shumizu's lazy sketchbook - but its getting better!

**shumizu** · September 30th, 2007, 12:29 PM

hmm, okey?...

**shumizu** · October 1st, 2007, 05:33 PM

and yeah please tell me if the pictures dont looks good, qualitative.
because my screen is a little bit broken... Thanks guys.

**shumizu** · October 4th, 2007, 01:02 PM

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**wanimal** · October 5th, 2007, 03:02 PM

i really like ur color !!!!

**shumizu** · October 17th, 2007, 03:00 PM

some new sketches from yesterday...

**Whitevillage** · October 17th, 2007, 04:33 PM

Inspiring sketchbook. Great way of using sculpting for your studies, also digging your acryllic speed paintings.

**shumizu** · October 18th, 2007, 02:35 PM

some five minute studies

**shumizu** · October 18th, 2007, 02:49 PM

more from today

**shumizu** · January 16th, 2008, 02:13 PM

Well, last full weekend i worked on this comic for a competition. Was really hart to fix a comic at a weekend from new. There should be three pages, but i was in trouble and had to send it by post. When i got it back i sure will show u the whole comic. This pic is just a little sketch. hope u will like it...
( ok.you know, i´m bad in english, still hope there aren´t too much mistakes... :/ )

**gustavo desimone** · January 16th, 2008, 05:24 PM

very good

**shumizu** · February 12th, 2008, 07:00 AM

This is a work from school...

**shumizu** · February 29th, 2008, 06:16 PM

at last i started to draw afresh again... i always feel so unsure at the first sketch...
well there are some and i hope you will like it...

**shumizu** · February 29th, 2008, 06:22 PM

there i tried to draw without to front, i wanted to draw plane (shadows and lighter)

**shumizu** · March 16th, 2008, 05:02 PM

well i changed some little things on this older painting... i know, the face is still not good... but i think its better than before. And i think i will add shadow on the base or more background tune.

**xysdf** · March 16th, 2008, 06:41 PM

great sense of tone & the lines of this series is really interresting to watch!
current week points in my eyes are proportions and faces, doing lots (100000... kidding) of studys will fix that. make up a technique with few lines as possible to be able to too lets say 10-15 figure studys in a hour and you may get the experience in a fast run. doing that for some time will also give you a good foundation for getting in a relaxed & good mood for drawing and to be able to not loose the feeling. blablabla
greeetz from austria

keep drawing - great sketchbook!

**shumizu** · April 18th, 2008, 02:30 PM

well this are some sketches from the study trip in Berlin last month. tried first time something with watercolor.

**shumizu** · April 18th, 2008, 02:48 PM

15-20 minutes studies

**shumizu** · April 25th, 2008, 01:42 PM

I dont know... how can i get a stronger expression in my drawings? I´m not very contented with them now...

**stone.** · May 7th, 2008, 10:56 AM

great work... dont like the digital stuff, but thats just my personal taste...

the studies are getting really good!

keep it up

**shumizu** · May 14th, 2008, 03:44 PM

These are some Photos from Berlin. There we were in a old, little village, meaby in a russian boarding school or something like that. It was a locked premises and we had to climb over a wall. I´ve never seen something like this before. This day made just fun.
Hope you like the Photos.

**shumizu** · July 12th, 2008, 05:35 PM

Finally i got my competition-comic back. I posted a little preview a while ago. The theme for this year was climate. I got no price but i`m nominated. I think this is a good move for my attitude. I think the "message" is very easy to understand. I hope you like my first comic.
(ps: i`m sure there are a lot of mistakes in this text.)

**shumizu** · September 5th, 2008, 02:54 PM

I think i really should begin to draw seriously. I mean my sketches aren´t very concrete...

**shumizu** · November 26th, 2008, 05:23 PM

Yes!!! Ive got a Wacom now.

A simply nude for beginning. I dont think its bad for the first try. I dont know how to draw transition optimal... im still very halting.

How do you choose colours and the ratio between the colours?
Do you mix it after schematic or just feeling?

