"Eh, well.... I know how to look good...."

[Profil]

Meh, I tried to draw a potrait and it just went wrong and I felt depressed and wanted to tear apart the sketchbook:/
it was this evil thingie:


this guy is made the first 1 min from ref, rest imagination:


just very fast outlines: ref of course.....


Im going to do a lot of colors, currently gathering things for oils. I got the oil colors, the brushes. I need terpentine (to clean brushes), linseed oil as thinner and canvases.

These are made with derwent artist color pencils, they are a bit waxy wich I like, thanks for the tip Hurricane.
ref

ref

ref

imagination


Im going to start draw more.

[IanE]

Obvious improvement! Good job, man! I just started drawing in November, looks like we're in the same boat. Keep at it man, there's plenty of potential here.

[light]

Very nice profil, keep doing tons of those sketches, especialy from real life. The color work is great, but work on the line quality. Im sure that was said like 100 times but meh, i didnt have time to read through the thread . Keep it up.

[Profil]

So I got some CC yesterday at IRC and I took up my loomis book. Started studying the face with a skull and muscle anatomy picture. Here is the result:
wait this one was ref: (loomis)


non refs:
this was scanned crooked, so the heads arent THAT crooked, but yeah gotta get better at that.


Im going to start doing at least one color pencil drawin everyday, it's so much fun:

[Profil]

started working on my bodies wich btw is hard if your not doing a front view. The first page is kinda ref based, the other ones isnt so much, maybe just what the shoulders is proportional to the waist:

[Tigermilk]

Hey, your doing really well! Keep drawing from ref, you'll learn ten times faster then. I really liked the colorsketches, awsome progress.

keep it up mate!

[hurricane]

so we meet again !!! *pulls out a banana*

i think you should slow down on the tempo when you draw from ref, draw slowly and soft, almost invicible lines at first, so you get the shapes down, SOFTLY ! ...then when you think that you have a good foundation ( look at the ref for 1-2 secs, check your drawing for 1-2 sec, ref, drawing,ref, drawing, do you see any difference in the form and structure ? if yes, change it so you almost cant see any difference between the 2) THEN start shading, softly, SOFTLY, build the picture from highlights down to the deepest shade, squint your eyes alot, try to mimic the shapes of the shadows and their placement... draw softly and slowly, take your time...
i think if you spend like 3 hours or more, slowly working the picture, you will learn how to use a pencil more, other words the technique behind it, and practise on your eye/hand coordination, are you up for it? i think it would help you alot my friend!


cheers !

[IanE]

I honestly couldn't have put it better than Hurricane did. Excellent advice there for everyone, including myself.

I totally agree with him, that's some great advice right there!

Good luck, Profil! You've got plenty of visible improvement in your faces with pencil, keep it up man!

[hurricane]

keep on working man, dont give up !!

i'll hunt you down and glue a pen to your hand if you stop


cheers man, update this bad mother.....

[Profil]

haha, thanks for the encouragement everyone.
Ok my faces suck ass, so I made some comic studys, duno why though:/. Lot of school work latley (it is true really) so I didnt have that much time, got a bit more now though so more updates hopefully.

2 pages of comic studies (fast ones):



from imagination:




ref drawin (wich sucks, the proportions are way of from the original and my printer wasnt good so the print out of the orignial got messed up but I did my best with the time I had):

[hurricane]

last one shows that you put time in it !!

great !

do you have a higher res of it ?

would be cool to see the "pen play" in it..


cheers man, draw draw draw !!

[ZapRadon]

The last one is pretty cool..might want to push his eyeballs back in a bit.

Nice job
Zap

[zao75231]

i think you got alot of potential your drawings, i would suggest to check out the constructive anatomy book and some ink hatching books, there the same as pencil hatchings except a little bit different...tip:the hatchings go in the direction of the aroundness of things, to give depth and value.

-Rob

[bizarre]

you're doing great, good work ethic. I feel you may need to get some more variety, just for the sake of continuously challenging yourself. don't want to get stuck in a groove... a rut.... like me...

*weep*

[Profil]

Just some doodles:






The mask ref zap, I think the eyes are right:
[img]http://www.orenburg.ru/img/culture/encyclop/tom2/portreit_mask.jpg[img/]


yeah Im going to study the anatomy more.

