mins on each of the life drawings. and we are gonna have nude life drawing session again next week, so i would want to know what i should work on. i'm in a dark period when it comes to hatching, so plz, guide me to the end of this hellhole of hatching problems. (can't scan A3, so had to use camera(yea, i know, it's crappy)) well, enough talking, now sketches ^^

[erikfriis]

ohh yea, quick question, how to i change the thread picture? don't feel like that is representing my average work xD
just realised i forgot to take a picture of some oil painting stuff. i'll do it later :P and that fruit thingie above, was just some fast warmup sketches for the oil painting ;P

[Joatley]

I just answered this one for another thread, so here it is again-

Ugh, this one was a headache for me, I'll try to explain as best I can.

Ok, in your first post, the first attachment will always be the image that shows as your thread thumbnail.

In order to update the thread thumbnail, you have to edit your first post. You do this by:
click the 'edit' button at the bottom-right of your first post
click 'advanced'
click 'manage attachments'
remove any attachments you might have
upload the image you want as your thumbnail [100x100pixels]
re-upload any images you have removed*

*or you can re-upload the old image from your first post into your second post, -or- use a imagehost [photobucket] to keep your image in the first post.
This makes it easier to update the thread thumbnail without having to keep re-uploading.

Confused? Use my thread as an example and maybe things will be clearer:
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/sho...d.php?t=106487

Also, if you dont like the attachment view with the border around it, use the paperclip icon [when posting, top of message tools, next to smiley] and insert your image where you want to [not always on the bottom]. Hope this helps!

[Piranha Clan]

Good work, dude. You've got some skill. Just keep doin' whatcha' do. You're on the right track.

Bruce Lee is the man, I dig that sketch. Check out my Sb sometime, I've got a Bruce sketch in there too. I'd love to have some comments from you.

[erikfriis]

Joatley: thx for the help ^^ apreciated it a lot. i'll fix the picture once i have made a cool drawing to replace it xD

Piranha: thx a lot man, and yea, bruce lee is the man idd! in fact, i'll stop by your post now, to check it out ^^

[erikfriis]

Sp i did a few moths ago. i must get used to using a mirror.
And some random drawings i also did with a mirror.

[erikfriis]

well, recently started to paint with oils. worked quite a bit with acryls, but wanted to test oils, and i have to say i like that a lot better.
here is 2 fast paintings of a bottle of jägermeister and an apple and some grapes.
plz, give me some feedback, really need it!