Sketchbook: Keen
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I need to start drawing more....a lot more. I'm pretty much starting from the beginning and I would love critiques.
I'm going to start out by studying the head. Drawing skulls, drawing from pictures and occasionally doodle to develop my own style.
So to start things off:
Edit: Got rid of crappy doodle.
I'm going to start out by studying the head. Drawing skulls, drawing from pictures and occasionally doodle to develop my own style.
So to start things off:
Edit: Got rid of crappy doodle.
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More skull studies, just profile and front till I get comfortable with them, then I'll move onto more complicated views.
And again if anyone sees errors in my work please let me know. Trying to be critical myself but fresh eyes help.
I need to start drawing more....
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Edit: yeah her right eye freaks me out too....I'll work on that.
I'll also try to avoid contour lines. It's a bad habit that's hard to break haha.
You're doing a very solid work in capturing character, but it looks like running some plumb lines would really help the final look of things. The other technical thing you might want to look at is breaking things into planes, Loomis and Bridgeman cover that if you have their books. Vilppu has some interesting stuff, and it's summarized in an old series of AWN articles here is one. on seeing anatomical masses. Here are the rest.
Putting the time in would be the key thing, and you're well on the way for the hard part (capturing character). Just checking your work with a few lines, and describing the planes with a bit more vehemence might might help see things quickly.
I'm starting to notice that you kind of exaggerate the eyes a bit?
Also when you rough in hair try to make your strokes match the flow of the hair, and try to make some definition between major and minor strokes.
Looking good keep at it
Vig, thanks for the critiques, though I forgot about them until now, I'll keep them in mind for future sketches. I think I'm getting better proportions on the eyes, but I'll keep working at it.
Currently going through Fheng Zhu's environment DVD. Anyways, I'm always looking for critiques...........
Here's todays.
your head studies are great too. it'd be nice to see one worked out a bit further, so it isn't just line art anymore.
Bounchfx - Thanks dude. You should
Here's today's work, anyone know any good shading techniques? Or a tutorial I could look at for it. Right now I'm just winging it.
And some older stuff I thought I'd show.
Hey man im thinking of getting a sketch group together at the pancake house on Friday mornings you down?
Ah, figured I'd do one more before I call it a night. Going to try and do some more complicated shapes now.
your shading isnt bad as it is, I can see some slightly warped shape to those heads though, might be the error of parallax messing with you, I know I struggle with that sometimes so I have to get myself right over the top of the paper and draw some planning lines before adding detail.
And I'll do the other things you suggested as well.
Here's todays:
and a couple more perspective studies:
I think I'm going to try a slightly different approach of this tomorrow.
I'm glad I finished a fully colored concept for once! Would love to get feedback.
colors are nice, good idea to use another image as reference. did you color pick or eye it? also, do you plan on going more detail into some areas later on? (like the roof of the hut, maybe that's hay or something? could look cool and be good practice.
but yeah I dig it, do more!
Yeah I color picked it, which is probably not a good thing, I'll start eyeing it.
I'm not going to detail this out more, I want to create a bunch of these until I feel comfortable, then I'll start getting more detailed concepts. Thanks for the feedback!
Gonna go for a treehouse theme this time. I think I'm going to go with the top right thumbnail, except with more layers of houses.
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looks good
Got another DVD from Massive black. This is me copying Whit Brachna's work. So far it seems to be helping.
And I'm going to go ahead and archive my Mini Dom War portrait here just for kicks.
love the generals name. keep it up man there is definitely improvement.
Another study:
And a potential scene I'd like to create. The medieval crapper.
Gonna really have to study up on lighting to pull this one off though. We'll see how it goes.
The only thing that bugs me, is the cracks at the base of the center rock mass. Look kind of tacked on like a not so fleshed out idea,not really ground in the painting?
Vig - yeah the cracks were pretty rushed, I think I need to work with harder brushes and spend a little more time getting these to a "finished" state.
Trying to get an idea of how to draw trees. So here's a study from one of Whit Brachna's DVD's:
only thing that doesn't match the overall style is the clouds, not to say they look bad, but just looking at the textured state of the rest. it does offer a contrast being that way though, the bottom half being painted one way, top half another.
good job man
Yeah it was a really cheap DVD that shows you neat masking tricks, but it also taught you how to draw a tree. It's only $5 to download so I thought it was worth it, you can find it here: http://dvd.massiveblack.com/
I agree with you on the clouds, I honestly didn't spend much time on anything in the scene except for the tree, much like this one!
MOAR TREES:
Nice perspectives, but what is the perspective brush?