STOP... Scannertime.

[Benjy]

Right. I've been lurking for a while now, and I figure I'd get a lot better at drawing if I actually, you know... drew some stuff.

Anyhoo, just a couple of bits to start things off. A sketchy study of Watts' The All Pervading - pencil and paper plus some GIMPery, and one of Droost Cornelis Droochsloot's (what a name!) Villiage Street. Plus some Bridgman, posemaniacs 1min sketches, random stuff.

Edit: Broke the images in this post so I could update the thumb. See next post.

[Twan]

hey man very good studies hear, especially the last (the arm and the bug)
be carrefull with the jaw lines on your portraits, try to correct it.
keep it up

[Benjy]

@Twan Thanks!

Some stuff:2010/04/15

[Benjy]

Some anatomy:

[Janos]

Ah that baby.
Looking good in here. After studying anatomy I think you should study faces. You need some work in that are.
You seem to be quite hard working though, so I think you'll be fine.

[Benjy]

Thanks Janos. Yeah faces need work.

[Benjy]

A bit of Bridgman, some sketches based on Da Vinci studies, Photos, Life.

[Benjy]

Sketching:

[Benjy]

Digital Stuff, from photos, master studies:

[Benjy]

And some sketchbook stuff. Any ideas on what to work on to improve?

[Benjy]

Some more assorted stuff:

[Benjy]

A few CGTalk DSF's - Themes were: The Architect, Neverland vs Wonderland, and the Red Queen. The first was reffed, rest were from imagination.

[Benjy]

A couple of sketchbook pages and a couple more CGTalk DSFs. Kinda weird that GIMP isn't one of the options for the metadata when uploading, there's so many other options.

[Benjy]

Had a play with the sketch from the other day as I quite liked it. A couple more sketchbook pages as well. I really suck at muscley characters - the construction feels really quite different in the way things wedge together.

...I need to draw more, that's what it boils down to of course!




EDIT: Grr. Cant seem to get images to attach correctly. Apologies if this post has duplicates or other weird crap going on. I decided just to go for imageshack this time around.

[Benjy]

Weird. Wouldn't usually be so needy as to bump my thread, but it seems to have vanished from the forum and I'm just hoping I can bring it back!

Edit: Phew that was weird. I'll put some old sketchbook pagees in here to make up for it.

[Benjy]

Hand studies from Bridgman:

[Benjy]

Two studies, one from Watchmen, on from one of mjranums photo refs.

[Benjy]

Some studies of more extreme poses, and some fundementals - I need the practice!

[Benjy]

Some quick figures and a portrait done in MyPaint. Reffed. Plus a couple of un-reffed figures. Slowly getting better at them thanks to the studies.

[Benjy]

Went out and did some sketching in town today. Not as much as I'd have liked, but a bit. Plus some assorted stuff.

[cgaddict]

Very nice batch of work, great to see you studying from the Old Masters as well, you can definitely learn a lot from them. As for critiques, I'd say work more in greyscale so you can focus a bit more on values, since that seems to be a weak point for you right now. Keep it up!

[Ivan Turcin]

Hi Benjy, nice start on your SB.
I have only one suggestion for you. Always think about the head as 3d object in space. It's a rounded form.
I think this could help you a lot http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=14119
Keep up the good work!

[Benjy]

@cgaddict. Thanks. Values are definitely a weak point at the moment, will work on them more.

@Ivan Turcin Thanks! That tutorial was great, spent today working through the first two from some similar refs. Really helpful. I still need to work on my rendering though, and the proportions are a little iffy too:

[Benjy]

And a quick WIP before I finish for the day:

[Benjy]

Todays sketches. I've also ordered myself an A4 wacom which I'm well excited about getting, should be here tomorrow.

[Benjy]

Got the new wacom today and boy is it fun to use (that is once I battled ubuntu for a few hours to get the config tools working so I could fix the aspect ration). Anyway to celebrate I coloured one of yesterdays sketches and now I ... really don't like it.



It just looks really weird and jarring and I don't know why. Maybe it's totally obvious and I've just been staring at it too long. I don't mind my stuff looking like crap if I can figure out why and at least learn from it, but this is bugging the hell out of me.

Thoughts?

[Twan]

brushwork is good . The eye are a little too big and aren't aligned . skull shape on the top is not respected. keep on drawing and have fun!

[Benjy]

Todays stuff. Some posemaniacs 60 second poses and some sketchbook pages.

[Benjy]

A couple of speedy ones from this morning. A study of a portrati by Goerge Frederick Watts, done in MyPaint.



And a quick enviro study from a photo of the erupting volcano in Iceland, done in GIMP.

[HTML rulez d00d]

your doing good in the figures and studies department. but i think you have to focus on faces a bit since they're your weak point. really observe how the eyes and features look