Chronbergs sketchbook

[Chronberg]

It might be a good idea to skip to page 3.. (before that lots and lots of repetitive studies).

[Chronberg]

A portrait I did in july 06. This was to practice blending and shading. I traced the outline and I also picked colours from the ref .
All painting was done without aid though. The original pillow had stains and some pattern on it so I decided to try to draw a plain white instead.

/Per

[Chronberg]

From being inactive for waaaay too long I just started drawing again last week.
First up, studies from Bridgmans Constructive Anatomy.

I feel that the proportions are my biggest problem as of now, but I'll just keep on going and hopefully it gets better over time.

[Chronberg]

On the last image in this batch I changed from ballpoint to regular pencil.. 4B.

[Chronberg]

More studies..

[Chronberg]

Yep... it's Bridgman!

[Chronberg]

Still fighting with proportions.. trying different ways of finding the contour or silhouette before laying down harder lines..
Filled my first sketchbook doing this batch.. felt kinda nice! Pathetic, I know... but still, a mini-milestone nevertheless.

[Chronberg]

So.. I guess this book is kinda boring..
However.. I think I will start doing some color-stuff with the Wacom soon!

[jackpot_anjr90]

Looks like it's been ages since your first post O_o!!! Hopefully by now you're not color picking from your references And nice Bridgman studies you've got! Keep up the work and KEEP UPDATING!

[ismo]

Very nice Bridgman studies. I'm studying the same book myself at the moment and just can't wait to get my hands on the Complete Guide To Drawing From Life I just ordered.

[Moosh]

Excellent studies!

[Chronberg]

jackpot_anjr90 - Thank you! Yep.. quite a while. Will try and keep away from that color-sampler from now on!
ismo - Thanks! Yeah.. I'm thinking about buying his Life Drawing, Human Machine and Hundred Hands as well. More Bridgman to the people!
Moosh - Thanks a lot!

A few more Bridgman studies... not very good yet.. but I will keep on hammering for a while! Maybe I'm just rushing a bit too much.. not taking my time to check the errors and correcting them?

I have been drawing some 30-sec gestures from the Posemaniacs site but will do the public a service by not showing them. They are just too strange looking. And also.. I threw them away. I get the feeling that it might be better to just grab some real footage and pause some frames here and there.

Kinda interested in gesture drawing though.. and will probably keep doing it.. I feel that I need some guidance though.. Force: Dynamic Life Drawing for Animators seems to be a good book. Have read a bunch of positive posts about it.

[kev ferrara]

Very very good! Rah Rah Rah (I'm cheering you on.) Keep at it, you're doing great!

kev

[jackpot_anjr90]

Great Bridgman studies you keep dishing out! Would be great to see you put those studies to use through some imaginative work Keep it up!

[Chronberg]

kev ferrara - Thank you very much! Hehe.. I like cheering.. keeps me going.
jackpot_anjr90 - Thanks! Yeah.. that's one of my goals. But it feels like I need to fill up the image-bank in my mind a bit more first. Would be cool to start dabbling with some original stuff soon. Will try my best!

So.. some more Bridgman and a few black/white/grey studies.