Soja's Sketchbook [LU 19.10.2008]

[Soja]

@Jakers
Thanks a lot for the words! I will have a look on those two paintings of mine again and try to push them further!! I replied into ur Sb!! Thanks lot buddy!!

Here's another quick movie still study:
Well i focused to much on the girls face at the beginning and so the two at the background suck a lot! should have take a still with only one person!
C&CS Please!! Thanks!!

[dadushin]

hey soja
your improvement is out of control once again!
the study of the girl is pretty sweet but i agree with what jakers mentioned
in that last one i actually enjoy the two faces in the backround but great job on the values with the girl, her hair falls flat in some places as well as her cloak, i guess push the tonal changes more
anyways keep up the good work

[Soja]

A new movie studie for today!
mhh not really happy with it!!
any tips???

[Soja]

Here's a new movie still study speedy! done in about 2 hours!
And some more vietnam sketches!

[Clodioz]

hey! keep doing those vietnam studies, I really enjoy watching them! btw, are you viena..emm (vietnamita in spanish hehehe dunno the english word..) better, are you from vietnam?,,, brppp i think the answer is obvious ^^ but anyway...

did you create the last one??
well I leave
cheers!

[Soja]

@Clodioz
Yeah will do lots more of vietnam studies i have to make a book about vietnam for my final work for school and im workin on it right now. Still having some issues with writing the stories and yes im vietnamese. Well i was born in Germany but my parents are from vietnam but i feel being both vietnamese and german. Are u spanish??

Here I did this tshirt for some friends, not really happy with the ballers but i have to go back to my school stuff so next tshirt i will do better.
Well need to do more anatomy studies

The Illustration


and on a black and on a white shirt

[Clodioz]

hey the tshirt is lookiing great! nut I have only a suggestion, I dont know how to say it in english, but an image can do it for me

for the left one... the left leg.
And I amnt from Spain Im from a small country lost in the end of the world. Chile, next to Argentina, under Perú and Bolivia in South America.

Cheers!

ps. The ballers looks far better than before

[Soja]

@Clodioz

Thanks for ur comment! Sorry for the late reply! U know i hate posting
without an image! But thanks! I have to work over the basketballers again!
So ur pic is pretty handy to me!! Thanks a lot


Still workin hard on the story for my Vietnam Comic! So to lazy to scan some stuff at the moment. But there will be a big update soon.

But here's a little illustration i did for a friend that left Germany and went back home to portugal again.

[Soja]

Oh nooo havent posted for 8 Days!!
Well here's a big update!!

I did a portrait study of my dad when he was younger it's also a birthday present because i will be 60 tomorrow =)!!


And some more stuff i did in last few days
Colorstudies

A Portrait of my flatmate Stefan

stuff from imagination





natalie portman from ref

Vietnam Studies





Lots of knee and leg studies











heads from imagination



sketches of people in the train

[Clodioz]

nice update man! I really like the Natalie Portmain portrait, the small enviros (they're sweeeet) and the big amount of studies :they really help me to understand how does the knee and leg looks like

keep progtressing!


ps. your dad must be proud of you I bet his room's wall is full of portraits

[Xaya]

great progression soja!
I really like your character design, good anatomy!

Focus more on colored work, i recommend you to do some more ref. stuff
to get a better feeling with colors (value/saturatin/shading etc.)

[Clochette]

The portrait of your dad is very nice. It's shows that you've put some love doing it. Other stuff are good as well!

[Vyliss]

wow you've improved a bunch inspiring stuff

[Soja]

@Clodioz:
Dude wassup! quite been a while since i've postet something! To busy at the moment! but thanks for ur kind words mand! I do lot more of those kind of studies! They help me a lot too!
Well u know my parents are very old fashioned asian parents. they're never pround was pretty hard to make them understand that i could earn money with that what im doing...well i hope i can do it someday other wise i will be kicked out of the family .....

@Xaya
Thanks dude! Well still need lots to work on my anatomy! it still sucks a lot! but im sticking with it...but it such a bi....tccc...hhh. Always keep forgetting it after a few days.
Yeah definetly have to do more and more color stuff. That will be my main focus for the next few months. Thanks a lot!

@Clochette
The portrait i did for my dad 60s Birthday...im such a worthless son...60s birthday and i got nothing better than just a portrait??? But thanks a lot for ur nice words!!

