Logistic Puppets sketchbook

**warburton** · January 30th, 2011, 08:56 AM

Hi, my names Will Warburton and i'm an artist trying to get beter so that one day I can do this for a living.

Ive still got a long way to go, but if you want to see my most recent stuff please go to the last page.

Here goes, my journey to improvement.

**warburton** · January 30th, 2011, 09:39 AM

Ive started drawing self portraits everyday to try and improve my skills. I'll be posting my efforts everyday. Theres a couple more but heres a few from last week.

Last being most recent and visa versa.

**warburton** · January 30th, 2011, 11:07 AM

Todays efforts. Also, I forgot to say, any crits comments and tips are ALWAYS welcome.

One day I may get the balls to finish those eyes...

Thanks

**warburton** · January 31st, 2011, 10:27 AM

Eyes are hard to draw =/

**dsacc** · January 31st, 2011, 11:36 AM

Cool, nice work so far. I hope to see some pencil sketches too sometime, anyway keep it up.

**warburton** · January 31st, 2011, 03:21 PM

dsacc thx man, i'll be sure to get some pencil sketches in here soon.

Figured i'd put these up. Some more quick portraits tryin to capture different expressions.

Lips are hard to draw...

**warburton** · February 1st, 2011, 04:51 AM

Daily portrait.

**warburton** · February 2nd, 2011, 12:14 PM

Todays is prity horrible. I'll work on this one again, also I hope to throw some colour onto portraits soon.

**warburton** · February 3rd, 2011, 06:58 AM

Uuurgh, don't ask about those eyes. It was going ok till i tried to do them...

Need to study eyes.

**warburton** · February 5th, 2011, 03:17 PM

I didnt have chance to upload my daily portrait yesterday because ive been away for a couple of days. Also I had little time to do these so please excuse the crapness of them ;p

Peace

**warburton** · February 6th, 2011, 09:55 AM

Daily portrait

**warburton** · February 6th, 2011, 09:58 AM

Also, abit late but my C.O.W#200 entry

**warburton** · February 7th, 2011, 05:43 PM

Short on time again =(

Around 30 mins today, usually spend just over an hour per portrait.

**warburton** · February 8th, 2011, 06:42 PM

A little tip to whoever might read this who is having trouble drawing faces, try and work on the face as a whole. I have this bad habit of leaving the eyes till the end, and then they end up looking dumb like these.

**warburton** · February 9th, 2011, 10:17 AM

My first attempt with colour.

**warburton** · February 10th, 2011, 06:48 PM

Feel prity K.O'd tonight and need to sleep. On complete automatic pilot with this one, but its here regardless....

Also, attempt at still life speed paint. Need to do more of these also...

**warburton** · February 11th, 2011, 05:45 PM

I started this straight in colour. No black and white mock up first. I even suprised myself tonight, I didnt think I was capable of this so im kinda happy. Still not perfect though (I hate doing eyes!!) but this is probably closest yet.

Any thoughts or advice which can help me get beter? I'm open to any comments or feedback no matter how harsh they may be so please feel free to share your feelings.

**warburton** · February 12th, 2011, 05:52 AM

Closer again, but it looks way beter without pupils. Still cant seem to get those eyes right.....

**Velocity Kendall** · February 12th, 2011, 06:14 AM

theres not a great deal wrgon with these, i like the colours on 11/02. with the eyes, study how much of the circular iris is cut off at the top and bottom, this is a very important part of expression. Someone whos full fo adrenaline, or looking down at you, will have a white space above their iris, making their eyes look wide and staring. someone whos sleepy will have much of the top halfcut off, and look drowsy, etc

http://www.google.co.uk/images?q=loc...w=1288&bih=658

**warburton** · February 13th, 2011, 03:48 PM

Velocity Kendall Thanks for the advice man, i'll be sure to do lots of studies of eyes in the near future and take what you said on board.

Also, in relation to what Velocity Kendall said, I thought i'd try something abit different. Still abit screwed up but I lol when I finished this.

Thanks for taking the time to see my progess.

**warburton** · February 14th, 2011, 02:37 PM

Todays attempt. I was playing around with colour abit and messed this one up in areas. Recovered it sort of but the mouth and eyes are still prity screwed.

**warburton** · February 15th, 2011, 06:40 PM

Speedy late night portrait. Focusing back on values to get beter form. Or something along those lines lol =p

**warburton** · February 16th, 2011, 04:36 PM

Tonight I tried to be more delibrate with my colour. Cold light, warm shadows. Think it worked..

Also, I managed to fuck up the eyes again. Kinda annoying

Tomorrow I do lots of eye studies in my sketchbook...

Ill try and get them scanned and show them on here.

**warburton** · February 17th, 2011, 05:15 PM

Just looking back at my fast portraits, hit my 31st tonight and i guess i can kinda see improvements but they still feel messed up.
One day I might get beter.

**warburton** · February 18th, 2011, 04:35 PM

Daily update

**warburton** · February 19th, 2011, 03:46 PM

Might be me being overly ambitious or critical but i don't feel i'm progressing fast enough, so i'm going to up my daily homework. One portrait a day and AT LEAST one page of traditional studies (whether it be anatomy, portraits, still life animals, whatever).
I'll try to post my sketchbook stuff each weekend instead of everyday because I currently dont have a scanner

Thanks for viewing my progress!

**Exon-Ion** · February 19th, 2011, 04:23 PM

Nice start, and welcome to CA! digitals looking good, not much I can give since I lack the similair exp, how bout we see some traditonal work too, keep it up!

**warburton** · February 20th, 2011, 05:17 PM

Exon-Ion Thanks for the encouragement man, its greatly appreciated

Also, LOTS of traditional stuff on there way soon. Thanks for the tip.

Bad news. The pen with my tablet broke today, so my digital art is out the window till I get it replaced

Also, I dont have a scanner so its a real pain in the ass to get my traditional stuff onto this thread...

Still doesnt stop me from doing my portraits though, i'll prob upload the weeks on friday or saturday until i get my tablet sorted (R.I.P wacom bamboo)

Been a while since I did some pencil stuff, and to be honest, i'm really not feeling it. Not only is my pencil stuff really crappy but I struggle to get into it =/

(Also, I think its worth pointing out I drew this on a angle, and when I came to look at it straight on, it looked stretched. oops lol.)

Heres todays crappy attempt anyways, any suggestions, crits etc etc as always, are greatly appreciated

**Velocity Kendall** · February 20th, 2011, 05:21 PM

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/att...1&d=1297630057

nailed it. best one so far.

**warburton** · February 26th, 2011, 01:41 PM

Velocity Kendall Thanks alot man, your advice on the eyes helped me alot with that one. And thanks also for visiting my sketchbook again.

Ive been doing traditional stuff which ill scan in tomorrow over the week ive been away from this sketchbook. It still kinda sucks and i find it hard to get into pencil drawing. Kinda feels to restricting, maybe ive been spoilt by photoshop

Anyways, i got a new tablet so my digital paints are back. (Ill continue with the traditional stuff also).

Peace

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