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[Vatsel]

Muz ah dude you caught me off guard again! Thanks man, these are really helpful

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[danlambert]

Some very nice stuff, love me some scratchy pen work. Looks like your stroking pretty small in some of your images though, maybe try doing some longer more gestural strokes. These help with defining form and with adding movement to stuff.

Poses on those last 3 are sick, especially the top one, her stride and expression are spot on.

I'll go through your book properly when i have some more time

Peace
Dan

[kikindaface]

hey dude it's been a while ! Nice pencil stuff ! Keep them up ! more natomy studies ! more color studies ! More of everything ! go go go go !

[tdHendrix]

Haha, I like those poses. I think in the first one their left arms might be too big or long, other than that it all looks cool

[Vatsel]

danlambert Ill try longer lines, thanks.

Walid D You're right, I should work harder!

tdHendrix Good call - I should be more careful, noted.


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Just trying out different concepts... gonna try some colored stuff next

[RBeek]

hardcore man,, your working so hard! Inspirational!
Keep up the good work dude.

[danlambert]

With that last self portrait, it looks like your using white in a few places to lighten things up. If your are, stop. The highlight usually contains the most colour of the light, so unless you had a white light on you, rethink it. Also the shadow areas are looking very grey Shadows are often desaturated but usually not to that extent. Keep at it man, and really observe! Because colour aside, your describing the forms well!
Peace
Dan

[Vatsel]

School started, so there will be (temporarily) more inks on notebook paper, until I manage to get a better sketchbook for school.

I also thought I did much more than this, this update is mediocre at best.
I'll get more done by tomorrow

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Lots of dark, evil doodles. I think I need to go and balance it out with some carebears for now haha
(also forgive the line quality, I should be doing better than that)

[danlambert]

That 3rd head, with open mouth, is fucking sweet man. It's a really cool style too, you should definitely keep at it, I can see you getting really good at those.

Peace
Dan

[RBeek]

what danlambert said That face is rly cool

[tdHendrix]

Cool face. I like the robot too. Go Brewin go!

[Vatsel]

My scanning skills got better - awesome
Not much of an update for today... school is sucking the life out of me
That just means I gotta push harder, there will be no excuses for tomorrow.

[Vatsel]

What a hectic week
Im gonna go crash on the bed or else my sleep deprivation will get the better of me.
Bigger update coming tomorrow

[tdHendrix]

Your hands are getting better. The creepy guys you posted on the 2nd look really cool. I like that style.

[RBeek]

Good update,, still got to practice on the structure of the body man
But u'll do alright, good luck

[Vatsel]

rogerb I will practice more structure! Ive never stopped practicing...

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Been busy all day with stuff I had to attend to

Here's a female steppe warrior, not happy with it, it reads badly and the skin tones need work, legs below the knees are waaay too short.. will definitely do more of these to get em better

[danlambert]

I think with that last one, if you just move the knee area up you'll see an improvement. I would say it was the top of the leg that was too long as oppose to the bottom being too short. Keep it up man

Peace
Dan

[danlambert]

Also, you might want to thiunk about making your lightsource more apparent, at the moment there don't really seem to many discernable highlights

[Vatsel]

danlambert yeh that piece is a trainwreck

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Anyways, new stuff!
speedpaint, doodle and 2 color schemes for an upcoming piece

[danlambert]

That 2nd one is sick, I'm sure I said before, but I really like that style. Do more!
For the last one, as they are colour roughs I'm not exactly sure how important it is; but the anatomy on the girl is off in a few areas. Hands are too small, upper portion of them legs is too long, same with the upper portion of the arm closest to us, and the waist is anorexically thin!

Peace
Dan

[RBeek]

hey man hard work here again

I dont rly understand the first piece.. im sorry. I dont rly know what you are trying to show me with it. Or maybe its just me I sometimes dont see stuff.. :/

The second one is really cool, great movement innit Only comment there is that the gun is a little weird.

The third one looks alright; Though anatomicly the character is quite off.. But just check out the loomis size thing and you'll be able to correct it or even use a ref for a pose like this,, there are tons of those

Good luck!

[Vatsel]

Char has been anatomically fixed (I think?)

anyways, legs need work

[Vatsel]

Quick faces -these are really hard

[RBeek]

hey man, these look like great practice.
But i think they would become alot better if you'd look into the construction of the face and the facial features. Give it a shot The loomis book is awsome.
And also Vanderpoel has some great stuff about eyes, nose and mouth !
Good luck!

[tdHendrix]

I like the style of the guy punching. His left shoulder area doesn't look right I think.

Faces are hard for me too. Try reading the loomis books like roger said. Maybe it will help to draw some skulls too.

[Vatsel]

I shouldve noted that those faces are in fact quick portraits of people in my class, they tend to change their position fast, so I need to do these quick, roughly less than a minute each.

But no worries (and no more excuses), I am going through that Loomis book.

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More progress on that piece.

YES the legs are horrendously thin disregard that

[danlambert]

I wouldn't say the legs were thin, just need a bit more shape. I think the forearm of the arm holding the cane thing is too long. I'd also say try to rework the wrist on the other arm as well, it still looks really thick. I recon the knees are too low as well, the leg length looks good, but I think if you moved the knee slightly higher up the legs would be better proportioned. (this is going off where I'm percieveing her legs to start, obviously I don't know what you intended her body to be, if you intended her to have a slightly longer torso then disregard my knee rantings!)
Lighting is looking good man, and you've got a nice expression on the face, keep pushing it!

Peace
Dan

[Muz]

Cloth is too thin to receive edge highlights like that so it looks weird. Think of the overall cone form of the dress and shade that first, then come in and layer on the extra frills. Making sure the shading contibutes to the overall form.

Id like to see you do some brush work studies, play with the flow, and play with blending edges. Hell you can do it with random shapes, you just need to master it. Play with different ways of starting an image; Blocking in shillouettes, lineart, then middle value and then colour, ect.

Stuff it looking good otherwise .

[Zorcron]

wow ! loving the sketch book material , some more still life study to help with imaginative work might be a +

got some amazing ideas here keep em coming !

[Vatsel]

Thanks for all the great tips, noted and will be fixed.
Had boring school stuff for most of the day