Charmer's Thread! PRACTICE!

[dimi]

Very nice improvements man i dig your enviros.Inspirational progress well done!

[Charmer]

2h

[lanotdesign]

Hey Charmer, Very big improvements from the day you start. I scanned your earliest sketch posted here to the most recent. Personally, my favorite is the Madagascar girl from November 2011. I don't think you need more suggestions because you are already treading the right way hehe. Just keep it up and keep motivating yourself.

[Charmer]

double post. sry

[Charmer]

Hey Lanotdesign! Thank you very, very much for your comment. I really appreciate that! Have very much to do right now but of course I draw every day.

Recently I have done LOTS of pen and ink stuff. I freaking love it guys. Some Albrecht Durer studies etc, here are two of the examples

[Danny_K]

yo what up? more updates, more work...

[Charmer]

I wanted to update some weeks ago some more content but concept art was down and I forgot to upload when it was back up again.
There is a Merchandise Business I started with a good friend of mine, we are making Shirts, Longsleeves and stuff like that for our own apparel company. More about that in a few weeks when the Website is online etc.
I recently did some comic like figures of some of my friends and yeah... everythings going forward, two times a week life drawing which I will upload after I scanned everything which I will do next week I didn't stop man, I will never stop drawing

[Charmer]

This one took me about 6-7 hours completely. I am so bad drawing faces, even though I know the anatomy well I guess. I can draw them better on paper than paint them in Photoshop. Crazy thing. Lots and lots of updates following in the next few days guys, I've been doing a hell-lot of stuff recently!

[Nemome]

Hab dein Skizzenbuch ganz aus den Augen verloren...

Anyways, nice updates.
I can point out some stuff on your last portrait.
- try to get more confident when it comes to the planes and form of the human head. You paint everything very smooth and the form gets lost very easily like that. Even with a hard brush you can make a face look female. try it out! ;-)
- More contrasts of hard and soft edges would also help

But still good improvement! Keep posting.
I'll also update my sketchbook soon but I've been messing a lot around with future forum stuff.
Sweet things are coming, haha.

[Charmer]

Thanks dude! Yep, the thing is... I paint with a hard round brush almost all the time but I guess I'm going to smooth it too early when I struggle with some lighting/shading. Like here, I have problems with the eye on the right, the shadow is not correct at all and I tried it a bunch of times. But I'll continue this painting til I got that fixed.

[Charmer]

Long time no post. Just working my ass off in other things but still learning to draw and paint better. Constantly practicing
Each about 30 minutes

[Charmer]

One more of the 30 minutes heads, feels good to see improvement you tried like 100000 times to get
Here I focused more on the lips as you can clearly see

[Nemome]

Delete your airbrush for a while sir! D:
The veeeeeeeeery soft look is taking a lot of the three dimensionality away. The facial forms get lost into the smooth transitions most of the times.
Also try to pick up Loomis book about Drawing the Head. He has a lot of great stuff that describe the planes of the head.
Will help you a lot to kick those paintings into the next level, hehe.

Keep it up!

[Charmer]

Fuck the air brush! Haha.
Only round brush now. Hard edges, fixed size. Just opacity and flow through pressure. Another half hour or so

[Charmer]

One more. About 45 minutes now with colour

[Charmer]

Some more anatomy, 3 hours or so only tonight. Feels a lot easier to me, which feels instantly so AWESOME!
The pencil work was made some days ago and from mind, I guess I know alot better about guidelines etc now

[Brave-New-World]

sweet progress bro keep up the good work

[Charmer]

Thanks man! Appreciate that a lot!
So, almost three years ago I did my first digital art and posted it here. I just thought I would be cool to see what happend in between.
There we go!

Old vs new and a Vimeo Timelapse Video!

[V3T]

Strange designs :3 Great improvement since 2010 ^_^

[Charmer]

Thank you V3T!

Here's a sketch I am working on right now. Just trying to get some anatomy stuff and rendering technique out.

[Charmer]

self portrait in pencil