doodledoes I - DAILY drawings & paintings - please share your thoughts!

**dorian** · October 23rd, 2004, 01:31 PM

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The first few posts are an overview over last year, january to october.
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Ok, I found out that it doesn't make sense to wait with my sketchbook thread here until I'm "good enough for not being embarassed because of my not-so-professional work".. So here it is! I'm 20 now [1985], and started drawing daily on the 1st of january 2004.

Be part of my journey through anatomy, color-theory, composition, story-telling, character design, landscapes, machinery and whatnot! I'll be drawing & painting (digital as well as traditional), maybe doing some aerosol stuff, t-shirt designs for fun and whatever else comes to my mind..!

Since I've drawn for some months now, I'll post a few pieces of each of the last months. I'm going to sum up 10 months of daily drawing for you, I try my best to keep the amount of images low..

Ah and I give a number to every drawing/painting created, which makes it easyier for you to critisize & comment.

So, here we go!

1st of January 2004
the first page

14th of January 2004

15th of January 2004

6th of February 2004

10th of February 2004

13th of February 2004

28th of February 2004

1st of March 2004

15th of March 2004
bammes study

22nd of March 2004

27th of March 2004
Green paper! I like the one on top

**dorian** · October 23rd, 2004, 01:34 PM

5th of April 2004

12th of April 2004
"ARRRR I WONT GIVE UP!!!!" - selfportrait session

3rd of May 2004
"aquarell" from life. oh boy, that aint easy..

18th of May 2004
from life

30th of May 2004
artrage time!

7th of June 2004

9th of June 2004
oh, I drew a body?!

18th of June 2004
something different

30th of June 2004

7th of July 2004
artrage landscape, from imagination (obviously..)

25th of July 2004
I got quite a few of these "back to the basics" pages.. But I think they helped

**dorian** · October 23rd, 2004, 01:34 PM

5th of August 2004

8th of August 2004

14th of August 2004

17th of August 2004

24th of August 2004
to add a bit of diversity

8th of September 2004
open canvas

19th of September 2004
inspired by stéphane tartelin

2nd of October 2004

4th of October 2004

7th of October 2004

10th of October 2004

17th of October 2004
Inspired by Metalwinds. You da man danny.

19th of October 2004
Tried to draw a scull with no reference.. Decided that I should spend some time studying anatomy..

21st of October 2004
*study study*

22nd of October 2004
compare this no ref skull to the one above (566)

**dorian** · October 23rd, 2004, 02:06 PM

Phuu.
Sorry for this shitload of images, I hope you can see a bit of progress in it.
Comments & Criticism are highly appreciated. Seeing my work with your eyes will help me growing. From now on I'll regularly updating this thread. I don't know yet If I should post everything and post daily, or just several selected pieces from time to time. What do you think?

I hope there will come some life to this thread, and some people have a look into it, even though I absolutely can't mesure with the big boys [insane visions, el coro, steak-tron, ..., ...]

Last thursday my first life drawing course started! I really enjoyed it! Here are the pages from this evening: [scanning A2 pages sucks..]

21st of October 2004
the task was to keep the pencil moving, feel the 3dimensional mass of the model. proportions were not important at this stage. just try to feel it and keep the pencil moving

21st of October 2004
now we could try to just draw the model, no special task
this is the first time I draw a whole body..

legs on the left one are waaay too short

21st of October 2004
last one. a bit better..?

**miltonmaniac** · October 23rd, 2004, 02:41 PM

hey hey nice stuff, i see lots of head studies which is always good. Keep posting man.

**Madoliane** · October 23rd, 2004, 02:59 PM

Lovely progression.
Your image from 6th Feb has helped me with a drawing I've been doing today....just cant get the damned nose right.
Anyway...great work ..keep it up !

**dorian** · October 25th, 2004, 02:25 PM

miltonmaniac: thanks, I will!
madolaine:

dunno if my nose there is so very correct, but I'm glad if I could help!

23rd of October 2004
my copic marker ran out of ink, which created some interesting effects

24th of October 2004
while drawing the left one I was looking at one of rich/insanevisions' breathtakin drawings..

25th of October 2004
well, looked at insanevision stuff last night and drew this one today. never drawn monsters like this but it turned out ok :] The text in the back is from salman rushdie's "haroun and the sea of storys", great book btw!

25th of October 2004
also today, black pen and some white gel pen on red paper. original looks better than on the screen though..

c/c appreciated! has anyone wishes or inputs concerning my subjects and/or technique?
I'll draw daily and post every drawing/number from now on. Gives me some motivation I think. Really sucky pieces are stored but don't get a number and don't get scanned.

**Xaya** · October 25th, 2004, 02:31 PM

love that piece you did on 5th August

keep it up... i see fine progress

**Darkside** · October 25th, 2004, 03:42 PM

yeah, doing anatomy and lifedrawings are never wrong. keep up with these.

