Memoirs of a sktechbook

**Zidartha** · July 10th, 2012, 07:46 AM

Originally Posted by clanlord

Do you want a crit? Because this site is about that mainly... if you want to improve you have to accept such feedbacks!

Do more studies from references in order to improve because your bodies and their poses look weird... It seems to me that you pay attention to detail which is good... but sometimes this prevails... which is bad! I had the same prob... so work on it!

Also... I see a lack of knowledge when drawing muscles...

All in all... keep up u will get better and better I bet on that!

-Gus.G

Yeah, of course I want crits, I´m craving for feedback, I want to get better!!
I´m not really used to it yet because I never had anyone telling me what I do wrong but I´m really working on that and try my best, that´s why I started this sketchbook !

So thank you very much, I´ll work on all the points you mentioned, I really appreciate your advices and feedback

**Zidartha** · July 10th, 2012, 06:00 PM

Old habits die hard but I try to act on all your advices. Really! I promise, it´s just that I´m slow and yeah...old habits die hard

Anyway worked through a couple of pages from one of Bridgman´s books. Next is Michael Hampton´s Figure Drawing one more time, my memory is a bitch so I´ll repeat this stuff till I memorize everything....
Watch me defeat my scumbag brain!!!

**Zidartha** · July 12th, 2012, 06:23 PM

Another pretty small update due to reasons and meh. Well, anyway 2 studies made with Michael Hampton´s Figure Drawing book :`)

**Zidartha** · July 13th, 2012, 06:25 PM

Tiny tiny update, still working through Hampton´s book, just easy stuff bc I´m having a really bad week and need to doodle it away :`)

**Zidartha** · July 14th, 2012, 01:14 PM

Hope I can post more anatomy studies in the following hours/tonight, till then the lineart for some cyberpunk/scifi influenced wanted poster thing, wanted to do something like that since I first saw Dan LuVisi´s awesome LMS Wanted posters ♥ Let´s see how it turns out

But I need to fix the arms somehow before I start coloring (or I hide them under dozens of tattoos which I planned to do anyway xD)

**Zidartha** · July 17th, 2012, 07:50 AM

repetitions and stuff

**Zidartha** · July 17th, 2012, 04:24 PM

more stuff from Hampton´s book, finally reached the anatomy chapters

**Zidartha** · July 23rd, 2012, 03:25 AM

Welp damn, made all the practice I did the last days on paper so I can´t upload them :/ But I finished a new piece yesterday so I upload that

I think I messed up the arms and hands a bit and yeah too many details (I really try to work on that but I freaking love details and it´s hard to work on that!)

(downscaled version, bigger version is on my dA

**Zidartha** · July 24th, 2012, 06:55 AM

small updates are small...

**Zidartha** · July 25th, 2012, 05:06 PM

More studies and a doodle

**Zidartha** · July 27th, 2012, 12:45 PM

and more studies

Tried this time really really hard to focus on big shapes before I added details.

**Zidartha** · July 28th, 2012, 04:09 PM

Sketch of something that might become something more one day...might.

**shiNIN** · July 31st, 2012, 04:41 PM

The girl in #38 has a proportinally small head and her neck isn't centered, so it's a bit odd to look at, except these I find it to be one of the better ones, your figures always have too much softness/blurryness going on.
Keep doing those nice studies (Bridgman, Hampton, I like your choices

) and using what you learned. Well you know this well enough...

**Zidartha** · August 2nd, 2012, 11:18 AM

@shiNIN: Hey man, thank you for the feedback!

Had to take a little break from anatomy studies to free my mind but I´ll do as many as possible this weekend

But to not leave this post without drawings: some quick animal sketches, quick shoulders/backs repetition and a wip of a painting I´m working on atm to practice composition, cities and such thing

(Btw does anybody have any tips how to practice composition? Guess I need to re-read that chapter in Loomi´s book)

**Zidartha** · August 3rd, 2012, 11:34 AM

Worked through some pages of Hampton´s book again

**Zidartha** · August 3rd, 2012, 05:49 PM

yeah.....

**Zidartha** · August 8th, 2012, 06:08 PM

20 minutes anatomy study, 3+ hours anatomy study and some stupid spaceship thing concept sketch

**Matija Vuk** · August 9th, 2012, 01:17 AM

oh, nice studies, keep working on your anatomy.
You have some cool textures in your portraits

**Zidartha** · August 11th, 2012, 05:32 PM

@Matija Vuk: Thanks man! And I´ll do

Or actually I do, re-started Loomi´s Figure Drawing book. A bit sloppy because I tried to look less at the book while drawing instead of taking a look every 5 or 6 secs to challenge my brain a bit more xD

**Zidartha** · August 15th, 2012, 02:27 PM

updates and stuff

**Zidartha** · September 29th, 2012, 06:09 AM

Wow still need to get used to the new layout O_o Looks neat tho.

Let´s see how much I´ve done in the meantime.....which is not much because I was lazy....

**AllyAlbon** · September 29th, 2012, 07:13 AM

Your faces are very good! But I am not a fan of the "smiley face" thing you do when you don't complete a face... it can be quite distracting from the overall image. If you don't finish a face - just leave it! It's all progress in the grand scheme. Looking good so far - subscribed!

**Zidartha** · October 2nd, 2012, 10:45 AM

@AllyAlbon: Thanks man. And I´ll stop with those smileys from now on

Working trough Hogarth´s dynamic figure drawing book these days. It´s a lof fun most of the time but some of those hands! Hands are difficult anyway but some hand poses in this book O_o I´m a bit scared of Dynamic Hand drawing