Paky's Sketchbook - Let's start!

[Paky]

Hi guys,finally I decided to start a sketchbook!
My target is to draw better and then pass to digital painting
They are two sketchs: the first is made with a reference found on Facebook while the second is made by myself.

[Paky]

I'm traying to draw some mangas...I hope this help me in the future to draw realistic people and to understand the structure of the face

[Paky]

[Paky]

I don't like it very much,but I hope to receive some advices

[Paky]

Another quick sketch

[Jared D]

Great to see ya start a SB,

For the faces here's some videos that show the basics of the head, they can be applied to manga if you so chose:

The head in 3/4 view by Burne Hogarth:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m5UZRL4hmw

Cartoonist Peter Emslie making faces using the same stuff you'll see Burne do:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=epJfMCARtkE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=JG3IQNe5F4Q

Also a great thing for starting out is gesture as it'll help beat the body into your head: http://www.posemaniacs.com/thirtysecond


To note the hair you did for your stuff has a lot of single lines and it makes it messy and loses any hope of looking solid. Here's some studies by John Kricfalusi that shows how to study and draw hair with construction:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mJ4lc_Q9Q6...verdrawing.jpg
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mJ4lc_Q9Q6...iamondhead.jpg

Here's the post he made taking about hair: http://johnkstuff.blogspot.ca/2010/0...irls-hair.html

These help point in the right direction but it comes down to applying it in study from life.

[Paky]

Thank you very much for your advices and for the links jared,they are very usefull!
Here there is the first part of my new Rihanna's portrait.
I'm painting it from a reference but without a sketch

[Paky]

[Paky]

I hope you can recognize him xD
He's Jared Leto if you can't

[Paky]

[Paky]

I began the studies on the human body
In this sketch I've tried to memorize the proportions and the length.

[Paky]

Need a critique!

[Paky]

[Paky]

Another quick sketch on the head
Guys I need your critiques!

[Paky]