tim dose sketchbook

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Speedpaint last night & touched up this morning...

[David Kassan]

Mr Dose,

I didn't know you had a SB here, I'm pretty dense sometimes, Nice work, I really love those two from the studio you did last Spring, Alley is an amazing model, I'm painting her again. You need to post more work, I know you gotem, stop holding out on us.

cheers!

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Today's haul from the subway:

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Random figure drawing that I just found in a sketchbook today, a few figures from an open session this past week, a visit to the Museum of Natural History here today, and a couple sketchbook pages from the past week...

[armando]

Great studies, one of the standoutshttp://www.conceptart.org/forums/att...1&d=1194240849. I also really like this composition http://www.conceptart.org/forums/att...1&d=1193628584 very surreal, lots of potential.

[Eon]

Hey nice box figures! They're really well done! Fun to see other people have a try at this! Nice shading in your pics as well. Nice sketchbook!

[berf]

I like those animal drawings you did. Everything looks good, tho id try for some darker shading

[Beelow]

You have some really hip life studies on your website. Stop holding out. Thanx for sharing. XD

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I done bought myself a tablet pc as a wedding present. A few WIPs experimenting with different ways of developing a pic.

Landscape- started as a sketch done in photoshop using a larger brush + direct painting.
Pirate- Started as a sketch in photoshop using a pencil-thin brush + direct painting
Lion - started as a very scribbly photoshop sketch, printed it out and developed it with pencil & tracing paper, scanned it in and added values, then using more of a glazing technique in photoshop.

Random note- I now love using Lab color sliders in combination with the swatch palette when painting in Photoshop. It very closely mirrors a way of thinking about color that I learned from some of my Russian teachers.

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Figure drawing tonight.

Pretty happy with it- proportions are a bit off, but got the foreshortening of the hips turning away from the ribcage pretty well which is what I was after. Also pretty happy with the rendering and the likeness...

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painting of my wife Aileen from last night. Rescued this one- about half hour in I totally hated it and managed to turn it into something decent.

Used ArtRage 2. Despite some quirks I'm liking this program more and more. Wish it had Lab color though. And wish it didn't bog down at higher resolutions...

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messing around with ArtRage...

[number777uk]

Cool work you got on here!...good studies....keep it up dude...i guess it takes a while to get some stars on this site!

[brandon.leedy]

Woo strong pencil skills, definitely have some solid understanding of the human head and form. Nice to see some developing work in color too! The lion paint especially is a great light study...

[dadushin]

great pencil stuff and sweet paintings, i like how you get them to look so pastel
great stuff

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Love your pencil work and paintings. Can't find much to crit here, but lets see more of those portraits and figure studies! They look great.

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Some musicians at the Bitter End last night. Artrage 2.

[SEVANS]

Nice sketch book so far.
Like the cube people idea, I don't think I've ever seen that (and I read alot of drawing books), so will have to give it a try too. The Hip area looks really helpful to me.

The pastel looking colours in that last guitar image are fantastic too.

So thanks for posting. Look forward to seeing more

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SEVANS: The cube people are largely inspired by an artist named Cambiaso, who is from Italy/Renaissance. His paintings are not so inspiring, but I have learned a ton about mass, perspective, and composition from his drawings.

If you don't have a copy of "Drawing Lessons From the Great Masters" by Hale, I highly recommend it. There's a great cube-people drawing in there by Cambiaso. It's not so much to look at- I skimmed over it for years until it finally registered how useful it would be.

[SEVANS]

I'll look him up, thanks.

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Jens: Thanks for stopping back in. I'll post an explanation of the color stuff in a couple days when I have time to type it up (or make a video tutorial, which would be better).

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Still looking for some time to type up the thing about Lab color in Photoshop.

In the meantime, here's what I did at figure drawing tonight. Very wiggly model (especially for a reclining pose), but I think I managed to pull it out OK at the end.

My old teacher lent me a book on Henry Moore which has lots of his drawings. Turned out some of them were helpful for this drawing- he often uses a very heavy handed cross-contour which was useful to establish the general proportions and mass of the wiggly model.

He's an interesting artist- I think he was not academically trained, so his "skill" is not that great. His drawings are not very impressive to look at. But he has a really solid sense of form that comes through in his drawings. I quite like some of his sculptures.

Anyway, graphite, 2.5 hours.

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Late night SP study from Sunday night...

[Extollere]

Great sketches in here. I'm particularly fond of this portrait:
http://conceptart.org/forums/attachm...1&d=1176303592

just needs some darker values in there, but it has a great look about it. Would love to see more finished pieces.

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Small oil sketch from the other night- 6x8

[darkwolfb87]

Hello dose,

Before you start an oil sketch you should cover the canvas with a wash of mineral spirits/turp and a loaded brush of earth tone (like raw umber + a little viridian). The surface should be ready after five minutes. For the painting itself, I would definitely use more than twice as much paint as you're using now, working from (relatively) thin shadows to thick, opaque lights.

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Hi Darkwolf

Thanks for your input. I understand the method you're talking about and employ it often, but I'm going for something different in the past few studies (and most of my paintings over the past few years).

The method you're talking about unifies the colors for the sake of making it easier to control values. It's useful for quick studies that are primarily value-focused. However, in the process it also dulls the colors.

The white canvas underneath the paint makes for more vibrant colors- as long as the paint remains at least partially transparent it will be brighter than with a muting earth tone underneath. It's basically an impressionist technique, designed to focus on comparing patches of color- sometimes at the expense of value.

You can't have both, but either method is valid in its own right.

[David Kassan]

Late night SP study from Sunday night...

this is awesome, but I think you should give up art and become a contact juggler.

great SB so far, lets see more...

[Toxdel]

some sick stuff up in here. Great modeling on a couple of those faces. Love the piece you used for your avi, great colors; really gives it a sense of life, and well music.

Peace out!

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Drawing for a Hellboy painting...