@Vyliss
Thanks a lot!

Well here's some new stuff hope u like it and if not please let me know and kick my ass! Thanks a lot for watching:

stuff from imagination:





stuff i did while being in a coffé




from ref:



and anatomy studies:

[Clodioz]

lol... "I did a portrait study of my dad when he was younger it's also a birthday present" instead of " I make a birthday present to my dad it's also a study,,," hahaha...

Well u know my parents are very old fashioned asian parents. they're never pround was pretty hard to make them understand that i could earn money with that what im doing...well i hope i can do it someday other wise i will be kicked out of the family .....

nah seriously, it use to happen,,, even when your pretty good to draw..

LOL!!!--> http://www.diemybui.com/sketchbook2/...4/041004/8.jpg it made me laugh xD hohohooho its like an hour drawing and shading, then you realize one ear is higher up the other

noouu, now seriously, in the first image, I would fix,,, emm noo not fix,, practice, pants (pants?? [leg clothes xDD]), cause it looks like the stuff from imagination from post 310 (and I saw the same thing in the ballers, the firsts) (wouu I was looking for good pants through your sb n' I found out this http://www.conceptart.org/forums/att...1&d=1196208081
I really liked it!

OKK continuing..the second is what I like the most,,, cause is from imagination and it has a lot of details, huge amount of depressions and ... (dunno the word, elevations?), maybe the neck llooks a bit weid to me.

in the next, I dunno which/what muscle is in the left leg it does not appear in your studies .. (Im really bad making questions xd)

in the next, the guy with the girl I dont find anything criticqckeable xd

mir ist langweilig (I now german )
the next, it looks like superman, nice woman , I like the clothe (clothe?) of the man spinning? the coffee (dunno if he's doing what I thing hes doing)

neext... the guy in bottom right, his ear is out of place?

neext, no crit.

nice face! again, great quantity of details, now with colors , finish it! (play more with brushes you always use the same brushes set as default in ps)

and then, studies,,, lemme (>< lemme lol) watch them a while to learn something

chaoOO!

saludos!

ps. xDD my biggest post evaah

[Jamesy]

Wow, I just browsed most of the sketchbook and I am VERY impressed at how far you've come since your first post. It's really inspirational and a reminder to me that I should be drawing from life more often.

With the first few sketches the lines seem to be a little messy (I'm trying to work on my initial lines as well). It could be that these are more warmup type of drawings since I see more quality lines in the other sketches. Secondly in the very first sketch the proportions seem to be a tad off, though it is hard to tell exactly simply because the whole image doesn't fit on my screen. It looks like the the pants are sagging on the figure, but the pants show the regular length of the legs as if there is no sagging (if that makes any sense).

Those studies are looking good and you're making me jealous with those digitals. I'll have to do some over the break myself so I can get better at it. I look forward to seeing some more stuff from you in the future, keep up the good work!

[daestwen]

Don't have a lot of time, just thought I would drop in and take a look. (I'll have to go back through your whole book later. )

Just wanted to say I like the quick colour studies - looks like they're from a film?

[Soja]

@Clodioz!!
Man dude!! Thanks for taking ur time man! really appreciate that!
Well the muscle in the left leg u mean?? which one u mean? Could be the Tendor fascia latae. Well i was to lazy to finished that sketch...u got me =)!
Yeah i was lazy too to finish the color study...but i just wanted to get the light kinda right. Well yeah i only use one brush cause i only want to concentrate on color and light right now...but yeah i should try it! =)
Thanks a lot for taking ur time dude!!

@ Jamesy
I really suck at drappery man! Everybody sees it!! i need to work on this the next few day =)!!
Will do that! I hope i make u work on ur color as well!!Do it hard!! My digitals are still so novice!! Too lazy to day to start one. I will do more color tomorrow! Now that i said it i have too =)!!

@Daestwen
Thanks a lot!! Yeah looking forward for ur critiques!! DESTROY ME!!!!

Ok here are my todays sketches and studies!!

[Jamesy]

Damn, another update already? Is this all in one day? That's crazy! I really like the last character sketch, especially in the scarf area. The dude with the beanie on has some mad stiffness going on. I think he kinda looks blocky and the proportions may be a tad off with the leg. Although I could be mistaken and it could be a balance issue instead. Or maybe both. I dunno.

