Sep 3

**animeidiot** · November 3rd, 2005, 08:54 AM

Nice update. I see exactly what you did with implementing some "quality control" as you put it. And that you learned from it. I'm lookin forward to seeing more!

**blog** · November 3rd, 2005, 09:06 AM

W0w!!! You are very strong with pencil rodrigo but how about trying some different media just so you have a wide range of capabilities? That'd be a good thing to do because you don't want to get into a comfort zone. Just a thought.

You render very well, but maybe take a bit more time before going in with the darker tones. Hope I don't come across as arrogant cause I really like your stuff!

**comixnut** · December 9th, 2005, 03:27 AM

your dedication to improving is inspiring Rodrigo. Keep it up man!

**ShoeMan** · December 10th, 2005, 04:55 AM

will it be wrong of me to scream UPDATE!!!!!!!!?

**neoknocker** · December 11th, 2005, 09:28 AM

Fuck'n awesome work! Keep it up man!

**Zebz** · December 11th, 2005, 12:20 PM

That last update shows some ridiculous progress, mate! You're working hard!! Starting Uni, right? You're gonna be blowin' us all away in no time at all!!! Keep up the great drawing habits and this work is going to just multiply with skill. Give us an update soon. Hope you're doing well.

**Dirty C** · December 18th, 2005, 06:42 AM

AHEM.

Top 0.06% was it, bitch? Elite of the elite national art exhibition, was it??? CHARLES SAATCHI SUCKING YOUR DICK, WAS IT MOTHER FUCKER???????

Come on, people at ca don't be jealous when one of ours succeeds. Share the news with the brothers of the brown forum

**rodrigo!** · December 22nd, 2005, 03:44 AM

i left this thread for dead because i was hardly drawing, ive been too hard on myself lately when i have been analysing my own stuff.

thanks animeidiot

blog i agree with you, thanks

thanks comix nut

yes shoeman, so so wrong, so bad, you naughy boy! haha kidding, heres your update.

thankyou neoknocker

thanks a lot zebzfree i will be going to uni in 2007 probably.

hahah my good msn friend dirty c, for those who think hes a rambling maniac including me, hes talking about my high school results, where my percentile rank was 99.4 which is the top .06 of the state.
oh and if you all remember that high school major work i was working on for like 5 months, yeah i got 100 for that which was cool, putting me 4th in state out of 9000 or so. but meh, it doesnt mean anything if i dont continue art which i have to keep at it...

but yeah, i managed to work up the courage to face the sketchbook to draw again, ill be the 1st to admit their nothing but a start, didnt use any reference.

**ShoeMan** · December 23rd, 2005, 01:22 PM

I'm not much of a drawer but it seems to me that if you are not satisfied with your work, in order to improve you need to draw more not less

.

Anyway I really love your work (I signed up to CA just to subscribe to your thread) and i hope you wont take a long drawing break again anytime soon.. or i'll have to hit you.. hard..

**Zebz** · December 23rd, 2005, 05:58 PM

Congratz on the score bro. I'm proud of my lil' Rod! You're kickin' all sorts of arse these days, mate. Keep at it, ok?! You sound a bit tired and down but be encouraged! You're movin' along great!! The last ones are nice, man. I like how you handle the pelvis/thigh areas. Very solid rendering in there. Please post more often, ok!?!

**rodrigo!** · December 24th, 2005, 03:11 AM

thanks a lot for the replies i dunno where id be without u guys

just some quick exercises today and yeah.
bones from ref
the bottom 2 from memory.

**maxetormer** · December 24th, 2005, 09:22 PM

Rendering is getting sharpoer by the minute man,
Just KEEP at It!! your stuff is aways an inspiration,
merry XMAS.

bw those are some really cool looking females!

**Magic Man** · December 24th, 2005, 09:57 PM

great thread, great sketches, you sydney siders are some talented motherfuckers, can't wait to meet up with you guys in th future, as mentler says throwin' bones baby.

Merry christmas.

darren

**rodrigo!** · January 4th, 2006, 09:30 AM

maxetormer- thanks buddy i appreciate it
magicman- haha youre too kind man cheers!

so anyways
bone studies from ref, still really interested in learning how the arm bones work...long way ahead though.. i so wish i had a skeleton model of my own to study

imagination shite:

pencilios

open canvas

mixed media experiments- mix of colouring pencils and ink washed and gouache

**hurricane** · January 4th, 2006, 10:09 AM

wonderfull update dude !

keep at it and share more !!

cheers friend

**verao** · January 4th, 2006, 10:22 AM

loving your stuff especially your faces and the females, I'm having trouble with does forms myself at the moment so it's nice to how other peole deal with those things.

