at the crossroads

[Philipp Scherer]

thank you
in the last days i had to learn for theoretical driver-licence exam, i passed today just had the time for this short still live, i´m not happy with it, i know i can do that better. i don´t like the colours, especially the green, but well, needs time to get an eye for colour.
good night, here´s the still life

[Jesus Food]

yea man i love western stuff too, like ol dusty shootists and such. nice sketchbook dude, i can see ur improvements

[Emil_J.]

Congratulation on the driving exam . I really like your pencil work, the lines are very fluent and lively.
And yea color is a tricky thing, im trying to learn it myself at the moment, so i cant really give you any good advise - the only thing i can say is keep practicing and have fun while you are doing it

Cheers!

[Eiki]

Hey you really work hard! You started your sketchbook here just 3 weeks earlier I started mine, but you have worked 4 times more than I did ... So its just deserver that you have improved so much! Keep working so hard and you will do great!

Und ich muss mich mal ranhalten, dass ich hier nicht den Anschluss verliere Der Thread hier ist echt motivierend

[ajvenema]

yo dude! you stay busy updating, good! nice to see you tried to do a longer one( with the leopards) it looks like you tried your best to be very patient what i noticed is that the leopards and the girl and the background are kinda loose from eachn other. the dune looks like its just a pile of sand instead of a high dune. i think its because it ends lower then the girls head, and it looks like she's already half on it. maybe you could try to give it a second go and try to make it more 'one' i would be really curious to see if you can fix it. would love to see you make a step with that one all the life drawing is nice as well, keep doing it! im waiting for yiour updates!

[Philipp Scherer]

ok, don´t have any ime, tomoorow is school again, after 2 relaxed weeks holiday :´(
here´s some stuff i did today and yesterday
portrait of a good friend ( we decided to draw each other from photo during holiday, of course i forgot it xD) 20 min, short sketch.
loomis and posemaniac, i´ll try to start as fast as possible with anatmoy, finally.
but in the next weeks a lot of school.

thank you very much for commenting!
@ajvenema, mea culpa , i´m so stupid, yes you´re right, i read this at loomis long time ago.thank you very much.
maybe i´ll try it, but i prefer to draw a new one

[RBeek]

dude sick progress! Keep this work rate up please!

[Xo.]

Sooo hallo ich spar mir das englische mal bei dir

Mir gefallen deine Motive und Ideen und wie du sie ausfuehrst ! die Stimmung der Kriegsbilder bzw Schiffe und Flugzeuge etc sind sehr sticky wegen der Stimmung des Bildes .

Es gibt zwei Sachen auf die ich dich Aufmerksam machen will

- deine Studien von koepfen und gesichter sind sehr gut gute perspektiven etc ... nur warum wendest du diese hilfslinien nicht bei deinen ausgebauten Potraits an ?
Bei denen fallen proportionen und form manchmal bissel auseinander !
plan die formen wie bei den studien und du wirst eine riesen verbesserung sehen .

- zweiter tipp ist etwas was du schon manchmal umsetzt ... es geht dadrum das deine bilder wahrscheinlich meistens mit konturlinien anfaengst und dann die schattierung einbringst ... probiers mal andersrum .. oder lass die konturlinien (da wo es moeglich ist einfach mal weg ... spiel nur mit dem schatten . guck mal in meinem sketchbook auf die bleistift aktzeichnung ... da hab ich das auch so gemacht es gibt den bildern einfach bissel mehr leben

hoffe ich konnte dir nochn tipp geben vllt hast du ja auch noch einen fuer mich =)

viele grueße xo.

[Philipp Scherer]

thank you so much guys, today was a very melancolic day, don´t know why.
maybe because i have to do so much for school, and it feels quite sensless to learn disturbing things, which will be forgotten in a month.
but that´s school, and it´s important, i know.
i´m not a very good student, so i have to hold my level, a bad mark would be fatal
but because of you i´m going to draw something today, maybe another self-portrait, whatever, we´ll see.

so

@rogerb: thanks dude nice to hear that someone cares about my sketchbook
@Xo: wow, cool, danke für die tipps, ich schwöre dir, ich werde sie in erinnerung behalten. zu den hilfslinien, tu ich ja ^^ ich versuche es zumindest. natürlich werfe ich ein blick auf dein sketchbook, würde ich so oder so machen. aber jetzt nicht, kaum zeit (LERNEN GRRRRR) ziemlich stressig grad, weil cih alles nach hinten aufgeschoben habe^^

here are the things i did in the last 5 days, as i said, i don´t have much spare time. i did most of the drawings in school.
startet with bridgman, did some from imagination in school, it´s crap, upluad it anyway. hand studies from myself, a portrat i did in school, hand and seom thing-studies from life,, random woman from imagination with a lot of wind WHOOOSH XD
and a self portrait, don´t like the form, was a very quick one, but i think i did a step ahead with the shade, i have problems with that.
erm, yes, oh and a garlic and onion studie from life.

thanks again to you guys, i absolutley apperciate every comment and criticism
bye

oh, one thing, i have my hair cut, don´t be surprised my sister said, im looking like a slodier XD it´s very short

[Philipp Scherer]

haha, i´m back
very busy week, drew under.
did 80% of the following drawings yesterday. was to lazy to upload it.
self portrait, i know the perspective is boring, but i still have problems with agood shade-so i practiced it again.

