Wolves in the Sketch Room --Feb 17, 2013-- back from the dead

[camilografix]

nice portrait work. keep it up

[Meatsworthy]

Wow! Great control on that pencil.

13th Warrior is one of my favourite movies of all time

[sith]

that was a cool movie, i'm a braveheart man myself- can't believe he spotted that though haha

anyway, dude- you've really made some nice progression on those faces. really good work

almost forgot- i know it's an earlier one, but it's gorgeous...

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h6...23/gordon9.jpg

[demented]

Awesome man, really nice work. Really getting the hang of those pencils, good control. Your faces are becoming more believable with each update, though I suggest you also start taking in depth looks at the rest of the anatomy. Need to do more of this myself, but the more I understand both the easier it becomes for me to convey and emotion or moment by using the entire body not just the face. Hope that makes sense...

Anyways, it's always inspiringly great and greatly inspiring to see this type of hard work and dedication - kudos mate!

ciao!

- d.

[isair]

wow, good one! I never studied muscles on face and nor did I study the skulls enough. Guess I'll make up to it now. Yeh, wanna draw more now! Thanks for the inspiration.

[Niels23]

Thanx for all replies, guys!!! You really make me happy with it!

oma - All these skulls, face structures and last muscles are from book of Nicolai Lee - one of the greatest books about drawing I`ve ever read. But I`m afraid it was published only in Russia. But a lot of stuff there based on Bammes method, Bammes is great too
Olle - Glad you think so! Thanx for visit!
camilografix - Thank you!
Meatsworthy - Thanx, man! Yeah, that film is my favorite too Think I can watch it for 1000 times and it still will be interesting for me!
sith - Thank you for visit! Great that you see some progress, really appreciate your kind words!
demented - always great to get a comments from you, man! Thank you for dropping by! I agree, I need to start dealing with the body, not only faces. I want to pay more attention for studies of face features now coz my portraits still suck after this the rest of anatomy will follow, no doubt. Thanx for kind words, man!
isair - Thank you! In my turn have to say that your work is always inspiring me to draw more, man! Thank you for visit and for kind words!

Update:
114 - skull from life as usual
115,116,117 eyes refs - trying to understand construction of an eye
118 - photo ref - have to start doing body studies again

[Slaving_maniac]

You've got some great things going on in your sketchbook. I can see improvement already and your studies are well drawn. A suggestion tho for your figure drawings is to concentrate less on the lighting for now and more on the form of the figure.

[Niels23]

Slaving_maniac - Thank you! You right I didn`t have practice enough to shade figures right, so I start drawing figure forms soon

For now small update - working with face forms. I didn`t try to make it detailed, just practice with forms and planes. Now I see that eyes are different No ref:

[TheGnoll]

excellent anatomy studies.Keep 'em coming, they will all pay off as soon as you start imagination drawing.Good job with the last head.Make sure you practice some othe facial details like nose and mouth in your next studies

ciao

[oma]

looks good. to bad that man has 2 diffrent eye's .
butt heej it's just a practise drawing .
like your shading. :-) keep updating (-: plz .

[Niels23]

TheGnoll - Thank you very much! Gonna keep`em coming! Some other facial details will come soon
oma - Thanks, man! Always appreciate your support!

for today - some noses from ref:

[Dreamworker]

Nice SB, man! You make a lot of good studies. I like you drawing style, very nice works.
Keep it up

[oma]

Great nose study's.

iam doing some nose study's to. but they are not so worked out well as yours!. realy i 'can' learn a lot here in your SB. Keep studying!

Great update. !

[isair]

Hi Ulver, ah, I was in page 3, so I've missed a lot. These nose casts looks great. Nice works bro, keep them coming.

[Niels23]

Dreamworker - Thanx for visit and kind words! Gonna keep it up
oma - thank you! More studies in process
isair - thanx bro! great to see you here again

for today: screen capture from TOOL video "Schism". TOOL is one of my all times favorite bands and this video is just sick and incredibly beautiful. So here it is. Hope you like it

[oma]

Hell yeah. > Tool Rocks. one of my fav. bands to!.

Great new album they have! . that song 10000 day's. fantastic!.

and your drawing. it looks amazing ! realy cool. i like it a lot!!
cant say much about the likeness. but's it's looks very very cool!

[Uziel]

Keep doing those studies.
You're getting better & better...

[elisa]

Coool! Tool is one of my favourite band too! Great work on the schism drawing, very nice rendering! I see you have done a lot of progressing here, LOVE the noses and the eyes...awesome! Keep on drawing, you are doing great work Ulver!

[Niels23]

oma -Thank you very much! Glad you like it!
Uziel - Than you! More studies on the way
elisa - Thank you! Glad you think so! Thanks for stopping by again and for kind words!

For today - some sketches from mind:

[oma]

That first one is realy cool.

That second one looks a little bit of with the body proportions.... but hey, it are trolls . they aren't proportional .

and about the Group. > we can start one indeed. we have to find a good name for it. and find hour first topic . and i either don't have much time. but it's just a support and motivation point. we can do 2 weeks pro proportions. that will do i think.

Do you have msn? you can add me on robmini5@[hotmail.com] without the [ ] ;P. and we can talk it trough.

[justadoodle]

nice sketchbook, i enjoy some of your full figure studies. keep up the posting

[sith]

these are some fine updates Ulver. sexy job on the noses man. those creature things are lookin' a little stiff though. nothing to worry about though. just keep doodling some things like that, add some more dynamics and it'll all work itself out over time

[Dreamworker]

The last images has a good rendering technique but I found very interesting in particular this image http://www.conceptart.org/forums/att...1&d=1157891229
Ciao

[Listing]

Some good work. Keep an eye on your line and value quality. The beauty of application can (maybe should) rival that of the subject.

[isair]

wow, bro the Schism one rocks! Nice render and contrast, great expression. And the ogres look interesting. I think varying the viewing angles and working on more dynamic poses would make them better. Keep up the good works.

[Niels23]

oma - Thanks a lot!! Yeah, you`re right they`re a little out of proportions, but you`re right again - they`re trolls Thank you for support!
justadoodle - thank you! Gonna keep it up!
sith - thankx for kind words! Yes, I need more practice on dynamics figures. Thanx for crits!
Dreamworker - Thank you. Glad to see you here agan!
Listing - Thanx for stopping by and for comments!
isair - Thank you very much! Gonna try to do it soon.

some eyes refs and one photoref portrait with some effects:

[rblitz7]

Nice job man! your nose studies look fantastic.

[elisa]

Nice updates here! Awesome eye-studies! And good work on the last girl (I think it is....what´s-her-name...Kiera Knightley? She in Pirates of the Carebbean?) I think her neck is a little bit too long though. Keep on posting!

[oma]

nice eye's!! realy like them.

and the girls neck looks a bit long? is it also in the ref. ?

but iam gonna golf now, no time to look longer at it! keep updating. will look at it later!.

[Niels23]

rblitz7 - Thanks a lot, man! Glad you like them!
elisa - thank you elisa! Yes it`s Keira Knightley again And you right - her neck is too long, didn`t notice it, thanx for crits!
oma - thanx, bro! In the ref it`s a little shorter, right. Thanx for stopping by again!

one more for today: one of the Loomis` grandmothers