Soja's Sketchbook [LU 19.10.2008]

**Soja** · September 12th, 2004, 10:50 PM

GO TO THE LAST PAGE FOR NEWER STUFF!!!! THANKS!!!!!
Hi @ll!!!

It's time to post my daily sketchbook. Hope to get a lot
of feedback and help to improve my skills. Whick i havent yet =)!
All those sketch I drew after the Berlin WS 3 weeks ago.
All the stuff before are not worth to see =)!
Thanks a lot to Marko and Android for motivating me so much.
And all the other poepz I met there. It helped me so much.
Thx again.

**Soja** · September 12th, 2004, 10:51 PM

**Soja** · September 12th, 2004, 10:52 PM

hihi more...

**Soja** · September 12th, 2004, 10:53 PM

i know there's still a lot of bulls...!
But i want to learn!!

**Sok N. Wett** · September 12th, 2004, 10:59 PM

Nice start, at least your dedicated to getting better, and that's good. I see some pieces that are fast drawings while others you actually took some time to render. Keep up with your drawings and you'll progress in no time.

**Soja** · September 13th, 2004, 09:38 PM

Thanx for ur Post Sok!! That will motivating me a lot.
OK. Today wasn't a good day for drawing. A lot of other stuff
to do. My and my fathers Pc were kinda messed up.
But here a some drawings i did today.
Not much better than yesterday =).

**Soja** · September 14th, 2004, 12:53 PM

A portrait I did today!

**Bojee** · September 14th, 2004, 01:03 PM

Soja- keep them coming, already seeing progress. Think about putting up on your walls the drawings that you like ( xerox copies maybe?) so that you remember them and can move on from there. also copies of where you trying to take your drawings artists you like and things that you are trying to learn, just by seeing them all the time you'll start to pick up on the information.

**Soja** · September 14th, 2004, 09:09 PM

I just came back from clubbing. Shaked my head well.
And now it's time to sleep. But i decided to do one more
sketch. lol =)!
@Bojee: Thanx man! I will do that! I hope I could learn a lot this way.
It helped me so much to see how Android and Marko worked.

**Bojee** · September 14th, 2004, 11:56 PM

Yeah Man, andrew came to visit us in Seattle just before he did the Workshop.Amazing stuff.

**Soja** · September 15th, 2004, 08:18 PM

Yes Andrews stuff is really amazing!! And he's drawing all of his stuff
in such a short time it's unbelievable.
They way of Marko's drawing way is so sick too.
The WS in Berlin motivated me so much.
Here is one Sketch i did today.
And it was the first time i really tried to finish one picture in painter.
It's a self portrait.
But I'm not really that ugly =)

**jaylethal** · November 14th, 2005, 10:16 PM

Your portraits are amazing.

**Vulturius** · November 22nd, 2005, 10:40 AM

hey soja, nice to see you back. You've made some good progressions.
especially http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~duc1982/s...tober05/01.jpg rocks.

Hoffe mal bei euch ist alles ok.

ba, Vulti

**Sok N. Wett** · November 25th, 2005, 09:31 PM

Look at this guy, I go off for 6 month and come back and this guy is getting better and better, good to see your post again Soja.

**timpaatkins** · December 4th, 2005, 08:20 PM

Thansk for the crit in my mugglies, Ill keep em in mind for tomorrows! Your right about the bone, I do have a tendencie to over render it making int pop out like a sore thumb1

You got a great SB here, how great it is to see such improvement, the pages are really starting to come together! Love the reptile studies, me being an old herpetologist, i can really relate!
I may be getting an illojob for that exact purpose, so maybe ill ask you for some tips!
Keep It up dude!
Tim

**timpaatkins** · December 4th, 2005, 08:45 PM

ANd do I sense a little Wes Inspiration, compositionwise?

**van** · December 10th, 2005, 09:20 PM

Wonderful update, man.

Let's see some color!

**tha hater** · December 13th, 2005, 12:06 PM

hello soya
its not bad, what i see, but your skillz is nothing to my homie big d.u.c.
so stay at home and practice.

**asoir** · December 13th, 2005, 12:10 PM

You've a nice grasp on anatomy, good stuff!

**adraude** · December 16th, 2005, 02:05 PM

hey soja,

i almost forgot all about your sketchbook. i decided to dig it up, and hey, look at that, all full with new stuff! hehe. dude, do you remember, in october you were complaining about the ears, some studies and some time later, look at them -> http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~duc1982/s...ember05/01.jpg they look good!

feels really good to see you making progress. keep it up, and more more color please!

**Soja** · February 5th, 2006, 06:53 PM

A my gosh...I'm so lazy to post.
Here some recently stuff I've done.
Hey and check out my sp thread =)!!

