Othrandir's guide to whatever

**Sickbrush** · September 20th, 2012, 11:59 AM

keep the studies up man, it's looking better and better

**cgaddict** · September 21st, 2012, 07:41 AM

Now that's what I call an update! Looks like you tackled a bit of everything, and it's definitely gonna pay off! Really enjoy some of the character and creature concepts, the designs are very solid. Keep it up, very inspiring!

**Othrandir** · September 21st, 2012, 10:41 AM

Sickbrush - Thanks a lot man!! Good to have you here

cgaddict - Ow shit! Nice to hear from you man! How've you been? Haha , I still can't get that there are people that get inspired by me when I can see how shit my stuffs are

Anatomy is my greatest enemy and my dearest friend...

okaaay , so it's time for the super crappy post of the page!! After all there HAS to be a crappy post on a page , right??

pencil craps ( I actually really enjoyed doing the creatures )

aand some digi sketches. First one is from this morning very early and I was suuuper sleepy ( at least that's my excuse of why it's so bad haha

)

1 hour thing right when I got back from school... ( probably even less than 1 hour , I dunno , I was paying more attention to the Brad Rigney's old Crimson Daggers interview from 2009 ... DAMN that guy's inspiring!!

)

random 15 minute shit

)))

**Othrandir** · September 22nd, 2012, 05:26 PM

so here's today stuff. Waaay too little for the free time I had...damn me and my lazy ass...

Here's some sketchbook shit , all from imagination ( please , excuse the horrible quality )

15 minute photo studies ( guess where I learned that from

)

2 doodles

tried to give this guy sort of a tired look...guess I failed pretty hard

and an update on that already so oooold painting

**Othrandir** · September 23rd, 2012, 12:54 PM

Time to share today's ventures

I got up at 11 o' clock , so I lost half my day. Too bad , although I think I kinda made up for it...

a 40 minute doodle

random creepy girl from imagination

15 minute studies again ( turns out they help a lot!!

)

a doodle went terribly wrong

( I thought I should post it anyway

)

Today , I started a Bouguereau study too... damn was that guy good :X I'll be lucky if I even come close to his colors...

also here's a wip on a study on hold

**Othrandir** · September 25th, 2012, 03:53 PM

time for today's post!!

some leg studies

some hand studies

Bumskee figures

doodles

**Othrandir** · September 28th, 2012, 09:43 AM

more Horrible penciiees!

everything but the girl poses is from imagination

**Othrandir** · September 30th, 2012, 01:44 PM

pretty much just doooodles

a pretty girl I saw on the bus , that I tried to paint when I came home

Eragon fanart sketch - Saphira

and a really crappy sketch

**Othrandir** · October 1st, 2012, 12:28 AM

Just a ' lil bit of sketching before school

**wutangclam** · October 1st, 2012, 01:43 AM

your improvement is incredible! truly inspiring! how many hours a day do you draw?!~

**017Hoff** · October 1st, 2012, 11:01 PM

Wow! This is great! I am the same age but not nearly as good. You really helped motivate me to kick my butt into gear! Thanks and good luck!

**Othrandir** · October 2nd, 2012, 11:24 AM

wutangclam - Thank you! Well , definitely not as much as I'd like

The truth is school is really exhausting me and sometimes it's hard to sit down , focus and do some studies , you know? But in a day , I'd say about 5 hours minimum.But there are times like yesterday when I drew like 11-12 hours , or some other days , wher I don't draw at all.They are pretty rare though.Whenevr I don't draw I start feeling really guilty

017Hoff - Thank you man!I'm glad you got something out of this crappy sketchbook!

Remember it's never too late!
P.S. Lovely signature!

Ok. Let's start with the boring stuff

some eyes

figures then some proportion reminding sketch

some crazy fast terribly uninspired heads

did some life drawing of a skull...goooood is life drawing fun damn! I HATE PHOTOS NOW!

sketchbooky and digital doodles

and a painting I did through the night... probably about 5-6 hours. Finished 3:30 a.m. andI had school the next day...which is today

Too bad I don't have much to offer from today.I'm just so freaking tired

**TNiznet** · October 2nd, 2012, 06:20 PM

Keep it uppp, I want to see some moar studiess!

