Mydrako's Sketchbook - On a Journey towards Mastery of the craft...

[Pixie Bergman]

beautiful life drawings! hehe the food poisoning angel cracks me up.

[SpaXe]

lol, Death playing PSP. Nice one!

[JS Neo]

Pixie Bergman Haa yah, i am trying to remember how art doesnt have to be so serious !! :p

Spaxe Well Sony is not paying me anything.. booohooo

Life drawing class this week is being cancelled.. I am a sad man... and i have been watch too much tv haaa... sooo here are the super little amount of drawing
Some Bridgeman...




My daily Sketches.. First week i manage to do every day !!
Random elf woman

More random woman, aztec influenced..

A queenly looking woman whom i probably dont want to be my queen.. if our country have one...

A tired looking swordman

Slaves? Poor dudes..

Character inspired by the book i am reading.. Didnt really get the feeling or look that i wanted but i tried

No idea how this come about ...

[hummel1dane]

Great stuff!! Don't watch tv - draw!!!!!

[Lyno]

Nice studies, I'm sorry to hear that those life drawings are cancelled. Next time, try to use the things you learned from your studies in your life drawings
Nice slaves , for the axe warrior, I think his head is a little bit too small. Nothing big though.

Keep it up !

[JS Neo]

hummel1dane Haa.. I am a sucker for medieval tv series.. I justify by saying i am doing research butwho am i kidding.. need to draw more !!

Lyno Thanks! I am quite satisfied with the slaves one too. Yah i agree the head is kinda small .. Think i went overboard with the superhero proportion...

Not so good week with me falling sick and so on...

Drawing from a sculpture

Some life drawing..



My Daily Sketches.. well not so daily this week... I totally cannot draw when I am sick...grrrr
Image inspired by Fortress of the Grey Ice by JV Jones

No idea where this come from.. Cat fetish? Lolz

Cat again ? Saw this cat sitting rather docilely in the middle of a walkway that morning.. Make me think of a hellish cat guarding the gates to hell.


My first watercolor attempt.. Epic failure and make me think I am painting like a 5 years old... Thats for not using a brush for... lets see 6 years? holy shit !


Drawn during meeting at work.. I shouldnt be doing it but i cant help it...

[JS Neo]

Funny SB didnt seems to think I posted a reply..

[mc2mc2]

heheh...meeting sketches are always good

Seriously I really love your life drawings. They're the best
Good description of form with light and shadow.

[Hammed Al-Tamimi]

Nice character designs. It looks like you are doing the right stuff to improve! Keep at it!

[danlambert]

Your figure/life drawings are great, some really dynamic gestures coming through, and you can see the difference they are making to your imagination stuff. Your faces are coming along great as well.
It looks like a lot of your work is reasonably quick, maybe try doing a few longer drawings/paintings every now and then. Will help you push values and improve rendering.
Oh, and good job on the meeting sketches!
Peace

[Pixie Bergman]

Love your life drawings! Daily sketches looks good too, very imaginative, keeep it up!!

[JS Neo]

mc2mc2 Thanks.. u are too kind.. I got a feeling ur life drawing is gonna be 50 times better than mine in a few months time...

Hammed Al-Tamimi Thanks for the encouragement. Design is one of my weakest aspect and I try to work my imagination daily.

danlambert Figure drawing is one of my passion. Just love the way the human body is constructed ! I have been working rather small and fast cos of lack of time per day i guess. Having a full time job really leave u with not much time at night though I feel lucky i dont really have overtime work at this job. I having been contemplating bigger and more complete work but I am still thinking abt it. But i probably wont be doing any huge color work. Concentrating on my drawing and studies and learning watercolor to learn my colors (cos watercolor is cheap ) Let see when I feel confident enough to move on to a full scale project

Pixie Bergman Thanks !! I say my imagination is still rather lacking. Not enough visual memory. Have to really work on that.

So here this week's crap.. No life drawing class this week again and not drawing much... Still recovering from cough... I did a watercolor which i think is so bad i decide not to show it !

Here is a master drawing from a russian artist.


Almost Daily Sketches
Tarzan with something to hide?

Something rather narnia-ish

Love those Canadian Rangers.. wait.. there are dinosaurs in Canada?

Wormy!

Probably a thief on the run... or someone late for work.


Went for a interesting my fren's school is holding. Drew some cosplayers, some artists drawing the cosplayers.

[shamandalie]

*looks at first page*
*looks at most recent page*
DUDE, look at your progress! Damn, it's awesome. Don't say that about your paints, it's a WIP. Looking at the way you are going, in a month or two, it will look a whole lot better.

So sorry Zal and i can't meet up today, we both got the bug. (And he still felt guilty for getting you sick the previous time. ) But in any case, we hope to see you soon!
Take care ya?

[JS Neo]

Thanks shamandalie I need to really work harder to attain the level i want to get to... It is gonna be a long journey but i will prevail....!!

Not gonna have any update this week cos i am lazy to take photos ... shall update next week....

[Sir Cam]

Like the guy a couple posts up, I can see definite improvement since the first page, very nice work. I noticed that there is a strong sense of solidity in your life drawings but not so much with your drawings done from memory. I think emphasizing the edges (where one plane turns into another) a little more would help it look more three dimensional. Just try to keep in mind where the closest edge to you in space is and make it more prominent (darker) than the receding edge which would basically be the on the outline. I guess that could be called atmospheric perspective. Hope this helps, good luck with your work.

[JeanShade]

Heya.

Yes you will prevail! Great studies, keep it up man.

Something I noticed is that the hands are looking a little stiff in some of your imaginative works, also the size of it is off sometimes. vary the bends in the fingers and thin out the lines a little.

More More!