@jaylethal:
Hey thnx for the compliment. They aren't really good but
I'm still working on it like hell =)!!

@Vulti:
Hey how u doin?thx for comin in my thread.
Yeah I did some progression hope it dont stop.
Hope ur's dont stop too. How about posting here some
stuff of u too!! Wanna see some stuff!!!

@van
Hey u want some colour stuff...here some colour!
Thanx for ur post! Hey and ur stuff is so great!!

@Asoir:
Hey my anatomy sucks so much..but I'm learning hard.
Hope is going to be better!!

@adraude
Adraude my friend!! Yeah I can remember that! Hope u'll keep on
complaining about my stuff! Cause it helps so much! It hard to his
own failures. And here's some colour stuff! I'll do more colour stuff promise!!

**SpaceAce** · February 5th, 2006, 08:45 PM

hey man, I like the black kid with the beanie hat, is realy cool! Keep on rockin' man!

**Soja** · February 9th, 2006, 10:08 AM

Some new sketches...

@Space Ace! Hey thanx for ur post!! I just finished my first 2d Animation short
last week. Maybe Ill post it here too in next few days. Would like to see ur floursacks!! And luv ur stuff is damn good!!

some stupid doodles

anatomy stuff

**Soja** · July 10th, 2006, 05:45 PM

Damn! It's been a while I have post in my sketchbook.
So I thought I have to put some new sketches in here.
I was so lazy too scan the last few month

.
Hope I can keep updating this daily again.
Here some new crap:

just draw with a inkpen without knowing what to draw...

tried my pencils

here I put some randoom lines on paper and looked what I could do with them..

Try to catch one of my classmates on paper

very bad photoshop stuff

here's a sp acyrlics on canvas

**Bojee** · October 22nd, 2006, 11:58 AM

Soja- Good to see your still around, congrats on school anxious to see the new paintings. I like the portraits and the enviros/landscape drawings.

Thanks for stopping by my book, always good to hear from you. -B

**Soja** · October 31st, 2006, 05:54 AM

some pages out of my sketchbook!

@Bojee!
Hey good to here from u! Yeah I'm looking forward to start paintin!

**niyama** · November 18th, 2006, 08:00 AM

it is phenomenal to see that way you have progressed, turely amasing, keep up the great work
i loved the self protraits

**Soja** · November 29th, 2006, 07:27 AM

Here some new stuff...
doing a lot of life drawing over here in Belfast
and some Character Design for an independent Online
Game with my friends in Germany
and i started with sps again. Dont know if i gonna do
it daily again.
So crits are always welcome!

@niyama
Thanks for ur post! Even it means more to me because
it's ur first and only post! Wonder who u are =)!
Thanks a lot!!

**t.m0** · November 29th, 2006, 10:03 AM

Ah very nice

the last sp is really cool... now that you're not a roomie I have to crit you through the means of the internet

Maybe you should have used a larger brush for the other sp, since it looks like a "fast" scribble. It's very easy to lose yourself in details, when you're using a small brush... and when it comes to that scribble style it's kind of confusing.. hope you know what I mean!

keep posting man, love to see your progress!

cheers.t

**mondegreen** · November 29th, 2006, 10:46 AM

Some very quick progress going on here... I'm liking it

One critique I have is that I can see in the imaginary stuff you're struggling a bit with how to keep the body parts from becoming flat. Part of this will come with more and more experience...

Something you might try though... is when you go a life drawing session... instead of trying to make nicely rendered drawings... try and study the planes of the body. The reason I say this is because I discovered .. (at least for myself)... that going to model sessions and copying value shapes as I see them on the model doesn't really assist very much in the actual rendering of something from imagination. The reason why it doesn't always assist has to do with what Andrew Loomis said about planes. "When drawing from the model you draw the light for the form, when drawing from imagination you draw the form for the light"... ok so that's not the exact words he used... BUT it means the same thing... when you draw from imagination you have to get the planes of the body down... before you can start rendering... at least in the beginning... because if you don't understand the planes of the body... you can't separate the different planes enough to give a clear read of form. You end up with what I like to call running egg syndrome. If it helps... try and box out your forms more from imagination before you try to render them. A box is wayyyyy better than a sphere... because a line drawn sphere... isn't a sphere unless you put a second set of lines to create space... just like a box isn't a box without more than just the outline.

I would try and work a bit more constructively ... as if you're building a model in 3d...if you can, I would even grab a 3d program or a piece of clay and model yourself a head... helped me a ton.

Anyway, enough rambling for me... hope that helps
Peace
~ Ben