If you keep drawing at this pace, I'm the one who's going to feel lazy! I'm gonna go draw now...

[algenpfleger]

damn it dude, your stuff is tight, and you practice so much! all those studies (bammes is it, right?) look really really good. your shading is solid too.
i agree that you should do more color, but i'm highly impressed with all your studies so yeah. germany, huh? where exactly?
cheers man!

[Soja]

@Jamesy

Hahaha! Well the SSG is already workin and kicking my ass!! Lookin at all this crazy stuff of u guys is really good motivation! Yeah the Beanie guys was driving me nuts!! Have to redraw him completly! Well i think no one of us is lazy! We're good bunch of people in our SSG hope this will stay like this ffoooorrr llloonnnggg time!!

@algenpfleger!
What a crazy nickname dude? Thanks for the nice words man!!! Yeah it's bammes nothing better than bammes. Well u cant read bammes but it's really good to look at and that's good enough to learn. Yeah i will do more colors!
Ur color is pretty sick!! but i will comment in ur SB soon! Thanks for posting!!

Here's all i got for today!! The weather is driving me nuts today! And im sitting with headache here the whole day! Tried to do some color but's not finished yet so not worth to post. But i can keep my eyes on the screen anymore. So hope tomorrow will be a better day again.
Cheers!!
Please dont read the text of this....its just for fun!! lol

A quick tshirt study from life

and some heads from imagination!

[Call0ps]

hey man, quite a nice book u got here, the illustration with the basketball players looks kickass! studies looks nice as well, i think one thing that helps also is to draw big! ( like A3 its quite big to me ^^; ) but carefull to not be stuck on the details. keep it up man

[Soja]

@Call0ps
Thanks Dude! Yeah i definetly have to draw big! I hate drawing on A4 anyway! it's too small...but it's faster to scan =)!!
Well but i will get some A3 Paper tomorrow! And start right away!!

Did one quick color study before going to bed!!

[Call0ps]

oh man! that last study is stunning man! seriously u really got the colors and the mood, just that red flag? its really not working, beside that great job man! u should definitely do more of those ^^

[Vyliss]

Hey Soja, wow heaps of updates already. Great stuff, not much to say cos you know you rock already I love the colours in the last pic too.

[Soja]

@Call0ps!!
Thanks dude!! Yeah the flag is shit! I will correct it! RIGHT NOW!! Damn it! How could i put in this flag!! yeah will definetly do more!

@Vyliss
Thanks!! A lot!

Here' some stuff of the last 2 days:
The Character Design for our SSG


Some Charactertest but i didnt like them so i stopped


I did some pants studies just infront of the mirror


And i tried something new. Did a quick sketch of a soldier and tried to color it.
Want to get a bit faster. But i need more practice!!

[Jamesy]

It looks like you know what you're doing with those character designs! They seem a little dispropotioned in the legs, but you seem pretty comfortable with the design aspect. I'll have some characters for next update too, but they're terrible! Nice pants studies, too! The digital piece is very monochromatic, the green of the uniform doesn't stand out from the green of the background. But then again, it's camo, and that's what it's supposed to do!

[algenpfleger]

oooh, great color study! and you're working hard on those folds, good stuff man!

[Soja]

@Jamesy!
Really i dont know what im doing! i just a quick shiloutte on my paper and erase and redraw it again again till i like the shilloute. I know i like sneakers and urban wear so that's why i like them to wear some kind of urban wear =)! So i look up the internet for some refs of cloths that i like and try to put it on my character somehow. But as u can see i still having problem getting the propotion rights because of concentrating to much on details! well just keep practicing and hoping that i will get it! The digital painting just sucks! Really need to over paint it. But really to lazy so i started a new one today!
fuck im not allowed to be lazy...will try to fix it tomorrow!
Thanks dude!

@Algenpfleger!
Hey thanks for the post! Man! U inspire me a lot! and here's my study for today! I just looked up coles work man! his anatomy studies are of the hook!
i have to try those kind of studies too!!
Thanks a lot!

Man not much stuff today!
Kinda samurai warrior

an unfinished character

and a color study!!

[Jamesy]

Nice update, Soja! I think your character design this time is much better! That kinda-samuri warrior has some urban flava to it. I'm really diggin the digital piece as well, although I think some of the values could be pushed a little more (the left nostril and left portion of the mouth in particular). Well, I gotta go draw now.