My daily sketches

[shadow of darkness]

Hello everybody and welcome to my new sketchbook (i had one 2 years ago but it was not good )
Anyway my name is Ibrahim i'm from Egypt and i'm a self-taught artist
So here's some of my daily sketches i hope you like it ....( suggestions/critiques are more than welcome)

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Another little sketch I did a while ago

[mundanity]

love your colours and textures. all the compositions are really balanced, though, so don't know if you want to mix it up a little bit or something.

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love your colours and textures. all the compositions are really balanced, though, so don't know if you want to mix it up a little bit or something.

Thank you so much mundanity for your comment i'll keep that in mind

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I added some details on the previous sketch and here's the result .. hope you like it

[Tindre]

woah, these are amazing

I actually thought the one with the mandarin was a photo. ^^'

Good job, I especially like the one with the snowy mountains and the robot one!

[Othrandir]

Great colors man! I'd do some work on perspective. Also since you're in environments ( from what i can see) why don't you show us some photo studies?

[shadow of darkness]

woah, these are amazing

I actually thought the one with the mandarin was a photo. ^^'

Good job, I especially like the one with the snowy mountains and the robot one!

Thank you so much Tindre

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Great colors man! I'd do some work on perspective. Also since you're in environments ( from what i can see) why don't you show us some photo studies?

Thank you so much Othrandir , usually i don't keep my studies on my pc ,but i will post some as soon as possible

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Quick mecha Studies

[kimtan123]

Awesome color ! The color is harmony and the composition is good too. Keep forward man! I'm self-taught too )

[ATP]

I really love that ship in the hangar - I've always had a thing for massive spacecraft, that and it looks like the cruisers from the old Colony Wars games, so that's a plus, too! The one problem with the ship is that the wings at the back don't line up with the perspective established by the front of the ship. When you're doing stuff like that, it really helps to set up the perspective grid and the relationships before you start drawing. A plan view is even more helpful if it makes it easier to think about size-relationships.

Other than that, I like how confident you are with your environments and the atmosphere you're building. Keep at it! I look forward to seeing plenty of new stuff from you!

Good luck!

[HederaHiberna]

I love that fruit still life. A mandarin? I can never tell the difference between mandarins and clementines, though I ate both by heaps the past months.
ANYWAY IT'S GORGEOUS and it isn't even finished o-O
I hope my fruit paintings will reach that level too... some day.

[Deceptive]

VEry nice start of your sketchbook! keep it up and youll become awesome!
Like said before, Nice colors and its nice to see how you try to implement a oreground in the last one!

Keep it up!

[smrrfette]

Whoa dude, really cool work in here
Loving your colour choices! If you don't mind me asking, how long roughly would one of these beautiful sketches take you?

Eager for updates!

[shadow of darkness]

Awesome color ! The color is harmony and the composition is good too. Keep forward man! I'm self-taught too )

Thank you so much kimtan123 it's nice to see another self-taught artist

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I really love that ship in the hangar - I've always had a thing for massive spacecraft, that and it looks like the cruisers from the old Colony Wars games, so that's a plus, too! The one problem with the ship is that the wings at the back don't line up with the perspective established by the front of the ship. When you're doing stuff like that, it really helps to set up the perspective grid and the relationships before you start drawing. A plan view is even more helpful if it makes it easier to think about size-relationships.

Other than that, I like how confident you are with your environments and the atmosphere you're building. Keep at it! I look forward to seeing plenty of new stuff from you!

Good luck!

Thank you so much ATP, to be honest this is the first spacecraft i ever draw even without references i only used some textures ... thanks for your advice i won't make the same mistake again

[Michael@Lyme]

Hi. I love the work. Self-taught? Very impressive. It is great to see such motivation and commitment. Reading through the comments, I am going to make assumption - and we know where assumptions go. It seems like you have been extremely successful at learning from the style of artists that you have studied and copied. You have also been able to adapt those styles to your own vision and creations. Others have identified certain shortcomings (and that is really kind of bad word for it), but are you going deeper? Are you studying the perspective that those artists you admire have learned? Are you painting landscapes from observation like they did? Are you studying the masters they studied? And studying the artists and lessons that their masters studied? The fact that you are gifted, talented, motivated, and directed is unquestionable. I can't wait to see how you continue and develop!

[shadow of darkness]

I love that fruit still life. A mandarin? I can never tell the difference between mandarins and clementines, though I ate both by heaps the past months.
ANYWAY IT'S GORGEOUS and it isn't even finished o-O
I hope my fruit paintings will reach that level too... some day.

thank you so much HederaHiberna , that was a pic of an orange ,for me i call both of them "baby orange" ,don't worry all you have to do is keep drawing

[shadow of darkness]

VEry nice start of your sketchbook! keep it up and youll become awesome!
Like said before, Nice colors and its nice to see how you try to implement a oreground in the last one!

Keep it up!

Thank you so much Deceptive, it's default brushes and a Gaussian blur

[shadow of darkness]

Whoa dude, really cool work in here
Loving your colour choices! If you don't mind me asking, how long roughly would one of these beautiful sketches take you?

Eager for updates!

Thank you so much smrrfette , i don't mind at all each one of these are speed sketches most of them took about 2 hours maximum

[shadow of darkness]

Hi. I love the work. Self-taught? Very impressive. It is great to see such motivation and commitment. Reading through the comments, I am going to make assumption - and we know where assumptions go. It seems like you have been extremely successful at learning from the style of artists that you have studied and copied. You have also been able to adapt those styles to your own vision and creations. Others have identified certain shortcomings (and that is really kind of bad word for it), but are you going deeper? Are you studying the perspective that those artists you admire have learned? Are you painting landscapes from observation like they did? Are you studying the masters they studied? And studying the artists and lessons that their masters studied? The fact that you are gifted, talented, motivated, and directed is unquestionable. I can't wait to see how you continue and develop!

Thank you so much Michael@Lyme for that comment , in fact all i do is just watching free online tutorials on youtube or other websites and most of the time i draw from my imagination

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Today's sketch .. i believe this is a TOS-1A ( heavy flame thrower made in Russia) hope you like it

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Quick sketch.. hope you like it

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wip

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And here's without vfx

[vinterdragen]

Great Sketcbook!. Keep going

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Great Sketcbook!. Keep going

Thank you so much vinterdragen

[V3T]

Pretty cool stuff, keep it up =]

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Pretty cool stuff, keep it up =]

Thank you so much V3T