Kristoff learnes to draw! ^_^

[Kristoff]

Hey everybody! ^_^
My name is Katherina, i'm Russian, my age is 18, and i've discovered that drawing is my life =)
I was walking through this site, saw many interesting and talanted people, started to study from them...notised a lot mistakes...and desided to open my own sketchbook...to improve with your advices and critics.
I hope to put works daily...it's hard because i work, go to institute, well who doesn't? =)
Any ways, here are a few resent sketches, some old works you can see here: http://ka-g-o.deviantart.com/

[Spaggen]

Hey and welcome.
A great start indeed. I like your studies, especially the ears and noses. And the second digital piece looks pretty good too. I don't have any critic this early, just keep it up and post a lot and you'll be fine.

And one thing, try to get your hands on Anatomy for artists by David Rubins and Bridgman's Constructive Anatomy if you don't have them. Really good books.

[Kristoff]

Oh, those are just a few...I have a lot of works...but somehow the downloads work not properly =| it gives me an error page...=(
Thow I have a lot of studies, I'll try to put all of them tomorrow. Great thanks for the reply!!! ^_^

Yes, I have those books, they help a lot!

[Kristoff]

Ok, the new things i've done in these two weeks. DRAW DRAW DRAW!!!

[Kristoff]

Anatomy practice from photographs! =)








Please, tell me, is it normal that my grayscale works are better than colored ones? And will the color be better though time? What should I pay attention to right now?
And HOW CAN I FEEL COLOR?!
I'll really appreciate your answers! It's so important to me...-___-

[MephistoLV]

You have some really good looking studies here.
It is not at all unusual for one's grayscale work to be better than stuff in color. In grayscale, you only have to worry about the relative values of light and dark. It is simple, and that is why artists have traditionally started out using just charcoal or single color chalk until they have mastered the basic chiaroscuro techniques.
When you introduce color, the difficulties increase exponentially. All of a sudden you have to worry about choosing the correct hue, how colors blend, warm and cool contrasts, local color variations which have identical values, and the list goes on and on...
These things take time to learn so don't get discouraged. Spend alot of time painting from life and really focus on color matching. If you are working digitally, copy photos and try to pick the correct color by yourself, then check your guess against the color picker tool. That might give you some insight. Most of all, just keep painting!

[Kristoff]

[Kristoff]

[Kristoff]

Right about now! -______-

[ccp85]

I'm impressed with your studies, very good! keep doing it, thanks for sharung with us!

[Kristoff]

ccp85, wow thanks! ^_^ didn't actually think that somebody would look at this =3

[Kristoff]

Selfportrait =)

[M-Studios]

Great studies, I need to do that too!
I also really like the environment sketch, the left is feeling a bit heavy though. Maybe you should put something on the right to balance it.

Keep it up!

[Kristoff]

Thank you very much for the feedback! ^_^

I think that's because of this ugly black mountain =)

[Jamie Romoser]

Keep up the hard work Kristoff!
but from moscow huh must be pretty cool there ^^
if you dont already should get your hands on some loomis and bridgemen books theres some free ones you can find on the net
looking forward to seeing your progression
have a good one
-Jamie

[Kristoff]

OmertA, Thaaaankiiiies for the feedback! Yeah it's great here, even i'm so far away I don't mis a single thing on the net! +)
I have a huge library of those books, mabe a few days later i'll post lots lots lots of study sheets, i'm just too lazy to scan them =3

[Kristoff]

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[Kristoff]

Tons of anatomy studies and this color study:

[Pixie Trick]

Well, you're definitely off to a great start! Practice seems to be the main thing. You have stuff from life, from imagination, greyscale, colour, anatomy, thumbs... definitely on the right track!

Keep it up!

[BlackDelphin]

Kristoff's already rockin big times!!

Wonderful sketch book start!!

Figures, landscapes, thumbs and digi..traditional studies and all that bling bling, great!
There's nothing i can really critique, just keep up the wonderful job! < 3

[Nlete]

wow, nice sketches here! Good start, and cool studies! Keep it up!

[Kristoff]

20% of anatomy studies:

[BlackDelphin]

What do you mean by 20%?
Really awesome figures you got here. Nice balance, nice

[Kristoff]

What do you mean by 20%?

This is not all of my studies =) only 20% of 100% of studies =)

Thanks for the feedback!!! I really appreciate this! ^_____________^

[BlackDelphin]

WELL DAAANG!! I thought that's what you meant but...

POST, POST, WE LIKE TO SEEEEE
At least i do, yeah

They look really nice! What do you use as reference?

[Pixie Trick]

Really nice! The linework looks quite fluid. How long were the poses (the maniacs ones anyways)? The one thing I'd watch are the proportions: you've got some small heads, long waists and long legs going on. I agree with Blacky- you've got very good balance.

[BlackDelphin]

Where are you?! POST MORE!

[Kristoff]

I was so busy lately, i'm in the university of language right now , i'll be an interpreter so it's really hard to do art studies and to translate =|, but i'm trying.
So there was a busy week but i've done something =3






BlackDelphin, Thank you for the support =3 my references are: my friends, Bammes, Loomis, and posemaniacs.com, that's all so far ^_^

Pixie Trick, the poses areoften 2-3 minutes, i can go faster but this will be no studies, just the form catch. Well, about the proportions, I try to make proportions as on the reference... those that are from my friends are the proportions they have. (above is my friend)

[Kristoff]

Color practice...=|

[BlackDelphin]

Any time hehe :3

Love the colour practice ones. Really nice mood

Good luck with university!