Algenpfleger learns to draw (He really does!) 2014 - New Sketchbook!

[DeKal]

thanks for that comment, for real...your stuff is real cool too...i like the digital portraits a lot...just keep up the anatomy studies and the life drawing! and experiment more with mark making..your on the right track

[algenpfleger]

DeKal, thanks dude! Yeah, I will.
Aaah can't take days without drawing, although i really REALLY have to prepare for my exams, here's some doodles.

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[The Pariano]

Thanks for checkin in on my sb!
Really liking those arm studies on page 2 man! You seem to use hatching alot in your sketches, I think it would be beneficial if you started to use the lines to follow the forms of what youre shading. Its amazing to see the difference of lines that follow the forms and ones that dont. Im actually working on a charcoal piece in class and theres a part of a form that is almost completely pitch black, but but making the strokes follow the form its easily seperated from the flat background strokes.
Line exercises?
Id say do lots of contour drawings. Dont lift your pencil up at all; one long fluid line. work with pressure and line variation aswell and in no time you will have really strong lines : D

[algenpfleger]

Almighty Chris, wow, thanks for the advice! As soon as my exams are over, I shall definitely practise that!
Daaaaamn i wanna draaaaaaaaw but instead i have to study :-/


But here's some digital refless doodles from today.
openCanvas 1.1, 1 hour:
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openCanvas 1.1, 20 minutes:
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openCanvas 1.1, 25 minutes:
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SAI, 1 hour:
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[algenpfleger]

More digital crap! All in openCanvas and without ref, except the fruit stuff, which is from life.

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[algenpfleger]

More digi stuff!
Lol, seems oC doesn't like layers when saving as .jpg

Some movie trailer screenshots, about 20 minutes each:
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And a refless doodle.
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I have yet to find out how to effectively use openCanvas.

[algenpfleger]

Some perspective practice after discovering Form's Environmentoring

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[eskanto]

i like your black and white digi paintings, good values going on in there and the last one above me is good too. i have a hard time with landscapes, good effort!

[algenpfleger]

eskanto, thanks mate

photo studies and landscape for the environmentoring section!

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[Earendil]

Good luck getting into the Environmentoring Class 2, but I think you'll get in.

Keep it up!

[Jakers]

Great looseness in the last enviornment...I like how it is held togethere by the atmosphere and nice color choices. It really shows how important the base sctrucutre you work from is. I think it got foggy a little fast, maybe preference though.

I see those movie studies as being very benificial for lighting and color, and that you've kept the time frame for each short to support that. great.

[Kfeeras]

net schlecht, weitermachen!!

cheers
-antonio

[eminkey2003]

Impressive improvement-- try using less lines in those fast gesture studies. Sometimes gestures can be as minimal as 2 or 3 long lines. Also, I don't think any bitmap programs like Photoshop and OC will save JPEGS with layers. It flattens everything. Keep it up!

[algenpfleger]

Earendil, thanks for the encouragement! I hope so!

Jakers, thanks man. Yeah, it came out foggier than I wanted, guess I don't really have much control. need to paaaint~

Kfeeras, danke mann

eminkey2003, thanks for the advice! I will.


Two assignments for environmentoring, and digi doodles. That english kind of castle was inspired by some photos on the net and my journey to scotland a few years ago, bot not reffed.

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[algenpfleger]

Aaaaaand stuff

Environmentoring....
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And 60 second poses. Trying to get them down with careful, economic lines and without lifting the pencil... well, the fineliner.
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[algenpfleger]

Been experimenting with a little freeware tool called Artweaver today. Seems cool, like a Photoshop-Painter-Hybrid (I don't have either). The brush system is nice, but new to me, as I've only been using SAI and openCanvas, which don't work spacing-based.
So here's some quick thumbnails, trying to get some brush settings I like:
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Two openCanvas girls:
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This one was slightly reffed, learned a lot about brushes and values:
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And some 60 second poses.
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I wish i would have done more today :-/
But I'll tackle this week's EOW, as it was an environmentoring assignment

[ItalianHorsey]

Wow...Figure drawing like crazy. I think you should do some detailed figure drawing. Keep it up man!

