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**EKU_11** · March 4th, 2006

Welcome all to my sketchbook ive being hiding around this form looking at the awersome work being done so i now it my time to show what I can do. Looking forward to people critiquing my work to help me become better. Thank you

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**Ned** · March 5th, 2006

get some more practise in man, and you'll get there

**Chichigo** · March 5th, 2006

whoa, they're massive, its hard to see the whole picture on my screen.

Good try, keep working on bodies and faces.

**Chandan** · March 5th, 2006

Hey Eku,

Do us a favor and change the image size in either photoshop or the setting in your camera or scanner. About the pics, nice expressions on the first one...work from life as often as you can. Think of it as building your library of images. Work with basic shapes and draw how light reflects and bounces off them. Reference anatomy pictures from online...and an absolute must is getting Drawing From the Right Side of the brain by Betty Edwards. Gogogo!

**EKU_11** · March 6th, 2006

Here a few more pictures that i have done hopfully the image size is better. Thing you all of the words of encouragement but don’t be afraid to tell me what I’ am doing wrong I already know to get better I have to draw more I need to know what improvement I need to make.

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**Madfishmonger** · March 14th, 2006

Cool, I like your use of colour, and you do some awesome patterns (something I'm a an of). Definately more life drawing and proportion needed, but hey, that's always something we need. You have an interesting style, something I can see developing into awesome, but you need the foundations first. Hope the Sketchbook group helps

**rsnurkle** · March 14th, 2006

I love the style on these, those monkey/horned-critters in the beginning are great. The hands look a bit funky in places (like the ring finger on the middle right) so more studies on that would be good.

**EKU_11** · March 15th, 2006

Just a few older works that i found in my sketchbook from last year.

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**rsnurkle** · March 16th, 2006

That crazy-warrior guy is making me smile, and the women laying down look very encouraging for anatomy studies - they look right for the most part.

**Madfishmonger** · March 16th, 2006

Mucho potentio! Keep going, more figure drawings!

**mlsfishi** · March 16th, 2006

Awesome figure drawings. you might want to work on female face structures a bit, though. The last drawing of the guy's face is pretty good, but the mouth is a bit high and to (our) right.

**armando** · March 16th, 2006

Study perspective: Ernest Norling's "Perspective Made Easy".

**EKU_11** · March 20th, 2006

So from the post I have received you all seem to say I should practice figure drawing. I’ve been tell myself to do that since last year just never started but now I’ am taking drawing a bit more seriously now. These drawing are just what I did this weekend practiced.
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drawings was just a doodle that I was going to put into the DSG but I didn’t really like it that much.
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This is just doodling that i did about 2 hours ago.
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**rsnurkle** · March 20th, 2006

Again the woman lying down looks the best in terms of figures - glad to hear you're going to do some studies, I look forward to 'em. I like the spiraling vine pattern you put on your to-be DSG.

**Dwezz** · March 21st, 2006

I agree, some figure studies wouldn't harm.
I like your style though!
It has something edgy, keep it up!

**Madfishmonger** · March 23rd, 2006

Check out the new anatomy links... Here, they might help. Draw more from real life. Real life is good. Keep it up, you have a neat style.

**EKU_11** · March 26th, 2006

Well I've kind of started figure drawing still cant help just drawing what ever i feel like. There is also some 3d models that ive did this week been spending alot more time preacticing modeling and animating rather then drawing.
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**Madfishmonger** · March 27th, 2006

Figure drawing will help your 3d rendering too. It's tedious, sometimes, but necessary. Your eyes are getting better, and those lips are pretty cool. The proportions in your figures are also improving.

