Saura Sketchbook

[Saurabhinator]

some quickies. I think I'll spend a bit more time on pencil sketches to build understanding + visual library.

[Saurabhinator]

practicing actually making some designs. man I need a much bigger visual library.

[James Thomas]

Interesting work, i see your really trying to explore design methods of producing more definitive illustrations!

[Saurabhinator]

I dont really know any 'design methods'. I just draw from life, try to build my visual library then try to draw whatever comes into my head.

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some quickies. Been so long.

[Saurabhinator]

more sketches for ma sketchbuk.

[ironchicken]

Love the mixture of ponies and heavy machinery. Keep on going.

[Saurabhinator]

more sketches.

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more sketches. this round is pretty bad. I felt like all my sketches ended up lookin bad tonight. :/ .

[yochanan]

Recognized your name from TL! Nice work man, it's quite obvious that you've invested time and effort into basic perspective and I'd say it's been worth it for sure. Try to identify the mistakes in your drawings if you feel like they're bad for some reason. Just telling yourself "this drawing is bad" really does you no good, but if you can identify what made it bad and take steps to improve on whatever went wrong for the next one, you'll have learned from your mistakes and that's worth a bad drawing!

[Saurabhinator]

@yochanan I don't think I recognise you from TL! last night it was more of trying to come up with concepts and continually trashing them. Dunno if it's normal for 90% of concepts to be bad or if I can reduce that percentage. With practice I shall see.

catster's commission complete.

[Saurabhinator]

top 4 reference used:
http://sceptre63.deviantart.com/

[Saurabhinator]

I tried to draw cars but then all my skills up and left so i drew poni instead. :c.
drawing ponies feels somewhat therapeutic and relaxing.

[Saurabhinator]

ref used: http://sceptre63.deviantart.com/
I need so much practice. ; _;

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some practice.

[vetega]

really dug this! I know those are ponys and all that but the colors are just epic on that wide piece

[Saurabhinator]

@vetega: thanks man! the client really liked it too.

some more practice:

[will123will]

really nice sketches, love how it's like industrial meets cute lol.

[Saurabhinator]

gotta keep practicing.

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more practice.

[Saurabhinator]

noticing some improvement in skills. Getting addicted to this improvement. .

[Saurabhinator]

Too tired to do more. :/

[Saurabhinator]

bah too tired to try. = _=

[Saurabhinator]

quickies

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another quickie

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some studies

[telohs]

lots of great drawings you got here, but in many cases your colors looks too unrealistic and doesn't fit together that well. I would recommend you to do some color studies and also read up on some theory.

The main problem I see is that your colors seems to be too saturated, and also it seems like there is something missing in the value specter too, remember to push the values, or else it's going to look flat and boring.

All that being said, keep it up man! Those perspective drawings of yours are really interesting, good vehicles and so on.

[Saurabhinator]

yeah I'm studying some more life so I can get a better handle of colour. One day I want to sit down and study Briggs' dimension of colour thing.

[Saurabhinator]

another study. I somewhat ragequitted this one after flailing around a bit.

[Saurabhinator]

scuse me. pony post. :v .

edit:
+ car