Hapless Slapdashery

[Lost Shock]

I try to simplify the colors I see and roughly map stuff out using those few colors; trying to keep it clean-looking at first by using very opaque strokes. If a color I already have in my "palette" won't work for a certain area I'll make a new color, but I try not to blend stuff together until later into the painting.

Basically I try to plan out all the colors I'll use from the start, I'm still not great at it but am getting better. If I need to have a slightly different value somewhere else later, I'll take one of my colors and apply it with some transparency. I never use a blending tool, actually. I just work in varying transparencies. My brush is set to be more transparent the more pressure is applied.

Kind of difficult for me to explain it since I don't ever really think about it in such a way, so I hope I at least made SOME sense .

[Lost Shock]

Slowly working my way through this book. Another plate copy followed by another page of memory sketches.

[Lost Shock]

Another plate copy followed by page-full of memory sketches... I'm trying .

[Izi]

very sweet studies dude

[Lost Shock]

Thanks, Izi .

Not much to post, gotta try and get more done for my next update. I tried applying what I've learned thus far using photos as reference this time. It's really daunting. I'm so accustomed to copying what I see but this way I'm actually building upon a form... A lot of work to be done before I feel comfortable doing this, I guess.

Also, man, I've tried everything else I can think of to change my thread thumbnail. Do I have to delete every attachment in my first post to change it or what?

[ayoub66]

wow i see alot of hard work here great study man ; keep going

[Lost Shock]

Thanks, ayoub66

I was hesitant to post anything when the forums finally came back up since I wasn't sure how stable they were. In the meantime I've been really busy programming for another project so I haven't been drawing much at all. Updates here will probably be slow for awhile but I don't want to drop my studying so I'll try to keep up. I need a team of people to harass me when I go too long without posting .

Anyway, here are some more head sketches from photo refs using the Loomis method. Most of them were very quickly done.

[nouge]

I'll harass

Your sketches look very good. Some of them have too short a distance from the eyes to the top of the head, like the head at the middle bottom and the top right. Work on that and you'll do a leap with the Loomis heads.

First harassment: these are one and a half months old! Give us some fresh graphite.

[Lost Shock]

Thankyou nouge . I do think I draw the brow a little too high maybe half the time; need to work on that. Got to get around to doing a lot more of these but keep them less detailed. I wanted to fill a page with studies but they just took me too damn long and I've been busy lately. Will definitely keep pushing on this.

[Lost Shock]

Had to move my original post images so I can change the thread thumbnail, I guess...

[Lost Shock]

And limited to 20 images per post .

Alright, feel bad for having to reply to my own thread so many times, haha. I'll just go.

[Lost Shock]

Still have a lot to learn...

[nouge]

And you're doing that when you're laying down the work! Good job, keep going

[Greenhouse]

Hey, very impressive studies! I really like the effort you doing with the Loomis heads!
I love the color palett you're using. The still digital work looks so smooth and the lightning is great! You capture the shapes and volumes very well! The acrylic is also very beautiful!
Keep up the good work!

[Lost Shock]

Thanks, nouge and Greenhouse!

Got sick awhile ago and my focus was, meh... I have a lot of scribbles I probably won't upload so here's some other stuff. Also, my entry for Self Portrait Day; I'm beautiful!

[Fuggedaboudit]

1. Beautiful Pencildrawings
2. I like those caricature skull studies!
3. Those vibrant colours in the stills are truly beastly good!

[anivy]

Love your sketchbook! You have such beautiful studies here, I particularly love your use of colour!

[razz]

Great studies! Don't forget to flex your imagination muscles too, though ;]

[Lost Shock]

Thanks, everyone! Definitely, Razz, one of my biggest weaknesses is imagination. Which is why I've been working so hard on these head studies. Trying to gradually tech myself how to build stuff from the basics and lessen my reliance on reference. That being said... I've been working hard to try and fill a new sketchbook with studies. Almost half way to half way there!



I'm feeling quite a bit more confident after doing these for a few days. Most of these were done from imagination/memory aside from the Loomis plate copies, of course. Would really appreciate any criticisms that may help me out if I'm getting something consistently wrong. Got a lot more of the book left to go through. GOTTA FILL THIS SKETCHBOOK!

[anivy]

wow you've been working really hard! those loomis heads are great! I did a few but I really ought to do more like you have - looking great keep it up!!

[nouge]

Hey man, good job on those heads! Your imagination heads are taking on a consistent form, which'll be great when you iron some mistakes out of them. The main ones I see are that you give the cranium too little volume (alternatively that the facial features are too large, especially eyes), and that you're not overlapping some of the volumes of the face as much as they should. Compare the noses in your imagination heads with the ones from Loomis or photo, and you'll find that you're trying to avoid letting eyes, cheek-bones or mouths get overlapped by the nose, although this will happen at extreme angles. Practice tough angles like the one in the middle of this picture to get a feel for this overlapping, at least I found it very helpful:


Keep it up, man!

[Lost Shock]

Thank you Anivy and Nouge .

I'll definitely put a lot more focus on practicing "extreme" angles. Specifically ones involving foreshortening since I really do need to improve on that. Most of this stuff is, again, from memory. I'll work on some more photo studies next.



My goal by the time I fill all the pages in this sketchbook is to see marked improvement in my understanding of how to draw heads using the Loomis method.

[BlackDelphin]

Wah! Lots, and lost, and LOTS of head studies! Great! They look good and the lines are clean.
I particularly like the lines on your figure work.

[Lucarky]

Beautiful pencil line. And you have an impressive perception of color, light and forms. I think there is a lot to learn from your works.

[Neyut]

Heyho
you kill me with all these head studies xD
but I think you are too concentrated on these helplines, so you loose easily the overview over your proportions and stop experimenting with non-given lines like lower jaw forms. Try to draw with fewer helplines, maybe just the circle, earline and horizontal and vertical middle line. Merry christmas

[Lost Shock]

Thanks a ton, everyone! I've been preoccupied with many other things since my last post; I've really let my studies slip. Working on actual concept art which I'll post some point in the future as well .

Neyut, I'll try being more loose and rely less on helplines in the future. Again, thanks, and Happy New Year!

Below is a sad small amount of studies I've done recently and a figure sketch I did quite awhile ago but totally forgot to upload. There are a few more studies but I'm all discombobulated and can't remember what I've saved or uploaded. I'll have a ton more stuff soon, I swear!

[Ambiguity]

Holy crap you've done a lot of head studies, nice work.

I really like what you did with the colors on that old grey Game Boy.

[Palespyder]

Your still lifes are sick, I am both jealous and inspired by your stuff. Amazing.

[rumpenstiltzkin]

great studies, but man, thats wicked awesome still lifes! ^^

[handu]

i love ur study and strokes .... good job ...... ur still lifes are of great quality ...