**Eleyon** · October 2nd, 2012, 06:30 PM

I think that you need a more accurate study about body and faces propotions, for ex. the 3rd picture has a problem with the legs, they're too short compared to the upper part of the bodies. Also the girl portait in the 7, the nose is looooong XD, be careful! Take your time to see if the proportions are right

the digital painting is nice!

**wutangclam** · October 3rd, 2012, 11:48 PM

thanks for getting back to me man! i love that design in her staff!

**Othrandir** · October 4th, 2012, 09:44 AM

TNiznet - moar studies coming up!

Eleyon - Yeah , you're right , I have a lot of problems with proportion among other things.Still trying to fix those

wutangclam - sure , I got back to you man! Every comment on this sketchbook get's the deserved reply.RThank you for coming by and checking my shit out.

starting with the studies as always

just 2 pages of anatomy

some photo studies

doodles

trying out a cool color palette I did. I suck .

**Othrandir** · October 5th, 2012, 12:32 PM

kinda pushed on the studies today...thank god (or whatever

) the weekend is coming up.I needed the free time.

I'm super sorry about the super sucky pictures...

continued with the leg studies , some from imagination , some from Bridgman

started doing head studies

skull shit from photos

skull shit from imagination

trying to apply the skull shit with fast head sketches

two studies from photos

Damn...I gotta get my anatomy straight...

**Othrandir** · October 6th, 2012, 12:49 PM

Some figures from mind

faces from mind

did this doodle in the morning - sorta tryed to get more of a movie-like feel...failed pretty hard

redid an old painting

before

after

I know it still sucks , but meh... I don't care

**kevin_** · October 6th, 2012, 01:51 PM

nice updates, digging the pencils!

**Othrandir** · October 7th, 2012, 12:30 PM

kevin_ - Thanks , man!

Quick study from this morning

sketch for a painting...damn it took me quite a while to clean up the lines

progress... still very much a WIP

**WoofyDesigns** · October 7th, 2012, 12:35 PM

Very awesome sketchbook man! Keep up the great work!

**Othrandir** · October 8th, 2012, 01:08 PM

WoofyDesigns - Thank you!

holy crap...busy day today...I could squeeze out only these two little pages...some anatomy and page from imagination...

**Othrandir** · October 10th, 2012, 01:09 AM

Some more pencils ( all from imagination ) and I slapped a bit of values and color on an old pencil sketch.So fun...

**Othrandir** · October 10th, 2012, 01:10 AM

Some more pencils ( all from imagination ) and I slapped a bit of values and color on an old pencil sketch.So fun...

**OnkelJoe** · October 10th, 2012, 10:02 AM

i love the last dragon sketch, just give it some harder edges and horns that fit to eachother (they seem to be a bit off

)

**Othrandir** · October 11th, 2012, 11:15 AM

OnkelJoe - meeh , he's a weirdo

The rest of the dragons don't like him because he's got different horns

penciiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiils!! Pretty much all I could do at school today

Torso studies - the one where it says Bridgman references has bridgman references

oh , and there's some in the first one too , the rest is from imagination

doodles

**Othrandir** · October 11th, 2012, 04:47 PM

did a bit more work on this tonight...damn I'm tired

**Othrandir** · October 12th, 2012, 02:17 PM

started with four pages of quick figures from imagination at school

then some doodles ( super shitty photos...i know )

then I worked some more on the painting I'm getting more and more tired with

here's a close-up of the demon's head

**Othrandir** · October 13th, 2012, 05:01 PM

3 mins till midnight , HAVE TO MAKE TODAY'S POST!!

hands from life

hands from master's reference ( tried to make them more water-colory)

10 minute studies

one longer photo study...damn my anatomy...damn that face...damn.

damn...I'm late by 36 seconds

**razz** · October 14th, 2012, 10:49 AM

Keep working on those studies, you're doing a good job. Make sure you learn something from each of them too ;] Perhaps do some more longer ones too, it helps to have the time and get into what is what and then for it to end up in your memory and not just fade away.