Goremageddon´s sketchbook...NUDE Drawing.Let´s see how it goes.

[Goremageddon]

Hello to all.

My name is Hugo, I´m 27 years old, I´m from Portugal, but I´m currently living in the Czech Republic, in Prague.

I´ve drawn since I know myself, but for some reason I always struggled to become better...When I was a teenager I was lazy so I would just copy other artists, and the fact that I never had art classes before didn´t really help. I would get home and not have a method or discipline to follow.
The fact that I work in a call center doesn´t really help moneywise, so I only started going to a weekly nude drawing class a few weeks ago. Meanwhile my company gave us Ipads, so I´m trying to learn a bit of digital painting by myself. Bought a pen for the Ipad and I´m trying my best.

I would really love if anyone would offer themselves to mentor me..I feel that I could probably have a chance in arts if I had someone to guide me through it.

My object is to one day paint with oils in the style of the classic painters, Raphael being my one true art hero. (I know I´ll never be a single bit as good as him, but I wanna work for it).

SO here´s a couple of stuff I´ve been doing lately.

Please guide me and critic my work as much as possible if you can, because I would really like to become good.
I would show you some finished works first nd then start posting sketches, including sketches taken from the nude drawing class.

(Sorry in advance for the pictures they were taken with a friend´s phone.)

This was my first charcoal adventure ever..I was quite happy at the time (1 year ago) but now I see a lot of flaws
http://conceptart.org/forums/attachm...&thumb=1&stc=1


A month ago I bought a 1 euro set of watercolours and tried to find out how the medium works. It´s quite cool, barely any room for mistakes...Painting over dried paint doesn´t work
http://conceptart.org/forums/asset.p...7&d=1352403534

Lately I´ve been doing a ton of 30 second sketches when I´m not on the phone at work...I believe this is called gesture drawing?
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Today while receiving a complaint of a customer on the phone I did a 30 minute (that´s how long the call took) study of a coffee cup. I think the angle of the body isn´t right though..
http://conceptart.org/forums/attachm...&thumb=1&stc=1

Here´s two 30 minute studies of an apple and a mango on Procreate.
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[Goremageddon]

Here´s a couple of sketches from my nude drawing classes. First class I wento to the model didn´t show up so we ended up drawing a sculpture of a skull from life. I attached a mechanical pencil to the image just to give you a comparison of the scale I´m drawing at.
Most drawings are 20 minutes long, the skull is 60 minutes..

[Goremageddon]

And a frustrated attempt at doing a coffee cup from life on the Ipad..Work in Progress..Super Frustrating. Not happy at all Any tips on everything are welcome.

[Goremageddon]

Here´s a couple more drawings from today at work. My mouse and a plant that I got right over me. WOuld love it if anyone can give a bit of input if possible.

[Goremageddon]

Anybody? I have the drawing class tonight so hopefully I will post more things.

[Taha-023]

I really like the first 3 pieces man, that Kimbo slice sketch got me hooked badass sketch dude. What did you use to create it beside paper?

The piranha is really awsome to, first time i viewed it yesterday or so i thought the lightswitch was a real one to switch on light behind it or so haha well done man.

gr, Taha

[Goremageddon]

I really like the first 3 pieces man, that Kimbo slice sketch got me hooked badass sketch dude. What did you use to create it beside paper?

The piranha is really awsome to, first time i viewed it yesterday or so i thought the lightswitch was a real one to switch on light behind it or so haha well done man.

gr, Taha

Hey Taha-023 thanks a lot for posting here. Kimbo was done with charcoal only. It was my first attempt. I was pretty happy at the time. The fish is my first try with watercolors took me about 2 weeks to finish - 1 to 2 hours a day everyday.
Feel free to criticize which ever drawings. I need to work a lot on anatomy.

[Goremageddon]

A little random thingy I didat work today. Makes me laugh..Don´t know why...

[Goremageddon]

Really bad drawing class today..The teacher came to me..looked at my second drawing and didn´t say anything..He always says something..I don´t know..2 hours for two drawings..The first one has a huge torso... the second one no foreshortening at all...MAJOR FAIL Frustration surrounds me lately...

[Goremageddon]

Couldn´t go to bet without some 60 second poses study...

[Goremageddon]

Here´s a few more things. Like I said. Comment as much as you want please.

An oldie. Some cartoon characters...


Some sketches...


And a study from a picture.

[Raymond Luk]

Like what you're doing with that first batch of gestures, very clean
Second batch, try to draw more quickly! Get the gesture right and theeeen shade :0 Also, like what you'e doing with the guidelines, but keep it light untill you have it right Second drawing actually looks pretty good, but if you have time, work the face too xD

Keep doing those studies! More nude babes 8D
Also a note for the 60 second poses: Looks like you're using a lot of time going around in circles with your pen/pencil, try getting the shape in lightly with one or two lines (torso, head, etc) then use that extra time instead to define a few contour lines around it (the actual body parts like muscles and stuff)

Much luck!

