Z K E T C H B O O K !!! ...braaainnnzz ! - Mildz Nuzdity !!!

[Sivonja]

@ LJEn thanks , i am glad u like it

@ kiwigarbage thanks kivi , red sky is too much emphasized ...i hope next oil will be better

@ devastacio thanks , unfortunately as i said i have real (dead) model not photo , so i cannot show u photo

@ ALL HAPPY NEW YEAR i wish u all best

Here is smoe studies from my 2#SB , unfortunately that SB was aparted on 2 pieces so i needed to fix it later (u will see line over middle on sktches) , some explanation ....first 3 is from some old masters and fourth is one barrack hallway (from period when i was professional soldier) enyoj

[LtPlissken]

Great drawing uploads.
Shame that you have tore that sketchbook.
You were a professional soldier?

[Ceinwen Fang]

oh wow I am in love with this painting! http://conceptart.org/forums/attachm...1&d=1293627350
just plain fantastic!

[Sivonja]

@ LtPlissken tnx, hehe i fihed it with powertape , Yeah i was professional soldier in period 1997-1999 in Sombor Military airport (granicne jedinice), after NATO aggresssion i quit and start live "normal" life.

@ larchist thanks i am glad u like it , u have very nice horses in ur SB.


Ok, continuing with SB2 ...this time i will upload some Van Gogh studies , i love him as person of first place then i love his outstanding paintings ...here is someting from his SB.

[LtPlissken]

Happy new Year my friend!
Thank you very much for replying in my sketcbook,
you know I always appreciate that.
Your posted graphite pieces are great.
I like that you are studying the older great artists.

[shiNIN]

YAY! It's a very nice sketchbook, obviously there are room for improvement but very interesting Totally to my liking. Horse... cow... some lively faces... I looked at them very quickly because I want to draw myself and I'm tired, I'll look at them later more thoroughly
Keep it up, I wanna see moar
/subscribed.

[devastacio]

Hello there,

Thanks for visiting my sb mate. Really appreciate it.

Van Gogh is a one hell of an artist. love his work. I guess you did the last pieces well.Also thanks a lot for sharing these artwork and the information about them. Every little piece counts.

Keep up the good work mate. will visit your sb later to see more updates.

[Sivonja]

@ LtPlissken , tnx , i realy love old masters , specialy Van Gogh and Edvard Munch , i love expresionism and impresionism ...for me thats golden age of Art.

@ shiNIN thanks alot for visiting my SB , i am glad u like it

@ devastacio , thanks i can say too that i appreciate that u come at my SB again ...it's very important to me and every support is more than welcome.


- Van Gogh part :2

[devastacio]

Hi there,

Well im so glad you share these pieces with us mate because we get a chance to learn as well. Im sure these studies will payoff in the long run so keep it up. Even i would love to follow these studies but i have to finish my anatomy studies and thats going to take a while. I simply love the line-styles in these studies. No wonder hes a master artist eh?

Keep up the good work mate. will drop by later to see more work of yours.

[LtPlissken]

Van Gogh part 2 post looks very interesting,
Although these drawings are done somewhere nine
and ten years ago, they look excellent. I would
like to see some of your today's concepts and ideas
mixed in between these.
Keep posting.

[Sivonja]

@ devastacio thanks m8 , he was awesome artist and we can learn alot from him ,but in first place we can learn from him how to be human .....if u like Van Gogh then i reccomend u to read book called "Lust for Life" written by Irving Stone ... u will surprise how big was Van Gogh.

@ LtPlissken Thanks m8 , and specialy for u here is some my latest works ...its some drawings for current COTW 4 horsemen of apocalypse ...i jumped in that competition very late and i am not sure that i will finish my work before deadline ,i will do my best ...i not expect anything on that competition , than to be part of it ...one vote will be enough for me

Here is sketches of War and Conquest and final work will be all 4 horsemens on one canvas

[shiNIN]

Cool horses I like your style. And horses. And your horses
It's Chow btw, H is especially important because there's Cow too... Don't you think about participating in that?
(I would be happy if I did a few sketches for the current long Chow at least but no, I do anything else instead of that... Chow is my big goal here, from the start. Just to participate with something I'm pleased with. Cow would be great too...)