Please help me to understand...
( Ok... i know... I must mention it again, sorry for my english... ) :/

**bbwolf** · December 1st, 2008, 01:25 PM

Just checking the last posts. I hope you thought of gettign texture shots from the abondoned russian bording school. Great for making brushes and spicing up yer photoshop in general.

I don´t really understand the question on colors.
You can create your own color schemes or use other ppl schemes.

A neat trick is to take a picture you like for its colors to photoshop.
Filter/Mosaik/ and then tweak the cell size untill there are only a few left and save. Voila: a color scheme.

Okay, that´s a little over the top but the concept should be clear now.

If that wasn´t your question, post it in german and I might be able to help.

keep it up

Wolf

**shumizu** · December 5th, 2008, 02:54 PM

bbwolf - Well, I’m still trying to write in English. Because I have to keep it up.
Thanks for remember me that you can create brushes by your own. I totally forgot you could do this in PS.

Yes, it wasn’t really my question, but still thanks. Yeah sure, why not to get inspired by colour schemes from photos...
But I would like to explain my question. It is not the problem how to get colours from other pictures. Its more, how you get the colours schemes from your mind. Sure, getting colours from photos is one method. But I want to know what the best way is to mix and keep the colour in the right ratio…
Are you taking the colours from the colour field in PS without mixing? - This would be like more from sense.
Or do you mix the colour after schema? (See what I’m trying on the pictures)
Oh man! It’s so difficult to explain…
I mean there is the colour from an object, there comes colour from a light source and there is the shadow, which is also colour that swayed by other light source. Right? : /
So you have three colours (in this example) that interact.

And my question is: How do you mix them and bring them in the right ratio?

For me, I create balls in Cinema 4D and take the colour with the pipette. But I more want to know how to mix them like real colour (oil paint).
See the following pictures… I hope they explain better and show how I’m thinking about colour and light…

**bbwolf** · December 5th, 2008, 03:37 PM

I think you´re on the right track but trying too hard. The technical approach is sound thou. Often it´s more a feel and, well, experience and reference.

Personally I try to think about the existing colors I have in the picture and the light and apply what I learned about how the colors affect each other (not so much really). Radiosity and bounce light and stuff. There are some great tutorials here. They´re just a search away, prolly in the EDUCATION & LEARNING section. There you can see how colors progress. I am sorry I can´t give a direct link but my old bookmarks recently went bad.

And don´t care too much of maybe getting it wrong. It´s just another exercise. Some cool concepts spring from "wrong" pictures.

I just pick the color of, say the floor, and then paint with an opacity controlling, preasure sensitve brush onto the area of the object that is influenced by the backbouncing light from the floor onto the object.

Einfallswinkel = Ausfallwinkel

Then it´s a simple question of "how much" depending onto the intensity of the light aaand it´s color. Having painted this on it´s own layer I can reduce, duplicate, multiply, blur, filter andwhatnot too.

Hope that helps.
Cheers.

Wolf

**shumizu** · December 6th, 2008, 05:38 PM

There is another example that i made to understand how the colors interact.
Well i think I undertand more and more...

bbwolf - Yeah, you're right... I really should paint with more senses. I think I clench myself too much.

So i will do more of colour experiences and practices.

**sparsons** · December 6th, 2008, 06:25 PM

I would love to see you push your drawings. I see a lot of good work here and potential. You have a lot of talent for just really starting, draw much more! Good luck!

**shumizu** · December 27th, 2008, 08:16 PM

sparsons -- thanks!!! Your words are truly nice! ; )

So this is my newest painting im working on, its not finished yet. And after a lot of colour studies i thought it would be a great idea to draw -

I'm still not satisfied... but i'm think its a good start for the time being. I will put more interacting lighter in the pakground soon.

**bbwolf** · December 28th, 2008, 12:50 PM

nice studies. Something actually clicked for me looking at the last ball where the lightsources overlapp on the ball. Of course it´s additive colormixture like on a screen. d´oh. How can something so simple evade me for all this time. Thanks.

Good going with the last study but I think you shouldn´t seperate background and characters while working. You should have both present, not neccesarily on the dsame layer but in the same file/canvas.