Sketchbook dell'Aria: Updated 4/24

**l'Aria** · January 8th, 2011, 10:24 PM

I've been lurking around here for awhile, but I hadn't mustered up the courage until now to actually post. I'm 16 and self-taught aside from the usual high school art classes. My New Year's resolution is to improve considerably by this year's end, so any advice is greatly appreciated!

Hope you enjoy my work

**viki oh** · January 8th, 2011, 10:53 PM

wow, you have great rendering skills so far. you seem to understand photoshop too, nice paintings! It would be nice to see you experiment with textures

keep doing studies and see if you can apply it to stuff from imagination!

**smael** · January 8th, 2011, 11:05 PM

i like the man and girl^^, have you fulfiled draw by imagination? (sorry for my bad english^^)

**FourTonMantis** · January 8th, 2011, 11:21 PM

Your rendering skills are impressive, but there are some structural problems in those portraits, especially on the guy. His mouth is off center and his nose looks like it's been pasted onto his face. There's also something weird going on with the rendering there...like his nose is burnt or scarred or something. Try flipping the pic horizontally. I also think you could have pushed the contrast on that one. Otherwise, your stuff is pretty good, especially for how young you are. Keep it up!

**CornMan** · January 9th, 2011, 06:01 AM

Nice start! Your strength is absolutely rendering, get other fundamentals up to par and you'll be deadly.

**Ceinwen Fang** · January 9th, 2011, 07:14 AM

nicely handled, practice practice!

**l'Aria** · January 9th, 2011, 12:41 PM

Thank you all so much for your inputs thus far!

viki oh: Thanks! I have experimented with textures before (I kind of abuse them, actually haha) but I usually save that for my more refined works. Maybe I'll start using them in my studies, too.

smael: Thank you! And you're English is perfect, don't worry. (: I have plenty of paintings from imagination on my dA, but I attached three personal favorites of mine.

FourTonMantis: Thank you for your honesty. I will add highlights to his nose. I think that may fix the problem because, as it is now, it looks like it's under a different lighting which gives it that "pasted on" effect.

Here are some finished paintings I've done. The first one was modeled first in Mudbox (it was my first attempt at 3-D modeling) which I then took into Photoshop and painted over.
The second piece is probably the first environment I've done that I actually like, and the last one is a painting I did earlier last year of one of my characters but still remains to be one of my favorites.

**Crocley** · January 9th, 2011, 12:51 PM

Wow your work is incredible and i wish I'd been this good when i was sixteen.

Love the sense of depth you get from the blurred hand on the last post

**l'Aria** · January 10th, 2011, 03:21 PM

Thank you, Crocley! (:

Here's another environment I've been messing around with. I'm probably going rework it a little because it's not as I imagined.

**l'Aria** · January 12th, 2011, 12:01 PM

Here's a WIP for my first CHOW entry. I'm having way too much fun with it

Pose referenced from: http://tasastock.deviantart.com/art/...20archer&qo=24

**teapo** · January 13th, 2011, 11:55 PM

yo man~ saw your awesome entry in this week's chow and couldn't help but notice your awesome use of colors

you seem to have a great understanding with it~ really dig your work and i commend you for knowing how to 3D model!

hmm.. the only thing i have to suggest for you now is to study more environments/landscapes and your characters will have something even better to be enveloped in ^^d. keep up the great work man! and good luck with the CHOW!

**chora** · January 14th, 2011, 03:40 AM

post NO #7 second image it is very NICE man

**Netta628** · January 14th, 2011, 03:53 AM

wow..I really need to practice after seeing this!!! your amazing and your sixteen! keep up the awesome studies..I'm subbing

**l'Aria** · January 14th, 2011, 02:50 PM

teapo: Aww, thank you

And yes, I completely agree with you. I'm going to try and shift my focus from people to environments, animals, and the like.

chora: Thanks!

Netta628: haha thank you! I'm flattered

Here's my final for this week's CHOW after many excruciating hours:

**Shorinji_Knight** · January 14th, 2011, 03:12 PM

Good work.

**l'Aria** · January 17th, 2011, 07:15 PM

Shorinji_Knight: Thanks!

Still life of a few things lying around my room

Of course, I own the most complex bottle of perfume on the market.

**l'Aria** · January 25th, 2011, 10:56 PM

I'm having a bit of an art block lately, especially with environments. Here are a few rough concepts, but I can never seem to motivate myself to finish them. Any suggestions?

On another note, I'm liking how this WIP is turning out so far. The story behind it is a dark, mysterious count who hardly speaks to anyone in town takes an orphan girl under his wing to protect her from the cruelty of the other children.

**Kapil** · January 25th, 2011, 10:59 PM

Absolutely love the still life. But the perspective looks a little off.

**l'Aria** · January 27th, 2011, 11:21 PM

Kapil: Thank you! And you're probably right. I'll add that to the list of things I need to fix if and when I come back to the piece.

Another update on my WIP. Almost done rendering him!

**l'Aria** · January 30th, 2011, 01:03 AM

Done!
Architecture really isn't a strength of mine, so I'm happy with how the buildings turned out. It's a small step toward improvement

**l'Aria** · February 3rd, 2011, 10:44 PM

Self-portrait

**raminafshari** · February 4th, 2011, 05:03 AM

the man in post #7 have beautiful eyes .

**NITISH KUMAR** · February 4th, 2011, 05:19 AM

dude you are 16.....
To your age its damn good...
just keep the pencil drawing right and everything else will be fine then, thats what everyone here tells me...

**Elophant** · February 4th, 2011, 05:55 AM

Wow the stilllife looks like a high resolution 3d model. well done!

**l'Aria** · February 8th, 2011, 09:41 PM

raminafshari: Thank you!
NITISH KUMAR: Thanks! I wish I could post some of my pencil work, but my scanner is currently down

Elophant: Really? Thank you

Here's a WIP for this week's CHOW

**doodles-inc** · February 8th, 2011, 09:49 PM

Holy crap...16!!!??? You keep this, which to no doubt you will. you'll get in the industry no problem. Is your first post paintings of characters from a series called Life Unexpected? The girl really looks like the main character, Lux..

Keep on painting for sure. Nice one

**Dope Fiend** · February 8th, 2011, 09:50 PM

that still life is incredible!!! i would say the only thing you could work on is proportions, and anatomy in general, some figures look a little stiff or exaggerated, but after some studies your digis will have that much more impact

keep posting!

**l'Aria** · February 12th, 2011, 12:26 AM

Halogen: It's such a relief to hear that, thank you

And yes! I'm surprised someone around here has watched Life Unexpected. It was an awesome show, and I'm sad to see it gone.

Dope Fiend: Thanks! And no argument here. I'll keep at it

This week's CHOW. Wonky anatomy and a half-assed background. Really not my best work, but I thought I'd share it with you all anyhow.

**l'Aria** · February 20th, 2011, 04:00 PM

This week's CHOW

Pose referenced from: http://iquitcountingstock.deviantart...lery/#/d34of8e

**doodles-inc** · February 20th, 2011, 04:59 PM

Hi

Nice updates. Chow looks cool.
Ha, The first episode of Life Unexpected came on when I was sat sketching one day and I got into it. It was such a great show. Keep up your awesome work

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