HarryZed's sketchbook

[harryzed]

!please give me advice and criticism! i want to be better.

hi everyone,

i thought i better stop being an onlooker and start joining in and getting some feedback. i find so much great work here on conceptart.com that i have been a little overwhelmed.

i have been drawing and painting since i was young. i like other worlds and fantasy, reading classics, etc.... have spent some time learning from my grandad who is a painter. did art in high school. am currently studying drawing at RMIT in Melbourne. discovered wacom tablets last year.

in the past i have worked very much from observation, however i want to learn how to make the images that i want to create. i feel like there is a gap: between the imaginary worlds that my mind wonders through, and my ability to recreate that on canvas/screen.

so yeah i will post some paintings from the last year digital and nondigital, please give me crit. much appreciated.

[harryzed]

ok ill start with a load of photoshop painings

[harryzed]

i have a lot of trouble when i`m not working from observation but here is me trying:

[harryzed]

and now some oil paintings from the last year or so.





















sorry about the initial spamming of images, ill try not to do it again

[harryzed]

[jellyswirl]

Wow the oil paintings are really neat. I love how you use perspective and the texture really brings it out. And I can see you improved alot with this newer photoshop image compared to your first ones.

[harryzed]

thanks jellyswirl. its great to have some feedback so quickly

[harryzed]

ok so ive just been trying to do some sketches from posemaniacs.com . but the pictures they give you to draw from are very low res. can anyone recomend any other sites for life drawing?

also can anyone give me any advice on how i can get better. do you think it is better to draw/paint from observation or to build a chacter from a skeleton?(to learn proportions)

should i just go strait in to trying to draw fantasy scenes with figures buildings etc?

probably best just to get on with it .

[harryzed]

just working on this sketch of a large interior space as practice, just because im in it i guess.


wow i cant see this image its way to big! (still getting adjusted to using this sketchbook, sorry)
ill try this

[LAL]

You painting have very thick life breath!good works!keep it my friend!

[harryzed]

hmmmm

[harryzed]

experimenting using painter, why is it so hard.

[harryzed]

update, color experimenting.

[Benjy]

That last post is looking cool. On the interiors - stick to hard brushes, much easier on the eye.

[harryzed]

thanks Benjy. your right that interior is a little garish, yeah ok ill try using some harder brushes

[harryzed]

some sloppy lines, mostly working on tone.

[Rafal Dorsz]

Hey,

I already replied you in my thread about the general things you need to do to get better: practice, practice, and practice But, I noticed that in some of your more recent digital paintings, and some older ones too, you used mostly soft brushes which made your images look.. well, soft and blurry. It seems that you're familiar with hard edged brushes too, though, so I suppose these were just experiments.
I believe you could do more studies of things like anatomy to make your paintings more believable. Also, I think some of your paintings lack definition and depth, and both of these problems can be solved by painting from life, I think. You can improve depth by doing value studies and definition by using hard edged brushes and observing forms and details more carefully.

I really do like the last phone study, and the color experiment earlier.

All of the above is just my opinions, I'm no expert in painting so feel free to disagree with me. I hope at least some of it helps, though.

Keep it up.

[harryzed]

thanks Gildorek, very useful feedback.
ok so i thought id try and follow some of your advice, getting started with some figure studies,

i think your right about the brush work.

ok "practice, practice, and practice"

[FourTonMantis]

Great stuff so far. I love that sci-fi painting. A lot. Definitely agree on the harder brushes and also stick to bigger brushes as well. Some of your rendering looks a little sketchy. Other than that, I love the variety you have going on here.

[harryzed]

im trying to impove my line control so that i can get smoother lines... so back to basics. i was working from this btw: http://blog.dustyghost.com/?page_id=9

[harryzed]

head studies from a lumis book. trying to keep a controlled line

[harryzed]

and now some hogarth. next step is to try and do some of these without looking at the illustrations i guess.

[Benjy]

Those line excercises look useful, I might have t have a go at them. The head studies are looking good to.

[harryzed]

session with lumis! my hand hurts. haven't quiet got my ergonomics right with the wacom tablet. and

[harryzed]

ok, so is the liquify tool cheating?

[papervampire]

hey nice stuff, i like that you're bringing in anatomy studies. i'd be wary of practicing stuff like that digitally though, you might want to go back to good old pencil and paper, just turn out as much traditional studies as you can

[harryzed]

hey nice stuff, i like that you're bringing in anatomy studies. i'd be wary of practicing stuff like that digitally though, you might want to go back to good old pencil and paper, just turn out as much traditional studies as you can

you know its funny you should say that, i was kind of thinking the same thing, wacom tablets just don't seem suited to controlled fine line work, although i think tonal anatomy studies are still very possible. i don't know, i might continue anyway, i dont want to give up to quickly.. anyone think that fine line work can be controlled on a wacom tablet?

i do like traditional mediums. but now the idea that i could go from start to finish completely digitally, is a very exciting one to me.

[harryzed]

photo studies, looking at shadows and some texture.

[Magic Man]

Nicely done, damn you work fast Harry!

[harryzed]

thanks Magic Man, yeah just realizing how much i have to learn is a big motivating factor.

hear are some character and landscape paintings, landscape especially has a long way to go, i keep changing things. color has got out of hand. probably should find more reference material, i guess.