andrew ken ~ slow hand

[karantina]

you work hard ı think you should go on. I will follow your progress.

[iven]

Wow now it looks really good, don't over do it thou !!!
I am concerned that you copy bridgeman too much,
that's what my teacher would say if you would hand
in your stuff.

Proof me wrong and draw a person from life (subway,
street, nude model etc.) now put your skeleton in
and see how it looks like. Keep the skeleton rough,
simplify it with boxes, I'am doing that too.

You're doing good keep it up

[aks9]

karantina thank you. and i must work harder. i really dont work as hard as it might seem
iven thanks for the tips, ill try some of that out. i do indeed do too much exercises and not enough music

WHAT DOESNT KILL YOU. DIES HORRIBLY!

[Leo_7]

great sketchbook, those anatomy sketches look cool. I think all that hard work your doing now is going to pay off in no time.

[aks9]

I think i learnt quite a bit doing those arms, though I havnt yet gotten around to doing much arm drawing to test out the exercises, I did do some, and i could feel the difference. I can see the difference in my head anyway, i know where the main arm muscles/bones are and work. wooo

although im a little disappointed with not doing enough everyday and having nto yet really picked up the great rhythm i had going in september. school finishes next week and I plan to make great use of the holidays

i also realised that this SB can sort of be like a blog. has the advantatge of not existing in some weird vaccuum and getting no comments, which many blogs suffer from.

im going to start to get into the habit of doing 1h of animation exercise everyday for this SB too. itll help me get over some hatespace blockage where I dont want to think about animation. I used to get that with drawing quite often, but since I started this SB and drawing everyday thats almost totally gone. its decreased so much. aweosme. so im gonna get me some of that for animation practice
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so today i start the TORSO in my bridgeman book.
only one little page for now, but daily updates gotta continue regardless so here it is....

[Charmer]

Cheers,

Well, this time CA is somekinda dead It feels like. I don't see too much motivation all over, but we all will get through it. Just study regularly everyone!

Your arm studies are pretty well drawn. Like them and I think you'll learn a lot in the next weeks/months. Good that you do lots of studies from Bridgman, he knows really well how to teach all that. I need to get my book out by myself again.

Keep it up!

[aks9]

cheers tasser
i havnt been paying too much attention around ca lately so i can't really tell how alive its been, other than my own SB has been pretty dead
bridgman is cool, this is the first time ive found a drawing anatomy book accessible/useful

[aks9]

So i took at stab at some more CG paint


based off http://loyalkng.com/wp-content/uploa...tarfox_nds.jpg

some stuff just to the left of my monitor

[catukas]

Nice studies. Espessialy the last ones.

[equilerex]

whoa! ive missed out aloot!
all these bridgman studies look super useful... if i went through all of that i bet i'd be able to construct a hand in my sleep XD good job on that! you must have a hell of a lot of patience and motivation! guess il give the guide to drawing from life a look then too

as for CA as a blog- it shares quite a few features indeed. for me, it gives a lot of motivation and a nice view of my progress so im very happy to have my SB here (and a normal blog on the vacuum of the internets)

keep up the good work!

[aks9]

equilerex phew yeah this is the most patient/motivated ive ever been about drawing. I basically set out to follow the book from start to finish systematically and make sure I'm actually thinking/learning something. I try to do at least 2 pages a day, which isn't really all that much..
the book im using is "the human machine", im not sure if "guide to drawing from life" is the one you have or if theres just a misunderstanding. I don't have any models here to draw from so that book wouldn't be too useful to me right now
keep up you too
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so heres some figures from imagination, and faces, some imagination some observed from photos. the blocky figures are using the doctors "book of bones" methods, balancing the blocks and so on

aaaand i havnt slept all night and its now noon the next day so i cant really type much night night

[Flanagan]

Whooaaa! Studies studies studies! Nice work ethic, man. So many studies my brain hurts. Damn. Try and get some imagination pieces up there. It would be great to see how your studies have helped you in other areas as well.

[aks9]

flanagan: yesss, i really do need to make more music and less scales
the imagination pieces i have started are big drawings that ive been working on for weeks and weeks and i always tell myself not to start any new ones until i finish these... which is why i end up only practicing my scales
but again thx for the reminder ill try and see past this

[aks9]

so heres some smaller stuff from imagination that i had started and abandoned.. maybe posting them will put them back on my mental radar


robots again ._.


fun with felt tips, doodled this listening to android jones interview on bside art podcast, which i found extremely inspirational and recommend to everyone
info http://www.sidebarnation.com/my_webl...rew-jones.html
dl link: http://media.libsyn.com/media/sideba...BAR_Ep_112.mp3



dream water maybe ill colour this i PS

[Flanagan]

The robot guy looks promising, but the red design is amazing, man. I see a forest creature's face lol. Dude, just keep going how your going and you'll indeed go far. Again, awesome stuff, man. Perhaps put up one of those imagination pieces and show your progression.

[equilerex]

still doing reaaaly nice i see- love the style and ammount! the imaginative stuff looks dynamic and proportioned. love the shading and coloring of the robot and the watery stuff looks like a hell of a lot of work! keep it up youre doing some great progress!

[Black Spot]

Good to see you keeping up with the studies and still mixing it up with imaginative work.