**MisterJ** · October 25th, 2004, 04:03 PM

hey, very good head studies. I suck at drawing heads so much.
Perhaps i should do some head studies, too

MisterJ

**Pichuerca** · October 25th, 2004, 06:59 PM

Keep doing this anatomy studies. Your progression is getting good!

Pich

**dorian** · October 26th, 2004, 04:16 PM

xaya: thanks!
darkside: yes sir!
MisterJ: Thank you. I can spot anatomical and some perspective-related errors in your heads, maybe get your hands on anatomy books [maybe e-books will do, if you got no cash: http://www.fineart.sk] - try to understand what's beneath the skin, remember: form follows funktion! with this in mind while drawing, you'll notice errors much easier!
Pichuerca: these first drawings suck

but it was the first time I drew the human body. got a figure drawing class each thursday now and I'm really enjoying it!! the teacher [peter schneebeli] said he wants to get colors involved in a few weeks, too. lookin forward to this!

26th of October 2004
oh my, that's hard. gotta do a few more of these fellas to get the data stored in my mind :]

**dorian** · October 27th, 2004, 05:09 PM

27th of october 2004
uh this looks strange.. still kinda twisted and fucked up the teeth, too.. will do some more, quicker studies.
figure drawing tomorrow!

**dorian** · October 29th, 2004, 05:44 AM

Did a lot yesterday..!

28th of October 2004
standard stuff I did at school. I'm always drawing during lessons (except maths..)

28th of October 2004
next lesson..

28th of October 2004
printed out a drawing by mighty mr. android (

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I've looked at the original drawing the day before, then the next day I drew the one above (597) with the original in mind.

28th of October 2004
life drawing course. had a hard time this evening, seemed like I couldn't get any line correctly..

28th of October 2004
maybe a bit better..

28th of October 2004
on train/bus on my way home, "canvas" was the protection paper I used to transport the life drawings

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**Darkside** · October 29th, 2004, 06:53 AM

hey, like I said in DD, your heads are looking much better after your skullstudies. Now move on and study the anatomy of the human machine

Come around my dsb, I´m doing these at the moment too.

**dorian** · October 31st, 2004, 06:19 AM

thanks, yup, going to do that

30th of October 2004
yesterday, pencil & open canvas & photoshop, quick, inspired by insane visions..

**dorian** · October 31st, 2004, 04:01 PM

31st of october 2004
..sorry. sloppy. way too long/wide. will do more!

**dorian** · November 1st, 2004, 05:57 PM

1st of November 2004
heh.. was drinking tea and doodling, when I had the wonderful idea to take a tea bag I'd just used before, squeeze it into a small vessel [don't know if that's the right word..] and then use a brush to apply the tea-colored water on the drawing :]
for the next layer of color I added a bit of ink to the mix and repeated the process. looks nice to me, must do more stuff like that!

for those who're looking at my stuff: dont be shy! c&c is more than welcome!

**dorian** · November 2nd, 2004, 04:04 PM

2nd of November 2004
I'll try to keep this daily.
another one, this time no tea but ink-only cause I made it in school

2nd of November 2004
and one more foot. that aint easy..

**dorian** · November 3rd, 2004, 02:53 PM

3rd of November 2004
another foot but with view from the other side.
this is also a good way to work on my rather weak pencil rendering technique, I think. tried to add more (dark) tones

**dorian** · November 6th, 2004, 01:18 PM

4th of November 2004
0815.. but I like the guy with the helmet thingie
mechanical pencil HB, 0.5mm

**dorian** · November 6th, 2004, 01:46 PM

4th of November 2004
fig. drawing course, 3rd session
some are ok, some are not..
but an interesting lady joined us, she's the only one who actually produces drawings that I like..

**dorian** · November 6th, 2004, 01:51 PM

6th of November 2004
and one more foot, viewed from above

**dorian** · November 6th, 2004, 06:11 PM

6th of November 2004
based on some drawings by mighty wes

**dorian** · November 8th, 2004, 03:17 PM

7th of November 2004
bwah. no time, worked for 13 hours today - preparing a group exibithion as my "maturaarbeit", some kind of "thesis" we got to do at the end of highschool. don't know what this is called in the rest of the world

**dorian** · November 8th, 2004, 03:20 PM

8th of November 2004
today, during lessons etc. like how the first one [628] came out
no refs used here

**dorian** · November 8th, 2004, 05:34 PM

8th of November 2004
one more from today. intentionally twisted and "out of perspective"

**dorian** · November 8th, 2004, 05:50 PM

Autumn 2004
Something that I worked on a bit longer.. just finished it, it's for the group exibithion I mentioned above

details:

what you say?

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**jetpack42** · November 8th, 2004, 06:02 PM

hah, have you numbered all the drawings youve ever done? is that where the 680...etc comes from? anyway, lookin good dude. some studies wouldn't hurt you, but you're doing well with the digital stuff. see you in sf, yo.