[JeanShade]

Heya.

Yes you will prevail! Great studies, keep it up man.

Something I noticed is that the hands are looking a little stiff in some of your imaginative works, also the size of it is off sometimes. vary the bends in the fingers and thin out the lines a little.

More More!

[Lyno]

Hiii , your stuff is getting better and better, love the master drawing, great stuff.
Hard work is the key to success !

[JS Neo]

Sir Cam Thanks!!.. I also notice that too. I somehow draw differently when i am drawing big versus when I am drawing small. For my life drawing, I seems to be more free in my strokes while in my imagination drawing, I am drawing small and I feel somehow very cumbersome. Not sure if thats the reason. But I will try to work on smaller pieces maybe to get used to it.

JeanShade Thanks dude... Not good at drawing hands.. They are tough!!.. I will work on them more...

Lyno Thanks !!.. I believe the only way to proficiency is through effort...

Busy two weeks. Didnt have a lot of time per night to really work on anything. So here is the pathetic dump....

Some crappy life drawing.. I cant draw small



Master copy of Repin's work. He is a master !!

Master copy of Henry Yan's drawing. Done in vine charcoal. Another crazy master. Going to draw more from his book....

Some work from another life drawing session. The instructor suggested we try reductionist technique. I am not familiar with such technique so hence the crappy result.



More super undaily Sketches. I am sooooo slow in drawing.... So here is two pathetic drawing.. My series of orc domestic lifestyle..

[JS Neo]

Didnt do much this week. My mum's taken ill and I have to take care of her and the house. Totally leave me with no energy after everything but family's important. Manage to did some drawing during a portrait session

Trying some new technique taught by a visiting art instructor in our company. Pretty interesting but I still havent get the hang of it

Some portrait using my usual technique (which sux !)


Somehow that day I was drawing soooo slowly... didnt even manage to get to the rendering stage

Totally didnt have time to do my daily sketch. Here is one i manage to squeeze in. Ongoing orc series. No idea why I am drawing orcs but what the heck. Just want to add.. i hate photographing graphite drawings.. They are so shiny O_O

[Sirkenneth]

hey man, thanks for swinging by my book! I like what you have going on. Keep rocking the life drawing stuff-its really valuable! Also-study head construction and general anatomy. That will give strength to your figures. Gotfried Bammes (sp?) is a German guy who has a book you can D/L online that goes into it very well. You cant read it-but just look at the pictures!
Keep it up!

[JS Neo]

Sirkenneth Thanks for dropping in too... Have the ebook but i hate drawing from images on the computer haa.. Got some chinese book on russian drawings. I found the style very similar to bammes. so i guess i will study that instead

Update from this week and some from last week which i didnt upload. Currently, different style is pulling my pants here and there.. realistic rendering, expressive tonal drawing, awesome linework... finding them all fascinating.. wonder if i can find my own voice among them....

Did a master copy of a page from a book on russian structural anatomy drawing. Will be doing more of these studies.


Master copy of Henry Yan' head studies.


A cool artist John Mahoney is teaching some classes in my studio. Trying out some of the techniques he is introducing to us.






Cafe drawings. First page is half from long ago and only those blue drawings are from the cafe sketch session. As u can see i took a loooongg time to fill up the page so the subject matter are totally incoherent and non-thematic. and i think i tried too hard to filled up every corner of the page, resulting in a ugly clutter...

[Ito Saith Webb]

Well what can I say but your stuff rocks and your are a few levels well ahead of me. The only thing I might say is do more sketches in just pen and pen alone because I have been learning that is is a great way to learn how to commit to line as well as live with mistakes that you can learn from later.

[Sirkenneth]

Last update is SICK! Keep doing that. I like the russian studies, and the cafe drawing is going well. Make sure to nail those proportions and what now- if not just try and find the gesture of the pose!

[JS Neo]

Ito Saith Webb Thanks for the compliment. I totally like the feel of using pen and its directness. I almost always use pen for cafe sketching, as a way of training my confidence with my strokes.

Sirkenneth Thanks !! I tend to be very slow in drawing so I will always goes for the people who will be sitting there for a long time ...

So lets start with a drapery study of Leonardo's work. He is really really amazing and i learn alot from copying his work

This week's Cafe drawing.



My ongoing ridiculous orc drawings
Spiritual Orc?

More spirituality?

[shamandalie]

LOL!! Spiritual orc!! WAHAHAHAHA
Dude, the emptiness of the center of your sketchie makes me laugh. *neo's trademark.*
Take your time when drawing,so it will be less sketchy.
KEEP IT GOINGGGGG

[JS Neo]

shamandalie Lolz i am trying to fill up the black hole

Not a lot this week...
Here is my ongoing study of the russian drawing book... Gonna take a lonnng time with the rate I am going at

My other ongoing venture into watercolor. Follow a tutorial. The sky turn out crappy as hell.. lolz..

Sat sketch session. Fun one. Blatantly trying out Zord's drawing style in front of him. Sorry dude Also trying out ink and wash.

[JS Neo]

Minor update this week..

A Henry Yan charcoal study


A Rembrant ink study.

[reme]

nice nice, i wish i have ur determination to do so much studies haha!

[AztcFireFlower]

Mydrako,
It is always worth even a tiny drawing amount, it all adds up.
Some nice Master studies. I think one of the things that will help push you forward is structure...the hard box that all the soft muscles are sitting on. In some of your drawings of the face, the front is the side, there is no clear separation of planes. In your Henry Yan copies there is strong sense of bone as well as flesh. That bone structure describes the planes. Think in terms of a box with 4 sides, a top and bottom. Look at Bridgeman heads. Simple blocks without features.

I like what you're doing. Keep adding knowledge to your mileage.