Animare's sketchbook

[Animare]

Hello, I've finally plucked up the courage to start a sketchbook,
thank you for looking
I'd be really grateful for any crits and advice.

All these are images from my journal.

[snatti]

a traditional start,always a good start!,digg the last cat drawing, you do any digital?

[Animare]

Thanks snatti, yeah I do digital as well but not as much:

[alamed]

Woah, nice flowers. Welcome to SB , have fun!

[wi2rd]

nice work!.. keep pushing it

[raminafshari]

how wonderful . how did you do these drawings ?

[Animare]

Thank guys for the encouragement and welcome

raminafshari - In my journal I use a mechanical pencil or a fine liner 0.3mm. Sometimes some coloured pencils. It's a mix between observation and imagination since I have loooong lunch breaks at work.
All my digital work I use a Wacom.
I'm not sure if that's what you meant lol?

Todays drawing.
Had to draw this image when I saw it in the Winter 2010 magazine for Urban Outfitters.

[RufousPlumage]

Very nice. The flowers are amazing! I've never been able to do digital, I just don't have the patience.

[Animare]

Sorry I don't update often. Work two jobs during the week and get tired easy.
But at least I've been drawing

Sketches from magazines and a book of Yoga poses I've got.

[Animare]

More yoga studies.
The steps of a painting of a dragon I'm working on.. no wings.. yes, I forgot them
And the last image is a scene from a comic I'm developing.

[Animare]

Tried a couple of charcoal emotional concepts. Clearly need to use references more..
Update on the dragon.

[Animare]

Quick 40 minute speed paint from a photo.

[Animare]

Self portrait work in progress. Need a break while my hand heals lol.
Done it in gray scale to start and adding colour. It's a different technique to what I usually do, but I kinda like it, gray is easier to edit.

[Moriah]

That last painting is really cool. The colors you chose turned out well :] I'd buy that perfume hehe

[libellchen]

great alternative for the perfume advertisement. I don't know the original one but I'm sure that I like your's better

Your sketchbook looks interesting so far, I like the diversity of style. Keep working on proportions: I noticed that your arms and legs tend to be a bit thin. Remember that libms closer to the torso are thicker than libm that are further away. (Yoga studie 36.)

[pixel cheetah]

Great start, but your human poses are a bit stiff. It seems to me that you are drawing the outline and not the structure. Grab some anatomy books, like Bridgman or Loomis to understand the structure.

[Animare]

Thank for the replies everyone!

Here's an update on the painting. I think it's done for now. Might go back to it after a break.

You're right! I definitely struggle with human poses. I will check out those books.

[Animare]

Quick environment sketch.

I decided to try a speed mountain top sketch from my imagination and create some sort of interesting image.. but got 5 min into it and realised I had no idea what I was doing. Checked out some reference photographs and played with various brushes. Maybe need to practice some studies from photos etc?

Also getting a Bridgman book for Xmas. Hurry up December!

[Animare]

Done two 20 minute speed painting studies before work using photo refs.

[Stricken]

Love what you've done so far, especially the use of colour in some of your pieces Definitely agree with Pixel Cheetah about studying anatomy. I've been doing a bit of work with Loomis. Definitely not as much as I should be doing, but even the small amount of studies and reading has helped me with my understanding of the human form. Life studies will help too

Can't wait to see more of your work!

[Animare]

Thanks Stricken
Update on the prince of persia painting.
Need to get scanning my sketchbook lol.

[Animare]

Update on the p.o.p painting. Still not done..
A new painting I've begun.

[Animare]

so yeah.. I was sorta away for a while...
Anyways.
Been pounding the sketchbook with speed drawings, 45 secs each using the posemaniacs.com online program. It's awesome!
Here's a speed painting I did today, 1 hour:
Need to get back into doing these.

[Animare]

1hr and a bit later

[Animare]

Here's some scans from my sketchbook. The first one are 30 second sketches and the rest are all 45 secs.
Also a painting I was working on with watercolours.

[Animare]

I don't post/do enough

Here's three of my most recent work.
The tiger and landscape were studies from photographs. Practicing with brushes, technique, everything.
The troll is based on my wow character. Trying to paint water..

[jam.00]

Your digital painting is so amazing . Don't stop the good stuff!

[Animare]

My chow entry. Didn't get enough time to finish it off as much as I'd have liked but it was very interesting seeing how everyone else developed theirs. Will deffo try the next one.

[Animare]

Some parkour inspired sketches for this weeks Chow.

[rumpenstiltzkin]

great sketchbook so far! i really liked the horse and tiger painting, very nice work on those!