Regus: Another Would-Be Artist

[Regus]

Hey guys, I've been a lurker here for the last 100 years or so, and I always said that I wasn't going to post here until I had something to show for myself. I am an absolute beginner, and lately I've been teaching myself how to draw using whatever materials I can get my hands on. So what I have here is a series of freehand vehicle sketches inspired by Scott Robertson.

I plan on uploading more stuff as soon as I create it.

Crits welcome! I need to get better!

[Miro]

nice way to start your sketchbook :)

[Regus]

A little more practice.

[Cold]

love perspective studies, u seemed to struggle alot at the beginning, but i can see on your later ones, the perfection coming through:)

Now through some crazy shit together!

[Zynic]

Hey there :) Nice start to a sketchbook mate!
I'm jealous of how fast you picked up the perspective-stuff, I've watched Scott's DVD, but I still can't make anything out of it :P

Anyway, to help you improve a bit, my tip would be to clean up those lines of yours!
It seems that you're always drawing the same line at least 2-3 times, and that won't fly ;)
Make one, clean line, and if you can't make it all the way, at least make it look like you did ;D

Keep it up, and good luck!

[Regus]

Anyway, to help you improve a bit, my tip would be to clean up those lines of yours!
It seems that you're always drawing the same line at least 2-3 times, and that won't fly
Make one, clean line, and if you can't make it all the way, at least make it look like you did ;
I agree %100, this is one of my biggest issues I have no confidence in my lines, I end up going over them again and again. It's a tough habit to break.

[Regus]

Some more practice. I tried to not go too crazy with my lines with the ones towards the end.

[Regus]

Here's a camera, the ellipses are all wonky, but I'm still figuring that out.

[invinciblewombat]

very solid perspective studies, watch your ellipses though, when they get pointed it brings the visual quality down, it may be worth investing in a set of ellipse guides if you're planning to do a lot of very tight perspective drawings

[Regus]

These are the results of me learning how to create my own custom brushes in photoshop. The tree is one of those brushes, I haven't gotten around to using it yet.

[Blade-14]

Really great work on the brushes pal!, lovin the color theme on the last one as well! And if u enjoyed that then by all means carry on, u neva know u may pick up color skills faster than u think!

A superb effort on the perspective vehicle drawing front as well u really are gunning for perfection on this one arent u? Keep on with the study man, and u will nail it propa guaranteed! ;)

[Delmar]

Like the perspective drawings...

I would give you the advice to take two or three of your favourite designs, put another paper on it and make the same designs just more refined , cleaned up and more detailed. It´ll improove your sense of perspective and detail even more, furthermore your sketches will also get more confident....


keep it up:rendered:

[mbetteker]

I like it. Scott robertson is a great one to study. Also check out Feng Zhu. I am guessing you saw scott's dvd's? If you click on the link in my signature labled "Tech Only" it will take you to my perspective drawing thread. Which is very inspired by scott robertson and feng zhu. Check it out and feel free to ask any questions.

PS, i recommend drawing with a bic ball point pen, start out light, and keep everything organized and neat like a math problem. Then build up your dark lines adding continual lineweight to shadow area's or really anything you can put your hand behind. Good start THough!

[Regus]

Just a having a little fun.

[Regus]

First, perspectives:

[Regus]

Next, a ton of stuff from life drawing class.

[Regus]

More playing with brushes.

[Regus]

Bacteria brush. Hopefully you won't find this in your peanut butter.

[Regus]

coloring tutorial from 2dartist magazine, the sketch is not mine.

[Regus]

Trying to do water.

I have a question to all you pros out there. How do you guys save your files for the web, and have the output look like the working file? The output I get comes out looking too light.

[Regus]

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[dan liimatta]

shouldn't it be wanna-be-working-artist?

would be is saved for when, if you fail ;)

anyway good to see studies, so keep it tuffing and the train will pick up more and more speed, until you finally are able to tackle any object, and destroy any opposition!

choo-choo.

[Regus]

shouldn't it be wanna-be-working-artist?
heh, yeah, I like that.

Here's a really rough sketch I did.

I'm going to try to do some portraits soon.

[Regus]

Speed Paintings? I don't know, they didn't feel fast. I scanned in random marks made with markers and tried to make something from the chaos.

[Phil_Osirus]

Hey, those anatomy and perspective studies are great! The kind of stuff I can't stand to do but SHOULD do:)

Anyway don't stop those cause you're on the right track and I think it is the kind of work that you can reap benefits from the most in the end, but they are the most exhaustive as far as I'm concerned. But hey, there's a saying that says "everything that tastes great is bad for you", so mayby what doesn't taste good is good (well as long as it's food)?:)

[Regus]

More marker stuff.

[Regus]

20-30 minutes

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speed painting/marker.

[Ian Mack]

I really liked how you included the shadows underneath your vehicles...I've gotta remember to do that when I do vehicle design...the buildings done in perspective are done by the book but they look skewed! I think you have your vanishing points too close together.

The figures are good too. You're petting your line less and less which is great. The only suggestion I'd have is to make sure your lines are consistently darker for the close objects and lighter for the distant ones.

[Regus]

Here's a another speed painting I just banged out.

I really liked how you included the shadows underneath your vehicles...I've gotta remember to do that when I do vehicle design...the buildings done in perspective are done by the book but they look skewed! I think you have your vanishing points too close together.

The figures are good too. You're petting your line less and less which is great. The only suggestion I'd have is to make sure your lines are consistently darker for the close objects and lighter for the distant ones.
I agree with both these points. I do put the vanishing points too close, I need to work on being able to "guess" at the location of the vanishing points when they are so far away. Whenever I try to do this my convergence gets all messed up.

[d00dle]

hehe nice vehicles man. nice effect too on your painting. I see you learn from those gnomon. great job man.

[Regus]

speed painting

[Jonas Heirwegh]

Nice start, but you should really practice to draw straight lines. I do this exercise almost every day, just fill a page with dots en connect those dots with lines. Also filling pages with just boxes and on each plane draw an elips.

Also I think you have alot of problems with 2-point perspective. Stay with the basics and dont try to just copy the designs of Scott, but practice first those boxes and more simpel shapes( I know its boring but its necessary)
Try to listen to Scott when he draws, and try to understand what he is saying, you propably going to watch some things more than once in order to understand what he actually ment.

I went through his dvds also and after a few weeks/months my drawings became much more accurate and better line quality.
Check out my sketchbook to see some of those sketches.

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=93016

Good luck, youre on the right track!

[Regus]

Okay, today I did some practice painting in photoshop. The first is me trying out different brushes and stuff, at this point I still have not gottent the type of look I wanted out of ps. But a little later I stumbled onto a particular brush setting that really struck me, picture #2 was made with that. Then I tried it with a real picture, which resulted in #3. Also, I started changing the brush's blend mode as well.

[Regus]

My first attempt at painting a face.