I think the horseman are definitely weaker than the horses and Chow originally focuses on the characters, that's why it's called Chow... They are a bit wonky perspective/anatomy wise or something and have less character.
It sounds so harsh, I totally can't say anything advise just say my opinion... :-/

[LtPlissken]

If you are working for the Character of the Week contest, then I think
that it should go like 'CHOW'.
Very interesting, you have your own style indeed.
I did not read the rules in the Chow section, does the horse have
to be of mechanical nature, or was that your decision?
I will not search for any anatomical or proportion issues, cause
I know that you done intentionally this kind of abstract style.
Definitely yours will be a different from the others. Way to go.
Hope yo will manage to finish them all on time, and you will surely
get my vote.

[ThomasM]

nice studies you have so far. I would crit that you should try and increase the differences in line width and weight. Try and include lots of different variations of pencil mark in your drawings.

good luck

[devastacio]

Hey these CHOW concepts got some unique style into em mate. btw in the 'Conquest' ground plane looks too flat to me. may be some few variations will fix it. just a thought.

Ill be there for the voting. i just love these pieces.

Thanks for mentioning the book mate. really appreciate it. Will try to buy it soon as possible. i know very little about this great artist. now that you aroused my curiosity, cant wait till i get that book. May he rest in peace.

btw this is my favorite Van Gogh piece: The Potato Eaters. simply love the mood in it.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...sser-03850.jpg

[qlotzan]

thanks for your stopping in my SB, wow that nice improvment from the first post until now
Your life study really interesting and you have a unique imagenation too that make your art very srtrong

keep it up

qlotzan

[Sivonja]

@ shiNIN Thanks , yeah it's CHOW ....i made typo (thats my middle name ) and yes u are right that horsemans is weaker than horses ...but for me one horseman of apocalipse is horseman+horse , and yes u can draw them without horses ..there is no rules about that , also i know i will not win , i just want to be part of competition for me not important to win, it is important to participate

@ LtPlissken it's my idea to be mechanical horses , and i will work hard to finish them on time , thx for support

@ ThomasM ,thanks for visiting my SB , and thanks for tips ,i will try to improve my skills in future

@ devastacio thanks mate, u are right about ground plane ...thats same ground as on war just reversed and added some light effect ...tbh i not payed too much attention on that for now ,because it's not neccesary for competition , so i do it very quick just to not have empty space around character....that Van Gogh pic rocks ...i love his room and sunflowers

@ qlotzan Thakns for visiting my SB , i ma glad u like it and that u see some progress


Continuing with my sketches here is some portraits from old SB ,nothing special about that ...for all portraits i haved live models and not too much knowledge so u will found many mistakes on them

[Kungfoowiz]

Hey bro

Thank you for your kind words.. yip, you are working nicely on your faces. There is some stuff on the Vitruvian man for faces http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitruvian_Man.

Keep up the good work. =)

[Nemome]

Yeah!
Your heads are coming along nice!
Just keep practicing anatomy too, it is really necessary for your head drawings if you want to keep improving
You are on a good way.

Greetings Sil and thank you for comment on my sketchbook!

[LtPlissken]

Actually, you nailed the head shapes and the
facial features real nice, considering that the heads
are in a various tilted and rotated positions.
And I do not know are you familiar with the fact,
but most of them here claim that drawing from life
is one of the most useful thing for the artist in his
row of improvement. Well then, I guess that you did
a very useful and good job back them. Experience points are
a great thing, and you are just collecting them slowly but
surely. Keep up with the good work.

[shiNIN]

Indeed, there are various issues regarding those portraits... The most frequent is the somewhat oversized eyes and the features don't make a whole consistent head. You need practice as practically all of us. But there are character and variety in those faces and it's not bad to look at them at all I find the third one the most expressive (too big eyes and top of head by the way).

[devastacio]

Hello there,

These portraits look good but you could make em much better if you do some head studies/facial features, photo ref drawings and life drawings. Grab couple of fashion mags and draw away!