[Philipp Scherer]

more arms and anatomy today and yesterday.
an self portrait(listened to the godfather soundtrack, so please understand the strange clothes and grimace
and i copied an old artist, don´t know his name .

[jatherip]

heyho, sweet stuff in here i yet realized that you seem to have a much better knowledge about fabric and cloth and so on....i referr to this asian guy in the last post!
btw the name of the old artist is bougoureau
gute besserung

EDIT: i think i should say something construcive, tooo you should use bigger brushes, this would speed up your process, i refer to your last piece

[Sublimus]

The gestures, still lifes, and the self portraits stand out as some of the best work in here. Keep it up man! They all three have their uses that can be expanded and used in things other than themselves.

[Nicky S]

Nice improvement, I like the Loomis studies, it pays off in your other work. I like the color studies, especially the knife, the color of the kiwi doesn't seem to be on point, it looks a bit like they're made of plastic. Maybe that a darker tone and well placed highlights can give it a 'juicy' look.
I'm still struggling with colors, it can be hard sometimes to see what color it really is.
But keep up the good work.

[Danny_K]

juicy tomato! you can use a bigger variety of colors in your still life paintings.

[Philipp Scherer]

hey thank you very much, @nicky S. ok, i´ll try to fix it.
just a short update, don´t have much time.
bye

something from imagination

[Danny_K]

It's zeus! really neat concept man, I would lower the saturation on the background so the character will pop out and the eye will concentrate on the character.

[Philipp Scherer]

@danny, thanks, dude-ißll try to do that, its still not finished.
started a new portrait today.
so far 1h. i´m going to coulour it so not alot of detail.
but maybe you have some advice. for coulouring etc. used ref.

bye

[kikindaface]

Hey buddy ! Nice improvment, especially your line quality ! You're doing things well, learning the right thing ! the only advice is to keep it up ! Take care ( lol i'm not living far from freiburg ^^ )

[ajvenema]

yo dude! nice studying! good to see you keep on working. the zeus thing could use some more work though, right now i think the coloring looks a little 'cheap' i think, and the background is not my kind of thing. i didnt see the background for a wall so that makes the shadow behind his head a bit strange. but im sure u can make something better out of it with a few hours more work i like rthe thing in his hand btw!

[Icecold]

Thanks for dropping by, your sketches are really good, and you seem to get even better at it. As for digi's tomtato and kiwi studies are neat, but the zeus one has too saturated and a bit anormal colours.

Do some color studie sof the sky, and color studies in general they are good for everything hah!

Best wishes, Ice

[kidult]

Keep going man, you are doing all the right things!

[Philipp Scherer]

DAMN! i wrote such along text, then internetconnection lost
so just very short:

thank you dudes, gives me alot of motivation.
i don´t have a scanner any more, so you just can see digital stuff i made.

-mill jovovic, 4-5 h used ref (wanted to draw a more deatailed face)

-christian bale (in equilibrium) approx. 2 h

[ajvenema]

there's progress in those faces, your observation is getting better!
i dont know how it works with digi painting, but maybe you could choose a brush, or make something else up, too make the face look a little more skin like. right now it looks a bit plastic, but i know how hard it is to paint a face bummer from your scanner, but to make up for it, just make more digi paints

[Niva.]

Hello HerrLeer,
I found your thread from Jatherip's signature, I also agree with above posters that you have some really neat things going on here. Definite sense of color (which I'm jealous of because I suck at it) and a good push with your studies.

Right now the biggest critique I can offer is that sometimes you draw the eyes too narrow (or small) in your portraits. For example, the painted girl in #78 is almost flawless except for the eyes, you nailed the color of the skin and everything else in the face as far as I can see. The same holds true for the Soldier in #79. Other times you get the eyes right, in some of your pencil sketches they look good.

I loved the landscape sketches in #78, those are excellent.

Anyways, you definitely have potential, if you clean up some small issues you'll be at the next level before you know it. Cheers!

[Philipp Scherer]

thank you so much for you very helpful critique.
therefore i decided to update this sketchbook(last post is very long time ago ) i´m sorry, but i spent the time on drawing. forgive me

erm yes, i ust post the things ive done with photoshop(don´t have a scanner anymore)

some paintings aren´t finished yet and they are not in a chronological order

[Keeviin]

Amazing progress since my last visit! Now I'm jealous of your portraits. Weiter so!

[Philipp Scherer]

schön, dass es dir gefällt- bin nämlich immer unzufrieden mit meiner arbeit

short update-it´s not finished, but i don´t know waht i can do better.
any suggestions?

[midknight523]

nice studies

[jatherip]

oha....mir schwant übles....ich muss dringend meine faulheit bekämpfen, sonst bekommt jemand vor lauter studys einen nicht mehr aufzuholenden vorsprung....