Leo's sketchbook 2013 life drawing is good for you!

[ill_Buny]

You are progressing, man. I like a direction you are moving on. The more emotions in your drawings The more I love it. My favorites are last horses and a bearded man. Little advise - I think you should work on human faces, they look stiff (with some exceptions), draw them with emotions, I see you can catch it. Keep going, very nice sketchbook

[Shahan]

damn man, that horse is looking perfect I love it!!! Overall the line quality has become neat and solid, you've developed your own style. Keep it up, explore and complicate your toons!

[dimi]

line has improved greatly from the first pages wel done for that and will get better, i see u are getting familiar with forms also keep it up and u will see more improvement good luck m8!

[chevy28360]

I like your lines! Your definitely going in the right direction. Keep pumping those pose and anatomy studies out because every bit of mileage helps. Your 'disney' style horse in the last post looks freaking great. The lines are just enough to suggest mass without being so detailed that it loses that stylized flavor. Good stuff.

[lionheartGFX]

@ill bunny hey tanks for coming by, you are right on the stiffness sometimes i hope the quick portraits help to fix that, tho i am going to study separate features and get around those better, i loved drawing maximus and actually i learned ALOT about dynamism in animals its awesome!
@Shahan hey thanks for the useful advice, im having trouble working from my head sometimes but im getting through it i just have to keep the machine well oiled
@dimi Thanks! i will keep it up!
@chevy28360 wow thank you so much for that nice comment, and its good to see the line economy is improving i just wish it grew faster! hahaha

well did some digital quick figures, from ref some 1 minutes some 2 and the last are 5 minutes each i want more accuracy with my tablet!!

[Yemi775]

Yummy gestures, moar! you should also try doing them paper.

[lionheartGFX]

@yemi775 hey thanks! i did tho some on paper, im trying to be balanced right now, tho i think it would be best if i stray from linework in the tablet and leave that to color

wow just finished another notebook, this one started in december 4th DAMN 9 days and the sketchbook is finished i have no idea if that is a good thing or not, anyway i got only one left, i have to make more when i get home for holidays D:


this was a ctrl+paint assignment i did the blending the forms were the reference

[Kerah]

Inspiring workalcoholism ! There is evident improvement from page 1, keep pushing!

[Nickodemus]

Hey man - Thanks for stopping by my sketchbook and the nice comments.

I think you have some really solid anatomically sound sketches here. You just need to push it more. Repetition, everyday, is key.

I've got a copy of the Tangled artbook myself. Not sure if that's what you were using for reference, but definitely a great art book to have in your collection.

[kingkostas]

Thats a good value exercise, keep doing these. I dont have any more feedback right now. Try to remind yourself to seeing and drawing/painting anything as 3d forms, well its a matter of doing more and more, keep up mate !!!

[lionheartGFX]

@keah hey thanks for stopping by! and do expect even more workaholicness :B
@Nickodemus yeah i dont own the arbook but i found some production drawings at the living lines library blog thanks for the kind words!
@Kingcostas HEY thank you very very much for stopping by sir! i will keep doing more value studies and more and more stuff yeshh

ive been slacking lately nooooo but im getting ready for a major gear change here are the stuffs alot of hands and my friends from life i want to draw from life even more!

[Hyunjae]

Hey keep up the good work, your anatomy and gesture are getting better and better!

[Yemi775]

i see some figures on paper, keep them up. also try to study anatomy as well.

[lionheartGFX]

@Hyunjae hey thank you very much im working to make it even better! and faster haha
@Yemi775 thanks for stopping by i will continue my anatomy studies in the future thank for dropping by yemi keep up the awesome work!

tomorrow i will upload my notebook stuff, mainly stuff referenced from the World of warcraft artbook, im just having fun until i go home in january i will explode with energy to take on another year

[LtPlissken]

You are drawing like a maniac indeed. Your
improvements are leveling up. Papa Bear
would be proud on you.

[lionheartGFX]

@LTplissken hey lt thanks for the visit! i need to draw even moooooore!!

so theese actually i like a little bit, and i learned alot about pose and foreshortening anatomy-wise it was just a refreshment but still the concept for warcraft are AMAZING back to the lab!!

[Liberty]

Awesome drawings, keep the natural progress going.

[lionheartGFX]

@liberty thank you so much and yeah i will

ok so back in the groove, i got a couple of things i want to try before this year is over, mainly to come up with a not too hard structure for my weekly training
i got alot to break through in 2013 anyway a friend of mine helped me with the values on the breaking bad drawing maaaaan i love that series! everyone should watch it its awesome to see walter change so much in such short ammount of episodes :B hope you all like my stuff

[kevin_]

wow you certainly posted quite a bit since i last took a peek in here! great updates!

[lionheartGFX]

@kevin hey man thanks! come by for more im not gonna stop until i have top notch quality and perfect observational skills D

im bursting with energy seeing so many artist before me that took this path and held their ground against all odds and made it in the industry, i have many pages and years of practice ahead of me but piece by piece i hope to get closer to their portfolios and quality i have been reffing alot, but i do stuff from head afterward to make it sink in, its good excercise hahaha, expect alot of changes for january 2013! :B

[Lucarky]

Hi mate! I sense the scent of improvement here. Your line is more secure and clean. And you don't suck at faces. It seems you suffer of flatten face. Don't know if you do it, but try to take measurements with pencil, entrust what you see and follow the advices of the great masters. I'm trying Charles Bargue Drawing Course now. It's interesting to copy his models, they're so precise and clean, and the construction on geometric lines helps a lot. If you don't done it yet try this manual. And try looking to this: http://www.learning-to-see.co.uk/archive

[lionheartGFX]

@lucarky hey man thank you so much for the feedback i will try to look for new ways to measure the features in my portraits!

well i go home for the holidays tomorrow so i dont know if ill get much drawing time today ill do my best, i got a few drawings i did late last night but ill let them stack so i can upload them all at once

[tylerfontes]

just started a new sketchbook forum today. input is most greatly apreciated
http://conceptart.org/forums/showthr...tes-Sketchbook

[Lucarky]

Hi my friend! Thank you very much for your advices. I surely look for jack hamm books. And for the schedule... You're absolutely right. Indeed from yesterday I decided to, as far as possible, make about 2 or 3 drawings per day: one from manuals, one from real life and one of environment. I don't lack of time, but I spend much of it to study from manuals, and I have to find a work... so I will do my best, and organize better my time.
Till the next time... Good Holidays and Merry Christmas! And... obviously... DRAW!

[Capt Surge]

Your pencils are great you just need to power on through and study, study, study. ^_^

[Eternal Apprentice]

Man! Your creature are really good! Making it in ANYTHING requires you to keep going no matter what and also to do your very best even if you are feeling the very worst. It is MUCH easier to say than to do but every single person who has been successful will tell you that WHEN the sucky time come the choice you have to make to be a winner is to keep going and be CONSISTENT! Don't fall into the trap of new year's resolutions! Make every week a new year! That is how I keep picking myself up when I fall. Keep being awesome!! Thank you for all your support!

[Kvetch]

Hey, hell of an improvement since the first page. Keep pushing :o

[LtPlissken]

This is epic, hahaha


Like your pencil drawings, you
are improving with big steps.

[Just Call Me Bruce!]

Keep at it man! The only way to climb a mountain is one step at a time!

[JamesSimons]

Howdy you asked about where I get my ref from so here are some links! thesartorialist,hel-looks,
and in Google just type something like jacket and away you go!


Merry X-mas!