But hey, I started it. Another "Exquisite Corpse" from this weeks' Dallas Sketch Group. In order, Daniel NeedsAPolygonHandle, me, and ThE_BirD. Eh. Next week it's gonna be a real drawing that everyone works on sequentially.
I feel downright n00b-ish posting among you guys, but someday I shall reach that level! In the meantime...heres what I sketched during lecture today heh.
Spent an hour this afternoon doing this... I haven't touched oil paints since last November, and this is only my 3rd oil painting ever! But I really love working with oils... the feel is so much nicer than acrylics, IMHO.
Click on this image to get a larger version of the finished oil sketch.
The painting is quite small, only 10"x7", about. It's done in an oil sketch pad, thick canvas-textured paper. I used one brush for everything here.
excellent work, Mop. oil is definitely a very rich medium, and you seem to handle it rather well--i always get tripped up with mixing color in oil. keep it coming
Will do, Gauss. I suspected you'd reply to this one
I'm planning to try and do one a day until I run out of sketchbook pages. I definitely need to work on my brush technique, it looks really messy at the moment, strokes often not following the form, and paint buildup where it shouldn't be... but as I say, I'm pretty new to oils
el pig the ankylosaur and the boxers (i love the sort of grungi/spookiness about the shading and the eyes..) and damn incredible, keep that shit coming!
Well i guess I aint been to polyount since the forum died so i lost my details etc, nevermind. Some great stuff in this thread, inspiring as always. Keep it up peeps!
Dang Killing, you are just too good. Do some happy stuff now tho.
Ultra, is that a biker mice from mars character? I loke his gun, the crotch area seems wierd tho. Not that I am staring at his crotch.
Cep, I love your paintings, you just need to FINISH A DAG ON SKIN YOU HOMO.
Echelon, nice linework, but try to get some more forms in there.
Rorshach, where did this one come from? Its leaps and bounds better than the last few paints you been posting. I particularly like the blue in the shadows of the skin, and the nice transitory colors of the torso and face. The SSS is killer. If this is meant to be a SP, you aren't in that good of shape still are yeh? 8-)
Vahl, pump up that contrast. Make some of that yellow GLOW!
El_Pig, DANG THOSE ARE SOME NIPPLES! I love the texture on that anky. I think maybe you should try to push the forms some more digitally. he kind of blends together except for his back two legs.
Mop, I LOVE that painting. Very nice work from you. I didn't know there was that much tallent on the moon! 8-)
I like the froggy bosko, but I think he needs some darker values in there. He seems very washed out.
Lol at part. I am diggin the coloring on that machine/octopus.
Here is my contribution. Most of my sketches since the workshop. Sorry about the blurry quality. Had to take them with my digital camera.
this guy's supposed to be some characater on a funky speed wheel cheer with.. stuff.. dunno. may get around to doing him properly again, theres a lot more to him
I was going for a "bobo-esque" rendering style, Looked at the "Mobsta" for inspiration. I know it's a way off from that, but just so you know my intentions.
Poop: Thanks, but do you SERIOUSLY think that I'm posting the half naked reference shots I took of myself to prove what shape I may or may not be in? )
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Poop: Thanks, but do you SERIOUSLY think that I'm posting the half naked reference shots I took of myself to prove what shape I may or may not be in? )
NoSeRider: they all ... look the same. Yeah, they have slightly different proportions, but the way you're drawing them (the eyes, the cheekbones, the jaw etc.) is making them all look like members of the same family. If that was the intention, well done, but if the intent was to create different characters and different personalities, I think you have not done nearly as well as you could.
They all seem the same age, all have the same expression, all that really seems to be changing is the relative size of the nose, mouth and eyes. That's not how you design characters... that's just drawing the same character again and again.
Try doing an old guy with jowls instead of chiselled jaws and sunken cheekbones (like these guys all have), change the shape of the eyes, play around with expression.
Yes, these are well drawn, but no, they're not really "characters". They're too uniform. Not every guy has cheekbones like that, not every girl has lips like that. Try some variation.
Holy crap guys... this thread blows me away... There's just too much to comment on right now cause I don't want to leave anyone out but these just F'n rock...
I got out to the Dallas museum of art recently and did a little sketching in the galleries so here's a few I copied from the masters while I was there... I tried to jot down the names of the original artist's but I forgot to get the one of the girl in the middle...
This is based on a drawing I did a while ago. PS 8, 1h30, just for fun btw, my gf says it doesnt look very scary because it has no obvious eyes. I disagree because the suggested ones at the top of the 'head' freaks me out. Whatcho think?
decided to get in some practice. grabbed a couple images from my harddrive tried to duplicate them in PS.
first up was Emma Watson aka Hermione from Prisoner of Azkaban movie: ref
i need to work with color more and deciding on which parts to paint first. i even picked all my own colors instead of sampling from the ref.
then there was Colin Clive aka Dr Frankenstein in the classic Boris Karloff version: ref
i think i spent maybe an hour on Emma and half an hour on Frankenstein.
Asherr: in his WIP tutorial, promethius touches on something that might help with future studies of this kind.