[fukifino]

Not a bad job on that mask drawing. If you can recognize that the proportions are off and where, then that's a good start. At least half of learning how to draw it learning how to see. Keep up the studies! The more studies you do, the more you'll build up a memory of that stuff when working from your head.

Your ink lines are very scratchy. Think a bit more about what you're going to lay down on the paper before you draw it, and try to get it down with fewer lines. If you feel the need to do (as one of my teachers used to say) the chicken scratches, at least try to work at continuing each line where the last one left off. It might just be that you're trying to draw everythign too fast? Maybe take some time and slow down a bit.

Keep up those studies!

[Profil]

helo again
top heads are faaaast refs trying to get some variety in my faces:


TD subject is connection to heaven, was playing with the thought:


non ref, got some proportions wrongs but over all Its ok IMO:


hmm?


....forget it:

[Profil]

Did these yesterday fast:


did this one upside down. took a picture and turned it upside down and drawed what I saw. Fast one, very


whatever




I havent been nice. I havent answered your replys personally. So from next post Im going to

[IanE]

The last image on the 25th, from reference, looks awesome! That shows that you can easilly achieve your goals, dude! Keep working and try to do work equal to or greater than that peace!

Keep updating and drawing, man!

Ian

[Profil]

IanE:
you make me blush man. Thanks. I gotta start drawing more, the computer is evil.

Td entry, connection to heaven, I thought that priests should have a connetcion to heaven. It got proportions of etc but Im learning it:


omg, I suck:


learning the human body by mannequin:

[Nike]

Hi Profil
The mask is really looking very good! I think if you'd invest a little bit more time and thought (like looking for references at parts you aren't secure enough) in many of your drawings they would all look that great!
I also like that gestures in your last update!
Keep them coming!

[Profil]

Nike: yeah gotta invest more time, but Im an impatient man But you know, when I started.... I mean I invest waaay more time then when Im started so Im going forward, but yeah I totally agree.

here is some studies I made now, like 30-40 mins for all?






ink and reference.

Love ink, no earsing, and tomorrow I will try just do to the curves without scrathy lines.

[Profil]

Made this while watching TV:


Made this while watching.... oh, I was laying in bed actually:

[zao75231]

be very loose in your drawings and don't hatch a line around the bodies...draw shapes for the joints so that you can construct the anatomy better...or that's just me.

-Rob

[Profil]

zao142142wsomething: yeah Im trying but its hard but you got right, just gotta try it.


Ink, felt baaad:


Ink not so bad:


THE RETURN OF PEN, trying to study som artist to see how to draw those bones/muscles in a good way, inspired by HPX here:

[Profil]

helo everyone.

TD entry:


ass sucking page with long ass grass:


one gesture of my own, the one that is written "from imagination":

[hurricane]

very nice stuff, the progress in the last posts is scary man, what ever that made you think in a new way, try to find it again and think about it more... it looks alot better, ALOT !


keep on drawing man, you just left a huge amount of miles behind you..


cheers bro !

[Profil]

Hurricane: thanks man, really means a lot as you know

varmup/doodle


putting this picture: http://gallery.euroweb.hu/art/f/fragonar/2/04readin.jpg
into another "scene":


based this pictures loosley on prostate lines, not exactly copy:


based on this picture:
http://www.kekaikotaki.com/pics/page79.jpg

[-sideshowbob-]

very nice stuffz

nice improvement so far man

do some lil studies to understand the form and shape they will help u to improve fast.. i do studies evry day

heres a lil crapy tut i made about head drawing *its third post.. first is about body etc*


http://www.sketchbooksessions.com/th...ic.php?t=21215
and
http://www.fragtasia.de/bob/2dstuff/...head_draw_muh/
hope this link works.. if not
pm me ur email and ill send u the stuff in a zip


got any anatomy books so far?
subdevide the human body into easy geomtrie * cubes cylinders* is also a good exercise to understand movement and learning proportions



keep drawing

[Profil]

-sideshowbob-: oi oi, thank you mate
I do circles and boxes from time to time, just dont show it here. But Im going to do more then THe face thingie I will try when I figure it out
Thanks


Did in school:


arrrrgghh suckage: