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**LePush** · April 16th, 2012, 06:26 PM

Hey there! i just recently found this community, it seems pretty sick, lots of great artists on here! Im gonna go ahead and post a couple of my works, in hope of some constructive criticism. Im fairly new to digital painting, just started a couple months ago. I greatly appreciate the help. I'll be posting my studies and doodles up here :]

thanks!

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**LePush** · April 18th, 2012, 02:54 PM

I had fun with this first one, haha.
The second was a quick doodle from memory.

**LePush** · April 18th, 2012, 09:14 PM

tonights doodle

**LePush** · April 22nd, 2012, 03:58 PM

quick lunch doodle :b

**LePush** · April 22nd, 2012, 08:17 PM

hey guys! some constructive criticism would be super duper greatly appreciated on this one!

this is my first legitimate attempt at doing a digital portrait in color. I know its off, i just cant see why at the moment. As always, things will hit me weeks from now, and i'll be like..."oh how did i miss that?!" haha.

**LePush** · April 28th, 2012, 01:12 PM

New painting today, crits?

**LePush** · April 28th, 2012, 08:24 PM

did this without reference. testin my memory.
Photoshop: one hour

**LePush** · May 3rd, 2012, 05:28 PM

ughhh god, hate this '____'

**LePush** · May 4th, 2012, 07:23 PM

literally getting no feedback x)

**Chris Sanders** · May 4th, 2012, 08:40 PM

hey man good start. try studying some of these to get a better idea of the forms of the head http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=76733.

Cheers for check'n out my sb!

**LePush** · May 5th, 2012, 12:17 AM

woah, thats incredibly resourceful! thanks man, appreciate it.

**LePush** · May 5th, 2012, 11:59 AM

planes of the face study, and a doodle from imagination

**LePush** · May 6th, 2012, 01:08 PM

quick daily sketchbook asignment

**LePush** · May 6th, 2012, 04:57 PM

Did this kinda soldier concept type thing face man guy dude...i like it

i used some charcoal brush in photoshop, no reference used.
the second is for my skyrim fanatic girlfriend x)

**MartinC** · May 7th, 2012, 06:15 PM

Love the last picture and the hippobug

**LePush** · May 7th, 2012, 06:20 PM

aye, thanks man!

**LePush** · May 7th, 2012, 07:09 PM

another head from imagination. I really struggle right now with getting proportions correct, and drawing the eyes and nose from different angles. I suppose thats what ill be working on.

**TFsean** · May 7th, 2012, 07:22 PM

Yo bro, really like the soldier guy and the girl in #14. The main thing that I thought of looking through this is be more sparing with your use of black/dark values, things are rarely black and you will have to think more critically to imply forms with a lower range of values

**LePush** · May 7th, 2012, 07:39 PM

thanks! I definitely agree, i think ive been using real low values to kind of escape from defining my forms, haha. Appreciate it, and 'll definitely try to implement that advice!

**LePush** · May 8th, 2012, 04:06 PM

my friend did a little contest for redesigning a hero from marvel or DC, so i did a batman quick redesign: more organic less human

**LePush** · May 8th, 2012, 10:59 PM

little sketchbook page

**HarbingerofIllRepute** · May 8th, 2012, 11:10 PM

: o
Your sketchbook is cooleroni!

**cdrfuzz** · May 9th, 2012, 03:45 PM

Hi LePush, thanks for the comments.

I really like your graphic style and you have some flare for mark-making. As for your more realist drawings, I would echo what TFsean said - less black, more half-tones. Apparently Sargent would work almost exclusively in half tones at first when painting, leaving the darks and highlights until last, to use as accents. Also, to check your drafting, flick your eyes back and forth between your photo ref and your drawing - you will almost see the bits you have wrong "moving" as you do so.

**LePush** · May 9th, 2012, 07:57 PM

thanks for the feed back guys!
two pages i sketched during school today.

**LePush** · May 9th, 2012, 09:45 PM

more sketchins!

**Axelga2112** · May 10th, 2012, 04:49 AM

I love the Machinegun sketch. It has a lot of energy. The profile of the guy with the helmet thing isn't that good. You would want to do some skull studies to improve the proportians of the head. When I first did them I was blown away by how helpful they are. It's like magic to the head, beyond anything else in the field of face-improvement and such.

Also: I saw the drawing in post #8 in the comments in Sinix' video before I found your thread :p The world is small isn't it?

**LePush** · May 10th, 2012, 07:02 AM

thanks guy! ive been workin on the head for a while, but im still learnin, for sure. I'll keep up the studies! haha and yeah, thats pretty weird, eh? Sinix is pretty sick though, glad were both watchin.

**LePush** · May 10th, 2012, 03:23 PM

todays sketches

**LePush** · May 11th, 2012, 09:59 AM

So i come from a long background of animation, haha, thought id show some of my little creations. these must have been...about 2 years old?

http://www.fileize.com/files/6df3ce84/b3c/F__Animo.swf
http://www.fileize.com/files/5bc8b91...ibounijuuf.swf
http://www.fileize.com/files/ab111638/387/fb1.swf

**Kapri** · May 11th, 2012, 11:16 AM

There's already some style showing through in some of you pieces and that's cool. I'm no animator, but animations from last post contain some nice timing.

I'd advice you to start concentrating on constructing the figure. It will help you understand the planes of the body and reduce flatness (for instance in the Ben Affleck portrait from #5). Check out Michael Hampton's "Figure Drawing: Design and Invention". Glenn Vilppu and Bridgeman are also good resources when it comes to figure construction.

What works for me when drawing from reference / life is to measure allot. Every line if necessary. I also try to check allot of angles against eachother.

Hope this helps out, let me know what you think of those resources if you decide to check them out.

Edit: post #12 shows you're already studying the planes, good stuff. Try to do some more and define the planes with harder edges. These soft ones make it hard to see what's going on.