Drawing myself a future.. !

[SkyTheArtist]

Hey!

You are amazing with the animals. I'm really impressed. I especially like your paintings. Very lively!

You seem to be getting better in general anatomy too, but just in case, I'd work on it a little more. Try to get out of the Manga/Anime style even for just a day, and try some realism/still life. I'd really like to see some from you.

Keep on drawing!

[fucduck]

your coloring is really ok, but you should do some real anatomy practice
I know it is hard but helps lots

[catukas]

hehe.. i still need a lots of practise...

thanks for commenting =)

Latest sketch done in open canvas:

[catukas]

heya !

[catukas]

i should name my sketchbook to a scrapbook.

[Kiera]

whoaw, you improved a lot over the sketchbook!
You have a good feeling for color and I like your lines :3

One point where you could improve easily are faces: at the moment your faces often lean to one side/are distorted and the features float on the face instead of being 3dimensional objects on a 3d plane.
You can improve this by drawing portraits (from life is better than from photos) and by reading Loomi's drawing the head and hands which is freely available online

[catukas]

thank you , this comment gives me motivation


Tiger picture done with acrylics (this is my second time drawing with acrylics)
Used a ref. picture of course.
And original looks much better Not really satisfied how this came out, but i'll do better next time!

[catukas]

something motivated me to draw different poses from posemaniacs.com...
tried to draw as fast as i could...

[catukas]

and some more
(posemaniacs and characterdesign)

[catukas]

ok, this is all for today

[Elisabet Y.A.]

I'm really relieved to see you doing life studies! I started out with manga when I was your age (and younger) and today I definately regret it. It really put me five paces behind and made progress alot slower than if I had just drawn from life/reference.

I've seen some great improvement in your work! The animal drawings you do are really good, I myself have never gotten the hang of drawing animals

Keep going!

[catukas]

Thank you skapanorn
I think i just got tired of drawing manga, i was never really satisfied with my pictures... and looking how good someone draws made me more sad than i already was,and i knew what to do to get to the level that those artists are i admire.

I started drawing when i was just a little child. I was fond of animals (still am)... and tried to draw them from books... or my own cat ...

[catukas]

life studies are good... but sometimes i got the feeling i need to draw something else.
Yesterday i had the mood to draw in anime/manga style

[catukas]

added colors

[zedkhov]

Hi Cätlyn

You are very talented for such a young age. I can see you have a gift and wanted to say don't squander it. Continue refineing your technique and going to art classes and learning all you can, you could find a a job in many industries with some formal training once grade school is complete because you clearly have an eye for art.

That said, don't stop practicing and keep posting here!

cheers,

Z

[catukas]

thank you zedkhov !!!
School and exams are over!!! yay.
my mother pleased me to draw a birthday card for her sister.
used acrylics and gouache colors:

[catukas]

Some OLD unfinished pictures i forgot to upload here (now back to life studies) :

[catukas]

today i forced myself to draw from posemaniacs.... thought i actually didn't have no mood to draw.

[catukas]

some more life drawings

[xinranliu]

I think you need to work on your line quality. Keep going.

[AsaB]

Hey, I remember you! Nice seeing you back here in the game. Good studies, keep this up!

[catukas]

Thank you AsaB and Ronald Liu!
something from imagination:

[catukas]

continued painting my last sketch:

[catukas]

that's all for today.

[Scanadensis]

I didn't check to see if anyone else mentioned this already or not so bear with me, but I have some tips for your shading. Add in the compliment of whatever color (say you are using a reddish brown.. you would add it's compliment: a bluish color) but darken and desaturate it a bit. It just looks more realistic and gives more depth and interest.

To keep your anatomy in line (literally!) try lining things up with a ruler. For example, if drawing from a model or a picture, hold up your pencil and see how things line up along it, then make sure they line up that way in your drawing too. Do it horizontally and vertically. If you get in the habit, it helps. I'm working on that myself

Nice stuff so far though~

[catukas]

Scanadensis- Thank you for those good tips!!!!!

posemaniacs.com :

[catukas]

sketch in progress.
little description:
Her name is Rainbow, she has big ears and fluffy tail, also she has has a wing with rainbow colors .

[catukas]

doing lineart,
what do you think about it? :

[catukas]

so many errors... trying to fix it

[catukas]

doing it for a contest... looks much better, don't ya think?