[in2eternity]

Very good updates, you're on the right way! I like a lot those red felt tips doodles
p.s. oh you're so good with Bridgman, wish I'd go so far

[jNeumann]

Hey man, nice book you have here. The work posted in #104 looks awesome! Nice studies as well, I like your loose-quick style. Good Stuff, keep it up.

[aks9]

thank you all very much!
hope everyone is not having a terrible year-end, and even having an awesome year-end

some stuff from the pats few days, and also an imagination piece i started during the summer and abandoned because i got frustrated that you could see the crap i had done in pen on the other side of the paper



my sister in pastel



leftovers of xmas dinner in pastel, which i suck at

[NeonDuck]

those anatomy studies are awesome! love the line quality, keep it up!

[jojokenni]

My favorites are the running dog and the guitar player. I can see motion in the dog and the guitar player is whimsical and expressive. Your anatomy studies are coming along nicely. I like how you draw in the muscles in some of your anatomy studies. I haven't quite learned all my muscle groups yet and it's something I should also be doing.

I noticed that you're getting a better grasp of shapes and volume which is helping your anatomy studies. One thing I noticed is that sometimes your lines can be slightly stiff but I think as you become more comfortable with drawing the human figure, your lines will improve as well.

Keep it up!

[vatteh]

The amount of Bridgman studies here is very motivating. I used to study his works, but I later learned that his drawings were too complicated for me to fully grasp and apply in my own works. I had to conquer the human body's basic structure first. It looks like you're getting the hang of it and with the amount of studies you do, its sure to seep in. Keep it up.

[aks9]

NeonDuck: thank you
jojokenni: thanks a lot. yes, i struggle with muscles too. ive drawn so many arms and been looking at the way the arm muscles fit together but im still not quite sure how they fit. i think i really need to compliment the studies with much more photo/life study so it really sinks in. good luck to you
vatteh: yeh, im sort of using bridgman as an initial guide to get a grasp of the bodies basic shape and the more prominent muscles.. i get annoyed sometimes that despite the fuzzy meshy drawings of his, he often doesnt name lots of the muscles, only the ones that are actually important i guess, but it leaves me wondering. not very smart of me really. i think the trick is to grasp the basic shape hes trying to describe, and the way the shapes lock together and work together (as he is always likening to body to a machine). looking at actual bodies would be the only way to really know the shape of each part properly though i guess. thankyou you too

ref for last image http://mjranum-stock.deviantart.com/...set=48#/dwyx2u

[iven]

amazing stuff here, thanks for your useful feedback on my SB,
you have a very nice line stroke, I really love it. Would like
to see some more stuff of your own, I really enjoy seeing that.
You might combine it with some bridgman. You are very inspiring
me with your passion/ persistence of anatomy studies, and than
the animation with the arms is sooo smart of you doing that.

GOOD JOB !!!!!!!!!

[aks9]

iven yes i really should. that notion is slowly starting to seep into my mind

ive been using this SB as mainly a place to post my "dry" studies, but slowly the idea that I should really use this place for much more is hopefully making its way into my brain. more music

I was on the TAD website yesterday and they had this to say about their sketchbook class:

As the birth place of artistic ideas, the sketchbook is where the creative person develops their own unique point of view. In this highly informative class, students begin to fine tune their ability to communicate through their art. The sketchbook class illustrates the importance of personal idea exploration, and provides a safe place to make mistakes and explore content, and, naturally, to practice their skills. This class is geared toward students who wish to have a wide variety of abilities to design, compose, and create from life, reference, and imagination. This is one of the single most important classes TAD offers and is mandatory for all students enrolled full-time.

this makes me rethink about whether im making the most of my sb here on ca.org
the yet-unrealised idea of using this as a "blog" sort of goes down this route too

anyway

id really appreciate some crits on these gesture/figures im going to post, which I'd stupidly been completely ignoring since starting bridgman, under the idea of "well I should learn the parts first before practicing the whole figure"

theyre pretty crap and I almost felt like not posting them, but then I caught that thought and saw wtf am i thinking? lololololoolololo

final pic is from a stockphoto by http://mjramun-stock.deviantart.com

thanks for any crits

what doesn't get critted, dies horribly!

[Jamie Romoser]

Great studies your observing the right things
keep it up and keep having fun
-Jamie

[aks9]

~ 2011 ~

I opened up this sketchbook in late july, 6 months ago, here's a little check-up on what I managed to do and not do during that time. If I do a checkup every year I'll see my overall progress from a wider view.

• images in sketchbook: approx 280
• the sketchbook has been open for roughly 180 days, which comes down to a measly 1.5 pictures a day

• stuff practiced that I said I would:
  
  • gesture
  • faces
  • anatomic "construction"
  • hands
  • volume shapes

• stuff not practiced that I said I would:
  
  • portraiture (not just face construction)
  • painting / cg painting
  • animation exercises

The picture above was done with Alchemy, which i think I've just fallen in love with! Alchemy is awesome, awesome, awesome. And it's my last picture for 2010, woop!

Thanks everyone for all the comments/crits/suggestions over the past months I wish you all a great 2011

[aks9]

more alchemical searching

[aks9]

little today