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"Flatten and simplify
Work with larger brushes and remove unnecessary brushstrokes. See the bad and better example below. I really didn't do much on the second one. It's actually simplified. It's surprising how much a little flattening here and there can do. I did spend some extra time on the face though. A bad face can ruin everything. Image is from reference."
killing: yeah that tutorial is what caused me to do those two sketches/paintings. i just need to learn when to use what size brush is it better to use solid colored 100% opacity brushes or set the opacity lower 18-25% and build up the color?
i started with 100% opacity on the Emma sketch but the switched to a lower opacity later. the Frankenstein sketch i started with a black background and built up the form with a lower opacity white then went back and used a low opacity black brush to lower stuff that was too white.
maybe i should move these to their own thread since i was planning on doing a couple sketches like these a day...
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"I love 2 chew.."
Someone buy me a scanner...
Feels good to be painting again.
killingpeople: great face.
Rorshach: Excellent, one of my favourites from you yet.
anyhow, first post ever in a sketch thread, hope to make more when I'll have some time !
/jzero
I feel downright n00b-ish posting among you guys, but someday I shall reach that level! In the meantime...heres what I sketched during lecture today heh.
This is a concept pic of a model I will make soon, fear it's evilness.
Ralph Steadman influenced stuff:
Boxers
Ankylosaurus
Click on this image to get a larger version of the finished oil sketch.
The painting is quite small, only 10"x7", about. It's done in an oil sketch pad, thick canvas-textured paper. I used one brush for everything here.
MoP
Actually, it was looking at Sargent's oil paintings all of last night that kinda triggered it... heheh
I'm planning to try and do one a day until I run out of sketchbook pages. I definitely need to work on my brush technique, it looks really messy at the moment, strokes often not following the form, and paint buildup where it shouldn't be... but as I say, I'm pretty new to oils
My contribution.
Dang Killing, you are just too good. Do some happy stuff now tho.
Ultra, is that a biker mice from mars character? I loke his gun, the crotch area seems wierd tho. Not that I am staring at his crotch.
Cep, I love your paintings, you just need to FINISH A DAG ON SKIN YOU HOMO.
Echelon, nice linework, but try to get some more forms in there.
Rorshach, where did this one come from? Its leaps and bounds better than the last few paints you been posting. I particularly like the blue in the shadows of the skin, and the nice transitory colors of the torso and face. The SSS is killer. If this is meant to be a SP, you aren't in that good of shape still are yeh? 8-)
Vahl, pump up that contrast. Make some of that yellow GLOW!
El_Pig, DANG THOSE ARE SOME NIPPLES! I love the texture on that anky. I think maybe you should try to push the forms some more digitally. he kind of blends together except for his back two legs.
Mop, I LOVE that painting. Very nice work from you. I didn't know there was that much tallent on the moon! 8-)
I like the froggy bosko, but I think he needs some darker values in there. He seems very washed out.
Lol at part. I am diggin the coloring on that machine/octopus.
Here is my contribution. Most of my sketches since the workshop. Sorry about the blurry quality. Had to take them with my digital camera.
this guy's supposed to be some characater on a funky speed wheel cheer with.. stuff.. dunno. may get around to doing him properly again, theres a lot more to him
james ball
Poop: Thanks, but do you SERIOUSLY think that I'm posting the half naked reference shots I took of myself to prove what shape I may or may not be in?
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One can hope, can't he?
This is the guy that rides the robot/squid! (only rough)
I'm going to take a storyboard class in April. Thought it was time to practice my made up imaginary head drawing.
They all seem the same age, all have the same expression, all that really seems to be changing is the relative size of the nose, mouth and eyes. That's not how you design characters... that's just drawing the same character again and again.
Try doing an old guy with jowls instead of chiselled jaws and sunken cheekbones (like these guys all have), change the shape of the eyes, play around with expression.
Yes, these are well drawn, but no, they're not really "characters". They're too uniform. Not every guy has cheekbones like that, not every girl has lips like that. Try some variation.
MoP
I'm trying to find an idealized form.
I got out to the Dallas museum of art recently and did a little sketching in the galleries so here's a few I copied from the masters while I was there... I tried to jot down the names of the original artist's but I forgot to get the one of the girl in the middle...
[img]http://mypage.iu.edu/~daphipps/Images/power suit.png[/img]
ack arms are hard to do from that perspective. actually the perspective is probably totally off
http://members.shaw.ca/chadpearn/portfolio/dogshitc.jpg
http://members.shaw.ca/chadpearn/portfolio/dogshit3.jpg
I know the quality is crappy.
first up was Emma Watson aka Hermione from Prisoner of Azkaban movie:
ref
i need to work with color more and deciding on which parts to paint first. i even picked all my own colors instead of sampling from the ref.
then there was Colin Clive aka Dr Frankenstein in the classic Boris Karloff version:
ref
i think i spent maybe an hour on Emma and half an hour on Frankenstein.
in his WIP tutorial, promethius touches on something that might help with future studies of this kind.
[ QUOTE ]
"Flatten and simplify
Work with larger brushes and remove unnecessary brushstrokes. See the bad and better example below. I really didn't do much on the second one. It's actually simplified. It's surprising how much a little flattening here and there can do. I did spend some extra time on the face though. A bad face can ruin everything. Image is from reference."
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not sure where I'm going yet, but will model something once I find what it is.
i started with 100% opacity on the Emma sketch but the switched to a lower opacity later. the Frankenstein sketch i started with a black background and built up the form with a lower opacity white then went back and used a low opacity black brush to lower stuff that was too white.
maybe i should move these to their own thread since i was planning on doing a couple sketches like these a day...