Farvus' Imaginarium

**Farvus** · November 10th, 2005, 06:55 PM

Today everything from imagination and improvisation.

No. 114 - Doodles.

**Farvus** · November 12th, 2005, 09:24 AM

No. 115 - Some anatomy studies.

**SirGreenSock** · November 12th, 2005, 10:13 AM

There is a lot of improvement evident here. The last 3-4 updates especially look good. The faces and anatomy studies are especially strong. Did you use ref for the anatomy studies?
Keep at it!

**liam.c** · November 13th, 2005, 12:54 AM

coming along nicely man !!!!!!

**Farvus** · November 14th, 2005, 07:07 PM

SirGreenSock - thanks! These anatomy studies are from Burne Hogarth's "Dynamic figure drawing"
liam.c - thanks man!

I'm too tired for refined drawings so today posted some fast & random SF stuff.

No. 116

**Farvus** · November 16th, 2005, 05:26 PM

No. 117 - All from imagination. On the top there is thumbnail sketch for my E.O.W - Fungal Tunnel.

**Farvus** · November 18th, 2005, 06:38 PM

My EOW entry - Fungal Tunnel.

No. 118 - Another studies from Hogarth's "Dynamic figure drawing".

**Blahm** · November 18th, 2005, 07:06 PM

awsome to see another hogarth fan!! he is the man. Brigman is not worthy of kissing his feet haha. great no ref studies. it good practise for me if i try and draw a million faces in a multitude of positions Then studie some facial references. Then go back to using no reference for a while. Good work, keep it up!

**Fellah.** · November 18th, 2005, 09:09 PM

Very nice studies man! Oh yeah good old Hoggy! Keep it up!

**Farvus** · November 18th, 2005, 09:56 PM

Blahm - I'm learning from Hogarth a lot. I'll draw everything from this book soon

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Fellah. - hehe. If only I could hug this Hoggy

for this book.

Back to basics.

No. 119 - No ruler of course

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No. 120

**Alday.J** · November 18th, 2005, 10:03 PM

Hi, Farvus ! Lot of good studies, here ! I dig the stance of your characters, in a general way. It's energic, I think ! You study from Hogarth ? Congrats for that, you're courageous ! Or I'm lazzy (laughs).

Cheers, dude !

**hamb6960** · November 19th, 2005, 03:14 AM

WOW. . . Your figures are really comming along man. Good stuff!

**Farvus** · November 20th, 2005, 08:20 PM

Alday.J, hamb6960 - thanks.

I want to improve my line control so I started to draw this geometric stuff. I have to be careful beacause there are parallel lines all the time. In addition lots of ellipses and different kinds of curves.

No. 121 - Third part of constructing. I didn't put much thought into it. These might look like some industrial areas from bird view

**Shinryu** · November 21st, 2005, 07:25 AM

hey dude you got some nice stuff, keep working at it, alot of variety and improvment going on, more life drawing might help with your line control and stuff

cheers

**Farvus** · November 22nd, 2005, 11:39 AM

Shinryu - You're right. More life drawing. Thanks for visiting my crappy sketchbook

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No. 122 - Still life.

No. 123 - Another still life from different views.

No. 124 - Another Hoggy drawing. Arms studies.

**armando** · November 22nd, 2005, 04:55 PM

The no ruler perspectives are pretty accurate. Figure drawings are coming along nicely, just remember to draw some females too.

**mayshing** · November 22nd, 2005, 07:54 PM

Some lovely drawings on the figures. I like your perspective studies too.

**Farvus** · November 23rd, 2005, 07:42 PM

armando, mayshing - thanks.

I changed my mechanical pencil. New one is much lighter and I feel the grain of the paper while drawing with it. It helped a bit

No. 125 - Self-portrait.

No. 126 - Random doodles.

**Farvus** · November 25th, 2005, 08:21 PM

I wanted to put back tablet till I get good at natural tools but I think I'll never be fully satisfied. That's why I decided to regularly post single speedpainting along with some pencil sketches (and I hope that I will be able to stick to it

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No. 127

Speedpainting. 13 - Alien

**Farvus** · November 26th, 2005, 05:02 PM

No. 128 - Figure studies from Hogarth's book. I have only few pages left. When I finish them, I'll do more female drawings.

Speedpainting. 14 - It was over an hour and the result is terrible

**Hypronost** · November 26th, 2005, 05:38 PM

what I love about CA.org sketchbook forum is how you can see an artist grow in skill.
It's very motivating to see these evolutions.

In your work Farvus it's very noticable. Great improvements.
One of the better sketches so far is the one on the top of this page, with the roman fellah.

Keep on postin.

**seth1** · November 26th, 2005, 05:40 PM

Seeing lots of progress within these pages! keep on rocking....

**Farvus** · November 30th, 2005, 05:16 PM

Hypronost - Wow. I'm glad that all the hard work pays back. I like the roman fellah too

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Seth1 - Thanks. I will.

I did't post anything in recent days beacause I was learning a lot for driving licence exams and doing some urban planning for my architecture studies.

No. 129

**Farvus** · December 1st, 2005, 03:15 PM

No. 130 - Head, nose and eye studies done with dip pen. I can't get used to this tool so it looks terrible.

**Farvus** · December 2nd, 2005, 11:17 PM

I think I will minimalise amount of shading in my next drawings. What I'm trying to find all the time is compromise between 3d rendered form and lightness/freshness. It's something like in THIS fantastic Ingres' drawing.
For now I also try to avoid any comic-like stylisation. It's nice but I would rather experiment later when I know that I can always go back to more "traditional" style (if such exists).

Here's what I've done for today:

Self portrait archive (my last post) - Another self portrait. It's in my new thread for SP's

No. 132 - No ref doodles.

**Farvus** · December 4th, 2005, 12:08 PM

No. 133 - Life drawing from bathroom.

No.134 - My right hand study.

**SirGreenSock** · December 4th, 2005, 12:21 PM

Recent sketches look great, you left handed?
The bathroom study has a couple of skewed areas, but otherwise looks good.

**Farvus** · December 4th, 2005, 09:52 PM

SirGreenSock - Thanks for comment!!! Yes, I'm left handed.

Can't reply without some sketch so here's new one. I tried ChrisMayernik's method of practice (it's in his sketchbook). Used standard windows screensaver with images slideshow. 2 minutes for every photo (in screensaver settings) and 15 files in the folder which gave me half of hour for constant drawing. I had to concetrate on most important shapes. No details and great challange. I think I will try again next time

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No. 135 & 136 - Ugly but I like experiments

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**D.Labruyere** · December 5th, 2005, 11:11 AM

nice heads, very good for just 2 minutes

I like your hand studies, they really look like hands

**Gloominati** · December 5th, 2005, 11:49 AM

uhh, that's a cool excercide, man!! Do many many of these faces and you'll improve faster than you think!! Well watch the proportions and the correct placement of features. If I were you I wouldn't care as much about if for example the eyes look the same way like on the photo but I'll definitely try to put the features in the right place as quickly as possible since this is what makes a face look "right".
Good luck mate, I am really excited to see more of this excercise