[Nistarn]

Great work you have here, specially composition congratulations

[smid]

Nice stuff man! I like your female characters. I would like to see some of them a bit more developed. Keep posting.

[yinteck]

Cool, like your stuff, especially your studies and female character.

[Flutic]

You're stuff is great an you're improvement even greater,
I like you're characters and love the colors in the canyon thing.

Greets,Tom

[algenpfleger]

Wow, so many replies!


ItalianHorsey, thank you, yeah, figures are what i need to improve right now the most besides enviros, and it's fun! Will do some more detailed ones soon.
Nistarn, thanks mate
smid, thank you, grils are alway fun to draw, aren't they?
yinteck, thanks!
Flutic, thank you very much, I'm always so happy to hear I improve


Well the hot phase of my exam period is starting, so I don't really have much time, but here's a chick i managed to throw in when studying assembler programming with my buddies at university, first time drawing with a ballpoint pen too, feels cool, kinda like pencil...
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Also did some Vanderpoel studies today, trying to get my hatching follow the forms, was amazed by how hard it was, it forces you to think a lot about the actual forms, really great, will do that always from now on....
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I actually felt like shit today, having headache and whatnot, but it's better now after drawing and listening to Yoko Kanno and reading the replies to my sketchbook

[Loolarge]

Just found your sketchbook because of the funny name Cool stuff, you have been doing lots of anatomy studies and you update often. You got it going!

[algenpfleger]

Loolarge, thanks a bunch man

Had my exam in machine oriented programming today, it was hell. They asked stuff we weren't taught yet, as it's a third semester's subject, and I am first semester, and 90 minutes were much to little time, and everybody think they failed But I at least solved 4 out of 6 tasks and could draw on the way home, so it was alright.

Here's sketches on the bus. I am amazed how easy this follow-the-forms hatching is, how much it improves the workflow, and how much better it looks.
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And vanderpoel studies.
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And poses, 60 seconds. reached 500, yaaay. And I learned something important when doing these today, I start to look for specific aspects of the pose, how the energy flows in the figure. Hard to describe, i shall do more of these. I also feel I begin to understand things about lineweight and emphasis I didn't understand before. Aaah makes me wanna practice so much more.
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[Jakers]

fantastic studies of facial features, them are on my list to do soon!

I think you learned a good deal in this one, it looks quite successful in creating depth
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The environmentoring was cool, your just doing it based on the lessons that already happened correct?

[GiantRibot]

this book was perfect for me. i'm going through the same journey myself, and you've given me some hope again.

if i may ask, where did you get all of those references for your figure studies?
you have hundreds of them.

awesome. thanks

[Lotet]

great stuff! i like the studies and i really like the girls too, they are beautifull, keep posting,^^

[skorpi]

I already thougt, I'll find your sketchbook

Really nice drawings, don't stop

[Giorge]

Pretty awesome studies and your digital work is making progress . But watch out for the scribbling , it might mess your work up. If its not a sketch.

[algenpfleger]

Jakers, thanks for coming back man! And yeah, that one taught me a lot The environmenting was over, so I could just kinda bust thrpough it all in a couple of days but there's a new course starting soon and I hope to get in!
GiantRibot, thanks Glad to inspire. The poses are from posemaniacs.com, amazing site
Lotet, thanks, I will
skorpi, cool, you're there to? Thanks for stopping by!
flamable, thank you. You're right about the scribbling, I have to make my lines a lot cleaner.

So here's some messy sketches done on the bus...
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And some Vanderpoel studies, came out rather... not so good...
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And poses, 30 seconds each this time, I had problems getting more than the torso down. Guess I'll have to get faster
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