**NOOB!** · January 4th, 2006, 03:28 PM

hey bro,i think the most obvious problem in you work to me,is drawings the head to big and connections it the head and neck to the body.

apart from that..great!

**timpaatkins** · January 4th, 2006, 04:37 PM

wow, what a wonderful Sb you got rodrigo, very inspirational, and congratulations on that 0.06 stuff! I can only imagine what this looks like after a year!
Cheers Tim

**rodrigo!** · January 9th, 2006, 08:18 AM

hurri! thanks man! hope we can OC sometime soon!

thanks verao we all have troubles im glad you could find a different approach, ill be sure to have a look at your sketchbook soon!

noob, thanks buddy im glad you had the time to drop me some advice, ill definitely have to watch out for that

thanks timpatkins it was a big suprise but also a lot of work went into it, ask anyone who spoke to me around october..i was drained

anyways, heres just some doodles i want to post more really soon, cheers

eye studies

yeah just some doodling

**rodrigo!** · January 11th, 2006, 09:59 AM

more experimental crap...ink and some other mixed media involved except for the pencil drawing i did on the train, eh.

Studies..trying desperately to understand a few things. the arm bones agin and the deep layer muscles that affect the back..bah

Tonights life drawing session
model was skinny and tall, pretty hard to draw i thought, or maybe its my lack of experience, heh

15 mins

10 mins

3 mins

5-10 mins not sure

10 mins

1 min

**Egets** · January 11th, 2006, 08:09 PM

nice anatomy studies !!!!!

**Egets** · January 11th, 2006, 08:18 PM

wow these legstudies looks really interesting !!!!!

**maxetormer** · January 11th, 2006, 08:43 PM

You have been really productive lately, I specialy love the
female line studies, they look really hot

Critic

I just thought that you might want to add more variety to the shape
and expresion of you mouths, some times I fell they look to static and similar,
most of the times you do very thick and full kinda lips, you could experiment
more in that area and on the overal emotion range of you caracters
I tell you this cause I fell I have the same problem, (Im trying to do a bigger
range of expresions as of late, not that Im doing it all that good tho) other than
that keep the goods coming, I cant get enough of your cool drawing style

**rblitz7** · January 11th, 2006, 09:01 PM

BIGGEST INSPIRATION EVER!

im 16 and I am now never gona let go of a pencil!! check out my recently created anatomy thread at cgtalk http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthre...32#post2952932
I dont have nearly as much stuff as you but im def gona just sketch like CrAzY!!

and what college you wana go to?

**rodrigo!** · January 14th, 2006, 01:34 AM

thanks egets!
thanks max for the thoughtful crit as always, thats something ill be looking into soon.
lol rblitz thats the spirit ull be kicking my ass in no time
im going to art school for a year under scholarship then the year after im probably gonna go to university.

heres just some experimental stuff

**fooxoo** · January 14th, 2006, 02:51 AM

Hey that first one with the girl is very nice. Very nice experiment. Looksgood, she has nice eyes. Thumbs up.

**rodrigo!** · January 15th, 2006, 03:29 AM

thanks foxoo much appreciated

got a mirror, did some hand studies...gonna do some more later...so good for learning

**Dirty C** · January 15th, 2006, 03:48 AM

The hand studies are wicked, rod, really wicked. Keep that up and you'll have a supreme model of a hand in your head at all times. Tight.

**Badger** · January 15th, 2006, 09:25 AM

he must be guided by some higher power....
... that or a deamon..
I mean fabulous stuff... as always

-B-

**rodrigo!** · January 16th, 2006, 02:35 AM

thanks dirty c that is the plan man
lol badger do the voices in my head count? thanks man..

anywho, im going to continue these regular studies of my hand in the hope that i am more confident in drawing them from the imagination, because its always a hazy area for me. Same with the arm bones i think the key to learning it is the way the forearm bones twist and lock into the joints of wrist and humerus, but i still find it tough...tomorow i plan to do some more studies but also some imagination to balance it out..

these are from some drawings by bammes.

these are purely from the mirror looking at my left hand, trying to apply what i learnt in bammes studies

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