Sketchbook: SmilingMountain

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Figured it's high time to stop lurking and start a sketchbook, been trying to get better at 2d recently after spending a lot of time on 3d stuff. Trying to learn to draw faces mainly as well as grasp the basics of 1 and 2 point perspective. Here are a few recent pieces of work:

A couple of rts/ fantasy houses I drew to practice drawing on a perspective grid:






Couple of practice faces constructed using Andrew Loomis's technique:

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Had a stab at doing an environment painting after not attempting one for a while. Still trying to fully grasp the basics really. Forgot to add in my previous post that C&C is always very welcome!

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A few swords concepts I painted recently.

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Concept for a diffuse only character I'm planning to work on.

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Moar weapons

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Random tank girl inspired pinup thingy

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Some swords created for the 2d monthly noob challenge.

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Random sketch for the throne 2d challenge.

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Couple of practice paintings.

Mossbros

I think you need to look more into form, musculature and shadows that help define form for your character sketches. At the moment they lack all of the above and only cater to line information.

look into painting faces based upon how muscles sit and also the proportions without using those intense black lines, they should simply be used as reference on where to paint on top of and shouldn't be visible in the final drawings.

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Thanks for the crits Mossbros, yeah I definately need to work on defining the forms of my character studies without relying on linework. The lines at the moment are definitely quite OTT, I need to work on a different method for rendering this stuff

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Lineart for something I may or may not finish.