**rsnurkle** · March 27th, 2006

I like those eyes. Is the last image you posted an illustration of a scene or something? It looks like it wants to be finished out. =]

**Dwezz** · April 3rd, 2006

Idd, would love to see some figure drawing from you

**Panda89** · April 3rd, 2006

nice sketches, you may improve if i tell you this:

there are 2 ways of learning drawing, and in both ways you need to think logically, so you understand the form of the things you draw:

1st way: drawing with construction
2nd way: drawing with experience/intuition

for the first way i just need to remind that the mathematical argumentation is always right. so, for example i have a cube 1*1*1 and i want to turn it 45 degrees: then i just use cos 45 * 1 <-- that's 1 side of the cube

2nd way: you roughly know how something looks like, because you have that 2 dimensional image in your head

i overpainted one of your sketches to make you understand what i mean:

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ps: you can practice the perspective stuff by drawing cuboid
try to turn them, then you recognize what you need to know!

hope this helps
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**bhanu** · April 3rd, 2006

Do some life studies,
More like some quick doodles ,They help you understand alot about the human figure,proportions,shading and other good shit.
keep working.

**EKU_11** · April 5th, 2006

Before I go into saying thing about what ive been done with my work i have a bit of a noob question to ask. How go i get my SSG to link people to my other SSG people page's I hope that make sence. I've been busy and havent really got into drawing much at all.
Panda89:I appreciate what you did and can only give it a shoot.
bhanu:More quick doodles I like your thinking it simple yet useful.

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**rsnurkle** · April 9th, 2006

Glad you at least drew some stuff, =D. I really like that last study, with statue-looking figure. Definitely try and finish that, or do more, they look good. Also that little gesture mannequin guy on the first page (he's off to the right) sends off a great dynamic gesture for his torso and upper legs, etc., you did a good job with that. Keep it up!

Oh, regarding your signature question, you need to add the
[ URL="http://www.conceptart.org/...filepathtoyoursketchbook/" ] EKU_11's sketchbook [ / URL ]
in (without the spaces), otherwise it's just text sitting there looking colorful. =]
Here's the addresses for us all...

Code:

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=62680 -Dwezz
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=62953 -EKU_11
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=62856 -I.n.t.r.i.c.a.t.e.
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=52954 -Madfishmonger
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=63243 -mlsfishi
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=63336 -rsnurkle

**Madfishmonger** · April 13th, 2006

Do you have one of those little art mannekins? Those are great! I like the folds of cloth on your Roamn-type guy there. Work on him some more, I think he could turn out great.

**EKU_11** · April 18th, 2006

Hope to post up some work sooon been a bit busy with other things.Thanks for the comments.

rsnurkle Thanks for the tip with my signature look alot better now and it link people to were they need to go. Did even see that dynamic gesture with the mannequin guy till you pointed it out.

Madfishmonger I've got 2 of thoes little art mannekins one just a simply wooden one and the other is a more realistic looking human one there great for drawing. I did like 3 other roman guy and that one is the best, I was very pleased with the way i got the folds of cloth.

**natsch** · April 26th, 2006

Keep at it Eku - I like that hand study a lot.

There's a vitality to your work - make sure to maintain it as you get more "acurrate" with your figures and anatomy.

**EKU_11** · April 27th, 2006

Well cant say that the last few week have been great but I feel like I have started to focus more on what I want to do so now I'am going to put togther a small prorfolio to do a graphic design course.

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**rsnurkle** · April 27th, 2006

Mannequins and anatomy, yay! Those are coming along, so...more!
I like that two-legged creature at the bottom, it seems to have personality. Your stylization is still cool, the colored, wide, cartoon guy looks very good. Glad the signature is working out.

**EKU_11** · May 4th, 2006

I ve started to play around with colors again it like a whole new world that I never really looked into someday it seem like there just so much to do that I feel a little overwhelmed but I bet everyone goes thought that.

Anyway the first piece of work kind of just happened I did this really simply face and just keep going heaps of different drawings for it and this I think is one of the better one's
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The other works is a self portrait that I’m going for this portfolio soon us it asks for a design or illustration showing creative use of color and all I could think of is my face coloured in.

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