[Goremageddon]

Thank you so much for your advice. I will definitely try to get better on the gesture drawing and I will try to do as you say and start getting contour lines. One of my biggest issues is mainly with the legs..I don´t know why but i always seem to draw them bigger than what they are in reality... And it always seems like they dont have the same flow as the rest of the body position.
But I won´t quit and iwill keep on drawing a little bit everyday. by the way your SB is awesome

[Goremageddon]

Like what you're doing with that first batch of gestures, very clean
Second batch, try to draw more quickly! Get the gesture right and theeeen shade :0 Also, like what you'e doing with the guidelines, but keep it light untill you have it right Second drawing actually looks pretty good, but if you have time, work the face too xD

Keep doing those studies! More nude babes 8D
Also a note for the 60 second poses: Looks like you're using a lot of time going around in circles with your pen/pencil, try getting the shape in lightly with one or two lines (torso, head, etc) then use that extra time instead to define a few contour lines around it (the actual body parts like muscles and stuff)

Much luck!

Thanks for the tips Raymond Luk. This is what I came up with for today. Reduced the 30 second poses to lines. It´s much faster and it still conveys the motion.



Then I did a few 60 second poses trying to get some contours in.


The are 60 seconds as well butwith a pencil...and a ba d picture with a bad camera :X

[Goremageddon]

Just started a new digital attempt at a picture...let´s see how it will go.

[Goremageddon]

A few more 30 second poses for today..

[Goremageddon]

Promised myself I would draw at least 30 minutes everyday to see how much I´ll improve.
Some attempts at perspective...
View from inside the tram towards the way out..


Street band from the back


Finally view from a cafe where I was.


30 minute sketch of my girl´s face. (no I don´t paint my nails...it´s my girl´s nails )

[Lakai]

"Lakai, can I ask a question? When you do those digital studies of movie frames, do you have the movie frame underneath and you just study the colours or do you do it from scratch while looking at the picture? Sorry for the noob question"
Im not sure if I really understand the question.

Here iss how i do them:
1. copy paste the picture in ps
2. estimate the proportion of the frame and make a mask on a different layer so i cant draw over the borders.
3. sometimes i do a rough sketch before i start blocking in the colors.
4. block in the basic colors and shapes.
5. refine

[Raymond Luk]

You're definitely getting faster with those 30 second gestures, and liking that sketch of the girl
Pretty much, drawing from life is what a sketchbook is there for 8D Keep it up!

Hmm, as for mentoring, come join our study group :0 http://conceptart.org/forums/showthr...-Support-Group
We work on a different area of study each week

[Goremageddon]

Lakai, thank you very much.

You're definitely getting faster with those 30 second gestures, and liking that sketch of the girl
Pretty much, drawing from life is what a sketchbook is there for 8D Keep it up!

Hmm, as for mentoring, come join our study group :0 http://conceptart.org/forums/showthr...-Support-Group
We work on a different area of study each week

I´ll definitely join you guys THank you.

[fireblade]

Hey man good to see you are putting in a lot of work.

I'm kind of in a similar boat, I've got a regular job to pay the bills and just trying to get better with my art skills. Although I do some freelance work here and there (not much though).

The first attempt at the charcoals is pretty good, I could tell straight away that it's Kimbo Slice, although he is pretty distinctive I guess

[Goremageddon]

Hi Fireblade thanks a lot for posting here. I definitely need a hand with a lot of noob mistakes I guess...But I´m doing my best and trying to practice everyday..Even during working hours

[Matthias Kinnigkeit]

Hey Goremageddon! I read your post in the mentoring thread. I think Im by myself not qualified enough to give you a good mentoring but dont forget that reallity is the best mentor that you can get. When you do some anatomy studies for example and you are not satisfied with the result just try to understand your mistakes instead of getting frustrated and just putting it away. If you cant see it with bare eyes try to make a grid. This will maybe make you notice some proportional mistakes or some mistakes of the shapes that you can try to do better in the next. You do well to work with reference! It is a really essential thing, particulary at the beginning to have a continous improvement. I didnt do and I wasted a hell lot of time. So try to fight your frustration and try to understand your mistakes and how things work in reallity. Its really good by the way that you try to figure out the gestures and the body itself by using simple shapes. Thats in my opinion the best way. First you study the simple shapes and then by time when you get your proportions straight you get continously more refind. Here are two youtube channels that you could give a look at if you dont know them yet:
http://www.youtube.com/user/Sycra
http://www.youtube.com/user/prokotv
Good luck and keep it up!

[Goremageddon]

Hey guys... It´s been a long time... They blocked concept art in my office..so I have less time to come here... Meanwhile I started drawing everyday on my sktechbook and a few weeks ago I did my first oil painting ever. I must admit I am incredibly happy with it.
This is a copy of Sean Cheetham´s painting that I absolutely love.
http://pencilorbrushnorush.deviantar...rt/1-358223586
Two days ago I bought a set of 3 mini canvas (20x20 cm) and decided to do an alla prima painting of a still life...Loved the experience will definitely continue.
http://pencilorbrushnorush.deviantar...ushnorush&qo=1
And then the last one.
http://pencilorbrushnorush.deviantar...rlic-359880385

[Goremageddon]

Once again away, but didn´t stop drawing
A drawing a day keeps your mind away..I think

Here´s an image of my sketchbook, tips are welcome as usual. Tried going for a fantasy figure out of my imagination.

http://pencilorbrushnorush.deviantar...book-370632007