Drawing & Sketching - aLDoDarK

[aLDoDarK]

Hi!

Welcome to my sketchbook,
Currently I'm a student of multimedia design, and I've a big dream to become a great painter and I can live by doing it...
It's really a big wishes for me remembering that I'll be graduating and start working in industry.

I hope you guys can help me to achieve my dream and make me ready to join industry. I KNOW THAT IT'S A HARD WORK, BUT I'LL KEEP PRACTICING!



Face Rendering using Photoshop


Draw from real life, my own Figure Collection

[aLDoDarK]

some new sketches using charcoal
Hope to hear crits and comment from you guys

[aLDoDarK]

A4 Pencil Sketches
I loved to hear comments and Crits from you



Some Thumbnail Sketches

[aLDoDarK]

Pencil Rendering, it takes me 2 days to finished each drawing.
I hope It's worth to spend such a time

[aLDoDarK]

few hours to finish this up, I really enjoy on drawing a colourful stuff such as this frog, and I tried to get as realistic as I can, but yeaaaa.. it's pretty hard though

[DSmith]

Hey there!
Great start,neat stuff so far!
Keep it up!

[aLDoDarK]

Thank you DSmith
I'll keep practising =)

Some quick sketch from real life

[L-J-U]

Hey thanks for visiting my sketch book!! Your stuff is cool, love the frog! Keep it up!

[FightingSeraph]

This is damn near top-notch if I do say so myself.

[AlexEh]

No crits right now, just keep it up! One thing I suggest you try doing more is hatching. Follow the form with the pencil marks. I think this guy is a good example.

http://wesley-burt.blogspot.com/

[aLDoDarK]

@L-J-U : No worries, and thank you for your comment

@Fighting Seraph : Thank you for your comment!

@SenEnd : Thanks for your advice but I'm just still not sure what does it mean by hatching.. is it similar with sketching? that we need to create a value with a pencil line?
nice link you give me there. =)

[aLDoDarK]

Some new Stuff

LEMUR DRAWING









I'm using photo & colour reference on doing him/her....
Trying to learn more about colour and stuff.
I wish I could draw something like this without colour ref XD

Comment and crits welcome =)

[AlexEh]

I suggest just painting with color without ref even if your not to good at it, you get better trust me =)

And with the hatching I see you doing it in the lemur study, make your marks follow the form your painting basically.

keep it up!

[BRANDONJONES]

Those 2 day pencils I think are worth it to really understand value. Some of the anatomy could be laid out a bit better, like the woman's feet on the first image, but your rendering shows patience and some real focus.

[AlexTooth]

Nice sketchbook man, how weird I decided to draw frogs yesterday! Anyways good stuff, keep it up. I love animals!

[aLDoDarK]

@SenEnd : I see then, I understand what's hatching is.. and thanks for your advice there, I'll try to draw it without color ref, and see how it goes =)

@Brandon : Thanks brandon for your comment!, I'll try to do more of value study

[aLDoDarK]

@AlexTooth : wow that's great, you also loved to draw animal, I wish I could see more on you animal drawing.
Thanks Alex =)

[aLDoDarK]

Pug Painting, using photoshop, and for this one I try not using any colour picker, and try to mimic the colour that I see as close as possible,
takes me approx 45 mins to finished it up
Hope to hear from you guys =)

[RandAlThor]

Thanks for stopping by man, Im liking the last image a lot, it just needs a little tweak with the colors and form slightly around the muzzle. Oh and the one above bunny girl is hot!

[aLDoDarK]

@RandalThor : Thanks for visiting my sketchbook man =) I'm still trying to learn on how to play with colour, so I keep doing study, but still need to find d best way..

my latest work

I'm trying to memorise the image of the horse, then try to draw on what I remember ( so without any ref ) and it's just fun, my horse looks like a toy @.@



This is the one after I painted with ref



any feedback appreciated =)

[Abrodos]

Cool works, Last one seems like a cool exercise. Be careful though, don't forget to develop your 3d sense, it's a really important thing. It seems like all your works are from photos. Maybe I'm wrong, though.
Anyway, good progress! keep it up!

[aLDoDarK]

@Abrodos : Hey, thanks for dropping by to my sketchbook, and I really like your advice there, and I tried it since last night and here's what I've got.

I've drawn my water bottle



and my own hand


I can say that drawing skin colour in normal condition of light is hard, the lighting makes the skin tone pretty unusual rather then in photo studio

anyway.. comments and crits apreciated

[aLDoDarK]

Another Memory Practice

and now it's a human face.. and it's really really harder then memorising a horse

I can only get this far



need to do more memorise practice, and it's pretty far from the one that I did with photo reference



any comment and crits welcome =)

[Ivan Turcin]

Hi Aldo, nice start here. My only suggestion would be to study anatomy. If you want to become good at painting you should also know about the bone structure, muscles and form. These are all steps needed to become great Keep it going.

[aLDoDarK]

Hi Ivan, thanks for your comment and advice.. I loved to do some study about anatomy, and actually i already learnt it for quite a while, but I never get into it seriously. Do you have any reference or video or any sources where we can learn a solid anatomy study?

[gordebak]

I like the water bottle most, but I wonder if it's from photo ref or real life. Either way you're good.

Try to paint from real life if you want to become great. Because photo references are already 2D, and it makes them easier to reproduce. Just a thought. But I'm a beginner, and if I'm wrong, you can ignore me.

[aLDoDarK]

Yea, I think you are right about it, drawing the real life is much harder, but it's totally fun even sometimes we can't get the correct colour and proportion.
for my water bottle I did it real life, and I'm pretty happy with the result. thanks for your comment Gordebak! =)

[aLDoDarK]

Another Live Drawing,
now it's a glass

[VanDog]

nice animal sketches! last one is nice too with your glass drawing

[aLDoDarK]

@VanDog : thank you for d comment =)

some new progression
I tried to draw my own living room. and it's pretty hard to maintain the colour + detail
so here I got so far..


Digital Painting using photo reference
from www.edaoust.deviantart.com ( he's a really talented photograph and his work is totally awesome! )




any comment and crits would be appreciated =)