About your chow entry: I noticed theres a white outline under the hoofs. it makes the horse look like as if its above the ground level. you may wanna change it before submission. Just a thought

Keep up the good work mate.

[Sivonja]

@ Kungfoowiz , tnx m8 i know theory ,just need alot practice and time


@ Silwynar , tnx Sil , yeah anathomy is very important for drawings .. also very complicated , i am still not ready for that ,but in future i plan to pay more attention on it


@ LtPlissken tnx my friend u are right about that , bad thing is that live models is very hard to find


@ shiNIN tnx for commnet , yes i need alot to practice , and eyes is very badly drawn i need to work more with eyes and proportions and anathomy too


@ devastacio tnx mate , yes ur tip about reference will have epilogue later in my SB ...when i start to draw i made alot portraits from imagine then i realised that is not good ,and i use some fashion magazine and work with ref. i was surprised how it is different ....later i will post all that sketches ....and i will remind u on that. about CHOW ...its not final version of my work ...and i know about that , thx anyway for help


Here is other portraits and one figure...first is live model , second is is some girl from magazine third is from imagination ,and last one is whole figure from imagination ,most of them is drawn with only HB pencil , sometimes i used black crayons on some sketches.

[shiNIN]

I accidentally clicked and lost my comment... sorry but I'm so tired. I will be even more quick I was before (but I was thinking and it took time... not the crit, the explanation in English...).

First: The most serious issue: right corner of mouth (her right, our left) and right eye turn away from us, it affects their shape and the drawing shows nothing of it.

Second: High forehead is considered not very appealing in woman. It's so huge I even doubt it's realistic. The mouth looks strange, I never saw a mouth shaped anything like this.

Third: I love it, it has that something that makes me forget its flaws
You did something incredible here... Huge forehead... long nose... and she's still pretty! You defy rules of aestetics Nice expression.
I notice the unusually shaped cranium but I don't mind it. It's even possible, some old folks had the custom that made something like this with the skull. Natural cranium shapes are wonderful as well and I don't mind stylization if you can pull it off nicely
But the eyes are too close together.
I got motivated, I will draw her and produce such a different picture no one can stop me from uploading it... But I tell you, maybe you like when you motivate others or something

[ThomasM]

great portrait work you are doing lately - this is the sort of study that will definitely pay off in the future. If you can do an accurate portrait of someone you can basically draw anything!

No crits, just more more more!

[LtPlissken]

More interesting head and face drawings, very nice.
However I am not sure how useful is for me to lay some more serious
crirts down here, cause I know that these drawings are more than 10 year
old and that you have improved in skills and quality much much more lately.
So the things that I am criticizing about these drawings, are almost surely
not applicable for your current knowledge level and skillset.
Anyway, a skull study, some basic anatomy study is a must, if you are
taking more serious your portrait drawing career. You tend to chop off the
back off the head, or you just do not thinking about the structure of the
head. You also used to draw an eye in its symbol phase, and not as a
three dimensional subject or invention. These are very basic mistakes, but as I said earlier
no need to take them seriously cause I believe that you already fixed these issues under your
hood after ten years.

Bottom line is that I appreciate your presence here, your dedication and
your regular updates. Hope that you will keep your good habits.
Cheers.

[Sivonja]

@ shiNIN tnx for nice tips , yes i love when i motivating someone ,also love when someone motivate mee too

@ ThomasM thanks for visitng my SB and leave comment


@ LtPlissken thanks m8 , portraits is what i do in past ,today i not doing portraits ,it's complicated and need very good skills , maybe in future i will do it again noone knows



and here is small daily update
first one is hand study , second is one landscape study and last two is scketch of one old master Otto Miller "Autoportrait with act" from 1920. hehe i should put Mild nudity on thread

[LtPlissken]

Great pencils, just as always buddy.

[Sivonja]

I finaly ...famine is finished ....one more to go ...enjoy

[meth]

cool works Sivonja, you definitely made some progress. Will stop by from time to time to see what's new. Ili mozesh da me pecnesh na gmail

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