no cheesy name for me... King's sketches

[boojai]

Hello all, I realize maybe it's time after scouring these sketchbooks to finally start my own and get feedback and improve. Please be critical and as mean as possible with my art.

Here's my first post: my attempt and failure at producing 100 female head studies.

[boojai]

a mixture of animal studies i've done recently...

[Dahami]

Imperfect! But really good!

[NeonDuck]

nice heads! actually i like the ones labelled "fails" more than the others, because they're more varied. the other ones sort of look alike to me.

it's a good start, and you've certainly got some nice technique going in terms of values and lines. my advice would be to keep drawing as much as you can, and vary your subjects as much as you can

[Amarok]

Nice animal studies! I enjoy the variety, but it might help you (for learning's sake!) if you focus on one kind of animal at a time or do a bunch of different studies of each kind of animal rather than only one each of many different species. The more you draw something, the more you can commit it to your memory, so it will be easier to build up that information the more you can repeat it!

[cifgha]

I also happen to like the 'failed' ones. It's more the negative attitude towards failure, thats demotivating.
Don't focus to much on the fact you failed, but focus on what you have learned from doing it. This will help you improve more.

I hope it helps.

[Bo-ee]

lovely female heads bro, but the fails are actually better,,,, lol just one tip is dont be too hard on your self !!! and go with the flow and get inspired( its easy to do that here )

[Traveler]

Good start to your SB. Your studies are coming along nicely. Now all you have to do is keep going.

[boojai]

Thanks for the comments. I guess the reason why those were "bad" was because my unfamiliarity with the shapes, and im glad you all like them more. More reason to bash my head against them.

I do notice that I am hard on myself sometimes, but don't put effort into fixing. Hopefully here's to a good, a much needed, renewed start!

I will keep cranking!!!

Here's a few 20 min color studies of hot springs this morning!

[boojai]

Some life drawings from a life drawing session work provided last week.

Thanks for all your encouragement.. I'll try to draw more stuff I'm not familiar with and do multiples in order to improve.

BTW... anyone know how to edit te thumbnail for the threads... i coudlnt figure out and accidentally deleted my first post..

[boojai]

kinda figured it out.. here's my head studies again..

[~KJK~]

Im sure ive seen your work before, especially the wasp looks very familiar... are you a Kitchen user by any chance? haha, nice work there, love the animals!

[boojai]

Parsakoira - interesting.. haha.. maybe yu have?? I don't think I'm a kitchen user.. in fact, not sure what it is. hehe.

Here's an illustration, painted with some reference and character designs for an animated short I've been working on for the longest of time.

[Mister Dark]

Your sketches are 10s.
For your last painting, you don't have to make the eyes so white.
Try to give them a color closer to the skin tone.

Peace
Manuel

[boojai]

Thanks Manuel, I'll keep that in mind next time.

A slow Sunday so I decided to do a some arm and a few leg studies.

anyone want to teach me how to upload faster? the "manage attachments" system is tedious and painful. please and thank you!!!

[boojai]

late evening study/painting... roughly about 1 1/2 hours... give or take a bit cuz i kept getting distracted by the internet.

[boojai]

Some new life drawing from the work sponsored life drawing session last night , some in progress concept art and the last is a color study I'm working on from a picture found on flickr.

[boojai]

oops.. missed one.

[ketoprak]

nice anatomy drawings. I'm so jealous...

[boojai]

ketoprak - Thanks. I'm trying to get better, and really trying to figure out how to use the knowledge instead of getting better at copying.