Polycount's Sketch Thread!

STRIKER · Feb 2012

We'll start by just drawing a piece everyday, and it can be digital or traditional. Then we'll start to work in some sweet themes to challenge ourselfs! ex. robots, chicks etc.

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Daew · Aug 2014

awesome studies makkon!

Makkon · Aug 2014

Thanks man! I'm really rusty, going to try and make it a daily thing if I can.

This really is a great place to loosen up. http://www.quickposes.com/pages/challenges
It's good to do this on a tablet, because I am much stiffer on a tablet than my sketchbook.

Valerien · Aug 2014

Oh my! Makkon, these ladies look beautiful

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Twoflower · Aug 2014

30min speedpaint. Skeleton Lord

tda · Aug 2014

Gorgeous makkon! That one from yesterday was new masters academy right? I recognise those gals

. How long do you put into each of these poses?

A few recent pages from me and an imagination poop

Zaphiron · Aug 2014

Went from drawing aliens to a sharksoldier.

E_ensey · Aug 2014

Hey everyone. lots of awesome, inspirational stuff here. Here is another one from me. Very WIP, I'm still trying to get a handle on Photoshop. let me know what you all think, i would greatly appreciate the advice. Thanks

Royzy · Aug 2014

Did studies as I read/worked through Eliot Goldfinger's Human Anatomy for Artists.

Full image here (it's quite long): http://i.imgur.com/KGfyGse.jpg

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Defunct · Aug 2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6gsxcCa5zU

premium · Aug 2014

Made theese tonight.

MagicSugar · Aug 2014

Michelangelo · Sep 2014

Hi guys, here goes my round of sketches I'v done today:

War.ren · Sep 2014

[Hey there!
I have been lurking around the site a bit and thought I should finally join and post something.

Muzzoid · Sep 2014

Sunday night sketching.

Trying out some new inking brushes in ps.

bola · Sep 2014

Another quickish painting:

moof · Sep 2014

daemoria · Sep 2014

Damnit Moof, I am so envious of your skills. I love the new design! Both of the mech and girl.

Daven · Sep 2014

Moof holy fuck...

wizo · Sep 2014

dayyyuuummm you guys are killing it!

Gnashed · Sep 2014

A few studies, 20 min each!

Sharvo · Sep 2014

Speedpaints, maybe? 45mins-1hour spent on these I still need to speed up my process, but this is my first attempt at doing some speedpaints after watching a tutorial... nothing major, but I think its a good start.

Speed

Saf · Sep 2014

15-20 min

Twoflower · Sep 2014

Awesome stuff Daven and moof

MagicSugar · Sep 2014

Makkon · Sep 2014

Cheers, tda! The gestures usually take about 30-45 seconds, but I always come back to tighten up and finish the gesture afterward, usually about 5 mins in total. I'm getting faster, just a bit out of practice.

Daven: HHHHHHHHOOOLLLYY PISS that's an amazing character concept. Design wise, and execution.

Some recent character sketches, dinking around with stories and such. More information on them on my tumblr. http://tmblr.co/ZrZZpw1QnBxrn

This one is unrelated
[ing]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5301613/2014/09-14-2014_avatar_dakota.png[/img]

Olovander · Sep 2014

Cool stuff, Makkon!

wizo · Sep 2014

Makkon · Sep 2014

Thanks Olovander!

Keepin busy

Makkon · Sep 2014

And another. Cloth is starting to make a little more sense to me

Gnashed · Sep 2014

Great stuff everyone!

Zorn study..

Makkon · Sep 2014

Great study, Gnashed!

I don't know if everyone is sick of these characters yet, but here's a study I did of Puckette. A more fleshed out version of the outfit to come after some research on bracers and stuff.

bola · Sep 2014

Crazy stuff guys!

@Makkon: Could you (or anyone) please recommend a good resource for some gesture drawing theory? Specifically about splitting up the body into a collection of forms, as it were.

30 min speedy:

Makkon · Sep 2014

Bloa: hmm, something like this has helped me
http://www.pinterest.com/characterdesigh/

And proko is a great resource for understanding how to figure draw
https://www.youtube.com/user/ProkoTV

Otherwise just a lot of observation from drawing the figure a lot. I use Quickposes.
http://www.quickposes.com/pages/challenges

bola · Sep 2014

Thanks, Makkon! Time to study

Makkon · Sep 2014

Any time, dude.

A study of this sculpture:
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/500110733594476315/
maybe color was a bad idea.

Sali · Sep 2014

Makkon

Saw those sketches on artstation - pretty neat stuff, man!

Makkon · Sep 2014

Thanks, man! I really appreciate it

Some studies and doodles.
Also, here's the brushes that I used for this and a few previous sketches, just 2 brushes. Use the with 100% opacity, and 10-25% flow. The first brush has a hard edge and a soft edge, use if for lines and for shading.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5301613/Brushes/Makkon_sketchingBrushes.abr

Two Listen · Sep 2014

Something I've been curious about Makkon, how long does it take you to do one of these character sketches? Like the last one in your last post, as a random example? They seem super clean, like you don't need to do much in the way of erasing/cover up, but given the amount of actual lines I can't imagine that to take more than like, 10-20 minutes, color included?

Is that about right or is there a lot of redoing/erasing/cleanup magic that's not evident in the show-worthy versions?

Makkon · Sep 2014

Yeah, that's about right. Though sometimes I do some erasing of construction lines, and other times I just have a gesture underneath that I draw over. But they also look clean because the color layer underneath was put in from the polygon lasso tool, so I don't get fuzzy edges from the character's shape.