Tom's Sketchbook laughs in the face of sexy danger

[rodriguez]

Ok well here goes nothing

This is so i can develop in all aspects but especially anatomy,lighting and composition so any advice will be greatly appreciated

Start with some of what I've done so far

[rodriguez]

some quick studys of old paintings and a couple o others

[rodriguez]

Hands study

A maybe chow sketch

and an older one

[Sorknes]

Nice gollum :p

Like your studies of the old paintings. Looks nice. Some of your own stuff looks a little lifeless and flat though. Add some more life and shadows, and remember the basic rules of cones, balls and cylinders when it comes to the human body

[rodriguez]

Sorknes Thanks for dropping by and for the advice

Here's a couple of anatomy study's
pencil on paper

soft pencils on textured paper

[rodriguez]

hey guys and gals


acyrlic stlll life

[LEVIATHIN816]

cool stuff good start the only thing i see is that you should work on your hands try drawing yours or your kids if you have any it works and helps but nice stuff though you are good at peoples faces keep it up

[rodriguez]

Thanks LEVIATHIN816 yeah hands are tough but i'm on it

this weeks Chow

Twilight isn't upon the land
Dusk falls into his hand
Cats and children play
Casually chasing the remains of the day
A whisper on a shadowy breeze
Look to him and your heart is sure to freeze
The Apple Gatherer comes for you

[SirGreenSock]

Youve got a good grasp of design and colour in these, but the digis are getting quite muddy in your blending. I think its primarily cause youre using brushes that are way too small, and making an uneccessarily scratchy blended look. Always try and use the biggest brush possible to define a plane or blend, why render something with 50 brushstrokes when you can do it more effectively with 5?
Other than that cg issue, youre on the right track!

[rodriguez]

Hey thanks a lot SirGreenSock hopefully some big brushes will make the difference

here's a couple of WIP

One for this weeks CHOW
A sort of rodent Lord of the Rings

and one just for fun

[rodriguez]

My Chow final

[Hellblaze123]

dude, i hope the admins dont get mad at me for saying this, but you fucking ROCK!!!

[rodriguez]

Thanks Hellblaze :-)

finished for now i think

[Christian223]

Nice progress. There are some problems with perspective in your last works, the girl and the room dont quite match in perspective, the hamsters dont match with their surroundings either, try doing some excersizes with perspective placing boxes, cilinders and spheres in different sizes, positions and angles. Perspective is really well explained in loomis books, if you care to look. Some things look kind of flat too, some faces of the hamsters for example, and the room in wich the girl is in, the two walls should have some differentiation in value, and not have so much contrast in them. Keep up the good work!.

[dadushin]

you took a big step with that last one

[rodriguez]

dadushin Thanks :-)


Christian223 i totally never noticed the perspective was off i'm reworking the background just now and perspective's on my long list of things to work on :-) Thanks

[rodriguez]

Further changes



and a quick self portrait



and a not so quick one



:-)

[rodriguez]

wip's for this weeks Chow

[rodriguez]

Chow Final reworked a smidge

[rodriguez]

Quick Christmas card designs



Pencil sketch

Forgot to post this

And 1 more

[rodriguez]

doodles

[rodriguez]

Character sketches

[rodriguez]

Self Portrait

[enthombed]

Hey Rodrigues, nice portrais and great progress you did bro.

keep posting

Cheers

[rodriguez]

Thanks a lot Enthombed

couple of johnny d's
one digi

pastels on purple paper

and work for this weeks Chow

[rodriguez]

Final for this weeks Chow

[rodriguez]

Hey everybody

2 acyrlic painting and 3 pencil drawings for ya

[rodriguez]

Update of my earlier painting

[rodriguez]

Update

Acrylic painting on canvas


Some nude studies

[rodriguez]

Another update